The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 30, 1945, Page 1

E DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9923 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS T YANK ARMIES SPEEDING CLOSER, BERLIN American and British BIG FLEET POUR SHELLS ON RYUKYUS British TasT(—Force Joins§ with Yanks in Atfack _on Japan in South | GUAM, March 30 — The United | States Pacific Fleet, augumented b)" a powerful British battleship and carrier task force, poured shells and carrier planes for the seventh straight day, Thursday at Ryukyus, | where Tokyo said American u'nns-{ ports are moving for an invasion| of Okinawa, 325 miles south of Japan, shortly. ; ¢ Disclosing that the 35000 ton battleship HMS King George Five and the 23,000 ton carrier HMS Illustrious and other British war- ships attacked the southern end of the island chain Monday and Tuesday, Admiral Chester W. Nim- itz announced today the “United States Pacific Fleet continued the March 29 attack on shore installa- tions of Ryukyus with carrier planes and surface gunfire.” \channel of that second port of the Marianas, followed, by only a few MOREISLES Superforts INVADED IN { Hit Nagoya ~ PHILIPPINES' Tenth Blow Mactan Rep_o%d Occupied Sky Mammoths Blasf Jap Aircraft Center, Cross- by Arnold’s Division roads Oil Depot -Also Cauit MANILA, March 30.—Elements WASHINGTON, March 30.—Sup- Maj. Gen. William Arnold’s Ameri- erforts have again hit Nagoya,| can Division, conquerors of Cebu Japan’s third city and big aircraft City on Cebu Island, invaded Mac-|production center. The attack, by a tan Island directly across the narrow}small force of B-29s based on the | Gen. hours, a raid of India-based Super- (forts against the oil-storage area at of the Philippines, on Wednesday, MacArthur reported today. The tiny island of Cauit, south-|Singapore, the crossroads west of Cebu Harbor, was also in- Japanese Empire. {vaded and the Cauit airbase was oc-| The assault on Nagoya, site of the |based Superfortresses {forts made the attack, Headquar- SINGAPORE HIT AGAIN BY SUPERS! 0il Supplies in Crossroads City of Japanese Em- pire Are Blasted WASHINGTON, March 30-India- struck nc{ Singapore, Thursday, blasting oil supplies in this strategic cross- roads of the Japanese Empire. Approximately forty B-29 super- | THREE BILLS GIVEN VETO! BY GOVERNOR School Distfidv Measure Is Killed Second Time by Pen The Governor's veto axe fell to-! day on three legislative measures' which had been resting on his desk since the Seventeenth As-! {sembly adjourned a week ago. Vetoed were, Senate Bill 64, an | act to provide for consolidated ters of the Twentieth Airforce, in|School districts, Senate Bill 65, .an Washington, revealed. Singapore|act to increase tax on insurance ihas been a popular target for the |Premiums andebring non registered large planes, and this is the third insurers under the tax law also Nazis Begin Terror Reign Over Germany Large Scale Desertion of Troops Reported as Allies Close In LONDON, March 30.—Nazi lead: ers appeared to be resorting to campaign of stark terror in an effort to hold the German people in line during the nation's greatest hours of peril. The campaig seemed to be taking two forms, with Nazi propagandists warning the Germans they will be no better than slaves if the Allies are il | SOVIET GUNS ( - NATIVIENNA Germans. Pile Headlong Out of Closing Trap in Wild Panic BULLETIN-LONDON, March 30—Russian troops have thrust over the Austrian frontier, Moscow dispatches state, saying Stalin has annotinced a 30 mile advance north of the Danube in a twin thrust on Vienna. Stalin also announces that when Danzig fell to the Rus- sian -forces, 10,000 prisoners victorious, and at the same time Were taken. | cupied. | big Mitsubishi aircraft engine plants, | The main city on Mactan Island|was the tenth by the Superforts and " has the biggest coconut oil refinery the second this month. The Singa- | the brief gz‘nggla‘;f";‘fflzsa‘;’ ol lin the Philippines but the city was! pore raid was the seventh against;‘fl_qilo‘;n:‘ re‘ desisli c:m i‘L 4 D |set atire by Japanese demolition that target in five months, i PUXE e pleted. {crews last Monday when the Yanks —_ e USSR fo Have Three Votes in Proposed iDANlIG HAS | time this month it has been hit. ’ " threatening dire punishment to all and House Bill 30, the non-medical ywho failed to fight to the end or co- healing bill. |operated with the Allied authoritjes In ruling out the consolidated in occupied territory. scl?ool districts bill, Gov. Gruening Despite this last ditch appeal to objected, as he did in vetoing & fear, reports from many sources in- similar bill in 1943, to provisions dicated mounting chaos and despair giving the District Judge powers to within the beleaguered Reich. decide whether or not an election | Stories relayed through :;2:‘:“:? «?e.,- hfld Zx;d .‘to define ‘he;csplmls told of disorders, mutinies, hdaries of a district. iattempts on the lives of top Nazi Objectionable Lines |leaders and large scale desertions neutral’| | LONDON, March 30.—~Marshal Tolbukhin’s tanks have penetrated a low range of hills arising just inside the Austrian frontier and are threat- ening momentarily to lay siege to| Vienna, Moscow dispatches said to-| day. ‘The reports said the city of Graz, the hub of communications for what lines remain open between Austria and Nazi forces in Slovenia, Croatia, WLB SEEKS COAL PACT Jap Attack Beaten Off Admiral Nimitz also disclosed | that Japanese planes and torpedoi boats tried .to deal blows on at-/ tacking warships Tuesday and four' planes and a “number” of boats were destroyed. i No mention is made of any dam- | age to._the American Fleet uisits, + Assembly,AlsoU.S. WASHINGTON, March 30 — The - {White House has disclosed that! American’ representatives at the; EXIE‘NSION‘Cnmen Conference agreed to sup- | BN AN port the Russian request that the e ~ |Ukrainian Soviet Republic and the (White Russian Soviet Republic i accordéd representation in the| fAssembly of the proposed United Nations Organization, provided the United States also will have three votes in the Assembly. i A decision on this question will| be made at the World Security Conference which starts April 25, WASHINGTON, March 30.—The when an Assembly will be proposedl 3 e | War Labor Board has called together for an overall United Nations Or- ing from "somie of the most POWer- |10, qiocked soft coal miners and op- ganization in which all members| Fp S L oef“:mh; S VY erators for a hearini tomorrow mor- will have Tepresentation, as distinct stallations in the Sakashima group. | Formosa Raided Tuning the naval and air opera- tions along the south approaches.iseilure Seen POSSib""y I mnoumerd st Mania s vanes LeWis, Operators Fail to Agree | i [ bombed a factory and airdrome on Formosa and sank a 7,000 ton| cargo ship and five coastal vessels off shore, i The British carrier planes, fly- | ining to determine whether their from the proposed Council of eleven ! | present contract can be extended un- members. T:e attack if‘nd%cal;ed o ma‘rked;m a new one is reached. The voting ratio would be 3-6-3,| change in previous methods “li The present contract expires at according to the Yalta agreement! supply. Never before have the 5 : | midnight tomorrow British used a “floating supply | % train” on a large scale enough to| and Govern- put Chairman Bloom demands al ment seizure of the mines is seen greater vote for the United States as a possibility if the operators and than three. John L. Lewis, miner hoss, fail to, The British vote includes United jagree on a new pact or extension of Kingdom, Canada, Australia, India,: |the present one. New Zealand and South Africa. The | METRRE T oc B i "'Russians would have three. (Continued on Page Seven) Ve Cehinglof ¢8I CATCHES JOHNSTON | By DREW PEARSON i ‘Tenth Century Baltic City where | ONEBASE FALLEN, IS | NAZIREPORT German Command An- nounces Baltic City Port in Hands of Soviets Although both houses of the Legislaturé had made amendment with intent to strike this feature, ' final draft of the bill still showed the objectionable lines. | Gov. Gruening went further in | his vefdo message to declare also | that he was not in sympathy with |the manner of taxation proposed | by the. measure under which pro- | | portional contribution by the muni- | cipality and the adjacent areas_ is {based on the number of pupils in |each area, % “The wealth of the Territory must regardless of its source edu- cate the children of hte Territory,” Gruening said, and added a gen- P |eral conclusion to which he de- sians, according to a German (:um-;c]m_ed the Commissioner of Edu- mand announcement. : 2 . i |cation also subscribed, that in ad- While the: gapiire ol MBSO 15, yician o the' gkAR! obfétians.] oot g ';‘:‘s;‘;tc"ges‘“;i‘:e"!,r‘;:i‘g |“Senate Bill 64 adds nothing that| : y 2 s not already possible under Chapt. Stalin expected to salute the final | 7, SLA 1935. Section 18 to" victory of Danzig very soon. Joa ¢ n INverts %o A city of 238,000, Danzig has been a theory of taxation which was under close siege since March 23.;abmd°m‘d more than fifty years LONDON, March 30—Danzig, th(‘? the shooting in the second World | War started, has fallen to the Rus- | when Third White Russian Army |5 f forces under Marshal Vnsllevsky‘ Insurance Bill | drove to Zoppot, past Danzig, sep-| The insurance tax bill, House arating it from its rival port of Bjl 65, Gruening declared, has ob- Gdynia, which has since fallen to|jectionable features which are in- the Russians. superable. “The most objectionable feature |of the act,” Gruening said,” is the obligation not merely of the pollcy-‘ |holder to pay the tax on the pre- | |and Yugoslavia, has been outflanked by spearheads which were drlven5 forward from Szombathely, 102 miles | ‘lnorth of Zagreb, capital of puppet| |Croatia and 130 miles from the Ital-| (lan_frontier.: battleplanes, long range Soviet ar- | tillery moved up preparing to take Vienna. The Vienna to Italy rail line is Iunder fire and the German Army's confusion borders on panic. Soviet }fmnt line reports said the headlong flight of Germans into Austria has jaready cost the Germans 18.000' |prisoners in two days. | The Russians said the Third White' {Russian Army under Marshal Vas-| |ilevsky, which Moscow credited with' {a toll of nearly 100,000 Germans in Put Info Operation- Others Coming Up |t mopping up of East brussial o southwest of Koenigsberg multiplied WASHINGTON, March 30.—The | pressure on the.forces still holding! State Department said today the,in the Junker’s province, applying a| government had photographic copies| torrent of fire from additional field! of German documents disclosing | guns and a fleet of American made| “well arranged post-war plans fori"uCkS carrying rocket guns. the perpetuation of Nazi doctrines, and domination.” “Some of these plans have already | NAZIPORTS | from the army. — e —— PLANS SHOW NALZIS WILL CARRY ON Some of These Have Been | } are ready to be launched on a widespread scale immediately upon! termination of hostilities in Europe,” the Department’s statement said. The disclosure deolt with German plans for rebuilding the economic, financial, propaganda and military, | Kassel. Ships in Pacific Action TANK DRIVE SIGHTING ON = BY - PASSES | RUHR CITIES Hodges' Forces in One of Swiftest Advances of Present War BULLETIN—PARIS, Mach 30 —The American First Army's armored columns, rapidly snap- ping the lock on the industrial Ruhr, occupied Paderborn and thrust within sixteen miles of the locomotive building center of Kassel, within 182 miles of Berli In one twenty mile jump, the Seventh Armored Division crossed the Eder River and took Fritzlar, sixteen miles south- west of Kassel and Alt Wildun- gen on the Wilde River, Tanks of the Ninth Armored Division reached Borken Treysa, on the main Frankfurt-Kassel railroad. Tanks of the Third Army’s Sixth Armored Division also entered the vicinity of Treysa after a 21 mile advance. PARIS, March 30.—First Army tanks, shearing the Ruhr from Ger- many, streaked northward so fast that contact was lost with head- quarters in the rear, but a broad- armored troops had reached Bad- wildungen, 20 miles southwest of Kassel, and 190 miles from Berlin, In one of the swiftest advances of the war, Gen. Hodges' powerful for- ces are driving past’the headwaters of the Ruhr toward a junction with the Twenty-first Army group, which Is swinging across Westphalia on the open roads of north Germany. The last definitely pinpointed position reached by the First Army . in their push northward was ten miles south of Paderborn. Here the FirstArmy was 65 miles from British troops, and 186 miles from Berlin. 30 Miles Inland Both distances have been reduced appreciably in the intervening hours by the First Arpy column which the enemy said was approaching Moving in a different dir- ection, and apparenly slower than the tanks curling around the Ruhr, at one position the (British Second Army on the northern lip of the Ruhr is thirty miles inland from the Rhine, “to and beyond Dor- sten.” A field dispatch said Great Ruhr cities such as Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Mulheim, Oberhausen, Bochum, and Recklinghausen have thus been |mium if the company defaults, but control of Nazi party members, Ger- [to levy a ten percent penalty on man industralists and the German |him for every month the tax goes military. (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) ; A TTA( KED by-passed at that point. It was annoudnced nearly 24 hours ago the British were 13 miles from CRIMINALON NovADUO ‘WASHINGTON-President Roose- | i velt’s meeting with Arab ruler Ibn| Saud was the topic of vigorous discussion at a significant meeting | of 1,000 Jewish leaders at the Hotel | Astor in New York recently. It may have interesting repercussions. Con-‘K siderable criticism was directed at Roosevelt for his remark that he! had learned more about the Mos- | lems and the Jews in five minutes | with Tbn Saud than he could have| learned in a dozen letters. | Congressman Emanuel Celler, New York Democrat and staunch Roosevelt supporter, was one of the most vehement critics of the Presi- dent at the New York meeting. “There were one million Jews in OREGONFARM vs. BAKSI | Sheep Herder Murder Case; Ex-coal Miner Up Against, Fugitive Had Es- Both Yogi-man and caped from Prison New Manager NEW YORK, March 30 — Lou WASHINGTON, March 30—The |noyg, reformed Yogi-man, and Joe Federal Bureau of Investigation ggoki reformed coal miner, clash | has announced the arrest of Ran- tnis evening in Madison Square| del O. Thronberry, 27, described BY Garden in the third consecutive the Bureau early this year as One pegyyweight headline bout in that of the fifteen most sought after gyeng. criminals in the United States. The Nova' career is notable more! | | \ IN CHINA GIVEN UP American Evacuafe Laoh- okow in Face of New Japanese Drive CHUNGKING, March 30—Ameri-| In dealing the death blow to the cans abandoned the airbase at|non-medical healing bill, House | Laohokow, 200 miles -northwest of |Bill 30, regulating chiropractics,' Hankow, March 26, U, S. Head.‘,ewetern. Gruening cited the curi- quarters said. ous legislative history of the meas- | |unpaid.” i Gruening declared an innocently joffending man might conceivably |go on for years ignorant of a mounting tax penalty, and that the effect of the law is to place the burden on him of ascertaining whether the company is authorized | jor unauthorized to do business in| Alaska, and then if it is unauthor-| |i2ed, must ascertain whether or not jthe company will pay the levied tax. Death Blow This field was evacuated -in the The statement said, “the planning ' reveals the pre-war cartel agree-| ments.” REGISTER TONIGHT OR SATURDAY BY 12 FOR CITY ELECTION/ Although the City Clerk’s office \naval vessels in port, oil storage| \is closed today, Seward’s Day andjand harbor installations. a holiday, the office will be open to-| night from 7 to 9 o'clock for regis-| tration for the coming city elecnon‘l Registration will close Saturday, LONDON, March 30—More than 1400 American heavies with an escort of 900 fighters, the largest concentration sent out by the | Eighth Airforce this year, attacked | Germany's: North Sea ports of Bremen, Hamburg and Wilhelm- shaven. The massive attacks are intended to cut off any seaborne supplies destined for the German armies {in the north. The bombers’ targets | included submarine building yards, ATTEMPT MADE 10 | Dortmund and 23 mies from Hamm, the eastern exit from the Ruhr Valley, while the U. S. Ninth Army is driving eastward in echelon. Break Through Line The British broke clear through German lines in the Ruhr itself, af- ter knocking the first-rate German 116th Tank Division off its feet in the Zeckel area, just north of Glad- bach. The Ninth Army has captured 10,000 prisoners since crossing the Rhine, and this seemed to be the pattern of the west front onslaught, with British forces driving to seal off the north German ports and moving with the Ninth Army toward a meeting with the First Army to ;;ndk ar:und b:ldy:distflct inlt New ure in which the Senate had YeS-noon so there are practically On]yl ork who voted for Roosevelt un- | irecior of the FBI EJgar ror such things as a “cosmio|{Ce Of & push by a Japanese force cinded its passage of the bill 14 o' apout five hours remaining in which| nimously, Congressman Celler 5 4 i :aht “Tlfeir vouzg made the differ. HOOVer said the fugifive Was ar-|pynen “dynamic stance,” and odd|estimated at 80000 men. That the |2 after the measure had been Sent thoge who expect to cast a vote on| box off the Ruhr. The Third Army is gouging “through middle Germany toward the DESTROY PANAMA ence between his victory or defeat. “The Jews,” he continued, “do not propose to stand for this sort of thing. Roosevelt is going to have to learn that he can't fool all of | the Jews all of the time.” Senator Ed Johnson, Colorado Democrat, but usually a Roosevelt hater, was also a speaker at the, meeting and gleefully joined in the criticism. Referring to the state-, ment that Roosevelt had learned s0 much about the Palestinian question from the King of Saudi Arabia in five minutes, Senator rested on .a farm near Eugenegiets, than for consistent ring per- Oregon, late yesterday. |formance. Nova is now handled by Thronberry is wanted in €ON- that veteran manager James John- nection with the strangulation g0 and pre-fight publicity has murder of a sheep herder abt maqe jt appear. that Baski will be Steamboat Springs, Colorado, mlngmmg both Nova and his man- August 1934. | ager. “The Government was seeking him also for unlawful flight to ENSIGN NORMAN HERE avoid prosecution and for inter-! Ensign Seth M. Norman, Ships state flight in an automobile gervice Officer from the Coasti agents said he stole after escaping Guard District Headquarters at from Colorado Prison. |Ketchikan, is now in Juneau to The FBI said Trhonberry, ac- make an examination of Service companied by his wife and two!store of the Captain of the Port ——eto———— enemy may have now reached Lao-!b“k to the House instead of ask+ qyesday have to put their John ichildren, had lived on a farm near pepe | qux:sgnv::;ds:transe how the Presi- |Eugene, Oregon since February 6. s ML PR R dent could have learned anything| The Bureau declared he was un- NOLAN HERE about, the Jewish question from Ibmlrmed v_«'hen agents approached him| Deputy U. S. Marshal James’ Saud. Ibn Saud had never before D & field, but later five loaded Nolan, of Wrangell, who brought a been outside his own kingdom, and |fifles, pistols and shotguns were group of prisoners to Juneau, is a e o |found in the rooms he was occupy-lguest at the Hotel Juneau during (Continued on Page Four) ing. {his stay here. {Collins were to leave for their An- hokow ' was indicated in an an- ing the House to return the meas- nouncement yesterday that U. S. ure. ’ | Fourteenth Air Force bombers at-| “Technically the bill may be be-| tacked a town five miles to the(fore me for my signature,” said northeast. |Gruening, “but actually one of the The new enemy drive, unless tWo houses has withdrawn its ap- checked, eventually may menucg_proval and I feel that it is in line Sither Sian in Shensi Province, 200 (With democratic principles for me miles northwest of Laohokow, or nhot to sign.” Chungking, 400 miles to the south-| With regards to the consolidated west, school districts bill, Gruening said he would like to see the next ses- sion of the Legislature bring out ————ee— COLLINS AND WIFE WILL ‘ { | FLY HOME IN OWN I)LANE'Q bill that would provide for edu-|work resulting from increased tim-{steamship Mapocho, others, work icational authorities to make school | Senator Gren Collins and Mrs, |district proposals for submission to| | elections. chorage hame today in Collins', The objective of the bill is good, Stinson cabin plane. The couple Gruening said, but declared the' have been waiting for proper fly-|last’days passage of the measure ing weather since the end of the prevented further discussion of the Legislature. 2 bill's objectionable features. Hancocks on the city books. FORESTER HERE FROM KETCHIKAN Forester Knox Marshal, on detail | from his regular post in Ketchikan, {has reported to the Forest Service office in Juneau and is expected to| remain here for some time. He will assist in carrying an overload of CANAL IS CLAIM SANTIAGO, Chile, March 30— {The newspaper La Nacion, which| Ihas important contacts with the| (government, declared an attempt to destroy the Panama Canal is dis- closed by the detention of a Ger-; Iman sabotage chief named Von| | Appen. i ‘The newspaper made the asser-| tion in a story headlined "!hlp‘; wrecks of sailing vessel Lautaro, 'Aaska, it was announced by Assis-|Jean Chamberlain, all of Portland, ber sales in the Admiralty Division. of sabotage,” but gave no details. Mr. Marshall also will work with| - Harold Smith of the Juneau office FROM PORTLAND in reviewing land classifications| within the National Forests of| | At | Neal V. Pittig, Marie Silver and tant Regional Forester Charles Bur- | Oregon, are registered at the Gas- dick. , jtineau Hotel. ) Russian lines, while the Seventh Army is moving into position to slice off mountainous southern Ger- many, where Nazi war criminals may try to hole up. Observe A Holiday Territorial offices generally are observing Seward Day and are closed. The City Clerk's office is also closed but will be open tonight from 7 to 9 o'clock for registration. Banks are also observing a holi- day and schools held no classes m the bells jangled as usual.