The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 3, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALI, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXIV., NO. 9926 APRIL 3, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS - PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, — =] YANKS MAKE . S. Invaders BIGADVANCE |RED FORCES MADE ALONG GET CLOSER ENTIRE LINE TO VIENNA | West Part of Breslau Also Aflame with Battle, Germans Say Planes 0 p?&l ing from Captured Airfields— | Supplies Landed | | | J. - x By MORRIE LANDSBERG ‘ BULLETIN-LONDON, April 3 | —Russian troops have captured the Wiener Neustadt Messer- schmitt Assembly Center, 25 miles south of Vienna, Premier Josef Stalin announced tonight. He also announced that Eis- enstadt, 12 milts southwest of ‘Wiener Neustadt, and Glognitz, 18 miles southwest were cap- tured. The order described these as “important strongholds in the German defenses and ap- proaches to Vienna.” The order (AP War Correspondent) GUAM, April 3—Tenth Army in- fantrymen and Marines cut stra- tegic Okinawa Island in two on Monday, reaching the east coast in a swift drive against only scat-| tered resistance, the Navy an-| nounced. | Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said elements of the Twenty-fourth| Corps reached the east coast at a| point near the village of Tobara,| while advances averaging several| ¥ thousand yards were made along| added that Marshal Tolbukhin’s S aitive ling: | forces had taken Neunkirchen, Increasing Japanese activity was| 10 miles southwest of Wiener ; 5 ; reported in the rugged terrain in| Neustadt. The capture of Neun- | 'y, y 7po0PS OF GENERAL HODGES' the center of the island—only 350 Kirchen and Glognitz cuts the miles south of Japan itself—which| road from Vienna to Graz Kla- was invaded Easter morning. genfurt. Airfields Captured | Observation planes are operating| LONDON, Aprii 3-russian spear- already from the two main cap- heads reached the Baden area,| tured airfields of Katena and Yon- jabout 10 miles south of Vienna,| tan. Japanese planes attacked Yank |the German Command said, while | positions Sunday night, and five of |Third Ukrainian Army units are| them were downed, Admiral Nimitz fighting in the streets of Weiner announced, > {Neustadt, 25 miles south of the Nimitz said carrier aircraft, heavy capital. | guns of the fleet and field artillery| Transocean reports said the Rus- | are giving close support to ground sians, in a bold thrust from the operations, and unloading of sup.jsouthmst, reached the Baden area, | plies is progressing satisfactorily. (which is about midway between | Front dispatches said the Ameri- Weiner Neustadt, but claimed the cans “too easy” invasion is mavmgiGermans “succeeded in halting the | at a pace necessary to cover every onrushing” Red Army troops in the | square yard of ground in search area immediately south of Vienna.| of snipers, and keep adequate sup- ! New Drive Started plies at the front. { The German propaganda agency Soldiers and Marines of this new also reported Marshal Malinovsky | field force, commanded by Lt. Gen. had started a new drive northward | Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., have from his positions near Bratislava, | already seized two major ggmems,:capitsl of Slovakia, probably aimed | and one frontline dispatch said a|at Bruenn, second largest city in| third airstrip had been secured. ;Czechoslovnkia, and machine - gun | Radio Tokyo in an unconfirmed manufacturing center. At captured | report said Yank forces Sunday Modra, the Russians are about 70 | landed on Kume Island, fifty two:miles southeast of Bruenn. | miles west of Okinawa. ' Assaults Stepped Up | — | _German broadcasts said the Rus- | LEMIEUXS OUT sians have stepped up their assault | Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lemieux, well (on embattled Breslau, in Silesia, ' known residents, left on the North|With heavy artillery fire and the Sea for Seattle. {“whole west part of the town is | ;mz;‘v e“luameravtviiit)h E:d':ie an early‘l The Washington s S Merry - Go- Round |assault on Berlin from the Rus- |sians’ middle Oder springboards, By DREW PEARSCN (Lt. Col. Robert serv {reporting “lively activity was ob-| ice wi 8. First Army fighting or prefabricated and shipped to assembling yards Tum in»Radids‘iorv(hecking Army Sig !served" behind the main Red Army’ {lines before -Berlin. It was also| |revealed by the German radio that| !Hitler had sent his personal body-} o \en, Dow (2% 8°UY8 | guard, the iron handed Cal. Gen.| i |Sepp Dietrich, to Vienna to mob- | WASHINGTON—For months the ilize that capital against the Rus- | Albanian radio has been broad- sians. “;‘ ) GERMAN CIVILIANS turn in their radios in compliance with an Allied “radio messages, then they will be returned to the ow ners. | Corps photograph. casting daily appeals to the out- x 3 7 side world for food, clothing and | medical supplies. But although; REPUBI.I( A"S I“ UNRRA is supposed to care for the ru emons ra es war-torn countries, and althoushl Albania has suffered more -than GAI"S MICHIGA" | most, UNRRA still has been unable | wy i b - STATE ELE 1S N0 Army-iNavy Backstage reason, according to! S NS UNRRA officials, is that the Bl‘lfish! :fal{‘:el':o msg‘dAllb’ing:)“:‘:]p:rxeg DETROIT, April 3—The Republl-‘ UNRRA relief for UNRRA. ‘cnns swept up_ the minor state o?—‘ This, in turn, horrifies the M_Elicezo Mox_mal&l u;]_the m:§t r.:p“'}ll‘:‘c bania “British €lection in ichigan’s history. ey i 6 g ( o{flce::‘inAzm‘;L;llb::mlfgzld Tacan even carried Detrolt for the first By JACE BTINNGID he took over at WPB, he was In the a throttle-hold on the country, if time since before the 1932 Roose-| WASHINGTON, Apfil 3—If ever Navy, they wanted to exercise it. And,Vvelt ‘landslide. a fellow got into a job he WESD gen former WPB Chairman all too vividly what hap-| Preoccupation with tire war, rainy |expecting( it's J. A. Krug, chief of Donald Nelson and Vice Chairman péned when Great Bitain went into weather and a lack of clear-cut the War Production Board, | Charles E. Wilson had their big relghboring Greece, the Albanians ODtests was blamed for the small| The rumor constantly floats|spiitup fast summer, Krug was re- refuse to admit the British military. Vote, probably less than 400,000 in ground that WPB now is under the cajied from the Navy to take charge Faced with starvation or mili- the state that cast a record 2-/thumb of the Army and Navy and| A¢ thai time it appeared that tary domination, they have chosen 200,000 ballots in the general elec- |that Kryg isn't more than a rubber| Germany might fold any day, and starvation. |tion last fall. {stamp. ' But if Krug is anybody’s ¢he pattle for reconversion was hot The British proposal to send 1,200 | T B e ~ubber stamp, it would be something | ung peavy. Krug was to be the officers into Albania is-based upon | STo(K ouo"'"o"s (that isn't in the book. | conversion man.” He kept his prom- an agreement that whenever al In the first place, };e's ? good Slx(;;i..!,: to eliminate internal d ibera f supplies | | foot-three, 240 pounds of man and’ gion mwbehn:e uéfigémififiiy o?pme} NEW YORK, April 3 — Closing |doesn't play tiddley-winks when it Allied military for the first six duotation of Alaska Juneau mine |comes to making decisions.’ | But his big job was to start the months and UNRRA must work Stock today is 6%, American Can| He has been in government WOk | ywheels of civilian industry rolling under the military. |93, Bethlehem Steel 72%, Curtiss-|quite awhile, is referred to around|ggai; He made a start, but then However, Albania wae never oc-'Wright 5%, International Harvester, here as a “career man" In Ken-|yya¢ nappened? cupled by any Allied army. Neither T7: Kennecott 31', New York Cen- tucky and Wisconsin he was In pub-| The Germans' began the counter British nor U. S. troops entered it. /'8! 23, Northern Pacific 22, U. 8. |lic utilities, and came into goVern-|offensive that temporarily set us But now that the Nazis have beenls':: 33‘., Pound $4.04. b |ment by way of t}?e ‘vedera;l COm-= | pack on our heels. hased W, Jones averages today are as munications Commission. e was revious cs ations of need for w&h followh: Industrials, 156207 rnlla,‘sent from there to the Tennessee EIN S e o e (Continued on Page Four) 5131; utilities, 27.86, Valley Authority, For awhile before (Continued on Page Scven) . [©) ) the east bank of the Rhine River, are pictured above shortly after capturing a factory at Rheinbrohl, Germany, where submarine parts were al Corps photo, overnment proclamation Military G in the town of Schwanheim, Germany. Sets will be checked to make sure they cannot be employed to send This is an official United States Army Signal INVASION OF OKINAWA IS Objectives Xre Reached in Three Days-Expected fo Take Five * By ROBIN COONS (AP War Corresepondent) WITH THE INAWA, April 3.—The invasion this island so far is “going far bet- ter than our wildest dreams,” said Maj. Gen. John Hodge, Corps Com- mandant, Tonight. Hodge pointed out the Dh)ecnves‘ were reached on the third day of bhe‘xmponam," invasion. It was expected would take at least five days. TR FROM CHICAGO Mr. at the Baranof Hotel. U. 8. TWENTY- _/PFOURTH ARMY CORPS ON OK-lcated the victims were prominent and Mrs. J. Dzedolik, regis- tering from Chicago, Ill, are guests Trapped German Forces "Ripe for Annihilation” SaysGeneral Eisenhower PARIS, April 3 — In order of the day, Gen. Dwight D, of Army Group H, thus forming ¥ ke a large pocket of enemy troops Eisenhower proclaimed the fate O‘jwhose fate: 15 sealed. and. MM Ate the estimated 100,000 enemy troops yipa for annihilation, and this most cut off in the Ruhr,. saying the vital industrial area is denied to trapped forces were “ripe for B"-[!he German war potential. nihilation.” “This The text of Eisenhower's message will bring the war more rapidly to read: “To every member of the a close. It will long be remembered !pal target oi the Mosquitoes being ' Magdeburg, twenty miles southwest lof Berlin. AEF: Encirclement of the Ruhrbya in history as the outstanding battle jwide pincer movement cut off thelof the Ruhr.” | | | Proposed for | ! | WASHINGTON, April 3 — The War Department has asked Con- igress for a $122,000,000 appropria- | tion to return the American dudl {in World War II for -burial in 79/ ;propfl‘;ed national cemetaries| — throughout the country. LA f . | The locations recommended in- 1 Alr O“enswe from "allan, | clude Juneau, 3000 capacity; Seattle | Y . |aven, B0000; Spokane 40,000 British Bases Again | WBEC 49 R | | = Takes Place I “ All SHIPS | LONDON, April 3.—Daylight air ' . | cffensives against Germany were | i i |slon, as the Fifteenth Air Force | Lightnings and fighter bombers {from Italy, attacked Tannachstein |rail bridge, ten miles east of Klag- {enfurt, Austria. ° | The German radio said Allied | bomber formations were also over | —_— | northwestern Reich despite unfavor- . H able weather. RAF Mosquitoes last U. S Elghih Air Force At"nlght attacked Berlin and Magde- H burg, the British announced, in re- tacks Wilhelmshaven (newing the Aied air oftensive which broke all records during Naval Dockyards - |aarcn. | 5 The overnight raids ended Ger- i LONDON, April 3—The Germuu“many's two-day respite, by bombing ‘]ight cruiser Koln Liner, which was‘\ofl installations feeding the totter- probably used as a troopship, and {four other vessels were set afire, iand a 370 foot motorship supk, in ‘an attack by the U. 8. Eighth Air- 8 !force on the naval dockyards at/ RAF night raiders also attacked | Wilhelmshaven, March 30, enemy communications and airfields Two German submarines were|OVer a large area in northwest Ger- [sunk and another damaged, the many and Hoiland. {wEigmh Airforce said in a special RS i s 1050 T communique, reporting great en- | gineering workshops, slipways, re-| d an ower pair yards and submarine hulldmg‘ facilities severely battered | Bremen and Hamburg also suf-| H ] fered heavy damage in simultaneous I les coordinated air assault ever launch- ed against enemy ports. At least n ena e |three shipyards and buildings re-| |ceived direct bomb hits in the | . | = {Vote on Report 45-29-Bill TWO PROMINENT | | { . GERMANS KILLED | | i IN ou‘l’ER BER“" WASHINGTON, April 3.—The ] | Senate has rejected the Manpower | | Bill by a vote of 45 to 29 on a con- ference report. attacks by 1400 heavy bombers es- !thrust against Bremen. May Come Back from jcorted by 900 fighters in the largest >oo — Joint Parley | Senator O'Mahoney who opposed | the measure, said he planned to ask 1 |that the legislation be sent back to | LONDON, April 3—The German |& Joint Committee of the two houses |radio last night broadcast a bul- inlm.] f‘ffurl to work out another letin offering a reward of 100,000 Measure. |marks, which is $10,000 at the U. . military exchange rate, for aid in HEllE"THAl Io |capturing the killers of two pas-| sengers and the driver of a car| in outer Berlin. | MovE Io j““EAu The size of |although they were not named.| Former Anchorage Judge of the {The urgent police announcement District Court Simon Hellenthal said “it is possible the perpetrat- will shortly return to his Juneau 'ors of the crime were wearing some home. sort of uniform, and even the <-lellenthal, who returned to Ju- i 4 neau yesterday from a trip to the smallest bit of information may be Blater sids e will: Gry Kb s rage soon and return within a week D) ARRIVES or so to Juneau where he will take W. E. Diers, representing the over the law practice of his brother, United States Rubber Company of Jack Hellenthal Seattle, is staying at the Baranof Jack Hellenthal expects to go Hotel during a business trip to south this summer to spend some ‘Uunmu, time on his farm in California RubberStampAgent RAPID ONE “Wesi revorior: = - 57 { fered for Slayers | the rewards indi-| of ‘it & special whole of Army Group B and 1mrls‘ magnificent feat of arms, jresumed after a two day intermis-| (ing German war machine, princi-| GAINS TOWARD BERLIN each Okinawa’s East Coast German Faclory (apiur d ARMORUNIT INPLUNGE - OF 19 MILES Big Advance Made Toward Luider Zee-House-fo- . House Fighting | PARIS, April 3—The Third Ar- |my’s Fourth Armored Division, in a |plunge nineteen miles to the east- ward, raced into the outskirts of the old German city of Gotha, reach- ing a point three-fourth of the way across the Reich to Czecho-Slovakia, and 140 miles from Berlin. In the north, British and Can- adian troops advanced within 25 miles or less of the Zuider Zee, and |within 60 miles of the North Sea in a drive to close the trap on Ger- man garrisons in northern Holland, the sites of Germgny’s V-bomb |rockets. | West of Berlin, the U. S. Ninth Army fought within nine miles of the Weser River, while the Pirst | Army, beating the Germans to the punch, turned back attempts of | forces from the 110,000 trapped Nazis to break out of the Ruhr poc- ket. ; Vise Tightened Tightening its vise to the n = west of the Gotha spearhead, “Thlrd Army is fighting a house to bouse battle in falling Kassel, loco- |motive manufaeturing center. Go- |tha, twenty-six miles west of Wei- mar, the birthplace of the German {Republic whieh was installed after the last World War, is seventy-five miles from the border of Czechos- lovakia and 75 miles from Leipaig. | " Two other columns 17 and 27 miles !south of Gotha jabbed even closer to Czechoslovakia, with the city of |Fulda, 45 miles to the rear of these columns, cléared by hard hitting | Third Army forces who advanced {almest 30 miles overnight. within 160 miles of a junction with the Russians on the eastern front, Patton Storms Suhl | German reports sald Gen. Patton's | Third Army, storming Suhl, had |surrounded Meiningen, ten miles to the southwest on Werra River. i | The enemy said Seventh Army jtanks had cut the railroad from in- |vested Querzberg to Ansback, 23 |miles southwest of Nuernberg. | "We have not yet succeeded In { building a cohesive front,” a Berlin !mmtnry spokesman said. Canadians Bridge Rhine Canadian forces which menaced Arnhem, have bridged the lower Rhine and twice fought toward the |Zuider Zee. When they reach that {great war area, cities such as Ams- !_ (Continued on Page Two) | 'MAJ. GEN. ROSE IS KILLED IN ACTION ? INGERMANBATTLE WASHINGTON, April 3—Major |General Maurice Rose, Commander iof the Third Armored Division, was !killed in action in Germany, the |War Department said, “while lead- inng his division in spearheading |the advance of U. S. troops in Ger- many.” The date of Gen. Rose’s death is inot given. His widow lives in ‘lDenver. The, General was 45 at the |time of his death. | SHOT BY GERMAN | WITH THE U. S. FIRST ARMY, {April 3—Maj. Gen. Rose, brilliant |Commander of the Third Armored | Division which spearheaded the |First Army’s drive from the Rhine {River deep into Germany, was shot {to death near Paderborn on March {30 by a German tankman as the |General started to surrender to him lafter capture, his companions state. The tall handsome General was shot through the head as he lifted his ptstol holster from his shoulder to hand it over to the German |covering him, The German's - aide shot the General with a machine 'pistol from the turret of the tank |which had infiltrated into the Am- erican lines.