The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 5, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL. THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” One Sixth of Oki YANKSSWEEP | * ON WITHOUT 0PPOSITION Defense Line Is Thrown + “Awross Isthmus-Troops Move in Many Areas By MORRIE LANDSBERG (AP War Correspondent) GUAM, April 5—Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner's veteran Tenth Army forces swept forward in sen- sational gains over Okinawa yes- terday, and by nightfall of the fourth day of the virtually unop- posed invasion had about 80 square miles, or one-sixth of the island| under control. Maj. Gen. Roy S. Geiger’s Third Amphibious Corps on the north flank, advanced quickly to a point 3000 to 4000 yards north of Ishi- mawa, where they threw a defense | line across the neck of Okinawa’s| narrowest isthmus. This secuon‘ could have been defended compara- | tively easily by the 60,000 or more Japanese troops on the island, but, there is still no report of an en-| gagement in force. On the south end of the island, Maj. Gen. Andrew D. Bruce's Seventy-seventh Infantry Division,/ with- other units, pushed forward| ainst slight resistance to hold the line between Uchi Tomari on the west coast, Kamiyama in the center and Nakagusuku on the east coast. { _Katchin Peninsula on the east coast has been overrun by Ma- CANADA MARKS VOLUNTEERS T0 BATILE JAPAN King Says Canadians fo Turn fo Production After Germany's Defeat OTTAWA, April 5—Prime Min- ister MacKenzie King, whose gov- ernment was nearly overthrown last November when it adopted partial ! conscription for the war against; SAN FRANCISCO, April 5—Pre- Germany, has embarked on a cam- | mier General Koiso and the entire paign for re-election with the an- Japanese cabinet resigned after an nouncement that Canada will send | emergency meeting this morning, only volunteers to fight the war[the Tokyo home radio said. The against Japan. ibrnadcast, recorded by the FCC, said Canada’s fighting forces in the KOlso collected the resignations of {Pacific will be numerically “yery 8ll members of his cabinet, then CABINET IS OUT TODAY Resignations Submitted, Accepted-New Party Now Takes Qver | | | | France, King told the Parliament.' He said the Dominion’s efforts after | the defeat of Germany “to a con-| siderable extent” will be turned to Imuch less” than those employed in ASubmitted them to the Emperor. The resignations were submitted “in view of the war situation, in order to bring in a more powerml‘ cabinet.” The Board of Information an- MOVES NORT producing foodstuffs, war materials and the work of reconstruction, re- nouncement said “The Tiger” Koiso, lief and rehabilitation. Eas he is popularly known, succeeded Of the volunteer forces which Gen. Hideki Tojo as Premier, July Canada will' send against Japan, 22, 1944. Army units will serve with the| K0iso was the strong, tough man United States and Navy and Air Of the Jap Army's Kwantung clique, Forces with Britain. King said that 25 early as 1932, several years before Canada’s present overseas forces, 100 “the Razor” rose to prominence including Army, Na and Air, in the same group. total abgut 750,000. s | The growing success of the Allied AR AP S0 (military drive toward the homeland, ElGHIH ARI Iv and increasing Superfort raids on {Japan proper brought criticism in |ever increasing volume from power- {ful forces within Nippon, until last {week a new totalitarian polttical party was formed to brihg “sdre {victm'y‘“ ! The new political party is headed by Gen. Jiro Minami. Gen. Koiso premised to give it his support, but rines, giving the Yanks control of the entire eastern shoreline of| Nakagusuku, former Jap fleet an-| chorage, which may soon be put to use by the Americans. { Troops moving ‘down the west coast were within approximately two miles of Machinato Airfield, | and. four miles from Naha, Oki-| nawa's capital city and the largest in Okinawa. They are now about four miles from another airfield which is incompleted. WAR CASUALTIES SHOW INCREASE TWENTY THOUSAND WASHINGTON, April S.—Army| and Navy casualties since the be- | ginning of the war have reached‘ 892,509. Becretary of War Henry L. Stim- son reported Army losses were 798,- | 383 The Navy Department said their losses were 94,526, The total represents an increase of 20,000 since last week’s announce- ment. The Army dead is now 156,- 471 and the Navy's 36,471, The Washington| Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON 5 . Robert 8. Allen active s wmmmmmfl.‘- WASHINGTON — Resistance to our recent landing on Mindanao has confirmed the, suspicions. of military men that the major factor contributing to the poor Jap show- ing in the Philippines was that our ecampaign just wasn't planned ac-| cording to Japanese rules. Poorly prepared on Leyte, Mindoro, and Luzon, the Japs had really set( themselves up to repel invasion on Mindanao, which they figured would be our first target in the islands. They were right. But when Ad- miral Halsey reported to Gen. Mac- | Arthur that Leyte appeared to be, & soft spot, our plans were changed. | In preparing Mindanao for de- fense, the Japs called upon a number of ‘“improved” German technics. Among the most im- portant was their installation of electrically controlled mines—per- mitting an observer to blow the mines from a distance when our| tanks or concentrations of our troops entered the mined areas. ——— e (Continued on Page Four) ‘extent of the northward drive was {was limited to patrolling. Minami declared his group would not “hesitate to criticize the gov- jernment.” He accused Koiso's re- gime of having failed to “make full- est preparations for all eventualities visavis the foreign enemy.” FOUR MILES ROME, April 5 — Eighth Army troops consolidated their positions on the narrow Italian coastal strip between Valli Di Comacchio and the Adriatic Sea and then stabbed northward close to Porto Garibaldi. Allie Headquarters said the exact EMEROR CALLS SUZUKI LONDON, April 5—The Japanese Government of Koiso fell midst the Empire’s grave military crisis and the Emperor has called on Admiral Baron Suzuki, 78, President of the Privy Council, to form a new not disclosed but it indicated troops were already in the vicinity of Porto Garibaldi, which is nearly four miles north of last reported abinet, Tokyo broadcasts said. positions. { Suzuki had been in semi-retire- Elsewhere on the front, action Ment eight years prior to his ap- I s pointment as President. of the Privy {Councu on August 10, last year. In prewar years he was consid- i HOWARD WRIGHI jered one of Japan’s moderate 1} istatesmen and was an opponent of (o"mA(IOR HERE,Lhe extreme Army cliques and ag- 1] gressive ventures. He was seriously On his-way to Cordova to.inspect on February 26, 1936, when he held wounded in the Tokyo army revolt the new cannery his company, Howard S. Wright and Company, | the post of Lord Chamberlain. Many close students of Japanese general contractors, is building for affairs assert his call to power |Howard H. Wright, partner in the Bestures to the United States and \firm, is spending two days in Ju- |their Allies. |neau checking up on construction | et St possibilities. Today he is conferring PLEADS NOT GUILTY {with H. B. Foss, local architect. | Wright said the new cannery,! being built to replace the one de- stroyed by ffre last fall, will be Walter E: Neumann, merchant sailor charged with alleged burglary in a dwelling, made a delayed ap- located at Orca, two miles out of pearance before Judge George F. Alexander in Federal District Court here. The defendant pled not euilty to the charge against him. |His bail' was reduced to $1,000. e town. The $1,000,000 plant will be completed, he said, by May 15 and will pack salmon this season. Plant buildings under construc- tion are an ocean dock, cannery building, two warehouses, omce: bix N!?W ATaTION building, bunk houses, two mess, Radio Electrician James Mec- halls, superintendent’s house, fore- |Gregor, enroute to a new station man’s house, machine shop and a assignment, was a recent Juneau blacksmith shop. visitor. He has been on duty with Wright said the frames of the|the Captain of the Port, U. S, cannery and warehouses are made of . structural steel. instead of the usual wood.: These * buildings are |Coast Guard at Sitka. ———————— FROM WHITEHORSE considered as fireproof, he stated,| Wallace Fitzgerald, of White- :5 anbi building standing on piling | horse, is a guest at the Baranof. an 3 ) —— P e This year a three-line cannery FLORENCE HERE will be operated and room is left for a fourth line. Construction | commenced in November and 250 men are working on the job. A. L. Florence, registering from Ketchikan, is a guest at the Gas- tineau Hotel. Wright told of the industrial al- cohol plant his firm built in Bel- | lingham, Washington. It has a| capacity of 550 gallons a day and extracts the chemical from wood waste. He sees a future in Alaska for this type of industry. The contractor said he was great- ly impressed by the sight'of Men- denhall Glacier and surrounding mountains as he saw them from the plane. While here Wright is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. o PAYS FINE In City Magistrate’s Court Elmer Peterson has been fined $25 on a charge of drunk and disorderly conduct. Mother Goose was born Elizabeth Foster in 1665 in' England and only went down in history because an irate son-in-law secretly put her. follows: verses in print to ridicule her. ENTIREJAP |RED ARMIES { | {the New England Fish Company, Might mean some “moderate” peace | JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1945 (ONVERGINGI Surrender” ON VIENNA - Fierce Fighing in Suburbs vt A N 1i)rf“éitylgas gfll:: F:rc:; : M A N D E R S Roll Forward i MAYOR AT ANCHORAGE LONDON, April 5.—Russians to-, day fought into “greater Vienna,”, ! ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 5 the Germans report. Moscow dLs-‘ {John Manders was elected Mayor of patches said Russian forces are pouring over the Danube between captured Bratisalva and Vienna to| join the assault with the forces bat. tling to encircle Vienna. ‘While some forces fought to draw lines to the northeast of the Capi-! tal City, others battled to cross the' maze of rivers and railways to at- tack from the southwest. Moscow Anchorage in Tuesday's municipal election with a vote of 660 and defeated Ray Wolfe, incumbent, who polled 330 votes. Moritz Ander- sen . trailed with 111. Ed Coffey, nawa Isle Is Under “Clean- Cut Milifary Unlikely Says Eeneral‘ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS =—————————=xug THIRD ARMY of Germans | IN ADVANCE Patton’s Division Captures Town-Gains Along 100-Mile Front WASHINGTON, April 5—Gen Dwight Eisenhower informed Presi- dent Roosevelt a “clean-cut mllitnryg surrender” by the Nazis is improb- | able. | In a letter to the President, re-| leased by the White House, Gen.| Eisenhower foresaw extensive guer- | rilla warfare. He said he is hopeful Third Army advanced within 132 |that launching operations at the miles of Berlin, in the Schlotheim jproper time “should partially pre- area, while other Allied Armies mov- vent guerrilla control of any large ed up to the Weser River on a wide {area, such as the southern mountain front 23 miles from Hannover. The { bastion.” |Germans are retreaing pell mell to- !, On a basis of past performances of ward the Elbe River, which flows the German armed forces, Gen. Eis-iwlthin 50 miles of Berlin, and ap-} enhower said it is likely, VE Day peared also to be evacuating Han- will come about only by proclama-'nover. tion on our part rather than any. Gen. Patton's Sixth Armored Di- definite, decisive collapse of surren- vision captured the ancient Thur-/ der of German resistance.” |ingian town of Muelhausen, | ON BERLIN PARIS, April 5.—Troops of the ontrol TREATY IS BROKENOFF WITH NIPS ‘Soviets Charge Tokyo with | Helping Germany in War on Russia ALSO WITH FIGHTING ON ALLIED NATIONS Formal Note Is Handed o Ambassador in Midst of Cabflit Crisis LONDON, April 5—Russia today then denounced ifs neutrality pact with dispatches, said they had already {captured two secondary airfields, one a few miles east of Baden and the other just south of Vienna. Tank Battle Rages who,’had been placed in nomination, Such a proclamation, if it does‘ withidrew his name upon arrival . pe the White House spokesman fromd Juneau after attending the said, would probably be issued by ;Sevehuir‘mh Legislative session, of Gen, Eisenhower himself. |which he was President of the, % moved eight miles northeast to the|Japan, accusing Tokyo with helping - Schlotheim area in their closest ap-|Germany in the war against proach to Berlin. At Schlotheim, the | Russia. Third Army forces are 72 miles from | The Moscow radio announced Leipzig, 172 miles from the Russidn!that V. M. Molotov, Vice-Chairman ithe German line along the Liesing| |American forces striking at Berlin Hardwaie . Oungenp | Senate. Great tank battles are being, The city election brought out 1108 fought in the suburbs of the city ot]vours to the polls, the largest in 1,900,000 population, where Moscow the city's history and at least 200 said they found the Deer Park con- more refused to wait in line to verted by the Germans into an.illery‘vote‘ A total of 1233 voters regis- positions from which heavy bar-, tered. rages fell upon the Russian ranks. | Councilmen elected are Raymer Although one Moscow paper said S. Brown, jeweler; Robert Lind- high Nazis were evacuating the cithu!sl, hotel manager; Louis Odsa- most Soviet advices indicated the |ther, grocer. They led the list of Germans are determined to fight!14 idates. for Vienna as they fought in Buda-| Gunhard Engebreth was reelected pest. |to the Utility Board and Dr. Harold |Sogn was elected to the School | Board ( The campaign was marked by !parades, platform speeches, pledges jand display of banners. Two Armies Merge Already across the Wierbach River southeast of Vienna, the Second and Third Ukrainian Armies under Mar- shals Malinovsky and Tolbukin, g | fought shoulder to shoulder against| ELECTION AT NOME River, which runs from west to east ! NPME' Alasigh Apeil 5—At'Tues- ) day's city election, 436 votes were through Vienna's suburbs, swinging, highest in 1 3 Just south of Deer Park. !cast, the highest in 10 years. 2 o Edward M. Seidenvery, owner of Germans said the Russians are| e Bon Marche Department stor striking for St. Poelten, 30 miles due | '¢ Bon Mai s A was elected Mayor by a vote of west of Vienna, and 62 miles east of g Linz, munitions center in north 219 t0 139 over Edward Anderson, western Austria. | outgoing Mayor who was the EMem:th;; to the north, Berlin Second Division’s represengative to radio sald Marshal Zhukov's army the Seventeenth Legislature in is about to launch a powerful as-|Juneau. : A sault from the Oder and Neisse! Three councilmen elected were River bases, toward a junction with GUY Misl, owner of the Nome 323 votes; Christian A. Roust, manager of the !Glenn Carrington #Company in Nome, 317 votes; and Joseph Wal- from the west. ———.————— [lace, owner of the Wallace Hotel, | Others on the ballot were Roy | Snyder, mechanic, 194 votes, and {Albert Mode, mine operator in the |Osbourne Creek district, 89 votes. | Other officers elected were pres- ent incumbents, returned without {opposition: «Carrie McLain, City |Clerk, C. C. Tanner, City Attorney; 'H. G. Gabrielson, Treasurer. W. J. Dowd was elected for three years, and A. C. Steinwandel, for a two year term on the school board. GIVEN BIG (OMMAND Four Armies Under His, g Control-Ninth Refurned | rerenssuro, gty to U. S. Twelfth centss. ballots. gave’ Garl. Vevel- !stad a majority over Charles An- derson for the' City Council. Mem- PARIS, April 5—For current ac-|bPers elected to the Council, as the tivities, operational control of the result of Tuesday’s election are An- U. S. Ninth Army and the Twenty- | derson, L. R. Swanson and Lloyd | | ninth Tactical Air Command, have SWanson, with Arnold Wasvick as' been returned respectively to the Mayor. hausen. Ten small-arms factories were captured in Third Army gains along the 100 mile front. One column reached Muehlberg, seven southeast of Gotha, in the drive ‘to- ISLAND OF MASBATE IS ward the Czech b HYLRT | The Seventh Army, through hard resistance, is down to- the last 34 miles to Nuernberg; while Ameri(ans confinue Big\the French First Army, 20 miles ' Blockade — Hongkong i susa, s curtng sound e Bombed - Fires section of the Siegfriend Line. e By JAMES HUTCHESON (AP War Correspondent) MANILA, April 5—Masbate Island AIR A A(KS in the central Philippines has been added to the growing list of islands ' STI ll HE Avv taken by American forces, as Gen.| Douglas MacArthur announced in 0il Refineries, Ordnance Depots Targefs for a communique that Major General | Rapp Brush’s veteran Fortieth In-| Bombers fantry Division landed there Tues- day, proclaiming the American | blockade of Japanese shipping is “in complete operation.” Gen. MacArthur also reported that escorted heavy bombers had| scored the first concentrated strike ! on the great shipping base of Hong- ' kong; hitting Kowloon and Taikoo dock areas with 126 tons of bombs. ' Innumerable fires and explosions dotted the target, while not a plane| LONDON, April 5 — More than was lost in the attack. Twenty 1200 Fortresses and [Liberators at- eight Jap vessels, including a de- tacked two large Getman- ordnance ! stroyer escort, were sunk or dam- depots, rail targets and airfields in aged in the China sea, and waters the Munich and Nuernberg areas ta the south. ‘in southern Germany. iMacArthur’s communique said Ordnance depots at Inglstadt, 40 Eighth Army Yanks invading Mas- miles northeast of Munich and bate, a fairly large sugar-producing Grafenwohr, 40 miles northeast of island, just west of Samar on the Nuernberg, were targets for the main shipping lane through the heavy bombers accompanied by 600 the German supply center of Nord-! es | i |ward Czechoslovakia, which would) sever Germany. from the considers . " iable enery trafftc Se¢n Jnoying, tos striking | central Philippines, were aided by |guerrilla forces. He added “we are| rapidly securing the entire island,” Mustangs and Thunderbolts. These attacks followed the biggest \night raids in more than a month, | | U. 8. Twelfth Army Group and the} ELECTION AT FAIRBANKS the thirty-sixth to be invaded by;wnh more than 1000 RAF bombers MacArthur's forces. Istriking in four waves. Mosquitos | The entire Dutch East Indies is hit Berlin with two-ton bombs for now fsolated from Japan, “not only the 48th time in 44 nights. Strong for exploitation but from enemy forces of Lancasters and Halifaxes reinforcement supply,” he said. bombed three of Germany’s most - 1important synthetic oil plants and o |refineries near Leipzig and Ham- burg. & 0 0 0 0 8 4 o 0 i®* WEATHER REPORT | (U. S. Weather Bureau) siege lines, and within 17 miles oflof the Council of the People’s |Commissar of the Union of Soviet | Socialist Republics, has informed the Japanese Ambassador that con- tinuance of the compact is impos- |sible since Japan is fighting against Ruscia's Allies, the United States and Britain, “In such a situation the pact of neutrality between Japan and, the ‘USSR has lost its meaning,” Molo- tov said. ‘The formal note was handed to the Japanese Ambassador at .3 o'clock this afternoon in the midst |of the new Japanese Cabinet crisis. | The pact was signed in April, 1941, | Whether Russia would denounce it before the opening of the World Security conference in San Fran- {cisco has been the subject of much | speculation. | The treaty ordinarily would have |Tun to April, 1 Denouncement becomes effective | April 13, | There is no indication in the |Moscow announcement of Russia’s |intentions in the future relations |with Japan. However, Premier | Stalin publicly described Japan as !an “aggressor Nation.” * ATNENANA: 27BELOW | NENANA, Alaska, April 5—Al- though the ice is 41 inches thick {in the Tanana River and the ther- mometer registered 27 degrees below zero Tuesday and Wednesday, look out when ‘it turns warm, The wire is stretched from the tripod on the ice to the tower on |shore ready for the breakup. SKAGWAY OVER TOP IN RED CROSS DRIVE In a report from Mrs. Louis Em- |Gen. Bradley's Army Group U. 8. Ninth Air Force, Supreme‘ Headquarters announced today. In addition to the Ninth Army, FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 5—‘. |A. H. Nordale was elected Mayor in ® | Tuesday’s election and councilmen |® - |olected are A. F. Coble, James C.|® cludes the U. 8. First, Third and g .. Irooney and ® Fifteenth Armies, making Bradley | L Py, James R. Mu 4 le o o 0 Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending at 7:30 o’Cleck This Morning: e o 0 ' SCOUTS HAVE HOT " DOG FEAST IN BOWL In spite of !IT;‘-‘.:prmg weather,” manuel, Red Cross Campaign chair- Iman in Skagway, it was revealed !that Skagway exceeded the quota by |$243. The Juneau Chapter set the quota for the Skagway Branch |Chapter at $750, but patriotic Skag- the first General in American his- tory to command four field armies. One group command consists of {considerably more than a million’ men. e, In Juneau—Maximum, 30; minimum, 22. Precipitation, trace. At Airport—Maximum, 31; minimum, 28, Precipitation, trace. ' ® o 0o ¢ 0 0 0 6 0 TOMORROW’S FORECAST S. B. Bredlie. } | Lou F. Joy was elected as School | ® ! Director. ! e e | DRAFTEES HERI Walter G. Clayton and Bernard ‘Henmger are staying at the Bar- {anof Hotel awaiting transportation |American Legion Troop 613, Boy way went well over the top to & ,Bcouts of America, met at the | final total of $993. Evergreen Bowl last night where| As yet no final reports have been they had a hot dog feast and | received from Petersburg and |afterwards some of the boys passed Haines and other branch chapters, their fire-making and cooking re- but Captain John Newmarker, Ju- quirements. |neau Chapter Chairman, expressed After the feast the game “Steal|confidence this morning that they STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 5 — Closing SCHMIDT LEAVES quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine Capt. George L. Schmidt, who has stock today is 6%, American Can been visiting his father and mother |Westward for induction. 93, Bethlehem Steel 71%, Curtiss Mr. and Mrs. George Schmidt left | Wright 5%, International Harvester by plane today for Seattle. He ex- 76%, Kennecott 36%, New York Pects to be sent overseas immedi- Central 22%, Northern Pacific 21%, |ately. FROM MILWAUKEE U. S. Steel 62. | Dow, Jones averages today are as Clark Trinkle, of Milwaukee, |Wis., is a guest at the Gastineau. - Industrials, 154.97; rails, 50.65; utilities, 27.54. e o 0 Partly cloudy tonight, Fri- day and Friday night, with slowly decreasing wind. Tem- peratures: Lowest tonight, 21°; highest Friday, 34°. s o 0o 0 the Flag” was played for the rest|w of the evening. Assistant ScouL-: !master Grove Kunz was in charge ® lof the meeting. . > le FROM CORDOVA . John Hajudovich and L. H.|e Loomis, both of Cordova, are regis- ® tered at the Baranof, D Clara Walfkiel, of Denver, Colo- o o o o > FROM SKAGWAY Mrs. ‘Pauline Borden, Mrs. Ina |Eville and Mrs. G. C. 8ipprell, all of Skagway, are guests at the Hotel Juneau : Hotel while in Juneau. . Al ould reach their quotas. -oo ® e 00 0 0.0 0 0 TIDES TOMORROW Low Tide 1:4za.m.: T.0ft. High Tide 7:36a.m.: 1291t. Low Tide 14:53p.m.: 29ft. High Tide 21:43p.m.: 11.7ft. A Geraldine Thomas and Mrs, West- rado, is staying at the Gastineau fall, both of Anchorage, are guests t the Baranof Hotel