The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 6, 1945, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —_— VOL. LXIV., NO. 9929 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NEW MARCHING ORDERS “ON TO TOK azis Retreat On Weser As Allies Adv 'OKINAWA POWERFUL ASSAULTS LAUNCHED ByBombers 1 Gains on Island Reported i D‘estrudi;’nAof German Army Continues-150,- 000 Nazis Sealed Off - BULLETIN — PARIS, April 6. —The Famous Hell on Wheels, Second Armored Division, fought five miles past the Weser River teday, possibly within 18 miles ¢f Hannover, while the British Desert Rats, Seventh Tank Di- vision, closed to within 25 miles of Hannover. A wholly unconfirmed DNB broadcast said other American troops have been reinforced in the “area of Eisleben,” only 90 miles from Berlin. This is 40 miles beyond the last repeorted positions of the Third Army at Schotheim. PARIS, April 6—The U. S. Ninth Army fought three miles past the Weser River into the streets of Hamelin, 23 miles from Hannover, as the First Army opened powerful new attacks which carried them 22 miles eastward, close to the upper reaches of the river. British troops on the north are, actoss the Weser at three or more places. and. fighting .Gver thé nordr | German plains within 35 miles of | the great naval base at_Bremen. The Ninth Army, crossing the! Weser at several places northwest as well as south of Hamelin, deepen- ed its original bridgehead three miles imminently threatening to outflank Hannover from the south, while the Germans are retreating toward the Nati Ships - Sent Down ‘{Merchant Vessels, Cruiser | and Eight Submarines Reported Sunk | LONDON, April 6.—At least 21 | German warshjps and merchant ves- |sels including a cruiser and eight |submarines, were sunk and many |others damaged in a recent RAF and | American air attacks on Bremen, |Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven. The U. 8. Strategic Air Force | headquarters said the cruiser Koeln |was listed as sunk in the shallow Wilhelmshaven harbor. Seven sub- I marines, including one of 1200 tons, |were sunk at Bremen and one 740 |ton U-boat was sunk in raids on | Hamburg. | These raids were carried out by fleets of planes numbering as many |as 1400 heavy bombers. REDS FORGE " BIGPINCERS \? CAMPAIGN BUILDS UP but Resisfaice Near Naha Increasing OKINAWA CAM—MOORE for TH GUAM, April 6—Incredibly low American casualties in the first four days of the Okinawa invasion were reported by the Navy today, announcing the sweeping advance at the north end of the island by the Tenth Army line, and increas- ing resistance in the south near the capital city of Naha. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, in his communique reported 175 United States soldiers and Marines were killed, 798 wounded up to midnight, Wednesday. These figures reflected the light- ness of the opposition, but gave no figures on Navy casualties. A fleet of 1400 ships aided the momentous invasion of the Ryukyu Islands, only 325 miles south of Japan proper. No Japanese casualty fig- ures are announced, although they are considerably higher than Am- {erican losses. Marines in the north scored gains 'up to four and a half miles along ~ ON VIENNA 'the narrpw TshikewgsFsthmasy otil finding “ineffective” opposition, but ,Twenty-fourth Corps infantrymen \moving on Naha, capital city with a2 population of 66,000, ran into increasingly stiff resistance among fixed defense positions. Their ad- vance, previously measured in miles, was reported only about 3,000 yards Soviet Storm Unifs Knifing Throught Nazis' De- - CARRIER AT ANCHOR—Anchored in a vast Pacific harbor, a Navy carrier rests between 3 missions, Avengers are spotted on deck in the foreground. Wolf Baif _ CHINESE HIT Wins Award BACKATNIP HONGKONG “ATTACKED IND TIME ForSarber . OFFENSIVE ance MOVEBY [RUSSIA MAY RUSSIANS JOIN SIDES, EXPECTED PACIFICWAR Denouncing by Soviets of' Washington Ablaze with : . | s Neutrality Pact with Speculation After Pact Japan Was Due 1 Is Denounced LONDON, April 6—The denounc- | " ing by Russia of its neutrality pact H"l!k s f‘“ |S with Japan, accusing Tokyo with helping Germany in the war| Dflm m“’m lagainsl Russia, and also because o(i ——— Japan's fighting against Russia's H . . {Allies, the United States and Brit- | Allied Leaders Decide Nazi ain, has been expected if for no| . other reson than 1o give e, Chief Needed, Dead Soviet nation a free hand in the 2 |San Francisco conference discus- or MIVe |sions on any problems concerning the Pacific WASHINGTON, April 6.—Start- Up until the conference in Cri-'jing new possible developments in mea, Stalin maintained extreme the war against Japan are portend- {caution that any move might not eq today with the announcement |antagonize the Japanese. that Gen. Douglas MacArthur's | In previous meetings of the Big newest marching orders are “On to Three, Japanese phases were eX- Tokyo,” hard op the heels of yess fcluded. Roosevelt and Churchill terday's Russian denouncement of |conferred with Chiang Kai Shek the Soviet neutrality treaty with {at Cairo but at ¥alta “however, japan. % Stalin agreed to sit with the Chi-| And at the same time it s re- nese delegates at the forthcoming 'ported that Allied military _leaders |Golden Gate meeting. ‘Stalin pre- have reached an agreement 'that Iviously sidestepped confekences i ghe m,@fim which the fi;;&“ mnwuf.mu&fing %n% n “to w up. 3 [the full war might of the ‘Allies { There are indications both the against Japan, is to kill or captufe !United States and Britain had Adolf Hitler. been informed Soviet action on de- | Capitol Hill is blazing with spec- |nouncing the Japanese treaty would ylation, most of it centered hope- be taken this week. |fully around the thought that the During the past several day8, late Russlan neutrality break with {Russian, Chinese and British Am- Nippon is a forerunner of Soviet bassadors conferred in Washing- participation in the Pacific conflict, fense Belt now, and it -appeared possible the first big action of the campaign ton. The neutrality pact was signed in once formal Nazi resistance ceases. | Developments Listed Elbe, last river before Berlin. The Third Army on the central| [GNDON, April 6.—Two Russian Thuringian plain, is 130 miles from“,m,.‘m,s sought to close a giant pin- the capital city at its closet point,|cers around Vienna as tank-led So- is building up. Japanese Ships Sunk, Fires| "Perfume” Develope Set as Waterfront Is | from Seal Blubber Proves Baked by Bombs Effective Wolf Catcher Japanese Drive Info Shensi Province dl Aflemptimjmall Double| the Kremlin four years ago by iMolotov and Matsuoka, then Japa- |nese Foreign Minister. In brief, here is the picture of (the, war as seen from Washington, with new developments tumbling one on another in quick succession: JAPAN EXPECTED MOVE 1. The joint chiefs of staff have .- - while the destruction of the Germanivmt Storm Units, knifing tiarough Mlsslsslppl Army is continued. The Ninth and Third Armies alone captured 25,000 Germans yesterday. One Third Army column from the Eleventh Armored Division advanced to a point 23 miles southeast of Gotha, and 58 miles northwest of the Czechoslovak border. There it is within 32 miles of Saxony, and 50 miles from the big rail center of Plauen, capture of which would cut Germany in two. ‘Tank and infantry divisions of General Hodges' First Army drove both east and west, as columns strik- ing eastward from Paderborn reach- ed Bruchhausen, four miles west of the upper Weser, and 164 miles from Berlin. Gen. Hodges' troops which moved in the . opposite direction drove into the Ruhr trap on a 75 mile front, seeking the elimination of up £0'150,000 Germans sealed off in the industrial basin for annihilation. '._i'he Washington Merry - [5_0_ -Round By DREW PEARSCN (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on service witn the Army.* active WASHINGTON — Tip-off as to how Joe Stalin feels about-smaller nations was given more than a year ago in a private talk with Cuban Ambassador Concheso. It gave a significant dication of why Stalin demands three votes i the United Nations Assembly. Stalin amazed the ibassacior with his knowledge ©fiCgbar abor and economic probléms, but- talked States. Concheso Platt Amendment gated and Cuba had ‘complete political freedom. But this made little . impression on Stalin. He viewed Cuba as wedded to the U. 8. A. ""Then turned to Argentina. And with considerable vehemence, he remarked that it was about time the United States took Argentina in hand and forced it to join the Allies. Stalin’s eyes flashed when hé talked of Argentina and he seemied to believe that the United States had complete control of the entire American continent. Ambassador Concheso explained P Bl b R s (Continued on rugé Four) . |with the |the Nazi defense belt in the south- jern city limits, drove within four {and one-half miles of the center of :the Austrian capital. { Deployed along an 8 mile siege |are, the Russians are within 46 miles |of encircling Vienna, as one Russian |wing seized positions 13 miles south |of the Danube River town of Tullin, 110 miles northwest of Vienna. Cap- |ture of Tullin would sever all of | Vienna's westward communications |along the south bank of the Danube, |also tile main Vienna-Prague rail- |road. Breaking across the Schwechat and Liesing Rivers, units of Marshal g u Third Ukrainian Army |b Vienna’s southern city s SS( t Lroog | Germa leasters I triv along the eastern front, partially flattened the e, extended deep into Slevakia, captured indus- slnja and Lendava, 56 iwest of the Croatian pup- ‘1anv miles vor 1 pet wgreb in northern Yugo- 1 s \ {slavi y | Far rorth, other Russian ‘emy remnants back Huv in a cleanup of the | coast: y north of the cap- jtured port a. - Wagc i ofiafions ' Between Operalors An Lowis Collapse WASRIN negotiaticn® uriw erators and Joly | force | from 1 April 6. — Wage :n soft coal op- Lewis collapsed orucers announcing (they wouls poit a stalemate to |tempt to bio of the contr: Lewis defeated ; |operators tc rec negotiations g sume Saturc |Chairman Ve |ators would niorrow’s - se: faining. motion. by the ndefinitely, so cduled to re- 1ing. However, resent at to- i} because they {would be at the lLabor Board, reported the nelotiations stale- mated after five wi ks of meetings. PR G SR KEMPROW HERE Charles E. Kempro v, of Anchor- age, is staying al the Baranof. in southwestern Po-! the War Labor loard in their at-| * complete breakoff | said the oper- i RIVER IS AT FLOODSTAGE Py Frost Damage 1o Orchards and Crops Reported Over Nation (By Associated Press) Frost damaged orchards in vary- | ing degrees in the Midwest and East 'but the Chicago office of the U. S. Weather Bureau reported generally improving weather over most of the nation. Flood waters, meanwhile, affected 25,000 families and inundated a half million acres. This is by a Red Cross | estimate. In the Red River Valley |of Louisiana more than 5,000 fam- |ilies were evacuated or housed in |tent camps. The Army Engineers | kept a 24-hour vigil along the swol- |len Mississsipi River from Cairo, { Ilinois to New Orleans. Crews iworked all night to sandbag the ilevees and to build new embank- ! ments. In Central Ohio a severe loss of | fruit trees was reported from frost, the temperature dipping to 27 in Columbus, 28 in Cincinnati. A killing | frost destroyed early fruit in Cen- tral Kentucky. |Trainload of {V-2 Rockets Are (aptured WITH THE U. S. FIRST ARMY, April 3.—(Delayed by censorship) — Tankmen of the Third Armored division have captured a great war prize. It was a train loaded with secret V-2 weapons. It is the first time the Allies have found the jet- propelled, radio controlled rock- ets intact. — - BABIES GO HOME Mrs, Walter Soboleff and baby boy and Mrs. Margaret Lundy and baby boy have been discharged from the Government Hospital. | | | MANILA, April {based heavy bombers attacked the |vital waterfront area of Hongkong jacross the China Sea Wednesday, dropping 168 tons of bombs which | set huge fires, sank nine merchant ships, and damaged two other mer- | chantmen and one destroyer. | Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s com- | munique announcing the second successive strike at Hongkong today, reported 1,000 pound bombs raked |shipyards, waterfront installations and oil wells, leaving shipping in 1the vast harbor and oil storage tanks burning, with smoke rising 17,000 feet. Japanese fighters sought to inter- cept the American formation but were driven off, while all attacking planes returned safely. | Yank troops continued to advance on all fronts in the Philippines, as the Fifth Air Force gave close sup-| port to ground operations. ; - e 6 — Philippine- | 'CONGREGATION OF N. L. PRESBYTERIAN HAS BUSINESS MEET CHUNGKING, April 6.—Chinese | | SAN FRANCISCO, Aprir 6—Jap- WASHINGTON, April 6.—Devel- forces unleased a large scale, three- anese sources sajd the Soviet de- opment of a “perfume,” revolting t0 | pronged counter offensive against|nunciation of the Russo-Japanese | human nostrils but seducive 0 {ne Japanese troops striking toward | non-aggression pact “was by no those of wolves and coyotes, has|shensi Province, guarding the nor- means unexpected.” earned for Hosea R. Sarber, Pet- ersburg agent for the Wildlife Serv- ice, an award of $250. Sarber received the cash award of excellence from the Department of the Interior for his discovery of a bait which the department calls “exceptionally valuable” for trap- ping wolves, coyotes and other ani- mals that prey on sheet and cattle. The bait is developed from the blubber of Alaska hair seals. The Juneau office of the Fish and wildlife Service today added a few details concerning the “perfume” developed by Agent Sarber. | Game Management Supervisor Jack O'Connor declared the bait the result of a secret process of fer- menting seal meat and blubber. It has been used in Alaska by the wildlife Service for some time, he declared, and during the past two years quantities of the bait have| been shipped to branches of the | service in the States, for testing., Everywhere, he declared, it has’ proved very effective—as the award to Agent Sarber testifies. i | | . 'PAN AMERICAN AR | i Last Night Follow- ‘ . . | A Pan American Airways plane mg Dmner brought the following passengers to = Juneau from Seattle yesterday af- The congregational neeting last inight of the members and friends of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church in the church parlors was dlmost a turn-away affair, but all were finally taken care of and enjoyed the dinner.” terneon: Hiram Ort, Lynn Smith, John Beers, Mrs. Mary Morgan, Lt.' Lawrence Agnew. | Whitehorse to Juneau—Sheldon C.' Williamson. Today Pan American Airways planes flew out with passengers to Nome as follows: L. C. Peters, N, thern approaches to China’s capital. The Chinese command, said that Chaing Kai Shek's forces, pouring out of Southwestern Honan prov- ince, annihilated a Japanese bat- talion and encircled a number of strongholds west of Neisiang on the Honan-Shensi highway. This Chinese counter offensive was launched yesterday against a double Nipponese drive into China’s jndicated hinterland. They are fighting about 31 miles from Shensi border, which preceded the counter-offensive. More than 100 ivaders were annihilated. Nine enemy tanks were destroyed POLISH AGENCY SAYS POLITICAL LEADERS MISSING LONDON, April 6.—The Polish Telegraph Ageney, "connected with the London Polish Government here; said 15 political leaders in Poland had disappeared after presenting themselves to Soviet officials on a Russian invitation to fly to London. Those who disappeared included one who was designated by the Lon- don government as deputy premier, the agency said. It added the deputy couldn’t be identified but was the | last commander of the now disband- ed Polish Home Army. Three Polish cabinet ministers were among the group, the agency said. STOCK QUOTATIONS | The Domei news agency, in a |broadcast beamed to Europe and recorded by the Federal Communi- cations Commission, said “informed |quarters” expected something to }happen because Stalin in October, on the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, hinted of a possible 'break and other developments in the international situation clearly the Soviet attitude to- ward Japan was undergoing a radical change.” Domei said Stalin in an address referred to Japan as an “aggressor ! Nation,” Domei said there is no official {comment to be made until direct (word of ' the action is received |from Moscow. HARD BLOW 1S STRUCK ‘assigned General MacArthur, along with Admiral Chester Nimitz, to command the final massive offen- sives against Japan. | 2. It has been disclosed that Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall told the Senate Military Committee that the death or cap- ture of Hitler will contribute tre- mendously to the collapse of the already faltering Nazi military ma- chine, - ey 3. The general belief among the members of Congress is that Presi- dent Roosevelt extracted from Pre- mier Stalin at the Yalta cdnference a promise that the neutrality treaty |with Japan would be denounced and that Russia will enter the war . against Japan, 4. It is believed, too, that Rus- sia’s action may smooth some of the rough spots out of the path of the United Nations conference |scheduled later this month in San Francisco. The joint staff, composed of the |top uniformed men of the War and Navy departments, has decided to ;turn the full offensive power of the |United States on Japan, and that the job will be directed by two men. | Accordingly it was announced (Continued on Page Three) e AT JAPANpAp cENTER OF LEIPZIG Pact Denunciation Has Nip-! pons Worried as fo Next Russian Move MOSCOW, April 6.—Soviet Rus- sia's denunciation of the five year non-aggression pact with Japan has unquestionably dealt a terrific blow IS BOMBED LONDON, April 6.—A fleet of ap- proximately 650 American heavy Floyd Fagerson. Juneau to Fairbanks—Spencer De- Long, Milton Ward. Juneau to Whitehorse — Sheldon Williamson. A plane to Seattle took Mc. Malcolm, Col. George Hays, Charles Renfrcw, Rolfe Peguin, Harold Bates, Lt. Lawrence Agnew, Arthur F. Waldren, Ken Alexander, e BRADY ARRIVES Don Brady has arrived from An- George Almquist, Thomas A. Morgan and Ralph B. Martin were re-elected to the office of trustees Itor a term of three years, and An- jthony J. Karnes and Donald L. Mac- Kinnon were elected for two-year iterms. The holdover trustees are |Clarence E. Warfield and Ralph G. Wright. Mrs. B. R. Glass was elected treasurer. { ! ‘The dinner was served by the Martha Society and World Service organization. Warfield and Wright were the coffee makers. anof Hotel, chorage and is a guest at the Bar-| NEW YORK, Apri} 6. — Closing jquotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can %, Anaconda 31'j, Bethlehem | Steel 72';, Curtiss Wright 5%, In- | ternational Harvester 76%, Kenne- -ott 37%, New York Central 227%, Northern Pacific 21%, U. S. Steel 63%, Pond $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are | as follows: industrials, 185.85: rails, ) 51.05; utilities, 27.74. i e ' FROM CALIFORNIA Lynn H. Smith, of 8an Francisco, |is staying at the Baranof. to the sagging Japs who are left in bombers escorted by more than 600 the position of not knowing pre- | fighters bombed the railway yards cisely what the Russian action a4t Halle and Leipzig, two main means. . |traffic centers that link the Japan knows this, however, that routes for the American and Russian the Russians seldom if ever acts Armies. without good reason and the Jap-| There were no major raids made anese know the Russiaiis believe On Germany last night, bad weather they have a good reason in ending keeping even the RAF's Mosquitos the pact. |from paying a nightly visit to Berlin. The Russians made this clear in| Yesterday, however, more than denouncing the treaty, deelaring 2:900 Allied planes hammered at the bluntly that Japan is not only an Reich during the daylight hours. ally of Germany, against the Sov- |Fighter-bombers destroved at least e eoo______|84 Nazi planes on the ground and (Continued on Page Thiee) damaged 50 more. ¥