The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 7, 1945, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIM my VOL. LXIV., NO. 9930 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1945 ATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCI —— 6 JAP WARSHIPS DESTROYED IN BATTLE Allies Now Drive On TANKS NEAR HAMBURG ON ELBE RIVER Canadian Armbred Units Shoot Through Holland ~Twin Action On PARIS, April 7.—British drove forward within 12 miles of Brémen while the German High Command reported a fierce battle with the U. 8. Third Army in the tertitory east of Muehlhausen, in ti;.e rear of the Eisleben area where the Germans yesterday announced ah airborne operation within ninety niiles of Berlin. “British tanks flanked the great Weser River port of Bremen, and struck witt¥n 60 miles of Hamburg on the Elbe. In a spectacular 35- mile drive the British Seventh Ar- Division carried to a point less than a dozen miles southeast of | GLD GLORY FLIES ON SAAR BASTION tanks Bremen, a front dispatch said, top- ¢ i pling also the crossroads town of Schwarfoerden, 22 miles due south. 3 American forces fought to within 2 i 18 miles of Hannover, and Canadian armored units, shooting through land, surged within nine miles of ¢ last rail escape line for the Ger- mans, the great western Dutch cit- Zee. .In a twin drive, British tanks charged from Diepholz, 35 miles southwest of Bremen on a beeline to- ward Hamburg, German's third larg- est city. ————————— STOCK ou_mnfius NEW YORK, April 7. — Closing quotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today’s short session is 6%, i American Can 93'%, Anaconda 32, Bethlehem Steel 72%, Curtiss- Wright 5%, International Harvester 7%, Kennecott 38, New York Cen- tral 22%, Northern Pacific 21%, U. S. Steel 63%. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials, 156.33; rails, 51.35; utilities, 27.83. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSCN @t. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) | WASHINGTON — Over in the Pentagon Building, the military problem which the Generals are watching and worrying about most today is supplies. Actually it's not the production of supplies on the home front which so much con- cerns the Army, but getting them from the Channel ports to the fast- moving Western Front. If gasoline, bread and bullets can keep up with the.tanks and armored cars of Gen- erals: Patton, Simpson and Hodges, then not much in the way of Ger- man. resistance is expected. t,‘the inside fact during Pat- ton's ‘last lightning advance was that he ran out of gas and sup- plfes; " and he stayed out of gas andl ‘$upplies for 12 long days. He was powerless to move. That was the turning point in the war last year. . This hitherto untold chapter of the Western Front campaign oc- curred in September, after Patton’s spectacular tank dash across France to the edge of Germany. It reveals oné of the sore spots in the European picture and one reason ies, and within 19 miles of Zuider i AS THE STARS AND STRIPES appear over the historic fortress city of RBitche, the guns of hjs buddies cover Capt. Tom Graham, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who went in with the first U. S. 7th Azmy troops to enter this im= portant Saar city. This old French town withstood assault in the Franco= Prussian war and was liberated after holding up the Yank advance for some months, Signal Corps Radiophoto. (International Soundphoto) JUNEAU MAN'S " COUSINIS HERO ~ OFSOVIETUNION ARMY AR FIGHTERS ~ MAKERAID rgest For?e?f B-29s Yet Assembled Hit Tokyo and Nagoya GUAM, April 7—A new phase of the aerial war on Japan opened today when the greatest B-29 force yet assembled attacked Tokyo and Nagoya, protgeted for the first time by land-based fighter planes. i la more than 300 Superforts, deliver- ing demolition bombs on two large aircraft factories, going in at me- dium height in clear weather. Fighter planes were credited with shooting down 21 enemy inter- ceptors, probably six pthers, and damaging 10 more, as they made g _ A |the 1500 mile round trip flight. Senior Sgt. Mural Kardanov, | 8 pictured above, Hero of the Soviet' DrS. Gen, Ernest Moore, of the Upion, "is a Circassian from the 16CeDily ~established . Seventh Caucasian Mountains. In the fierce an:tfix'h‘Commaxxd R Lwo ‘“f""' battles for the Karelian Isthmus, S84 “this is the first. time army Sgt. Kardanov's unit killed 260 Ger- 2 fighters have been over Japan, mans, took 60 prisoners, destroyed “L"d we had to go a long way to do five guns and four mortars, and“' captured a large quantity of am-| | B saw his young cousin in March,! | kans, rather than import !l!abor, 'BARTLETT OBJECTS Sgt. Kardanov is a cousin of F.| M. Kardonoff, a well known Juneau | ].o IMPORI lABOR 1 1936, while he was visiting his| AlA family in Russia. At that Lime,! Sgt. Kardanov was still in High' A |should be employed in the fisheries I ' r" “ off the northern coast, Alaska Dele- ega e e (gate E. L. Bartlett contends in a | p l | Bartlett said about one out of Fige roposes n(rease jevery six employed in the Bristol businessman, Mr. Kardonoff last| School. * | WASHINGTON, April 7 — Alas- statement. 'Bay fisheries will be taken to Two P-51 Mustangs, based on Iwo Jima, were lost as they shephérded !Alaska from the outside, under| why the military schedule, which| |the present plans, although there is| RAID MADE ONHONGKONG WATERFRONT 'Ships Sunk-Fires Are Sei~ Lucena Seized by Men | Landing from Cubs | By JAMES HUTCHESON (AP War Correspondent) MANILA, April 7—Fifty Libera- tors heavily bombed Hongkong waterfront Wednesday for the third straight day, while in the Philip- |pines, the Eleventh Airforce Divi- | |sion, landing from cub planes, |seized Lucena, capital of southern Luzon's Tayabas province, and its two airfilds. | | The escorted four engined Lib- erator bombers set tremendous | | waterfront fires, and wrecked three |merchant ships in a shower of 1164 tons of bombs. | Gen. MacArthur announced the (heavy bombers scored direct hits jon a 10,000 ton freighter, and two |smaller vessels, while oil storage {tanks were set ablaze, sending | |smoke 6000 feet into the air. No| |interception was met during the | attack. Other Liberators dropped 72 tons lof fragmentation bombs on Fer- |mosa’s Toyohara airdrome, leaving, |many parked planes in flames.| i Mitchell medium. bombers sank or | ; ghree’ good sized tankers' ‘and two small freighters in the | Pescadores islands to the west. In the Philippines, the capture of Lucena represented an advance of 20 miles made, while the 158th Combat Team with the aid of, guerrillas cleared the province of Sorsogon, south of Manila. RED ARMY FIGHTING IN VIENNANOW |Storm Columns Are Re- ported Four Miles from Center of City MOSCOW, April 7—The Red Army commenced driving the Ger- mans out of Vienna today. There are good indications the Nazis face the possibility of early encirclement if there is no withdrawal. Storm columns to the south and southeast, pushed northwards yes-' terday. Some advance scouting units are presumably wresting posi- | tions inside the Austrian capital. |They are reported within four miles {fro St. Stephens’ Church in the middle of the city. | , A heavy battle is in progress in |the western suburbs of Wadlingnau |and Mariabrunn. An important {]unction for railway and highway | | traffic on the Vienna-Linz hlghway‘ was severed. | | | | | TR S 'M-K LOCKHEED HERE | TO PICK UP WORKERS | A 10-passenger Lockheed Electra | iplane of the Morrison-Knudsen {Company, piloted by Don Brady, 'landed at the Juneau Airport yes- terday to pick up a load of workers ‘lm' the Galena job. * e, PAN AMERICAN IN FROM WHITEHORSE Bremen a PLANE EXPLODES D URING WRIGHT FIELD TAKEOFF nd Hannover [FIGHT RAGES 'ON SEA OFF JAPANCOAST 391 Nip Planes Destroyed in 2-Day Battle-U. §. Fleet Suffers Losses | | 1 1 GUAM, April 7 — Six Japanese warships, including the largest re- maining battleship, a 45,000 ton Yamatao class, and 391 enemy planes were destroyed in a two-day = I battle, with planes of surface units yesterday and today only 50 miles |from Japan. p Admiral Chester L. Nimitz an- nounced that three United States destroyers were sunk and several |others and some other smaller {eraft were damaged. Seven of our 'planes were lost. { In addition to a battleship the Japanese lost an Agano class light cruiser and one other lighter cruiser FIREMEN AND FIELD EMPLOYEES are shown batfling a fire in a hangar on Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, after a C-60 cargo plane had crashed into the building, causing the most serious explosion in the field’s history. Seven persons were killed, five seriously injured, 11 slightly injured, as a result of the crash. Eight planes (International) and ' three destroyers. The battle began Friday afternoon when heavy forces of Japanese planes attacked . In Representation called for victory last autumn, got sidetracked. l WASHINGTON, April 7—Alaska . Gen. Patton, whom the Germans Delegate Bartlett has proposed to a an abundance of resident fisher- men and cannery workers in’the fear most, had been rushed out joint committee to reorganize in 27¢2: ahead and was being used as a Congress the number of representa- | decoy to divert attention from the tives from the territories and they | TO TAKE, VACATION Pirst and Ninth Armies, which be increased from one to two each| J0¢ Thibodeau and Shavey Koski were scheduled to mass against the and given a right to vote in com- 2r¢ to leave by plane ‘today for more vulnerable northwest German border. But Patton ran out of gaso- line, and had to wait, chewing his| nails, with empty fuel tanks. | STONER ARRIVES l C. R. Stoner and small 'son.! Gen. Eisenhower ordered moun- tains of supplies sent direct from the United States. But although Robert, are guests at the Baranof JENKINS HERE Hotel. They are registered from' Jack Jenkins, of Anchorage, is a Anchorage. lguest at the Gastineau, - |days. Thibodeau said he plans to ireturn on the Estebeth next Sat- |urday but Koski said he might |stay longer. e, now. .- —_—— (Continued on Page Four) mittees. The delegates have no vote| Tenakee to vacation for a few, (LR | | A Pan American Airways plane yesterday brought the following | passengers to Juneau from White- {horse: Lt. Harry Meyers, Carl Stol- berg, Mrs. Aldyth Fox and Walter | Klinkhammer. | el | FROM PORTLAND Ray L. Done, of Portland, Oregon, |is staying at the Baranof. SR A FROM ANCHORAGE | Henry A. Gregson, of Anchorage, | guest at the Baranof. were completely demolished. The damage is estimated at about three million dollars, ,ferrific High Costof Ealing in Washinglon _ IsNow Being Revealed B MOUNTIN ITALY FALLS T0 YANKS tish Eigfl Army, in| Bri Local Action, Crosses Reno River ROME, April 7—American Fifth Army troops, continuing their at- tacks on the Ligurian coast of Wes- tern Italy, captured the dominating 3,000-foot Monte Folgorito and driv- ing forward scattered resistance. Allied Headquarters announced Monte Folgorito is four and a balf miles from the sea coast and miles southeast of La Spezia, but north of Strettoia, half way bétween Monte Folgorito and the sea the American were compelied to with- draw slightly from newly-won posi- tions in the face of heavy enemy fire. Two British destroyers and swarms of American fighter-bombers - ef fectively supported Fifth Army op- erations in the eastern coastal sec- tor. British Bighth Army troops drove across the Reno River, northwest of San Alberto, and took 60 prisoners in a “local attack.” peacin oo VNG A uRtap WOODLEY AIRWAYS OPENS OFFICE TODAY IN BARANOF HOTEL The Woedley Airways opened offices today in the Baranof Hotel, one of the choice locations in the city. Charles Whyte has been appoint- ed agent for the Airways and he announces that Mrs. Jeanne Kibbe will be reservation clerk. | By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 7-—8a far |as I know, the census bureau and | | Roland Brennan, purchasing agent | for all District of Columbia institu- | | tions, have combined to give the first real picture of what has hap- | (pened to Washington since Pearl {Harbor in those two phases which affect any community most: pop- ulation and food prices. The census bureau says the pop- ulation of the district has increas- ed to more than 926,000 since 1940, a 35 per cent jump. This doesn't include hundreds of thousands of government workers | domiciled in the suburban com- !mun‘ltms of Virginia and Maryland; | their increase as great, if not | greater. | Remember that the capital al- ready was crowded hefore Pearl Harbor, that since then tzere has !been nothing like a 35 per cent increase in housing prejects and you begin to get a vision Jammed Washington, of | STATISTICS on the cost of living lht'rfl as well as elsewhere in the ! United States are generally deceiv- ing. But on one point, food, I doubt |if there is any better index for |Mr. Average Man in Washington iLhan that provided by the district’ purchasing agent, { Mr. Brennan buys for all the dis- trict's municipal cafeterias and lunchrooms, for its hospitals and other institutions. ' This certainly | wouldn't be fancy food. | Yet he reports that food costs' have increased 48 per cent in the last | three years. { | Clam and oyster dishes, right h(‘x'u} |in almost the center of eastern sea- | {board production of those seafoods H have been dropped from district municipal menus. Clam prices have 19§ (Continued on l;aye TL';(;[ Il e | 'TROOPS THROWN . INTO LOUISIANA __ /United States ships and shore in- stallations in the vicinity of Oki- nawa. Three of our destroyers were sunk and several damaged. One hundred and sixteen attacking planes were shot down. No larger |fleet units were hit early today, | Navy search’alperaft &e& ‘eemy surface fotce at a peint (about 50 miles south of Kyushu, the southernmore Japanese um Admiral Marc Mitscher's fast rier force steamed toward the enemy. The middle of the day brought the enemy under aerial attack. There was no air opposition but heavy anti-aircraft fire. v | The Yamatao class battleship, which was reported damaged in last' menth's carrier raid on the Japan inland sea and also last October in the Battle of Leyte Gulf when a GUAM, April ‘(—Marines o (he gisrer ship, the Musashi was sunk, north end of the American wa-'went down after being hit by sion line of Okinawa scored ad- eight torpedoes and 'emh‘ bombs. vances up to 5000 yards, still| 1, the grotind action on Okinawa finding only “small scattered groups the Third Amphibious Corps of of the enemy,” while infantrymen, marines continued their relatively pressing on the capital city of easy progress north. There is strong Naha to the south, fought deeper enemy resistance on the southern into fixed defense positions, Fleet front where Twenty-Fourth Army Admiral Chester Nimitz today an- gorps soldiers are ilflvlnl on Naha, nounced. |the largest city, and on Machinal Nimitz also reported 539 Japs Alrstrip. BRI A % the mabs e Greefingsto FORCEIS | Emmons Given CUT DOWN on A rEy D £ YI FasiVesseIsji;wever, Re- i main fo Give Battle Two Admirals Send Mes-i in Tenable Waters sages fo Commander | o of Alaska Area HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT, April 7—Lt. Gen. air engagement, Admiral Delos Emmons yesterday received announced. congratulatory messages from two| The official Naval spokesman Admirals in observance of Army said new losses leave the Japs “a Day. |task force that can be handled Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said: very easily by any of our major “It gives me pleasure, in behalf of task forces.” The emergence of a the Navy, Marines and Coast Guard Jap force, presumably for offensive of the Pacific Coast areas, to ex- action since it is made up entirely |tend cordial greetings to our com- of fast ships is a possibility, how- rades of the Army on their day.” |ever, it could be merely an effort MARINES ON OKINAWAIN GOOD GAINS Infaqtryme‘n -F;ressing on Capital City Fight Info Nip Defenses | WASHINGTON, April 7—"A good 125 per cent of the remaining Japa- nese major combat forces” has been OF ALASKA lost or put out of action by naval Nimitz Admiral Ralph Wood, as Deputy Commander of the North Pacific, LT SR ON LR AUSTIN MAN HERE { FLOOD BATTLES “:. | “In behaif of the officers and - W D\'ldley. representing the | men of the Marines, Navy and Austin Company, is a guest at the!‘ NEW ORLEANS, April 7—Troops | Coast Guard serving in this area, Baranof. | have been thrown in to battle the KWe Wish to extend to you and your !flood in Louisiana, where half a Command the heartiest felicitations milion inundated, and |0 - - ELLIS AIRLINE PLANE FLIES 5 TO KETCHIKAN 2 ! driven from their homes. {and independent citizenry. The An Ellis Airlines plane took the! Camp Livingston troops were sept Army has advanced in supremacy following passengers to Ketchikan to help hold the Cane River levee |in the battle areas throughout the this morning: Henry Hogue, G. where the situation is critical, and |[world and we salute our valiant acres are Jand affection” Olson, Frank Coe, also been used to fight the flood the celebration of Army Day,! more than 5,000 families have been founded and gathered from a free to escape to more tenable waters. The Admiral said American naval {forces had been able to keep close watch on Jap Fleet movements, and that for some time the Inland Sea had been “geiting hotter and hotter.” e YAKOBI TO TRAVEL The vessel Yakobi, damaged by fire here earlier in the week, has (been given authorization by the |Marine Inspection Service to pro- arrived in town yesterday and is a|Winther, Herschel T. Tebber, H. M.! 1000 German prisoners of war have | brothers with respect, admiration ceed for overhaul to Ketchikan, under its own power.