The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 10, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALI, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE * VOL. LXIV., NO. 9932 JUNEAU ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1945 MhMPl R AbeCIA]l D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS (ORGANIZED GERMAN WARFARE NEAR END Heavy Artillery D ARMY CORPS IS HELD TO SMALL GAIN' Japanese Defenses De- |’ Washmglon Siale "Pippin Girl’ scribed as “Siegfried | Line”"-Bombarded By MURLIN SPENCER (AP War Ccerespondent) GUAM, April 10—The heaviest artillery duel of the Pacific, likened to major battles of the European theatre, blazed through the third successive day Monday, on Okinawa and held Twenty-Fourth Army Corps troops to s 11 gains, while Marines to the north pushed rapidly ahead. One artillery officer described the Japanese defenses around Naha as the “Okinawa Siegfried Line.” Marine field pieces joined Army artillery, ship’s guns and bombers in “increasingly heavy bombardment of the enemy's well-fortified positions in the cave-pocked rugged hill country. The combined bombard- ment destroyed Japanese gun.em- placements, barracks and small craft, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reported in his communique. Gain On Peninsula Meantime, Maj. Gen, Roy S Geiger's Marine Third Amphibious Corps moved ahead 3,000 to 4,000 yards to gain control of “half of Motobu Peninsula againgt resist- ance described by Nimitz as “scat- tered and ineffective,” apg are now near the town of Kushibaru, about three miles north of the base of the peninsula. Held To Smali Gains Maj. Gen.. Hodge's Twenty- Fourth Arm Cerps troops were held to small gains by Jap#mese ar- tillery and increasingly henvg small arms and machine-gun fire, their | positions remaining virtually un- changed. Monday night they were still two miles north of* Machinato Airdrome, while it is another two miles to Naha, capital city of Okinawa. On the east they re- mained more than a mile from the town of Yonabaru and its still un- | completed airfield, as the heaviest (Continued on Page Four) S e The Washington | _Merry-Go- Round! . ably was the best organizer By DREW W PEARSON i @s. col. mben 8. Allen Bpwe on active with the Army. WASHXNGTON — Believe it or not, but Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace has been carefully studying the work of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, and has | paid private tribute to him. One of Hoover’s closest advisers, when he was Secretary of Com- merce was Dr. Julius Klein, Di-} rector of the Bureau. of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, later As- sistant Secretary of Commerce Twice, Wallace has called Klein in to ask his advice on the reor- ganization of the new Commerce | Department. Wallace also dropved a signifi- cant remark to business callers the other day about Hoover. He said that Herbert Hoover unqucstion- | and ( had the greatest vision of any Secretary of Commerce in recent history. It is predicted by some of those around Wallace .that he will go back to a lot of Hoover's ideas about running the Commerce De- partment. This probably will mean . & clash with the State Department on the important point of folengn‘ trade. Hoover had his own experts stationed abroad to report on foreign trade. But Harry Hopkins let this be taken over by the State Department. Many businessmen have urged that it be transferred back. ® » EX-SENATOR GILLETTE TESTIFIES One of the most tiresome ‘things about Congressional hearings are —_— — e (Continued on Page Four) :STRONGHO[D| ‘OF HANNOVER IS ENTERED ONCE HITLER WAS APPEASED HERE—BUT LOOK NOW! [ Ninth Army};fiks, Infantry | : Make Crash Into Burn- ing City Today PARIS, April 10 — Ninth Army tanks and infantry crashed Hannover late today, and reached a point to the east on the Super- ! highway only 120 miles from Berlin. » e S ] Aciress Dorothy Malone (above), af the screen'is this year's cholce of the Washingtor: State Apple Growers' Association as the “Pippin Girl” She is shown in Hollywood. (AP Wirephoto) New Speed, Duration Records Will Be Sel When Conditions Ripe | | By JAMES J. STREBIG AP Aviation Editor Homeward Bound WASHINGTON, April | tion is ready to make new speed and duration records as soon as condi- 1non> permit. The National Aeronautics Fe' ration Aeronautique Interna- |tionale (FAD), the world organiza-| tion, has entered but two new marks (since Pearl Harbor. Both were established last May {12 by North American P- 5!Mustang fighters, One set a non-stop Los! | Angeles to New York mark of § | hours, 39'2 minutes. The other made | |a one-stop trip in 6 hours, 31% {minutes. The last previous record was a duration flight of 1 hour, 32% { minutes for a helicopter, set by Igor| 1. Sikorsky on May 6, 1941.' These marks have been overshad- owed by subsequent performances. The Beeing C-97, a transport ver- sion of the B-29 weighing as least ten times as much aross the country in 6 hours and % |4 minutes. It was not a record attempt, had been scheduled a ARMY NURSE Lt. Anna Louise Bon- ner-Pardew, of Portland, Ore., shown with her four-year- old no official timing. The helicopter mark has been exceeded considerab- Qaughter, Olivia, on their arrival ls,ta?d the helickopt,er itself has been aboard a transport plane at San jPul to war wor Francisco, They had been held ina | One of the early problems with Jap prison camp till rescued in the Inew marks will be. rhodernization of| battle for Manila. (International) recording equipment for record at-| @ {tempts. including a barograph !geared to the tremendous altitudes nfjug at which planes now fly. versa"ll' NAA established a transport cate- igory last fall. This_provides that |the airplane involved be a licensed ;mod=l accepted by the Civil Aero- BATON ROUGE, La.—Louisiana nautics Administration, carry a full State University’s sport oddity is load, and have no alterations from Jim Cason, freshman tailback *with | the standard model. the Tigers last fall. He passes with| Routes for competition may be his right hand, but punts with his between any two points the board left foot. |finds reasonable, and Miami to As a first baseman, he throws and New York already has been estab- hits left handed, but in softball he lished as a course at the request of pitches with his right arm and bats,a carrier eager to try for a record left-handed. when conditions permit. In basketball he dribbles With his, left hand, but loops most of his' A number of aircraft devoted sole- shots from the right-hand side. ly to war service now are tugging As a “handy” m.n around the'for a chance at cross-continental dinner table—he eats left-handed. ~and world speed marks, The C-97 — - e+ |which in private life will be thej FL.OE VISITS JUNEAU | Beeing 377 Stratocruiser, and the o Lockheed C-69, which will fly air- Hong Floe,_ rigsd supeumend‘-‘wm as the Constellation and which ent, has arrived in Juneau and it .a guest at the Baranof Hotel. y (Continued on Page Five) 10.—Avia-| | Asso-! | ciation Contest Board, which is the| Umtm States representative of thel‘ superfortress,’ as a Mustang, flew almost casually, month in advance and there wasi At the same time, First Army armored troops to the south, ad- vanced 24 miles to the Hartz Moun- tains, reaching a from the Elbe River, just south of the large supply base hausen, 115 miles from Berlin. Gen. Hodge's First Army, in their new drive punching across the Russian seige lines in the east were at last reports no more th 150 miles from the Russians m some sectors, as Hodge's tanks headed down a corridor by-passing the towering Hartz Mountains on their left Attempt To Relieve Pocket Pilots have reported the Ger- mans are sending air transports into the shrinking death pocket by night in aftempts to salvage what they could of the 100,000 or more Nazis sealed off between the First |and Ninth Armies. Third Army columns !vanced to within two and one-half miles of Erfurt, and 63 miles of | Leipzig. Other troops of the Third Army are within three miles of Coburg and 50 miles from the Czechoslovakian frontier. German reports said the Ameri- cans who by-passed Hannover had (Continued on Page Two) | P vt 'VIENNA'S FALLNOW - IMMINENT Red Storm Units Battle for | Last Few Blocks of City -Koenigsberg Taken LONDON, April 10.—Russian for-' {ces beyond Vienna headed for Mu- Inich and Prague, and a linkup with Allies in the west, as Soviet Storm Units within the Austrian capital battled the Germans for the last | few blocks of the city. Moscow ra- 'dio said the “fall of Vienna is im- minent.” Far to the north, other Russian trocps along the Baltic Coast cap- |tured the East Prussian capital of 'Koenigsberg after a massive 33- hour barrage had softened the three lines of fortifications surrounding Ithe cradle of Prussian militarism. Seizure of Koenigsberg was hailed by the Russian press as one of the great victories of the war, compar- able with the breaching of the Sieg- !fried Line on the west. A Moscow dispatch said Marshal Tolbukhin's army is “making start-| ling progress” in its drive west of Vienna toward Linz and Munich.| The Army’s exact position was not given, however, since the Germans in many sectors are unaware of the scope of the Russian advance be- low Vienna. | Another wing of Tolbukhin's army thrust to within 133 miles of| Hitler's mountain retreat at Berch-| tesgaden, Moscow dispatches report- | ed. Marshal Tolbukhin's forces crossed the Danube immediately | north and west of Vienna near| Nuzsdorf, and are believed to have gotten across some 12 miles farth- er upstream in the vicinity of Tullin, in their thrust aimed at Prague, 139 Inules away. German forces are reported to have fought to death behind street| barricades in Vienna. Only 1700 Nazis surrendered during the night- and-day-long fighting. of Nord- the | narrowing waist of Germany mward { have ad- | into | % the burning Prussian stronghold of | | | l | point 60 miles | ONCE UPON A TIME, England’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met with Adolf Hitler in Bad-Godesberg, Germany, for one of those appease about it, Well—this is Bad-Godesberg today. And those German vehicles burning by the roadside are part of Adolf’s equnpment left behind w ITALYAREA OFFENSIVE IS STARTED Ground Forces Aided by Airmen Who Drench | Sector with Bombs ROME, April 10 The Bl‘ilish' Eighth Army has crossed the Senio River on a broad front in the vicinity of the Lugo area, which was drenched by Allied bombs in a massive attack yesterday. The smash across the Senio river ended a prolonged winter lull in that sector. The combined might of the U. S. Fifteenth and Twelfth Air Forces, and the Royal Air Force | battle planes were thrown into aerial onslaught yesterday intended | to obliterate elaborate Nazi de- fenses thrown up on the west bank ' of the river at a considerable depth. ! In the Fifth Army sector, also on | the offensive, the 473rd Infantry, | operating with the Ninety-Second | Division, is fighting its way to the southern outskirts of Massa against | growing enemy resi ]!,ance K g While the British Destroyer Marne continued to pump shells | into the Geman positions, the 307th Infantry Regiment ‘surged forward along the Ligurian coastal plains within a few hundred yards of the Frigido River, west of Massa. The | Japanese-American 442nd Infantry meanwhile, captured Villave Stang- man, two and one-half miles north- | west of Massa, where heavy fighting | was encountered. | British troops have slightly less than a mile to go beyond the Senio River to reach Lugo, 13'2 miles west of Ravenna. 1 Jeep Adds New Nofe To "Wild WesI’ Rodeo‘ KARACHI, India — The Indians (went wild over their first “wild west” rodeo, but it was the Yanks \who really appreciated M/Sgt. Wil- liam Rhor's crowning exhibition. The Phoenix, Ariz., lad came out with a new Army -wrinkle—jeep bulldogging. He leaped from a jeep going 30 miles an hour, caught the steer’s horns in the finest form and had the animal grounded ir 15 sec- onds. The rodeo was staged in front of the governor of Sind’s palace. - e HEIDE IN JUNEAU | H. E. Heide, Representative for | the Bureau of Mines, has arrived !in Juneau from Glendale, Calif,, and is a guest of the Gastineau Hotel. H pitals, the city wasn’t bombed by the Allies. Signal Corps Rddlophoto‘ |age uel Now Raging on Okinawa RESISTANCE WEST FRONT CRUMBLING Time Nears when Allies Will Declare Organized Warfare at End By WES GALLAGHER (AP War @csrespondent) HAMELIN, Germany, April 10—A juncture betweef British, American and Russian forces may well be the time chosen for the three powers |to declare all orgnized warfare in Germany at an end. Such a declaration' would give German soldiers one of two choices; |they could ejthér surrender and be |treated as priSoners of war or con- tinue fighting and be hunted down |as Franc Tireurs or guerrillas, hav- |ing no legal military status. Judging byfl'n ¥ of German {troops captured ‘in the past two weeks there is little doubt what the |German soldier’s choice would be, ns those still willing to die for the [Fuhrer are few and far between. The Western Front is now that ;m name only, as no real German {front is left. Resistance now. being |encountered by American forcés, \except in the Ruhr pocket, is un- little more than (LAIMS END OF WARFARE IS IN SIGHT Premier El Koury Says Ces- ment conferences with the Fuehrer. All the world knows what Hitler did hen the Nazi troops fled before advancing Yanks. Because of its many hos= {(International .Saundpho ‘0) Wellman Hoibrook Will Leave Forest Service At End ol This Month - 'Perwnallfy Ch|ld After 38 years and seven monihs | ,mm the U. S. Forest Service, Well- |man Holbrook, Assistant Regional i Forester for Alaska, is about to| { clean out his desk in the Forest i S(‘xvl(.e Office here, making ready ‘m go into regirement on April 30, it was made known today. i At present Mr. Holbrook is aboard a Forest Servite vessel enroute back to Juneau from Sitka where the has been engaged on land re- | classification work for the pnat week. He is expected back at his| (headquarters here by the end of | Ithis week, The first dozen years of Mr. Hol- | I. M. C. Anderson, Alaska Di~ rector for the Farm Security Ad- | ministration, conferred in Juneau today with members of the Alaska Development Board at their final meeting. \ sation of Hostilities brook’s career was spent in the Is 'mmme"' Montana Forests, following which the service, in 1917. Re-joining, he |Khoury told the Syrian National | immediately came to Alaska and|Assembly he has received informa- !has remained with the Forest Ser- tion from High Allled sources of i |imminent. immediate plans following his re- < #tirement is the construction of a d‘ReI:tf:sr N et 1.8 river boat in which he will make a21SPatch from Damascus. f miles of the Yukon river next| § | summer—*“a forester's holiday!” |spent with the Post Office, at | Great Falls, Montana, in 1904 and vows ERIE 'as a public servant lacks only two months of reaching a full two-score | i years. 1 | Started In 1905 | y| Forest Service as a temporary as- | ,SlsLdnl on April 18, 1905. He be- ami Beach, Fla,, poses beside the|through contact on an elk hunt H H e s abvaeged tow wine | with Frank D., Haun, a torest| FiNd NO Sanctuary in of 1945,” His mother, Mrs, Elaine ‘hu two hunting companions. Mr. | B”'. Commonwea"h Barrett, is a model, and his dad is | Holbrook was 19 years old at the {the appearance and knowledge pos- |Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, |sessed by the ranger. {today implied that he will see to it pumamnt appointment as a forest [ctuary in neutral Eire. HRE ON GASBOA.I. lguard on June 1, 1905, at Neihart,| The question arose in the House qllal‘!k‘rb for the Little Belt Forest|Presbyterian minister in Belfasts, |Reserve, now known as the Lewis asked Churchill whether he would At 1:25 o'clock this afternoon, the and Clark National Forest. He wa ake steps to make sure no war a small fishing craft owned by E. und a pack animal, with feed and |country embraced within the British A. McCullock, had caught fire from | ,equipmen also a camp outfit— Commonwealth of Nations." 1In a |a back-fire coming into confact all for a salary of $60 a month, An |Written xeply. Churchill avowed, motor, It was immediately extin-'peen announced, but no date set.| Fire, whose leaders have challeng- guished, however, with both the Because Mr. Holbrook was under d the contention that Southern Juneau Fire Department and the 21 at the time, he could not take Iveland is a part of the British Com- was reported except for then Superintendent of all Forest Allies flat assurances that Axis war smoke, which smudged the craft reserves of the Northwest, sug-|Criminals will be banned from that up a bit. This, however, did not gested that he be let go and some-l"”"""y “needed painting anyway.” a ranger. However, the supervisor SEES BOARD HERE P |kept him on and the examination MINARD MILL BACK was delayed for one reason and Mrs. Minard Mill, has returned to yst 1, 1905, Mr, Holbrook reached | Juneau after a month spent in the his majority Jnd became eligible | States. He has reentered Juneau! he spent about one year away from | LONDON, April 10.—Premier El vice here since then. Among his |DEWS that cessation of hostilities is long-desired journey down the 1,500‘ When an additional 15 months (HM(HILL gl | 1905 is added, Mr. Holbrook's career | Mr. Holbrook started out with the TWO-YEAR-OLD Roy Barrett, of Ml_,cflme interested in the worklsays waf C”m'nals WI" ning the title of “Personality Child ranger, who met Mr Holbrook and a flying cadet. (International) [time and was greatly impressed by| LONDON, April 10.—Britain's B A(KHRE ( AUSB | Mr. Holbrook received his first |that no war criminals will find san- Montana, the Supervisor's head-|of Commons when Dr. James Little, fire alarm rang 5-3, when the Eliot, \required to furnish a saddle horse criminals find sanctuary in any with gasoline dripping from the examination for Forest Ranger had | Yes, Sir’ Coast Guard on the job. No dam-the examination and Major Fenn, Mmonwealth, has evaded giving the seem to worry the owner, as it one else employed for training as R pern Minard Mill, Jr, son of Mr. and gpother until July 31 and on Aug-| High School. ders L it | (Continued on Pagc Five)