The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 14, 1945, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXIV., NO. 9936 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MERICANS ARE 45 MILES FROM BERLIN Arsenal Area of Tokyo Blasted By Supers Truman Is 33rd Chief ExecuhveoflhlsNahon GREAT B-29 FORCE HITS | BIG SECTION Five Square—Mile Section Bombed - Terrific Explosions Follow By LIEF ERICKSON (AP War Correspondent) GUAM, April 14—The greatest B-29 raiding force yet struck the arsenal area of Tokyo early today. Fire bombs caused explosions, pilots said, that could be heard for a distance of 100 miles. Some of the explosive blasts bounced 60-ton! WASHINGTON — Without much Superforts as much as one mile Publicity the House Food Study upwards through the air, pilots Committee, headed by statesman-| and crewmen agreed. like Representative Clinton P. An-| “A very successfil raid,” derson of New Mexico, has been said. holding closed-door sessions with | The Japs met the raiders with the men responsible for food pro- Jjet-propelled fighters. ductmn ; : No official report of Superl‘orz Last week the committee quizzed WASHINGTON, April 14—Plesx- dent Harry S. Truman has given the official verdict that he is the {thirty-third President. In his proclamation asking for a mourning period for Roosevelt, Truman named the dead executive las “the thirty-second President of 'The Washington Merry- Go-Round By DREW PEARSCN (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on sctive service with the Army.* the United States.” Actually, Roosevelt was the thirty-first President. The man to hold office and-to reach a higher | |number was Grover Cleveland, | |who counted twice his two terms. The argument over the count has J,been long standing. 256 NIPPON PLANES ARE ~ DESTROYED {Suicide Corps in Futile Two-Day Action in Ryukyus Section pilots ROOSEVELT SERVICES ~ AREHELD ‘ Remains of Late Presidefll‘T ‘ Carried fo White House.. | -Burial on Sunday | WASHINGTON, April 14 —~Franks | 'lin Delano Roosevelt returned to- {day in death to the White “House, ‘graced longer than by any ouwr | President, while the whole people |paused in grief as the cortage bear~ |ing his body, drew silently up te |the White House door at 11:14] o'clock, Eastern time, at the end of the lnng train trip from Warm Tne bod\ of the late Chief Exes cutive was met at the Union Sta- |tion by President Harry S. Trumal |and Government leaders and the re-{ |mains were borne slowly and mourn- |fully along the hroad Censtitutiony !Avenue on a | caisson. flag draped Army: | (ity Falls to Russian Blows VIENNA FROM THE A IR—A plane flies over the broad boulevards in the heart of Vienna YANKS KEEP MOVING ON TOWARD GOAL Thurd and Fourth Armies Hurtle Past Besieged Leipzig-Near Red Lines PARIS, April 19.—American Ninth i Army troops won their second cross- {ing of the Elbe River today and ;(ougm slowly forward toward the {outer defenses of Berlin, as U. 8. First and Third Army tanks hurtled well past besieged Leipzig. Nearing the Russtan lines, the | First and Third Armies advanced |into the Nazi mountain stronghold |of Bayreuth, in a flanking sweep | past Leipzig, which carried deep into | Saxony, wit! ten miles of Chem- | nitz, 80' miles’ from ;Russian lines, and only 38 miles from Dresden. 1 For all practical purposes Ger- | many is virtuaMy bisected, with the | last direct communications from | Berlin to the south including the Jans s made, :l::'e‘"f.’mh‘:'?? B R o mr P By MURLIN SPENCER | 8o thick was the swarm of specta-| Y in this air view of the Austriap capital made during peacetime. ! supertitghway. 35 MM Ak phiie il A Japaneseylmperinl uan;munique head Leo Crowley, UNRRA Director (AP War Correspondent) tors ; Hlml st:non r;(mhi‘e b rwere hs‘;‘lllll-' ————*|Third Wi which is wil 25 claims 41 raiding planes were shot Herbert Lehman, OWM Adminis-. GUAM, April 14—More than 256 l"" angling the traffic hall an ‘mtle.s of Czechoslovgkia, on the by- Soun and 80 dafaged after the trator Fred Vinson sud representa- Jabénese planes—snsny. of thém Iter. . Lo o Gl nd ar oa“ "ve Phssed” nactliviat b (ot HRQE Fe- | “wanton” bombing of tne city by fives of the Army and Navy. This piloted by the ememy’s vaunted | ousa: s 1me he samg Ipublk:. K 7] 7 A the “enemy.” is the first time in months that all Kamikaze (suicide) Corps — were murmured only in whispers a: | Siege Arc Ti Mm-d ! The . imperial _car umque as. these key officials have been to- destroyed between April 11 and m;_‘;?l P";‘:‘; S el | Oene?\‘gm ! serted the Meiji Shiine, one of SEther to try to work out a solu- April 13, by Allied forces in the ! ‘d“ ?Tlom Mm:)urx? s"vicei\ i omes ex on s ‘hy mnt thn Japan’s major Shinto shrines, was UoD to the food problems. Byukyus, . ACHIENL<LChagter. ' WHEPR O S ' {siege arc around that great Saxony destroyed by bombs. | Some time this week two matters Nimitz announced. In Cortege | ;uy, where a n clv- - The communique- also says. fires discussed backstage are due to be Stmultaneously, Nimiiz rewrced In the first car behind the cais- | iahs are > 4 O A mperia] announced. Perhaps the more im- A Stong Japande gounter-aifack son was Mrs. Rogsevelt, Amma, the| es o ny ; f - Palace. portant is that Chester Bowles will of battalion strength on the south- only daughter; and Brig. Gen. El- f “ last r‘mmm away. y‘ Continuing, the ¢b nigiie says raise the support price for live €rn Okinawa front was defeated liott Roosevelt, second son. . ' 0 General Patton’s Third Armored * the raiding force on Tokyo today hogs, now $1250, to $13, with the early Friday morning by Twenty- In the second car were Col. John | g 2 [ r,wp:hm" plunged into Bayreuth . was of “very great strength, prob- Cclling remaining at §1475. Bowles Fourth Army Corps troops. Naval Boettiger and the wives of the L& SHI:{” Mfib HALL lenlen(y IS Recommended onto dst;vm“:r:.}t?rmn'm? . ably more .thnn 400 planes. The will assure the nation's farmers rifles joined heavy Marine and Roosevelt sons. 3 A : GdTodifw‘r‘“ 14.—Anoth- léehare i e great c center of v raiders poured thousands of tons that this price structure will hold Army artillery fire in hurling back President Harry S. Truman, Sec- | er v;l]m bon ”f is nlmoxvv. upon | for Na“ve YOU"‘I—")a(h (;emn zl A B hoicest through September of 1946. (the fanatical Japanese. |retary of Commerce Henry A. Wal- {l._s, the seventh, This one, running | neral ges’ First Army of * incendiaries .ab.pHlle . choldes Summarizing the brilliant work lace and James Byrnes rode in the! |from May 14 to June 30, is the Case Next week Simpson's Ninth have virtually elim- - a limb at the end of the war s 2 s “ ‘wnh millions of unwanted hogs, the northern Ryukyus, and set one The caisson halted before the only Three MI|eS ffom |dual objects that you can see and'slanj are “about ready to launch | cm down their run to only about Vessel afire”in the north Bonins,! main White House columned porti- gk 5 feel, |their great offensive,” after Vienna | |87 million. The OPA assurance On April 13, Army night fighters C0, Where the casket was borne by l"“"s of Bagmo In the first war loan drive, no fell yesterday under the combined 'should mean an increased hog crop Strafed Chichi Jima and Haha uniformed members of the- Armed fewer than 20 million of those oh- weight of the Second and Third| thm ear and.n O Jima in the Bonins, while Marine |Forces, followed slowly by Mrs. H : jects were sold. In the second war Ukrainian Armies under Marshals n yaddmon .. ool Adminis- Planes worked over the Palau group | Roosevelt and members of the fam- By FRED HAMPSON loan, this shot up to 34 million, ‘Mullnovsky and Tolbukhin, The o g B a ily, as the Navy Band, which had (AP War Correspondent) Hold your hats. We're still going week-long seige by the Russians| tratmn will enn ertain re- and Yap Island in the western 4 Wi | « | WASHINGTON, Aprfl 14—United dakablons in sl regulations Carolines and Marshalls, so often greeted him with the joyous' MANTLA, April 14—Elements of YP- In the third war lean 57,700,000 resulted in the taking of 130,000 States submarine have sunk 15 more kg o larnidt Moy BN (431 staf.:' On Okinawa’s Motobt Peninsula | Hail to the Chief”, played the Star the Thirty-Third Division fought UDis changed hands. In the fourth German PESODAIE: (s | enemy ships, including two combat- v WASHINGTON, April 14 — The inspectors ar federal in. the Marine Third Amphiblous Corps | SPansled Banner. their way fo within three miles of 1t Was 71700, 000 In the fifth, 74 o ooments | ant vessels, in Far Eastern waters, a opening game of the baseball season gpectors” On ick result of this continued their steady advance, al- Silence Is Deep the city limits of Baguio, the Philip- 'Jii 4 b i WL G oy = | Navy communique said. * here Monday between the New YOrk move should L« th- channeling of though meeting sporadic fighting. The silence of the throngs was so' pines' summer capital, «waile Toe th “Z::_‘ 1or:m :flvel;l: ngzfel,rl?: MKXL.‘ Combatant craft sunk were an Yankees and the Washington Sen- more meat nrerstate trade, Ineffective -resistance has been met deep even the chirping of birds on Americal Division s cured Bohol Is- = Prrinecre “ ' ot koo | escort vessel and a converted' gun- ators is to be dedicated to the, by Third Corps troops on Ishikawa |the White House lawn could be dis- land, which they invaded only last d‘“e"::‘e; ‘t Hipber 0" untis boat, while noncombatant vessels memory of Franklin Delano Roose- | BUBO'S SPY - Isthmus. tinctly heard. Monday. e e S 0000, claimed in the sinkings, included velt, officials of the Washington pew at & knav 160 Bt Within the White House, the cas- Doughboys who have battled FOW-IRG TAVEOEE {two destroyer transports, a large club said. Rnaer fobe “the so-okllbd| |ket was placed on a carrier and fiercely against Japanese defen- X71he GONS S fn. seventh war | tanker, a naval auxiliary, six med- The crowd at the game will pan» Bj stenographer to | | wheeled straight forward across the ders on northern Luzon for more ‘l‘;‘: ‘“;‘ m;‘mr"fn" ;‘*‘;‘V‘;‘_"" "I'lfy K::i: z {um cargo vessels, one medium tank» “stand for a full minute of silent the dinyer the other night/ Ir a' or glittering bronze, ' seal-embedded than three months, captured the bom;s oo S :’w h'zh“ et er and two small cargo vessels. . prayer in tribute to this great ponorin e Court Jushce lobby floor, then into the famed Mount Cahjgon town of Asin, north ik menr;;cr:un ones, Viey, wou These latest announced sinkings man,” who frequently has be- Hugo R | |East Room, where there were no of Baguio in Benguet Province, o oo t’h i e raised the total Jap losses inflicted » friended the game e \flags and the red drapes of the Gen. Douglas MacArthur announ- oouTee, SRR ariy o8 | by U. 8. submarines to 1098 to date, - | The © was a testimonial to e t l an s e = government securities, in terms of At inet e A ‘?1“:; uthefgk:onfer:l‘c;] | Resting beneath the glass en-, Baguio was the stronghold to SParate pieces Of “paper, are ‘series | o e SO 1;: e i+ % “sacco el closure of the casket, the body, which General Yamashita, Japanese E bonds. In the sixth war A loan, ] WASHINGTON, April V~ms{.5 0“' G“S J ?f 1 eatth xnrlm::d‘ dressed in a grayish blue business commander of the Philippines, fled ;"h"" 68,300,000 ‘bonda were sold, 60, dent Harry 8. Truman is leaving' IORMDO Kllls V; * ol inlilh oy m'ng ow suit, grayish blue foreinhand tie and after American landings on Luzon, 32,000 were :?er es E. b ‘Amedcan responsibility in the San | i ¥ AS Spok“no" Al:r g 7 i se"“", {a white, soft-collared shirt, looked January. 9. However, the general That :lll;.:uates ""’ f‘;“de particl-| g eisco Conference to this coun- | 2 i% ’ atis el aod) younger in death than when lad probably evacuated weeks ago, to be Pation of thepeopleiin '_‘“:‘:mfi thi5liy's delegation, | ; o S TeIet | WASHINGTON, April 14—With seen by friends in Washington. given another important command ¥aT, Dectusg sercs . ng ‘speo-j Faced with the necessity of fa- | o B pAYS m'BuIE ;;'ly 5 lg:::’: the assurance by the Post Office| “Goodbye” as MacArthur increased pressure On‘gu‘;sth::; It l;:{nc‘i? viduals CaRpaliarizing himself with ali the| OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. April . proi: 0 ) the Department that air mail to Ket-, Outside on the lawn, a e his'hideput 1 Between the start of the war fin- ntricate details of Europe’s tangled |14—Counted *tormado, dead reached “ 5 G ) led ; . NEW YORK, April 14—Sportsdom | c ¢ Chika; L d ’l?e expedited, Dele- :flgt:l:cl::'::‘s t}*:::n :'ithmf;‘enauon |ance program in May, 1941, and the /f&iTs, he has decided not to at-|a total of 77, with hundreds injured . paid respect to’ Pranklin Delano| FHos what burnsd 2ibo up 83% eI planning exs i S e, SUBMAR|"E (AMP {end of January, 1945—less than four|!end the conference, |and homeless after twisters bounced o pansion hat service to other |officially bids goodbye with simple o 2, ) crazily over the state and spread de- . Roosevelt by announcing virtual | Wa 1wt several Neg Alaakan |solemn funeral services. }ems the people bought 761,408 000 y cessation of activity until after pre seying tribuwe 0 DOSe £ i 3 }Sellt‘n E bonds, {struction in a dozen cities and rural L Bilbe Airmeli fo Keichikan is to be| Tonight, the body will be taken & Those E bonds would stretch m communities. today's funeral. . o e dropped i Annette Island, and|Hyde Park, for burial at the family | 2 the Pacific Coast League— pivi & tencgrapher to ul 4 the sun if get 200 yards apart. ‘The storm swept on to Arklnlu. D o transp. by the Coast Guard to home tomorrow. WASHINGTON, April 14 — The { kil I y tiv where all games were postponed ti:: dowi the speeches, L5 ;i Radi Let's see how those 761,408,000 E kllmg at least 16 there, with five . ht—baseball games, Lil..issinpi g, ld fig mai Hartlett said he had, o Fpcec: Neesod Submarine Scamp _and & Jarge Lo i” 1o glvkie ae 1o denomina- | | persons missing tnd four killed in, ;ll'xheurv.vdiien :ii«:;om A S T e :::azr iogoey, . med, and the same route| As the funeral train rolled north- support landing craft have been(on: 540,776,000 are $25 bonds; 19,- | Missouri. Ir Antlers, Okiahoma, 28 ol = (for some 3y h Buit g f wed with outgoing |Ward yesterday, the radio specch lost in the Pacific, the Navy re- ming Championships and the St.an-} ¥ie soared stonograph ; b BOME | poosevelt was to deliver at Warm vealed. The sub is reported anexdin b oL S $0)-pands; 88326000 8¢, gce Vivian P d“k Ketchikan pMeIx‘:zx;se:ex;;kLnglurefl “rlg Ssruduml“ ) i ley Cup g:skey Phy':‘: at Toronto ; ught soon dlm;" e:te:n; Hetonilian” atr mall |Springs at the Jefferson Day ban- from patrol and is presumed lost. :ifi;) r;z:s;of:oflizogfgo;]:::gg I?;::: woman, indicted for murder in the |killed :‘n ihe lwrzxm £ & were carried on yesterday. 1 ig room, admitted he ha t h i iy A Prayers were said before “Play’ « Ly “so-called Man,” and Vi abegil Lhrou:h Ferl qu;;;ew:;:;dmul;}i:‘.sm Wednes- ’lrer;aulax:}lnzn:;?;t :;fgnlmg“ asmz 5150000 ase. I S10sReTYiCHILS il:‘\:“::s,r;;“( A:n thl‘; n;)mnszt::; e j 5 . ’ . ] Airways, made the regu- ! ! ‘ . Ball” was cried for each Coast s ¢ orief and little-notic fis .{ Annetgu 8! day and in it he left the heritage ppilippines. I:oln’;%lzsw\)p are rounded_ figures and Court. Judge George F. Alexander VEIER‘" len‘ll i ( > e e 1ag) BN S e l;atc Bartlett, said the Post|t0 his fellow Americans to work for| The normal complement of the!|don't add to the exact total.) |ordered that she is to plead next| 0" m i ———eo—— 0 | COUTILING NAZI PRISONERS ce Depirtment has ordered an jpeace and not only to end the War gupmarine is about 65 officers and | The tremendous number of 25 Saturday at 10 o'clock. | K m 2 il ki oo s mme‘x ceiifation as to the feasibility of Ut to end the bm‘x‘n;mss‘olr all! i’ 4t ‘4. disclosd 1anding |bonds gives a good indication of the, The defendant is alleged to have | o GE" fISENHOWER | ,“ ! Affairs Committee are up,f "¢ te West Coast of Princ: Wj:fl:‘zn:“ tfio': }:l “';"“ :c'z x‘c‘; craft of the type lost a C0ut extent to which war finance has fatally shot her husband, Marvin| LOS ANGELES, April u-—'romw 7 oy aver WAL Gl T oo O and with daily air mai. e N Gietcrcicos. vo-! A0 10.itg petsmudl: T ere |touched lives and homes. Those $25 Frank. She is to *be defended by |Fitzpatrick, of Oakland, Pm 5 MAKES SI‘AI‘EME“‘I' & givetil the SAEme ant its 2 i Ketchikan, to serve 0 % O e:t:,, [is no report of cast ard |bonds cost the buyers more than Walter B. King, Ketchikan attor-|Coast Conference football of! of German prisoners “‘H bur Klawok and Craig. "w addlm 6 et on| |the landing craft. ten billion dollars. The next denom- €Y. for twenty years, has been named - 3 - : Park Okiop,. Dear ikt | ———————— focinsy xees, w“'““""“v:m ' tersi. | The announcement ieht tolination in.total value was the $100 R e STy 15 technical adviser for the appoint- pAmm April 14—Gen. Dwight D | A tidra ¥ /OINS HUBBAND {5te liekin mb“":"umre co:q“est of 264 the total of Nava 198t | bond, representing about 6 billions' MR. AND MRS. ROSS HERE |ment and supervision of grid afll- : " Eisenhower, expressing grief anc| , ot by Committee Counsel| 1'* 'I'z¢l Limebyrner, of Seattle | ' x'k not enough, We must “ice the start of the 2l {in sales. 3 {cials for the eonference. #4H shock in the death of President ; R .ph Burton was mmflylhi in Juneauy and joined s vd do all m“'wr power toCBUSES. The Scamp “nd| Total amount of E bonds muued Mr. and Mrs. Willlam A. Ross,) TN i , ¥ Roosevelt, pledged to his successo’ | . ,Ihl ‘usioid who preceded here'. . . . . | submarine lost. She [ 'has been $30,700,000,000. Buyers of Buffalo, New York, have ar-| Mrs. Greta N, Harper and sons, 5 W 1¢ of San Francisco, are guests at ‘. ¢ Last year the War Food Ad- ministration cut the support price of Vice-Admiral Marc Mitscher’s for hogs to $12.50 and asked farm- fast carrier force, Admiral Nimitz targets thus far attacked in the Imperial Empire’s capital city’s five third car, Presidential flags. flying American and‘- | greatest of all. The quota of seven! I billion dollars for individuals is the Of that amount, four! IS SECURED MOSCOW, April 14—Every sign | inated the Ruhr pocket, taking 114,- ,000 prisoners from the 150,000 orig- vlnally estimated in the trap. square miles, containing arsenals, 5 5 3 1 th t re in highest yet. 4 ers to t ff their rd 1943 said from March 18 to April 12,1 Many along the route wel g chemical plants and explosive fac- i :m:P;; 1;20 mfmm:ecv?u Bbgfli inclusive, 1,277 Jap planes were shot tears. ibillion must be series E bonds, and‘lndlmt(-d the four massive Russian| Nearest Ninth Army troops were tories.” | * As the procession entered the | that, too, is the highest goal yet. Army groups ar® approaching the;last reported to be 45 miles from 1103 million. This was a serious down. Of these, 841 were shot down blunder, and was vigorously op- Y U. S. Planes in combat, 73 by posed by Econogiic Stabilizer Fred DPaval gunfire, and 366 were de- |Vinson. Result was that the farm- Stroyed on the ground, an average ers, afraid they would be left out Of better than 49 planes a day. - e———— BIGLEAGUE Navy search craft hit targets in| White House grounds President Truman's car swung out of line, and the new Chief Executive dismount- led to the steps of the Executive Wing, entering there. f the Army's handling’ of (o P GRS ¥ SO MR A SR 4 his “unrémitted efforts for S achievement of final victory.” (Continued on Page Four) anct He ~tinued on Page Two) worth, of Emory Univers ieureia, ‘total — about $26.000,000000 worth, ‘the Baranof Hotel. lmmnol Hotel. 2 v . ‘\\ » o 3 * \ 5 re guests at the Bar- 6 _ the doubts, fears, ignorance To give you an idea of what those %ero hour drive against German the big divisions. Massed on /front of Silesia and the Baltic, the the Russians are rested and ready. Berlin broadcasts said the Rus-| quotas mean, let's forget ‘muney flgurca for a minute. think American Division Is Now| Whrpg Ve T Mo S ymanded by Comdr. Jol irwr~- have kept close to 85 per cent of this rived in Juneau and are puests at| the eastern’ Berlin, at an unapeculed point. USSIIBSIHFAR