The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 19, 1945, Page 1

't b (7 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXIV., NO. 9940 ¥ JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS RED ARMY 18 MILES FROM (iOAlft Many Centers Fall as So- viefs Penetrate Deeper 'BOLOGNA Into Nazi Defenses ‘ DEFENSES Russian drive on Berlin has begun. The official communique | said a bridge head had been | thrown across the Oder " and 1 | { | Key Heigh!;—of Important Industrial City Seized troops have crossed the Neisse River southwest of the city. BULLETIN—LONDON, April' —60'HOUr Battle 19—A radio broadcast from | Paris tonight said Berlin is | ROME, April 19.—General Mark under fire of Russian artillery, |Clark’s Fifty Army troops, cracking indicating a close approach to | the outer defenses of Bologna, drove the Nazi capital city. \Iwithin eight miles of that great Ital- \ian industrial city, after seizing the LONDON, April 19—Russian key heights of Monte Adone and troops captured Seelow and Wriezen |Monte Rumici in a bitter 60-hour in their advarce to within 18 miles battle. of the eastern limits of Berlin, a| Their advance, which appeared to Transocean broadeast announced, have loosened German defenses be- reporting a series of deep penetra-|fore the Po Valley gateway city, tions in the four-day offensive of |gave the Americans a downhill road two and a half million Russian!to Bologna, with each mountain soldiers. |generally smaller than the last, the i . - | dispatch said. (Continued on Puge Two) | e TheFWashingtoniBIG LAYOFF Merry-Go-Round - FORECAST IN « ZEELRER- o por AREA WASHINGTON—Resentment) over coddling of German prisoners | o e week witn e Thousands of Workers May Llose Jobs in Plane publication of two news pictures, one showing starved Yankee pris-| oners just liberated and the secondj 3 showing the bodies of persons; PIan's' Sh|pya(ds killed in a German prison camp, | So horrible were these photos that| .o Angeles, Calif., April 19 — Kentucky's Ahtaxw Jackson Mfly',Glenn Brockway, Deputy Regiondl Chaifman of the ‘House Military wyc Director, addressing Wash- Affairs Committee, displayed them ;045 Oregon, California, Nevada, Z‘;::fieebemm a meeting of his|arizona and Alaska Directors, i predicted west coast shipyards and He . spoke bfl?fly and bm'euygalrplane factories will lay off 100,- about the Nazis' inhuman treat-|goy workers within the next 90 ment: of pilseners, presentative | gy pecause of cut-backs and con- Sikes of Florida segonded n“”-trnct tel ationg: LABORDEPT. ' POWERS ARE [ONMINDANAO Given fo EASILY MADE 12ND LANDING BROADENED By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, April 19 — The Army, Navy, OPA, WPB, the White | | House and a dozen other govern-{ ment agencies have the war's big- | gest job of salesmanship to do. It is to sell the American home {front on the fact that the end of !war in Europe won’t mean the end of the home front struggle. | This very day, officials in these ;departments and agencies are |scurring around to find convinc- | ing arguments that V-E Day won'’t | |dissolve price controls, manpower | regulations, shortages, Selective Ser- } | vice—all the host of wartime incon- | veniences. i Most of the plans for putting | 'this argument over still are under the wraps of secrecy. I haven'ti found one official in any depart- ment or sagency who will discuss them openly. I can only tell you| that .many of these officials are | gnawed by fear that when the \battle of Europe is won, home front ‘energy will collapse. 8 | ! There certainly is some basis for their fear. After the Normandy break - through, the pressure for reconversion to civillan production ,was terrific. War workers quit !Obti Key men in agencies here started | ia retreat to civilian-pests: War bond | sales dropped, Enlistments in the |WAC and, other voluptary services | 'hit a new low. Then, not since Pearl Earbor had the home front had to do a greater |flip-flop. The Nazis mounted a {counter-offensie that threatened 'the whole western front. Stories of 'shortages of certain types of am- munition began to drift through.’ Reconversion not only had to be |brought to a stand-still, but aban- 'doned war plants were re-opened. ;Manpower shortages became s0 |acute, that for the first time meas- jures to control civilian employment becameg a Jegislative reality instead | of merely congressional conversa- tion. Measures to draft nurses were introduced. | PO | In other words, our optimism | was knocked into a cocked ' hat. What the goernment is aiming at; now is to keep that optimism from | 'getting out of bounds again. | From, coast to coast, all V-E Day celebrations will emphasize the fact | that World War II isn’t over, that Rivers’ Op;hi;n Dedares Functions of Labor Com- missioner Extended Broad powers were granted to Alaska’s Commissioner of Lakor by the 17th Territorial Legislature when it passed Senate Substitute for House Bill No. 11, according to the most recent interpretation of legislative enactments by Attorney General Ralph J. Rivers. In response to a request by the present Labor Commissioner, Walter P. Sharpe, Mr. Rivers today released an opinion regarding. Chapter 48, of the 1945 Session Laws of Alaska, commonly referred to as the Labor Department Act. According to the opinion: Media~ tion and conciliation powers, in labor disputes, formerly reposed by previous acts in the Governor of Alaska, are now transferred to the jurisdiction of the Labor Commis~ sioner. Also, all statutory safe- guards “hertofore in the Code on Sanitary and Health Conditions, Warning Germans Battle Iest_ed_boughboys‘flhose Guilfif Afrocities PRICE TEN CENTS | RHINE COST - HEAVY TOLL Stimson Also Makes Re-| Establish 35 - Mile Beachhead By JAMES HUTCHESON (Associated Press War Correspondent) MANILA, April 19.—Battle-tested Doughboys of Maj. Gen. Frederick A. Trving's Twenty-Fourth Army Divis- ion, landing under excellent air and naval cover, secured a 35 mile beach- head on southern Mindanao Tues- day in the second invasion of that Japanese infested Island. The Division went ashore at Malaband and Parang on the eastern shore of Illana Bay, eastward across Moro Gulg from Zamboanga Penin- sula, now largely in the hands of the Forty-First Division of Yanks who made the first Mindanaio land- ing on March 10. Gen. Douglas MacArthur reports that Filipino guerrillas, operating along the shores of Moro Gulf, help- ed prepare the way for the landings by effective assaults on the Japanese forces. Three enemy divisions amounting {0 Be Punished-More | porton Casualties Since | | Revelations | D-Day of Last June { LONDON, April 19—Prime Min-| WASHINGTON, April 19 — The| ister Winston Churchill announced battle of the Rhine crossing in a “solemn warning” to the Ger-lMarch cost the U. 8. Army 47,023 mans against prison camp atroci- casualties, Secretary of War Henry ties is being prepared, to be issued Stimson reported. jover the signature of hlmsclf.) While the loss is larger than for Premier Josef Stalin and President the month of February, Stimson Harry S. Truman. {pointed out it is smaller than for Foreign Secretaries in Washing- 'any month since October, and in- {ton are preparing the warning to cluded 6214 killed, 35448 wounded “bring home the responsibility, not 'and 5,366 missing. Ground casual- only to the men at the top who ties since D-Day in June, to the | are already considered war crimi- end of March, were 473,215, includ- | nals in many cases, but also to the 'ing 79,795 killed, 58,501 missing. actual people who have done the| Current casualties on the Western | foul work with their own hands.” Front are “not high" in contrast Churchill disclosed he received a|to the more than 900,000 Germans | letter this morning from United captured in April, in addition to a| States Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, high number of Germans killed undf saying “new discoveries, particularly 'wounded. in Weimar, far surpassed anything —————— previously disclosed.” . | A Parliamentary delegation will | leave London tomorrow to get proof | of these atroeities. | lany employer wilfully withholding | prosecution. to approximately 50,000 men, are es- timated to be on Mindanao, the gecond largest Philippine jsland and not wunder such as disposal of waste, wet floo: drinking water, washrooms . . . . are repealed and such safeguards are now subject to the re.;ulantgl-‘;u*‘xl only major one powers of the Commissionet of La- | Ametican control. bor. eee CASUALTIES ONOKINAWA GIVEN OUT Yanks Make Gains on In- vaded IE Island Against Stiff Resistance GUAM, April 19—American cas- the Okinawa campaign The Attorney General further de- clares, though the act passed by! the Legislature empowers the Labor | Commissioner and make it his duty | “to institute appropriate, roceed- | ings in a court having jurisdiction over the matter against any em- ployer of labor without cost to the | employee, when he is satisfied that | the employer has failed to pay ... ", | since there has beén made no ap-! propriation to pay the costs of such | suits to collect back pay of workers, | it is not possible for the Labor Commissioner to so prosecute wage ! claims as stated by the act, and the Commissioner can not be held re-| sponsible for their collection. | The opinion further stages, how- ever, that the Commissioner can and should make effort to entorcr}uames i payment of such wage payments as | 7 he may satisfy himself are truly due “’;"da ESSrOClfll':tedd sbtriketshe “;:"“ to employees by resorting to a dif- [02Pan, ~reporta y vy, “|reached a total of 7,895, including (eren(act.stfllin!orce,whlchmnkeau.%v SN Admitar Ohisster W Nimitz said casualties as of April 18 were “the most recent reports available.” wage payments subject to criminal sentiments, then demanded: “When | procrway’ added ‘that “while the relaxation on the home front will are we_ going to do something about ' gross layoff may reach the figure mean only prolongation of the war our own coddling of German priS"given, “I believe that by proper oners: here? When will we get|. distribution of ~man = power ~ the around ‘to a sensible program of |ney ayoff will not exceed 25,000 reeducation?” imen.” Chairman May fell back upon the old line about “adhering to the Geneva Agreement.” “We are going far beyond the| Geneva agreements,” shot back Sikes, “while our enemies are fail-| ing to live up to those require- ments.” Here Committee Counsel Ralph { Burton chimed in that the Army A. F. Hardy, Washington State Director, said later that the Seattle area is not included in Brockway's figures, being from other parts of the West Coast. LATE WAR is doing a good: joh of handling| war prisoners, maintaining that if we treat German prisoners well, they will treat our men well. Sikes, however, attacked Burton’s; recent report on conditions at the Papago Park, Arizona, prison cn.mp,‘ and his more general report issued .Jast December. The Florida Con- gressman especially complained be- cause they were issued as commit- | tee reports, when actually they were the work of a single investi-| gator on the committee staff. i Burton sprang to the defense of his investigator, but Sikes made it plain he will not be satisfied until a full committee study is author- ized. PR ! BIG OIL SCRAMBLE | Very quietly the big ofl companies have already begun angling for one of the most coveted pieces of | war property in the United States— the two pipelines built to carry oili to the Atlantic seaboard. On its; disposal depends the price which the people of New York and ad- joining areas will pay for their cooking gas during the next decade. ‘On their disposal also de- pends the future consumption of soft coal in many eastern areas. — et e et (Continued on Page Four) BULLETINS PARIS — The German military said tonight the American Third | Army has thrust east of Hoff, across the extreme northwest tip of - Czechoslovakia. LONDON-German military com- mentator Capt. Ludwig Sertorius in a broadcast, said the Americans have concluded preparations for a large-scale attack on Berlin from the Elbe, which they have crossed. BERNE—A German commentator tonight says Russian forces have reached Hoyerswerda, 31 miles east of Dresden, and the Russian as- sault has mounted along a 200- mile front and has cracked the Berlin front in a multiple of points in the arc from Stettin to Saxony. WARSAW—A radio announce- ment says Polish forces, fighting with the Red Army, have crossed the Neisse and Oder Rivers and are taking part in the grand of- fensive on Berlin. PARIS—The Britons are tonight reported within 'six miles of Ham- burg. against the Japanese, and conse- quently - thousands of lives lost needlessly. [ Newsreels (some already pre- pared), radio broadcasts (some al- ready planned or written) and newspaper commentators will ham- mer away on this point. | Some of it will be clap-trap, but | ithere will be some agencies fol-/ !lowing the idea of OPA Directori |Chester Bowles, which is: Give the people the unvarnished facts and| quit worrying—they won't let down the boys at the front. | (Tomorrow: V-E Day and what it means) | \CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S | LOVE AFFAIR WILL - COST LARGE SUM \Must Pay Joan Berry $75| | Monthly for Support | ‘ of Daughter ! { LOS ANGELES, April 19—Charlie | !Chaplin’s love &ffair with red- 'haired Joan Berry eventually will! jcost him $100,000. # 1 He was ordered, yesterday by ithe Superior Court to pay $76 a week for the support. of Miss Berry’s 18 - months - old daughter juntil she is 21, altogether about $76,000, in addition to which he] must pay her lawyerg $5,000. Charlie has already paid $11,000 ifor medical cate and other ex- {penses, as well as his own lawyers. Chaplin's counsel lined to say whether he would appeal the case. The Attorney General states that where the Labor Commissioner is| Latest reports of Japanese cas- |ualties on Okinawa, which was in- - AtNavyBase | In Aleufians | ALEUTIAN BASE, Aprnl 19.—Sev- | en persons were reported killed and ‘eight seriously injured, April 12, when a fire of unknown origin de- i sttoyed a wooden frame shelter on !a dock, and damaged a yard vessel , alongside the dock. All casualties are believed to be naval personnel, and names are be- ing withheld, pending notification | of nearest of kin. GOVERNMENT 'FORPOLAND REICH RAIL ON 4TH DAY ;Allied Air Force Searching! \ for Remnants of Ger- } man Air Power | LONDON, April 19 — German rail targets in the southern Reich | land Czechoslovakia were attacked for the fourth successive day by 618th Air Force bombers and 550 !fighters, which also continued their search for the remnants of German ! air power. | | Last night, British and Russian! bombers hammered Berlin in re-| lays. | 'HUGE NAVY BILL GETS | ISBIGISSUE satisfied an employee has a just wage claim, he can and should have |vaded April 1, up to midnight, the matter referred to a United | Friday, were 9,108 Killed and 391 States Attorney for institution of |taken prisoner. criminal proceedings, should the U.| TWwenty-Fourth Corps Doughboys |S. Attorney decide such action is /Made substantial gains on Ie Is- | justified. i |land, off Okinawa's west coast, yesterday. The.enemy, however, is Istill offering stiff resistance from |dug-in positions and concrete pill- |boxes around the four-strip air- |drome which was captured by the |Yanks the first day on Ie, where |Columnist Ernie Pyle. was killed (OLUMBIA LUMBER (0. BOARD ELECTS - 2 SETS OF OFFICIALS At the Columbia Lumber Com- o'clock last night in the offices of the company, the following di-| |by a Jap machine-gunner.’ l The toll of Japanese aircraft |smashed by Allied guns and bcmbs; f the Thi | pany Board meeting, held at 8 in the Ryukyus and Japan proper‘?me &-in m\;eemr:;tlon Commission in 31 days totals more than 2280, 1 which far exceeds the estimated Truman Ma?T—ake Hand in Dispute - Important Meeting Scheduled WASHINGTON, April 19.—Presi- dent Truman may take a direct {hand in the effort to settle the dis- !pute over a new Polish government |before the San Francisco confer- {ence opens next week. | This become known when attempts P President Truman would like a Provisional Government broadly rectors were elected: Sam Feldon, 1,500 planes produced monthly ‘“u-epremntanve of all factions of Ray Peterman, Dan Moller, James Larsen, Charles Boyer, C. H. Mc- Donald and Thomas A. Morgan. The directors then elécted the following officers: Thomas Morgan, President; Dan Moller, Vice-President; and James Larsen, Secretary and Treasurer. |SEVEN FLY SOUTH VIA PAN AMERICAN A Pan American plane took the following passengers to Seattle to-| day: Mrs. Marie Hadland, Frank A. Boyle, Mrs. Jane M. Boyle, Chas. McDonaid, Mrs.. Helen McDonald, Carl Stolberg and Edward Selinski. , From Juneau to Whitehorse— Reese Murray and Maxine Craw- ford. Juneau to Fairbanks—Walter Sharpe. Y Juneau to Nome—Jack Westfall and Roy Niles, A.| Nippon’s factories. | - e - STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, April 19 — Closing |quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine 'stock today is 7, American Can '97%, Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem Steel 76%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, In- ternational Harvester 84%, Kenne- cott 39%, New York Central 24%, Northern Pacific 24, U. S. Steel 66%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as l!ollows: Industrials, 163.20; rails, 54.86; utilities, 29.76. — - —— ! | GILLESPIES GO SOUTH Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gillespie left on the North Sea for Seattle. Mr. Gillespie, formerly Fruit and Produce retiring, his son-in-law, W. A. Miller. | Poles. jcussed tomorrow or S‘turday when |Secretary of State Edward R. Stet- tinus, Jr., Foreign Secretary of Brit- lain Anthony Eden and Soviet For- geign Commissar ¥. Molotov meet {nere previous to golng to San Fran- | cisco. | ~American Ambassador Harriman {and British Ambggsador Sir Archi- bald Clark Kerr, hoth assigned to 'Moscow‘ began canferences on the [Polish situation with the proba- {bility of a showdown with Molotov (when he arrives tgmorrow or Sat- urday. | This was the latest development 1in the important, issue. — e — . MRS. MacKAY VISITING Skagway. | The important,ssue will be dis-| HOUSEO. K. ! Appropriation Inspires . Demand for Annexation . of Jap Strongholds WASHINGTON, April 19 — The $24,879,000,000 Navy appropriation bill, which has prompted Congres- sional demands that this country | kl'etmn Jap islands in the Pacific iancx' the war, passed the House of ‘Repx‘esemntlves by voice vote. The ‘npproprlatwn, for the fiscal year starting July 1, was approved with- out a vote in opposition or a single major change. It now goes to the Senate. | Representative George H. Mahon, | of Texas, added to the clamor !orf immediate action by legislation to annex key Pacific bases, such as |the Marshalls, the Carolines, Iwo Jima, Saipan and Okinawa. Such | |speech YANKS SMASH LAST RUHR RESISTANCE Are Edgin Russian Forces Federal Plans fo Spur War Against Japan as V-EDay Is (_eEbraIed% g Closer To Berlin CROSSING OF |LEIPZIG HAS 'BEEN TAKEN BY 15T ARMY Patfon Now Driving Into Czechoslovakia-Nuern- burg Is Surrounded PARIS, April 19 — Leipzig has fallen to Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges' First Army troops, as other Ameri- cans smashed the last, organized resistance in the Ruhr, culminat- ing perhaps the greatest single victory of the war. Lt. Gen. George Patton's Third Army is driving into Czechoslo- vakia, within gunshot of Asch, cut- ¢ ting routes into the Nazis' hide- away in the Bavarian Alps, while U. S. Seventh Army men fought hand-picked U. S. troops in the streets of the Bavarian center of ‘Nuernbern. which is now virtually surrounded, British On Lower Elbe Britsh Second Army units reached the lower Elbe River, and advanced to within sixteen mileg effort to cut North Sea ports fi Berlin, the siege of Bremen been intensified. 7 “All organized resistance in the Ruhr pocket has ceased, with Al- ljed, forces virtually 3 mopping-up-:of the kst . 8 stragglers,” Supreme Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces an- nounced. This meant the great cities of Dusseldorf, Solingen and Remschied are ‘in First and Ninth Army hands, along with the great Ruhr ‘factorfes which, as late as 1942, produced 75 per cent of Hitler's war materials. Thousands Of Nazis Taken Gen. Omar Bradley said 316,930 Germans were taken in the Ruhr pocket, with more to be counted, compared with 330,000 captured or killed at Stalingrad. With one phase of the German campaign finished, “it is necessary to pause temporarily before we go into the next,” Gen. Bradley said. It was announced the Third, First and PFifteenth Armies had captured 842,864 prisoners since crossing the Rhine less than a month ago. "JOETHEGAB" . ~ ASKS SUPPORT FOR FUEHRER Reich Propa_gonda Chief Declares German Na- fion on 'Razor’s Edge’ LONDON, April 19—Reich Propa- ganda Minister Goebbels today told the German people their nation is ‘“balancing on a razor's edge," and called upon them to stand be- hind Hitler “by a Iast all-out effort to make sure the Reich does not break apart.” Although the address is scheduled for broadcast tonight, on the eve of Hitler's 56th birthday, the text was distributed in advance to DNB in a special radio transcription, and to German newspapers. Most of the is devoted to resounding praise of der Fuehrer. Goebbles' declaration, contained in the address, that “the perverted coalition between Plutocracy and Bolshevism is cracking, with the head of the enemy conspiracy |of ‘Hamburg, and in a mua action, he declared, would be “in the interest of American security | and in clarification of American| foreign policy.” | - et — | |MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF | MEMORIAL CHURCH MEETS ' | | | | This evening at 7:30 o'clock, the ’Misslonnry Society of Memorial Church will meet at the Manse. It tis urged that all members attend s plans for reports of the Presby- Mrs. Don MacKay, of Skagway, of the Pacific is visiting “in JExew and is a tery and Presbyterial will be made. Company, is'guest at the Baranof Hotel. She Officers of the society -are Mrs. leaving his business tolis a very prominent resident in Alice Bell, President; Mrs. Harriet Roberts, Secretary. struck off by !nuv" is an obvious reference to the death of Pranklin D. Roosevelt, though: the late Presi- dent of the United States is not mentioned by mame.’ Goebbles f§nally ealled on the German people to throw away all rules of warfare and use every means to defend the Fatherland. ———————— MARIE HADLAND HERE Marie J. ne¢, of Sitka, has arrived in Juneau and is a guest at* the “Baranof. -——-'-0‘#—- PETERMAN IN JUNEAU R. D. Peterman, Sitka contractor, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel.. > ‘