The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 20, 1945, Page 1

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LXIV., NO. 9941 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CE BATTLE NOW RAGES AT GATES OF BERLIN Tanks Within One Mile of Hamburg Suburbs YANKS HAVE TAKEN OVER NUERNBERG American, French Forces| Move in Wide Circle Around Stuttgart PARIS, April 20.—British tanks| thundered within a mile of the su-| burbs of Hamburg, while three; American divisions are stamping out the last fanatical resistance of the Nazis trapped in the walled heart of | the shrine city of Nuernberg, as the Seventh Army troops penetrated the wall during the night and closed | on the center of the city. | American and French forces, mov- ing in a wide circle around Stutt- gart, another captured Reutlinger, the south of Stuttgart. | | \ | | | ) | | ERNIE PYLE IS BURIED ON IE ISLE Beloved Little Guy Is Laid| Alongside His Gl Joe Friends IE ISLAND, Ryukyus, April 20— Ernie Pyle will be buried with simple military honors today along- side GI Joes, friends and comrades {in life and death. Army Chaplain N. B. Saucier, of Coffeyville, Miss, who went with the litter bearers, under Japanese fire, to recover the body of the famed author and war correspond- ent, will officiate at the services. | The little guy, beloved by every| Patton was a former oil company; Nazi rallying point, | GI Joe, fell in action mid-morning |€ - 18 miles to Wednesday. Out of hundreds of the |ians several months. | | | DEFEATOF | JAPAN BE 6 AreKilled, [NEW SUBJECTS Plane(Crash, 'BE BROACHED Island Near BorneoTaken RED FORCES NEAR LIMITS, 45,000 MORE YANKS LAND " In Aleufians Wind Carri~e_s_Navy Craft Up Into Air During At- fempted Landing | | ALEUTIANS BASE, April 18— (Delayed) —Turbulent winds wafted a Navy combat plant back into the/ air as it attempted to lard and the1 plane crashed into a nearby bay| killing six, including Pilot Lt. (jg.) | James Patton, of Woodbury, N .Y. | Patton told friends he was a re-| |lative of Gen. Geo. S. Patton of the | Third Army, now fighting in Ger- many. | employee and had been in the Aleut- | Latin American Nations fo Get Busy at Frisco Conference WASHINGTON, April 20.—A drive among the smaller nations to write beundary guarantees into any peacés keeping organization is taking form, to be tossed-into the hopper at the San Francisco Conference. The proposal will be made, either by one of the Latin-American nas tions which secured similar assur- ances.in the recent Act of Chapulte~ ‘The demand for territorial guar: tees would include definition |'l‘enth Army troops to land on Ie,;’ aggression, and go hand in ha ATBIGSESSION TAKEN UP Truman May Call Both | Nimitz and MacArthur Area-Mindanao In- Home for Conference vaders Advance WASHINGTON, April 20—Presi-| MANILA, April 20 — American dent Harry S. Pruman is moving troops, a fresh threat to Borneo, cautiously into Roosevelt's seat on |invaded Balabas Island, 45 miles By Yankees ng likely to be felt in Pacific de-'swem 22 miles inland from the cisions before V-E Day. new Mindanao beachhead, only 52 He may be called upon to re-‘nh: miles from the important city view the strategy for defeating of Davao. Japan, which was undoubtedly dis-| Balabac Island is about 10 miles pec, or by a nation in the British'cussed at Yalta, and it would not in length and is across the narrow Dominion, probably New Zealnnd,“‘ié Washington ob-!channel from American-held Pala- servers if Truman summons Ad- Wwan. miral Chester W. Nimitz and Gen.| Northern Borneo is also Douglas MacArthur home for per- aced from the east by the be surprising to men- Yank ‘Fresh Threat fo Rich 0il| the council of the highest Allied north of that rich oil area last| imilitary strategy, where his weight | Wednesday, and other infantrymen | ONOKINAWA All-Out Assault Is Staged Under Biggest Gun Bom- bardment Yet Reported BULLETIN — SAN FRAN- CISCO, April 20—Domei, Japa- nese news agency, in a broad- cast picked up here, says the American offensive against Naha, on Okinawa, has been smashed and the invasion forces on the south end of the island have been turned back. | { | BULLETIN —WITH THE | TWENTY-FOURTH ARMY | CORPS ON OKINAWA, April | 20—Maj. Gen. Simon Bolivar | Buckner the U. 8. NAZI CAPITAL | :‘German HE Command ' Claims Soviets Have En- tered Qufer Defenses BULLETIN—LONDON, April 20—The German news agenecy DNB reports tonight the Rus- sians have reached Hagelsberg, which is only seven miles east of Berlin, | LONDON, April 20—The military Ispokesman in . Berlin late today {said the Russian spearheads have ‘penetrned Hagelsberg Forest, seven (to 12 miles east of the town of |Hagelsberg in the center of the |forest, now one of the main zones reports |of fighting. with the expected United Stal i nal conferences. |forces on Tawitawi, 30 miles ,proposal to empower the asseml on Sulu Archipelago. On Mindanao, Maj. Gen. R. B.| away The Russiansn have reached the |Buchhold area, 13 miles east of the forces on Okinawa, near Shuri, have made progress “as antici- pated against the most strongly inside | 15 were killed during the first three Third Army elements < three | days. Pyle was the sixteenth. Czechoslovakia are within SELECTIVE SERVICE lea miles of Asch Baave, 55 miles from| Recently, Pyle the surging Russian lines. Propaganda Chief Goebbels, grave- i ly threatening, said a ‘‘decision is very near,” as he spoke to the an{! faithful in Nuernberg on Hitler‘s’ fifty-sixth birthday. ! ‘With Nuernberg now captured, the | Americans beating south from there, | are within 70 miles of Munich and | 132 miles of Berchtesgaden. For | all practical purposes organized; Geérman resistance on a wehi-defined | {ront has ceased, and the war has' become a battle of pockets. i French Move Up | French First Army forces stab- bed 50 miles southeast of Strasbourg te Rottweil, 14 miles from the Dan- | ube and 33 miles from Lake Con- | stance, the western limit of the Nazi national redoubt in southern Ger- many. i The Péilus are 25 miles north of | Switzerland, in advances which ' ranged up to 23 miles and carried ! them within 65 miles of Austria and | 120 miles of Italy's northern fron- tier. The whole Allied right flank, in- cluding the French First, and the| American Third and Seventh ar-| told friends in | Guam that he had a premonition REGULATIONS ISSUED projected by the, peace e agency 10 | Woodbury’s Twenty-Fourth Divi- pital. Earlier, the German High Command announced the Soviet fortified Jap positions I have | something might happen. AR NavyHas "Chemical Tg[ped")' "WASHINGTON, April 20 — The existence of a new top-secret “chemical torpedo” in the Navy's arsenal, has come to light, it is of- |Ployment, and complete the Repor! ficially disclosed, but further details are withheld. > Western Govérnon Are in Conference RENO, Nevada, April 20—Gover- i PAAMANES Adoption of boundary guarantees iwould change the proposed League's ! BY jo“" M((ORMKK |fundamental obligation, to the ex= ! |tent that instead of simply an m.i L : | John L. McCormick, Territorial ternational pledge to decide when| i | Director of Selective Service, has sanctions should be imposed, the issued the following instructions crganization would ‘be. obligated wt | {which are a part of the Selective use the world’s armed might whens pERSo“NE [ ! Service Regulations: {ever it was decided aggression exisfa! {, @' It shall be the duty of every ed. N I !person between -the ages of 18 and Rursivs apprest -detérmmation)’ - |45 registered with a local hoard out- to stick by her guns in the Polish | 5 |side the Territory of Alaska, who is issue is seen in Moscow dispatches,| Station Managers Named in or thereafter enters the “Territory quoting the Red Star which said| . }D, Alaska and has remained or does failure to invite the Provisional| for Alaska Roufe Alr- ! {remain in Alaska for a period of 30 Government “evoked the indignation ports Now : | SEATTLE, April 20.—Reorganiza- |days, to present himself at the Sel- of the Polish people, as only one |ective Service Board in Alaska hav- government exists in Poland.” |ing jurisdiction over his present em- t to Board of Transfer, DSS Form 65. isaid, and “fi of terday .in an E\tm r " |southern Okinawa Island, the Navy (b) It shall be the duty of every‘ person who has completed or who is | cbligated to complete the Report to! | Board of Transfer, DSS Form 65, to: | | 1. Receive and thereafter retain lin his personal possession as long' {as he remains in the Territory o Alaska, except as provided in sub-| ition plans announced today by Pan QUMBARTON oAKS |American World Airways included | naming station masters for Alaska IS FORMUI.A |as follows: BASIS | Kenneth Alexander, Juneau; Mar- Fo lion Deutsch, Juneau assistant; Wil-' R S- F- DEBAIES Morrison, ‘Whitehorse; Robert | | Thorp, Port Hardy; John Frost,! {liam McRoberts, Fairbanks; Joseph WASHINGTON, April 20 — Sen- 1Annem‘. and Clyde Smith, Nome. | |paragraph (4), the portion of: such 4¢5r Tom Connolly told the Senate| “In the near future we are an-| mies, is clamping down on the nors of 11 western states are as- mountainous Nazi lair where Hitler!sempled here for a two-day con- is believed to be observing a gloomy 'ference to chart the future building birthday. (Continued on Page Two) e ——— The Washinglon‘ Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSCN (Lt Col. Robert §. Allen now on sctive | Army.) service with the i WASHINGTON — President Tru- man is being advised by friends to| make a few long-delayed changes in the Roosevelt Cabinet which | would strengthen his Administra- tion, electrify the country, and| make the nation realize that his is definitely a firm hand at the helm.| Here is how the Cabinet line-up looks at the moment: | Secretary of Commerce Wallace— | the man most likely to remain. Truman will never budge him. Thei two became good friends during | the ‘Fresidential campaign, when Wallace rolled up his sleeves and fought hard for both President Roosevelt and Truman, even though he had been ditched at Chicago. Secretary of War Stimson—born two years after Lincoln was as- sassinated, Stimson has lived through three wars, fought in one of them, and served as Secretary | of War twice. He also served as Secretary of State under Hoover.| He also will never be removed byI Truman. But Stimson will want to retire himself, after victory over|quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine | Japan is sewed up. Sécretary of the Navy Forrestal— Franklin Roosevelt was his own Secretary of the Navy. Between him and the 'Admirals, Forrestal was chiefly figurehead. Under the circumstances, he did a good job, particularly in his relations with Congress. He will be continued for the time being, but is by no means; a fixture. Senator Truman was critical, of the Admirals, and if he thinks Forrestal does too much Pl e s il o s alalil (Continued on Page Four) jof the West, and utilization of its {resources. Governors E. P. Carville of Ne- vada, host ‘to the executives, and Earl Warren of California, empha- sized the “eyes of the world are on the Pacific Coast” and now is the time for the area to adjust its programs in conformity with new responsibilities and problems. ALASKA STATION APPROPRIATION 1S GIVEN BOOST WASHINGTON, April 20 — An additional $10,000 for the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Station is proposed by the Senate Agricul- tural Committee in revision of the Agriculture Department appropria- tion bill. This would increase the station’s general appropriation to $32,500 for the fiscal year of 1946. Other sources would ‘bring the total to ap- proximately $50,000. Alaska Delegate E. L. Bartlett predicts that large numbers . of servicemen will locate in Alaska after the war. and “as a‘matter of fact, I fear they are going to come up too fast and too soon.” e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 21 — Closing iHepnrt to Board of Transfer, DSS (Form 65, entitled “Certificate of Board of Transfer.” | 2. Keep his Board of Transfer |advised at all times of the address in (the Territory of Alaska where mail | will reach him; | 3. Exhibit such certificate of Board of Transfer, DSS Form 65 to the same persons and under the |same * circumstances that he is re-| Registration Certificate, DSS Form 2, and Classification Card, DSS Form 57; 4. Surrender such Certificate of! there is “harmony and unity" |ticipating not only 14 round trips! among the American delegates to:weekly between Seattle and Fair-| the United Nations Conference, an banks via Juneau and Whitehorse, hour after conferring with Presi- |but additional flights to the present dent Harry S. Truman. Connolly, |thrice weekly service to Nome and (who is Foreign Relations Commit- once weekly flights to Bethel should tee Chajrman and one of the dele- |the traffic warrant it,” said Assistant gates, declared he has every con- | Manager'J. V. Roscoe. fidence the new Chief Executive | woyld give the group the fullest| sion, strongly supported by air- craft, moved 15 miles south from | the Parang beachhead, established with little opposition Tuesday, to capture Ootabato, then drove 22 miles inland to Lumopog to sweep south from Parang. It was an amphibious shore op- eration, Gen, Douglas MacArthur surprise on ing was taken. Other Yanks landed 35 miles north of Parang and cap- | tured the Malabang airdrome, which was quickly put in opera-| tion.” Davao is the prime hemp port in | the Philippines and one of the best harbors in the archipelago. 2 CAPTURES REPORTED BY EIGHTHARMY Advances Made in Po Val- ley, Italy=Fifth Army Nears Pianore ever seen.” He watched the push-off operations from an observation post of the Seventh Division. 4 forcgs had smashed six miles into |Berlin's outer defenses and within 13% miles from the ecity limits. | Marshal Konev's First Ukrainian ) Army scored a similar success / southeast capital - GUAM, April 20—Three Ameri-{ing ‘m'.:;fl;: miles f“.:;."";.:; can Army Divisions, totalling pos- 'tured Cottbus and br sibly 45000 men, jumped off yes-'Cala, German ts sald disolpaed todpy. . !farther wmh forces tllh:a: One of the Heavitst big-gun bom- 'rolled even deeper toward the Am- bardments ever launched in sup- erican lines, reaching Hoyerswerda, port of amphibious troops, pre- 556 miles from a union with Geh. ceded the big push. Eisenhower's forces. Battleships and cruisers aided | Describing the pattle which is the field artillery,” and a great taking place for the “main de- cover of carrier planes protected fenses of Berlin,” German broad- the ground forces. casts said the Germans' central The Japanese fought back furi- ously with artillery and mortars, but the Yanks made initial gains of 500 yards. One flank of the amphibious ]l‘urces gained 800 yards and an- |other flank captured the village of Machinato. reserves are thrown into the “mur- derous battle at the gates of LER IS HIt The operation ended a 13-day deadlock on the southern Okinawa ' front, where the Nipponese have been holding the Yanks with a defense set-up four miles or more in depth extending all the way |across the island, about 8,000 yards. | An artillery duel has raged un- }ixll;mted along the front since April There is little possibility of a FIFTY - SIX; NO FANFARE ! LONDON, April 20—Adolf Hitler formula for a peace-preserving or- ganization, as a basis for their labors at San Francisco. He added, however, “this does \captured Monto Maggiore, 12 miles 'southeast of thg Po Valley city of Ferrerra, Allied ,Headquarters an- - "HUMAN BOMBS' ki cut up by ravines and terraces and | reakthrough because the defense T83ched his fifty-sixth birthddy to- | " | i o y support on the Dumbarton Oaks jApS RESORI To | ROME, ARtM 480 — The Eighthiy quired by regulations to exhibit his } |Army advanced three miles and has |extends all the way to Naha and,d8Y Without the fanfare of past the terrain is suited to the enemy's Years. Where he is or what he is The terrain is 90ing is a mystery. ind of fighting. The only hope held out to his Board of Transfer, DSS Form 65, to not mean there will be any slavish the Board of Tranafer which issued devotion to every line and clause it within, but not prior to, five days“’f the Dumbarton Oaks formula.” before leaving the Territory of Al- iaska, with the intentions of remain- | |SALVATION ARMY DRIVE PROGRESSES ing absent for a period in excess of The Salvation Army drive is 30 days. '} All registrants who are affected by | |making satisfactory progress, ac- cording to reports received from these regulations are advised to re- {port to the nearest Selective Ser- vice Board at once. volunteer workers, who are pleased with the kindly response to the appeal. ¥ No Kidding, Nanny Aiming af Record " cec. o mn’. etor beex? tu?:edtirey, sv‘ji’:‘h Or:ia::ymos! )ll}?: LEWISTOWN, Mapt., Apry 20 —E. {orects unreported. The dyive is 2Zyp can hardly wait until next year| Gl | e — e S to see how his progressive nanny goat reacts. ! CHIMNEY FIRE Four years ago she gave birth to a Juneau’s Volunteer Firemen ans-! single kid. In suceessive years she'Wered a call to the Seatter Tract p od dio S‘ gl i last 'evening at 6 o'clock. Thvy; ' u n ops brought forth twins, triplets and the |found a small chimney. fire at 620 | other da; uads. vy Seattle Street, which was ex-|. DETROIT, April 20 — Approxi-| tinguished without- damage. [ | PEMELESEY . S | |mately 1,000 men and women were | He Probabl '"n"gh' o s ot {dropped from Willow Run bomber | t DRUNK AND DISORDERLY \ |plant payrolls today as the map-| He was a Md D"d William L, Jack, charged with | | IN IE FIGHTING | GUAM, April 20—On Ie Shima, |fanatical suicide tactics, including futile one-man charges of “human |bombs,” is making fighting on little ' Ie more bitter hourly. { Enemy soldiers, with satchels tilled with explosives strapped to | |them, frequently rush headlong into our lines, blowing themselves mi bits. | Japs in counter-attacks seem to be armed only with rocks and| pieces of broken glass. ! ‘Thousand Dropped . From Payrolls as agement began cutting back pro-{ jduction of B-24 bombers, which is |to cease not later than August. being drunk and disorderly, was fined $25 in Police Court here this nounces. [ Port Overrara, a small town! east of Monte Maggiore, has also| been taken as the British pushed | forward after stoyming the Argenta | Gap Nazi defenses. The Fifth Army is reported ad-| vancing slowly along the highway | 65 miles between Florence and Bologna and is nearing Pianore. OFFENSIVE IN | WESTERN HUNAN ~ BEGUN BY JAPS CHUNGKING, April 20 — The Japs have hurled 60,000 troops, with more in reserve, into a three- pronged offensive in Western Hu- nan, aimed at the American Four~ teenth Air Force base at Chih- kiang. 25 ARE KILLED IN PLANE CRASH the Nipponese are entrenched in an;Nazl followers came in a declara- interlocking trench-pillbox system, ' tion which was broadcast by DNB, with blockhouses. (that “there will never be a Ger- S man nation without the aims which CREATARMY OF | ok oon OCCUPATION T0 BE "E(ESSARViHmen Job of Admfilering Ter [lASI OF POCKET ritory Will Be Dif- BATTLESHIPS IS OUT OF ACTION ficult Is Claim i LONDON, April 20 — Ge 'S By Wes Gallagher ! (Associated Press War Corresnondent) |1ast pocket battleship, the 10,000~ ton Luetzow, formerly the Deutsch- MAGDEBURG, Germany, April land, is lying in shallow water out 20—A far greater Army of Occupa- of action in Swinemuende on the Itlon may be‘ necessary in Ogrmxny Baltic coast, the Air Ministry an- |than was originally planned in view nounced. of the problems experienced to date.| The fourth of Germany's seven Even with the vast number of capital ships was knocked out of troops now in Germany, the job of action when the RAF attacked administering the territory is more with Lancasters April 16. An au= difficult than was expected. | thoritative report said the .26,000- stock today is 7, American Can 97, | — Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem Steel' ,ONDON— A rescue squad leader 76, Curtiss-Wright 57, Interna- 'searchlng the debris of a V-bombed !morning by City Magistrate William A. Holzheimer. | There are 20,000 employees at| WATER, Texas, April 20— these plants at the present date. AWHETWA i i Germany, now the festering sore iheart of Europe, is housing a mass 'of misery unheard of in modern ,ton battleship Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Seydlitz were believed |seized by the Russians. tional Harvester 84%, Kennecott 39, New York Central 24%, Nor- thern Pacific 24%, U. S. Steel 66%, Pound $4.04. follows: Industrials, 54.96; utilities, 29.80. —————.——— PADDOCK IN JUNEAU J. C. Paddock, of Haines, is a guest at the Hotel Juneau. 162.83; rails, house in southern England asked “Is anybody there?” and a faint “Hello” |came from beneath the tangled tim- bers. Each time the leader called workers pulled out a parrot. e e LARSON VISITS JUNEAU ——————— DO NOT "MAKE Any other dates except for the Open Night of the Loyal Order of Dow, Jones averages today are as|he got the same reply. Finally his/Moose, Friday, April 20. For men | and Women of the Moose. Bring your friends! e MRS. STUART HERE Twenty-five officers and men were 1 - 1 2 i killed when an Army transport {BUBNED- BOY CONTINURS Iplane, headed from the Midland, TO IMPROVE SLOWLY :rorus, Army airfield, to Patterson, | | | Waverly Peterson, the boy who N. J. crashed and burned three |was badly burned Monday evening Miles southeast of here today. by 23,000 volts of electricity, still| At least eight of the victims were continues to improve, although very |cambat officers just returned from slowly, Dr. H. F. Kaack of the overseas. | . CITY COUNCIL TONIGHT history, with 12 years of Nazi bru- | tality bearing cancerous fruit. There are not nearly enough military government teams here to| handle the millions of released Juneau City Council, sworn in two slave laborers and prisoners of war, Weeks ago, will sit down to its to whom life is worth living. These people die everywhere, and ,0f interest to citizens of Juneau is At 8 oclock this evening, the | F John E. Larson, of Renton, Wash- ington, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. Mrs. C. G. Stuart, of Sitka, is Government Hospital reported to- {a guest at the Baranof Hotel. day. Wreckage of the transport was scattered over a mile area. there are thousands of aimless{on the Council's calendar for the wanderers among them. \session, it is reported. : first serious business meeting. Much - |