The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 21, 1945, Page 1

§ & &a £ = VOL. LXIV., NO. 9942 RUSSIANS FIGHT INTO SUBURBS OF BERLIN American and Red Forces Nearly ARMIES ARE CONVERGING IN GERMANY Asch Is Capturad by Third| Army-Fighting Takes | Place in Forest PARIS, April 21—U. 8. Third Army troops, smashing into Cze- choslovakia, captured Asch in their drive toward the munitions cities | of Pilsen and Prague, at the same | time Moscow dispatches declared | Soviet and American outriders were but 25 miles apart south of Berlin. Latest word from Supreme Head- quarters, American Expeditionary | Forces, put the two forces 40 to! 45 miles apart, but the report that | patrols have already made contact | is unconfirmed. (Continued on Page Tio) The Washington Merry-gg-Round By DREW PEARSON | (Lt. Col. Robert . Allen now on active | service with the Army.) | WASHINGTON, Here is one tip- off as to how Harry Truman will| cleaned out and secured Zampa Cape (4) and an armored EZZ . ISBOOSTED. operate as President of the United States—namely how..he handled his | old Truman Committee. | A lot of myths have grown up about that committee, chiefly that it was* run by Hugh Fulton, its counsel. Fulton was a good fact- finder, but it’s sheer baloney that | he ran the committee. Real fact is | that it was a good committee and had some A-1 members. They all | ran it. { Truman believed in teamwork. He | didn't move without keeping his| committee informed and having its | support. He worked also with the Republicans on the committee— | Brewster of Maine, Burton of Ohio, | Ball of Minnesota and Ferguson of Michigan—and they reciprocated. A lot of people around Wash-! ington think it may be a good idea | to have more of this ‘kind of teamwork. During many years under a spectacular president, Government officials have drifted into the habit of letting things slip because they knew “the Boss would take care of it.” Now Tru- man is likely to adopt a policy of letting every man handle his own[ * “ALL. THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 7 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ———————=mn TR | | | AFTER SLICING OKINAWA in two with a six mile dash to the east coast | from their beachhead, U. S. Army troops widened their hold on the vital | Nakagusuku Bay naval anchorage (1). Other units of the 24th Army | Corps drove south along the coast to within six miles of Naha (2), the | | f tougher as indications grew that the enemy was preparing to defend a FORTRESS BOLOGNA IS TAKEN | All-Out Allmffensive in Italy Resuts in Cap- ture of City | ROME, April 21 — Bologna, t.he‘ | first major objective of the all-out | Allied offensive in northern Italy, | fell yesterday to troops of the | American Fifth and British Eighth Armies. | Polish troops with the British |Eighth Army, and the U. S. Ninety- |First and Thirty-Fourth Divisions lentered the historic Italian fort- {ress city on the southern side: of TSUKEN jthe Po Valley at the foot of the! KUTAKA Pacific Ocean . S MILES l ’Apenmnes. | Gen. Mark Clark said the Fifth Army is “inside the gateway to the |Po Plain, and poised to destroy I the Germans, who continue to en- slave and exploit northern Italy.” e ee— STATEHOOD FOR NORTH T e island capital. However, military leaders expected ihe going to get line (3) across the narrow isthmus just above Naha, Meanwhile, marines reported moving along the coastal hi; MacARTHUR | (ONTROLS BIG AREA Conquest of Central Phil-| ippines Complefed with | rhead was | ghway. ternational) FifteenU.5. Naval Craft i . lOSI Oklnawa1 RENO, Nevada, April 21.—Gov. Governors at Western Con- ference Urged to Give Their Support | Ernest Gruening brought Alaska’s ibid for statehood to the western con- | ference of Governors, who are hold- Japanese Losses Heavy-in a two-day session here. He ex. Groufld For(es on | pressed appreciation to the Nevada | Legislature for passing the first state memorial to Congress to ap- prove Alaska as the 49th state and r | e B NURSES PLAY IN Ashland, Ala.; Katherine I. Wilson, Detroit; Catherine Hipolit, ANAS —puring a respite in werk at a Marianas hospital Navy nurses play in the surf. Left to right: Ensigns Bernadette Terry, Baltimore; Bonnie Wesley, in Contact RED FORCES ENVELOPING NAZI CAPITAL Center of Doomed City Be- ing Shelled-Forests Fir- ed-Dam Is Blown Up BULLETIN—LONDON, April 21—-A German broadcast de- clared today that one million and a half Russians, comprising 16 armies and four tank armies, are pounding at Berlin’s gates in a battle that has ‘never been surpassed in ferocity.” Moscow dispatches said the desperate defenders of Berlin have fired the farests, blown up the power dam, unleashing tor- rents of water on the Soviet in- fantrymen. The Germans are making suicide charges with fixed bayomets. South Bound Brook, gMle—r V-E Day Nafion | Must Confribute to ' By Jack Stiunett caught them almost as shott = as' WASHINGTON, April 21—Even if the German counter-offensive dld,} |frequent victories in the Pacific| They are now breaking out those re-| iconnnue‘ it will be six months or a conversion plans made a year ago,| |year after Germany’s surrender be- | but they know now V-E Day isn't| Ifore the homefront will see anything |going to bring any miracles, The | |like a return to normal. job will be to see that the country! | That's a summary of the opinions keeps fighting and contributing on| of key officials in the Army, Navy,|® War basis until Japan pleads for| unconditional surrender. i | WPB, OPA, War Foods, War Man- |Charred bodies — e — - WinWaryith Japan . SE BULLETIN—LONDON, April 21—Moscow dispatches said the Nazi defenders have fired the ' forests side Berlin in an effort to halt the Russian tank armies. Rarricades are blocking many streefs. The Germin radio said all POLITICAL PRISONERS = L Afrocities ()Hi_bma"nfi‘h%i ,,;g"g?;-,,gfi?‘;g:m:; Revealed-When Leip- [enveiopinggsentin throush its sub- " Zip Sub_@ Taken urbs to the e nbrth and south- By Hal Boyl¢ west, are shelling Potsdamerplatz, (Avsdeintod Pross War Cortespondent) | "0\ \iocee Rarnay, Strausberg, | center of the doomed city. Soviet forces, by enemy account, THEKLA, Germany, April 21— pyergtenwalde, Koenigs - Wusters of 220 olitiral ' payeen and Zossen | fought they way into the suburbs power and several other agencies. If persons celebrate V-E Day ex-| pecting that tomorrow their soldiers will be home, that they can eat steaks again, buy a new car and | plenty of gasoline, pack all the gro- | ceries they want into a new ice-box, | {Cebu. Action on Cebu Island | All-Out Push MANILA, April 21—Gen. Douglas, GUAM, April 21.—Fleet head- MacArthur today announced the quarters announced today the loss of conquest of the central Philippines 15 naval craft between March 18 and had been completed with the ex-|April 18 in the battle of Okinawa termination of all but a few rem- |in asscciated operations. nants of the Japanese garrison on! During the same period 100 large |enemy ships, besides many small The Cebu victory, in which 5,000 | craft were sunk and 2569 enemy air- enemy dead were counted on the craft were destroyed. praised efforts of western congress- i i and drift over to any job they want | ::fi“ g‘o‘;’;lra::;‘sb::“:' amz e‘;}”fi' to take, they have a rude awakening | grn:; Aoy i all~! coming. ! ot # | OPA Director Chester Bowles has !l Har, Gruem‘n% h;‘vl:.ed the WS- made it clear that price controls will c::}eizvczr?:r;m:ka‘)d their next yave to continue far beyond V-E | x Day, probably even beyond victory | The Alaska Governor asked the | r is 1 7 wver Japan. The problem is to pre- | ‘C‘;?fg:;;fo:i:l“? i“;"‘“g"s t0 | vent inflation and postwar defla-| ) oney for highways,|gon gs well. CONFERENCE OF NATIONS WEDNESDAY Big Four Exfied fo Keep prisoners who were . sprayed with,, (flaming acetone, burned and snou i"o death just before American |troops captured this Leipzig suburb, iwere still sprawled in postures of | agony when found. The Russian drive to Bernau, three miles from the city limits, an- nounced by the Moscow High Com- mand, constituted == af the north- ern envelopment move. In swift penetration of Nazi defenses below | Some lay in the ruins of the|ihe capital, other Russians advanced |concentration camp barracks, while |to positions southwest of Berlin. jothers were caught on the sharp| The Transocean Agency, German ,spikes of barbed wire enclosing the | news service, announced Russian camp, where Polish, Russian, Czech, | forces had reached Beelitz and | Yugoslav, French, and Italian poli- | Treuenbrietzen, the latter city 32 tical prisoners were held, ! miles northeast of the last reported Only about 80 survived from this American positions in the vicinity mp. A Czech barber -who man- | of Dessau, in sweeps which -have ged to short-circuit the electrical- | severed virtually all southward ave- ly charged barbed wire, and led ' nues of retreat out of Berlin. the survivors to safety, told the| . The Berlin radio announced Goeb- story. | bels, in his capacity of Gauleiter of * Firm Control Over Amendments burdens, and if things slip, getting | a new man. . s 2. field Thursday, gave MacArthur's! Amphibious forces are continuing | Stating that the road program and ¢ in an all-out push against strong|Alaska development are closely tied - forces control of 33,000 square miles i % together to create a postwar market.,! V-Day will see the beginning of MORGENTHAU RESIGNS | After the funeral services at the White House, Secretary of the| Treasury Morgenthau called on President Truman and brought with him a letter of resignation. Tru- man read it over and said: “But I want you to stay on with! me.” f Both Morgenthau and Truman were still grief-stricken by the; sudden .death of their mutual ftiend. ‘“Now you know how I feel, Mr.| Preésident,” replied Morgenthau. “Roosevelt told me many times,! ‘Henry, you and I came down here together from Dutchess County (where both Morgenthau and Roosevelt have estates), and we will go back together’ Now he'’s going back and I feel I ought to g0 “But,” maintained the new Presi- | dent, “you” have a lot of work to do here and I want you to stay.” “Mr. President, I am glad to serve in time of war and I will do anything I can to.back you up,” re- plied Morgenthau, “but you are entitled to a free hand and to choose your own men. I have one boy with the Third Army in Ger- Omany and another of my sons is fighting off Okinawa right now. But I will carry on under two con- | ditions: If you think I am the best | man for the job, and if you will! back me up 100 per cent. That's the way it was with Roosevelt and that's the only way I will stay.” “Well, that’s the way it will be, Henry,” replied the new President. “I will back you up 100 per cent if you will stay.” In the end, Morgenthau agreed. (Continued on Page Four) Gastineau Hotel while in Juneau, '55.19; utilities, 20.84, jof Luzon. Doughboys are now ap- in the central and southern Philip- {Japanese lines on southern Okin-| awa. Gains however, of 1,000 to 1400 yards are reported in the as- sault that started Thursday, break- ing the 13 day deadlock. Our ship losses included five des- !troyers, two ‘'minecraft, small trans- port, one gunboat, four landing craft and two ammunition ships. | Japanese losses listed incJude the 145,000 ton super-battleship Yamato, | i {two light cruisers, five destroyerss, Final action on Cebu Island Was !y ~gestrover egeoric numerous an enveloping movement which caught the enemy . completely byjc“go Sh‘-p:a"dsm”af"‘ s . | GASTINEAU PUBLIC pines, and liberated 6,400,000 clvili-’ ans. Japanese strongpoints in the en- tire Philippines have now been re- duced to only two; Davao on Min- danao and Baguio, summer capital proaching both of these points,, which have been weakened by aerial bombardment. — et { jwar contracts. The Navy has al-, [(oRBE" loSES |ready started 'its cutback, dropping ‘ |nearly 75 per cent of its future ma- | SUII AGA'“SI |are “future” contracts. They won't | |mean the immediate release of mil- ! {lions of workers. The change-over | i » | Will see the gradual release of thous- 1 . - 5 |now is that this slow shift from war SEATTLE, April 21 — Superlor i, cjvilian production will require| Judge James W. Hodson denied an greater manpower controls than any |solving the L. G. Wingard Packing | ! Company, which, testimony dis- 'closed, started with less than e e cancellation of billions of dollars in jor shipbuilding plans. Now these [ lands of workers. The belief here jaccounting demand aimed at dis- iy far enacted during wartime. | /817,000 in 1942, built the salmon |til the end of the war with Japan| SAN FRANCISCO, April 21—The “Big Four” Nations sponsoring the Security Conference are expected by diplomats here to keep a firm control over amendments of Dum- barton Oaks proposals for a world organization, but many changes will be made. Opening of the Conference on Wednesday will see the first work- ing out of the principles of the big power responsibility which is As far -as manpower is concerned, to be written into the World Or-| |the Navy won't cut back at all un-|ganization itself, the principle that on final decisions the major na- END OF WARIS NOT IMMEDIATE PARIS, April 21—Lt. Gen. Wal- ' ter Smith, General Dwight Eisen- ! hower’s Chief-of-Staff, said he held no hope for an immediate end of the war in Europe, and that there may be bitter fighting and heavy casualties to come. Addressing war correspondents at headquarters, he said General Eisen- hower would try to get the war over as soon as possible, and with no intention of throwing away lives | entrusted to him, he would fight | as economically as he could. - e - — JOHNSON FAMILY HERE Mr. and Mrs. R. Johnson and son HEALTH COUNCILTO - MEET NEXT MoNDAY{swo.ooo in one year, Suit was brought by Roland H. Corbett, salmon cannery foreman, |against Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel Wingard, who also figured recently in an alienation of affections suit |packing industry in Ugashik, Alaska |and gained a profit of moré than The regular monthly meeting of the Gastineau Public Health Coun- cil will be held on Monday even- land is expected to hold its present/tions should at all times concur.| ‘afternoon “I saw charred skeletons burned |the defense commission, was to ad- into a mingled mass of bones,” he!dress the inhabitants of the city. said. —_— ! oo 5 T | RED FLAGS WAVING | LONDON, April 21.—The Luxem- | bourg radio says “gigantic peace | demonstrations” are taking place in Berlin and Munich and Red flags are waving as the roar of Stalin’s TRUMANTO ‘ — | PARIS, April 21.—Hitler’s armies WASHINGTON, April 21—Presi-|in the west are “now tottering on dent Harry S. Truman will broad-|the threshold of defeat,” Gen. |cast from the White House during | Dwight D. Eisenhower declared in \a half-hour program Wedm-sday“an Order of the Day, calling the | Allied victory in the Rubr a fitting between 4:30 and 5 |level of approximately 4,000,000. The Jan Christian Smuts, South Af-| prelude in the final drive against -|by the draft. The first great .in-iaccomplish. I feel we must suc-| |Army, on the other hand, will drop rican Prime Minister, first majo ig‘radually. There wiil be something delegate to arrive in San Fran- |like a 60 per cent cut in the present cisco, said he had a “very good | 120,000 men a month being taken expectation of the work we will |flux of soldiers from the western ceed.” { front in Europe will be men on their | Tom Ithe San Francisco Conference. y [0'clock, Pacific War Time, opening Germany's remnants. The mc.sage was broadcast to the Russian and | Polish nationals in the area be- ‘tween the Anglo-Amercan and Rus- sian armies, telling them to “stay | where you are. In a few days the ‘The program will be carried on all networks. Truman is scheduled to make a 10-minute talk, and others on the program will include Secretary of State Stettinius, Mayor ing, April 23, at 8 o'clock. All mem- bers are urged to be present for nomination of officers. This being Cancer Contrel Month a special program will be given |dealing with cancer control. --o—— - STOCK QUOTATIONS } NEW YORK, April 21. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 7, Américan Can 95%, | Anaconda 33%, Béthlehem Steel 76, Curtiss-Wright 5%, Interna- brought by Wingard’s former wife. Corbett alleged he was entitled to one-fourth interest in the pack- ing company, contending Wingard had concealed assets in the name of relatives, making them “silent or dummy” partners. The court held Corbett is entitled to receive one-fourth of the profits in the 1942 venture, but is not a member of a continuing partner- ship or joint venture enterprise. o P MRS. GEARY GOES SOUTH way to the Pacific theatfe; exper-' |ienced soldiers are not going to be ;musbered out wholesale until Japan! is whipped. { . Nor will V-E Day make any 1m-] | mediate difference in the food sit-| uation. The opinion is pretty gener- | al here that our worst food short-| ages are ahead of us, even if Ger-| imany collapses today. | ! ‘This also applies to transporta-| tion, a story in itself. After V-E| Day, it will have to shift from the| |Atlantic to the Pacific Coast. The Michael have arrived from Circle tional Harvester 84%, Kennecott Mrs. Linda Geary, wife of Martin iburden in the west will be brutal,| At Washington, Senators Connolly and Arthur Vandenberg told the Senate farewell, with state- ments the conference must do the task on which all hope of future peace depends. e ———— f Alaska Indians Are Given More Time fo Present Their Cases and are guests at the Hotel Juneau. | - e —— | DAHL IN TOWN | J. B. Dahl has arrived from Seward and is residing at the! Geary of the PAA, left today via Pan American on a hurried busi- ness trip to Seattle, where she will spend a week. She is secretary to Manager Jack Fletcher of the Baranof Hotel, 39%, New York Central 25, Northern Pacific 25, U. S. Steel 66%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones' averages today are as follows: industrials, 163.20; rails, jand for a while at least, rolling! WASHINGTON, April 21 — The | {stock in the east will be drafted to House has passed and sent to the | help it out. |Senate a bill extending until June | Over in WPB and OPA, officials|5, 1948, the time for the Tlingit| are turning handsprings. The pro-|and Haida Indians in Alaska to press of the war in Europe has!file suits in the Court of Claims. gap Detween the Armies of Libera- | tion from the west and east will be closed.” Lapham of San Francisco, and Governor Warren of California. D g Homestead Filings ' May Be Permifed GRS L SKI RACES OFF Emp'oyees 0‘ Go". Due to adverse weather prognos- A Itications, predicting rain Sunday, WASHINGTON, April 21 — The the program of ski races scheduled Senate Lands Committee has ap-|for the Ski Bowl tomorrow has proved the bill permitting govern-|been postponed by the Juneau Ski |ment employees in Alaska to file on {Club, it is announced. public "lands for homesteads. R e ANDERS! IN JUNEAU Hix Anderson arrived in Juneau from Seward and is a guest at the Hotel Juneau. | | —————— KUHE VISITS JUNEAU Harry Kuhe, Representative for the Ethyl Corporation in Seattle, has arrived in Juneau and ‘is a guest at the Baranof.