The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1945, Page 1

9 & & " Q!' &) 'VOL. LXIV., NO. 9944 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS BATTLE FOR BERLIN IS RISING IN FURY bgue War Soktap o e , ot > ot JAPS STRIKE FROM CAVES ° ONOKINAWA| Hills Being?ounded fromi Air-Many Nip Planes ’ Are Destroyed GUAM, April 23—American in- fantrymen were still dedgllocked in the fiery battle for southern Oki- nawa yesterday, a ' comfunique San Francisco Is Un ARBOR—Significant haven for ships of stal NOCTURNE—Waterfront. Great Parley - i DOWNTOWN San Francisco—Pagodas and skyscrapers. & By Katherine B. Pinkham | SAN FRANCISCO—When the late (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active | service witn the Army.* | from Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said, adding there is no informa- tion available as to their progress on the fifth day of the all-out| ena T push. ‘ % | Pacific Fleet carrier planes mean- Th w h t % v h: ume, desroped 0 Jupunmse panes| 1118 W @SN1DGION Bl T sectad Sa Pran on Miyaka Island, in the southern, R d cisco for the United Nations -Secur- ! | seemed like a pretty good place. in combat. Four other enemy planes | By DREW PEARSON | | And san Francisco, all abustle, ;wlereddowned over nearby Ishigaki >4 o ready to entertain 44 guest nations, sland. | agrees. It is a proud and beautiful Admiral Nimitz's only reference lv"c"y‘ to the bitter southern Okinawa' WASHINGTON — Harry Truman ™ F< mie. Roasetalt alenit say why 1t fighting was that naval guns and paq two meetings with Republicans | ‘setmEd a pretty good place to him ::‘Tlgt a;rctrnft c?nilkr‘meg‘w‘:’l::lr in one week. One, held after he iand Messrs. Churchill and Stalin, 't ol roops o: e - 3 L . oy . | b 3 Folzlrl)‘th Army C‘(’)rps attacking n{e became president, was publlclzed.‘U' S_ Ff"h, B”"sh E|ghth‘but 'Sax;] F\'anclrsci:s éui‘:pec:f '.;A:: enemy’s fortified line.” The other, held while he was Vice- | S doui_Germans flfhlsch:;nfinx; a liteuc mydo with Field reports said the Yanks are President, was not. | prea 4 it, just as overcrowded wartime liv- fighting to retake the town of e jatter was just before Roose- | Afe m thh' |ing conditions here had no discour- ::::(i:zu,":g;f;s;ufing it to infil- velt's deeth, when Truman attended | aging effect. More important items, Sections of the front line are @ luncheon given by Senate Re-| BULLETIN, ROME, April 24 | Perhaps were g:?‘;::&"s;';zxj‘:‘; sometimes scrambled, reports say, Publicans elected in 1042 and 1944., —U. S. Fifth Army troops have | T~ CT 3;“ p Sl g e as Associated Press War Corre- He spoke of the importance of | swept across the Po in pursuit because.Snn Francisct‘) is “at the spondent Jim Lindsley reported Mmaintaining Senate prestige, urging | of the fleeing Germans and the | FFEHE S0 O RS B U Japanese troops striking from cave that every member devote h\m-l British Eighth Army has cap- 1lem world.”" concealment behind the lines of the Self to maintaining the standing! tured Ferrara, where the enemy | il . ik 165th Regiment near the west coast, Of the Senate as “The greatest1 fought bitterly. : Certainly the Golden Gate looks had t6 be bombed by air behind deliberative bodyin the world.” | % S R the” American lines. 4 | “As Vice-President,” Truman con- | 'ROME, April-24—The U. S. Fifth |of the late Mr. “‘l’“kles one kr"’fld Unique air support of ground tinued, “I am a partisan, an Ad-and British Eighth Armies spread |4 statesmen could have chosen. operations in the Seventh Division Ministration man, but as Speaker out along the southern banks of the |Around the shores of the vast Pac-|temporary barracks for service men. ! ific live half the people of the earth. San Francisco, as chief embark- ation port for the Pacific war, will | § i - r as rtial news black- sector on the east range is pound- Oof the Senate I am strictly non !Po River as a pal ing hill positions of the l::,emy' partisan. I hope you gentlemen wxll‘out covered the latest Allled gains | which are stalling the American 40 everything in your power to in northern Italy. :cut upon as wide-spreading a view‘h 1 three shorelines: the ocean on e weSt; the channel on the north, ganned by the towering red Golden ate bridge; on the east the bay, Wwith waterfront docks and shipyards lining the Embarcadero. State Department men who came here to survey the crowded city— where people live on waiting room benches and the 1,500 hotels turn away hundreds nightly—had to change their plan of finding a single ,center for the delegates' living quar- ters and meeting-place. There is no Toof big encugh. Tentative estimates are for at least 2,000 visitors direct- ly connected with the official dele- :gat.ons, and another 1,000 press and radio personnel. 8o the conference will be housed in down-town hotels and probably will meet in the Civic Center, in the handsome twin structures of Opera 5H(Juse and Veterans building, both \of which were erected as memorials fo the heroes of the First World | The pretty gardens in Civic Center Square are gone now, replaced by qcc delegates will stay, can be seen tl | The city is conscicus of war-time (thabbiness: its out-dated streetcars |needing paint, streets not cleaned " ” i ¢| The Eighth Army broke into the |1end 2 unique emphasis to the scope or repaired as in peacetime, and - ff ab e- correct me if you feel that as gl y il 4 ] ‘::;lrznc:f ?}],wagl ?,,m;, O,:L ufifie, speaker I am guilty of a bad outskirts of Ferrara last night after °rm"h"‘ bitter 5“;::351& 'I;h;‘ V‘S“";s everywhere evidence of shortages. attack. ruling on parliamentary procedure.” |plunging through the disorganized,|V}!l Se¢ many evidences of the mass-'On the streets wander new thous- to a delegation of eight Republican |of Bologna. The Ferrara airfield {hOUlders with bronzed young men in| One thing the city cannot offer BIG SESSION, 44 NATIONS, LINING UP Stettinius R}—ac hes San Francisca-Conference Opens Tomorrow SAN FRANCISCO, April 24 Secretary of State Edward R. Stet- tinjus has arrived as America's chief delegate to the United Na- itions Conference, bringing with him ithe still unsolved Polish dispute of | Stettinius stepped from a trans- ,port plane at 10:50 o'clock this morning. He declared that ‘“de- spite the difficulties we must meet” the Conference will succeed in cre- ating a World Peace Organization. \ Easily the greatest difficulty con- fronting him is the unity-splitting |row over Poland, which Stettinius, [Premier Molotov and Foreign Sec- retary Anthony Eden failed to [solve at Washington conferences. | Again, shortly after Roosevelts fleeing German forces to reach |6l might funneling through the ands, Jured'by high wages in ship- MARSHAL PETAIN, death, President Truman was hostthe road-hub city, 30 miles north |G0lden Gate channel, and brush yards and war plants. I I i Senators, who went to the White was also taken by the British. DU Al RBRYS Pl pau RbaY | ; ; i igns 6,000 miles ; [House to pledge their cooperation| Reports said the Nazis are at- |, “*MPAIENS Jtion <A WAN . > | po | As a backdrop for the conference, ‘to their former Senate colleague. tempting to “escape across the PO?San Francisco can scarcely fail to Spokesman for the group was con- on rafts, boats or other means.” |’ . g S | |provide a superb setting. Still to servative Senator Taft of Ohio, son|Exact areas overrun are withbeld [, found, despite wartime curfews of a former Republican President, | from publication to prevent the]am1 restrictions, are the attractions 'who entered the private officg or\‘encmy ascertaining where the Al-! of its cosmopolitan air, gay caberéts i g 3 delegates—the cloistered seclusion oii‘ Eovever, & Kainipt wate {n |a Bretton Woods or Dumbarton|"ashington indicated fresh pro- Oaks, but there men and women!POSals may have been referred to face the task of forging pm,mm"em1Most:ow. thereby putting the next peace machinety, and about them MOVe UD to Premier Stalin. Efforts ,as they do it will be modern war-|%© settle the issue ended abruptly riors by the thousands to remind Yesterday when the White House them of all those who look to them S&id they would have to be con- 'DANYBEIS - CROSSED, 3RD PLACE Russian - American Junc- tion Reported Near Leip- zig - Ulm Is Overrun assault on ‘the outer ramparts of Germany’s Alpine redoubt burst {across the Danube today at a third place, overran the traffic centey of Ulm and carried within 105 miles Jof Hitler's hidtout at Berchtesgad- en. An American-Russian junction, | splitting Germanly, is expected mo- mentarily in the center. The French press agency, quoting “Moscow reports reaching London”l said that American and Russian troops are joined at Eilenburg, nine {miles northeast of Leipzig. Troops of the American Third Army have pressed within 93 miles ‘nr the Austrian strongholds of Linz {and Salzburg, eastern gateways to| the southearn redoubt. The Seven- th Army has closed down on the last 50 miles toward Munich, The French First Army advanced close to the Austrian frontier and reduced three large pockets behind | |the lines, | Ulm, second Wurttemberg city of 60,000, located on the Danube, is the scene of one of Napoleon’s most complete victories. It fell after a 10-mile overnight advance. Patton’s Third Army forces in the| Regensburg area drove within eight PARIS, April 24.—The tiwee-army | REDS CONTROL ONE-THIRD OF NAZI CAPITAL Savage Street Battles Be- ing Fought - City May Fall Within Two Days LONDON, April 24 — Russian troops tightened their encirclement of Berlin, which is already more than one-third in Soviet hands, |while other Russian troops in a swift dash halfway across central Austria, swept to within 89 miles of Berchtesgaden. The German Command declared the Russian surge through Austria carried to Elsenerz, 57 miles from Linz, and 85 miles from Salzburg. The broadcast bulletin said, by Ger- man accounts, the Russians in Austria are but 155 airline miles from a linkup with the U. 8. Third Army. Two powerful Soviet Armies are cutting into the heart of Berlin in savage street battles. German reports said the Russians in encircling drive around the otw on the southwest reached “arpss southeast of Bradepburg and east of Potsdam.” - Berlin's great western suburb, of Bradenburg is 25 miles west of Berlin. A Y A QGerman communique, cast by Hemburg radio, said’ the !Germans are still resisting on miles of that city in one sector and reached a point three miles west of| last October, of 14 wounds received in a strafing attack in Normandy. Supreme Allied Headquarters re- | mained muffled on any word of Junction with the Russians, pcndlng' governmental announcements of the Big Three, and could give no word! on American Ninth Army lines along the Elbe east of Leipzig. Many correspondents believed that pre- liminary contact with the Russians has already been made. The Seventh Army’s Forty-Fourth Division made the latest crossing of the Danube, at Emingen, 117 mlleu‘ northwest of Benner Pass. Infantry! and armor poured into the Danubef bridgehead at Dillingen, probing in- the Danube in anot i o Captured ‘Oermanb&m‘m Sald|Tuli within tWo that Marshial Rommel died at Ulm| The - German that Hitler sent an eleventh-hour northern edges of Berlin. As: battle of Berlin rose in fury, ¢ announced message to Mussolini, declaring the “struggle for our very existence has reached its climax.” The broad- cast sald the message sent to Mus- solini declareds . “Bolshevism ~and troops of the Jewry are staking all with the object of combining their destructive forces in. Ger- Berlin is being reduced to rubble, building by building, in savage Istreet fighting, as so many Euro- pean cities before it have been laid ruin, 4 A Moscow communique announc: ed Red Army tankg burst across the railroad belt into the inner f g . Couapsmg Naz' Reglme a United States President for the lied spearheads have thrust across| i i esque Chinatown, fishermen's to the foothills of the Alps. for a peace to nurture their chil-|tinued in San Francisco, where city, and captured the metropolitan ) - Ifirst time since Herbert Hoover left the White House in 1933, Releases Hostages- "Laval Turned Down v !hearted support, although BERN, April 24—Marshal Petain, yil] be times in the future Germany after declaring himself may be certain that we will be sin- willing to stand trial in France. King Leopold of Belgium, who the good of our country.” surrendered to the Germans in| The other Senators — Senators 1940,_}5 expected to reach the Swlsskwm;e cf. Maine, Austin of V‘er- frontier some time during the day. mont, Bridges of New Hampshire, Pierre Laval, arch collaborationist wherry of Nebraska, Millikin of of the Vichy regime, appeared at Colorado, Bushfierd of South Da- the frontier at nearby Liechten- kota and Brooks of Tllinois—each stein, but was refused entry. 1-“:;: offered their personal pledge. Some is under, death sentence imposed called him “Mr. President,” some by the Marseille Court, which con- “Harry” The meeting was com- victed him in absentia last fall on pletely serious, with no wise-cracks. the charge of having had “intelli- L . gence with the enemy.” OPEN WHITE HOUSE DOOR Marshal Petain was allowed t0| “I'm very happy you men have enter Switzerland after asking and 'come here,” Truman said after receiving official permission w;each of the delegation had had his cross neutral country into France,'say. “I'm a party man myself. I to surrender himself to French au- believe in the twQ-party system as th’(I)'l}-:::ess)avrrival of Petain, and the'g:atii;n pg:\?:x:unpe.x:. o;osurm;e'mm expected arrival ‘f King Leopold 'representatives of the minority indicated the collapsing Nazi regime party, are an integral part of our had permitted its potential hostages Government. ) to leave, perhaps through some/ “Although I am a party man,” understanding with the Allied Gov- [the new President continued, T ernments mncemedlml N intend to administer this nation in It is known the e VEern- ‘g non-partisan way.” He paused ments were informed in advance of and repea that statement. Petain’s coming, and presumably| Then looKlng into the faces of gave their consent. his visitors, Truman said simply, Petain arrived at the Swiss fron- |“I will need your help, and I wel- tier at the town of Sain Margare- come it. I have instructed my staff then by auto, in a nine-car con- here that I wish to keep in close voy. He was in the first car wnh“wuch with Congress and with my his wife, and did not leave the car old colleagues. I want to assure during the hours of deliberations,/\you that the door to my office and appeared very tired. is' always open.” sl‘mc‘( One thing the Republicans have drawn from. those two statements Miss Ruth F. Sawyer, Fleld ReD-; ypgt Truman will give them resentative for the Bureau of Labor [, minority representation on Statistics, Department of Labol|peqora) commissions. They never. has returned to Juneau following a ! s seriously made an issue of it, but three months’ trip to Fairbanks and they were' strongly Aissatiatiad with Anchorage. Miss Sawyer's travels were for the purpose of collecting retail price data to be used in compilation of cost-of-living indices. ted quar- ) fe‘:;‘ ifxfl::lndcia:lnhmhwnwdfiuq and| Ben F. Penrose, with _the Ethyl forwarded to Washington, D. C., Corporation in Seattle, is in Ju- for interpretation. neau, a guest at the Baranof. (Continued on Page Four) - PENROSE HERE a8l escape routes. | Allied warplanes destroyed or | “We are here, Mr. President,” [damaged at least 4,000 enemy Ve- |dazzling sunshine (which seems all said Taft, “to offer you our whole- hicles in the Po Valley the past|tpe brighter after intermittent fogs), there two days. In the advance to the's fine harbor and natural views of when |Ferrara area Eighth Army tanks | 89, today entered Switzerland from ywe disagree over specific issues, you ran wild through fleeing Germans | ;and shot up many enemy vehicles. :cerely working along with you for|A thousand prisoners were taken 'siructure built by white |up to mid-day yesterday in the iareas of the Bondeno finale alone. iSIay;r of Tol, Who 'Was Raped, Believed ‘Bound for Alaska i SEATTLE, April 2¢—Naval in- telligence sought contact by marine radio-telephone with an Alaska- bound fishing boat on which the {No. one suspect in the weekend !rape and slaying of five-year-old {Irma McGough wag reported to |have fled. Police were informed a man re- sembling the suspegt, who has a criminal record as, a degenerate, \was seen aboard the craft as it {cleared the Government Locks yes- |terday. The vessel's pwner, and the }captam’s wife, however, told de- ;t,ecuves they wlere certain the wanted man is not a member of the crew. The girl’s ‘body was found hidden beneath a rug in a salvage ware- house bin. 4 TAX ADJUSTMENTS | BE AFTER V-E DAY ‘WASHINGTON, April 24—Chair- |man Robert L. Doughton of the |House Ways and Means Committee today expressed some hope for |some “tax adjustments right after V-E Day.” Doughton talked to reporters after a White House call on Presi- dent Truman, but said his dis- cussion with the President did not relate to taxes or other legislation. “It was just a personal courtesy call,” said Doughton. jwharf, foreign cooking, fine shops, jart galleries, fresh sea winds, and dren’s children. FRANK LLOYD sweeping beauty. Reminders of the city's colorful history still are visible. The first men here |is preserved—the adobe shelter at /the Presidio put up for the little | Spanish garrison in 1776 and guard- ed by bronze cannon 250 years old. iAlmost as old is Mission Dolores, i in "76, but rebuilt a few | AT KETCHIKAN | founded | years later, sixth in the chain estab- | lished by the Pranciscan fathers. | [wo Men Suffer Heart Af- ! Early explorers missed flnding‘ f k B ' R 4 San Francisco Bay, as Sir Francis Drake did in 1579, when he anchored ac s' u e(love"ng The Golden Hind a few miles north in Hosp“al of it, leaving a metal plate claiming the land “in the name of Herr| s Maiesty Gleen Elizabeth.” About!FKETCHIKAN' Alaska, April 24— ten years ago the plate turned up frank Lloyd, 60, cannnerymon, resi- {not far from his anchorage. dent of Ketchikan for 30 years, |died suddenly at his home as the At Portsmouth Square, where men result of a heart attack. Lloyd first were lynched in the rowdy, bawdy came to Alaska 46 years ago. |days of the Gold Rush, is a monu- Funeral arrangements have not yet ment to the gentle Robert Louis been arranged.- {Stevenson, who like Mark Twain,| Alfred Thibodeau suffered a heart |Bret Harte, Rudyard Kipling and attack Saturday but is recovering {many others, helped to link the in a hospital. He was stricken in tory. Across the bay in Oakland steward for many years. |is Johnny Heinhold’s waterfront| Peter Johnson, veteran Alaska saloon, where his son still has a table Communications System messenger, Jack London used to read and write suffered a heart attack in the same on. | The Post Office building shows jcracks suffered in the 1906 quake| and fire. But much earlier, the| jcity’s wooden structures burned| {down six times before the gold-mad | citizenry took time to organize proper fire protection. =~ quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine The windy, western city is perch- giooy today is 7, American Can 98, ed, compactly on precipitous hills| sngeondg 343, Bethlehem Steel {of a blunt-nosed peninsula {orm- ;gs Gurtis.Wright 5%, Interna- ing the south portal of the land-| - |ing {tlonal Harvester 85%, Kennecott locked bay. It is about seven miles 39%, New York Central 27%, Nor- {across each way, and of the 700,000 thern Pacific 26%, U. S. Steel 68 people living there, nearly 150,000 Dow. Jonks r 'u ¥ ¥ are foreign-born or of Oriental ex-r]‘ T e VETAgS wdasy. are as traction. More than 2,000,000 live m‘[’:s‘;‘_"-m‘: ““;;‘;:» 16431; rails, the bay metropolitan area, within(96-5%; utilities, 29.96. ——————— commuting range, . From Nob Hill, once home of the CRAIGEN IN JUNEAU I'bonanza kings and now the site of| Les OCraigen, of A Seattle, Iseveral large hotels where confer-:Buest at the Gastineau Hotel. in a hospital here. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 24 — Closing is a PASSES AWAY . |city’s fabulous name to literary his- the Elks Club, where he has been | club Sunday, and is also recovering |Molotov, Eden and Stettinius are idue to pass on final arrange- 'ments tomorrow at a steering com- 'mittee session. } Conferences Open Tomorrow | Formal opening of the Confer- |ence is set for 4:30 o'clock tomor- |row afternoon, Pacific War Time. powerful Foreign of The Minister | The attitude of the less 01 was voiced by |Minister Van Kleffens, !Netherlands, and Foreign |Bidault of France. Von Kleffens |said he would demand the elimina- (tion of the veto power over ques- itions of aggression and the use of force, which Roosevelt, Churchill | {and Stalin worked out at Yalta, but said if the majority wanted it he would go along. | Bidault told a news conference ! (he did not foresee a role for ;Frnno: as the rallying point of small nations. France, with a few amendments to propose, intended to take her place among the big | powers. The two developments eliminated much ol the challenging attitude of | many of the smaller nations,| shown during the weeks leading up to the Conference. Gruening Predids | Millions Will Visit | Alaska Affer War SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 24.—| Gov. Ernest Grueting told Califor- nia Legislators the recreational re- |sources of Alaska gre a “great wild | life paradise” and predicted millions of Americans will want to visit the |territory when peace returns. Gov. Gruening and Gov. Earl Snell, of Oregon, were introduced as guests to the California Legislature |as they returned from Reno after| attending the ference of Wes-| ftern Goyvernmors, | g e — i FOETS HERE Elmer L. Foets, of Seattle, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. | Gen. iDouglas The Hundredth Division captured an 80-acre V-Bomb plant intact. It was working until last Friday, with 2,500 impressed foreign laborers. Def nders of Mindanao Are Cuf in Half Imporfant Hig_hway Junc-| tion Captured-Yanks fo | Advance on Davao By Fred Hampson (Associated Press War Correspondent) MANILA, April 24—The Twenty- Fourth Infantry Division has cut the Japanese forces defending Min- danao in half, capturing the town' of Kabacan, thus seizing the im- portant highway junction. MacArthur an- nounces that the seizure of Kaba- can put the Twenty-Fourth ne-rlyl half way across southern Mindanao | toward the Capital City of Davao, | which the Japanese are expected to defend fiercely. Enemy Dead The enemy dead in the Philip- pines campaign has been increased | to 334,111, with the counting of | 10,896 Japanese bodies during the past week, Gen. MacArthur an- nounces. Enemy prisoners taken during the week numbered 853.] American casualties for the week are listed as 584 killed, 2,168 wound- | ed and three missing. Local advances have been made in all sectors in northern Luzon, with attack planes and fighters dropping 372 tons of bombs in close support of the ground forces. - ., ——— More than 1,000,000 people work in the U. 8. food plants. iA. Holzheimer in Police Court gas works, onl yeight blocks from Alexander Platz, in the major com- mercial section. BIG RETREAT OF GERMANS TODENMARK Railroad Y;ris-, Trains Are Blasted by British Lancasters LONDON, April 24—British Lan- casters in force hit hard at rafl- way yards at Bad Oldesloe, 20 miles northeast of Hamburg, it a blow to cut of Germans reported withdrawing in to Denmark. Overnight, British pilots attacked 32 northbound trains and it is un- |officially reported they were with Germans probably trying to ipull back inte Denmark. Mosquitoes attacked shipping at Kiel, below Denmark, for the fourth time in three nights. B Pilots said traffic on roads and rail lines to Denmark has been heavy since Monday morning and also said troops are seen moving from the Berlin and Bremen areas, all besieged. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY Two gullty pleas to drunk disorderly charges resulted in levied by City Magistrate this morning. Emma Mayeda fined $25 and Isabel Holten, Jane Francis, was ordered to. $50 and received & 30-day sentence, suspended. —————— Air consists chiefly of two oxygen and nitrogen.