The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 25, 1945, Page 8

CAPTURE OF BAGUIO BY YANKSNEAR Desperaie—iiruggle at Summer Capital City About Ended By Fred Hampson: (Associated Press War Correspondent) MANILA, April 25—Smashed and bloody Baguio, Philippine summer capital, around which the Japanese have been making the Pacific war's most desperate struggle, is all but in American hands today. One column of the 133rd Division, driving down the highway from the * northeast, is within 2,500 yards of the once-attractive city, and is meeting only slight resistance as they consolidate for the final push. Other troops of the 133rd Divi- sion seized a 500-foot tunnel on the Asin- Bagulo road Sunday, after two days of hard fighting. Mont Mirador, the mile-high site of the Government Observatory overlook- ing Baguio Plateau, is also in Am- erican hands. Gen. Douglas MacArthur an- nounoed American troops on Min- danao, the only other remaining Japanese stronghold in the Philip- pines, are driving north and east-| ward toward Davao from captured | ' Shorl(s) SIOfy [ ! Movie Actress Adele Jergens goes dewn to the sea | Kabacan, and are now meeting| only ineffective resistance. | Philippine-based bombers again | struck at Formosa, and raided the | Japanese-held naval base at Saigon, | French Indo-China, while installa-| tions at Swatow and Hainan, China, | were also attacked. | ———— WILL NEW PEACE SEEDS TAKE ROOT | IS QUESTION NOW ( I By Alexander R. George " WASHINGTON, April 25.—Nobody | knows exactly what will happen| when the U. S. Senate is called upon | to ratify the charter for a world| peace organization to be drafted at) Ban Francisco, but: 1. A State Department official says various public opinion polls| show eight or nine of every ten American jn favor of our entering| such an organization. The cial said these surveys indicate a majority believe ~ the ~organization | should use force, if necessary, to keep-the peace. | 2. (The political atmosphere, as| indicated by the speeches of Senator | Vamndenkerg * (R-Mich), is more | favorable to our joining such an assooiation than it was in 1919. | Vandent§rg, generally recogniz- | od as the leading spokesman for the | Republicans on foreign policy, said/ in aceepting the invitation to become ! @ delegate to the conference: “I| believe a practical system of collec-| tive security . . . is indispensible . . "'/ League supporters in 1919 con-{ tended that a majority of the vot-| ters wanted us to join then. No in shorts. LANDSCAPE EXPERT FOR PARK SERVICE HERE ON PLARNING Alfred C. Kuehl, Senior Landscape Architect for the National Park Ser- vice, arrived in Juneau last evening aboard the Steamer Princess Louise. He is accompanied by Mrs. Kuehl 1and expects that Juneau will be his, 'hendquflrt,ers for several months. Mr. Kuehl is on assignment to) make planning studies of areas in| Alaska under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, with post-! war development in view. The prin- | cipal immediate objective of his| studies will be Glacier Bay National | Monument, which the Park Service expects to become a point of high| interest. i Other areas to be included in Mr. offi-{ Ruehl's studies are: Mt. McKinley sailed south from Juneau National Park, Mt. Katmai National Monument, Sitka National Monu- ment and Old Kasaan National Monument. Mr. Kuehl has been in Juneau during the two preceding summer periods, in connection with National Park Service developments along the Alaska Highw: For the present, Mr. and Mrs. Kuehl are stopping at the Baranof | Hotel and Mr. Kuehl is occupying | desk space in the U. S. Forest Ser- vice office here until he 1 secure other quarters in the Federal Build-! ing .- Mis. WERNER i LEAVES | extensive canvass of voter opinion: Mrs. Joe Werner sailed south was - taken, although a Literary|from Juneau today, accompanied ' Digest poll of 1,377 newspaper edi- by her small daughter, Karen Ann tors showed 718 for unqualified ap-|Werner. They plan to remain ih or proval, 478 for conditional approvnl: and 181 opposed to our going mtolof June. the league in any form. After five months of bitter de-| bate the final test in the Senate came on Nov. 19, 1919, more than a year after the war ended. The vote! was 39 to 55 for ratification with reservations, far short of the two- thirds margin. The fight revolved around Article| 10 of the League’s covenant, under which member nations pledged to| preserve against aggression the terri- tory and political independence of |} all members of the league. Oppon- ents sdid: “We don't want our boys] to fight wars for the monarchs of Europe.” In-a hot presidentia] campaign the following year, Democratic can- didate James M. Cox stressed . the league issue, and many Republicans said Harding's landslide victory in- dicated “the voting masses had kill- | ed and buried the league.” In 1919, big-name Progressive Re- publicans fought against our enter- ing any kind of a league. Power- ful conservative Republican Sena-| tors centered their efforts on reser-| vations to prevent “the loss of Amer- ican independence” and any use of foree. Big-name Republicans of Loday: — Vandenberg, Herbert Hoover, Gov. | Dewey, former Gov. Stassen and others—have been working for our entrance ‘into an organization with force to maintain peace. Public interest in the security conference has been increased by its being held on our “home grounds.” 1In 1919, there was much criticism of the Paris conference as a “far-off foreign conspiracy.” i President Wilson’s four peace com- migsioners were not confirmed by the senate. Only one was a Repub- lcan. Other Republicans charged the President meant it to be a Demo- “cratic- peace as well as a Democratic war. Today leading Republicans and Democrats are insisting that peace! be kept bipartisan R e : 'f'wenty insect types are potential ef: ilers about ' Seattle until the first part| In Seattle, they will visit with | Mrs. Werner’s mother and sister. | Her sister, who is a member of the | WAC's, expects soon ‘to be trans ferred to a new station. Mrs. Werner expects her mother to ac-i for her first trip to Alaska. P re Want-ags bring resuits! HainesSee 704 Juneau Deliveries— [ i |§i0 A. M. and 2 P. M. enemies of the guayule, rubber- producing - plant. Onion Sets COMPLETE LINE OF Garden Seeds and Fertilizers Douglas Delivery—10 A. M. Boat Orders Delivered Anylime THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA STIFF FIGHT CONTINUING ings Made, 3 Islands By Leif Erickson (Associated Press War Correspondent) GUAM, April 25—Seventh Divi- sion ‘infantrymen captured an im- portant Japanese position atop the high ground on the western flank of the fiery battle line in southern Okinawa yesterday, while Marines of the Third Amphibious Corps, meantime, landed on three more small islands off Okinawa, securing them quickly. Japanese resistance continued heavy during the sixth day of the all-out offensive on the southern end of Okinawa, where the enemy has lost more than 11,000 killed since D-Day, April 1. { The high ground seized was WCSLjMRS. DEAN PARKER TAKES Ishin, a village on the west coast of Okinawa, where Seventh Divi-| sion troops in that sector are bear- | ling down on Macni Ato airfield, |as a new resident of Anchorage, Mrs. through the subways—many fresh! several hundred yards away. There is no reported progress ecither on the eastern flank or the rugged line. The new islands invaded by Ma- rines were Yagachi and Kouri, up Jap remnants on Yagachi.: Pacific Fleet ships continued to |pour heavy fire into Japanese po- was also looking for a home, the sitions, sealing numerous caves and blasting blockhouses, pillboxes, and other elaborate defenses in the somuthern sectjon. Meantime, preparations were pushed by American forces for im- mediate conversion of the cap- tured northern three-fourths of Okinawa into base operations against Japan e JANE ALEXANDER SOUTHBOUND FOR RED CROSS POST Miss Jane Alexander, daughter of Judge and Mrs. George F. Alexander, today, bound for Seattle where she is to confer with Red Cross officials re- lative to assignment to overseas duty with the Red Cross as a staff assis- tant. Miss Alexander has resigned from the post which she has held for eight |years as Administrative Assistant to the Director of the Alaska Depart- ment. of Public Welfare. No suc- cessor to that position has yet been named. e LAST SERVICE FOR JOHN ROSNESS HELD Funeral services were held this af- terncon at 2 o'clock in the Charles Carter Mortuary Chapel, for John Rosness, well-known resident |of Juneau for many years. The Rev.| G. Herbe services.. Ernest Ehlers sang two favorite d songs, “Beautiful Isle of Some- rt Hillerman conducted the | | ol Pallbearers were Pete Hammer,| Pete Hildre, Andrew Hildre, John company her on her return north,!Lowell, John Winther and Hakkon : Hermansen. Interment was in the jAmerican Legion plot in the Ever-!| green Cemetery. d Potatoes ON OKINAWA ‘lmportant High Ground Is " Taken from Japs-Land- ROSCOESETAS BATTLES GUESTSPEAKER RAGE IN AT CC MEETING ' SUBWAYS Airlines representatives here at—? tending Civil Aeronautics Board | Nazis Using Berlin Under- ground System fo At- fack Russians in Rear hearings now in session and CAB‘ (Continued from Page One) {officials, including Raymond W.| Stough, Alaska Director, will be| |among the line-up of guests at the | weekly luncheon meeting ‘of UwL Juneau Chamber of Commerce, inj the Baranof Hotel Gold Room to-| mOITow. | Principal guest speaker will De: Jerry V. Roscoe, Assistant Sector| Traffic Manager for Pan American | World Airways, the program com- mittee revealed today. Coming up' for discussion by the Chamber members is Alaska Congressional |Delegate E. L. Bartlett's bill con- cerning Revenue Bonds. | Also among the guests scheduled to attend tomorrow are the members | & of the Ketchikan Chamber of Com-|CStantly were popping up in un- merce Goodwill Tour Party, In-|cXPected spots behind the 'Red [cluded in the First City delegation Ar™mY troops, fighting their way to- |are: Mitch Spaeth, President of the ward the ‘center ol -the clty, .| |Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce;| 4 Red Star, Soviet Army news- |Ralph Bartholomew; Hugo Schmolck PaPer correspondent, declared the and William Stump. battle for the city is assuming a AERRANED % SRR |peculiar character which “it is dif- | {#icult to defin. Firing first is going lon ahead, then there are. unex- POSITION WITH BANK HERE{pected battles in the comparatively |deep rear against Germans trans- Finding time heavy on her hands ferred from the center of Berlin the underground network to stage surprise raids on Soviet communi- |cations. Eye-witness accounts, sent {Russian correspondents from Berlin, !said Nazi soldiers, rushing from station-to-station in express trains, | | | Dean Parker (Doris Freeburger) re- units of them. cently applied at the First National “They crawl from the subway |Bank in that city for a position with 'stations, bringing field pieces with | | bitterly-held central sector of the|which to fill her howrs while her them, and put the streets under husband, Lt. Col. Parker, . was busy firg, We have to wipe them out or with his army duties. |living at the Westward Hotel while otherwise, they spread over many {north of Motobu Peninsula, on the seeking mofe permanent quarters.\plocks and seriously threaten our east coast. Marines are mopping The results were gratifying, for not communications.” Qonly was she given a position immed- iately, but when she mentioned she 2 PAN AMERICANS bank manager said pleasantly, “I ‘thing we can fix you up.” | Lt. Col} Parker and Mrs. Parker 'N FlIGHTS TODAY jare now happily located in one of | the modern apartments in the b:\nk} building. | Outgoing Pan American planes cm e |today took the following passen- | STYKE IN TOWN e 43 3 | Juneau to Fairbanks—Elizabeth ‘ Donald E. Styke, Senior Traffic pyckering, Robert Armstrong, Clyde |Representative for Pan American genjlhaneck and John Morse. {World Airways, Anchorage, has ar-| juneau to ] |rived in Juneau to discuss business pounce, imatters with J. V. Roscoe, Assistant | juneau to Whitehorse—Thomas Sector Manager, and Sydney D. campbell, Cliff Craddock and Her- Smith, Sector Traffic Manager, pert Kroeger, Iwho arrived the first of this week A southhound plane flew the fol- from Seattle. Mr. Styke is a 'guest lowing passengers to Seattle— (at the Baranof Hotel Frances Jucha, Mrs. Josephine | T T deGanahl, Charles deGanahl, James MICHIGAN MEN HERE Klushkan, Anita Burns, Mary Robert C. Armstrong and Clyde Schilhaneck, of North Muskegon, Michigan, have arrived in Juneau and are guests at the Baranof. Blackford, Louella Fredlund, Grace Skarct, Marvin Nelson, Harry Kuhe, Jess W. Blannkenship, Rut Marlin and Benn Penrose. | by They were drive them back into the tunnels. Galena — Robert | - | A, DARIGOLD MILK $4.89 c@se FEDERAL HUNT'SFANCY HUNT'S FANCY Whole Peeled Black APRICOTS |l ey pRRIES 4 cans - - SL59 12 cans .. $469 | 4 cans - - 198 Case - - - - $9.15 |{ 12 cans - - $5.89 Exira Special! ROY ELWELL Scouring Pads PO RIVER CROSSED, 2 POINTS American, Brifish Troops| Pursuing Germans To- ward Italy Border BULLETIN—ROME, April 25 —American Fifth Army troops reached Mantova, important communications center north of the Po, 50 miles northwest of fallen Bologna, a special com- munique said. Roads north of the Po River in the direction of the Alps are jammed with German columns using horses and oxen. Thous- ands of additional prisoners have been taken. Darigold BUTTER 2 Pounds | | | | | | | | | | | ROME, April 25.—Both the Brit-| ish Eighth and U. S. Fifth Armies sent troops across the Po River to- !day, in pursuit of ‘disorganized Ger- |man forces reeling back toward !Italy’s northern frontier. | - The crack Tenth American Moun- |{tain Division won the first Allied foothold beyond the barrier stream' {Monday morning, in the face of {what communiques called “remark-| ably fierce” concentration of enemy TWO JUNEAU DELIVERIES 10:15 A. M. 2:15 P. M, DOUGLAS DELIVERY 10 A. M. MINIMUM—$2.50 Ser 2 S fire. Units of the Eighth Army also <l spanned the stream, to the East, later. { . vl Exactly where the Allies won| v B I their crossing is not disclosed, as the ' . 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