The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 1, 1945, Page 2

THE. DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1945 EMBATTLED means practically nothing for pur- AZI R I poses of settiement, since naturally | |settlement would come along the | highway, and there are no roads | crossing the five mile strip into the AUSTRAL IANS | LAND ON OIL For Nurses ' NEAR HITLER RICH BORNEO Amphibious_force Hits May Disap@imirely‘A Near Taraken - Japs Repori Heavy Fighting | SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 An Allied invasion of cil-rich Borneo, first report of which came by Radio Tokyo, was practically confirmed tonight by offieial Australian sources. The Jap report said Allied amphibious assault forces hit near Tarakan, great oil shipping gort off the northeast coast of Borneo, and said the Nip garrison is put- ting up a heavy fight. At Canberra, Australia’s Treasury Minister told the House of Com- mons a “famous division” ol Aus- tralian troops, veterans of the Micdle East warfare, Were in action in Borneo, although no official anrouncement of the reported in- vasion had come from Gen. Douglas MacArthur. American bombers have lashed Borneo, especially Tarakan, for two menths, softening up the Jap de- 1en: th while at the height of this bombing campaign, Ame can forces of the Eighth Army's Ferty-First Division made an am- phibiocus hop April 4 to Tawitawi, ¢n the southwestern extremity of the invasion point. Borneo is 800 miles south of Ma- i just under 1,000 miles from ap about YW mules from the Jap stronghold of Saigon in French Indo-China. The Tokyo broadcast, recorded by FCC, said assault waves struck in force last 1 ft an earlier landing attempt yesterday was thrown back The invasior be a continuati drive southwa Philippines, since amphibious operati feturn valuable oil to the Allies and East Indies Tarakan would 1e American hrough the beginning and would cducing areas ct the Dutch - - DOGGING THE GAMBLE SALT LAKE CITY — The lookout teck no notice when a dusty truck pulled into the alley. A moment later a police sergeant clamped one band over the man’s mouth and ether officers rushed through a back door, arresting 24 men on gambling ,charges. The ceps arrived in the dogceatcher’s truck _determined to see ~ ANNOUNCES ~ AIRFIELD Unforgettable? You may have wceks to plan it, or get ready on 24 hc yurs notice . . . Either w we’ll help you have a perfect wedding, correct and memorable in every detail . . . 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Administration leaders have been wary about pressing it, since the; Senate kicked over the traces and wrote into the Selective Service Extension Bill the ban on sending | 18-year-olds into combat without! six mont*s of training, | emphasized they are: that wounded servicemen get every necessary nursing attention hut they are not convinced the draft is the best way to get the women nceded. mplaints have been heard that Army’s nursing standards are ) restricted as to preclude com- m oning nurses who may lack the technical distinction of regis- tiaticn, but whe have been per- forming satisfactory service for years. Senators - MILLIONAIRE HOT DOG MAN 0S8 ANGELES Hobby of Dom- ¢ Jebhia, who is said to be worth $6,000,000, is selling hot dogs and dispensing homely philosophy to lfers at the ninth hole of the Cal- ifcrnia Golf and Country club, which he owns. Most golfers, not recogniz- ing the millionaire, take him for just another hot dog salesman e ———— BROWN IN TOWN Walter F. 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Patton’s Third Army drove 25 miles out of its Isar bridgehead today and reach- ed the Inn River in the vicinity of Breaunau, Adolf Hitler's birthplace on tre Austrian-Bavarian border. | With armoved columns rolling in every sector along a 100-mile front, Patton’s troops converged on Linz, Austrian industrial city 55 miles ircm last reported posiliens of Russ- tian troops west of Vienna in the| Danuke valley. | Tie 11th Armored in the Breaunau | orea was 30 miles from Salzburg, one | of the chief cities in the reported Nazi redoubt, and was only a little over 40 miles from Berchtesgaden, Hitler's mountain retreat. | Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch’s| Seventh Army captured Munich and | plunged toward Innsbruck and the| Brenner Pass. | Allied armies had overrun all Scuthern Germany except the south- east corner of Bavaria and now were scnding their tanks and infantry in- to Austria and Cezechoslovakia. Far to the north, American Air- borne Treops and the British Second Army linked up beyond the Elbe in a sclid bridgehead 20 miles wide and 12 miles deep, which threatened im- | mirently to cut off Schleswig-Hol- | sten and Denmark. This would carve the northern redoubt in two. ‘The Brjtish drove within 22 miles of the Baltic port of Luebeck, whose capturc would cut off the whole Danich Peninsula. D THER, LIKE SON LIKE FA MANASSA, Colo. — Carlos Gallar- | do was wounded, during World War: I, in France on August 4, 1919. Just twenty-five years later to the day— August 4, 1944—his- son, Charles, | fighting in France, was wounded and | sent to a hospital. Metcalfe Sheet Metal Heating—Airconditioning—Boat Tanks and Stacks — Everything in SHEET METAL Phone 711 90 Willoughby Ave. ) “flm} ARMY‘ 0n|y Pholographer Ahead of Infantry WITH THE COAST GUARD ON LUZON—John Padula, a Coast Guard photographer from Staten Island, went ashore in Luzon after a hair-raising ride through heavy Jap fire. Padula recalled “I just took off, straight ahead. Then a shell snap- ped the trunk of a tree ahcad of me and I hit the dirt.” Soon he realized that he was out in front alone, except for the am- phibjous tanks which led the at- tack at the beachhead. “It turned out swell” miled, “some of the best pictur I got were of the advanecing infan try—the way it looks to the Japs. —_————— KELLY IN TOWN William W. Kelly, of Anchorage, |is a guest at the Baranof Hotel R DOROTHY JENSEN IN JUNEAU Dorothy E. Jensen, of Seattle, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. ) furnished and | Hitler late | {ig | the Padula | HIS DEATH ‘Report Says Der Fuehrer Fiffy-nine ];Eanese Air-| "Killed" in Chan- cellery (Continued froin Page One) which started the Gownfall of the Third Reich, the United States materials and supplies e Soviet, and when the United es entered the war there began \ series of reverses which con- to ti i{m\u'd to Hitler's death. | Italy was knocked out of the war and Allied bombers made every city in Germany a target. Signs of German unrest appeared Hitler's elite guard strength- ened their iron holds. Resistance »ecame fanatical and atrocities were NUmerous. On July 20, 1944, an attempt was made to kill Hitler with a bomb, s‘ng by a few yards and killing e of staff, uring others. clamped down and heads the army leaders. most recent German people, d the war We shall ne hall not give in at the hour. We shall go on past 12 o'clock. . . ."” Powerful Leader Hitler was one of the most skill- ful orators and fanatical aders world ha; He w the dictator of a nation of 65,000,000 people and they obeyed his every | word. Those who stepped out of line for an instant met the con- cent N camp. Hitler, more than any other nlan, can be remembered as the indivi- dyal who brought about the mcst terrible conflict the world seen. when he lost, was: We cleventh ting - o PROGLEMS OF TERRITORIES STUDY ASKED Bill Suggesga)ngression- al Probe Regarding Alaska, Hawaii WASHINGTON, May 1—Congres- sional investigation of “various questions and problems” relating to Ha and Alaska is proposed by R sentative Hu, Peterson, of Georgia, Chairman of the House Territories Committee. He intro- duced a hill asking that his com- mittee be authorized to conduct a probe, with particular view toward postwar development of the terri- tories. Peterson said he noted a “grow- ing demand” for revision of the organic acts governing Hawaii and Alaska. He also reported: (1) “Many inquiries are being made” regarding the availability of homesteads to veterans, particularly /in Alaska. i | dently bound to play an increas- {ingly important part in the various | phases of life of our nation.” | (3) “Constant requests” are being ,made for chan in territorial low. (4) These matters “warrant most c ONE OF THE GREAT TRADE NAMES OF AMERICA * SICKS’ SEATTLE BREWING'& MALTING CO. Since 1878 * E. G. Sick, Pres. (2) That the territories are “evi- WASHINGTON'S OLDEST INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTION CAPTURED | planes Destroyed- 54 in Combat By Leif Erickson | (By Associated ress) 1 GUAM, May 1-—The capture of | Machinato airfield on Okinawa’s west coast and the destruction of 59 Ja; e airplanes—54 of them in aerial combat—was reported by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. | New York State's Twenty-Seventh Infantry Division captured Machin- ato airfield Sunday, which is within two miles of Naha, the capital city. Across the island, the Seventh, Division reached the northern end | of Yonabaru airfield, while other elements of this division hammered | chead ia slow advances through Kcchi village, flanking Yonabaru airfield on the southeast, and from which Jap troops must be cleared before the field can be cccupied. The Ninely-Sixth Division in the center of the southern Okinawa line, continued to advance slowly behind heavy artillery and naval bombardment over very rough ter- rain, Car Amami Tokuno, Islands in the northern Ryukyus Sunday and Monday, attacking landing craft, coastal shipping, fuel dumps, bar- racks and airfield installations, and destroying five Jap planes on the ground. Fa to the north, planes hit buildings, gun emplacements and radio installations on Minami Pen- insula on Shimishu Island in the Kuriles. | The Japancse suicide pilots’ at- | tack on the navy hospital ship,' U. S. S. Comfort, Saturday night, was still the big subject of con- rsation throughout the Ame forees in the western Pacific. er planes raided and Kikai - LANDS OPEN BYHIGHWAY, 15-Mile Strip Along Each Side of Alaska Route Is Resfored fo PublicUse WASHINGTON, May i--Restora- tion to public use part of the land alc ncunced, but Delegate E. L. Bartlett caid the move is just about mean- ingless. ‘When the highway was laid out a 20-mile” strip on each side was reserved for possible route changes, and the order will restore a 15-mile st leaving a five-mile strip on each side of the highway retained by the Government. The restored land aggregates about 8,360,000 acres. | Delegate Bartlett said “the order in W in WHO (ARES!!‘ i ag the Alaska Highway is an-| Peace... now released area.” An Interior Department spokes- man said the restored land is not suited to agriculture, but is chiefly valuble for timber and minerals. The five-mile strip along the high- way will ke restored, he said, when the highwway route is determined to be gairly permanent. e e BRAZIL COMBATS RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian medical leaders and the press are ccoperating in a campaign seeking ways and means of reducing the na- tion’s high infant mortality rate. Of every 1,000 Brazilian children bern alive, 245 die before their first birthday. Southern states like Cur- itiba, where the average is 114 per 000, make a healthier showing than northern centers like tropical Fortaleza, where one child in three dies before reaching a year old. Still births in Brazil average 70 per 1,000. - e BUY WAR BONDS Sitka Petershurg Also dheas. 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