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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20
SOVIET GUNS.
B0MBARDING.
FINNISH PORT.
Red Armies Only Nine
Miles Away from Viipuri
Remarkable Speed
4 BULLETIN STOCKHOLM,
June 2O.-Reports reaching re-
liable Swedish sources said the
Firms have yielded Viipuri to
the Russian Army.

MOSCOW, June 90. The big
guns of the Red Army, only nine
miles sway and within sight of the
Finnish seaport of Viipuri, poured
salvo after salvo into the out
skirts
Izvestia's correspondent, Ivan
Ossipov, said 'Viipuri is lust ahead
of the Red Army" and the speed
of the remarkable offensive is in
creasing.
Major Nikolai Shlankov, Red
Star correspondent, declared the
coastal defenses of the Firms along
the Gulf of Viipuri have collapsed,
and Soviet sailors are threatening
to cut off large numbers of the
enemy in the little peninsulas south
of the city.
Outside Viipuri the Russians de-
feated the 18th and 10th Finnish
infantry brigades, and fresh cav
any unit OF the crack Finnish
yellow Regiment
There are no indications in Mos
COW that the Firms are seeking to
reopen peace negotiations, arc the
general view of the man IN the
street is that the Red Army Will
soon be at the 1910 Russo-F'innish
treaty frontier, Is miles beyond
Viipuri.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20
YANkS(ARvE
AIR5TRIp ON
0BIAk ISLAND
Important Ridge Taken in
Battle for Two Remain
ing Airdromes
BY ROBERT EUNsON

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS IN NEW GUN E A,
June 20. - Americans fighting for
control Of all of Dutch New Guinea
frightened their defenses on the
vitality important Mokmer airstrip.
and have put into operation an
other field only $50 miles from the
Philippines.
Headquarters has announced that
on Biak, the largest of the Schout-
ems, the Americans have captured
an important ridge north of Mok-
mer and have inched closer to the
two remaining airfields of Borokoe
and Sorido.
Gen. MacArthur's communique
added, Since cur occupation OF Own
Island IS days ago, we have con-
structed an airfield which is in OPP
Grafton"
Owl lies just off Biak, where
Mokmer airstrip was captured on
June 7. Borokoe and Sorido have
been out of operation Tor many
weeks, but the Japanese are defend
ing them fiercely nonetheless.
Yanks Take Ridge
Tank supported American In,
fantrymen launched the vital attack
against the ridge at II a. m. Sat
urday and two and a half hours
later the enemy was driven from
the position.
Headquarters announced that sc
Japanese soldiers, formerly from
the Netherlands Indies army, have
he<1a released from Nipponese i'm
III 0nment on Biak. One hundred
+ ma sixty-five Japanese were killed
on Saturday, bringing the enemy's
known dead on the island to 1920
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20

POUNDING
ON TODAY
Rocket Bomb Platforms,
Oil Plants, Refineries,
Tank Depots Hit
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF
THE ALLIED EXCEPTIONALLY
FORCES, June 20 More than fiji
teen hundred American heavy
bombers, possibly the greatest force
in history, simultaneously attacked
rocket bomb platforms in the Pas
De Calais area with other detectives
in central Germany ranging from
oil refineries to airplane plants.
The giant armada equalled, if it
didn't surpass, that sent out
Wednesday to attack French air.
fields, bridges and the Emmeric oil
refinery in Germany.
With a big fighter escort, the en-
tire sky fleet totalled upward OF
1000 planes. 1t is believed that
today's force was over 1000 planes.
Heavy bombers blasted synthetic
oil plants and oil refineries around
Hanover, Hamburg and Magde-
burg, the Politz tank depot near
Magdeburg and the airplane wing
repair plants and part of a plant
near Brunswick.
According to reports from Stock
holm, 81 heavies made forced land
ings in Sweden. However, there is
no Allied confirmation Of this.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20
NAVY CANCELS
CONTRACT WITH
PAN AMERICAN

SEATTLE, June 20.-The Thir-
tenth Naval District has an
nonnced that the Navy contract
with Pan American Always for
air transport service between Seat
tie and Alaska, in operation since
/, 1912, is ordered cam
celled ON July 81.
The cancellation displaces 600
employees and brings TO
an end a service in which the Air
ways has flown equipment more
than seven million piles.
Capt.AsO, ~. Studeman, Manager
of the Alaska sector, said personnel
of the Naval Air Transport Service
will supplant civilian operators on
the Navy owned planes.
Studeman said the air line, which
will continue to operate on com
mercial flights to Territorial points,
will retain about 500 Of the 900
affected by the cancellation, and
others will be absorbed into other
divisions of the system.
Meanwhile further information as
TO future services is unavailable.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20
BOMBING OF
JAPAN EASY
FROM 5AIpAN
Japs Fearful Of Shuttle Al
lacks by Superforts.
Based Near Home
(By Associated Press

Jap fears that Saipan Island
where American invasion forces are
now engaging the enemy, will be
used as base for shuttle bombing
missions over Tokyo by Superforts
flying to the island from China
was expressed in Berlin broad
cast Of a Tokyo dispatch.
The report said, Competent Jap
sources are fully conscious of the
seriousness OF the situation. Am
erican heavy bombers, especially
those of the B-29 type, operating
from Saipan air bases, will have
no difficulty in launching system
attic attacks on Tokyo, only 1850
miles away.
Contrary to former attacks on
Japan from Chinese bases, the Am
erican pilots will have the advan-
tage of having to fly over ground
and only while actually dropping
the bombs, the approach, and the
return flights will be made across
the sea, with no danger from JAP
anese interceptors."
A special communicate issued by
Jap headquarters said the Ameri-
can forces which won the bridge
head on Saipan are being gradual
ly reinforced, but asserted that
Jap filters have sunk one battle
ship two cruisers. one destroyer
and one submarine, in addition to
damaging II other ships and down.
ing more than 300 planes. There
has been no confirmation Of such
losses from U. S. Pacific Fleet
headquarters.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20
Wallace Is
Arrival in
(hungking
Vice President, Represen-
tdtiye Of FDR Gives
Out Statement

CHUNGKING, June 20. - Vice
President Henry A. Wallace, who
is visiting China as personal rep
resentative of President Roosevelt,
arrived here today and Immediate
ly urged closer relations between
China aid Siberia.
The Vice President, in a state
ment issued at the airport after
his arrival from Siberian territory,
quoted DIR. HUI Shih, former Chinese
Ambassador to the United States.
as having said that the boundary
between Siberia and China Should
be like the frontier between the
United States and Canada; not one
of separation, but one joining
friends together
Wallace said he wanted to see
the land and talk to the farmers
and visit the Characterization
soldiers. Above all, he wants to
talk to Chang Kai Shek about
matters of mutual interest and
concern"
The DNB, German news agency,
put out a report saying Wallace
is now ON the way to Moscow.
German political sources believe
that there is a connection between
his visit to Moscow and the United
States desire to obtain from the
Soviet Union certain naval bases
for the battle against Japan"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20
800 NIPPON
PLANES ARE
SHOT DOWN
Terrific Battle Fought in
PaCifiC-U. 5. Carrier
Force Attacked
BY LEFT ERICKSON

UNITED STATES PACIFIC
FLEET HEADQUARTERS IN
PEARL HARBOR, June 20.-United
States Marines and Army troops
have captured Aslito airdrome and
driven eastward all the way across
Saipan Island to the shore of Magic
ienne Bay, while an estimated 300
Japanese planes, attacking the off
shore American Carrier Task Force
were destroyed in the greatest Pa
cific air battle since Midway, ac-
cording to an official spokesman of
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.
Seabees are already at work put
ting the Aslito airstrip in condition
for operations of the American
planes.
The communique says it is belicv-
ed that a part of the Jap planes
making the attack that extended
several hours on the aircraft car
riers we're flying from nearby Japa-
nese carriers using shuttle bases for
shuttle landings.
Attack Repulsed
The Japanese attack was stic-
cessfuliy repulsed IN the large scale
aerial battle by carrier based fight
er planes and antiaircraft fire.
Information available at the
present time indicates that only one
of our surface units was damaged
and this damage was minor" Ad-
miral Nimitz says, and added that
there is no estimate available as to
American aircraft losses in the first
indicated engagement of planes fly
ing from the japanese fleets car
riers since the big aerial battle OF
Santa Cruz in 1912.
Shuttle Fields Cut
The official communique said,
"Our systematic bombing and STRAIT
ing of airfields on Guam and near
by Rota sharply limited the eff
fectiveness of the Japs to use shut
tie shore fields and forced them to
use carriers
Probably the enemy carriers are
operating a considerable distance
from the Marianas and are reiuct-
ant to close within range Of the
United States carrier bombers."
The American assault troops drove
on a fairly wide front completely
across the island for three and one
half miles from the western land
ings on the beach. ~ ssa
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20
FINNISH MINISTER
GETS PASSPORT;
SENATOR SORRY

WASHINGTON, June 20 For
eign policy was discussed by both
houses of Congress today as Sec
of State Cordell Hull declined Col
discuss specific matters that leo
him to hand Finnish Minister Rso~
cope his passport last week.
Sen. Arthur H. vande. aafg
brought up the Finnish action q
the Senate, expressing deep regret
at the State Departments action
and voicing hope that an eleventh
hour intervention by this country
might bring about Russian-Fin-
nish armistice.
Across the Capital Rep. John
M. Coffee proposed resolution
that the United
States sever diplomatic relations
with Spain and extend aid to the
Spanish guerilla armies to permit
them to oyerthethrow the Franco
regime.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20
SWIFT MOVE
ENGINEERED
BY YANKEES
Road from Cherbourg Re-
sembIes Tunisid After
Break in Resistance
BY DON WHITEHEAD >

WITH A M Err / CAN TROOPS
ADVANCING TOWAR d CHER
BOURG, June 20--Swiftly seizing
the advantage, American troops
late yesterday drove northward to
within eight miles of Cherbourg
and began Smelling the port with
big guns.
There was hardly pause from
the time the doughboys smashed
their way across the neck of the
peninsula, beating back the frantic
German effort to escape the trap
of steel. until they wheeled and
swept toward Cherbourg,
Sunday night alone they captur-
ed TOO prisoners, whose units were
disorganized by the American
break-through. In three campaigns
l have never seen an army take SO
swift and decisive advantage Of q
break through as the Americans
have done. For the past two days,
Sunday and Monday, they have
been exploiting the break-through
to the hilt and are not giving the
enemy a chance to recover from
the blows the Germans suffered
when the doughboys knitted their
way across the peninsula.
A stream of prisoners slogged
along the roads, the doughboys
covering them with tommy guns.
The prisoners faces showed their
bewilderment The roads are lit
tered with wreckage OF German
vehicles and equipment and in some
sectors resemble the scene in Tu-
nisia when German resistance
broke suddenly and confusion swept
the ranks of Won Arnim's and
Rommels armies.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20
LONGEST DAY OF
YEAR TOMORROW

Tomorrow the summer solstice
begins, bringing the longest day
of the year, with the sun rising
at 1851 and setting at 10:08 p: m.
This will allow for a possible 10
hours and II minutes of sunshine.
For two or three days there will
be no change in the length of the
days, and for some time longer
the variation of daylight will be so
small as to be unnoticed.
To take advantage of the long
day, many individuals plan hikes
up the adjacent mountains, and to
many other points of interest.
Summer homes will be occupied out
Glacier Highway, maybe to watch
the sun rise.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20
GOV. WARREN
SETS / H { N
TO TALKING
PLAYS Smart Political Pok
er in Releasing Cali
fornia Delegation
BY JACK sTINNETT

SAN FRANCISCO, June 20. -
Gov. Earl Warren's unprecedented
pre-convention statement, releasing
the California delegation to the Re-
publican National Convention from
any pledge to him and asking that
his name not be submitted to the
convention for any office, may have
caused some CONSERVATION in Re-
publican ranks
1t shouldn't have, if the con-
illusions of Republican politicians
here are even close to correct. They
say:
Gov. Warren is a good politician.
AS a member of his opposition put
it, hes playing just as deep a
game as Roosevelt, Dewey or Stas-
sen, and looking just as far ahead
as the last two"
BY releasing the California dele
CATION and asking that his name
not be submitted for any office,
he has ducked the possibility of
being defeated" for any office in
behind the-scenes maneuvers at the
convention.
He has also fulfilled his cam
paign pledges to California to do
his best to see certain reforms en-
acted while he is in office.
He has placed the responsibility
land the privilege of voting for
whom they please squarely on the
shoulders of the delegation.
Politicians here are almost unan-
imous in their opinion that he
hasn't eliminated himself as pos
sible Vice Presidential nominee,
but has made. it clear to support
ers that he isn't eager for that
job. and Wouldn't have it unless he
were drafted under circumstances
they would approve.
1t isn't SO long since Wendell l..
Willkie, Gen. Macarthur, 1t. Com.
Harold E. Stassen and several
others were well up in the. Repub-
lican nomination picture. AS long
as that condition existed there was
a probability that the convention
might select a compromise candi-
date. In that event, man con-
trolling the California delegation
would be in a powerful strategic
position, either to be nominated
himself or to have an important
part in naming the candidate. With
the apparently overwhelming swing
to Dewey, the strategic Importance
of controlling the California dele
CATION has diminished considerably
The importance of merely run
ming" for Vice President is some
thing else again and something,
incidentally, that the Californians
don't consider much of anything.
The claim here now is that Cali
fornia is the third largest state in
the Union; that by adding more
than a million population in the
last few years, it has nosed out
Illinois, to rank next to New York
and Pennsylvania.
Pacific coasters (and maybe even
Gov. Warren consider the Cover
norship more important than that
frequently last refuge of anonymity
and political impotence-the Vice
Presidency.
On the other hand, one point on
which Gov. Warren has hammer
ed has been the lack of western
representation in Washington ad-
ministrative circles. He has found
it sympathetic subject throughout
the state. 1t will be difficult for
him, in view of that, to turn down
Vice Presidential nomination OF
IA cabinet post should the Republi-
fCo,finr,aa IN Dooo T.u<l
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BIG PORT
HAMMERED
FROM LAND
No Evidence Of Mass Eyde.
udfion Nor of'Ldrge
Counierdttdck
BY NED NoRDNEss

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED ExPEDITIONARY
FORCES, June 20.--The swift AM
erican ground advance toward Cher
bourg's back door should disclose
within the next few hours whether
the port, converted into one OF the
mightiest naval strongholds on the
French coast, has been prepared
with more improvised defenses
against land attack. The ports
concrete emplaced long range guns
would make Allied naval Smelling a
risky undertaking, and the Allies
would have to use the heavy bat
teries OF their capital ships and
run large risk.
Fate Sealed
The americans are gaining
ground so fast they have kept fully
IL hours ahead of the official re-
ports clearing through headquar-
tiers, and the fate OF Cherbourg
appears to be sealed.
The Smelling of the prize port
shows the strength Of the Allied
support backing the assault. AL
though IS nm. howitzers are able
to pound the two main and two
secondary roads. the German with
drawal on Cherbourg and its APP
proaches at ranges Of 5000 to $4,000
yards, it is obvious the Americans
must have 155 nm. Long Tom
rifles and other heavy guns in
order to reach Cherbourg from a
point eight or more miles away.
Large Force Trapped
1t Is known that remnants OF
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TRUk AT0LL
ISLES ARE
HIT SUNDAY

WASHINGTON, June 20.-Army
bombers pounded Jap airfields on
Moen Island in Truk atoll on Sun
day night with only meager OPP
position from the once strong enemy
base. The Navy reported no fighter
opposition and only light antiair-
craft fire was encountered in the
southwest Pacific Caroline Islands.
Other bombers, flying through
intense but inaccurate antiaircraft
fire, shelled and bombed antiaircrft
gun positions and buildings on
Nauru.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20

LONDON-War's grand climax is
approaching with swift certainty.
Neither Nazi words nor weapons can
affect it.
And every Londoner who has lived
next door to death in the last four
and two-thirds years is thinking
gratefully of the time when he can
walk streets boldly, sleep nights
soundly without the haunting, ever
present threat of the Luftwaffe over
his head
This purely, personal reaction is
just one of the fundamentals in
herent in the victory envisaged in
the Atlantic Characterization from
fear-but it is a sound basis for the
conviction that victory must be
complete. Anyone who spends his
nights and days within easy COM
muting distance of Hitler will read
lily agree with this
Nobody has to convinc me that
Germans and Japanese are danger
GUS people and must be defeated, at
no matter what cost in blood, sweat,
toll and tears and money. I've seen
too much of the results of the ruth
less pursuit of conquest.
Maybe this is the emotional ap-
preach. But you are inclined to
become emotional when you've not
only had your own home blasted
from over your head, but have seen
your next-door neighbors and their
children killed and manned: when
you've seen torn bodies of old and
young buried in pathetic rubble of
brick and plaster: or long lines OF
bereaved waiting outside of morgues
and hospitals, or fumbling pitifully
through piles of clothing taken from
the dead in hopeless attempts at
Identification.
And there are more than the
bombs and shells of Hitler's channel
guns to bring war home. There's
the interminable daily waiting in
unending queques. You queque for
everything-to catch the bus, to buy
your weekly quarters worth of none
too edible meat, to buy weeks but
ter ration which is just about
enough for one good helping of hot
cakes-if there were any hotcakes-
or to buy grayish unappetizing
bread.
And there's the seemingly eternal
necessity for doing without some
thing you want and taking nothing
or some ymost unsatisfactory sub
stitute instead. Then there's the
long hours of work, and fire-watch-
ing and home guard duties in addi-
ton. Or a walk miles long if you
take a rare night out and miss the
buses and subways which start
quitting at 10 p. M.
No, nobody has to convince me of
the need for complete victory, or of
the absolute necessity for buying
war bonds to win, for evidence is all
too plain on every hand in this
frontline city.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20
LEAVE ON BUSINESS TRIP

Jacques Shurre, attorney for the
OPA, left for Fairbanks today to
consult with the Field Manager
there. He was accompanied by
Irma NOVEL; also with the OPA
in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20
sHINGLE FIRE

The Juneau Fire Department was
called out this noon to answer an
alarm at Third and Franklin
Streets, where shingle fire was
quickly extinguished There was
very slight damage reported.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20
Bard Is Nominated
As Under Secretary
Navy Department

WASHINGTON, June 20.-Ralph
Bard, now Assistant Secretary of
the Navy has been nominated by
the President to be Under Secre-
tary.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20
new COMMAND IS
GIVEN ADM. HAL5EY

WASHINGTON, June 20. - Adj
miral william Halsey has been as
signed to command the Third Pa
cific Fleet, the Navy announces.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20
SEATTLE MAN HERE

John Hermann, of the p. E.
Harris Company is registered at
the Baranof from Seattle.
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erican Ninth Division, and they
will not regret the decision TO
surrender.
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF
THE ALLIED ExPEDITIONARY
FORCES. June 20.--American troops
plunged to within four miles OF
Cherbourg late today in an about
offensive that is mounting in fury,
and also Seized valognes. 10 miles
southeast of Cherbourg.
The. veteran limited States Ninth
Division spearheaded the deepest
drive directly south of Cherbourg
and has made a death pocket for
perhaps up to $4,000 Nazis.
The Doughboys seized valognes
and pushed mile beyond and
cleaned out the Germans.
The Germans are reported falling
back upon the inner perimeter OF
Cherbourg defenses.
Associated Press Correspondent
Roger Greene said the Germans fell
back at Valognes without attempt
ing major stand.
The power drive directly south Of
Cherbourg has carried the Ninth
Divisions battering ram nearly six
miles north Of captured Bricquebec
on the eastern coast.
The trap is quickly Tightening on
Cherbourg.
Two miles southwest of lilly Sur
Seulles. the British are battling
against a wall of Nazi armor, The
Germans are attempting counter
attacks.
American forces on the west coast
have also made progress north Of
Barneville, where the first break
through was made sealing off the
top of Cherbourg Peninsula. OPP
position in this sector is reported
light.
Reconnaissance flights late this
afternoon disclosed the Germans are
demolishing the port of Cherbourg
and 1t is now in bad shape, indi-
eating they have given UP hope of
holding it very long.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-20

What War Bonds Mean
The Price Of vitfory and
Bomb-Free Niqhts
By ROBERT BUNNELLE

BY ROBERT BUNNELLE
This is the third of six stories.
by Associated Press correspond
ents who have seen war at first
hand and tell the vital part the
equipment bought by war bonds
has played in Allied victories
and defeats. Bunnelle, chief Of
APPS London Bureau was assign
ed to London three months be-
fore the war began. He went
through the Nazi blitz that de-
strOyed the AP Building in De-
cember, 1910, and has covered
every phase of England's war
effort since that time.)
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U. 5. FORCES
WITHIN FOUR
MILES, PORT
Offensive Mounting in Fury
Germans Are Told
10 Surrender

NEW YORK, June 20..--Ger-
man troops, cut off at Cher
bourg by the American add
vance, have been warned over
the BIC facilities their position
is hopeless and Surrender will
be the wisest move and any
attempt to evacuate through the
coastal waters Of Cherb0urg
Peninsula will be sure suicide"
The Germans we're told the
warning was made by a Brit
ish officer, and that the Ger
man troops under command Of
Col. Gen. Huergen Won Armin
have been trapped by the Am
erican Ninth Division, and they
will not regret the decision TO
surrender.
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