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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-07-26
FIGHT IN
RAIL CITY
0FLE|YANG

CHUNGKING, July 26.-Chinese
troops have broken into the rail
city of Leiyang, taken by the enemy
in the drive of several weeks ago.
Fierce street fighting is in pro-
gress, says the communicate.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
2S NIPPON
PLANES ARE
SENT DOWN
Stiff Enemy Resistance En-
(ountered in Drive on
Two Aistrips

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA,
June Is. - Twenty-eight Japanese
airplanes have been shot down over
Biak Island off Dutch New Guinea
and over Palau in the Carolines of
the Southwest Pacific, headquarters
announced.
The enemy attack upon Biak,
where the newly captured Mokmer
airdrome has becfs put into opera
ton for American planes, indicated
again the Japanese interest in pre-
venting the use of that base for an
attack upon the Philippines, $50
miles to the west.
Liberators attacked Palau on
Sunday, downed 20 of so inter-
ceptors, dropped 20 tons of bombs,
exploding ammunition dumps, start
ting fires and destroying many Jap
anese planes on the ground.
The communique reported the in
tensity of ground fighting on Biak,
where American infantry pressed
westward from Mokmer to the two
other Japanese airstrips, has in
creased as the Japs turned six inch
ers in the advancing units. Only
slight progress is reported despite
the use of tanks and artillery.
To strengthen the American at
tack, four Thunderbolt fighter
planes made clean sweep of Biak
Monday morning. When they caught
six Japanese twin engine dive bomb
ers coming out of run, they de-
stroyed all of them.
The same day naval patrol craft
off Biak shot down an enemy fight
err and a patrol Liberator knocked
off a Jap bomber near Halmahera.
On Tuesday another Allied recon-
naissance plane bagged an enemy
bomber near Palau
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
80 Men Dead
As Result Of
7 Explosions

PEARL HARBOR. June 15.-The
Navy has announced that ~ men
we're killed, 100 are missing, and $50
were wounded in an explosion which
destroyed several small landing
craft in Pearl Harbor on May 81.
At the same time 1t is reported
that a magazine at All ammunition
depot on Aahu Island exploded Sun
day, killing three men. Seven men
are missing as result of this acct
dent.
The explosion among the landing
craft at Pearl Harbor was reported
by Admiral Nimitz, who said it oc-
CURED while ammunition was being
unloaded from one small craft.
The explosion on Sunday was said
by Fleet Headquarters to have hap
pened when several torpedo war
heads which were being transferred
from a truck to a platform de-
tonated.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
The W ashingto Ton
Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON
cit. Col Robert s. Alien now on active
service with the Army.)

WASHINGTON-W Department
officials are laughing behind theil
hands at the fact that Military
Intelligence, supposed to know al
about everything going on behino
enemy lines and inside our owr
lines, chose D-Day to move theii
offices. In the Pentagon Building
where Military Intelligence, or Co.
is housed, moving day was called
"G-2's D-Day" They invaded
their new offices.
But never could they have chosen
a worse day to move than the
Allied D-Day. Their War Depart
ment officers kept calling up CO.
asking for information.
Sorry" said the operator, but
the telephones are all torn out
CO. is moving"
Furniture was being moved down
corridors, files of secret informa-
ton were being shunted from one
place to another. Everything was
confusion on the one day which
meant most to the war.
Apparently, Military Intelligence
supposed to know everything
didn't know when the big day we
were to cross the English Channe
was scheduled.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
STIFF Sentence
GIVEN Filler ON
MORALS CHARGE

SANTA ANA, Calf, June 49,.
Capt. Morrison J. Wilkinson, Army
flier who once flew for the Chinese,
has been convicted at an Army gen.
eral courtmartial on morals charges
involving a number of women, and
has been sentenced to 80 years i'm
prisonment at hard labor and dis
missed from the Army.
The flier was convicted on six
specifications, including statutory
rape Of a 17-year-old night club
dancer, Caprice Capron. and &C
quilted on four others,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
WIDESPREAD
NAVY ACTION
IN PACIFIC
Enemy Positions from Kur-
lies 10 Mdridnds
Under Attack

WASHINGTON, June Is. Ann
erican warships have turned their
heavy guns on enemy positions from
the north Pacific Kuriles to the
mid-Pacific Marianas, Admiral
Nimitz reported
Battleships, cruisers and destroy
ers all moved in Monday to bonn
bard Tinian and Saipan Islands in
the Marianas, where strong carrier
task forces have been hammering
the Japs since Saturday, and adj
ditional air attacks are coordin-
ated with the Smelling by the war
ships.
The attacks were still continu-
ing on Tuesday, at the same time,
he said, that other warships, &C
companied by bomber planes, sped
over the north Pacific to lay heavy
shells on the enemy base at Mat
suwa Island in the Kuriles, only
LOGO miles northeast Of Tokyo.
These are the planes that bombed
Jap positions at Paramushiro and
Shumusu at the northern end Of
the chain, and picked out the Jap
airfields as the principal detectives
of thasheavy attack. s
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
TOKYO SAYS
.YANKS LAND
ON MARIANAS
Uneonfirmed Report Of
Daring Invasion Of In
ner Jap Defenses

LONDON, June 15.-The power
full American task force, which has
been harassing Jap strongholds in
the Marianas Islands since Satur-
day is now attempting to land
troops on Saipan Island, Tokyo
radio declared
The daring operation, if success
full, will give the United States an
ocean base within $500 miles OF
Tokyo. The Office of War Infor-
nation said the Jap communique
announced landing attempt was
also made on Tinian Island in the
Marianas, and that heavy fighting
lis in progress between Japanese
units and the enemy forces"
While no immediate confirma-
ton is reported on the landing OPP
erations, Admiral Nimitz disclosed
yesterday that an American task
force was still operating off the
Marianas on Tuesday. 1t is con-
ceivable that the force, already
credited with inflicting grievous
losses on Jap shipping and air
power, might still be operating III
the area.
Today's Tokyo broadcast said the
attempted landings were made by
force of 20 transports which APP
peared off Saipan about $3.50 a. m
and about 10 landing barges and
20 or more special craft were en-
ployed in the actual landing OPP
Ierations, Tokyo said
| The Marianas are situated in a
direct line between the big Jap
naval base at Truk and the home
Z, islands of Japan.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
IDIM0ND'5 BILL IS
BLOCKED BY ACTION
STATE DEPARTMENT
Disapproves Of Legislation
Extending Salmon Fish
ing Jurisdiction

WASHINGTON, June Is. - The
State Department has disapproved
of legislation to extend the United
States jurisdiction over salmon fish
ing to the international boundary in
Boring Sea, Alaska Delegate Dimond
says.
The Delegates bill was originally
introduced to prevent the Japanese
from taking salmon in the shallow
waters off the Alaskan coast.
The State Department said it
sympathized regarding the purposes
OF the bill but disapproved Of it on
the ground it might cause inter-
national complications the depart
ment proposed to end and to be
accomplished by diplomatic negotia-
tions.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
350pER50N5
HOMELESS IN
fierce BLAZE
One Fatality Reporfed-7s
Percent Of Dwellings
Are Destroyed

Fire or an unknown origin, break
ing out beneath natives cabin at
approximately $50 o'clock last
night, swept along the main street
in Hoonah, on Chichagof Island,
from the north to the south end,
destroying all main buildings and
rs percent of the native homes.
Only one fatality is known, John
Smith, a native, losing his life in
the fire. There may be another
casualty although a complete check
of the sufferers had not been made
up to early this afternoon. There
are no known injured.
$50 Homeless
Three hundred and fifty persons
are homeless as the result of the
blaze and immediate aid is being
given them.
The estimated replacement value
is between S350,O00 and 100000
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
FIERCEsT OF FIGHTS

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF
ALLIED EDITION AIRY
FORCES, June 15.-The Allies are
fighting the fiercest battles since
the landings in France, and the
German Command. which has
thrown four armored divisions in
furious counterattacks, declared the
battle lis approaching its climax"
American infantry and airborne
units, supported by tanks are
smashing across the Cherbourg
neck, and drove to within seven
miles of cutting of the last COM
munication lines leading to Cher
bourg. This is virtually the only
Allied gain during the past "a
hours.
Nazis Retakc Towns
The Germans drove the British
from Troarn, which the Allies oc-
cupied as the eastern anchor OF
the 100-mile line and from the
village Of Bocage, one Of their two
advance positions southwest OF
Caen.
The best unofficial estimates
place the number of German di-
vision in action now at around 20
strong, and indications are the enc
my is bringing reserves from other
armies distance of 200 miles.
The fierceness of the fighting Is
attested by a German broadcast
which said the Allies are trying to
enlarge their bridgehead toward
all sides"
Climax Approaching
The Germans added. "Salvocs
from the heaviest naval guns, in
cessant air attacks, and with fresh
ly brought up infantry and tank
forces being thrown into action on
both sides, the battle is approach
ing climax"
The American advance ON a nine
mile front westward from Carentar
toward the high ground controlling
the last German roads leading to
Cherbourg met violent German re-
action to this threat to their life
line, and it is expected that fur
Their American advances will be only
after the costliest fighting.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
MORE FACTS

WASHINGTON, June Is. - The
War Department disclosed that>the
planes taking part in the raid on
Japan came from the India China
Burma theatre and we're B-20
heavily armored ships whose bomb
load, range and ceiling exceed any
other plane. They are powered with
four engines Of 1900 horsepower
each, and each carrying two SUPER
chargers, 1t has wing span of 14l
and two tenths feet compared with
the Bits span Of 104 feet.
One of the major questions about
the Super Fortress could 1t protect
itself. was answered satisfactorily
with an unanticipated encounter
with dozen Jap planes over Burma
many weeks before the first big raid
on Japan. The giant bomber is be-
lieved to have downed two of the
attacking fighters before the enemy
turend away. The Fortress received
few bullet hole sand one gunner
WAS WOuuueu oliBuLly.
MarshaIl's Statement
Gen. George @. Marshall. Chief
of Staff. in statement on the at
tack said the Super Fortress intro
duced new type of offensive
against the enemy and "also creates
new problem in the application OF
military force" because OF the
enormous range and heavy bomb
load Of this newest bombardment
plane.
Marshall said, "They can strike
from many and remote bases at a
single objective" and their power
is SO great. Marshall continued. the
American joint chiefs Of staff de-
cided 1t would be uneconomical to
confine the Super Fortress organiza-
ton to a single theatre.
Single Commander
These bombers, therefore will re-
main under centralized control of
the Joint chiefs of staff with a
single commander. General Arnold
acting as their agent and directing
their bombing operations through
out the world.
THE planes will be treated as
major task forces in the same man.
ner as the naval task forces and will
be directed against specific OBJ
jectives. This type Of flexible CEN
tralized control recognizes that very
long range commandment is not a
weapon for the air forces alone.
Under the Joint chiefs Of staff
the theatre commanders will have a
voice in its employment. ensuring
that maximum Of effectiveness
will contribute directly to the over
all strategy for the defeat of our
enemies
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
GESTAp0 MAJOR
dies AT HANDS
OF pARTISAN5

BERN, June 15.-Gestapo Major
General Werner is reported to have
been captured by French Partisans.
tried. and executed after his refusal
to sign an order releasing imprison-
ed patriots.
The Gazette de Lausanne said
that Werner was captured several
weeks ago and group of his fol-
lowers were killed In the skirmish.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
SUPER CRAFT,
FIRST Time,
MAKE RAID
BIOS Enter Combat De-
eIares Brief Announce
ment Issued by Army

WASHINGTON, June rs. -
The Army announces that BIO
Super Fortresses Of the Army
Air Forces bombed Japan today.
No further information was
divulged after the brief an
nouncement, and there was no
indication which part Of Japan
was struck nor where the new
planes. the first time in COM
bat, were based.
The text Of the communiquc
read as follows:
"B-29 Super Fortresses Of the
United States Army Air Forces
of the Twentieth Bomber Com
mand, bombed Japan to-day"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15

Betty Mill has moved up from
second to top position, exchanging
with Joyce Smith who is now in
second place. Kathleen McAlister
switched with Betty Nordling and is
now third, with Betty fourth. Mary
Mccormack made the biggest gain
and now ranks fifth with Lois Allen
and Ruth Kunnas, both of whom
made substantial increases, in sixth
and seventh position.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
DEGAULLE VISITS
H0MELAND;GREAT
OVATION EN5UES

ISIGNY, France, June 15.-Gen.
Charles DeGaulle returned to his
homeland yesterday for the first
time in four years, and his country
men lined the streets shouting his
name, In a dramatic ovation. The
leader of the Committee of Ma
tional Liberation appeared unex-
pectedly, but the news carried rap
idly and his name seemed like
magic to the chanting crowds.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
BIG BATTLE.
NOW RAGING.
IN NORMANDY.
Allies Are Facing Counter
attacks by FierteIY
Fighting Germans

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
OF ALLIED EXCEPTIONALLY
FORCES, June ia force Of
between 1000 and 1000 Amer
lean Flying Fortresses and Lib
orators with escorting fighters
swept ever France this morning,
bombing airplane plants, air
fields. and railroad facilities in a
dozen places.
Berlin reported an attack on
the industrial city Of Hanover,
while lighter Allied warplanes
based i'm Normandy and Britain
continued their widespread sup
port of the campaign in
smashing foIIowup to the LOO
bomber operation overnight.
As part Of the latter opera
tions. several hundred Lam
casters blasted the E-boat pens
at LeIIavre with six-t0n fac
tory busters
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
RED CROSS SHIP
SENT DOWN NEAR
GREECE BY Mine

STOCKHOLM, June Is. = The
Swedish Red Cross ship Fenja sank
between Calino and the Turkish
mainland probably as the result.
of a NINE" the Swedish foreign
office has been advised. The ship
was carrying relief supplies to
Greeks in the Aegean Islands,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
IN
WAR BONDS
ARE SOLD
Premiere Tonight at Capt..
fol Theatre Begins at
$50 O'clock

Bond sales in the Fifth War Loan
Drive scared to $75,l50 in today's
POPULATIONS, with $34,950 of the total
being in E Bonds.
The Federal Employees and Al
aska Native Brotherhood and Sis
terhood had charge of the bond
booths last night and this evening
the Elks and Emblem Club will take
over one of the sales depots, while
the other will be manned by the
Central Labor Council.
Premiere Tonight
Tonight Homer Garvin, Manager
of the Capitol Theatre will be host
to more than 600 Juneau and Doug
las residents who will attend the
Bond Premiere TO see the motion
picture Flight for Freedom and to
witness the presentation of the nine
Miss Liberty candidates by Lieut..
Col, Roy w Reigle.
The regular show will be over at
0 O'Clock, at which time the doors
will be open for the Premiere, which
is scheduled to start at $50 o'clock.
A bond is the price of admission.
1t has been annonced that Irene
Rssmissen, who was the tenth Miss
Liberty CONTESTANT. has withdrawn
her candidacy and the organization
sponsoring her have switched their
support to Joyce Smith. However,
all votes which had been pledged to
Miss Rasmussen, prior to her with
drawal, have been frozen and will
not be counted in the contest. All
votes obtained after her withdrawal
will be counted for the other con-
testant.
Miss Liberty Contest
At l o'clock this afternoon the
contestants for Miss Liberty" and
the -Four Freedoms" stood as fol-
lows.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15

F1oonah Swept by Disastrous Fire Last Night
Dimond Asks that
Two Vet Hospitals Be
Built in Alaska

WASHINGTON. June 15.-Alaska
Delegate Dimond has asked Con-
gress to authorize the Veterans Ad-
ministration to construct two mil
lion dollar veterans hospitals in
Alaska
1t is proposed in the bill that one
hospital be constructed in Southeast
Alaska and another hospital at
Seward.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15

lions. then the Andes and the val
lev of the Amazon would be the
seat of the world empire; or the
tropical rivers of Africa that find
their beginning in hills yet unex-
plored America was great land
when Columbus discovered 1t, AM
Iericans have made it a great ma
ton, and they have done SO
through their strength and cour-
age which have been woven into
the red, white and blue OF the
american Flag sa.-.ss.. -
Il like to think OF our Flag not
as woven threads of silk. Rather
/ love to regard it as woven OF the
threads OF the lives OF men and
women, living and dead, who have
made this country what it is today
with standards of liberty, freedom,
and living unequalled elsewhere in
the world.
II like to think of our Flag as
woven of the threads OF the lives
of those who fought, and are fight
ing, our wars to win and maintain
democracy and liberty I like to
think of our Flag as woven OF
the threads of the lives of those
who conquered the great plains and
turned them into productive farms
so that the American people might
be the best fed and clothed people
in the world.
Il like to think of our Flag as
woven of the threads of the lives
of those who labored in the for
ests and sawmills and quarries to
make it possible to say that AM
orleans are the best housed people
on earth. / like to think of our
Flag as woven of the threads OF
the lives of our American fathers
and mothers who instilled in the
hearts of their children the spirit
of patriotism and courage, and the
will to build a great nation.
Viewers of Flag
MY friends, all of us continue
daily to be the weayers of the Flag
we love through our unselfish SER
vices to God and country. Our
Flag is everything that is America
1t is crowd of school children
singing My Country IT'S of Thee,
and it is a town hall assembly of
citizens discussing community prob
lens. 1t is crowd OF 100000 gone
wild at a football game, and it is
a vast multitude gathered rever-
emily for Easter sunrise services.
ct is the last half of the ninth
inning in a World Series baseball
game, and the chant of the tobacco
auctioneer in Kentucky. 1t is corn
bread and buttermilk on the table
for the evening meal, and the noise
of neighbours lawn mower II
is an apple orchard in the Virginia
hills and Riley's old swimming hole
in Indiana.
Our Flag, Everything
Our Flag is everything that is
America! 1t is filling station al
the next corner, and the soda foun-
tain of the neighborhood drug store
1t is a tractor lost in the immen-
sity of Kansas wheatfield. and a
steel worker swaying in the all
on the top floor of a new sky
scraper 1t is ceremony at the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier al
Arlington, and Republican OF
Democratic National Convention ir
Chicago. 1t is the roar of big city
traffic in New York City, and the
rustic of leaves in the Northern
Minnesota woods. 1t is punching
fConftn,.aJ -, Uorro 1foA
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
REASON FOR CRACKDOWN
ON ERE

Now it can be revealed why
President Roosevelt was SO tough
in his breakdown on the Irish re-
garding the removal of Axis dip
lomats from Fire.
1t long had been planned, though
a strict secret, to land on the
Cherbourg Peninsula. To reach it.
many U. S. troops had to steam
through the Irish Sea and through
waters adjacent to Fire.
This was because the bulk OF U
S. Army camps have been located
in the west and northwest OF Eng
land. While some of the troops
were moved in advance to the
Channel ports, lot of them hao
TO swing down through the Irish
Sea around the tip end Of Wales
and then toward Cherbourg.
Naturally, the President wanted
no scrap of information regarding
the early passage of landing barges
through the Irish Sea to leak oui
in any manner, shape or form.
NOTE-As- it later happened, the
invasion probably was no surprise
to the enemy, partly because oil
the false invasion news dispatch
partly because of the fact that the
armada, after getting all ready
had to be held up one day be-
cause of bad weather.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
RYAN IN TOWN

T. L. Ryan, of San Francisco, is
in town and a guest at the Bar
anof Hotel,
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-15
IN FROM FAIRBANKS

Mrs. Monroe Swarner, Mrs. w.
A. Woehler and two children ar
rived here recently from Fairbanks
and are registered at tho Baranof
Hotel.
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JOHN HAY HERE

John Hay is a guest at the Bar
anof, registering from Santa Fe,
New Mexico.
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BULLETIN - SUPREME AL
LIED HEADQUARTERS EX-
PEDITIONARY FORCES, June

I5.--American troops surged
powerfully ahead in their stab
at the Cherbourg neck, and
Berlin reported thai less than
six miles separated the spear
head from the last west coast
communications linking Cher
b0urg with France. Gains were
hammered out in spite of fur
iOus counterattacks, and the
Allied line is holding firm
everywhere else.
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Continued on Page Five
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CAPITAL CHAFF
You can expect Admiral Nimitz
to replace Admiral King as Chief
(Continued on Page Four)
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Continued on Page Six,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-27
SCANNING COSTS

Now lets see what those con-
struction costs arc:
Right in the home bailiwlck of
Washington, D. G., for example, is
a project called Fort Dupont
Dwellings. " The construction cost
was 81, l64 per room.
Across the street is a project
built by a private construction
firm with private capital. The
rooms are larger, the project is
incomparably better looking and
more attractive on the outside.
The bathrooms are tiled. whereas
the government project bathrooms
have only linoleum-covered floors.
In the basement of each build
ing in the private project is a
complete laundry, equipped with
BeRdiN washing machines and gas
clothes drierS. none of which is
included in Fort Dupont Dwell
ingS. And the private project
built at the same time, cost $S49
per room.
The private project cost a total
Of S22l1.O00. and the total archi-
tect'S fee was less than $4,000.