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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
TANKS KEEP
 up ADVANCE
 LUz0N ISLE
Nine Towns, ManYV Villages Taken-M0ve Island
 Cautiously
BULLETIN - MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Jan. 12.-- The Sixth Army invaders in Luzon have penetrated inland 12 miles from the beachhcads.
GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS IN THE PHILIPPINES,

GEN. MACARTHUR'S H "A D. QUARTERS IN THE PHILIPPINES, Saturday, Jan 13.-American in vaders on Luzon Island, punching seven to nine miles inland from their 25 mile wide Lingayen Gulf beachheads, have seized five more towns and terminals of four main highways and railroads leading to Manila and then found their first appreciable opposition at their deep est spearhead. .
 It. Gen. Walter Krueger's Fifth Army unit has been advancing in two days as far and as fast as req sonable caution and movement of supplies permit.
 The Tanks have now taken nine towns and more than score of villages.
 The advance has carried the Americans well south of the maze of swamp country at the mouth of the meandering Agno River along which the Japanese might have been able to make delaying stand. Only at the extreme left flank along the Posorubi road have the Tanks run into anything more than isolated sniper resistance and this was quick lV eliminated
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
TREMENDOUS RISE,
 WAR PRODUCTION : iS SEEN BY K'RUG

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. - Fifty percent of all war production pro grams will rise at a tremendous rate" under the new speedup which includes three-fold increase in aircraft in six months, WIPE Chair man Krug said today.
 The program is necessitated partly to equip the new French Army di- visions and partly in the fight against Germany.
 About $2 00,O00,000 worth of new arms output is being added to the 1945 schedule. Expansion brings the 1945 total output to some $64,- 5OO,o0o,0 ,0Oo, slightly higher than the l944.
 Tt is more difficult program to meet Krug told a news confer ence. There will be plenty of jobs for everyone in war industry he added.
 The volume of munitions sched- uled for shipment to the French army was not divulged, but other sources have given the impression that it will be a substantial part of the $2.5Oo,0OO increase. Italians wanted arms and material for more active participation against the Nazis, Krug acknowledged, but T don't know if we are furnishing them any.
 Hot aircraft which include Superforts, C-54 Cargo planes, jet propelled fighters and all navy fighters are scheduled to rise from $367 100000 to 1925 100000 monthly in six months and a nine percent increase in all aircraft is planned.
 Willow Run, instead of cutting the Liberator bomber output, will holo production steady or increase pro- duction.
 In the unveiling for the first time of actual production figures fol Superforts, Krug said that the Boe- ing plant at Benton, Wash, will have to boost it's December output 35 air dreadnaughts to 200 in July To do so, Fortress production by Bceing must be transferred to Doug las and Lockheed with a stepping ur in the latter plant.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
RUND5TEDT K FEELING
 U. }. WHIP
Am eriCan Slabs al Ndzi Hanks Sending Ger
 mans Keeling

PARIS, Jan. 12-The Allied armies have apparently sheared off the western end of the Belgian bulge and gouged tentatively into the northern and southern Hanks as well as smashing well into the eastern half of the salient.
 The U. s. Third Army pene- trated twice into the German south Hanks between Bastogne and Vian- den.
 The First Army has stabbed across the Salm River to within 10 miles of St. With.
 This action with those of the Third Army threatened to under cut any attempt by von Rundstedt to hold the course of the Ourthe River and yield only the western half of his salient.
 The Germans appeared to have pulled all but a few last remaining rearguards from the western end of the Ardennes bulge where the First and Third Armies have netted more than 30,000 prisoners and killed uncounted thousands.
 It is estimated these armies have destroyed the equivalent of six or seven divisions of Germans.
 Tanks of the Sixth Army group in Alsace Lorraine where the Ger mans have threatened Strasbourg, bagged 5,294 prisoners in the cur rent campaign.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
Ife-lotked Valdez Freed;(oasi Guard
 Itebreaker al Work

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. l2- Capt. Gordon w. MacLane, Alaskan district Coast Guard Officer. has received a telegram from Mayor c. J. Egan of Valdez complimenting the Coast Guard for it's successful work in clearing Valdez Bay of ice.
 The telegram said:
 Ice breaker completed a very efficient job of clearing the ice from Valdez Bay. We thank you
 The Coast Guard said it had dis patched an ice-breaking cutter to the area when it was reported that the city was ice-locked. After few days the cutter completed it's mission and slashed it's bow through the ice to make lanes to the city's docks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
SEE5AW FIGHT CONTINUES ON WEST FRONT
Surrounded French Troops Are Now Being Sup-
 piled from Air

PARIS, Jan. 12-The German rearguards are falling back through fog and snow in near-zero cold toward the Ourthe River line along roads that might have led to Ant werp. but to the south another enemy force is hitting with in creased armor near Strasbourg with Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo chief of the German home army, perhaps the commander directing the at tack.
 On both sides of the Alsation capital, the French troops are ap- parently surrounded because they are being supplied by air. They lost Oberheim, 15 miles south of Strasbourg.
 The Allies have lost Herrlisheim, 12 miles northeast of Strasbourg. A staff officer with Gen. Mont gomery said the Germans pulled all their forces from the she'll splintered forest west of the La roche St. Hubert road, a dlffl- cult tract about 120 miles square. The Nazis, however, still have remnants of some divisions behind Ourthe and west of Houffalize.
 At least 13 towns fell to Allied arms as the First and Third Army prisoners total since December l6 rose to almost 30,000.
 St. Hubert, southwest anchor of the contracting Belgian Bulge in Ardennes, has finally been entered. The Germans announced evacua- ton two nights ago Southeast of Bastogone a troublesome German pocket has been all but erased in welter of enemy blood.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
C0NNALLY ASKS
 SENATE TO BAN
 FOREIGN TALKS
President Dis(|oses Inter- national Views 10 Bi-
 Partisan Delegation

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12-Senator Tom Connally today returned from conferences at the White House to urge that the Senate withhold fur ther discussions on the Interna- tional situation, pending the new meeting of the Big Three" The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee did not, how ever disclose any details of the mornings discussions between the President and the eight man bl- partisan delegation from the Senate Foreign Relations group.
 A statement issued by Gen. Con- nally declared the Presidents views had been made known to the Committee, but said: Until the meeting of President Roosevelt, Premier Sta1in and Prime Minister Churchill T hope no resolution will be presented in the Senate or that there will be no general discus sions to disturb the delicate Inter- national situation"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
RELATIONS ARE RESUMED WITH
 FINNISH GOVT,

WASHIN G T 70 N, Jan. 12.-The United States is resuming relations with Finland on an informal basis, the State Department announced.
 The President has approved the assignment of foreign service of ficer with the personal rank of Min ister at Helsinki.
 Pending his arrival an officer has been dispatched from Stockholm to handle American affairs.
 Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew said the President has as- signed Maxwell Hamilton as the foreign officer to represent the United States in Finland.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
MAGAZINE FEATURES PICTURES OF LOCAL
 FLOWERS, ARTICLE

A series of pictures of local flowers and an article on Alaska s Flowery Promise" are featured in the December issue of the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden"
 The pictures, all taken in the vicinity of Juneau, were made by Mrs. Maxine Williams, Juneau member of the local Botany Club who is now writing book on AL aska botany.
 The article was written by Mrs Sarah " Coombs, New York City mother of Mrs. J. deGanahl of Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON Ct. Col Robert s. Allen now on active service with the Army)

WASHINGTON-Republican Ma tional Committee Chairman Herbert Brownell spent restless two days in Washington last week trying to bind up the COPS wounds. He had come to the Capital hoping to get some unity on a party program only to find that Congressional leaders were in revolt against the regular party organization.
 He had planned that the Dewey dominated National Committee could take over entire control of the party and begin laying the groundwork for great Republican victory in the 1946 Congressional elections. Instead. Republican Con- gressional leaders, headed by Joe Martin of Massachusetts and Char ley Halleck of Indiana, advised that House Republicans were in no mood to be trifled with, sug- gested that it would be better to let them have their head for awhile.
 Most significant decision reached by Brownell during his visit was the agreement he gave COP lead- CTS that he would continue as Re- publican National Chairman after the Indianapolis meeting January 20. Brownell had planned to step out at that time and was not too concerned over who would succeed him. Then he began quiet survey of sentiment among party leaders, found the organization badly split but with many feeling that he is the one man they could most agree on.
 Brownell rejected suggestions that he assume the post on full-time paid basis, told Halleck and Martin
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
GEMMlLL ATTORNEY REQUESTS SUBPOENA OF TWO FBI AGENTS

SEATTLE, Jan. PA precept re- questing the subpoena Of FBl Agents Harold Anderson, Juneau, and Charles F. Flack, formerly of Juneau, and now assigned in Texas, has been filed in the Federal Court by Will G. Beardsley, attorney for Lynn J. Gemmill, United States Attorney of the First Division of Alaska, who is charged with so- liciting and accepting bribe from Cleo Patricia Wilkins on an as- serted promise to obtain a sus- pended sentence in a larceny case pending against her.
 Any money accepted by my client from Cleo Patricia Wilkins was in restitution Beardsley said Naturally, you may assume that agents of the FBI called by us are subpoenaed to substantiate my clients claim"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
ALASKA SCHOOL
 CHILDREN MAKE
 WAR PURCHASES
LifiIe Homer School Buys Jeeps and Ducks for
 American Army

Many of Uncle Sam's Soldiers will ride in war equipment bought by Alaska school children
 It was revealed today by Mrs. Katherine Nordale, Deputy Man ager of the War Savings Commit tee, that 36 schools of the Terri tory have invested the impressive sum of $95,50255 in war savings stamps and bonds since last November.
 Alittle over half of this money went into the purchase of flying and rolling equipment, with the little farm community of Homer, on Cook Inlet, leading the field with Sl0,00O worth of purchases in the form of a pair of jeeps and one duck which, like similarly sub scribed purchases, will carry the school name into battle.
 Palmer bought two liais on trainers; Craig, field ambulance; Petersburg, scout car; Anchorage liaison plane; Seward, three jeeps; Sitka, liaison plane; Ket- chikan High School, a field ambu- lance; the main Ketchikan school liaison plane: the White Cliff School in the First City, a field ambulance; Fairbanks, duck, and Wasilla, a liaison plane.
 With 5,943 pupils participating in this drive, the figure subscribed shows an average of more than $l6 per pupil. The record shows also that Is of 36 schools have earned the Schools at War flag with better than 90 per cent par ticipation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Jan. l2 - Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is T, American Can 925s, Anaconda B, Beech Aircraft 1875, Bethlehem Steel II. Curtiss- Wright 63s, International Harvester 78A, Kennecott 38A, North Ameri- can Aviation 105s, New York Gen. tral 25as, Northern Pacific 211s, U. s. Steel SPA, Pound S4.04.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 15542, rails, 50.24, utilities 26.58.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
TO HAVE
 100000 MAN
 ARMY BY SPRING

PARIS, Jan. 12 France may have an army of 100000 strong equipped well and armed with the latest American materiel by the end of Spring, War Minister Die thelm declared today on his re- turn from tour of the Alsatian battlefront.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
ROGGEs ARRIVE

Senator Elect Leo Rogge and Mrs. Rogge came in by PAA plane today from Fairbanks. A veteran Democrat Representative in the Territorial House, Rogge is making his first entrance to the Senate. The Rogges are residing at the Assembly Apartments.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12

UNITED STATES s PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 12. = Carrier-based planes "are attacking the enemy off the coast of French Indo-China, Admiral Chester w. Nimitz an- nounces.
 It seems highly probable the Japa- nese fleet was the target.
 Adm Nimitz cryptically stated the assault, constituting the United States Fleets deepest penetation of Japan's inner defenses. fell between Saigon and Amranh Bay
 The Admiral did not specify what was attacked but it is very probable a Japanese reinforcement convoy, escorted by warships. was intercept ed while setting out for Tank k-invad- ed Luzon in the Philippines.
 Blows Falling
 The brief pointed communique said the blows fell off the coast"
 The Camranh coast is east of Saigon, and is one of the finest natufal harbors in Asia and has large protected anchorage for capital warships.
 The coast of French Indo-China is some TOO or 300 miles due west of the beaches on Lingayen Gulf, Luzon where Gen Douglas MacArthur's troops are pressing inland after the initial landing four days ago.
 The surprise announcement is the first information of an American fleet assault in that sector of French, Indo- Chine and gave no details of what kind of a Japanese force was under attack.
 Attack Now On
 The communique merely said Am- erican carried based planes are now attacking the enemy off the coast of French Indo-C China between Saigon and Camranh Bay"
 The reference off the coast" might mean naval dash by air is in progress or carrier-based planes are pounding enemy shipping.
 The Pacific Fleet carrier force, which little over a week ago sent planes accommodating along 500 miles of the China coast, during the attacks on Formosa, has moved across the South China Sea to un- leash an aerial blow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
CA MEN HERE

w. R. Peterson, Allan F. Horn ing, and H. l.. Henkel, CAA men from Anchorage, are in Juneau on official business. They are staying at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
COME IN CAA PLANE

Pilot Al Horning and Engineer H. L. Hinkle of the Civil Aeronautics administration flew to Juneau yes terday in a CAA plane from An chorage.
 The two have been checking fly ing ranges and making routine sur veyS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12

A former Office of Indian Af- fairs employee, Sam Hendricks, was reported killed in action in France, December 8.
 Hendricks from 1883 to l943 was a unit manager with the Reindeer Service and had many friends in his Kuskokwim Norton Sound- Seward Peninsula area.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
BETTY RICE, HAROLD
 DEROUX WE'D IN SOUTH

Miss Betty Rice, popular Juneau girl, and Harold DeRoux, we'll known Douglas young man, have married in the south according to radiograms received here with no particulars given.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
JAPANESE REPORT

NEW YORK, Jan 12.-Domei says Approximately 9O' carrier-based planes raided the "Cochin-C China sector around Saigon" for nine and one-half hours.
 This Jap broadcast was recorded by the EGG.
 The Domei report also claimed the Nipponese antiaircraft units downed "at least 20 American planes" be- sides damaging others.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
HAZEL COFFIN TO JAIL

Hazel Coffin, arrested Thursday on a charge of disorderly conduct, entered a plea of guilty before Commissioner Felix Gray and re- ceived sentence of six months ill the Federal Jail.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
LAPS REPORT
 NEW LANDINGS
 BY AMERICANS
Latest Assault Is Reported in Manila Bay
 Area

LONDON, Jan. l2. - A Japanese radio commentator heard in Aus tralia. said another American land ing in the Manila Bay area followed that one on Lingayen cannot be completely written off
 He reported two more American conveys in Philippine waters, one Of about 150 ships. The radio con- mentator said it was sighted off Panay Island and another between 100 and 150 ships off Negros Island.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
kewspaperl11an
 Named 10 Senate

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Jan. 12 Frank Briggs, Macon, Democrat, newspaper publisher, was appointed today by Governor Donnelly as Senator for the unexpired two years of the term of Truman.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
REV. NYGAARD HERE

The Rev. Ernest Nygaard of the Lutheran Church in Sitka arrived on the Northland for brief visit in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
MORE CONVOY REPORT

NEW YORK. Jan. 12, - A Jap radio broadcast picked up here claims third American convoy has arrived in Lingayen Gulf and land- ings have been made.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
FROM WHITEHORSE

F. L. Carsall is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel from Whitehorse.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
COAST GUARD HAVING
 OWN MARCH OF DIMES

The local Coast Guard is conduct ing it's own March of Dimes cam paign in coordination with the one being conducted among civilians for raising funds to combat Infantile Paralysis.
 Recepticles have been placed in canteens and other convenient To- cations, and posters have been placed on the bulletin boards.
 Good results are anticipated.
 IN FROM HAYNES
 O. J. Lewis of Haines is regis tered at the Gastineau Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
FROM SAN FRANCISCO

w. B. Gilroy is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. registered from San Francisco.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
MACHAN VISITS HERE

O. B. Machan has arrived In Juneau from Haines.
 SITKA VISITOR Dan Moller of Sitka is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-12
COAST FRENCH IND0-CHINA E
 BATTLE SCENE
Highly Probable that Jap anese Fleet May Be
 Target of Bombers

BULLETIN-PEAR HARBOR, Jan. l2--American carrier airmen sank 25 Jap ships and heavily damaged l3 others in bold at tack on four enemy conveys off the French Indo- China Coast, nearly 1000 miles west of Manila, Admiral Nimitz reports tonight.
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UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

<AAtS PAosoo8tuB VI Suoh SCuiN0
the war? That question will be
debated long after the Nazis and
Japanese have laid down their
arms. Much less. then, will it
be settled by current debate. and
that fact seems to US to lie back
Of Prime Minister Churchill's
statement in the House of Com
mons. He said that if uncondi-
tionsl surrender were prolonRing
the war then the war would have
to be prolonged until Germany
surrendered Internationally.
This Allied demand has been
under attack for some time, in
Allied parliaments a 8 we'll q 9
among Nazi propagandists. These
attacks have distorted its mean
ing. The Nazis have sought to
identity unconditional surrender
with slavery for Germany. Some
small but well-organized groups
in Allied countries have accepted
the Nazi thesis that this demand
would stiffen the German peoples
resistance. and have been urging
a negotiated peace.
But there is . third and more
valid approach to the question.
Those following this line argue
that unconditional surrender
needs further definition BY the
Allied Governments who have
made it their central point of
agreement. Allied leaders need.
of course. to stress over and over
again that this surrender means
only that the enemy must lay
down his arms without bargain
ing for conditions in advance.
His retirement must be a COM
plete military surrender. it must
not leave opportunities. as the
conditional surrender of 1918 did.
for German leaders to rebuild the
myths of German invincibility in
the field and Allied treachery in
the council room. For with these
two myths it was possible for
Hitler to indoctrinate the Ger.
man people for another war.
Beyond this need for empha-
sizing the military and political
advantages of unconditional sur
render. however. lies another re.
quirement. This is that the Al
lies clarity their postwar policies
toward Germany. With the ex-
ception of a notable leak" mis-.
called the Morgenthau plan. Al
lied circles have not emitted very
impressive postwar hrsats)
against Germsny's future az a
peaceful q n d prosperous Euro
pean state. In fact, Allied lead.
ers have pointed out that they do
not intend to destroy Germany.
But less than enough has been
done to crystalline Allied attitudes
toward this problem to make
them clear and sharp. either for
the German people or for Allied
peoples.
This is an opportunity which
the Allied Governments may wish
to seize. When we say that clari-
fication is needed, however. We
mean Qualification, and not soft
ening O + attitudes toward the
enemy. And we do not mean
that some other policy should
take the place of unconditional
surrender.
This should stand, unequivo-
cally. Its modification would not
be interpreted in Germany a. .
gesture of friendship toward the
German people, Blu - Allied
war WEAKNESS. Thus the uses |
that German propagandists could
make of q softening Allied atti-
tude might not shorten but
rather prolonR the war BY in-
German hopes and en-.
coursging pressures for . nego-
tistsd peaee brimful Of the Con
ditions'' which preceded the
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