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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1945-09-13

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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1945-09-13
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Ohio Waisenfreund. [volume] (Pomeroy, O. [Ohio]) 1874-1953, 1945-09-13
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-16
NEW GAINS
 ON BATAAN
 ANNOUNCED
Drive from North Turns Tales on Jap Plans for
 Manila Defense

MANILA, Feb. 16-Gen Douglas MacArthur disclosed today that Japan's master plan to make Ma nila the turning point of the Luzon campaign, in Nippon's favor, is be- ing smashed under powerhouse American drive. MacArthur's forces are nearing victory in the scared city and are fast overrunning near by Bataan Peninsula.
 Today's communique reported steady reduction of the enemy pocket south of Manila, new gains on Bataan and whitening air at tacks on the fortress of Corregidor Also announced was seizure of an enemy document, which made clear, the General said, that the Japa.- nese had expected to hold Manila with 10000 troops, street and house Qualifications and thousands of mines.
 Elaborate concrete strongpoints and hundreds of heavy guns all were prepared for an attack from the south, but Macarthur struck, instead, from the north The cam paign for Manila is now close to being an American victory
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-16
 DIVERS IN
 BIG RAID
Warships Join Attack on Tokyo by Bombing and
 Smelling Operations

U. s. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, GUAM, Feb. 16--The most powerful battleship and air craft carrier force afloat poured more than 1900 Hellcats. Helldivers and Avenger planes today at Tokyo, while warships and Army planes shelled and bombed islands to the south.
 More flattops than America ever assembled. before in a single sea operation, are sending raiders in continuous waves against Tokyo's airfields and military defenses.
 Thousands of anti-aircraft guns mounted on battleships, cruisers and destroyers. disgorged to protect the raiders from any enemy at tacks.
 Swarms of raiders smashed at Tokyo and installations, sweeping down in strafing operations
 The raid was the first such smash of the war on Japan's capi- tai city.
 Challenge To Nips
 The huge and audacious opera tions posed a challenge to Japan's fleet and strongly suggested major developments to come.
 (There is no word from head quarters as to the purpose of the raids, but it is easily understand ably that they might have been in- tended to cover new amphibious operations within the inner de- fense ring of Japan's island out guards.)
 The Navy's communique today said planes were ''raiding in and around Tokyo while warships shelled Two Jima, in the Volcano group, and other enemy bases some 75 miles from Tokyo.
 The communique added the Tokyo raid was long planned and fulfilled che4shed dream of U. $. Navy officers and men.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-16
AIR STRIKES ARE RESUMED
 OVER REICH
Six Giles, Oil RefinerieS and Rail Yards Are
 Targets Today

LONDON, Feb. 16-More than l ,000 American heavies from Brit ain continued the record air offen- sive against the Reich today. They switched the attack back to Western Germany. Seven simul- taneous blows fell on oil refinery and railroad targets in six cities. At the same time, U. s. Fifteenth Air Force bombers from Italy smashed at the Obertraubling air orome at Reoensburg in southern c erm many, where jet propelled planes are based
 After night Hull in the offen- sive on 16 cities, from the Rhine to the Russian front, they were rocked by heavy loads of explo- sives from American bombers from Britain. They attacked two Benzon plants at Dortmund and Gelsen- kirchen, in the Ruhr; also two oil refineries at Dortmund and Salz- bergen, and three large freight yards at Hamm. Osnabruck and Rheine.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-16
WAY CLEARED
 FOR WALLACE NOMINATE0
New Legislation Is Now in Hands of President
 Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is Tie House passed and sent to President Roosevelt legislation intended to clear the way for Henry Wallace to become Secretary of Commerce in a trimmed-down Commerce Depart ment
 The passage came with an over whelming vote after the Democrats had narrowly turned back 204 to l96 Republican effort to send the Senate-passed George Bill back to the House Banking Committee. This would have shelyed the bill.
 Wallace's opponents hoped the re- suit of this move would be out right rejection of Wallace by forcing the Senate to vote on his confirma- tion not only as Commerce Secre- tary but as head of the REC.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-16
TOKYO BOMBED BY AIR FL

BULLETIN-UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, GUAM, Saturday, Feb. 17.-Smoke 1000 feet in the air from pancstrcken Japan from Tokyo to Yokohama Navy carrier based planes raded the Jap capital eye and witness reports The account dscoses of enemy planes caught the ground
 It. (ig) David McNIillan, of San Francisco, Navy observer with the Twentyfrs Bomber Command Super ors the targets for reconnaissance purposes He said was raid but continued for at least six hours. Smoke densey along the "flak alley" strip from Tokyo to beyond Yokohama.
 Army It. John Garvin, pilot of Superfort, said the raid continuous pounding and he flew high his return nothing but smoke, then flames through a break in the clouds.
 radio silence was mant tained during the raid and has not yet been raised.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-16
NORTHWEST 4 LINES
 GIVES CASE
Wants Route 10 Manila from Middle West
 Via Alaska

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-Croil Hunter. president of Northwest Air lines, said today the national poll icy will make it imperative" that a commercial air route be established from the Middle West to Manila by way of Alaska.
 Testifying in behalf of his com pany's application for such a route at joint hearing on North Pacific cases, Hunter said the Civil Aero nautics Board have to make the award to the best qualified carrier regardless of any other considera- tion'
 He contended no other applicant could approach Northwest in exper- fence in that area since it had flown 17000,Ooo miies between the United States and Alaska points un- der an Army contract and still flies two daily schedules between Anchor age and Attu.
 Asserting that Anchorage is, and always will be an important base in Alaska through which to serve the Orient" Hunter added that few people knew the United States had established airports, ra- dio range stations, gas stations hangars, shops and weather ser vices along the Aleutians.
 
 In supporting his claim on the importance of the inland route, us- ing St. Paul as a gateway, he said the distance from Chicago to Ma niia is 1400 miles shorter than from the Central Pacific route flown by Pan American, and from Chicago to Tokyo and Shanghai the route is 2500 miles shorter. The direct St. Paul-Anchorage route is 450 miles shorter than by way of Seattle, he said, referring to pro- posals of Pan American and United Air Lines to use only the Seattle gateway to Alaska
 Hunter said those two carriers would have abandoned operation of this inside route to a foreign flag carrier, sacrificing our nations best interest to their individual am- bitions."
 Hunter said operations within Alaska should be reserved to Alaskan carriers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-16
RED FORCES
 OF k0NEv IN
 BIG ADVANCE
Smash Spree River De- lenses : Two Armies
 Prepare for Assault

LONDON, Feb 16-The armored mass of Marshal Konev's First Ukranian Army today bore down on Berlins Spree River defenses from the southeast, smashing toward Beeskow and Cottbus, 3l to 52 miles from Berlin.
 Soviet war correspondents indi- cated the Neisse River defenses have been shattered after fierce battles in the areas of Forst and Guben, two towns on that river, which joins the Oder south of Frankfurt.
 The correspondents also told oI columns of tanks and cavalry roll ing through shattered villages within sight of the Spree, and in dicated the main weight of Konev's First Ukranian Army has turned in the Berlin direction, after form ing a firm link with Marshal Zhu- kov's First White Russian Army for the big assault on Berlin.
 Konev's southern wing, however, is reported across the Neisse River and within 37 miles of the upper Elbe River. which rises in Czecho- slovakia. near Prague, passes through Dresden and flows di- agonally across Germany to Ham burg and the North Sea.
 Soviet armored columns are bear ing down on Berlin, Moscow said, and are attacking on a 35-mile front between Beeskow and Cott- bus, flanking the Germans who held up zhukov's attack on Frank furt and Kustrin along the Oder
 Beeskow is 31 miles southeast of Berlin and IS miles south of Frank furt, on the Oder.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-16
ALL GERMANS NOW SUBJECT, MARTIAL LAW
Sweeping Decree Affects Every Man, Woman
 and Child in Land

LONDON, Feb. 16.-Almost all Germany has been placed under martial law by a sweeping decree calling for military trial of who- ever tries to evade his duties to- ward the community"
 Civilians who show "cowardice' will be subject to the death pentlay in "the Reich's defense areas that are threatened by the enemy"
 This order is one of the most drastic decrees ever issued by the Germans in an effort to bring every man, woman and child into the struggle. It was issued, Berlin said, on Hitler's orders with the agree ment of Himmler.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-16
CANADIANS DRIVE INTO
 RUHR VALLEY
Push Through Heavy Arfi!. |ery and Mortar Fire
 to Make Gains

PARIS, Feb. 16.-The Canadian First Army aimed toward the heart of the industrial Ruhr in thrust almost mile deep into the lower Rhine Valley in Northwest Ger many.
 Through storms of heavy artillery and mortar fire, thrown in ever increasing floods, and enemy reserv- es. the Canadians held 20 miles of the south bank of the flooded Rhine, from the Nijmegen sector to opposite Emmerich, but they made no threats at crossing the wide waterway. They stormed and cap tured -hemmed Huisberden, four miles east of Kleve and l9 from the Puhr gateway city of Wesel.
 Scots, Britons and Welshmen, under General Crear's command, inched toward the defense keystones of Goch and Calcar, in the center of the bulging 20-mile front.
 A front dispatch said British Elm pire troops spread out south of Moylard, indicating an advance into that general area from Calcar The Scots, swinging down the highway from Kleve, moved to within 1000 yards of Moyland.
 The American Third Army carved cut a half a mile in gains in the Pruem sector, slowly reducing the German Notifications.
 The Seventh Army, in Northern Alsace also rested after straighten- ing the local line. These operations overran Rimling, two miles south of the German Saarland, and two other villages.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-16
The W Washington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON ct. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army)

WASHINGTON - Gov Dewey s two-day visit to Washington was not exactly bowling success, but both he and COP Chairman Brownell left convinced they had made a step toward one long Republican objective-dissolution of the "unholy alliance" between Re- publicans and Southern Democrats. They have long wanted to replace it with fortnight Republican program of their own. Actually, COP leaders in the Senate have always been agreeable to breaking up the coalition However, House Minority Leader Joe Martin, who rules lower chamber COP sters with an iron hand, has stubbornly opposed. He has long enjoyed licking the Administration through his Hydra headed alliance with John Rankin of Mississippi, Gene Cox of Georgia and Virginia's wing collared, beetle e- browed Howard Smith.
 During the two-day meeting, Dewey held long talks with the Republican leadership in both houses, strongly endorsed Brownell's idea that the COP needs an inde- pendent legislative program of it's own. Even Joe Martin, who has been known to threaten recalcitrant Republican representatives with de- feat in the next election if they bolt his leadership, at last seemed sympathetic.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-16
S0UTHB0UND STEAMER
 IN THIS AFTERNOON

A southbound steamer brought the following passengers to Juneau early this afternoon: Alvin Tellef- son, Laurence Rivard, Micky Ing ram, Earl Schroder, Luciano Cabi- gas, Mrs. Edna Land, Virgil Eubank, Josephine Dawson.
 Muriel Courtney, Alvora DeAsis, Mike Jacko, Joseph Kadas. James Liva, Elmer Jacobson. Lee Dempsey Charlie Paddock, It. D. A. Schettig, Harry Watson, Ralph Hammer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-16
Missing
 In Action

Mrs. Annabelle Eylar has received word from the War Department, through the Alaskan Department that her husband, William J. Eylar, I22, is reported missing in action since January g, in France. Mrs. Eylar lives here with her little daughter.
 Eylar was a Well-known Juneau young man and was in the Signal Corps, U. s. Army, stationed here. He was transferred to the infantry and went overseas shortly before Christmas, last year
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-16
GREAT RAID
 IS MADE ON
 NIP CAPITAL
Powerful Force of Pacific Fleet Strikes 0ut in
 Dawn Attack

U. s. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD QUARTERS, GUAM, Feb 16--Adm Chester w. Nimitz announced today that Vice-Adm. Marc A Mitscher's Paaific Fleet units attacked ifl- stallations in the Tokyo area in surprise raid.
 The announcement said the pow erful Pacific Fleet force is attack ing airdromes and other important installations in and around Tokyo
 Carrier planes led the attack, the announcement said, and added this operation has been long planned and the opportunity to ac- complish it fulfills deeply the cherished desire of every officer and man of the Pacific Fleet"
 Long Trail Spanncd The raid by the Navy thus span ned the last leg of the 4.000-mile trail across the Pacific from Pearl Harbor, where the war opened.
 The size of the attacking air force is such to outnumber any thing Japan can muster hastily,
 Authorities said leading Admir- als indicated they will welcome a chance to engage whatever air strength the enemy can muster anytime, and they pointed to the American record of 20 to superi- ority in aerial combat of carrier operations through the many at tacks of January, which took i'll China and the French Indo-C China coast
 Tokyo Confirms Raid
 Tokyo confirmed the attack and said it began at 7.l5 o'clock this morning tT'okyo time). and re- ported two hours later that the raid was still continuing.
 Still later, planes were flaming out in attacks southeast to the air bases on Boso Peninsula.
 Screaming Hellcats with ma chine guns squirting death and de- struction led the attack as the first American carrier planes swept over Tokyo and jared the Japa- nese Capital City shortly after dawn into hysterical terror" said the Tokyo radio.
 Other Blows Struck
 Al Hopkins. Associated Press War Correspondent. says the Tokyo smash was followed by Superforts striking a blow at Nagoya.
 The raid on the Japanese Capital City was made by aircraft of the Twenty First Bomber Command, It was possibly the largest force of B-29's ever to strike Japan, sig naling the start of the carrier as sault on Tokyo.
 Japan's radios went silent shortly after a. m.
 The overall fleet actions on Tokyo followed shelling of the Bonins and Volcano groups under direction of Adm. R. E. Spruance.
 Vice-Adm Marc A. Mitscher, who commanded the huge task force off Japan. was victor over the Japanese fleet off the Marianas in June, ll944, and in the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-16
ALASKAN URGED FOR TERRITORIAL
 AIRLINE ROUTE
WoodIey Declares "0nIy Alaskan Operator
 Able 10 Meet Needs

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16-Only an Alaskan" carrier can meet the needs of outlying points of the Territory for air service, Arthur Woodley, owner and operator of the Woodley Airways of Alaska, told the Civil Aeronautics Board here.
 Seeking a francise for Seattle Alaskan route for his air line, Wood ley urged the Board, in the event it declined to grant his request, to at least grant the connection to some Alaskan operator. Only an Alas kan can reach the remote regions that are destinations for traffic in the Territory" he declared.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-16
HONEYMOON HERE

Pilot and Mrs. Ray Renshaw, of Ketchikan, flew into Juneau early this afternoon to spend few days in the Capital City. Renshaw and his wife, recent bride, are stay ing at the Baranof. He is employed in the First City by Ellis Airlines.