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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-18
LABOR Dept.
BILL TAKEN
OUT AGAIN
Smith Leads Successful
Move 10 Advance Ap-
preparation

A move to bring the Labor De-
partment bill back for consideration
! n second reading succeeded in the
House this morning and the bill
passed through second reading al
.er being amended to cut the APP
preparation to $4,000 from the or
iginal $47,650
The House voted 81 to bring the
bill out again after motion to
pigeon-hole the measure until
March l had been passed yester-
day. Rep. Harvey ]. Smith led the
move to bring the bill to life again
and Representative Alaska Stew
art Linck and Frank Whaley
changed their votes today to car
ry the motion.
The bill now provides for $685.
000 appropriation effective as soon
as the bill is passed, and also con-
tains a provision setting the Com
missioner's salary at 5000 per year
1t will come up for third reading
and final passage on the regular
/ calendar.
A bill and a memorial were in
PRODUCED in the House this morn
ing Rep Tolbert Scott introduced
memorial to the President, the
War Production Board and Alaska
Delegate Anthony j. Dimond, urg-
ing that the order hating gold
mining in Alaska be modified tc
allow hydraulic and other small
mines to be operated by men not
less than 65 years of age, if no es-
sential war material is used except
what is on hand.
Rep. Whaley introduced bill
which would appropriate $4,000 fol
shelter cabins.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-18
WIN(HELL.
STRIPPED,
UNIFORM

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18-Secre-
tary of Navy Frank Knox Informed
the House Naval Committee today
that he had ordered Walter Win
chell, newspaper columnist, and
Lieutenant Commander in the Ma
val Reserve, to inactive duty. The
order takes Winchell out of his uni
form
Behind the bare announcement
is no further explanation, but Re-
preventative Clare E. Hoffman OF
Michigan recently charged Win
chen with making "inflamatory
and derogatory remarks about men,
bers of Congress in his radio broad
casts
Secretary Knox had previously
informed the House Committee that
Winchell was on active duty when
he made his statements.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-18
COMMUNICATION

Editor, Daily Alaska Empire;
Dear Sir: From information that
I have received from an observatory
the eclipse of the sun on Feb. 4.
will be SO percent total in Juneau.
The eclipse will occur in the late
afternoon.
No doubt by the time this card
reaches you this will be old inform
alton and perhaps the eclipse has
taken place.
Yours very truly
Olaf Halverson, Kodiak, Alaska,
Jan. Is, 1913.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-18
STOCK QUOTATIONS.

NEW YORK, Feb. 10. - Closing
quotation OF Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is 37s, American Can
8212, Anaconda 26&, Bethlehem
Steel 59i2, Commonwealth and
Southern 1916, Curtiss Wright rs,
General Motors 47A, International
Harvester 60, Kennecott 31A, New
York Central l2l2, Northern Paci-
fic 83a, United States Steel 81,
Pound $4.04.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-18

Fer. centuries Anican Indians
have dried potatoes for long pres
ervation; in this form they are
called "chuuos."
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-18
FRED EXILE
dies HERE

Fred Exile, 70, old-time Alaskan
and resident of Juneau, died last
night at st. AIMS Hospital. A
blacksmith by trade. Exile came to
Alaska from Norway about IS
years ago. He worked in the old
Treadwell mine until it was closed
by cave-in about % years ago.
Then he worked in the Sulzer cop
per mine, until after World War
I, when he moved to Ketchikan.
Ten years ago Exile moved to Ju-
neau where he has resided ever
since.
Ekle's only close relative, sister,
died in Norway a little over a
year ago, after the German occu-
patton of that country. The where
abouts of two nephews, Jack Exile
and Charles jacobson, the only
known surviving relatives of the
deceased, are unknown.
The remains are at the Charles
w. Carter Mortuary.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-18
DOW, JONES AVERAGES

The following are today's Dow.
Jones averages: industrials 1877 OG.
rails 1923 utilities 1894.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-18

forces were intensely interested in
the health problems in the Terri
tory and l was also pleased to find
that considerable assistance was
promised.
"A nutrition program for the
Territory was also discussed with
the Washington, D. c., and San
Francisco offices of the American
Red Cross and other agencies and
it is quite possible that work that
is now being done along these lines
in the Territory will be amplified
shortly" Col Hays stated.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-18
new PERSONNEL
FOR DEPT. Of
HEALTH COMING
Armed Forces Also TO Aid
Program, Col.
Hays Says

AS the result of conferences with
the staffs of the Surgeons General
of the Public Health Service, Army
and Navy in Washington, d. O.,
1t. Col. George Hays was able to
announce definite plans for the
closer indignation of medical ac-
tiyities of the three services and
THE Territorial Department oil
Health, on his return to Juneau
from Washington, D. c. 1t. Col.
Hays, Liaison Officer for the Ter
ritorials Department of Health, Al
aska Defense Command and the
Northwest Service Command, re-
turned this week from six weeks
trip on official business.
Additional personnel was re-
.ouested for the Territorial Depart
ment of Health, some Of which has
already been selected and will leave
soon for Alaska" Col. Hays said.
THE additional personnel will in
clude an officer who will act as
Assistant Commissioner of Health,
one who will be a consultant for
tuberculosis, one who will be an
orthopedic surgeon; at least one
Public Health engineer. In addl-
ton. an added complement of pub
lie health nurses was requested
and are expected to come north
shortly The formal request for adj
ditional personnel was made by the
Governor and DR.. Council and only
tentative selections were made by
me on my trip" Col Hays said.
Since my return to Juneau, DR..
Council has confirmed some of my
conferences and made the final Sc
lections of the new personnel for
the department, he stated.
Probably the first OF the new
personnel to arrive in Alaska will
be John Hall, public health en-
gineer, who is now in Seattle await
ing transportation. The next should
be DR.. Paul Lindquist and DR.. H.
H. HENDERSON should follow short
ly and doubtless the others will
arrive soon afterwards
All of the prospective personnel
were interviewed personally by Col.
Hays and as far as possible, all
were informed as TO the working
and living conditions as well as the
4 health problems in the Territory
! in order to prevent short term as
( signments, according to Col. Hays.
"One of the factors that has I'M
favorably influenced the health
program in Alaska has been the
short term of employment of per-
+ sonnet, who either came expecting
to stay only a brief time, or were
dissatisfied with conditions they
found after arrival" he stated.
Every effort, therefore, h a S
been made to carefully select new
personnel which would come with
the fullest information about the
Territory and with the intention of
staying until some accomplish
ments have been SEEM" Col. Hays
said.
Interest Shown Pleasing
1T was pleasing to see that the
medical departments of the armed
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-02-18
BIG CLASS
INITIATED,
ELk5 HERE
Juneau Lodge Celebrates
Diamond Jubilee
Of Order

A large class of candidates we're
initiated into the Juneau Elks
Lodge last night at meeting cell
ebrating the Elks' Diamond Jubilee
rs years of Elkdom. Twenty-six
were initiated into the Juneau
Lodge and two for outside lodges.
the ceremonies being performed by
Exalted Ruler Arthur Adams and
other officers. The Hall was packed.
M. E. Monagle, Past Exalted
Ruler, spoke on the subject of early
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Sailor Held as Bigamist
On Captains S Complaint

First Glass Photographers Mate
Frank D. Dewsr, 35, was In Alexan-
dria Jail today under $500 bond
awaiting grand jury action on big
amy charge preferred by his father-
in-law, Capt. Joseph Y. Dreisonstok,
u. s. NJ, 5803 Chevy Chase parkway.
Capt. Dreisonstok, who appeared
before Judge James r. Duncan in
Police Court yesterday. charged that
Dewar married his daughter, Bette,
earlier divorce action had become
effective. 't
The naval officer said divorce pa
pers granted to Dewar in April con-
stituted a decree of separation and
| that divorce could not be filed until
April, 1914.
Testimony revealed that Dewar,
who is stationed at Bainbridge, Md,
married Miss Constance Ballestroa
in Los Angeles in June, 1912.
Through his attorney, Henry Thorn-
as, Dewar said he had had divorca
papers drawn up in August. 1942,
but was unable to file them then be-
| cause he was called away on duty.
In 1929, Capt. Dreisonstok, then q
/ lieutenant commander. evolved a
new and simplified method Of solv-
ing navigational problems. Under
the new system, which has since
been adopted by the Navy. a navi-
gator armed with a pocket-sized SET
of the Dreisonstok tables. necessary
charts, nautical almanac, a sex
tant and watch can keep battle
ship, an airplane or a lifeboat on its
course under any conditions.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Torpedo Hits 6 Hours
Apart Sink u. ). Ship
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MIAMI, Fla. Aug. 14.-A sub
marine torpedoed an American mer-
chairman in the South Atlantic
early in July, then hid near the
scene for nearly six hours and
blasted the ship again when she
started limping toward shore.
Charles C. Bentley of New York,
master of the medium sized vessel
described the attack on his arrival
here by airplane from the South
American port where all of the ship S
company-66 men-was landed.
I'VE were torpedoed between
and 2 a am he said, "and I ordered
ship abandoned Immediately. We
pulled away in lifeboats and l
counted noses. Then party went
back aboard to put out the fires
unoer the boilers"
The ship was settling slowly. he
continued, land at 4:40 am. I went
back aboard with is volunteers to
attempt to run her to the coast and
ground her. BY am. we were
under way. Meanwhile, the others
had been taken aboard a patrol
vessel.
we were making Az knots
running with the bow well down
when the submarine fired another
torpedo at TIA am. This time the
ship went down in so seconds.
AN hands jumped overheard and
crawled into the lifeboat we were
towing. We were picked up in a
short while"
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Boy ParoIee Admits
Staying Twins and
Attacking Another
By ihe Associated Press

BY ihe Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, Aug. IA first
degree murder charge was filed to-
day against Henry Hagerf. reform
school parolee. in the double Staying
of James and Charles Collins. l3-
year-old twins. The charge was
brought in Juvenile Court bv De-
tective Inspector Frank w. Story
The twins. James and Charles
Collins, who had been shot through
the head, were found late yesterday
in wooded section OF suburban
Bay Village.
Inspector Story quoted Hagert as
admitting he killed the twins Just
for the heck of it" and because Il
didn't like them"
The inspector added that the
youth, who will be 18 next month
also confessed to criminal attack
Wednesday on Jack Buchanan. son
of City Food Inspector E. B. Bu-
chanan.
Released From Hospital.
Hagert's record disclosed he had
served IL months at the Boys In
dustrial School at Lancaster for au-
tomobile theft
A psychiatrist at City Hospital
said the youth had been released
from the psychopathic ward last
Monday.
The twins mother, Mrs. George
c. Collins, a., collapsed when told
of their des tbs. She has five other
children-four daughters and a son.
company employe.
Inspector Story quoted Hagert as
saying he picked up the twins in
his automobile Thursday as the boys
were hitchhiking to the golf course.
The inspector said the twins were
slain Thursday night.
Acting on tip that sedan was
touring Bay Village. Cleveland and
Lakewood detectives took Hagert
into CUSTODY A 32-caliber revolver
was found in the car.
Reporter Gave Tip.
Inspector Story credited Reporter
Todd Simon and Photographer Andy
Kraffert of the Cleveland Plain
Dealer for the tip that led to Ha-
gert's arrest. Then encountered the
Lakewood youth Thursday prowling
around field in suburban Westlake
Village where police had found the
abducted Buchanan boy in dazed
and bleeding condition.
Mr.. Simon said the youths surly
attitude and his unusual interest in
the spot where the Buchanan child
had been found aroused his sus-
picion and he iotted down the license
number OF Hagert's car.
The youth was not at home when
officers called but detective came
on him in front OF public library.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Denver County Prisoners
Quiet After Food Riot
By the Associa ted Press.

By the Associate ted Press.
DENVER, Aug. 14.-Eighty pris-
oners rioted in Denver County Jail
yesterday in protest against the
quality Of food being served.
Thirty policemen quelled the out
break, but not until furniture had
been wrecked, windows broken, water
pipes wrenched loose and one por-
ton Of the Jail flooded, according to
Robert j. Kirschwing, manager of
safety.
The outbreak occurred as the aft
ernoon meal was being served in the
mess hall. The men marched in
and. apparently at prearranged
signal, said Warden Edmund C.
Young, burst into catcalls and began
to upset tables on which the main
dish of the meal, a hash made of
bologna, was placed
When policemen answered the
riot call, Chief of Police August
Hanebuth ordered them to remove
their revolvers before entering the
Jail to preclude the possibility of a
shooting.
Using their night sticks and sup
ported by three riot guns, the off,
GERS charged into the mess hall and
restored order
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Western Union 10 End
Duplicating Offices
Rv the Associated prees

By the Associated Press.
Western Union told the Federal
Communications Commission yes
terday that all unnecessary dupli-
eating branch Offices and tributary
Offices" will be consolidated if the
pending plan for merging its system
with Postal Telegraph is approved.
A statement filed with FEC said
the properties of the companies will
be regarded as one and the same,
and all Offices, equipment and plants
will be treated without discrimina-
tion as to former ownership and
wholly on the basis of their value
in the public service"
In the larger cities, operations
will be consolidated in Western
Unions main offices. During the
integration period, however, the
main Offices and the two trunk net
works of both companies. will in
general, be maintained and op-
Grated.
1t was estimated that the inte-
grafton of the two systems and the
consolidation of duplicating Offices
and patrons tie-lines would require
about two years under normal con-
ditionS.
Evening star., 1943-08-14

L
the circumstances in which this
declara ton would be accepted
In view of the repetition of air
raids on Rome, the center of the
Catholic world, the Italian govern
ment has decided formally and pub
licly to declare Rome ar open city
without further delay and the Ital-
ian government is taking the neces-
sary steps according to international
law"
Earlier, sn Italian communique
recorded by the Associated Press
said 218 persons were killed and $40
injured in yesterdays bombing OF
Rome
Allied headquarters in North AZ
RIGA announced that the damage in
the railroad yards was great and
stated that five of the enemy air.
craft encountered over the target
were shot down. The British radio
said in a broadcast that heavy
screen of smoke from fires set by
bombs was still hanging over the
yards today.
A Rome radio political COM
mentator said the Italian people
have been thrown into consterna-
ton by yesterdays raid, but more
than ever their will of resistance has
been strengthened by the terroristic
expression of Anglo American fury
Waves Of Raiders.
In the raid, the American pre-
cision bombers, flying In waves of
Flying Fortresses, Mitchells and Ma
rauders. showered explosives on the
San Lorenzo and Littorio railway
yards.
Some 40 or so enemy fighters
rose to the combat, but the Amer
leans poured more than 500 tons of
bombs on their targets and returned
to their American bases without loss
of a plane.
As in the first raid, the Americans
were carefully instructed to avoid
religious or historic landmarks in
Rome.
Il did not see one bomb outside
the target area" said Flying Officer
Robert Butler of Staples, MINI, a
Marauder pilot
The Swiss telegraphic agency re-
layed a dispatch saying the Church
of Our Lady Of Loretto was reported
badly damaged.
The Rome radio said places hit
included the PlazZo Madama, an
cient seat of the Italian Parliament,
and the Plazzo Carignano.
Another broadcast said Pope Plus
XII, who also is Bishop of Rome,
visited the bombed areas immedi-
ately after the raiders left.
dispatch last night from Asso-
ciated Press Correspondent Frank
Brutto at the SwisS-Italian frontier
said thousands of Italians clustered
around the Pope and shouted for
peace
Stefani said the Pope was the OBJ
ject of tumultous manifestations
both at Lodi Place and st. John
Lateran Church. where he knelt
amidst immense crowds for prayers.
The Milan correspondent of the
Zurich newspaper Die Tat. in dis
patch passed by the Italian censor,
said that Rome is seeking the pos
sibility of an agreement for
separate peace through the Vatican
and Spain"
This peace. the correspondent
added, should leave the door open
to Germany" There was no further
explanation of this phrase.
The situation in Italy, ne added, is
most tragic"
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Gen. H. A. Craig Named
Assistant Air Staff Chief

The appointment of Brig. Gen
Howard A. Craig, as. as assistant
chief Of air staff was announced
yesterday by the War Department.
He succeeds Maj Gen. Barney M
Giles, recently named chief of air
staff, in charge of operations, COM
mitments and requirements.
Gen. Craig, a native of Philadel-
phia, has been chief of staff of the
Mediterranean air command under
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur w.
Tedder of the RAF. Previously he
had been assistant chief of staff
(plans) of the Army Air Forces.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Dispute Over & Pictures Goes o.
As Count Serves Term in JuiIaa

pictures are being held by the Uni93i
States marshal's ONCE. They had
been taken at the Counts" apart
ment as evidence in a case which
has been nolle pressed.
The son OF the Count" in fling
his claim to the pictures. main
tanned he bought them from his
father before the attachment was
issued
The light bulbs. which the Count"
was promoting. had been described
as needing no wiring. The Count"
had swindled two New Jersey man
out of several hundred thousand
dollars. IL was charged In the in
dictment under which he was SEN
fenced. "
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Brozils War Minister
To Reach u. S. Mondoyl

The Brazilian War Minister. Mai
Gen. Eurico Gaspar Dutra, will ar
rive in this country Monday for .
30-day official visit and tour OF mil.
itary establishments, the War De.
partment announced today.
Gen. Dutra will visit Washingtos
for conferences with high Army ane
Government officials.
He has been a member OF ths
Brazilian Army since 1902.
Evening star., 1943-08-14
Normandie S List Decreases
i'd Degrees in "a Hours
By the Associst ted Press,

By me ASSOclatfd PTesS.
NEW YORK, Aug. l4.-The list of
the former French liner Normandie
was "a degrees today. an officially
recorded drop of IA degrees since
yesterday.
Meanwhile. tine work of shifting
the 80 pumps which were working
at an accelerated pace to remove the
last of 10000 tons of water in the
ships vast confines, was proceeding
slowly.
Naval officials said all remaining
water must be pumped out and the
ship righted to an angle of de-
grees before the vessel is removed
from the pier where it rested at a
70 degree angle for 18 months.
Evening star., 1943-08-14

Ownership OF six pictures which
are said to have belonged to Count"
Juan J, Tomadelli. SIS. now serving
a sentence of from one to five years
on mail fraud charges. in connec-
ton with the promotion of light
bulb, was still an open question
today.
The latest claimant to the pic
lures. which are of uncertain value,
Is Juan v. Tomadelli of New York
said to be a son of the Count" :"
Yesterday he filed claim for the
pictures in District Court.
Previously business arm had OBJ
tanned an attachment on the pic
lures in connection with a judg-
ment on a claim. Meanwhile. the
Evening star., 1943-08-14
5000 Artillery Pieces Per Mile
Used in Opening Red Drive

sions which first attacked the Kursk
salient.
For example, the 18th and 9th
Divisions and some others were
transferred from Kursk to the Orel
front. From july 18 to July 20, some
divisions were found transferred
from France. One tank division
was brought from the Minsk-
Vitebsk sector and another from
Velikie Luki.
Nazis Scattered Reserves.
I'VE could feel that the Germans
were putting everything possible
into the effort to hold the Orel
battlefield, but the general situation
and deep reaching attacks of the
Red Army both in the direction of
Karachev and South from Kursk
forced the Germans to scatter their
reserves which they did not have
placed properly"
Sabennikov smilingly described
Katiusha. the Red Armys secret
weapon, as very good and beauti-
full: the Germans dance when she
sings"
we gave them artillery fire In
this sector such as they had never
seen in any sector" he continued.
Soviet artillery was so dense that
in the number of gun barrels per
kilometer it was many times strong
er than on any sector in this war
or any other war, even at Verdun.
If you take the figure for Verdun
as 1870 barrels per kilometer, of the
front here we had at least 10 times
more" THAT would mean at least
1900 per kilometer, or approxi-
mately 1900 per mile.)
Our artillery with avis ton COW
ered to 3 kilometers (about 3 to S
miles of the German line In depth
during the intense period of the
battle. This was on considerable
stretch at all points where we needed
breakthrough"
The breakthrough was made on
front from 20 to Is miles wide.
The general said that Orel was
taken by a series of co-ordinated
converging attacks from north. east
and south.
Lower Nazi morale was indicated
by the fact that larger number of
Germans surrendered than in previ-
Gus battles, he said, but the ma jority
of the enemy fought to the last
cartridge. He said the prisoners ap-
peared to have been greatly i'm
pressed by the downfall of Mus
solini.
Sabennikov, who was appointed
commander of the Orel garrison.
said we expect a stubborn battle on
the Karachev-Desna line near Bry-
ansk and on the Dnieper Very stub
born battles are going on now. but
Soviet troops already are approach
ing Karachev"
The Germans again are using as
many as 900 planes daily over the
Karachev sector and headquarters
indicated the Red Air Force was
giving them hard tussle
American Gen. Grant and British
Churchill tanks are being employed,
although not in large numbers,
mixed with Soviet tanks which the
Russians consider less vulnerable
and more maneuverable.
Sabennikov insisted the Germans
are not conducting a rearguard ac-
ton, but are attempting to form
strong defense with fresh troops
He said the Red Army was suffer
ing considerable losses, but less than
the Germans due to the superiority
of Russian artillery
Give up that vaca tien drive cheer
rnemy for One-way ride