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enemy in sharp patrol fights on
Mount Tambu, near Komiatum on
the trail toward the coastal base OF
Salamaua, killing 81 Japanese. A
20 attack planes made A stranng
passes over the enemy positions
near Komiatum and Erskine Creek
in direct support of the ground
troops.
A strong force OF Liberators, rang
ing 1000 miles to strike for the
second time in the war at Macassar,
in the Celebes, attacked that enemy
base for five hours starting tires
visible for 80 miles along the water
front, factory area and airdrome.
The raid involved the second long
est flight route of the Pacific.
Flying fortresses and Mltchells
Joined to keep up the seady assaults
in the northern Solomons agalnst
the enemy's bases at BUN and F'alSl,
on Bougainville Island, losing one
plane in a two-wave attack on the
Kahili and Ballale airdromes. A late
report raised the total enemy planes
destroyed in an air fight over Cnls
area Sunday to 81 while 10 Allied
planes were lost.
A Mitchell knocked out brldge
over the Francisco River on the New
Guinea coast and a Liberator bomb
ed the Finsch Harbor dispersal
grounds in the same area.
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Worry COP
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was indicated by Spangler's unher-
aided presence at the Waldro1- AS
toria during the associations meet
ing at the nearby Commodore hotel.
Some veteran party leaders are fear
full that the associations operations
may develop into an open challenge
to the council of forty-nine and lead
to a policy dispute which otherwise
might be avoided. Meantime, Re-
publican National committee senu-
ment seems to be that the question
of party policy will be worked out
satisfactorily in time but that pres
sure tactics jeopardize harmony.
The conferees adopted resolutions
committing the association to sup
port the war effort for complete
military victory, to postwar unity
of the United Nations and establish
ment of an organization to assume
full responsibility in maintaining
world peace" But the association
at this meeting did not follow the
precedent of it's mid-western meet
ing held in Chicago May 3. On
that occasion, the delegates en-
dorsed in principle the so-called
Halliburton Hatch-Hil senate reso-
luton, introduced jointly by two Re-
publicans and two Democrats.
Among other things, that resolu-
ton would provide for maintenance
of United Nations military forces to
suppress by immediate use of force
any future attempt at military ag-
gression.
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Lewis Wants
UNIV In ALL
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in the AFL, has objected to UNIV
reaffiliation, but AFL leaders have
insisted that the dispute could be
settled amicably.
Both Tobin and VOL favor the re-
turn of the miners, and Harrison
was expected to object.
The AFL committee will report on
it's negotiations with the miners at
the August meeting of the AFL
executive council, which will take
final action.
Political Complexion Change
The return of the miners union
would change the political COM
plexion of the AF'L by adding a
powerful labor foe of the admins
tration along with more than $780,
900 members to the federation.
William H. Hutchinson, president
of the Carpenters Union and a lead
ing Republican labor figure, spon-
sored the miners application for re-
utilization at an AFL council meet
ing last May. National political i'm
plications apparently had no bear
ing on the outcome of todays meet
ing, however, since both Tobin and
Harrison have been staunch sup
porters of the administration.
The UNIV committee to meet
with the ALL was named yesterday
at meeting of the union policy
committee. Besides Lewis, its mem
bers were UNIV Vice President John
OLeary, Secretary-Treasurer Thorn
as Kennedy Percy TetloW, president
of District IT, William Mitch, pres
ident of district 20, and Mark Bren-
nan, president of district Z.
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outpost. We have still to crack
the Germans in their main for
treSS."
Horne estimated that the United
States will need a fleet twice as
great as the japanese fleet before
we can get to grips with them. "
This is due to the Japanese strategy
of concentrating on interior lines.
See U. S. in Tokyo
Moreover he continued, II am
hoping not only to defeat the Jap
fleet. I expect TO see our men in
Tokyo before the war is over. I'm
less we invade Japan 1t Is my be-
lief that we will have another war
in less than a generation"
Charles E. Wilson, executive vice
chairman of the WPB, also attended
Knox's press conference. He warn
ed against letdown on the pro-
duction front and said that I'VE
must produce so per cent more
munitions from here to the end OF
the year than we did in the first
six months of 1943"
Wilson said that I'VE ought to pro-
duce $500 planes this month"
However" he continued, "it is
doubtful that we will d. it. We have
the manpower, the plants, and the
materials, but war complacency ap-
pears to be slowing down our pro-
duction levels"
He added that in shipbuilding
there was also a decreasing eff
cheney of manpower. Wilson said
the projected fleet for America will
be seven times the tonnage now
afloat.
He said The shinhrildin9 program
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Bureau For
u. Proposed

Washington, July 20 - (U.Po -
DR.. Ernest Albert Hooton. noted
Harvard University anthropologist,
proposed today that the government
undertake the improvement OF its
citizens by program of supervised
breeding, sterilization of the unit.
and increased control over the de-
velopment and education of its fu-
ture parents.
"If the government has to take
care of all the inf1rm, aged, unem-
playable and chronically antisocial,
why should 1t not be allowed to
take measures to prevent the null
tiplication of undesirables and to
produce better human quality?' he
wrote in the current issue Of the
Woman's Home Companion.
Medicos For Job
Stating that only medical men
were qualified to undertake the job,
but that only government had
enough authority and resources,
Hooton proposed the setting up OF
a department of population, head
ed by cabinet officer who was a
doctor, with four bureaus:
The first would be the Bureaus
of Adult Rehabilitation. This would
"remake adults below the age of so
years insofar as they need rehabili-
tation. The young and middle-aged
men and women are our breeding
stock"
The second would be a Bureau Of
Marriage and Genetics. This would
fill our supreme social need
the scientific improvement of mar
riage, reproduction and the home"
It would include medical and gene
tic supervision of marriage to pre-
vent matings "bound to produce in
ferior offspring through heredity or
environment" subsidization Of par
ents proved capable of breeding
superior children, sterilization OF
the feeble minded, the insane and
the habitually anti-social and 4,
Intensive and extensive studies of
human heredity to learn exactly
what produces bad and good human
individuals"
The third Bureau which would be
known as Growth and Nutrition,
would supervise medical, physio-
logical and nutritional care of the
population from birth to maturity.
The fourth Bureau would deal
with educational and vocational
guidance and would be charged with
fitting the individual with curri-
culum based upon his ability, per-
sonality and social adaptibility."
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til midnight.
The Italian news agency Stefani's
radio transmitter, believed situated
near Rome, failed to aid two sched-
uled news broadcasts this morning,
another indication that the city may
have been attacked again.
British newspapers, unanimously
approving the aid as military nee
essity, estimated that American
bombs dropped 1000 tons of ex-
plosives on Rome during yester-
days attack. More than 500 bomb
ers probably participated, they said,
since the operation was described
as the largest yet undertaken by
daylight in the Mediterranean.
DoOlittle Planned Raid
Colin Bednall, aviation CORE
spondent for the London Daily Mail,
reported that Maj. Gen. James H.
Doolittle, commander of the North
west African strategical air force,
planned the raid on Rome, even as
he did that on Tokyo last year.
1T would be no surprise if 1t
WClC dllllOu1lCCN ClldC llC LOU lCA VAAS
raid" Bednall wrote.
Axis broadcaSts remained silent on
the number of casualties, but it was
possible that they may have reached
the four-figure mark if 1000 tons of
bombs actually were dropped on the
city. Casualties in London ranged
up to 1000 dead in a single raid
with less than half the tonnage OF
bombs dropped, though in the case
of London German planes scattered
explosives Unfortunately over the
city.
Supreme Commander Killed
A German DNB agency dispatch
broadcast by the Rome radio said
that the supreme commander OF
Italian police troops, named Hazon,
and his chief of the general staff
Col. Barengo, we're killed while trav-
cling to stricken areas of Rome.
Rome itself was described by DNB
as suffering from bomb filters. De-
layed action bombs still were explod-
ing in the suburbs last night, and
whole sections of the city were evac-
uated.
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ADD SHORTAGES

Albany. Cal. CUP The police
station here occupies a charming
cottage. at least, camouflaged as
such-which in turn is enhanced
by the presence of an aviary con-
tanning so canaries. The latter fit
about snatching bits of fur, straw
and other materials from the clothes
of people who lean too near the cage,
with which to build nests. But the
police say it is all hollow mockery
that what appears to be COM
munity Of happy wives and mothers
isn't so. Along with the man short
age caused by the war, they report
q shoxtaaa Of uaala aanaxiaR.
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reached the Caterina area, which
lies west of Emma.
Thus the Canadians were hack
ing forward directly toward Emma
while the American attack had
swung slightly to the west in the
Caterina sector, where roads lead
to the north coast without passing
through Emma. This suggested that
the American might push on some
30 miles toward Termini-1merese on
the north coast without waiting Tor
the fall of Emma.
The Canadians smashed back sew
eral enemy counter blows. Casual
ties among the Allied troops in this
sector and most other areas were re-
ported comparatively light.
The Canadians, approaching Emma
from the southeast, ran into stiff
ening resistance by reformed ele-
ments of the German 18th Panzer
division and were slowed down some
what. The Allied pincers is about
ten miles from Emma.
(Axis communicates said the Al
lied attacks we're increasing but
were being stopped or slowed every
where in Sicily. Axis bombers at
tackled Allied shipping at Augusta
and Malta, the Italian communique
said.)
On the western end of the line,
where the Americans took Agrie-
gento and Porto Empedocle, the AL
lied line was being extended along
the coast and now is approximately
100 miles long on the south coast.
1t was in this sector that opposl-
ton seemed least and many 1tal-
ian units - largely Sicilian - sur
rendered en- masse.
British military observers in
London said that the speed of the
American advance threatened to
deal knockout blow to the whole
Italian resistance in Central Sicily.
Radio Algiers said both American
and Canadian troops have reached
Enna).
In eastern Sicily, enemy troops
continued their desperate attempts
to save Catania, Sicily's second
largest city, but at last reports the
British Eighth Army was only three
miles away.
Catania already was in flames
from repeated bombings. the latest
Sunday night, and naval lombard
mentS. Eighth Army patrols stab
bed at the enemy defenses while
gathering strength for an about
assault to capture the city, General
Dwight D. EisenhoWer's commune
que said.
(Radio London said British troops
at last reports were only two and a
half miles from Catania with the
battle for possession of the city
now raging. A Vichy broadcast,
quoted by Radio Algiers, said the
British succeeded in piercing the
German lines south of Catania at
heavy cost, while Berlin reported
British attacks from the south and
through the mountains from the
WestJ
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DooIittIe Is
Congratulated

Allied Headquarters, July 20.
CUP Major General James H
Doolittle, who led the first bombing
raid on Tokyo, was congratulated
today by Lieutenant Carl A. Spaaa
on 1.-THE Accurate and Devasta ting
American raid on Rome. Spaatz
commander of the Allied Air Force
in northwest Africa. sent his con-
CALCULATIONS to Doolittle and the
strategic air force which Doolittle
heads.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur w.
Tedder, Allied air commander In the
Mediterranean area, also extended
his congratulations, Spaatz informed
Doolittle.
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lowing the Red Army's breakthrough
of densely-wooded Axis defense po-
sitions.
A special Russian communique
late last night said the 100 newly
captured towns in the Orel area
comprised 10 north of the city, 40 to
the east and 20 to the south.
Counter Attacks Beaten
Advances of four to six miles were
registered all around the defense
perimeter yesterday, the communi-
que said, and IL counter attacks
were beaten off.
The Germans were rushing REIN
forcements into battle direct from
the march in futile effort to halt
the Soviet advance. One Soviet
unit was credited in the regular
communique with wiping out one
enemy tank company and motor
lied infantry battalion.
Another Russian detachment dis
abled or burned more than $50 Ger
man tanks, 81 self-propelling guns
and much other material in four
day battle, the communique said.
In the northwest Caucasus, the
Russians continued to beat off
enemy attempts to regain height
northeast of the black sea naval
base of NoWossisk. More than 200
German officers and men were
killed by Russian machine gunners
in the repulse of one attack alone.
Soviet reconnaissance detach-
ments on the Kalinin front, north
west of Moscow. routed the Ger
mans from an operational base,
killing 200 Of the enemy and captur-
ing prisoners and booty.
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Pope Prayed
As Bombs Fell
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damage to the basilica when he re-
ceived Luigi Cardinal Maglione.
papal secretary of state, in his pri-
vate library at p. m. following the
raid and he expressed a desire to
visit the scene.
He left the Vatican in the COM
pany of Monsignor Montini, assist
ant secretary of state, and, according
to the Italian Stefani Agency, saw
the ruins of the Grand Portico,
monumental columns, 18th century
frescoes and a century-old organ
Despite the danger of falling falls,
Stefani said, the Pope knelt in the
ruins of the church and prayed for
five minutes. Soon afterWard he
left the church and impaired the
Apostolic blessing to crowd kneel-
ing on the cobblestoneS in front of
the edifice
Papal Protest
Italian advices asserted that the
Pope would draft a protest against
the destruction of the church for
transmission to President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill, but
this was not confirmed by any
source.
Significantly, the Italian reports
did not mention any damage to the
score of military detectives within
a few hundred yards of the Basilica
San Lorenzo, including the Fer
dinando Di Savoia military bar
racks, two important freight sta
lions, one of the biggest field artil-
lery ranges in Italy, the new min
istry of aviation and the central
Rome railroad station.
King Victor Emmanuel and Queen
Elena also visited bombed areas and
comforted the injured in hospitals.
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Lepke Polls Hear
Deoth Sentences

Albany, July 20-(UP)-The court
of appeals today sentenced Louis
Gepke) Buchalter and two of his
murder. Inc. henchmen, to die IN
the electric chair at Sing Sing pris-
on the week beginning Sept. Is for
the 1886 Staying of a Brooklyn
Storekeeper.
Sentenced to die with Lepke In
the first court of appeals pro-
nouncement of execution since 1916.
were gangsters Emmanuel CMendy)
Weiss and Louis Capone.
Sentence was pronounced after
the states highest tribunal had
recessed for one hour and IL min
utes to consider questions raised
during a 13-minute argument by
attorneys for the defendants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
FISHING-PAGE l
Fishing Strike Ready
To Spread WLB Fears

Boston, July 20. CUP)-The New
England War Labor Board will con-
duct a public hearing today con-
corning the work stoppages in the
New England Fishing Industry that
threaten To spread into general
strike because of the rollback of
OPA ceiling prices on fresh fish.
Chairman Saul Wallen Of the
New England WLB said the hear
ing was necessitated by the COIL
tinual refusal of fishermen TO work
in face of a warning by fisheries CO.
ordinator Harold l.. Ickes that their
work stoppage might cripple the in
dustry permanently.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
COURSE ON PAY-AS-GO

Los Angeles, Cal. (UU-Loy ola
University figures that tax laws are
going to become more and more
complicated. 1t is already offering
an eight-week course just in the
technique of the Pay-as-Go plan.
Afew odds and ends thrown in for
good measure include estate, inheri-
lance, gift and income taxes, fran
chise, excise taxes and other mis-
:ellaneous ones.
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Walter Winchell
: In NezO York

had their names in lights over every
movie theater throughout the land
getting their biggest kick from let
tiers written by soldiers who en-
joyed their work in army camps.
The scenic delights that surround
Hollywood Bowl, leaving the ad-
jectives breathless TattlesnakeS
who love to spread ugly stories about
film celebs. If they can't get to
the top, they enjoy pulling others
down to their level The self
made biggies who pulled themselves
up by their own bootlicks The
visual symphony Of Hollywood's
dawn, when the sky is lipsticked
with fiery colors . Tiny bonfires
of unhappiness that are always
springing up when conflicting am
billions are rubbed together .
Glamorous stars who inspire swanky
styles but love to wear Stacks
when they're away from the sound
stages Stars who earn a treas
ure of a salary every week, but are
fearful. They know the one luxury
they enjoy more than anything else
won't last long-applause.
Many counterfeits who seem to be
able to fake their way to fame in
the cinema capital. While many
sincere, talented humans discover
their honesty is a handicap .
Young hopeful wrapping themselves
in the day-dream that one picture
break can put them on top. Few
remember that one bad film can
tumble them into oblivion E. . People
who strived trying to cushion their
lives with little peace and quiet
SchWab's drug store where celebs
come to sip sodas cut-rate
Storklub Hollywoodites making
an art of sealing original ideas.
Originality never fails to grow tail
of imitators The silly cliques
Those who earn five thousand per
week peer down their noses at
those who earn only five hundred.
that the whacky industry spaWns.
Makeup experts who are the
nearest thing to the Fountain Of
Youth Hollywood, where the
castles in the air come down to
earth. A Technicolored fairyland,
The Main Street of fame and for
tune. The Cinderella town filled
with gremlinS.
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$500 POsTMAsTERs SERVING

Portland, Ore. CUP - Philip j.
Gallagher of Woburn, Mass, presi-
dent of the National Association of
Postmasters OF the United States,
recently told convention members
here there weer at least $500 post
masters in the armed services. Con-
sidering one-fourth of the $4,000
postmasters in the United States
were women, and many thousands of
the me nwere over 40 years og age,
that is a high percentage, Gallagher
said.
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Ida Lupino's two-month vacation
after she makes I'm Our Time
will be spent in rounding up talent
in a tour of little theatres and
schools for her forthcoming musical
comedy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20

calls for increases in the size OF
the fleet through 1947, and replace
ments for battle casualties through
1949.
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HambMg-RAF target
of stately buildings boule
~
asang Hamburg today blasted rbbe the target AL
lied air raids Ironically city fathed
Fenchmn Charmagne thousand built
head OF the 5-m Ebe river where the city stands
Hamburg joined German the
of German trade has been the of 1888 Hitler
selufcency shut out the 10000 which
warships, Uboa
electrical machinery chemicals furniture
soved batleshp Bismarck
city with canals that finger its So miles Venetian
Industray,
a million
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Ickes Decries
Optimism

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Axis In Last
Ditch Stand

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Rome Gets
End Alarm

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IIinskoye

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NutToCrack

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Propaganda
OfAxis Weak

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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-06-29
ARMY SERVICE FORCES
WANT FEMALE TYplSTS

In a letter to representatives OF
the United States Civil Service
Commission, from headquarters of
the Ninth Service Command at Fort
Douglas, Utah, so Junior Clerk
typists and so Junior or Assistant
Clerk-stenographers are wanted as
recruits for duty with the Army
Service Forces in Washington, u.
G. Applicants must be female, it
was specified
The minimum age limit is liz
years and there is no maximum,
The applicants are to be given
regular stenographer-typist exam
ination and the examination papers
are to be forwarded to the main
office for rating. 1t is requested
that each applicant be clearly
''ear-marked" to show that APP
pointment is desired with the Army
Service Forces.
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RAY pETERMAN
BUYS BUSINESS
PROPERTY HERE

One of the most substantial
transfers of property to take place
in Juneau recently will occur on
July /, when Ray Peterman, con-
tractor of Sitka, takes over the
property and building on Front
Street which is occupied by the
Juneau Young Hardware Company.
Mr.. Peterman contracted to pur-
chase the property from Oliver Oh
son and H. l.. Faulkner when he
was in Juneau last week. The pur-
chase is subject to lease by the
Juneau-Young Hardware Company
and will not affect the occupancy
of the building by that firm.
With a frontage of 40 feet on
Front Street, the property extends
back about 200 feet to the Oscar
Harri building.
Last year Mr. Peterman pur-
chased the adjoining property, and
building which is occupied by the
goth Century Market. When he was
in Juneau several weeks ago, Mr.
Peterman sold his residential prop
erty on the highway.
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MATT L0UKkO, AGED
ALASKAN,SUCCUMBS

Death came to Matt Loukko
today as the result of a
heart attack. The body was found
this morning on the street stairs
which emerge beside the Nugget
Shop, apparently as the septo-
generian was descending to the
street.
operator of MATHS Place, Loukko
has been a resident of Alaska for
the past 80 years. A naturalized
citizen, he was born in Finland
and is survived by one brother in
the eastern United States.
Police called the Charles w,
Carter Mortuary at about 6 am.
today and funeral arrangements
are pending, they announce.
Loukko, who served as pallbearer
for his friend Henry Jussila yes
terday. commented that it was his
twenty-first service as pallbearer
for close friends who had passed
away. M
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DOUGLAS
NEWS
CELEBRATION OF FOURTH
SCHEDULED FOR JULY 5TH

Plans for the Fourth of July
celebration in Douglas this year
were all arranged at meeting OF
the various committees in charge
held in the City Hall last night.
With sufficient money in sight, &C
cording to the Finance Commit
tee to afford suitable prizes, there
will be all the features of former
years with perhaps a few added
ones.
The celebration will be held on
Monday, July 5, the official holi-
day, on account Of the Fourth fall
ing OH Sunday.
A parade for the children will
begin the events of the day at 10
O'Clock am. At II o'clock there
will be a ball game between two
teams from juneau.
After an intermission for lunch,
the field sports will start about 2
o'clock in the afternoon. The usual
events with some eliminated and
new ones added were tentatively
decided on.