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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-23
New Naval
Com m and
In Pacific

PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 23.-Cre-
alton of new Naval Command in
the Pacific under Vice Admiral
Raymond A. Spruarlce, hero OF the
Battle of Midway in June 1912, is
announced by Admiral Chester w.
Nimitz.
The new Command of the Central
Pacific Forces base is now an
nounced.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-23
BENIT0 MUS50LINI
IS SUICIDE, REPORT

LONDON. Nov. 23-A roundabout
Reuter- dispatch from Stockholm,
says Benito Mussolini committed
suicide in an Italian villa. There is
no confirmation of the dispatch
which came via Switzerland.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-23

After Gen. Patton left the tent
hospital, the soldier demanded to
return to the front. His request was
refused at the time, but after a
week of rest he was In good shape,
and returned to his unit at the
front.
Drew Pearson, of the Washington
Merry Go-Round is thus corrobor-
ated in the broadcast made not
withstanding any Washington de-
NAL
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-23
PAA MAN HERE

Emerson Bassett, Sectional Oper-
lations Superintendent for Pan Am
erican Always arrived here yester-
day from Whitehorse.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-23
MRS. MORSE BACK

Mrs. Sam Morse and daughter
Suzanne arrived last night on the
boat from Seattle, where they have
been visiting relatives for the past
three weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-23

TWO ARE ELIGIBLE
FOR POSTMASTERSHIP
In CITY OF JUNEAU

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.--
Alaska Delegate Anthony j.
Dimond announces the Civil
Service Commission has noti-
fled him that Alice Coughlin
and Crystal Snow JENNIE
have been declared eligible
for the postmastership at Jul
neau.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-23
MARsHALL,s MEMORY

For long time. Jim Farley and
Mrs. Henry Wallace we're supposed
to have the best memories around
Washington. But they have real
rival in the Chief Of Staff, General
Marshall.
Returning from warfront town,
Marshall held a press conference.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1943-11-23
Women Secretaries Of
Senators Going 10 Pull
Off March; Watch for Il
BY JACK STINNETT


WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-Hope
Rulings Miller, society editor and
commentator for the Washington
Post, has got herself cause and
it's honey.
Hope is carrying the torch for
those women secretaries of the
Senators who are barred from the
Senate floor This is an ancient
custom, not rule The rule says
nothing about sex. 1t merely states
that clerks to committees and clerks
to Senators, in discharge OF their
duties, may walk the Senate floor
BY custom, however, custom
dating back to the days when wo-
mems suffrage was considered an
insufferable subject = women are
barred from the Senate floor. AL
though the custom has been broken
down to allow the petticoat Sen
ators to take their seats, it has
never been relaxed for female sec
retaries.
The male secretaries patter in
and out without a challenge. The
ladies cool their heels at the cloak
room entrances, while Senate staff
messengers try to find their bosses
and persuade them to leave the
floor.
The ladies. Hope says, are pretty
indignant about the whole thing
and are planning march on the
Senate floor if something isn't done
about it soon. They figure that ii
1t ever comes to showdown,
Charles L. Hatkins, parliamentar-
ian, and Vice President Wallace, or
whoever else happens to be presid-
ing, will have to rule with them.
AS a matter of fact Watkins al
ready has tipped them off in pri-
vate that that would be the only
possible ruling.
A check of the Senate discloses
24-or exactly one-fourth of the
Senators-have No. l secretaries on
the distaff side.
One of the better red tape" stor-
les going the rounds these days is
on Chester Bowles, OPA chief, who
really has cut lot more than he
has unwound since he came to
Washington.
Fred Wilson's economic stabiliza-
ton office called to ask Bowles just
when he was going to issue a price
freeze order on a certain product.
eth be up currently" said the
brisk Mr.. Bowles.
you mean" asked his questioner,
currently like rabbit or currently
like geologist?" Yf
A lot of southwestern congress
sional delegations are sore as boil
on the subject of Fred M. vinson,
Economic Stabilizer.
Tough, two-fisted, line
Mr.. Vinson first placed the ceiling
price on cattle-on -the-hoof below
what their cattlemen. constituents
were asking and only a few days
later denied the oil producers a
recommended 35-cents-a- barrel in
crease in the price of crude.
Some day soon, an analysis of
Mr.. Wilson's rulings will be forth
coming. One thing can be said
right now: he is one man who is
NOT running for vice president-or
any other political office.
A hand for Gentry Wales, in the
War Departments Bureau OF Ord
nance Under the program which
urges all employees to suggest ways
and means of cutting corners, Wales
made a suggestion that abolished
his own job. To the credit of his
bosses, Wales wasn't fired, merely
and he was given the
300 award for his valuable sug-
,estion.
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Evening star., 1943-12-23
War Writer Discounts
Governors Criticism

NEW YORK. Dec. % (P,.-J. Nor
man Lodge, Associated Press war
correspondent, who recently re-
turned to this country after nearly
a years service in and around
Noumea, New Caledonia, said today
he found nothing to substantiate
allegations madeaby Gov. Christian
Laigret that American troops. par
ticularly colored troops, misbehaved
in any manner"
"On the other hand" Mr.. Lodge
said, the native population Of
tNoumea continually gouged Ameri-
can troops. one shopkeeper in par
ticular having become a local mil
lionairess by her terrific prices for
ordinary merchandise.
The American command had to
place many establishments in the
city off limits for American troops
because of these gouging tactics.
Gov. Laigret long has been criti-
cal of the Americans. First it was
because correspondents criticized
local shopkeepers and their prices.
In one instance an A. P. correspond
ent was denied the use of Radio
Noumea because he criticized certain
governmental edicts. Then another
newsman was denied the same IA
cilities because he wounded Laigret's s
feelings
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Nazi Rocket Weapon
No Bluff 10 Allies
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Allied Off.
cials regard Germany's rocket secret
weapon as mo bluff" says Allan A
Niche of the Readers Digest Maya
zine
Arriving here by trans Atlantic
Clipper yesterday, Mr.. Niche said
Allied officials in London have
been gathering information from
refugees and agents for five months
on the secret weapon the Germans
are talking about. They have
enough information to know that il
is no bluff"
He said the Allies are reasonably
sure of the ,fbroad outlines of the
weapon. 1T is a rocket-type projec-
tile weighing approximately so
TONS" he declared TT can be shot
from the French coast into Eng
land"
Mr.. Niche said that after a recent
RAF raid on Peenemund, agents re-
ported that 5000 workers, including
skilled technicians, had been killed
and many blueprints and much
machinery destroyed.
The secret weapon has not yet
been used" he added, you must
draw your own inference"
Mr.. Niche said the 50-ton proiec-
tile was composed of about 40 tons
of propulsion material and 10 tons
of explosive.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Raids
Continued From First Page,


the heavy bomber raid December 13,
when 300 tons of bombs were
dropped on the Deutsche Verk Kiel
A. G. and Turbine engine plant,
sipways and engineering works.
The RATS first photographs Of
SCARED Berlin after the six heavy
bombings started November 1S
showed at least 10 great factories.
government buildings and other i'm
portant structures damaged, the Air
Ministry announced.
The pictures "leave no doubt that
the damage during these six attacks
goes far beyond anything done be-
fore the night of November 49," it
declared.
London morning newspapers in
terpreted the damage reported to
mean that 40 to so per cent of the
German capital had been DESTROYED.
with the area of utter desolation
already exceeding that OF Hamburg.
Western Berlin suffered the most.
The Raj announcement showed
severe damage to the Rheinmetal
Borsic armament plant, the largest
plant OF the Reich's second great
est armament manufacturer, to the
war. interior. justice, food and
propaganda ministries, and many
areas of Berlin, including the Tier
garten, Mite and Charlottenburg
sectors.
The Germans sent few raiders
over Southeast England last night
in retaliation, dropping a few bombs
and causing small number Of
casualties, 1t was announced,
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Inferior Plans Vast Power
Development After War

By the Associated Press.
The Interior Department, largest
supplier Of electric power in the Ma
ton, is still expanding its facilities,
but its power production is nothing
compared to what it may be after
the war.
The Departments power division,
In its annual report to Secretary
Ickes said that pesent installations
are producing 2,713,5Oo kilowatts
from Grand Coulee, Boulder and
other dams scattered throughout
the West, and that projects now
under construction would raise this
to 3,849, ,750 kilowatts.
This is "only a fraction" of the
power available from western wa
ters, the report said. Studies un-
derway indicate that another $780,
900 to 5000, 900 kilowatts may be ex-
pected to be developed after the war
IF the greater industrialization and
population growth of the West is to
be continued"
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Six D. T.. Area Officers
Promoted by Army

The War Department today an
inounced temporary promotions, ap-
pointments and assignments to duty
for six District area officers.
Harry Eugene Maynard, jr., was
promoted from second lieutenant to
first lieutenant in the infantry. His
home address is 1916 Kalorama road
NV Charles Lewis Townsend
Route 2, Boyds, Md, received SIM
liar promotion in the Air Forces.
Maj. Laurence Buell. Upton, 724
South st. Asaph street, Arlington
Va, was promoted to lieutenant COL
onel. Capt. Harry Wexler, 1850
North Pershing drive, Arlington, was
made major in the Air Forces
Gordon Mather Ragsdale, 1858 North
Nelson street, was raised from first
lieutenant to captain in the Air
Forces. Charles Thomas Nicholson
jr., 1903 Orchard street, Alexandria
was promoted from lieutenant in the
Medical Corps.
Appointed second lieutenants in
the Army Nurse Corps were Alice E
Hartline, so M street NV; Earline
McCourry Hess, 1876 Pearson drive
NE: Helen Ann Kovack, 1415 D
street NE; Elizabeth G.. Murnane
and Mary Louise Wright of Wash
ington and Viola Augusta Parsons,
Arlington.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Special Probe Slated
Into Triple Staying
By the Associated Press


| PITTSBURGH, Dec. %. State
Attorney General James H. Duff
was expected here today to confer
with Attorney Harry A. Estep, whom
he appointed yesterday as specia
investigator of the three murders
on the Wilson farm October 7 ir
Mercer County.
Mr.. Duff promised prompt action
by the State irrespective of whom
it affects and said Mr.. Estep's ap-
polntment was "in addition to the
investigation already in progress
through the regular channels of the
Justice Department"
The attorney general stepped into
the case after a jury convicted
William A. Morell, 2O-year- -old
farmland, of voluntary manslaugh-
ter in the strangling of Mrs. Helen
Wilson, 48, but acquitted him OF
the shotgun slayings of Mrs. Cath
crime Wilson, 78, and Robert Nc
Kay, 81.
Mr.. Estep said. Every element
that entered into Morell's confession
and his change of story on the wit
ness stand-in fact, everything con-
corning the trial and the prepara-
ton of the case-will have to be
investigated. The facts surround
ing the killing of Mrs. Helen Will
son will be investigated, too."
At Mercer, District Attorney Ed
win E. Moon said he had forwarded
extradition papers to Gov. Martin
asking the return of Everett Wilson
former owner of the farm where
the murders occurred and husband
OF one of the victims. Wilson was
arrested Tuesday at Kerrville, Tex.
as an "absconded witness" from the
grand jury investigation of the case
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Materials in Prospect
For Rail Equipment
BY the Associated Press.

Prospects for a greater use of steeI
alloys and other materials in build
Ing railroad equipment were outlined
today by Joseph B. Eastman, direc-
tor of war transportation.
Mr.. Eastman told a Senate Inter-
state Commerce subcommittee in
vestigating shortages of box cars and
other equipment that the railroads
are now satisfied" with their priori-
ties for new locomotives.
In the case of freight cars" Mr.
Eastman said, the railroads have
reduced their 1914 requests from
$4,000 to $4,000 and present orders
run around $4,000"
The ODT, he said. would like to
see 10000 to 10000 built"
The demand now is for boxcars
rather than the open f1at-top freight
cars that were the principal need
up until a few months ago.
The WPB is opening the door to
construction of passenger cars of
aluminium, Mr.. Eastman added
The subcommittee was appointed
under authority of resolution
offered by Senator LANCER, Repub-
lican, of North Dakota who charged
that shortage of boXcars a few
months ago prevented the shipment
of food supplies from North Dakota
and surrounding States.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Pope 10 Celebrate
Yu|e Mass Tomorrow
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Dec. 23.-The Vatican
radio broadcast an announcement
today that Pope Plus XII will cele-
brate the Christmas eve mass pri-
vately at S pm. tomorrow moon
Eastern standard time) instead of at
7 pm, as he originally planned.
The change was made because OF
the curfew in Rome, which is under
German occupation.
The announcement said the mass
would be strictly private" but will
be broadcast and be relayed through
the Italian radio along with an
earlier papal radio message. This
message to the world is scheduled
for 1915 pm. (7:l5 am. Eastern
wartime).
(NBC and CHS plan to carry
the papal message at tbs am.
Eastern wartime tomorrow, fol-
lowed by an English summary.
Whether Christmas eve mass
would be rebroadcast in the
United States was not learned
immediately
Evening star., 1943-12-23
|WMC Gives Veterans
Preference on War
Or Civilian Jobs
Ry the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Manpower Chairman McNutt. de.
claring that returning veterans
must be given "every possible as
sistance," made 1t clear today that
honorably discharged servicemen
don't have to take war jobs If they
don't want to.
Regardless Of local manpowef
programs which give essential war
plants first call on workers, the
veterans will be helped to find jobs
to their liking, he said.
That goes for both men and
women. About 1OO,0 900 now are being
discharged every month.
1T can be assumed that the ma
jority Of returning veterans will
prefer war jobs, but no restriction
must be placed on anyone who
chooses to accept other work, par
ticularly work promising greater
permanency." Mr. McNutt said.
USES Offices Get Instruction.
All offices Of the United States
Employment Service have been in
structed that, on the request of a
veteran, they shall refer him to any
job in which he is interested and
for which he Is qualified.
The same freedom of choice con-
tinues for 60 days after the veteran
has accepted his first civilian job.
In other words, If he doesn't like
the lrst job he has the privilege,
for go days, of seeking other work
At that period he must abide by
the labor priorities set up in local
employment stabilization plans.
The women's Advisory Committee
OF the War Manpower Commission
called meanwhile for positive and
specific planning to preserve the
jobs of women as we'll as of men in
converting industry back to civilian
production.
In statement submitted to
Chairman McNutt for forwarding to
Bernard Baruch, head of the Post
war Adjustment Unit of the Office
Of War Mobilization, the committee
urged experimental programs of re-
employment now. during what it
called the initial stages of recon-
version.
The committee. headed by Miss
Margaret Hickey OF st. Louis, stated
its recognition of the fact that
|servicemen are to have their old
jobs back, If they want them, when
they return.
Women Workers Included.
It added, however, that all evi-
dence so far shows that a relatively
small proportion Of women now at
work will voluntarily withdraw from
the labor market after the war and
asked that full employment be de-
fined to include all women now at
work - those in uniform as we'll
as civilians
The statement asked:
l. A fair, accurate definition of
full employment" which includes
consideration Of the fact that IA
600 900 women workers are not new
corners to the labor force and that
an even higher proportion of women
must become breadwinners because
of the loss of husbands or potential
husbands in the war.
2. Evaluation now, by each en-
ployer, of the qualifications and
skills OF his present workers in the
light Of his postwar requirements in
order TO arrive at sound personnel
policies for work placement.
8, Inclusion of women in all
training and retraining programs
and broadening OF such programs
to make them available to all work.
ers, not alone to msutered-out serv-
icemen.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Soroptimists Entertain
I92 Wounded Veterans

Members of the District Soropti-
mist Club last night entertained 81
wounded servicemen from Walter
Red Hospital and the Bethesda
Medical Center at Christmas din
ner at the Willard Hotel. Each vet
eran was given turkey dinner and
carton of cigarettes.
Twenty-Five members of the
group were awarded $25 War Bonds
Miss Mary Judge, co-chairman fol-
the occasion, acted as Santa Claus
Gifts to be sent to youngsters at
Childrens Hospital were on dis
play under a Christmas tree. Eileen
Ritter. singer at the Earle Theater
and Cy Reeves, comedian, appear
ing at the Capitol Theater, pro-
vided entertainment. Music was
supplied by a band unit from the
Navy School of Music.
The party was arranged under
the direction of Miss Mildred Clum
president of the Soroptimist Club;
Mrs. Ethel Fistere of the Arthur
Murray School and Miss Judge, So
cial chairman.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Walker Is PLANNING
10 Make Series Of
Speeches in South
BY the Associated Press.

| oy tDe AssOCldLeQ PreSS.
A political pilgrimage to the
party's troubled precincts in the
South may be undertaken by Chair
man Frank C. Walker after the
Democratic National Committee
meets here January % to fix the
time and place for its national con-
ivention.
Tentative arrangements have been
made for Mr.. Walker to head South
as part Of a general plan that will
Il find all of the National Committee
officers filling speaking dates at the
annual jackson Day dinners on
which the party leans heavily for
financial returns. Mr.. Walker prob
ably will talk at several such din
ners.
Democratic spokesmen insist the
fact that Mr.. Walker will speak in
the South has no relation to the
rumors of revolt that have been
coming up from below the Mason
and Dixon line. But in other quar-
ters it Is pointed out that Mr.. Walker
may want to see what he can do to
stop talk of third party
Roosevelt Appearance Doubted.
If plans mature, five other ma
tional committee officers will try
their oratory at series of dinners
to be inaugurated by the traditional
$1OO-a-plate gathering here at the
time the committee meets. These
would be Ambrose OConnell, execu-
tive vice chairman; Oscar R. Ewing,
vice chairman; Mrs. Charles w. TIL
lett. director of the womens divi-
sion: George E. Allen. secretary, and
Edwin w. Pauley, acting treasurer.
Democratic leaders doubt that
President Roosevelt will put in a
personal appearance, as he has so
often in the past. Their guess is
that Mr.. Roosevelt will be too busy
with war matters to attend a politi-
cal gathering, but may make radio
address.
Party headquarters here doesn't
know yet how many dinners will be
held, but any finances that can be
raised through them will be well
coined in what, at best, is a COM
paratively empty purse.
Because no one seems to know
whether the President will be
candidate for fourth team. leaders
probably will squelch expected at
tempts to put the national commit
tee on record in regard to his ex-
pected candidacy.
War-End Resignation Suggested.
One Democratic party official has
suggested that the President might
accept a fourth-term nomination
and, If elected, resign at the wars
end to head the American peace
delegation
The official, reminded that no
President ever has resigned, OBJ
served:
That's why Mr.. Roosevelt might
do it."
Mr.. Walker, however, said he did
not believe the Chief Executive
would take this step, although he
emphasized that he had not dis
cussed it with Mr. Roosevelt.
The Republican National Com
mittee, meeting with the partys
State chairmen at Chicago January
10-1l, may avoid the fourth-term
issue also and confine its work
largely to setting the time and place
for the national convention.
Both parties are leaning toward
Chicago as the convention site, with
the Republicans expected to stick to
the usual mid-June date and the
Democrats likely to postpone their
meeting until later.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Runcher's Plun to Tame Mules
Scutters Poles, Wrecks Phones

tain amount Of good luck for the
hired NAM and blindfolds for the
mules. Then he was to take of the
blindfolds and get out of the way
fast.
The mules were supposed te
amble home without any difficulty
Some hours later they COM
menced to arrive, some dragging two
or three poles. some without any.
"One had hooked onto the tele-
phone line and was dragging two
telephone poles and a quarter OF
a mile of wire"
Jack, his wife concluded, spent
all next day fixing the lines.
He had sort of far-away look
she said.
The idea was to tame the young
mules by hitching them to heavy
drags.
Evening star., 1943-12-23
Prompt Relief Seen
As Cold Wave Grips
Northeastern States
BY the Associated Press,

-e~~~~~~SSA
A cold wave that accompanied
the official arrival of winter chilled
most OF the northeastern quarter
OF the Nation today, but prompt re-
lief was forecast.
The weather forecaSter in Chi
cago said slow moderation would
begin today in the Upper Mississippi
Valley where the wave struck its
first subzero blow yesterday.
Today the zero belt extended from
Portland, Me-, and Albany, N. Y,
westward to the North Dakota
Montana line. In the IL hours end
ing at 7:30 am. today, the Nations
lowest recorded reading was Is be-
low zero at Canton, N. Y.
Although Upper Mississippi Valley
temperatures were expected to mod
crate today, residents of the Ohio
Valley, lower Great Lakes States
and the Middle Mississippi Valley
were warned of continued cold to-
night, with the mercury beginning
to rise tomorrow.
Lowest temperatures in States
af1ected by the wave were:
Roseau, Mimi, %; Caribou, Me-,
20; Pembina, N Oak, IA; Huron,
S. Dak., Ill; Lincoln, Nebr., -6;
Mason City, Iowa, 10; Park Falls,
Wis, III; Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,
IA; Rockford, ILL.,, 8; Kirksville,
Mo-, g; Toledo, Ohio, zero; McCool,
Ind, i; Burlington, VT, 10;
Winchester, KY, above; Phillips
burg, Kans., 4, and Guymon,
Okla, Is.
Low readings in the Nations big
cities included: New York, 18;
Chicago, 3; St. Louis, 7; Mil
waukee, 4; Minneapolis, u, and
Boston, 8.
Miami, Fla, enjoyed the Nations
warmest temperature, a comfor-
table IS.
The cold was not accompanied by
any snow of consequence, the
Weather Bureau said, except for a
few squalls in the Great Lakes
region.