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The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-08-23
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Tn the Commissioners Court for the Territory of Alaska, Division Number One,
 Before FELIX Gray, Commissioner and ex-officio Probate Judge, Juneau Precinct.
 In the Matter of the Estate of CLAUDE E. ERICSSON, deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned was on the 3lst day of July, 1943, duly ap- pointed Administrator of the estate of Claude E. Ericson, deceased. All persons having claims against the estate of deceased will present them, with proper vouchers and duly verified, to the undersigned at Juneau, Alaska, within six (6) months from the date of this mo- tice.
 Dated at Juneau, Alaska, this 31st day of July, 1943.
 CHARLES E. NAGHEL,
 Administrator First publication August 2, 1943. Last publication: August 23. l943.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-08-23
5A(5 DROP TW0GAkES
 TO SEATTLE
Portland Wins Double header from San Diego
 -SeaIs Are Bedfen
(By Associated Press)

The Portland Beavers swept a doubleheader from San Diego in the Pacific Coast League last night, but San Diego got the series five games to three. The Beavers pushed across four runs in the nightcap to break a 2-2 deadlock. Chet Johnson threw the opener away for the Padres as he walked seven and hit one bat ter and tossed another wild pitch.
 With pitcher Earl Escalante of Hollywood batting out double in the second inning with two away and the bases full, the Stars beat Los Angeles in the opener. But the Angels rallied in the second to win.
 Sacramento closed a bad home season by losing twice to the Seat tie Rainiers.
 Oakland battered the second place San Francisco Seals twice to win the series five games to two. The Seals got six hits in both games.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-08-23
GAMES SATURDAY Pacific Coast League

Seattle 4, 5; Sacramento l, 3. Portland o; San Diego 5. Oakland 5; San Francisco 2.
 National League Pittsburgh 4; New York 2. Cincinnati 2; Boston 3. St. Louis 2; Philadelphia 3. Chicago 13; Brooklyn l.
 American League Boston T; Detroit 6. Philadelphia 3, |; St. Louis 5, 4. New York 8; Cleveland 3. Washington 4 Chicago 5.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-08-23
MRS. ADMINISTER
 AND DAUGHTER ARE
 SOUTHBOUND TODAY

Mrs. John Pademeister and daughter LaVerne left today for the south for an indefinite stay. They will go first to Ashland, Oregon. and later to Portland, where La Verne plans to attend business school.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-08-23
GARYINs RETURN

Mrs. Homer Garvin, and Richard and Sandra. arrived home yesterday by steamer from a vacation in the States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-08-23
sELMER,s IN JuNEAI

The Osborne Selmer family are Juneau visitors from Skagway. They are at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-08-23
HERE FROM CANDLE

MT. and Mrs. Tom Roust of Candle are in Juneau and register ed at the Gastineau. Roust was 9 Representative from the Second Di- vision at the last term of Legis- lature, and Mrs. Roust was on the Legislative Staff.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-08-23
GAMES SUNDAY Pacific Coast League

Portland 5, 6; San Diego 0, 9. Oakland 3, 2; San Francisco 0, Seattle 4, 4; Sacramento 3, 0. Hollywood 3, 3; Los Angeles l, 6.
 National League Pittsburgh l, 6; Brooklyn 6, 8. St. Louis 6, 5; Boston 1, l. Cincinnati 4, 20; Philadelphia 3, Chicago 6, 4; New York 2, 3.
 American League New York 0, 3; Detroit 12, 8. Boston 0, 6; Cleveland 6, '. Washington 5, 4; St. Louis 8, 2. Philadelphia 2, 2; Chicago 5, 3.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27
Drys Out To Win Again

Washington, Oct. 27-(UP)-Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, vice president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union would forget her lifelong crusade against demon rum and be glad to see everyone get dead drunk-if it would win the war"
 But it won't" she added, "and therefore I will do everything in my power to get a wartime prohibition law enacted"
 Mrs. Colvin and hundreds of other modern Carrie Nations began the last phase of their campaign last night at a mass meeting in Consti- tuition hall. They have been bom- barding congress with petitions for months for the return of prohibition and Rep. Joseph R. Bryson, D., s. C., author of such a bill, said he had 50O,OO0 signatures in favor of it.
 Hearings on the Bryson bill are scheduled to begin next week before the house judiciary committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27
Mayor Monagan Repudiates
 Rival Candidates Charges

In reply to many Of the accusa- tions of "mismanagement" and 'falsehoods" hurled at the admin istration officials last night by John J. Kearney, Republican Tnayoralty candidate, Mayor John s. Monagan today issued a statement pointing out what he says is still further proof of the lack of facts on the part of his opponents"
 The Mayors statement came as result of MT. Kearney's accucations of last night purporting to show that the city water department and its operations are mismanaged, and that the claims of the alministra- ton, as to the benefits being en- joyed by the city as result of the efncency of this department are false.
 The Mayor this morning issued the following statement:
 Confusion worse confounded," is the only way to describe the further efforts of MT. Kearney to discredit the water supply project of this ad- ministration.
 It is noteworthy that he has abandoned his effort to claim that we should not have let the job to the lowest bidder and that he would have done otherwise. contrary to the charter provisions. He does, however, make a lot of new mis- leading statements which will an- swer in detail in the interest of pulp lie understanding.
 Poorly Informed
 First, about the use of water i1 making brass: MT. Kearney is prob- ably not informed of the fact that the city delivers large quantities of water to the water supply systems of our large industries. It is per- fectly true that Waterbury's indus tries have their own reservoirs. However, when these reservoirs are low the Water Department replen- isheS the supply. During this very week we have been delivering over one-half millions gallons a day to one factory reservoir. Some time ago we were delivering over one million gallons a day to a factory reservoir. Furthermore, regardless of their own supplies our industries make use of the city water for cer- tain manufacturing processes be- cause of its lower temperature.
 If the recent drought had con- tinued, a vastly larger amount would have been required, in order to maintain production in Waterbury.
 To come to the next point, the Republican candidate does not chal- lenge our statement that the total cost, principle and interest, will be $70O, 900 less than original estimates.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27
JopIIs s.Air PowerIs Hit

Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, Oct. 27. (UP)-Japanese airpower has been driven at least temporarily from the northern Solomons by a sustained aerial bom- bardment that blasted out of action the enemy's three main airtlelds on Bougainville Island, front reports indicated today.
 Some 230 Allied warplanes dropped 130 tons of bombs on the Kahili and Kara airdromes ori Southern Bougainville Saturday, setting big fires and blow ing up ammunition stores in a 1ollow-up to Fridays 17o-ton attack on those fields.
 The raiders struck each, base twice, encountering only week anti aircraft fire and. not Q single Jap- anese fighter, despite the fact that the two strips, together with the nearby Ballale airdrome, had been the main centers of enemy air strength in the Northern Solomons
 The failure of any fighters to inc tercept from Ballale suggested that that field, too, had been knocked out by the recent Allied raids.
 The Kahili and Kara bases were fields of craters" when the bomb- CTS completed their latest attack, a
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27
NetU Father-DraH BiH
 Battle Seen h The OfHiing

Washington. Oct. T.-(UP)-Sen- ate administration leaders today pronounced a house-appr0ved draft deferment bill "administratively im- practical" and hinted strong opposi- ton to the plan to defer fathers on a nationwide basis until all eligible non-fathers are called for military service.
 The House passed the drastically- rewritten Senate bill late yesterday. It would keep the provision of the Senate bill setting up a five-man medical board to review army medi- cal standards with a view to induct- ing q number of 4-F's. but eliminate the provision requiring dismissal of non-fathers from government service if not certified as indispensable.
 It would also shift final draft au- thorlky from Manpower Chief Paul V. Mclgytt to Geleetlve Service pl- rector EeWis D. Hershey, and end McNutt's ''Work or fight" order for men in sp-cailed -GeferFnble oc- equations hy prohibiting induction by occupation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27
Moscow Meet Carries On

Moscow, October 27. = (UP) = The tri-power conferences of for- eign ministers went into its ninth day today amid mounting indica- tions that Soviet -American-British collaboration has entered a new area of understanding and good will that will expedite victory and pave the way for postwar amity.
 All signs pointed to continued sat- isfactory progress in the plenary session among U. s. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov and the subsidiary meetings of their military, diplomatic and economic advisers.
 Even on questions where no defi- pite agreement was possible or even contemplated, there has been full exchange of views which will prove extremely valuable in clearing the atmosphere for the contemplated conferences among President Roose- welt, Prime Minister Churchill and Prmier Marshal Stalin.
 Experts on international affairs said that seldom has there occurred conference of this kind charac- terized by greater frankness or de- sire to achieve unity and amity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27
Off, Year Elections WiII Omen Strength ofNeW Deal

Washington, Oct. 27-(UP)-Scat- tered of year elections next week will sample the strength of the new deal-D Democratic coalition in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and indicate border state sentiment in Q Kentucky gubernatorial con- test.
 Mississippi will so through the formality of electing Democratic nominees for Governor and to the state legislature. Tn Detroit there Is Q mayoralty contest of potential significance. The elections take place on Nov. 2.
 New York's special ieutenant goy- ernorship election to filI vacancy created by death of Thomas W. Wal lace. Republican, is viewed as partial test of the comparative pulling pow CTS of President Roosevelt and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey in their home stete. Democrats there split ln aezl, losing any chance they may have had to elect e governor. Nov both the Roosevelt and James A. Farley
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27
Whichever Is Chosen You " Pay Pay Pay

Washington, Oct. 27. (UP)-The House ways and means committee soon may give the administration its choice of 8 $2,000, 100000 revenue program of excise and corporation taxes or e federal retail sales tax, which would yield more.
 Members said the $l, ,439,5 9,500,0 900 in special eXcises voted yesterday plus 8 possible $500, 100000 from Q five per cent boost in the 90 per cent excess profits tax on corporations were the only new revenue pro- ducers the committee would approve in lieu of a sales tax recommenda- tion from the treasury.
 They predicted rejection of the administrators proposal for @ boost of from 40 to 50 per cent in corporate income levies, designed to produce about $1,100,0o0,000.
 The committee plans to finish its consideration of the corporation tax recommendation today and then begin an Independent study of the sales tax and substitute proposals, such as the coupon sales taxa de- vice designed to ease the burden of a fiat consumers levy on low income groups.
 Ways and Means Chairman Rob- ert L. Doughton, D., N. O., told re- porters that Rep. A. Willis Robert son, D., Va. has served notice that he would call for @ vote on the sales tax before the end of the week.
 The committee has accepted only one minor phase of the treasury's tax recommendations, approving a boost of from $6 to $l0 a gallon in the tax on whiskey. Proposals for new levies on tobacco, soft drinks,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27
Normondie
 Goes To Now

New York, Oct. 27-(UP)-The $4,5O0,00o salvage job, on the former luxury liner Normandie was com- pleetd today and the ship, on an even keel, was turned over to the Navy.
 In brief ceremonies which coin- cided with the observance of Navy day, Capt. B. E. Manseau, superin- tendent of salvage, presented the ship to Capt. H. V. McKittrick, of the New York Navy yard.
 The ship burned and capsized in her Hudson river pier February g, 1942. Salvage was begun two months later, under the direction of the Bureau of Ships and the Mer- ritt, Chapman and Scott corpora tion. Approximately 15,000 tons of debris was removed before the ship lighted itself from a 79 degree list
 The ship will shortly be moved
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27
Services For Slain Girl

North Dartmouth, Mass, Oct. 27. -(UPl-Funeral services for Shir- ley Mae Wilcox were held today on her 18th birthday anniversary as authorities prepared to seek a firSt-degree murder indictment against her l9-year old brother-in- law, Albert Lessa.
 A former merchant seaman. Lessa allegedly has confessed that he killed shirley with her krother's shotgun In the Wilcox home here Saturday, LeSsa claims. however, that the gun exploded accidentally when a safety catch failed to function while he and the girl were sfoollng".
 Dist.-Atty. William c. CF0ssley in dicated that the casa would he zsA0y for auhmiaslnn Co the nrletoi county grand jury which eonVailes NondaS tn Wkil River.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27

A Senate administration spokes- man said the provision for calling all non-fathers first was opposed by selective service. He said the Senate Military Affairs Committee indirect ly had expressed its opposition by refusing to recommend the House. approved Kilday bill with the same provision.
 Compromise
 ''The Senate Is not likely to take the House language as 1t is," the Senator said. There will have to be compromise"
 Presumably the measure will now go to Q Senate-House conference committee which will endeavor to iron out the differences.
 A selectlve service spokesman said the House bill would not postpone the induction of fathers, but would mean the taking of fewer fathers in the long run.
 Az a further complication, Rep. Glare Booth Luce. R. Conn, nntEo-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27

wings of the party support Gen. William N. Haskell. the Democratic and American labor party nominee. The ALP bolted the 194l Democratic ticket. Haskell is supported by the Communists. The Republican nom- inee is State Senator Joe R. Hanley.
 Wendell L. Willkie, front runner for the l944 Republican presidential nomination. is supporting Hanley and the Dewey organization is all out for him. A lop-sided Republi- can victory would hurt Mir. Roose- velt's prestige and shine Dewey's in proportion. boosting Republican moral generally throughout the country.
 Murphy Is Edge
 Mayor Vincent !. Murphy of Newark, N. l., secretary Of the State American Federation of Labor, is tho Democratic gubeEnatorial nom- inee in Now 5eEnsT against waiter Q. Edge. wealthy former governor.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27
Mute
 On WLB Plan

Washington, Oct. 27 = (UP) - United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis withheld comment today on the War Labor Boards new wage formula for settling the long coal dispute by increasing miners earnings about $l0 a week.
 The next move was Lewis's. The WLB last night rejected the UNIV agreement with Illinois coal opera tors as incompatible with the stabi- nzation program and proposed its own conditions for a "portal-to- portal' mine wage structure which would not violate that program.
 The WLB's offer would call for an $8.12 basic daily wage instead of the $S.50 proposed by the UNIV and the illinois operators. The miners would be required to perform additional productive work, esti- mated by the WLB at AZ hours in @ six-day week. The existing wage system provides . basic seven-hour day, five days a week.
 Lewis was expected to summon the UNIV policy committee to meet this week, probably in time to de- eide the unions next move before the miners current work instruc- tions expire next Sunday. If the union decides to accept the WLB compromise offer, Lewis will seek to have 1t applied to all areas, includ- ing those now on strike. Southern operators will oppose that move.
 With its decision, the board re- newed its demand that Lewis and his associates persuade the 10000 miners idle in wildcat strikes to
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27
New Items In Murder TrioI

Nassau, Bahamas, Oct. 27-CUP) The full story of the fingerprint found on @ silk-covered dressing screen around the death bed of Sir Harry Oakes was expected to be re- vealed for the first time today by one of theI chief Investigators in the multi-millionaire's murder.
 The barely discernible print has been the center of testimony by prosecution witnesses but never has been identified other than in the crowns opening charge that 1t was made by Count Alfred De Marigny, on trial for the staying of his father in Jaw.
 Details of 1t were expected to come from James O. Barker, chief of the Miami police Identification bureau, who was called in by the Duke of Windsor, governor of the islands, to investigate the staying of Sir Harry, one of his personal friends.
 Barker will not testify, however, until Chief Justice Sir Oscar Bed- ford Daly, who is conducting the trial, reads the testimony given yesterday by Edward Melchen, cap- tain of the Miami homicide bureau, who also aided in the investiga- tion.
 Melchen, who underwent inten- sive cross-examination by defense attorneys, admitted that he did not know of the fingerprint until Bar ker told Sir Harry's widow at her
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27
Suggests PrOIongins
 Deer Hunting Season

Boston, Oct. 27.-(UP)-To help combat the meat shortage, Director Horatio s. Du Mont of the Massa- chusetts fisheries and game depart ment believes the deer hunting sea- son should be extended from one week to two.
 By so doing, Du Mont believes the state would:
 l.. Obtain a meat surplus of about 100000 pounds.
 2. Prevent crop destruction re- Sulting from an increase in the deer and a decrease in the hunters who are away at war or in war plants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27
Vets Ask
 Ball News

Liverpool, Oct. 27.-(UP)-"HoW did the Dodgers make out?" was the first question fired at reporters by a wounded American veteran of the Sicilian invasion as he left the Britt ish exchange ship Atlantis last night after spending more than two months in German prison.
 Pfc. Herbert Enrich of Brooklyn, N. Y, one of 4,340 invalided Allied soldiers who were exchanged ct Goteborg, Sweden, last week, was captured in Sicily on Aug. when he was wounded five times in the back and legs by exploding mortar shells.
 His face fell when told tine Dodgers finished third in the National league and that Leo Durocher had been dropped as playing manager.
 "They fred Durocher? Good Lord. that can't be-" he protested.
 Enrich felt better when informed that Durocher had been signed on again as non-playing manager for 1944.
 Thirteen other American soldiera were among the 790 wounded re- patriates aboard the Atlantis. They told their stories of life in German prison camps while Red Cross work CTS passed out American cigarettes, candy and chewing gum.
 One was Tech Sgt. Norman c. Goodwin of (33 Laurel avenuel Bradford, Mass, who was shot down over Bremen while participating in his first mission on June a. Ills left leg was shattered by a cannon shell.
 Goodwin bailed out and Waa found by a l2-year-old German boy.
 q was in such intense pain &hnA
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27
Jops Prepare
 For Air Raids
(By United Press)

A complete reorganization of Ja- pans air raid defenseS was an- nounced by the Tokyo government today, with the warning that the removal of civilians and essential industries from all large cities and towns must be Speeded up, accord- ing to a German broadcast heard by the United Press in New York.
 A German Transocean News agency dispatch from Tokyo said the government action to cope with anticipated Allied air raids was an- nounced at a special meeting of the Japanese Diet Kisaburo Ando. Jap. anese minister of the interior.
 Ando told the legislators that the government will be empowered to tear down private buildings to pre-. vent the spreading oi fires caused by air raids and to impose drastic penalties for violation Of It's de- fepse regulations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27
MOVE AGAINST
 GERMANS NEW DEFENSE LINE

Allied Headquarters, AL gierS, Oceober 27. - (UP) = The Allied Fifth and Eighth Armies slogged ahead up to five miles yesterday, seizing four Italian towns in the mass movement against the new German defense line, on which the biggest battle to be fought in Italy appeared to be shaping up,
 German opposition ranged from very tough to extremely light as the contestlng armies jockeyed for pos dtion preliminary to what may be the showdown battle for Rome a. long the strongest natural defense position south of the Italian capi- tai.
 Americans of Lieut.. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army struck up from Franchise to seize Montanaro, on high ground to the north. The Bri- ash Eighth Army won Civita Cam pomarano, Tavenna, and Acquavivo Collorce in the center and north- eastern sectors of the line.
 Hardest Fighting
 The hardest fighting was reported In the sector of the Eighth Army front held by Canadian troops, who were meeting extremely stiff resist lnce.
 AS they gradually gave ground to pulwark their primary line, the Ger manS fought hard before the noun tain junction town of 1sernia, the hinge of the lin eacross Italy, lest e sudden Allied onsurge crush that strong point and lay open the de- lenses on either side.
 Indicative of the Nazi apprecia- ton of the situation was the fact that the bitterest struggles of the momen were in progress around Gorela. The prize wa shigh ground which the Allies must control If they are to push, the Germans out of the approaches to Isernia.
 Bearing the brunt of the German counter blows for the time being, Eighth Army units took Civita Campomarano, three miles north of Lucita; Tavenna, three miles west of Monteiclone; and Acquavio Cal force, six miles southwest of Mon- tecilSone.
 Tue victories wiped out strong points in the Trigno river area be- for, the German line anchored at the Adriatic on Vasto.
 On the basis of the latest reports from tho fighting front spokes- man warned that 1t would be "a
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-27
Fighting In West Chino

Chungking, Oct. 27-(UP)-Heavy fighting was reported today along the Salween river in western China where Japanese forces brought up artillery in an effort to dislodge the Chinese from their commanding positions on the east bank.
 A Chinese communique said big Japanese guns in the mountain gorges opposite Lichaipa opened an intense bombardment of the Chi nese river lines on Oct. g. The de- lenders were reported holding fast all along the river, however.