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offensive" against the Marshalls at dawn Sunday.
 Both broadcasts were by U. s. gov ernment monitors.
 The text of the Domei dispatch as recorded by the monitors:
 Tokyo. Jan. 31-The imperial i headquarters at 400 D. III. an nounced that imperial army and navy units intercepted powerful en- emy units which launched an attack on the Marshall group on Jan. 90 and that fierce fighting is new con- tinuing in that sector.
 "The announcement reads: Imperial Japanese army and navy units have intercepted power full enemy units which have been at tacking the Marshall group since 1 the morning of January 30 and fierce fighting is now going on.' There was no explanation of the army" units mentioned in the dis patch, but early invasion of the Mar shalls has been forecast since Allied Air fleets began bombing the atolls in the island broup following the conquest of the Bilberts.
 A Pearl Harbor communique said strong U. s. task force had at tackled the Marshalls Sunday, but did not mention any landing or att tempted landing.
 It also was regarded as possible that the U. s. fleet finally had suc- ceeded in turing the Japanese fleet i out for battle.
 May Be Planes
 In that event, it was pointed out the army units mentioned in the ! imperial communique may consist oi planes.
 Pearl Harbor dispatches indicated the sig of the U. S. task force ap- parently was of invasion dimensions It included aircraft carriers, cruisers destroyers and possibly battleships.
 The Pearl Harbor communiquqt said the task force Shelled anc bombed the Kwajalein, Maloelar and Wotje atolls heavily. The force swept into the islands Saturday and naval planes delivered a heavy at- | CdCh OlI CLUB AoIdlIu All CIlC Md1Oc- lap atoll and on Wotje and Kwaja- lein that day, but no surface attack was mentioned.
 Then, instead of retiring, the fleet maneuvered into position for yes- terday's attacks.
 If an invasion force was landed the United States was bidding for the first time for territory which was controlled by Japan before Pearl Harbor. The Marshalls were mandated to Japan by the League of Nations.
 600 Miles
 The Marshalls are about 600 miles northwest of the nearest American positions at Maxim in the Gilberts and less than 750 miles south of Japanese held Wake Island. The group is about 1,200 miles east of Truk, the enemy'S most powerful naval base outside his home waters, and 2,7O0 miles southeast of Tokyo. Invasion of the Marshalls group would be the Allies second major thrust into the Japanese central Pacific island possessions. The first came last November when U. s. Marines successfully invaded the GilbertS.
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Dual Blow F irst Of
 Kind By RAF In Reich
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portions of the battered capital.
 By p. m., however, German propagandists had rallied their forces and put out through the Transocean Agency the usual re- port of a ''terror raid" by British Huns" that caused heavy damage in wide areas of Berlin to "resi- dential quarters, cultural monu- ments, social institutions and pulp lie buildings"
 Transocean said the planes drop ped 8 great number of explosive and incendiary bombs through clouds.
 "The civilian population suffered casualties, but assisted in fire fight ing" the dispatch said.
 Traffic Suspended
 The Germans also announced the suspension of air traffic between Sweden and Germany altogether after previously ordering planes from Malmo to land at the Baltic port of Stettin instead of Berlin,
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5zBesr Island suUnghosH.
 This assault, bloody and Dsiy, is eas ef the many which muse be made bs6ore Tokyo ed Beflin are pounded into dua and a:hes-
 What are you doing O back uP the boyse Remember these are boys from this very community, perhaps from your very home. Any home in ycur neighborhood which today does not display the Teasury's red, white and blue 4th War Loan Shield proclaim ing We bought ExrrA Bonds" is nO backing the arrack. Every Extra War Bond you buy becomes . disen fighter sg1insr Japan and GemAay. If yOu cOuld but see one man die On dhe bauIe6eld, you wOuld nOe oOune ths cost of your dieht sacrifices o buy Exra War Bonds 0 make eAch Suc- eseding. assault les eOxiy ia the lives cf ouf Boys.
 You can't afford NOT o buy Extra Bonds ia the 4th War Loan if yOa wUuld help these boys.
 THE EDITOR.
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presumably because Of heavy dam age to the capitals Templehof air. drome.
 The suspension also may have been motivated by desire to pre- vent travellers from spreading news of the extent of the damage caused to Berlin in the IA major raids since the RAF launched its oblitera- tion offensive 75 days ago. Some 2l 500 tons of bombs have been rained on the capital during that period.
 Reports reaching Sweden and Switzerland said Berlin's surviving central and suburban stations were jammed with refugees seeking to flee the city despite the fact that an estimated 2,000, 900 of the capi- tals peace time population of S. 900, 900 already have been evacuated
 A London Daily Mail dispatch from Stockholm said Berlin news papers on Sunday were full of new orders regarding evacuation and rationing. A special notice was addressed to absentees from Der lin's war plants.
 "Berliners must realize that it is a task of honor to continue in factories, come what may" the mo- tice said.
 Berlin also was raided Thurs day and Friday nights, and upwards of 800 American Flying Fortresses and Liberators carried forward the assault on Germany with shatter- ing daylight attacks yesterday on important industrial installations" at Brunswick, 120 miles east of Ber- lin, and railway targets at Han over. The American planes and their escort shot down 91 intercept ing German aircraft.
 4-5OOO Fires
 Stockholm dispatches said 4,0OO to 5000 fires still were blazing when the new RAF Armada began unloading its block busters and incendiaries. Soon afterward, Stock holm said, telephone communica- tions between Berlin and Sweden Switzerland and even Hungary were broken and still had not been re- stored by 8 a. m. @ a. m. EWT) this morning.
 A Bern dispatch to the Stock holm newspaper Nya Dagligt Ale handa estimated that 5000 persons had been killed in Friday nights raid on Berlin, increasing the death toll since November to 74,O00.
 Huge American formations bat tied both weather and persistent fighter Interrogation in their day. light attacks on Brunswick and Hanover yesterday which followed by only 24 hours the heaviest as- sault ever made by the 9th Air Force with Frankfurt the target of perhaps 1900 tons of explosives.
 45 Planes Downed
 EScorting Mustangs and Light nings, which accompanied the bomb CTS all the way to Brunswick and Hanover, scored their biggest bag of the war in this theater with the destruction of 45 enemy fight CTS. Forty-six more fighters were shot down by the big bombers them selves. Twenty bombers were lost.
 Specific objectives were not an- nounced, but Brunswick is the site of MesSerschmitt and other key Ger man aircraft plants. Every build- ing but one at the Messerschmitt plant was believed to have been destroyed in an American raid, Jan. II.
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Briggs Pleads
 Not Guilty

Washington, Jan. 3l. (UP)- George N. Briggs, suspended aide to Secretary of Interior Harold L. IckeS pleaded not guilty today to indict. ments charging him with being the forger of the Harry Hopkins" let- ter and with using the mails to defraud.
 Briggs was arraigned before Chief Justice Edward c. Richer in district court. The court granted three weeks for filing of motions to change the pleas at the discretion of Briggs counsel, Tom 0. McGrath and Ric- ard W. Galiher.
 Briggs was indicted by grand jury Jan. IS after 8 two weeks in- veStigation.
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NNOl1t111uCA II I GS2V IL able to reach the upper and lower ends of Lake Peipus with the prom ised speed, the Germans in the Leningrad pocket looping eastward almost to the Moscow-Leningrad railway will be trapped.
 Still farther to the south, Gen. eral Markian Popov's second Baltic army was developing campaign westward from Novosokolnicki tow ard the Latvian boundary. Fror dispatches said large ski units were skimming westward on the snow and infiltrating German positions ir the dense forests fringing the boun- diary.
 Loss of Narva, Estonian stronghold which controls the corridor, would force the Germans in the northern region to flee 100 miles south te the strategic junction of Pskov, or the south shore of Lake Peipus anc already the only escape route for the remainder of the 250,00o enemy troops in the bulge south of Lenin- grad.
 The bulk of the German forces in- side the bulge also appeared in grave danger of entrapment as Gen Kyril A. Meretskov's NovgoroC spearheads swept to within IS miles east of the Leningrad-Psko rail- road, last line out tie the shrink ing salient, with the capture of Velikoye Selo.
 50 Towns Overrun Govorov's forces overran more than 50 towns and villages in theil fast-breaking drive thorugh Es- tonia on a broad front, including Sisto Palkino and Kotly, 28 to 15 miles respectively north of Veimarr on spur line to the Gulf of Fin land coast. Veimarn is on the mair Leningrad-Narva- -Tallinn railway, which with parallel highway com- priSeS the only communications through the Narva bottleneck.
 Slashing deep into the German rear, one Soviet patrol cut off and routed an enemy infantry regiment and captured many guns and other rich booty.
 Another of Govorov's columns ad- vancing down the Leningrad-Pskov railway bit deeper into the northern flank of the Nazi bulge with the capture of Druzhnaya Gorka, 55 miles north from noa junction with Meretskov'S forces at Velikoye Selo.
 En route, the column encircIed and wiped out the German garri- son at the railroad town of Siver- ski, five miles north of Druzhnaya Gorka.
 Other Russian units blunted the northeastern corner of the Nazi bulge despite German defense ditch eS and other obstacles in the swampy terrain west, southwest and south of Lyuban, 50 miles south. east of Leningrad. More than 90 localities were captured, including Sluditsy, 28 miles west of Lyuban.
 On the approaches to Latvia, the Russians overran Severla German strongholds west and northwest of newly captured Novosokolniki, 26O miles south of Leningrad and 70 miles from the Latvian border.
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(Continued from Page D Rufus c. Holman, R., Ore, said that If MT. Roosevelt took himself out of the picture the Green-Lucas bill would pass in 30 minutes"
 Apparently Senator Holman is more interested in politics than in giving the soldiers the right to vote" he said. 'The great majority of the people are disgusted with these delaying and. obstructionist tactics. They want the soldiers to vote and they want a uniform fed eral ballot"
 Holman in turn charged that the actual significance of the Lucas- Green bill was whether the nation should continue as Republic or be succeeded by a dictatorship.
 Tt all adds up to the fact that this is a fourth term bill"
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Continued from Page l) demanded that he be removed as party chairman fir campaigning senators.
 But Guffey held on and no effort was made to remove him until last week when it was disclosed that il, seeking a job in the District of Col umbia government for a friend, Gulf fey had threatened the district con- missioners with 8 senate investiga- tion unless his man was put on the payroll.
 Byrd charged immediately that the Pennsylvanian was using the prestige of his office to make Ire prehensible" patronage demands up- on officials here.
 The senator's status just now is somewhat uncertain. He told ques- tioners that he had no comment.
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ported brisk patrol activity on tne British 9th Armys Adriatic front.
 Strong formations of American heavy bombers, escorted by long, range thunderbolt fighters, struck a heavy blow at the Nad supply lines above Rome yesterday, hitting four key airfields used by the Germans to refuel bombing planes coming down from the Balkans.
 Tons of Bombs
 The raiders dumped tons of high explosive and Augmentation bombs into parked aircraft, hangars and workshops at the Villarba, Maniago, Lavarino and Udine airdromes in northwestern Italy.
 Strong German fighter formations rose to challenge the bombers, but the escorting thunderbolts shot down 36 enemy planes in a wild fight that ranged from tree-hop altitude to 10000 feet. Only one American fighter was lost.
 Twenty-six other German planes were shot down in the course of Allied medium borber raids on enemy communications lines south of Rome and fighter patrols over the beachhead area. Light Allied bomb CTS also attacked enemy shipping along the JugoslaT coast.
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(Continued from Page D Kwajalein, Maloelap and Wotje, Japan's most formidable Marshalls bases and likely objectives of any Allied invasion, were in a difficult position to attack from the sea un- detected.
 The three atolls lie almost in a straight line east to west through the middle of the island chain and about 250 miles north of Jaluit atoll which forms the southern point of an equilateral triangle. A danger ous division of forces would be nec- essary, 1t was pointed out, if all four atolls were invaded simultaneousl,
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DEAD.-AUTO SMASH

Worcester, Mass, Jan. 31-(UP)- Gregory Fontaine, 28, of Worcester was killed early today and his com. panion Miss Lena Benoit, q, also of Worcester was injured critically when their automobile struck @ tree on May street.
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M WE ku or be killed. Your boys did not finch whenthey ran into the deadliest fire
 power along the beachS of Rhsa imoorRANF
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To inc People
 of this Community Ik KILL OR BE KILLED

Y United States Marines paid the RiH- @ peioe in human life per square yard for the capure of Iatswa, vital Pacific outpost
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PRESIDENT DIES

Cambridge, Mass, Jan. 31. (UP)-- Harry Lyons, 72, of Brookline, presi. dent of the Saco-Moc Shoe Corp, of Portland, Me, died at a hospital here yesterday.
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our common cause" Writes Q New Yorker (whO sent us the col- yum from the Daily Worker): Your exposure of the commies over here is not red-baiaing, swing at Brow der is not blow at Roosevelt and the war effort. Exposure of the U. 8. Commies is a definite public duty and you're doing it. Don't quitl"
 Meet Mike Gold of The Daily Worker: During the tenure of the Hitler Stain pact Gold followed the party line and advanced the slogan, '"The Tanks Are Not Coming!" and Let God Save the King" He en- dorsed the commy inspired strikes in defense plants. Now that the party line has been altered, he's all for war .. In 1899 (when the heroic people of Poland were defending themselves) Mike Gold and the commies called it an imperialistic wcy and picketed the White House During the last war Gas the draft act was getting under way) Gold and other red-icals went to Mexico.
 A Norfolk, Va.. rllmor was that the Naval Training Station there held a practice blackout dur ing FDR's last speech. The switch controlling all radios was also doused Ned Buddy (of the newsreel men in Ellrope) was wounded in that Naples post-office bombing The Purple Heart was presented to him by Col. J. B. Phillips, ex-m. e. of Newsweek James Carroll director of the Roney Plaza, has purchased the Breakwater Hotel at KenneblInkport, Maine |. Ella Lo- gan writes her groom that she sang for Churchill during his convales- cence in N. Africa. He presented Ella with box of his cigars Marguerite Chapman, the cinema donna, and Capt. B. Polan are in rhythm Tin Pan Alley (where the nations songs are reUTitten) has 8 new feud: Between the pub fishers of Easter with You" and I'll Be Thinking of You Easter Sunday Lowdown on the Lon- ergan defense rift: Two of his at- torneys want to plead him guilty to lesser degree while the other thinks he can aquit him King Carol of Rumania is trying to become 8 citizen of a South American country, and then try tc get admitted into the U. s. under that country's quota Attention saboteurs, bundists and wiseguys: The FBI has added 5000 men to it's staff since the start of the war Another movie star and his wife apparently are on the verge He's squirting Evelyn Carmed here. She's the Venus de Nylon.
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British kuitters are having diffi- culty in getting yarn.
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An air service for Tasmania is be- ing discussed.
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Full Weather Report

Boston, Jan. 31 (UP)-WeatheP Forecasts
 New EnEIand's twO-day cold spell wns expected to end today with the Weather Bureau fOrcast- ing higher temperatures for to- night and the next two days.
 However, temperature extremes this morning ranged from six de- grecs below zero at Montpelier, Vt, to 1O above in Boston. Snow Hurries were expected i'm many sections.
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Nips Report
 Heavy Fight

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Yonks Pierce Gustav Line

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Red Armies Close In

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Echo or Bill

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Jap Mandate Islands Hit

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Senate Meets

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Z ACTIONS
REPORTED
BY ALLIES
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place, indicating that one of the
three invasion spearheads has been
stopped and strength is being
marshaled to meet the general Of
fensive aimed at cutting the Allies
Assam supply lines.
The communique also discloses
Jap tanks have been encountered
on the Tiddim- Imphal road, anoth :
er invasion route and several of
them have been destroyed.
In the Mogamg Valley, American
trained and equipped Chinese fore
es continue to advance against stiff
fly resisting Jap forces cut off
when Shaduzup was captured by
Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill's Mar
auders in an ''end run around the
Jap lines. This drive is one of two
Allied thrusts against Myitkyina,
main Japanese base in north Burma
and terminus CT the railroad to
Mandalay.
The other Allied spearhead driv-
ing toward Myitkyina from Sum-
prabum has made further pre-
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HIGH COURT
HANDS DOWN
TWO RULINGS
Continued on Page Two,

the majority opinion, which said
the Fair Labor Standards Act wos
mot designed to codify or to per-
petuate those customs and contracts
which allow an employer to claim
all their employees time while
compensating him for only part
of it,"
Glass eyes were used by the Ro-
mans and Egyptians.
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HOSPITAL NOTES

Sgt. Thomas Turner entered st
AIMS Hospital during the weekend
for medical care.
Walter Gamble was discharged
from st. AIMS on Saturday.
Mrs. Fred Baxter and baby boy
were discharged from st. AIMS
Hospital on Sunady.
Mrs. Maurice Butler and baby
girl left st. AIMS Hospital and re-
turned to their home during the
weekend.
Nellie Cogo of Ketchikan and
baby girl we're discharged from the
Government Hospital on Saturday.
Ella Lestenkof has left the Gov
eminent Hospital to return to her
Juneau home.
Jimmie Jack has been discharged
from the Government Hospital.
Henry Rogers was admitted to the
Government Hospital this morning.
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s. PASSENGERS
LEAVE SATURDAY
70 R 5 0 U I H

assengers arriving here by
steamer from Skagway on Saturday
were Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Bellamy,
Harry Hall, j. A. Cutzell, John E.
Craft, Mrs L. Rapuzzi, Louis
Rapuzzi, Nels johnson, w. L. Sum-
mers, j. A. Nyman, B. c. Gomez,
Herbert Arlowe.
Major C. L. Lovgren, J. w. Girl
cher, P. j. Sweeney, Frank Kelly,
S. M. Nallen, Vera Smalley, Mary
Zichel, Elizabeth D. Cramer, Eva
May Boyer, Mae E. Westphal, Helen
Kane, Lewis Taylor, w. B. Craft, A.
Obey, and A. Sage.
The vessel left for the south and
the. following persons were booked
for Seattle-Myrtle, F. Steen. Stella
M Bowen, John A. Bissen, Merrill
s. Maisack. Alfred l.. Kinney, Jer-
rold r. Kinney, Esther Kinney,
Evelyn w. Vernon, Catherine Nc
Ccrmick. Dorothy A. Cziok, Halbert
Burroughs, Maj. M. Silverman, Es-
tner Silverman, Iva H. Lingard
Gertrude Boggan, 1t r. J. Mather
j. F. Mullen, Lois N. Shearer
George w. Mulligan, Lucille Multi
gan, George c. Kiskaddon, Tony
Contrare, Anabel Simpson, William
A. Rudd, Howard Helm, Roy F.
Snyder. Minnie H. Dooley, Harry
Pinch, Lit. j. B. Corson, Hazel j
Mack innon. Roy Kesten, ano
Wayne Philippi
I For Prince Rupert--Charles w
Wallace.
+ For Vancouver-Oliver B. Millett
Theresa c. Millet, and Brig C. o
Taylor
For Ketchikan-Delphina Morris
r. L. Wolfe, Mr. and Mrs. r. E
Starbard, Robert Starbard, Mrs. j
P. Clam, Joan Starbard, Eileer
Starbard, Ole Haynes, Ross Peter
son, Virginia Brown, A. G. Role
T. Bonhall, John Wellman, Rich
ard Apsch, Jesta Young, L. C
Feters, Eva Johnston, and Cecil
Sage.
For Wrangell--L Taylor, H. M
Olsen, and Joyce Russling.
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$50 REGISTER FOR
CITY ELECTION

Registration for eligibility to vote
at the city elections April A will
end Saturday, April l, according to
announcement today from the City
Clerks office. To date, Approximate
ly ESQ persons have registered
which is a considerably heavier re-
gistration than that of last year.
Filing of candidates for city Of
I fees will end Wednesday, March
go, at o'clock
Absentee balloting at the City
Hall is now open for those who are
eligible to vote, but who do not ex-
pect to be in town on the day OF
election. Absentee voting closes
April g.
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NIELSEN ISSUES
STATEMENT TODAY
ON CANDIDACY

Edward Nielsen, independent can
didate for City Council, issued the
following statement on his can
didacy today.
mo one dictates to me except my
wife. 1 have no axes to grind for
any person or group, but / have a
darn good emery wheel.
I'm new at the game but will do
my very best in the interests Of
Juneau if elected
Filings for the city positions close
Wednesday afternoon and other fill
ings are expected tomorrow.
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EXAMS COMING UP FOR
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSE

The u. S. Civil Service Commits
sion has announced an examination
for public health nurse. Applicants
must be registered nurses. There
is no maximum age limit. Positions
are with the United States Public
Health Service, Federal Security
Agency, and Indian Service. Full
information and application blanks
may be obtained at Room 3l1, Fed
cal Building, Juneau
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SPECIAL NOTICE is hereby
given that the Commissioner Of
Customs, under date of March 13
1914, gave authority to change the
name of the oil screw DUNCAN J
to PANTHER.
Said vessel was built in 1925 a,
Seattle, Washington. her official
number is 224752 her gross tonnage
is "A; her home port, Juneau, AL
aska; owners, Frank McConaghy
Co, Inc Cordova.
JAMES j. CONNORS,
Collector of Customs.
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gress and the village of Tinepai
has been occupied.
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adv.
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OLDTIMER PASSES
AWAY This MORNING

John Thompson, IS, died at ST.
AIMS Hospital this morning after
a long standing illness. He was
born in Denmark and was fisher
man, entering the hospital from
Goddard, Alaska. The remains are
at the Charles w. Carter Mortuary.
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Public Reception for
DC. Foster Planned

Gov. and Mrs. Ernest Gruening
will hold a public reception Wednes-
day at the Governors House for
Donald C. Foster newly appointed
General Superintendent for the o.
flee of Indian Affairs.
The reception hours will be be-
tween and 7 o'clock