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Evening star., 1944-07-09

cause OF the death of the elected
President. Tyler took over Harrison's
Office, but Henry Clay promptly pushed
him out Of the control of the
Wing party. Tyler, who had will and
temper, fought bravely but in vain.
Fillmore, who stepped into Zachary
Taylor'S shoes, was suave Buffalo
lawyer with little strength in his own
right, and neither party nor public
gave him much heed.
Andrew Johnsons troubles in the
White House came chiefly from the fact
that he had no party to lead Lincoln
had picked him for running mate in
1864 because he was a war Democrat.
not Republican, and the President
wanted campaign for National Union,
not for Republican jobs. Thus the Ten
nessee tailor had no Republican status
at all and was hamstrung when he ap-
pealed to the people. When he chal-
lenged the Radical Republican revolu-
ton, he was impeached and escaped
conviction by a single vote. Chester A.
Arthur, who succeeded Garfield, made
a magnificent Chief Executive, but the
Republican Senators cut him down.
Coolidge Near Leadership.
OF all the Vice Presidents who had
the reversion of the ONCE on the Presi-
dents death, Calvin Coolidge came
closest to party leadership than any
who moved up, except Theodore Roose-
velt Silent Cal" shone by contrast
with Harding. His loquacious silence
pleased both Wall Street and Main
Street in the lush 2Os But he did not
choose to lead the people, and was little
more than an interesting museum piece.
T. r. is another story-the exception
who proves the rule. He was no hempen
homespun, tackled to the ticket to
appease party faction or fill the
campaign chest. With energy his main
spring. and direct action his rule of
life, his charge up San Juan Hill cata-
pulled him into public favor and then
Tom Platt made him Governor Of New
York. But the boss got tartar, not
a puppet, feared two more years of
Teddy would smash his invisible gov
ernment" and appealed piteously to
Mark Hanna to get Roosevelt out of
Albany and into the Vice Presidents
chair.
Don't any of you realize" Hanna
asked, that there's only one life be-
tween that madman and the Presi-
dency?' and Platt had to get down
on his knees to get Hanna to yield
But Roosevelt was man of great party
strength, and leader of public opinion
before he became Vice President. It
was not hard for him to invent issues
and create crises to give him an estab-
lishment Of his own.
The school OF experience has COM
paratively little to impart on the office,
duties and powers of the Vice President
as such. There are many volumes on
the first ofice, but none has yet been
written, nor is likely to be, on the use
of vice presidential power.
When Frederick Oliver wrote his
Alexander Hamilton" be observed that
"the Vice President is not an admin
istrative change in government. He is
not even a member of this syndicate,
but sort of queen bee in reserve in
case the acting monarch should die or
be killed"
Beveridge went even further Writing
in 1909, in full light of the T. r. ex-
ception to the general story of futility,
the progressive Indiana statesman
termed the Office dangerous, unneces-
sary and Illogical" Inasmuch as the
Evening star., 1944-07-09
The Tail of the Ticket
Many Efforts Made Increase Vice Predencs Importance
By GeoreeF IT

The most inter-
esting development
at the Republican
National Conven-
ton W as not the
ratification of the
almost preordained
nomination of Gov.
Dewey for the Ma
tion's chief office,
but tn e essay in
Illustration in the
selection of his run
ming mate. Now it
begins to look as if
the only excitement
which will accom-
pany Presi d e n t
Roosevelt's draft by
the coming Demo-
cratic conclave at
Chicago will be the
debate over the Sec
Ond m a n. All of
which makes it de-
sirable to inquire
why the choice of
vice presi | d entail
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(sss CAMPAIGN, Paee C-3J
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
pAA EXECUTIVE
 CAN'T GET SEAT
 ON OWN AIRLINE

Pan American Airways Juneau traffic manager Ray Harrington is making the company's new policy iof first come e-first-served stick. Since, August the company has been back on commercial opera tion
 Sydney Smith, Traffic Manager for the Alaska Division from Seat tie, arrived here Thursday evening expecting to go south by plane the next morning. However other names were on the list and Har- rington refused to give the com- pany executive space. Smith left by boat yesterday. Another PA man, Robert Jordan, section main- tenance superintendent, got as far as Juneau on his way south and was taken off the plane for private passenger whose name was on the list first. Jordan also went south by boat.
 Smith has a priority card issued from Washington but didn't show it to Harrington until the boat was pulling out.
 No priorities are needed now to fly south by PAA.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
DEATH HOURS APPROACHING NAzI 4 x N Y
Germans Sta impede in Wild Panic as Nor-
 mandy Trap Closes
By ROGER GREENE

ON THE BRITISH FRONT, Aug 19.-The doomed German Seventh Army is squeezed into two thinly connected peninsulas in the Nor mandy trap, with the hour of final annihilation fast a approac h 1 n g Masses of Nazi troops, tanks, horse drawn guns, and transport stam- peded eastward, still hoping to find the escape gap open after running the gauntlet of murderous fire on both Hanks.
 We are beating up on the Ger mans, and it's terrible beating, t British headquarters officer de- clared
 Tanks of a single British brigade ran riot against the fleeing enemy south of Falaise, shooting up 15C transport vehicles. All along the front carnage is reported tremend- ous Hundreds of enemy corpses are littering the roads, fields and hills.
 One British staff officer pre- dicted a German retreat to nar- rover front, declaring, T don't think the Boche can stop at the Seine"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
C0UNCILMEN ARE
 SWORN IN AS NEW
 EMERGENCY POLICE

Every member of the present City Council, including Mayor A. B. Hayes, is now special emergency police officer with power to make arrests. M E. Monagle, City At torney, administered the oath and special badges are to be ordered for this new law enforcement organiza- tion This action was taken un- animously at the regular City Coun- cil meeting last night.
 It was explained that there are many occasions arising where im- mediate arrests are necessary and several instances were brought up at the meeting, showing where a councilman with authority could have acted in the absence of a regular police officer.
 It was announced that contractors in the city will be notified of the completion of the new uniform building code books, which are at the office of the City Engineer and may be viewed at any time. All contractors will be asked to attend the September IS Council meeting for the purpose of offering pros and cons in regard to the new code and also to discuss the possibility of their being required to post an assurity bond and to take out license fee. The Council granted permission to the Royal Blue Cab Company to operate a one-car stand between the hours of o'colck in the morning and 6 o'clock in the evening in front of the Occidental Bar on South Franklin Street and to main tain a two-car stand at that place between 6 o'clock at night and 8 o'clock in the morning The request for this was made by the company because of increased business in that section of the city and to relieve the congestion at their main office.
 Director of the Territorial Depart ment of Public Welfare, Russell Maynard, was present at the meet ing and expressed the appreciation of his department for the city's contribution in the past in providing space in the City Hall for the Ju- neau Welfare Office. The office has now been moved to it's new location in the Kraft Building at Second and Franklin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
french in Chaftres Go Mad wifh Joy; Beat
 Up (oIIaboraiionists
By HAL BOYLE

CHARTERS, Aug. 16.--Delayed) French mobs, celebrating the end of four years of Nazi rule, ran mad with freedom today
 The townspeople beat up Collab- crationists and shaved the heads of 30 women who consorted with the German troops.
 There were clashes and bloody street battles. Snipers were ferreted out. One hundred and fifty resist ance leaders seized arms and began attacking the Germans early in the evening as the Americans assaulted the towns defense perimeter with anti-tank guns.
 Five resistance patriots were kill ed in running street fights with the last 100 Germans in Chartres. Gen darmes were busy restraining men, women and children in this city of 25,000. They surged around the gates of the iron barred Prefecture. Each new German prisoner was marched into the enclosure and greeted by jeers, catcalls and derisive "Heil Hitlers." These prisoners, looking like punch-drunk boxers, showed their fear of the crowd and walked silently through storm of outcries, periodically broken by the La Marseillaise sung with great fervor by the French men and women.
 One courtyard was full of hair sheared collaborationists, who had consorted with the Germans. Each new suspect was dragged in and placed in a chair and their heads shaved by barber who said, The makes no charge"
 Most of the women went through the ordeal silently and stolid their heads like newborn pelicans. One 18-year- old girl ran behind door and sobbed: "I no mother, no father. I alone. I not been with the Ger mans"
 "She lies" said one woman.
 The "shave-heads" were later led through the streets.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
The W ashington Merry Go Round
-~. By DREW PEARSON Ct. Col Robert s. Allen now on active
 service with the Army.)

WASHINGTON = Don't be sur prised if there is a blow-up brew ing in Japan not unlike that which nearly bumped off MT. Hitler re- gently. This columnist has reason to believe that things are seething inside Japan right now and that the die is cast against the Fascist military clique at the top.
 This young military clique repre- sents something similar to the Nazis and Fascists of Germany and Italy-in fact, emulated them. De- manding tough, cut-throat policy against China and the rest of the world, they came into power through assassination, will go out the same way-or through hari- kari.
 It was groups of young Fascist officers who shot Tokyo's leading moderates back in the days when it was not yet definitely decided that Japan should conquer Asia. Now the rnoderates are able to say T told you so," and are begin- ming to get the upper hand.
 The Emperor probably will not be a victim of the revolutionary turmoil, for two reasons: CD He is a moderate himself, never did go as far as the cut-throat young Fascists, was kept more or less a palace prisoner by them; CD he is better guarded than any other man in the world. High walls, meats, trained, trusted body guards sur round him. Not even his personal tailor is permitted to touch him.
 Unrest inside Japan has not had time to be communicated to Jap troops at the front, nor is it like ly to affect outside war areas much. The Jap soldier away from home can be counted on to fight to the very end, because he cannot come home unless he is victorious. The code of Bushido does not permit it..
 The big thing to watch, when and if things inside Japan reach the boiling point, is the Jap fleet. Its officers will be faced with the alternative, under the code, of all committing suicide or sailing into the enemy, no matter what the odds against them, and fighting it out.
 Chances are it will be the latter alternative.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
BIRTHSTONE
 I5 SMELLED
 BY MINISTER
Fiery0b Believed 10 Be Meteor Turtles Across
 Midwest Skies

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 19. = A fiery object, believed to have been meteor, hurled across Midwest skies early Friday and report that it is being sighted in hundred places has plagued newspapers, po- lice, radio stations and military of ficials
 Startled witnesses from western Ohio and Indiana, eastern Illinois and northern Kentucky, are vari- ously describing the phenomenon as a big explosion of silvery flags in a sky of plume black smoke, were agreed generally that its objected direction was westward.
 Its occurrence about 8:15 o'clock yesterday morning, Hoosier house. wife said, drove her chickens in a frenzy.
 Ohioans phoned airports that a plane was crashing and the Illinois police thought that a nitroglycerine plane had exploded.
 A southern Indiana minister said that a meteor landed quarter of a mile from his automobile and wrote the description for newspaper, en- titled Preacher Smells Birthstone" :"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
Mrs. Ai| Sails South
 To Meet Captain Mate

A surprise telephone call from San Francisco this week caused Mrs. Irving All to pack her clothes and leave immediately for the South, where she will have a chance to be with her husband, Capt. Ail, for the first time in three years.
 Capt. Ail, of the U. s. Army infantry, has been in the' South Pacific for nearly three years, talk ing part in most of the big battles there, including Tarawa, Munda, and Guadalcanal. He has been re- turned to the continent for hos pitalization, although it is under stood he has not been wounded.
 Captain and Mrs. Ail plan to meet in Portland, Oregon, their former home. She has been making her home in Juneau during his ab- sence, helping her father, H. J. Yurman, in the fur store.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
TANKS PUT 5pEARHEAD5
 SEINE RIVER
Western France Battle Now Assumes Proportion
 of Real Rouf

LONDON, Aug. 19 American spearheads have reached Seine Riv- CT points, 27 and 42 miles northwest of Paris, in slashing offensive.
 The Berlin radio says these spear heads threaten to close off the re- treat of the fleeing Germans below the river and cut off Paris.
 The western France battle has assumed proportions of rout.
 The Berlin radio says the fall of Paris is only a matter of time and asserted American tanks are clash ing south of Paris with the German Security Forces" and other Am erican units are roaming within 12 miles of Paris. W
 Thirty-eight hundred vehicles of the Germans fleeing northward and westward have been destroyed by Allied planes and the Nazis are making the getaway on foot.
 There is no confirmation to Ger man reports that American spear heads have reached Nantes and Vernon but if true it means Patton's tank columns are building series of pockets south of the almost bridgeless Seine.
 The Germans are withdrawing from the Normandy coast.
 The Allies are beating down the coast in pursuit.
 The Canadians have thrown three bridgeheads across the Lavie River at points IA miles east and 20 miles southeast of Caen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19-One of the bigger headaches in the huge problem of postwar reconversion will be the job of refereeing the mad scramble of overseas carriers, sur- face and air, for favorable positions in peace-time commerce.
 Preliminary jockeying is already under way, and friends of the mer- chant marine in the industry, in the executive departments and in Con- gress are sparing no pains to see that surface shipping is not left at the post.
 What they fear most is that the overseas air carriers will win the right to operate, get the equipment and entrench themselves firmly with the cream of the business before the government ever returns surface shipping to private hands.
 Even with an equal start, air car- riers would have the advantage be- cause of the enormous delay involved in reconverting ships now in war service to peace time uses.
 Some of the slower, bulk cargo carriers could be put into service comparatively quickly, but vessels in the luxury cargo and passenger service would require months, to say nothing of thousands of dollars, to get ready.
 As one way of meeting that prob lem, many of the established do- mestic shipping companies are seek ing to come in on an equal footing with all other applicants before the Civil Aeronautics Board, when it begins hearings in September, for certificates to operate airlines over- seas.
 It is their hope thus not only to protect their established trade rela- tionships abroad, but to use the air in the future as an auxiliary arm of their shipping service.
 Lined up in strong support of the industry in that plan are Adm. E. s. Land, Maritime Commission Chair
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
JAP ISLANDS pEppER K ED
 BY B0kBERS
Other Extensive Raids Are Made by Air Fleet at
 Pacific Points

NITED STAT E s PACIFIC FLEET H UARTERS s IN PEARL HARBOR, Aug. 19.-Liber- ators hit Two Jima in the Volcano Islands Wednesday and other planes peppered Nippon positions in the Marianas and Caroline groups.
 American fighters strafed and bombed gun positions and airestrips Tat Rota.
 A number of grounded aircraft were destroyed and fires started at Ceram, about 300 miles southwest of American held Noemfoor.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
90. FRANCE
 SpEARHEAD
 EXTENT DED
Patth's Seventh Army in 1,OO0-S Square Mile Area
 Smashing Toulon

ROME, Aug. 19.-Patch's Seventh Army, extending the Southern France spearhead to 1000 square miles, has speared westward to within 31 miles of Marseille and a drive flanking Toulon, also plung- ed 32 miles inland.
 A broad drive is 20 miles long north and behind Toulon, the French naval base which was bombed yesterday by American planes
 The latest announcement from the front places the American and Canadian forces only six miles northeast of Toulon and other ad- vance units are reported speeding over a network of inland roads pointed directly toward the Rhone Valley.
 The farthest inland town cap tured is Salernes, 32 miles from the coast and 35 miles northwest of Toulon. The farthest western town seized is Ia Roques Brussane, 3l miles from Marseille.
 Stiff German resistance west of Bormes has been met, but inland opposition is less. American for- ward elements are pressing into high ground west of La Roques BruSSane.
 Allied bombers are again bomb ing Toulon in an attempt to re- duce gunfire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
C0H0ES RUNNING
 AT TEE HARB0R

The echoes are In at Tee Har- bor, arriving late this season, but boats out from MT. and Mrs. Jack Donahue's place this week had good luck.
 Mike Wade, six-year-old son of MT. and Mrs. Hugh Wade, caught four on Thursday, out fishing with his dad who also caught several One boat yesterday caught five in the afternoon and several boats have brought in eight,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
DEWEY ISSUES PROCLAMATION
 FOR LABOR DAY

ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. l9--In a Labor Day Proclamation, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey asserted that if the wartime restrictions on labor are left in the hands of the Gov ernment after hostilities cease they could totally end the right of col- lective bargaining"
 Dewey, who was criticized recently by Philip Pearl, AFL publicist, for declining to furnish the AFL a special Labor Day message, issued his proclamation Is days ahead of the holiday. .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
BIG ExpL05I0N,
 FIRE INJURE 30

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 19. - A series of terrific explosions of drums of magnesium touched off five alarm fire at the Quaker City Iron Works, rocked buildings and shat tered windows in a two-block area today. The blasts were heard sev- eral miles away.
 Thirty persons were taken to hos pitals, suffering from burns. All but one were discharged after re- ceiving treatment,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
5TREETS TO BE
 WASHED SUNDAY

The paved street section of the city will be given washing down Sunday morning starting at 4:30 o'clock. Chief of Police John Mon agle issues a warning to autoists there will be no parking permitted from 4:30 o'clock until the job of washing the streets has been com- pleted,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
DIvORCEs GRANTED

Divorces have been granted by Judge George F. Alexander of the U. s. District Court to Opal May Camper from William F. Camper. and Geraldine M Torgerson from Ernest A. Torgerson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
ELSIE SMITH BACK

Elsie May Smith has arrived in Juneau from a supervisory tour of Child Care Centers at Yakutat and Cordova. She will be guest at the Baranof for few days, before pro- ceeding to Metlakatla,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
Bjornsson Coming
 To U. S. for Talks

WASHINGTON, Aug 19.-Presi- dent Sveinn Bjornsson of Iceland will come to Washington on Aug ust "A for meetings with President Roosevelt and State Department Of ficials.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
POSTWAR WOMEN

The official record doesn't show it, but South Dakota's Republican Senator Chan Gurney made a memorable speech extolling wo- mems part in the war during a meeting recently of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. The committee was in secret session to consider the Kilgore bill on post war economy, and Chan was ac- tually aiming at getting women out of industry after the war, but he opened up with this bit of chivairy
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19

The motorship Patricia is back from its regular run to Skagway. Mae Stephenson was passenger to Haines and Bessie Couture to Skag- way. There were no incoming pas sengers,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
HERE FROM SITKA

MT. and Mrs. c. T. Webster ar
 rived here yesterday from Sitka and
 are guests at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
WIDE FRONT 0FFEN5IvE
 I5LAUN(HED
Red Army Makes New Moves Preparatory to
 Entering Nazi Soil

MOSCOW, Aug. 1.-Two Soviet Armies surged forward in coordinat- ed attacks against 100-mile sector stretching from Warsaw's eastern suburbs to the Lyso Mountains guarding German Silesia.
 Stalin's Command timed the Pol
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19
Sea Lines Now Want
 To Take the Air; Biq
 Heada(he of Postwar
By POPE HALEY

By POPE HALEY
 During Jack Stinnett's vaca- tion, this column is being writ ten by members of the Washing ton staff of The Associated Press.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-19

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Evening star., 1944-11-28
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APARTMENT MANAGER = Woman thor
oughly trained and experienced, with best
manager OF apartment building or develop
BooKKEEPER-ACCoU wants book
seeping TO do at home; prompt accurate,
DREsSMAkING. designing. remodeling, al
terations; reasonable. MISS BERT, 1880
Irving st. NV, Apt 4. Adams 223s
GIRL. colored wants s.h.w. after school;
no SUNDAY. MI. 6s2l.
GIRLS; eoorsd wants w96k SUNDAYS and
Call after $50 pm. MI. 6s46.
. GIRLS, colored want work except do
nestle part or full time after 4 pm:
references. co. 1878.
Of eases, Gan AID. 945s, MISS REAP.
holidays: no Sundays. NO. $50,
forts made to order for gifts your home
SECRETARY with pat, and gen. law exp;
wants 5-day week position. Min. sal. $40
wk. Gall ewes. GIL. 56s3. 30'
SECRETARY-Perman position desired
BY young married woman with individual
interesting. Thoroughly experienced in
congressional and commercial fields; $40 to
S45 per week. Write Boy 422-S, Star. u
SECRETARY -sTENoGRAPHER, age 80:
dictation: typing. correspondence: perma-
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WOMAN, Southern colored settled. wants
plain cooking, cleaning in apt; no chill
WOMAN, colored, wants Job: g.hw.; will
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6763
WOMAN, colored. wishes permanent lob.
to STAY on place, with Adults only: no
laundry: GOOD plain cooking; S25 wk.