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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-04
Transport Plane Cvosh Kills Mcny

Pruning Army Air Field. Neby Aug. l.-(uP)-A c.T transport plane, carrying an estimated 2a men, crashed near NapeF, Neb.. last night, 1t was announced today by OOI. c. McAlllster. base commander
 The majoriey of the crew are be- IleYed dead. McAllister said. The plane, which left the Brunlng field vas enrOute to Pierre, s. D.
 Names were withheld pending notification of next of kin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-04
British Crack Germor Lines At tFIorence
BULLETIN
NEA Telephoto.

Rome, Aug. A-(UP)-British 8th Army patrols penetrated the southern section of Florence to. day.
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aM teem beglns September c. Reg kter new. Post Junior College ei Commerce.. 24 Central Ave.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
ATTACK BY JAP PLANES
 BEATEN OFF
American Black Widows Show Stuff-Nippons-
 Strut, Hit, Run
By c. YATES MCDANIEL

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Sept. 12. - The Twelfth American Air Force Black Widow night fighters broke up the largest Japanese aerial effort in this area in several months "a 10-plane raid Saturday on Am erican island bases off Dutch New Guinea - as Allied bombers con- tinued unopposed pulverizing blows against widespread targets.
 The American IIgnJers downed two Japanese bombers raiding the Am- erican airfields on Baik and Owi islands. The bomb damage was minor.
 The Japanese effort was in strik- ing contrast to the 100-bomber raids the Japs were able to deliver on the New Guinea area last year but showed the enemy is still able to hit and run.
 Escorted Liberators attacked the Japanese bivouac and defense areas and Napanget airdrome near Man. fo. northern Celebes, with a blist- ering raid on Saturday following the dropping of 159 tons of bombs the previous day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
JOHN LEWIS DEN0UN(E5
 ROOSEVELT

CINCINNATI, Sept l2 - John Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, told the opening session of his Unions Convention that the President has publicly kicked every coal miner in the face" during wage disputes last year. He ap- pealed to the UNIV membership, in effect, not to vote for him in Mo- vember.
 Lewis referred to the Presidents radio appeal to the miners in the spring of 1943 as a kick in the face,' saying that Roosevelt de- nounced the men and their union after policy committee had voted to call off the strike.
 How did you like it? Perhaps you would like some more of it?' Lewis asked the packed auditorium.
 No, no" came the cry from some of the Delegates.
 Well vote him into office in November, and [ think you'll get some more of it next April con- tinued Lewis.
 The current coal contract ex- pires next April.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
NEW TRIAL ISORDERED,
 QUEER CASE
Government Sends Man to Prison from Anchorage
 on PerjureI Evidence

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. l2 Alvin Iacopetti, who is serving a five-year sentence at McNeil Is- land for Alaska's most spectacular safe robbery, has been released on $1,000 bail by Federal Judge Simon Hellenthal who granted the gov- ernment it's request for new trial.
 The new trial motion was based on the governments evidence that one of it's prosecution witnesses had given perjured evidence. This ac- tion was a surprise to the defense counsel and was taken without Iacopetti even knowing that the government was Investigating evil dence against him.
 The court was told that Carl Edward Robinson, a soldier, had given perjured testimony. Robinson testified that weeks before the al- legged crime he had been invited by Iacopetti to participate in it.
 Iacopetti was sentenced last May after the jury found him guilty of stealing a 800 pound safe, con- taining more than $30000 in cash and jewelry, from the house of William Schultz in Kodiak The safe disappeared October 2l, 1922.
 Government Investigators have been working on the case ever since They told the court that it had been learned that Robinson was not in Kodiak until month after the safe disappeared and re- ported that the supposed converse tions between Iacopetti and Robin son were then impossible.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
TAXES WALL0p
 AT GOV. DEWEY

WASHINGTON, Sept. l2.-House Majority Leader John w. McCor- mack, Massachusetts, accused Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of "brazen dis regard of the truth in order to get votes' when he charged the Demo- cratic Administration of failing to plan for demobilization of the armed forces.
 Mccormack told the House the Republican nominee Init below the belt" in his recent Philadelphia and Louisville speeches fin an attempt to create false issue"
 Discussing Dewey's charge, Mo Cormack said hell stop at nothing in his try to get votes. The effect of charge of such nature is that it might confuse in the minds of the troops an official order by the War Department preventing wilful political charges which can only deceive our men and influence their loved ones at home.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
VICTORY GARDEN
 SHOW SATURDAY

On Saturday, September 16, a All Club and Victory Garden show will be conducted in the Scottish Rite Temple between the hours or 2 to 8 D. m.
 The All Club members and Vic tory Gardeners should take their exhibits to the Temple Saturday morning.
 Cash prizes will be awarded for the best exhibits of all All Club members, and any children having Victory Gardens. Adults having Victory Gardens are urged to make exhibits, and ri b b ons will be awarded for the best vegetables.
 The exhibits are being sponsored hy the Chamber of Commerce, Ro- tary Club, and the Lions Club.
 Everyone is urged to take an exhibit, and everyone in Gastlneau Channel is invited to attend this showing. Very good results have been obtained in the growing of vegetables in this vicinity and Cas- tineau Channel should have a good display.
 The All Club will give several demonstrations during this exhibit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
PACIFIC WAR
 EMPHASIZED
 QUEBEC MEET
Roosevelt and Churchill Meet = Confer with
 Military. Leaders

QUEBEC, Sept. 12. = President Roosevelt and British Prime Min ister Winston Churchill conferred with summoned military staffs in an afternoon session and again of ficially emphasized that the meet ing was primarily military and was concerned with the Pacific war against Japan.
 Stephen Early, Presidential Sec retary, and Robert Cruikshank, Of the British Information Services, brought the pre-noon press confer ence word of the days schedule.
 Early opened the remarks saying that the President was most pleased with yesterdays press on the basis of newspapers he had seen in a re- sume from Washington that em- phasized the military sense of the conference and the Pacific theatre" "
 Early said that in the afternoon session military commanders were getting down to the real business of the conference"
 Both Early and Cruikshank stress ed the informality of the personal talks between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill and how each were available to each other at any time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
SUB GUDGE0N AND CREW OF 65L0ST AT SEA

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 = The submarine Gudgeon with crew of approximately 65 officers and men, is overdue and presumed lost, the Navy announced.
 The loss raises to 29 the number of subs lost since the war started. Four were lost on non operational missions.
 Skipper It. Comdr. Robert Bonin, 3l, held the Silver Star medal for his part in the sinking of five Jap vessels and the damaging of four others while he served aboard the submarine Grayling.
 The Gudgeon, 1,475 tons, was built at Mare Island and commis- stoned in April, 1941.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
TRANSPORT IS LOST IN
 AlEUTIAN5
ArmyC- Plane with Nine Aboard Down in
 WiIIawa Gusts

AN ALEUTIAN BASE, Sept. l2.- An Army CAT transport plane with nine persons aboard is reported to be lost along the Aleutian Chain, as air transportation continued to face the seasons first Willawa gusts.
 The plane is the first CAT lost in nearly a year and the third in two years. The names of the per- sonnel are withheld.
 The plane was lost on September g, after striking hurricane with velocity of an estimated 90 miles an hour. The Willawa rocked huts and houses, and ten by twelve foot frame building was rolled up- hill.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
Maine Goes Republican;
 Big Sweep
CI0 Political Action Com miftee Is Given Ter
 rife Trump

PORTLAND Maine, Sept. 12.- Republicans made another clean sweep of Maine and handed the State affiliate of the CIO Political Action Committee a humping set back in yesterdays State election.
 Representative Robert Hale and Margaret Chase Smith were re- elected from the First and Second districts, respectively, by better than two to one margins over Demo- crats endorsed by the PAC which is backed by the Maine United Labor Committee.
 The labor vote angle from the First Congressional District had been eagerly awaited because the CIO had been especially active in that district registering voters. Hale was opposed in that district by Andrew Pettis, President of the Portland CIO Shipyard Workers, running on the Democratic ticket. He had lost to Hale for the Re- publican, nomination in the pri- mary.
 Third District Representative Frank Fellows, Republican, was re- elected by margin of better than three to one.
 Republican State Senate Presi- dent Horace Hildreth won promo tion to the Governorship over Paul Julien, Democrat, by majority of approximately 75,000 votes, the greatest given any gubernatorial winner in Maine since 1928.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
BIG DRIVE
 TO BEGIN,
 NAzI SOIL
Full Scale Thrust Into East Prussia by Red Army
 Expected Soon

MOSCOW, Sept. 12.-Back in our lines after the second patrol expedi- ton to East Prussia in three weeks, Red Army units gave the Soviet Command important information for full scale thrust into German territory which is expected to begin at any moment. This second pene- tration of the enemy's own land was made across the Sesupe River, which forms the boundary between the So- viet and the Lithuanian Republic, and into East Prussia, northwest of Insterburg Red Army artillery has been pounding this section for days.
 The new patrol thrust was an- nounced in a Russian midnight communique, which asid that scouts fired on a German detachment and killed 16 Hitlerites After having obtained valuable information, the men returned safely to their unit"
 Meanwhile, a powerfully sustained Red Army drive plunged into the outskirts of the northern Polish rail center of Lomza, the gateway city to lower East Prussia, after over running 30 settlements. One of the most stubbornly resisted sectors of the Eastern front, it was outflanked from the west, and battered by an attacking force closing in from the south. The Narew River stronghold, 20 miles from the East Prussian border, appeared about to fall.
 By German radio accounts the Russians have opened the long, awaited concentrated assault' on Warsaws eastern suburbs. The broadcasts acknowledge Russian penetration of the German lines before Praga, Warsaws suburb on the east bank of the Vistula. Soviet troops were last reported ten miles from Praga.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
By WILLIAM l.. WORDEN

UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 12.-In a shatter- ing sea-based action against the Philippines, the first of the war by the Allies, a United States Task Force destroyed an entire enemy convoy of B vessels, blasted tive airfields and wiped out 68 planes of the Japanese in widespread raids against Mindanao, blazing the ac- tion by marked advance of ap- proximately 800 miles beyond the westernmost previously reported positions of carried based aircraft.
 Halsey's Fleet Action
 This extensive raid was coupled with new heavy attacks on Para mushiro and the volcano islands far to the north.
 The American force, which swept the heart of Japan's Southwest Pa ciflc holdings was part of Admiral Halsey's Third United States Fleet.
 The attack on Mindanao was the crowning blow of the widespread actions which for the last few days struck the Japan Palau islands east
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
BIG NAVY GuN5AIk
 Al pALAU
Bombardment Is Same as that Which Preceded h.
 vasion of Other Islands

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.-Battle- ships and cruisers of the Pacific Fleet turned their big guns on Palau yesterday in a bombardment such as preceded the invasion moves against other islands in the western Pacific, the Navy reported.
 Heavy warships are joining the carrier-based aircraft in the pound- ing handed Palau almost daily the week previous. Cruisers and de- stroyers on Wednesday of last week bombarded the island group, 600 miles east of the Philippines.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
GERMANY BATTERED,
 FIFTH DAY
Nazis lose 214 Planes in Gigantic Allied Air
 Attack on Reich

LONDON, Sept. 12-More thar 1000 American heavy bombers to- day attacked Germany for the fifth consecutive day, while other hun dreds of Allied planes pummeled the foe close to the battlefront.
 Fortresses and Liberators again bombed the enemy's diminishing oil stores in great armadas, conveyed by probably 750 fighters.
 The Germans made no mention of the air battles, such as the fights of Hast ditch character yesterday, in which the Eighth Air Force alone destroyed l75 enemy planes.
 Moscow reported that scores or U. s. bombers landed at Russian bases yesterday after bombing Chemnitz, 50 miles southeast oi Leipzig. Forty-eight of the Amerl- can heavy bombers and 29 fighters failed to return.
 In all, 2O3 German planes were destroyed in the west yesterday. Fighter bombers in the U. $. Ninth Air Force knocked out 20, including nine in combat four more destroyed in the Mediterranean theater and seven in Russia, making total of PA German losses.
 Before dawn today, Mosquitoes plunged many two-ton bombs on Berlin, and RAF Lanca ters pounded Darmstadt in the upper Rllifieland.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
ROTARY OFFICERS MAKE REPORT ON
 DISTRICT (0NFAB

Juneau Rotary Club President Jack Fletcher and Secretary Herb Hillerman reported today on the District Rotary Assembly held ln Ketchikan last week. Howard Stab- Ter also attended the meeting.
 Hank Harmon announced that the All Club exhibit will be held Sat- urday in the Scottish Rite Temple between the hours of ? and 8 p. m. and urged all Rotarians to drop in and look over the youngsters ac- complishments in gardening, sewing cooking and other endeavors.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
The W ashington Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON Ut. Col Robert $. Allen now on active service with the Army)

WASHINGTON-Most important political meeting since the Chicago Democratic convention takes place in Texas today (September l2, when Texas Democrats meet in Dallas to thresh out the question of whether their electors shall vote for Senator Harry Byrd even though the people of Texas should vote overwhelmingly for Roosevelt.
 At this writing, thanks to cooks Roosevelt, Governor Coke Steven son and Wallace spelling the broth, it looks as if the Texas electoral situation was more muddled than ever and that a minimum Of l5 votes would go to Harry Byrd in the Electoral College next Mo- vember.
 In a tight election, this might decide who is to be the next Presl- dent of the United States.
 Latest development in the tu- multuous Texas turmoil began when Vice President Wallace drop ped in on anti-Roosevelt Governor Coke Stevenson at the Governors Mansion at 5:30 one morning last month. Gov. Stevenson wasn't up but he did getup at 6 a. m., at which time he and Wallace brewed coffee and had pleasant chat.
 Later reporting to FDR, Wallace said that Stevenson had been badly treated in Washington, had been ignored when the President went to the Mexican border, and felt bad ly. H suggesed that FDR invite the Governor of Texas up to Wash ington for a chat, and that they might iron out the fact that anti Roosevelt Democrats, headed by Jesse Je,.. ..es' nephew, had chosen 23 electors, of which at least Is were certain to vote against Roosevelt next November.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
LAND HEARINGS END; REpORTS ARE MADE
 BY COMMISSIONERS

Hearings on land cases which have been held during the past two weeks in the court rooms of the Federal Building, were closed yester- day. The dispute was over the amount rendered by the government to owners of property in this vii cinity which land had been taken for military use after the outbreak of the war.
 TEe following is a report of the commissioners The property of J. F. Mullen was given fair market value of S4,O20; the Floyd Fagerson property was valued at S1,766.25; the property owned by Mrs. Florine Housel was valued at $6,470.40 and the Joe Render property, $7,4OO. A valuation of S400 was also made on the roadway property of the Kend- ler's in addition to the amount named for their other land.
 The hearings were held before Commissioners Charles Naghel, John H. Walmer and Minard Mill At torney R. E. Robertson represented property owners J. F. Mullen, Joseph Renders and Mrs. Florine Housel. Howard Stabler was the attorney for MT. and Mrs Floyd Fagerson.
 Assistant District Attorney R. l.. Tollefson and Land Agent Harold Bean were representing the govern ment.
 According to U. S. District At torney Lynn Gemmill, either side, if dissatisfied with the report, may appeal to the District Court for a jury trial,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12


 The Navy's communique said.
 "Airfields at Del Monte, Valencia, Cagayan, Buayan and Davao were bombed and strafed. In these at tacks two enemy aircraft were en- countered near our carriers and five were encountered over Davao, all were shot down. Approximately 60 enemy aircraft were destroyed on the ground.
 Convoy Sent Down
 "The convoy was discovered off Hinatuan Bay, consisting of 32 loaded coastal cargo ships and 20 sampans. The convoy was brought under the attack by the Pacific Fleet destroyers, cruisers and car rier aircraft. All enemy ships were destroyed"
 ParamushirO Bombed
 Heavy bombers of the Eleventh Air Force bombed Paramushiro in the Kuriles last Saturday and Sun day, and runways and air facilities at Two and Jima in the Volcano Islands were hit with 37 tons of bombs the same day by the Seventh Air Force Liberators.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
C0RDELL HULL
 WARNS AUSTRIA

WASHINGTON, Sept. l2.-Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull has warned the people of Austria that the time for them to turn against Germany, in order to help secure their own independence, is almost up.
 The statement, in response to a reporters question, in effect advised the Austrians that their postwar destiny depends, to considerable extent at this moment, on their following the pattern of Rumania and Bulgaria in coming over to the Allied side.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
RINGLEADER OF HITLER DEATH
 PLOT WILL DIE

LONDON, Sept. 12. Dr. Karl Friedric Goerdeler, fomer Liepzig Mayor and described as the ring leader of the July 20 plot to kill Hitler, has been sentenced to death along with six other politicians v the Berlin radio discloses.
 A number of alleged conspirators, including high army officers, have already been killed.
 Goerdeler, 60, had been designated by the plotters to become Chancel- Tor of the new German government, which would have sought peace, the broadcast said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Sept. 12. - Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 69s, American Can 8715. Anaconda 257s, Beech Aircraft 1OA, Bethlehem Steel 68, Curtiss- Wright 5A, International Harvester 8OB, Kennecott 3115, North Amerl- can Aviation 8as, Northern Pacific 147s, United States Steel 36k.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 144.88; rails, 3950; utilities, 2464.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
FIVE OUT VIA PA

Passengers for Fairbanks today on an outgoing Pan American plane were Walter Heisel, James Leivers, Gordon Newhouse, and MT. and Mrs. P. Kalamarides. The latter two are enroute to Nome, where they will assume their duties as teachers for the Office of Indian Affairs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
JkpS HOLD MOST
 or CHEKIANG NOW

CHUNGKING, Sept. 12 = The Chinese Command acknowledged tonight that the important port of Wenghow in Chekaing Province, PA miles south of Shangrai, was captured by the Japs on September '. A full two thirds of Chekaing Province is now in enemy hands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
Claims Won kIuge
 kDead;; RommeI
 Wounded Seriously

LONDON, Sept. 12.-A captured German General confirms reports that Field Marshal von Kluge is dead and Marshal Erwin Rommel has been wounded seriously. This is a Reuters dispatch from the British Second Army front.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
ROOSEVELT-STEVENSON
 FARLEY

So Governor Stevenson was ln- vited to Washington. Arriving here, he was corralled by Jesse Jones, who conferred with him for an hour. then took him to the White House introduced him to the Presl- dent. and sat outside the door waiting for the conference to break up.
 Inside the Presidents office
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
CLUB LEADERS MAKE PLANS

Leaders of the All Clubs met last evening at the home of Mrs. C. L. Robard to make plans for the exhibits, demonstrations and tea to be given at the Garden Show
 Those attending were Mrs. B.. Smith, Phyllis Grant and Mae Stephenson, District Extension Agent.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
PARK SERVICE MEN HERE

Allyn P. Bursley, of the National Park Service has registered at the Baranof Hotel from Chicago, and MT. and Mrs. A. c. Kuehl, also of the Service, are guests at the Cas- tineau Hotel,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
PURCHASER HERE

The submarine chaser MacLean, which participated in the sinking of an enemy submarine off Ket- chikan two years ago, is a visitor in Juneau harbor this week. This is the first trip of the vessel to Juneau since it has been operat- ing in these waters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
SCOTT ARRIVES

James D. Scott has arrived here and is registered at the Cas- tineau from Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
METHODIST MEETING

The Methodist Women's Society is scheduled to meet at 80 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the home of Mrs. R. l.. Emil, 610 Eleventh St.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12

Americas forests grow about 21,- 800 cubic feet of wood per minute and still pipe-smokers keep running out of matches.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
All GARDEN CLUB MEETS

A meeting of the All Garden Club will be held at o'clock to- morrow evening at the home of MT. and Mrs. O. L. Robard.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-12
MISS KEATON HERE

Miss Mildred H. Keaton, Field Nurse at Sevoogna for the Office of Indian Affairs, has arrived here for an indefinite stay.