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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
ADMINISTRATOR OF RUSSIAN CHURCHES
 HAS EXTENDED TRIP

Back from a nine weeks yisi- tation of parishes to the westward and interior, the Rev. J. Zlobin, Administrator of all Russia Il Churches in Alaska, stopped in Juneau yesterday on his return from Sitka.
 While at Anchorage, Rev Zlobin organized Russian Orthodox Church, and at Fairbanks. held Holy Communion on October at the Episcopal Church.
 He visited churches at Seward, Cordova and Valdez and spent some time at the Indian villages of Tatitlek and Chaniga, where services were conducted.
 Baptisms were held at many of the churches and at Cantwell, a tiny village located along the AL aska Railroad, Rev. Zlobin bap- tized 51 individuals, ranging in age from one year to AS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
5. W. PACIFIC
 ISLES GIVEN
 lGBLA5TINC

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NEW GUINEA, Oct. 19-A 150 Allied plane raid smashed installations, shipping and airdromes on Ceram and Borneo Islands, flank bases on the approaches to the Philip pines
 Headquarters announced that the Monday raid was the second 150- plane assault in recent days on these bases. A total of 90 tons of bombs were unloaded in the Mon- day assault. Heavy bombers era tered airfields on Namlea, Ambon and Ambonia Islands, while me- dium bombers and fighter-bombers smashed small shipping nearby.
 They swept the coastlines of Ceram and Ambonia on Monday.
 P-38's d a m a g d or sunk small shipping along the coasts of Hal mahera northward to Cagyan Harbor on Mindanao for the sec- ond consecutive day, setting fire to two freighters. Night patrols again started fires at Balikpapan, import ant heavily blasted Borneo oil center.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
1000 B0MDERS IN RAID ON TARGETS
 IN SW GERMANY

LONDON, Oct. 19-One thousand or more American heavy bombers attacked important military ob- jectives in the Mainz, Ludwig schafen and Mannheim areas in southwest Germany
 A hundred fighters flew with the Fortresses and Liberators over the three cities. Large rail yards and numerous war industries were hit
 A United States communique said 10 heavy bombers and 23 fighters were lost yesterday in at tacks on the northwest German centers of Cologne and KasSel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
NATIONAL WAR
 FUND GETS BIG
 ENDORSEMENTS

Word has been received here that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Su- preme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Western Europe, has sent to the United States the following endorsement of the National War Fund:
 All Americans know it is a privilege to contribute to the Na- tional and Community War Funds in this year of liberation. Compile menting our military campaigns the services which flow from these funds reach out to friends and neighbors at home and abroad and to the oppressed peoples of the world
 At the same time, Winthrop w. Aldrich, President of the National War Fund, has pointed out that if a cessation of fighting in Europe should soon occur, there would be no immediate lessening of the needs of the funds agencies. On the contrary, in that event for many months to come the humani- tartan services rendered by the Allied War Relief, United Seaman's Service, USO and War Prisones Aid would be increased.
 Announcement of these messages was made this morning by Jack Fletcher, Chairman of the Fund campaign in Juneau He urged that they be given wide publicity.
 MT. Fletcher requested that all solicitors for the residential dis tricts, into which the community has been divided, report to him by tomorrow afternoon, if practical. He wishes them to inspect the maps which show exactly the house to house lines separating the Is different districts. Funds collected by these residential solicitors, he pointed out, may be left at any time at the Baranof Hotel, or dur ing business hours, in the Federal Building at the office of B. D, Stewart, Chairman of this group.
 Many persons have been very helpful to the Campaign Commit tee in getting the drive off to a successful start. Two who have been conspicuously cooperative to date are Dr. Robert Simpson, who donated the billboard at Second and Seward. and Ed Hoffman, who gratutiously posted there the strik- ing campaign advertisement.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
TIMING PLAN TO END WAR
 WITH NAzIS
Offensive Aimed at Ndzi Break Before Christ
 mas Now Opening

LONDON, Oct. 19-British Tom mics, with American armor, rocked the Germans back toward Venlo on the Maas front in Holland to- day in what appeared to be pre- liminaries to an offensive aimed at a break of organized German resistance before Christmas.
 West of An twerp, Canadian forces are less than two miles from German guns at Breskens which command the sea entrance to the port from the pocket north of the Schelde River.
 Smash Into Aachen
 In Aachen, U. s. First Army troops again are smashing German tank and infantry counter-thrusts northeast of the Siegfried Line city. They held about half of the wrecked city today and smashed on into the northwestern quarter, where fighters and fighter bomb CTS pin pointed the strong points ahead of the Bazooka and grenade squads.
 The German radio declared that the British offensive in East Hol- land is lin support of the American attack on Aachen, and has in creased in violence" The timing is raising the possibility of a grand strategy plan to beat the Nazis, by the Russians smashing simul- taneously in East Prussia, while the Americans and British wreck the Rhine and Ruhr Valleys.
 Swift Strikes
 An Associated Press correspon- dent with the British Second Army said that Dempsey's troops are striking swiftly after taking Venray and have advanced about three and half miles south toward the rail- way town of Amerika.
 An American armored column is converging from a distance of five miles upon the same objective from the east The Germans are elimi- mated from all but about seven square miles of territory west of MaaS.
 The Allies are within B miles of Duisburg.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
tBy Associated Press)

American Expeditionary Forces are invading the Philippines, the Tokyo radio reported and are strik- ing at the very center of the vul- nerable eastern flank of the archi- pelago.
 Domei News Agency said flatly that United States forces had begun "reinvasion of the Philippines and are supported by powerful units of the Pacific Fleet and China-based aircraft. The sea forces, Domei said, included naval fleet under the command of General Douglas MacArthur."
 Official Communique
 The official Japanese communique said the "enemy's fleet" accompan- jed the transports into spacious Leyete Gulf Tuesday tManila time). In the past two days naval guns and carrier based aircraft bombarded the shore defenses and part of the enemy forces seem to have landed on Sultan Island" at the entrance to the gulf Domei said.
 Domei asserted Admiral Mitscher's powerful task force number 58, a carrier arm of the Pacific Fleet, is not participating in the invasions because of asserted losses suffered off Formosa.
 Formosa Battle Reports
 These losses have been denied by Admiral Nimitz since the Formosa battle. Domei broadcast the enemy has organized new large task forces, grouping together the Fifth Fleet under Admiral Spruance which didn't participate in the air battle off Formosa, and the Naval Fleet under command of General Douglas Macarthur as well as other naval forces in the Pacific, but excluding the Fifty-eighth Task Force.
 "Our army and navy forces in this sector are confronting the enemy forces with undaunted resolution" the Japanese said.
 MacArthur's Pledge
 These broadcasts, recorded by the Federal Communications Commis sion, are the only reports that Gen. Macarthur has taken the most crucial step to fulfill the pledge he made two and half years ago to return again to the Philippines.
 While there is no confirmation the Philippine invasion is at last underway, the combined Pacific sea forces of Admiral Nimitz and the land based air strength of General Macarthur have been paving the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
NAzI GARRISON SURRENDERS TO
 ALLIED CRUISER

ROME, Oct. 19-The Nazi garri- son on Santonir Island, 70 miles north of Crete in the Sea of Can oia, has surrendered to the British cruiser Ajax, Allied headquarters announced.
 The naval communique said carrier planes sweeping in from the Aegean heavily attacked the enemy transport Vicinioy Vogoy Ohiroy, five miles southeast of Larissa on the Greek mainland
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
Soviet Attacks Now Ex- tended 10 Suwalki
 Triangle Area

LONDON, Oct. 19-Russian forces, backed by 500 tanks, have pene- trated well into East Prussia where the German border town of Eydt- kuhnen has been evacuated.
 The Berlin radio said the deep est Russian penetration" is in the Eydtkuhnen area, 37 miles east of Insterburg. The Red Army passed this town, Berlin said, and the Russians advanced further on German soil"
 The German commynioue adnnit- ted the loss of the town, but inc sisted a break-through was averted. Tremendous infantry and tank forces are being hurled against the homeland of the Junker generals to achieve a grand scale break through at any cost" the enemy said.
 Front Is Widened
 The front was widened from 30 lO to llllCo OFCiili6iit, Wioii eAiS Russians extending their attacks to the area of the Suwalki center triangle which Hitler annexed from Poland to East Prussia in 1889, Berlin said.
 The enemy admission came with in hours after the Russians an- nounced the invasion of Czecho- slovakia in the south on 171- mile front, plunging through the main Carpathian passes for a junction with other Russian Army groups driving through Transyl- vania and Hungary.
 Another Russ Offensive
 The Germans tonight reported another Russian offensive along a 60 mile stretch of the Narew River above Warsaw, which is declared to be aimed at the Baltics port of Danzig, where some of the first shots of the war were fired. The success of such campaign will cut off the entire province of East Prussia.
 The front is reported to be eX- tending from Serock, north of Warsaw, to Nowograd, 15 miles southeast of the, Prussian border. Serock, however, is 160 airline miles from DanZig.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
The w ashingto ion Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON Ht. Col Robert 6. Allen now on active service with the Army.)

WASHINGTON = Underground observers coming out of Germany have reported that the Nazis al ready have begun the systematic elimination of the vast army of slave labor imported from Russia, France, Czechoslovakia and various occupied countries to work for Hitler
 Details of the story are so ghastly that they hardly can be believed. Yet the accuracy of the observers has stood up in the past; also the wholesale slaughter methods of the Germans at Lublin is already a Q matter of official record.
 It is estimated that the imported slave labor inside Germany totals about 10,000,000. Either because Hitler fears their sabotage and re- bellion, or else because they are a drain on Germanys food resources machinery has been devised to kill GIlcIl Oll- 1llC litlAlbCl hA21Co oO 1dl is estimated at around 1,500,000 though this is very rough esti- mate. Absolutely definite, however is the fact that mass execution de- pots, such as that at Lublin, al- ready are set up in various parts of Germany. These have been wit messed.
 The Lublin execution depot con- sisted of large chambers for tht administration of lethal gas tC several hundred persons at time Afterward, the bodies were system atically stripped, their jewelry shoes, clothes sorted out ant handled by quartermaster store Reason for this cold-blooded sys. tenn of mass executions is explained
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Oct. 19. - Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 62s, American Can 89A, Anaconda 277s, Beech Aircraft 9H, Bethlehem Steel 63ss, Common wealth and Southern 1, Curtiss- Wright 6, International Harvester 79, Kennecott 35A, North American Aviation 10h, New York Central 18A, Northern Pacific 1872, United States Steel 587s, Pound S4.04.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 14853; rails All; utilities, 2599.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
CITY COUNCIL IN
 SEsSI0N FRIDAY

City councilmen will meet in regular session tomorrow night at o'clock in the Council Chambers of City Hall.
 Routine business will be discussed and the resignation of Councilman Dr. w. M. Whitehead will probably be acted upon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
ENEMY BASE 0UTFLANkED,
 SMASH. RAID

UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 19-A new raid, in smashing series, was made when American carrier aircraft struck the Philippines, and another atoll, ffanking the important Japanese base at Yap, was taken
 Additional destruction to enemy shipping around Formosa is re- ported by Admiral Chester w. Nimitz. Planes of Admiral William F, Halsey's mighty Third Fleet hit the Northern Luzon area Tuesday United States time), destroying IS Japanese planes on the ground and knocking another from the skies, and sinking or setting afire seven enemy ships.
 Aerial Invasion
 This is the latest series in the aerial invasion strikes at the archi- pelago, now going into the second week of smacking the enemy. Tokyo Radio clung to it's unconfirmed propaganda line of great vic- tory in the Western Pacific and of the withdrawing United States fleet. Admiral Nimitz denied all such claims.
 Ngulu Atoll in the Western Caro- lines, 80 miles south of Yap, was occupied by American ground forces Sunday. There was only slight resistance. The seizure com pletes the outflanking of Yap.
 Nimitz announced last night the occupation of six islands of the Ulithi Atoll group without opposi- ton.
 More Damage To Japs
 A re-check of the October II carrier plane strike at Formosa and the North Philippines to within 100 miles of the China coast gave this additional damage to Japanese ships five cargo vessels, and 34 small craft sunk; B vessels, in- cluding a minelayer, probably sunk, and IS ships and 34 small craft damaged.
 Sixteen enemy vessels had pre- viously been reported sunk in that action, the first of several carrier plane raids on Formosa, and 19 were damaged.
 American Losses
 Nimitz also reported the loss of 21 more United States planes, 31 pilots and crewmen in the October Il raid, bringing American plane losses to 43.
 On Tuesday, a strike was made on the Philippines and Centereo, Camiguin, North Luzon, and Appari on the Northern Luzon coast, and Laoag in Northwestern Luzon were hit.
 Aerial strikes on the Philippines were continuing, Nimitz said, even as a Tokyo broadcast reported a raid by 80 carrier-planes in the Manila area Tuesday night United States Time).
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
FOREIGN POLICY
 OF FOR RAPED
 BY GOV. DEWEY
Says President s Policy To- ward Germany Pro-
 longing War

NEW YORK, Oct. Ex-Governor Thomas k. Dewey declared Ameri- cans are paying in blood" on the battlefields of Germany for what he described as the Roosevelt Ad- ministration's failure to have ready an intelligent program for dealing with invaded Germany"
 The nominee was addressing the political but applauding gath ering at the New York Herald Tribune's annual forum on current events. He also attributed to Roosevelt's personal and secret diplomacy" the chaos in France and the hunger and degradation in Italy.
 He declared: Q-Nazi Propa- ganda Minister Goebbels seized upon the absence of any official American plan for Germany to "terrify Germans into fanatical re- sistance."
 t2)-President Roosevelt's refusal to recognize the French De Gaulle government lis contributing to in creasing chaos behind our lines at a critical period of the war"
 (3)-Mr. Roosevelt failed to win Russian recognition of those we consider to be the true govern ment of Poland despite personal talks with Stalin.
 (4)-Soviet emissaries signed last months peace treaty with Rumania on behalf of the United States be- fore the State Department had a chance to study it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
British, Americans
 Capture More Towns

ROME, Oct. i9 = Fifth Army troops captured several more peaks and villages along the southern approaches to Bologna and the Eighth Army forces put bridge head across the Pisciatello River. north of Bologna -Rimini Highway, in the Adriatic sector, Allied Head quarters said
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
MAS0N-RAINB0W NIGHT
 WILL BE ON SATURDAY

Mason Rainbow night, an. annual affair held by the Order of Rain bow for Girls, at which time they have as their guests members of the Masonic Lodge, will be held Saturday.
 Initiatory work will be exempll- fled by the officers at 7:30 o'clock in the lodge room of the Scottish Rite Temple and a social will fol- low.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
Jap Base in Burma
 Falls 10 British

RANDY, Ceylon, Oct. 19-British troops advancing in Western Burma captured the Japanese base at Tiddim. Enemy forces launched an abortive invasion of India early this year, Allied Headquarters said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
AMERICANS LANDiNG0
 LEYTE ISLE
Tokyo Declares Forces Are Led by General Doug-
 las MaCArfhur

BULLETIN SAN FRAN CISCO. Oct. 19.--A Tokyo radio broadcast picked up here by the Blue Network, shortly after 10 o'clock this morning, quoted the Jap communique reporting Am erican attempts to land on Leyte Island, Central Philippines.
 The broadcast said "Leyte is between Mindanao and Luzon islands"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
TRINITY CHOIR TONIGHT

The choir of Holy Trinity Ca- thedral will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in the church hall. All in- terested are invited to attend the practice.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
ARRIVALS FROM WRANGELL

Charles Early and Allan Ritchie, of Wrangell. have arrived here and registered at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
OWNERS IN TOWN

MT. and Mrs. J. F. Dwyer are in town and have regist .red at the Gastineau from Portland, Oregon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
ARRIVAL FROM NOME

c. B. Smith has arrived here from Nome and is now staying at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
DURACHER AT BARANOF

Fred P. Duracher, of Council, Alaska, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19
JACOBSENS RETURN

MT. and Mrs. T. J. Jacobsen have returned from visit of two months in Whitehorse and are again at their home on Sixth Street.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-19

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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
TRANSIT PROBE
HITS SNAG IN
WASHIN c TON
nv HARRY McALPtN

WASHINGTON. ID. C.-tNNPh
IA mounting tide OF public opin-
Ion fsvoring postponement OF hear
tngs on discrimination by the Capri
tai Transit company is threatennsc
90 engulf the Fair Employment
Practice Committee here, n -'as
learned this week. Concern is be-
ing expressed over the possibility
that the holding OF these hearings
In mid-Jsnuary as planned and
probable difficulties Of attaining
compliance with the drectives 10
follow will occur just when the ef-
forts in congress are reaching a
climax on legislation for a perma-
nent FEPC.
The recent election Of new
president Of the Transit company
union who conducted an anil-Ne-
gro campaign. and the three-year
defiance OF the FEPC by the Tran
at company officials is regarded as
indication the FEPC directives will
be contested. Any resultant friction
would jeopsrdize the chances OF
obtaining legislation for perma-
nent EEPC. observers are saying.
Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune. DR..
Claiming r. Tobias. and others are
reported 20 be in favor OF having
the FEPC push back lis hearing
schedule. A group Of Washington
correspondents for Negro papers.
IN a statement to committee men,
bers this week. urged postpone
ment OF the hearings in the interest
OF permanent FEPC legislation.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
Launch Attack On LA.
Restrictive Covenants

Beth. veteran Negro barrister and
former Liberian counsel. made the
move when fling a blanket de-
murrer to a mass custer complaint
entered by the wife Of a prominent
white attorney and others against
the purchase and occupancy OF
homes in the former fashionable
Westend district by Negroes and
other non whites.
Atty. Macbeth in demurring to
the complaint, stood on the grounds
that such covenants seeking to de-
prive a man from owning a home
in a desirable neighborhood. or oc-
cupying it il purchased, was against
public policy and greatly en-
dangered the national unity and
therefore the war effort on the
home front. He stressed in the de-
murrer the fact that such race re-
strictive covenants were entered
into by the signatories at time
different and distinct to the present
war crisis.
The lawyer representing three
Negro occupants OF recently pur-
chased homes, namely: Mr.. and
Mrs. General S. Jones, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mathew Williams and orchestra
leader Benny Carter and wife.
pointed out to members Of the press
that such considerations prayed for
by plaintiff Edythe c. Davis, wife
Of Atty. LeCompte Davis, who is
leading the fight for the clusters,
were granted grave hardships
would be dealt those who had pur-
chased the property in good faith.
Plans to Organize Homeowners
Macbeth stated he would no
longer travel the road OF pure law
to cure the evil of race restrictive
covenants, making the observation
that most courts were obliged to
follow the bred Scott decision and
others equally as ancient. He said
he was attacking the validity OF
such interpretations on the grounds
that they are. viewed in present
daylight, foreign to public policy
in that such pacts serve merely to
divide the American people into
warning race camps under the guise
of preserving white supremacy"
and thereby destroying national
unity and hampering the war
effort.
Atty. Macbeth said he was or
ganizing all of the homeowners
affected. and would head a drive
on a national basis, to have such
race restrictive covenants abated at
least during the present global
war. Macbeth, pointed out that
the pattern for such a program has
already been made by Congress
when it granted President Franklin
D. Roosevelt full national emer-
gency powers which establishes the
various boards and committees
functioning in the interest OF
speeding the end OF the war and
public policy.
Through the employment Of
executive orders and directives is
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1944-12-30
Lodge To Reward
Deserving Artist

NEW YORK-(ANP)-A prize of
$3.50 will be awarded to the young
Negro dancer, singer, musician,
writer or actor, whose work is
judged to have made an outstand-
ing contribution TO American Gull
ture, Simon Schachter, president
Of Lincoln Steffens Lodge 500. In
ternational Workers Order, an
nounces.
The presentation of this award
will be one of the features of the
annual entertainment and dance
which the lodge will hold at Man.
haitian center on February 3, l945.
A committee of judges chosen from
among Negro community leaders
will select the prize winner. Names
of the judges will be announced
shortly.
Schachter pointed out that the
dance is taking place a week be-
fore the beginning Of Negro His
tory week, February lib, and in
the midst of an TWO national cam
paign to enroll 5000 Negroes into
the TWO. by May 81, l945. The lodge
decided on the award, he said, as a
means of bringing home the sig
nificance of Negro History week to
thousands of whites by pointing to
the manner in which Negroes are
helping to make history in the liv-
ing present"