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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-07-14
COMMUNICATION

Editor Daily Alaska Empire, Ju- neau, July IA: Either you had so much space to fill and filled it the easy way or you are indorsing the policy of the Cincinnati Enquirer when you reprinted their article entitled Let Them Vote on It."
 II you are indorsing this po- sition, and your reprinting without comment must make it appear so, you are entirely within your rights. But when you desire that no votes now be taken and are absolutely certain that if votes are delayed untn military men return, any eff fort to expand prohibition will fail.' you are making certain implica- tions about our fighting men. If this be true about this issue, ought not it be true of other also import and issues? It may we'll be that this falls election will have much to do in determining our postwar poli- cies. Ought not these same men have something to say in other fu- ture policies? Or do you mean that the boys are only interested in seeing that they get their liquor? Further you point out that the inoble experiment "-''our earlier at tempts to legislate liquor out of the land was a hopeless failure, (which resulted in great and dam aging waves of crime, (and) was costly to revoke even after its eff f ecti veness had fully proved" Whose figures are these? Pos Slbly the unit" of the Federation of Labor that you mention was it. self interested At least the fig ures coming out of the F. B. I. of flee do not now show and decrease in the crime wave" since we do have liquor, Liquor may not be the sole cause of our present crime wave but it's lack or any attempt ito limit it could hardly fairly be accused of being the earlier cause,
 l write about this matter because it is a serious issue involving the welfare of millions of homes. the very homes for which thousands of these boys have given their lives. Prohibition may not be the answer; our present policy certainly seems to be no better. I do like the general constructive policy of the Empire so far as l have known it, and appreciate the service it is rem dering in the community, but were I in your position, such a hearty indorsement of mrestrained liquor seems out of place.
 Sincerely,
 tSigned ROBERT s. TREAT,
 Minister of the Meth
 odist Church.
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RALPH WILLIAMS
 ASSUMES DUTIES
 IN HEALTH DEPT.

Ralph B. Williams, recently ap- pointed as Director of Public Health Laboratories of the Territorial De- partment of Health arrived here yesterday and assumed his new du- ties this morning. Williams was formerly director of Public Health Laboratories of the Department of Health of Wyoming, and was sta- toned at Cheyenne. He was &C., companied here by his wife, and l0-year-old daughter, Constance.
 The new Director succeeds Miss A. Fora Dragich, who will return to the States shortly to take up post graduate work at the Illinois Medi- cal School. She has held her for mer position for the past 212 years.
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CARDS BEAT REDS
 IN ELEVEN INNINGS
tBy Associated Pressl

Doubles by Walker Cooker and Danny Litwhiler with two out gave the St. Louis Cardinals victory over the Cincinnati Reds yesterday in an eleven inning game. George Kurowski and Ray Sanders made homers during the game.
 Frank Colman's pinch triple, driv- ing in two runs after which he scored himself, gave Pittsburgh a 3 to 2 victory over Chicago yes terday in the opening of five game series.
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DOUGLAS
 NEWS
FIREMEN MEET

The Douglas Volunteer Fire De- partment met last evening with Tauno Neimi presiding. After rou- tine business the meeting adjourn ed and the evening was spent socially in honor of two visiting members who were in attendance, Past President, Lloyd Guerin and Corporal George Guerin, both of whom are home on furlough. Ap- pointed on the next social com mittee was Tauno Neimi, Ray Me Cormick and Tony Reiss. Next maintenance committee is Val Poor
 Arne Shudshift, and Larry Bahm
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T0ppER5lN
 COLLEAGUE
 KEEP SPOTS
(By Associated Press)

For the first time in more than a week. the upper half of the Pa cific Coast League retained places The four top clubs all won their games. The most excit- ing game played yesterday was Oakland's walloping of San Diego
 GAMES THURSDAY
 Pacific Coast League Seattle 8. Hollywood 4. Los Angeles 3. Sacramento 2. Oakland 13, San Diego 3. San Francisco T, Portland 2.
 National League Pittsburgh 3, Chicago 2. St. Louis 3, Cincinnati 3.
 American League Cleveland 6, 1; St. Louis 5, 4. Detroit g, Chicago l.
 New York 4, 4 Boston 2, 8.
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LOST AND FOUND
LOST-Parker 51 fountain pen be- tween A & E Street. Reward. Return to Empire.
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed bids will be received by the City Clerk at his office on or before 4:30 P M, Friday, July 21, 1944, for the construction of concrete side walks, stairs, curb and retaining wall on First Street, between Frank lin and Gold streets, Juneau, Alaska. Plans and specifications may be obtained from the City Engineer Certified check covering 5 per cent of the bid must accompany the bid. Bids will be opened in the Council Chambers at 500 P. M, Friday, July 21, 1914.
 The City of Juneau reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Common Council of the City of Juneau.
 J. E. KEARNEY,
 City Clerk. Publication date, July IA, 1944.
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WARNING TO AUTOISTS

Parking time on streets in busi- ness section limited to 30 minutes; in front of Federal Building on Fourth Street, 10 minutes. Vio- lators are subject to arrest. Watch your time
 By order of
 POLICE CHIEF MONAGLE.
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BOY FOR REX HERMANs

A baby boy was born to MT. and Mrs. Rex Herman early this morn at St. Anns Hospital The boy has been named Trygve, after his grandfather Hagerup. He joins two other brothers, Allan and Ray.
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American League
CAPT. JOE MCLEAN
 I5 VISITING HERE

Here for few days visit with his mother, Mrs. Elsie Mclean, Capt. Joseph Mclean has arrived from his station at Anchorage.
 He expects to return early next week.
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DATE AND BRoADWELL HERE

Richard Date and J. Broadwell from Anchorage, have registered at the Gastineau Hotel.
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TIDES TOMORROW

Low tide =. 4:08 a. m, 1.6 feet. High tide-10:26 a. m., 12.4 feet. Low tide 4:06 p. m., AZ feet. High tide-l0:26 p. m., 15.7 feet.
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ANDREWS TO sKAGwAY

Walter Andrews left yesterday on the M. S. Patricia for Skagway, where he is employed by the Mum ter Construction Co.
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DR. RAE l.. CARLSON

Optometrist, is located at her office in the Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636 for appointment.
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PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY

Have a portrait artist take your picture. Hamersley Studio. Opposite Federal Building. Phone 294. adv
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Egyptian soap is made chiefly from cottonseed oil and caustic soda.
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HELP NEEDED = Janitors, SIPS per hour; combination pastry and ice cream maker, $50 per hour; warehouseman and receiving clerk $50 per hour; Al dinner cook, also fast fry man $200 per hour, permanent if satisfactory. Hills Restaurant, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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FRENCH TOWN BUR'N|EED;A E ALL CITIZENS DIE.
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Nazis.
 Bishop Limoges and Monseigneur Pastouil visited the scene and openly condemned the atrocities as. the worst ever experienced. Three priests were among the victims.
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DR. RAE L. CARLSON Optometrist, is located at her office in the Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636 for appointment.
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WANTED = Binoculars; must be good. Call Frances, Gastineau Coffee Shop
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WANTED-Used furniture. 306 Wu-
 loughby. Phone 788.
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MISCELLANEOUS

Fishing rods of all kinds repaired. Leave at West Coast Grocery. Walter A. Walker. GUARANTEED Realistic Perma- nent, $6.50. Paper Curls, $1 up. Lola Beauty Shop. Phone POI. 315 Decker Way.
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WANTED TO BUY-Bear traps. Ellis Johnson, Federal Post Office, First Ave, Seattle.
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WANTED = Press operators, Hand
 ironers. Apply Alaska Laundry.
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WANTED-To t1y or rent a small piano. Write P. o. Box 23l6, Juneau.
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WANTED-One painter, one paper hanger; must be experienced. Steady employment year round for right party. Ideal Paint Store.
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FOR RENT-Unfurnished flat. In- quire Snap Shoppe.
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FOR RENT

VACANCIES Nugget Apts.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Five Hurt in Traffic
Here Over Week End

Five persons, one of them an
8-year-old boy, were injured in
traffic accidents here over the week
end.
Walter Moxley, 8, of 3o73 Canal
street NV, was struck by truck
yesterday in the 1000 block of
Thlrty-first street NV. He was
treated at Georgetown Hospital for
head injuries and body bruises,
Police said the driver of the truck
was Bennie Watson, "a, colored
1923 Twenty ninth street NV.
When bicycle he was riding
collided with the rear of a Capital
Transit Co. bus at Fifth and l
streets NE. yesterday, Wilbur w
Rowles, 10, of 1870 Todd place NE.
suffered possible skull fracture
and cuts on the head and body
police said. He was admitted to
Sibley Hospital, condition undeter-
mined.
The driver of the bus, according
to police, was Harry F. Schickrom,
81, of 3l6 Twentieth street NE.
John Shipes. Is. of lit I street
NV. was admitted to Emergency
Hospital yesterday after he was
struck by taXicab as he crossed
the street at Eleventh and I streets
NV, police said. He was suffer-
ing from conclusion and decorations
1t was said. The cab driver was
Howard j. Wolfe, IS, of 1915 Frank
lin street NE. according to police.
In serious condition in Casualty
Hospital were George r. Tyler, 18,
Of PAIL Bunker Hill road NE, and
Robert P. Kells, l6, of 44O5 Twenty
ninth street, Mount Rainier, Md
The former suffered fractured
spine and numerous head and body
decorations while the Kells youth
received fractured arm and head
injuries when the automobile in
which they were riding Saturday
struck streetcar loading platform
in the 2600 block of Rhode Island
NE. and then crashed into a tree.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
laWRshonnig
&Remmiders@a.

Canned Foods. Etc.-Book No. 4,
blue stamps AS through Q-8 good
Indefinitely. Each stamp worth 10
points.
Meats, Fats. Etc.-All meats except
beef steaks and roast beef now
point free. Red stamps A-8
through T-8 continue good indefi-
nitely for 10 points each. Until
further notice, three red stamps
will be validated every four weeks
instead of every two weeks.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for each
pound of waste kitchen fats you
turn in. The fact that lard, short
ening and cooking oils have been
removed from the ration list does
not mean fat collection is less
essential.
Shoes-Airplane stamps / and 2 in
Book No. good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each.
Susar-Book No. stamps 80 and 81
valid for 5 pounds indefinitely.
Book No. I, stamp 40 good for S
pounds for home canning through
February %. '1945.
Gasoline--No ga coupons good for
3 gallons through today No. 10-A
coupons become valid tomorrow.
B-2, ca, B-3 and C-3 coupons
good for 5 gallons each.
Fuel Oil-PeriodS No. and 5 cou-
pons good for 10 gallons per unit
through August 81. Consum-
ers in this area should not havs
used more than 81 per cent Of
their total yearly fuel oil ration a.
of May !.
Evening star., 1944-05-08

gether with bailing wire and safety
pins, came from one airplane. Her
wings came from another, and
where the four motors came from
only the salvage crews could tell.
But she flies-and we'll. She has
a lot of hours in the air, notw!th-
standing her patched-up condition,
her odd parts that once belonged
to other airplanes, and Pvt. Ches-
ter has had a lot of hours in her
They stretch into the hundreds and
soon the young man will be en-
titled to go back home, his tour of
air duty finished. He is waiting
for that day.
Pvt. Chester had quite a time be-
fore Christmas last year. That was
the time, of course, when every SOL
dier looks for mail The usual 5000
pounds of mail flown in his Bit
grew to astronomical proportions
as the big ship carried Christmas
parcels and letters to the troops in
Italy.
Il was popular guy then" he said
with grin. Every one wanted to
hear from home and they knew the
mailman. That was me-"
Mother Told of Dispatch.
Pvt. Chester attended the Cham
berlain Vocational School here. his
mother, Mrs. Edward J. Chester,
said today when told of the above
dispatch. He enlisted in the Army
September IA, 1912, and went to
Fort Monmouth. N. j. Before he
was sent overseas last August he
was stationed in Lakeland, Fla. she
said
One of his brothers. Pvt. Edward
Colby Chester of the Engineer
Corps, has been stationed in Eng
land for the last three years. His
16-year-old brother, Alfred Joseph
Chester, already has passed his ma
val examinations and is awaiting
the day in January he will be II so
he can don a sailors uniform, Mrs.
Chester said.
Her husbands greatest wish, she
said, was to see two of his sons in
the service. He died three weeks
before any Of his sons enlisted.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
South S Cold Wave
Chi||s Washington

The chilly weather here TODAY
was nothing compared to the cold
spell in the sunny South. The
Washington low this morning was
48 degrees.
The wind yesterday that ended
the warm spell here was part of
cold air mass that moved eastward
across the Southern part of the
country. The Appalachian Noun
talns kept Washington from getting
the full effect, the forecaster said,
but at Flat Top, w. Va, the tenn
perature was 20 this morning and
there were snow furries yesterday.
Record lows for May were regis
tered in several Southern cities over
the week end, according to the As
sociated Press.
Thirty-tWo degrees was registered
at Fayetteville. Ark. first ice maker
In May for "a years. A light snow
fell there Saturday.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
500 Mark Anniversary
OF Akott Hall Opening

Resident&of Alcott Hall in West
Potomac Park yesterday celebrated
the first anniversary of the Federal
Works Agency dormitory for Gov
ernment girl workers.
About 600 persons, including public
housing officials and the 452 resi-
dents of the hall, attended the an
niversary tea at which a 35-pound
cake was cut. An instrumental trio
from the District Recreation De-
partment furnished music.
Opened year ago today, 6 of the
halls original 13 tenants still live
there. Alcott Hall is one of three
Federal dormitories in West Po-
tomac Park.
Teas at Midway and Wake Resi-
dence Halls. for colored women en-
ployes of the Government. and
program in the recreation building
also marked the first year since
they were built by FWA at Oklahoma
avenue and Twenty-fourth street
NE. Approximately $50 women oc-
cupy the two halls, called Langston
Stadium.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Filipino Puppet
Apes Germans
In PortyPI

A totalitarian party with youth
movements" and all the appendages
of the Nazi system has been set up
in the Philippines to support the
"puppet" government of Jose P
Laurel, according to japanese
news agency broadcast made public
today by the Office of War Informa-
ton.
The Kalibapi, or peoples move
ment.' started scme months ago
now has been recognized as a full
f1edged totalitarian party to support
Laurel and assist Filipinos in com
pretending the significance" of ia
pans so called "coprosperity
sphere" according to the owl.
Like the Nazi party in Germany
the Kalibapi has now established g
youth movement known as the
Rizal Youth for Filipinos less thar
Fl years old. 1t takes its name from
DR.. Jose Rizal a national hero who
was executed by the Spaniards ir
1896.
The Japanese broadcast said botf
the Kalibapi and the Rizal Youth
have female auxiliaries. The former
Is known as the Melchora Aquinc
Sisterhood latter the historical WON.
an by that name" and the younger
women's group is called the Maria
Clara Sisterhood for a fiction char
acter created by DR.. Rial.
Evening star., 1944-05-08

HE is a like Pvt. G. H. Chester.
able boy, with ready grin, and a
real favorite with his fellow GIs, ~
he said. Furthermore, he is an
artist at whipping up eggs and a
quick lunch in the big Bit on
which he acts as radioman. He can
make an egg do things an egg never
was supposed to do
AIgiers to Naples Daily.
Pvt. Chester's plane flies the daily
mail run between Algiers and Ma
piles, one of the crew of the Flying
Fortress which carries soldiers and
official mail across the approximate
ly $50 miles of sea.
He used to work for a photostat
company in the National Press
Building and wants to get back to
the job. For young man of 81 he
has been in the war long time
He enlisted q months ago. went
through the usual training and
wound up in the radio room of
a Bit
Pvt. Chester, in all the months
of flying the mail across the Med
iterranean, has had only one ex-
perience with enemy aircraft "A
Junkers-88 trailed us one day, but
didn't come close enough to shoot,
he said.
Plane PINNED Together"
His plane, by ali the odds of
war, shouldn't be in the air. Her
fuselage, almost literally pinned to-
Evening star., 1944-05-08

A charge of INT, placed in the
brick bungalow, failed to go off and
was lost in the chimney, but the
building was later fired with de-
tonator shells.
AS the two-story house started
burning fire hose burst, thoroughly
drenching Alexandria Fire Chief
James M. Duncan, jr.
In a demonstration of rescue
work, Aubrey Evans, Alexandria
fireman, was saved" from the
smoke-filled bungalow by members
Of the Alexandria Fire Department
rescue squad.
Brought from the burning build
ing in an unconscious condition
and suffering multiple fractures" i"
Mr.. Evans was given first-aid treat
ment and ambulance care.
Officials explained that although
the fires never were brought under
complete control by the volunteer
units, it was planned that way,
since the buildings had to be de-
Stroyed ANYWAY.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Master Builders Discuss
Wuqe Contracts Tuesdoy

The Master Builders Association.
which now also is known as the
District of Columbia Chapter of
the Associated General Contractors
of America, Inc, will meet Tues
dag in the MayfoWer Hotel.
Members will discuss pending
wage agreements, travel allowance
and the associations annual dinner.
A national councillor for the United
States Chamber of Commerce will
be selected.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
Spedden Named 10 Head
Catholic War Veterans

Edward D. Spedden, telephone
company official, was elected de-
partment commander of the Dis
trict Catholic War Veterans yester-
day.
Other officers elected were J. Fred
erick Burns, first vice commander:
Harry C. Brooks, second vice COM
mander; Edward Slattery, treasurer;
Thomas J. Kehoe, judge advocate;
William A. Hickey, historian; Archie
E. Brand, adjutant: DR.. Leo P.
Schroeder, medical officer; John j.
Murphy, officer of the day; Henry
F. Hodges, welfare officer, and George
A. Keyser, Raymond L. Gilbert and
Joseph M. McKenna, trustees.
At communion mass for District
Catholics who gave their lives for
their country, which was celebrated
by the Rev. James A McCarl, S. j.,
pastor, at Holy Trinity, it was an
nounceds that the Order of st. Sc
basian, an honor of the organiza-
ton, will be conferred on May 81 in
New York on National Trustee Fred
erick j. Roy
The Rev. John P. Gallagher. S. j.,
OF Holy Trinity, delivered the SER
mon and Representative Forand of
Rhode Island spoke at the COM
munion breakfast which followed.
Evening star., 1944-05-08
4 Youths Held in Jail
On Soldiers Charqe
OF Beating After Ride

Charged with assaulting a wound
ed veteran of the North African
campaign, four Berwyn Md
youths, who had given the soldier
and a girl a lift, were being held
today in the Rockville Jail pending
a hearing In the Silver Spring
Police Court tomorrow, police re-
ported.
The youths, who were arrested
yesterday at Berwyn by Prince
Georges County Officers Boyd Ham
ilton and Roland Sweitzer, were
listed as Albert D. Cochren, 20:
William w. Dodson, 25: James O.
Johnson, Is, and Alfred J. Johnson,
16. They were held in Jail in default
Of $1,000 bond each.
According to the Prince Georges
County officers. Pvt Clarence Acker-
man, 25, patient at an Army con-
valescent home near Berwyn, and
his companion, Miss Pnala L. Boggs,
408 LackaWana avenue, Hollywood
Park, were offered a lift early
Thursday by the four youths as they
were waiting for bus on the Balti-
more boulevard near Berwyn.
The officers said the youths drove
the soldier and his companion to
Hopkins sandpit near White Oak,
just across the Prince Georges
County line in Montgomery County,
where they dragged the soldier from
the car and beat him until he lost
consciousness After threatening to
attack the girl, the officers said, the
youths finally drove her to a place
near her home where she was re-
leased.
The officers said the soldier called
police from a nearby farmhouse
after he regained consciousness.
They said he was returned to the
convalescent home, where he was
reported recovering from the at
tack The officers said the soldier
had lost four fingers and suffered
other injuries in the North African
campaign.
Officers Hamilton and Sweitzer
said the four youths were picked
up yesterday at Berwyn and turned
over to Montgomery County De-
tective 1t. Frank Lane, who held
them in the Rockville Jail pending
their trial at 1:30 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1944-05-08

A high wind, a lost charge of
INT and a fire hose that burst in
fire chiefs face, all failed to mar
a Civilian Defense fire-fighting
demonstration in Alexandria yes
terday at which more than 100
volunteers demonstrated their fire.
fighting training before more than
1000 persons.
A two-story frame house, a one
story frame garage and a brick
bungalow, all slated for destruction
to make way for an apartment
house, were fired by Civilian De-
fense personnel from the District
and nearby Maryland and Virginia
and the flames controlled or extin-
guished by the fire fighters.
OCD officials said the demonstra-
ton, the first held outside WASH
ington in the metropolitan area,
was a great success" They said
they were more than satisfied" with
the skill and efficiency of Civilian
Defense units.