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Evening star., 1944-04-14

aboard by Bra Harry ]. Miller.
lillian coastal steamer and brought to
Rio de Janeiro, where all but Mr..
Miller, the captain and another
member of the crew were hospital
lied. Within Is days Mr. Miller had
shipped over and has made several
trips through war zones since.
His story came to light when he
called at the United States Mari
time Service to get his three service
bars denoting service in the war
zones and his one bar with star
for the torpedo experience. He is
now a crew member of another
freighter expecting to sail again
soon
Mr.. Miller formerly was employed
at the Army and Navy Club and
the Georgetown Preschool as a pas
TRY cook.
Aboard ship he holds a chief
stewards rating. His experience
as a cook served him and his ship
mates we'll while they were adrift
in the lifeboat. On the 30th day
out he and another member of the
Evening star., 1944-04-14
THE EVENING STAR, Washington. D. c.
Washington Seaman
Survives a DAYS
.Adrift in Atlantic

Few men go through the eXpe-
rience at sea that Harry James Mil
ler had and live to tell about it.
Mr.. Miller, who lives at 645 Elev-
enth street NE. with his wife, Lois,
spent AZ days in an open lifeboat
with 25 other members of the crew of
THE United States merchant marine
freighter Roger B. Taney after two
torpedoes from an enemy submarine
sent the ship to the bottom on Feb
ruary 2, 1943, some 1000 miles from
the Brazilian coast in the South
Atlantic
The 32-foot lifeboat with 26 mem
bers of the crew including the mas
ter, Capt. Thomas j. Potter, made
Evening star., 1944-04-14

Only three members of the crew
OF the freighter lost their lives in
the torpedoing. They were two
water tenders and the third en-
|gineer, caught below decks in the
engine room when the torpedo hit
that section of the freighter.
Evening star., 1944-04-14

crew killed a large dolphin and
he cooked it over a fire made with
old rags and literally soaked with
kerosene.
Up to that time emergency ra-
tions of concentrated food were
doled out by Capt. Potter but had
Evening star., 1944-04-14

run out when the big fish ran into
the sheath knives of the two crew.
men. The fish was devoured that
day and for the remainder of the
trip there was no food. Water was
down to four ounces a day per
man.
Evening star., 1944-04-14

Its way to with
in 10 miles of
the coast of Bra
zil and was only
20 miles off it's
direct course be-
cause of the in
6 e n u ity of the
C a p t a i n, who
u S e d a S m a | !
pocket W a t C h
sized compass to
alQ MS naVlSa-
tion.
There the men
in the small boat
W ere t a k e n
Evening star., 1944-04-14

Sketched: Deifsch.Weysba inferpyefs
the fitted coat, in lime 1000 wooi sabar-
dine. SaperbIy executed for longevity
and debendabilify, S98.95.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
WpB NELSON
 GETS KICK
 IN TEETH''
Production Chairman Sud- denly Sent on Mission to
 China with Hurley

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Presi- dent Roosevelt announces he plans that Donald Nelson, head of the War Production Board, will go along with Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley, leaving immediately, as emissaries to China to discuss military and economic problems with Chiang Kai Shek.
 The plan was announced just when Nelson appeared to have won a round in the fight with the Army to get limited civilian production resumed The action stirred sur- prise and conjectures among Con- gressmen and others and one asso- ciate of Nelson said it Hooks like kick in the teeth"
 Speculation was steemed chiefly on the Presidents specification it would take Nelson and Hurley "sev- eral months" to finish their assign ment and some of Nelsons asso- ciates called the next few months a critical time for his reconversion program. It is said the mission to China, including travel time, could be completed in about three weeks.
 Charles E. Wilson, WIPE Vice. Chairman, will take charge during the absence of Nelson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21

ROME, Aug. 21. = Hard driving French troops have virtually en- circled Toulon, breaking through within three miles of the naval base, while American infantry is within Is air line miles from Mar seille and famed out through Dur anee Valley headed for Rhone against disorganized enemy resist ance.
 The Americans spread forward on both sides of the town of Pertius, eleven miles north of Aiken across the Durance River and joined French Patriots who surrounded the Nazi troops within the town.
 Americans also charged several miles to the northeast of Aix, key junction of seven highways and IS miles north of Marseille.
 Another American unit is report ed on the outskirts of Aix and possibly has completed occupation of the town.
 The German communique says Laciotat, on the south coast of France halfway between Toulon and Marseille has been heavily shelled by the invasion fleet and also. bombed from the air The German News Agency Transocean said this action may indicate an Allied landing there.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
4-HC|ub Program
 Wednesday Night


 The public is invited to attend a All program at 2 o'clock We'd nesday evening, in the Methodist Church.
 Demonstrations by the All Clubs will be given T, and at o'clock Albert w. Blackerby, of the For estry Service, will show some of Dr. George Dale's interesting nov ies. Fred Barkley, Garden Club Leader, will lead the song festival. Others assisting with the program are All leaders Mrs. L. C. Ro- bards, Phyllis Grant, Mrs. B. Smith, and Mae Stephenson, Dis trict Extension Agent,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
 DIVISIONS
 SMASHED
Reds Make Gain Near War; saw But Yield Slight
 Iy, Baltic Front

MOSCOW, Aug. 21.-The Soviet Forces have smashed three Nazi divisions in the Sandomierz salient below Warsaw while other Red Army units yielded slightly before costly German attempts to rescue possibly 100000 troops isolated on the Baltic front, the Russian com munique said.
 The Russians have driven closed to Praga, suburbs east of the city and captured several vital positions to the northeast, front line dis patches state.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
THIRD ARMY SLAUGHTER5
 fl DIVISIONS
German Casualty Figures Announced for Battle
 of France

WITH THE U. s. THIRD ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug. 21. = Patton's Third Army has inflicted 109,575 casualties on the Germans since August l in his dash across Brit tany and northern France to the outskirts of Paris.
 The Third Army has captured 49,650, killed .11,025, and wounded estimated at 48,900.
 The losses constitute a total of about eleven Nazi divisions in their present depleted state.
 Information was lacking today on Patton's columns which are prob- ing through France like arms of an octupus.
 Refugees slipping from Paris re- ported that street fighting is in creasing in violence between French resistance forces and Germans in- side the Capital city.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21

 Jap Bases
 AreRaided
J. 5. Central Pacific Com mand Planes Make
 NeufrdIizing Attacks

UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL, HARBOR, Aug. 21.-Warplanes of the United States Central Pacific Command continue neutralizing raids against scatterd Jap island bases, Adm. Chester w. Nimitz an- nounces.
 Raids were made last Thursday and Friday by American. fliers who hit two islands in the Marianas, Rita between Tinian and Guam, and Aura, phosphate island south of the Marshalls and twice blasted two islands in the Marshalls.
 All planes returned safely to their bases.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
FORCE WILL BE USED TO
 KEEP PEACE
Hull States U. 5. Position al First Meeting Seeur-
 fly Conference

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. = Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull today opened the history making postwar security talks with the declaration to the organization that peace must be backed by force available and promptly adequate in a measure with certainty"
 His assertion strongly indicated the United States is entering the four power meetings with strong commitments to use it's own forces to support world security for gen. erations to come.
 Must Act Speedily
 Sir Alexander Cadogan, British representative, appealed to British American, Chinese and Soviet Gov ernments to act speedily in erecting a world peace structure in order to get some of it working before the war ends, evidently referring to the British proposal that so far has produced little evidence of support
 He stated that the big four Ma tions should band themselves to- gether now in some sort of pro- visional union until a permanent organization can be formed.
 Some events" he stated, "are moving fast and peace may come sooner than some expect"
 The delegates are gathered at Dunarton Oaks, historic Washington estate where all meetings will be held
 Stettinius In Charge
 Speaking for the President as well as himself, Hull is official host at the first session of the first meeting to block out security.
 Ambassador Gromyo, Soviet rep resentative, spoke in response to Hull who then turned over the leading American role to Under Secretary of State Stettinius.
 Soviet Viewpoint
 Gromyo likewise emphasized the need of force in preventing another world war and while he stressed re- sponsibility for world security must be borne by the great powers be- cause of their strength, the for nation of a world organization must be the principle of sovereign equal ity for all freedom loving coun- tries"
 Gromyo praised the Uni te d States for taking the initiative in forming the peace organization.
 The first session today lasted about 35 minutes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
Says Pearl Harbor
 Story Unfold
Discharged Admiral Al- (uses Truman and
 Roberts of FdIsity

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Repre- sentative Ralph E. Church, of H. linois, told the House that the full story of the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor will shock the world" and added that Washington is to blame" Church spoke in connec- tion with public letter addressed to Senator Truman by Rear Ad- miral Kimmel who was removed from active command after the Pearl Harbor disaster.
 Kinmel told Truman that the re- port on the attack was prepared under the chairmanship of Assoc fate Justice Roberts of the Supreme Court, and "does not contain the basic truths of the Pearl Harbor catastrophe" and that a magazine article by Truman contained false statements" In the letter made public here by Charles Rugg, his civilian attorney, Kimmel said of Truman's article in the August 26 issue of Golfers that:
 Your innue n d o that General Short and I are not on speaking terms is not true Your statements alleging failure to cooperate or CO., ordinate our eforts is equally false" ]"
 Kimmel added, T ask nothing more than to end the untruths and half truths about this matter until the entire story is given our peo- pie, whom I'm convinced will be amazed at the truth"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
FIGHTING IN
 PARIS SUBS
 I5REp0RTED
Underground Forces Said to Have Started Fierce
 Revolt in City

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIED PRECAUTIONARY FORCES, Aug. 21.-American ar mored columns have speared both sides of Paris and Allied flags are reported flying in many parts of the old French Capital city.
 The underground army has start ed fierce revolt in anticipation of early liberation.
 American tanks have established a firm bridgehead across the Seine at Nantes, 25 miles northwest of Paris, and 90 miles farther north probing thrusts have been made to- ward the Seine in the vicinity of Corbell, Melun and Fontainbeleau. Southwest of Paris other thrusts are made.
 Sweep Around City
 The actions put the Allies in position to sweep completely around the city toward the old World War I battlegrounds of Rheims. Soissons the Marne and Chateau Thierry.
 Patton's Third Army vanguards are fighting in the vicinity of Yer sailles, 10 miles from the heart of Paris where peace was signed in the Hall of Mirrors in l9l9.
 Tn Paris Suburbs
 The DNB news agency says the American reconnaissance forces are in the suburbs of Paris itself and the invasion of the territory north of Seine at Nantes threatens to compress further a 75 miles long by 59 miles deep corner below the river where the elements of the Eightheenth Nazi Division are fighting desperately to escape from a succession of pockets in the hope of executing a German Dunkerque across the bridgeless Seine.
 The Germans have made two madden attempts to break out of the Allied steel bands.
 Last night, the Germans, report ed using about 70 scraped up tanks attacked from the westermosi pocket below Falaise and the out come of this attempt has not been reported.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
HALMAHERA NOW BEING
 EvA(UATED
Jap Forces Skip Out fo
 Islands Beyond Range 7 of Allied BOmbers

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS IN THE WEST PACIFIC, Aug. 21.-Heavily punished Japan csc Air Forces are withdrawing from Halmahera to bases westward beyond the Allied bomber range Gen. Douglas Macarthur reports in the Monday communique.
 This will make possible an ad- vance westward without the ne- cessity of costly frontal assaults to clear the way" said MacArthur and the official pronouncement added that Halmahera, 200 miles west of New Guinea and 300 miles south of the southern Philippines has been under almost daily at- tacks by Allied bombers in recent weeks.
 The nearest Jap strongholds west of Halmahera are the Celebes and Borneo Islands, both containing many airdromes yet untouched by Allied bombing.
 The ccmmunique also says the battle for air supremacy in the Moluccas Islands is rapidly ap- preaching definite conclusion and under the constant punishment the enemy is apparently withdraw ing forces beyond the bombing range of cur Air Force and enemy airbases are now nonoperative and others have been stripped of planes The enemy is no longer contesting the air over the Moluccas Islands. T
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
Captured Gesfapos Crying With Fear; Become Terror
 Stricken and Beg for Lives

NEW YORK, Aug. 21.--Members of the vaunted German Gestapo are pictured as terror stricken men cringing with fear after capture by Maquis forces in eastern France.
 This is the report of CBS cor respondent Howard K. Smith in a dispatch relayed to New York by way of Switzerland.
 Smith said he and his wife have just completed a "four-day tour with the French peoples own Army of Liberation. Ee describes a courtyard scene in Annecy where the Maquis had herded eight Ges- tapo.
 Smith said one Nazi fell on his knees and begged my wife to save him."
 Others cringed with fear and they distinctly shuddered at our approach" Their lips shook and they could scarcely speak. After we talked with them in German, they flung themse Ives on our shoulders and wept like children. We were overwhelmed with ex- plantations. These explanations were hard to take for we met half Q dozen Frenchmen who still bore the marks of tortures by these same men,"
 Smith said the Germans insist ed they did not want to be Ges- tapes but were conscripted, and they blamed the high officers and the Elite Guard.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
FRENCH WILL
 BE AT HEAD,
 PARIS ENTRY
Balcony Seats Overlooking Route Reported SeIl-
 ing df High Prices

LONDON, Aug. 21.-When the Allied Liberating Armies make the triumphal entry of Paris they will be headed by Gen. Charles De- Gaulle and units under Gen Jacques LeClercs French Second Armored Division, it is reported in informed circles here.
 Reports from neutral sources for some time said tickets for choice balcony seats overlooking the routes leading to the Arc de Triomphe have been selling at high prices.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. = B-29 bombers have made two raids, a double strike on Japan, one at night and one in broad daylight.
 Flames and destruction were the results of the raids.
 Superfortresses ranged over the industrial targets at Yawata on the island of Kyushu.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
WARRANT BEING BURNED; REVOLT
 H IN PROGRESS

LONDON, Aug. 21.-The Germans are laying waste to large sections of Warsaw by artillery and planes trying to smash the underground forces battling the Nazi troops with in the city, Polish quarters here said.
 The fifteenth century cathedral is almost pulverized
 The Germans have seized 10000 Poles in Warsaw and herded them into concentration camps in an effort to breakup the revolt.
 The Germans are systematically burning down the city, street by street.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-The so- called voice of the people" is still heard loudly and frequently in Washington.
 Letters carry the greatest volume of expression, of course, but the time -honored right of petition is exercised heavily.
 More than 5000 petitions-rang- ing in the number of signers from 10 to 1000 ,0O0 persons-have been filed with Congress during this ses- sion alone
 Veterans and liquor are chief topics of interest among the peti- tioners. Everybody's for aid to the veterans, but the vets and drys split about even on the liquor question.
 Congressmen are just about as active as their constituents in trying to get their views across. There are only 435 representative and 98 senators, but in this session they have introduced approximately 5000 bills.
 Getting the bills passed is another
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
14,ooo-T0N JAp(RUI5ER
 SENT DOWN
Liberdtor Makes Lone Raid Off China Coast in
 Hongkong Area

CHUNGKING, Aug. 21.-A Lib- orator of the American Fourteenth Air Force sunk 14,00o ton Japan csc cruiser in a sweep off the Chi nese coast. east of Hongkong, Still wells Headquarters announces.
 The attack was made on Satur- day. The Liberator made four bombing runs over the cruiser be- fore finally sending it to the bot tom.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
END OF WAR IN FRANCE
 IS IN SIGHT
Montgomery Says Ger mans Have Suffered
 Decisive Defeat

WITH BRITISH TROOPS IN FRANCE, Aug. 2l.-General Mont gomery told his troops tonight that the end of the war in France is in sight Let us finish off our business in record time"
 Montgomery's special m s g e said that German armies in north west France suffered decisive de- feat.
 There may be many surprises in store for the fleeing remnants" he asserted.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
NEW ATTACKS
 F0RE5HAD0WED
 IN }. W. PACIFIC

LONDON, Aug. 21.--Berlin broad casts a Tokyo dispatch reporting lively air activity north of Aus tralia "proba ably foreshadowing fresh offensive operations in that area"
 Recent Allied attacks reported by Tokyo cover many islands in far north of Australia
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
SCALES, LEG IRONS
 PRESENTED MUSEUM
 BY MAYOR HANF0RD

Mayor F. G. Hanford of Wran- gell has presented the Alaska Mu- scum with the first set of gold scales brought to the Cassior in 1879. The scales were collected by Harper Reed, well known former Indian agent at Telegraph Greek and long time friend of Mayor Hanford.
 Also presented the Museum by Mayor Hanford is pair of leg irons used at Telegraph Creek dur ing the 1800's.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
LEGION, AUXILIARY
 COMMITTEES TO MEET

Legion and Auxiliary Committees of the September, 1914 Alaska Convention will meet at seven o'clock this evening in the Dugout. Final plans will be made for the Department Convention to be held here September 2, 3, and 4.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON GLt. Col Robert s. Allen now on active service with the Army.)

WASHINGTON -Strictest censor ship in the world today is from the Middle Eastern war theatre. Actually, it can no longer be called war theatre" for the war has passed by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, the Near East. Thus censorship now applies purely to political op- erations-operations by which Win- ston Churchill is carrying out his promise: T wasn't made Prime Minister to liquidate the British Empire"
 Greeks, Syrians and American newsmen returning from the Near East strongly suspect that Church.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
ROBINSON NOW
 COMMANDER AT
 Fl. RICHARDSON

HEADQ RTERS ALASKAN DEPARTMENT, Aug. 21. - Brig. Gen. John N. Robinson, veteran of nearly three years service Tn Alaska, has been named Post Com mander at Fort Richardson, suc- ceeding Brig. Gen. s. D. Downs, Jr., Department headquarters an- nounces.
 In the fall of 194l, Robinson, then a Colonel, commanded the POI In- fantry Regiment when he came to Alaska with his outfit and was quartered in tents during the first winter on Kodiak Island Later he was stationed at Amchitka and when the Allied Forces occupied Kiska he became Commander of the U. s. Troops there.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
French Fighi Nazis
 In MarseilIe Streeis

LONDON, Aug. 21.-According to an Algiers broadcast French forces are fighting German troops on the streets of Marseille, also the Maquis are in control at Vichy and Gestapo agents have moved from Vichy to Paris.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
French Naual Base af Toulon NoU E11circlea
5uperforfresses Make Two Raids on Japan Homeland;
 One al Nighi, Other in Day

In both flights Is enemy planes were downed, 13 probably destroyed and 12 damaged.
 The official statement says we lost four bombers.
 A broadcast from Tokyo declared g superforts out of flight of 80 were downed and also asserted 20 parachuting American crewmen were captured.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
TouIoose
 Captured

LONDON, Aug. 2l.-The Aigiers radio declares the Maquis have cap tured Toulouse, sixth largest city in France, in the southwest and so miles north of the Spanish border.
 Frequent neutral reports told of German withdrawals from the area.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
MILLERS IN TOWN

MT. and Mrs. J. Miller, of An- chorage, are in Juneau and guests at the Gastineau Hotel. Miller is a general contractor for Marine Ways, and is enroute South on business.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
SEWARD MEN HERE

Leo Douglas, A. J. Adams, Mark Braley, and Frank Brooke are here from Seward and have registered at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
 DRIVING0N
 kAR5E|LLE
Coast Shel|ed by Allied h. vdsion Feef-May Be
 for New Landing

BULLETIN-ROME, Aug. 21. French loops cracked into the western and northern sections of the great naval base at Toulon tonight.
 The invasi0nists have also stabbed 50 miles inland, seized the highway center at Velensole and the Americans are now one- third of the way to Lyons. Other units of Patch's Seventh Army are tonight about nine miles from Marseille.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
HERE FROM WASHINGTON

finders Fjelstad, of Washington, D. C.. is in town and guest at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21
Veterans, Liquor Are
 Chief Topifs Sent 10
 Members of Congress

matter, however So far only about 75O have become laws, and it isn't likely the percentage will get much higher
 The reason for this is that hun dreds of the bills are largely for show purposes = just to let the home folks know their congressman are really at work. Also, many are similar to or duplicates of legisla- ton finally adopted.
 Of the measures which do pass, surprisigly few are major legisla- tion. The majority are either to settle claims against the government as a result of accidents involving Federal property or personnel, or are corrections and changes in laws al- ready on the books.
 The mail question poses tough problem for most legislators. Not only is the volume so high that most of them have had to put on extra clerks, but the replies frequently re- quire the mind and judgment of Solomon.
 Rep. Gibson tD-Ga) is still try ing to figure out how to reply to one he received. The writer, it seems, had a solution to a speedy
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21

By CLAIR JOHNSON
 During Jack Stinnett's vaca- tio:i, this column is being written by members of the Washington staff of The Associated Press.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-21

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