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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-04-19
ALASKA COASTAL
ON TRIPS TODAY
TO PETERSBURG

Flying to Petersburg today with
Alaska Coastal Airlines were A.
Van Malvern, Mrs. Vasser, A. j.
Alter, Arnold Loftholm, August
Loftholm and Gordon Mcdonald
DR.. George Hayes, d. w. Such and
H. N. Tullis we're passengers to
Ketchikan.
On a Sitka trip the plane took
Wally Moy, Stewart Bjorklund
Capt. Milton Harden and Mrs. Mil
ton Hardner.
Passengers on flight to Hoonah
were Mrs. Uni, j. E. Parks. Tom
Dyer, l.. d. Louderback and Ben
Benec&e.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-04-19
HOSPITAL NOTES

Jack Sorri has left ST. AIMS Hos
pital to return to his home to recu-
perate from q broken arm sustained
while fishing last Sunday.
Mrs. Mark Rigling was discharged
from st. AIMS Hospital yesterday
Alice Van Over, a medical pa
tent, left st. AIMS Hospital on
Tuesday.
Jesse Johnson was discharged
from st. AIMS this morning after
receiving medical care.
Hans Rasmussen, medical pa
tient, left st. AIMS today.
Mrs. Ward NJ Kelley and baby
daughter were dismissed from st.
AIMS Hospital to return to their
home today.
Ted Lawrence has been discharg-
ed from the Government Hospital.
Alex Andrews was dismissed from
the Government Hospital this
morning to return to his home at
Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-04-19
EIGHT LEAVE VIA
W00DLEY Anyways

Leaving today for Anchorage via
Woodley Anyways were L. F. Schneid
er, Arnold r. Reebs, Charles Watts.
Mrs. Jack Davis, Art Hedges, Ray
smith, Capt. Charles Ferendez, and
Mrs. Booth.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-04-19
ATTENTION PLEASE

WOMEN OF THE MOOSE
A Special meeting is called for
Thursday, April 20 for purpose of
voting on an out of town candidate.
Members please attend.
(Signed) SENIOR REGENT adv.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-04-19
MILLER is HERE

At the Gastineau Hotel, E. j..
Miller is in from Strawberry Point
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-04-19
HERE FROM VALDEZ

George Maddin, from Valdez, ]
staying at the Gastineau.
Evening star., 1944-10-16
Supreme Court Refuses to Act
On Plea of Tyler kent's Mother

acts of war" to enforce such de-
mand.
The State Department reported
that American diplomatic immunity
for Kent was waived by Ambassador
Joseph P. Kennedy after Scotland
Yard informed Mr.. Kennedy that
Kent was suspected of transmitting
to German agent copies of all
stracts Of documents useful to the
enemy.
Mrs. Kent's petition questioned
the right of the State Department
to waive immunity for Kent. It con-
tended that Kent, in order to be
released properly to the British.
would have had to waive Immunity
in his own behalf with the consent
of the United States Government.
The attorney argued that "tl
Constitution follows the flag" ana
insisted that Kent was under pro-
lection Of the Constitution while
employed as a clerk in the Amer
ican Embassy.
Evening star., 1944-10-16
Hurricane Creeping
Slowly Toward Cuba
BY the Associated Press.


HAVANA, Cuba, Oct. ia tropi-
cal hurricane raging up to 100 miles
an hour at the center crept slowly
toward the Isle de Pinos and the
mainland Of Western Cuba today.
Pan American Cancelled its flights
to and from Cuba. Householders
boarded up their windows and tied
down small boats ashore. Larger
vessels sought safe anchorages.
The National Observatory said the
mainland of Cuba probably would be
free of danger throughout the day
and probably the night.
MIAMI, Fla. Oct. Is GA severe
hurricane in the Caribbean Sea of
fered a serious threat" to Western
Cuba. the Yucatan channel area and
the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico,
the Weather Bureau reported today.
Storm warnings were hoisted at 10
am. on the Florida Keys, and the
Weather Bureau warned that strong
northeast and east winds and squalls
would sweep Southern Florida.
Gales were forecast of the South
Florida coast.
The advisory said the hurricane
was centered about 30 miles west
southwest of Grand Cayman, a Car
ibbean island south of Cuba, and
was moving west-northwestward s
10 8 miles an hour.
Evening star., 1944-10-16
Dormitory Officials Urge Core
In Selecting Ieen-Age Clerks

Two directors of Arlington Farms
dormitories, speaking today at Mrs.
Roosevelt's press conference. laid
responsibility on the Civil Service
Commission to select employees more
carefully as the answer to the prob
lem of teen-age Government girls
in Washington.
Mrs. Roosevelt reiterated her
opinion that parents should not let
their daughters come to work in
wartime Washington until they are
satisfied girls are mature enough to
handle the situation. She added
she was satisfied the 5000 girls liv-
ing in the Government dormitories
at Arlington Farms are now pro-
tected by the best setup that is
humanity possible"
Evening star., 1944-10-16

But those dormitories don't be-
gin to house all the girls working
in the District" she added.
Miss Leone johnson, director of
Maine Hall, where Dorothy Ber-
rum, murder victim, lived, said she
wished the Civil Service Commission
would examine the school records
particularly the attendance records
-of girls brought here to work in
Government agencies.
IF the maturity OF the girls
could be estimated" she said, per
hapS some Of them would not have
come in the first place"
The directors of the dormitories
have had to recommend that some
OF the girls not be accepted as resi-
dents of the halls, Miss johnson said
(See GOVERNMENT GIRLS, A-5.)
Evening star., 1944-10-16
Lute Bulletin
Mistri1I Motions Denied

Chief Justice Edward C.
Eicher in District Court this
afternoon denied a large
number of defense motions
seeking a mistrial in the Sc
dition case. The motions
were based on President
RooseveIt's reference to the
Silver Shirts in a recent
speech. The Silver Shirts or
ganization figures promi-
nently in the mass trial. The
court also overruled petitions
to postpone the trial until
after the election and to poll
the jurors to learn whether
they heard the Presidents
speech. The motions had
been under advisement for !
week.
Evening star., 1944-10-16
4AWOL Soldiers
Hitched by Plane
From India Posts
3. the Associated Press.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 16.-The story
of four soldiers who went AWOL
in India and used forged furlough
papers to hitch-hike by plane back
to the United States was related to-
day by the Sd Service Command
The four landed at Miami, the
command reported, and three al
ready have been picked up or re-
turned.
One soldier from Erie, Pa. who
had been hospitalized in India, re-
turned to his home after landing at
Miami, but the youths father re-
fused to permit him to stay after
learning he was AWOL and the SOL
dier went back to the Miami Air
Base.
He Is being held there for return
to India and probable court
martial
Two others were picked up by I'd
Service Command military police in
New York and the whereabouts of
the fourth is not known, the COM
mand added.
Evening star., 1944-10-16
Mass Meeting Here
Tonight Will Launch
War Fund Campaign
70, 900 Workers in Drive
Awoit Signal to Sturt
For $4,S50, 900 Goal

A mass meeting at Constitu-
ton Hall at 8 o'clock tonight will
be the signal for 10000 Com
munity War Fund solicitors in
Washington and vicinity to go
after the S4,850 900 needed to
operate $50 local, national and
foreign agencies during the COM
ing year.
President Roosevelt will add his
plea to those of local leaders with
q Nation-w broadcast at 1890
pm. tomorrow.
Speakers at the mass meeting to-
night will be the Earl of Halifax.
British Ambassador, and Bjorn Stall
lare, Norwegian newspaperman who
has defled the NaZis in underground
press activities for four years. The
Concert Band of the United. States
Navy School of Music will play.
Mrs. Roosevelt and representa-
tives OF all the United Nations will
sit in boxes at Constitution Hall.
Holders of the 1000 tickets issued
must arrive by 750 o'clock Herbert
l.. Willett, executive director of the
war fund, announced. At that time
remaining seats will be open to the
general public. Sixteen thousand
persons applied for the 1000 tickets,
he said.
The speeches of Mr.. Stallare-
the name assumed by the young
Norwegian to avoid reprisal on his
family in Norway-and Lord Hall
fax will be broadcast by the Column
bia Broadcasting System over Sta
ton WTOP from $50 to 8:55 O'Clock
Meanwhile the business unit held
a meeting today to organize solicita-
ton in business Offices. The resi-
dental unit will ask for eontribu-
tlons from housewives. The Gov
ernment unit has already been
working for about a week, aiming
for contributions of s2,4O0 900 from
100000 Federal employees. The ad-
vance gifts division will meet at
1890 pm. Wednesday to report on
solicitation from those able to give
larger contributions. All four units
will report Thursday at 1890 pm.
at the United States Chamber of
Commerce
In Fairfax County the goal is
10000, or approximately $4,000
more than last year. The drive is
headed by Col. Waldron E. Leonard.
Fairview, assisted by George P.
Evening star., 1944-10-16
Mcfarland Indicted
In Assau|t-SIaying;
Early Trial Likely
First-Deeree Murder
Charged to Marine
In Two Counts

Marine Pfc. Earl Mcfarland,
accused of criminally assaulting
and strangling Dorothy M. Ber-
rum, 18-year-old Government
clerk, in East Potomac Park II
days ago, was indicted today by
the District grand jury.
Mcfarland is a veteran of the
Pacific war. He has a long police
record. under another name, COM
piled before he joined the marines
He was arrested two days after the
Staying. A belt, found near the
girls body, a knife left in a taxi
cab and other evidence led to his
arrest.
The indictment against McFar-
land returned before Justice James
M. Proctor contained two charges
of first-degree murder. which carry
a mandatory death penalty on con-
viction, and one charge of criminal
assault. Conviction on the latter
count alone would involve the death
1Cao NEcFADT AMI poua ASo
Evening star., 1944-10-16
Capture Of Petsamo
Blocks Escape Route
OF Nazis in North
Berlin Confirms Entry
Into Belgrade by Reds
And Tito's Portisuns
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Oct. 16.-The Ger.
man sea escape route from
Northern Finland has been cut
with the capture of the Arctic
port of Petsamo and advancing
Red Army tanks were reported
today to have won an important
road junction close to the Nor
.wegian border.
Pravda of Moscow described the
newly-won highway center as the
"key to Norway" without naming it
further and said it had been cap
tured after Russian forces beat of
a counterattack by German
armored column retreating toward
Norway.
Also Pravda said the land and sea
assault on Petsamo, capture of
which was announced officially by
Moscow last night. routed two choice
enemy Alpine divisions in three
hour battle
Moscow did not report on progress
of the Red Army in Hungary, where
Hungarian Nazis were reported to
have imposed a rule of terror fol-
lowing an armistice petition by
Regent Nicholas Horthy.
Partisans in Belgrade.
The battle for Belgrade was not
mentioned in the official Soviet
communique, but Berlin acknowl-
edged that Russian troops and
tanks and Marshal Tito's Yugoslav
Partisans had fought their way into
the city after reaching the out
skirts Saturday.
Berlin also implied that other
Soviet troops had crossed into Ger
man East Prussia on 27-mile
front in the Memel territory.
Moscow announced Red Army
troops had advanced 3 miles west
of the fallen Latvian capital Riga,
as they steadily herded Nazis into
the narrow trap sprung when the
Soviet 1st Baltic Army reached the
Lithuanian coast north of Memel.
In Yugoslavia the Russians an
nounced the fall Of Pozarevac, an
important communications point 36
miles southeast of Belgrade, as we'll
as Krusevac, 95 miles southeast of
the capital.
Tank Battle RACES.
Other Moscow dispatches de-
scribed the tank battle on the Hun
garian plains as one of the heaviest
of the war and the Soviet COM
munique announced that 143 Ger
man tanks had been knocked out
Saturday.
This made nine-day total of
1924 German tanks destroyed on
the basis of Moscow bulletins, and
presumably most of the toll was
taken in the battle that has forced
Hungary to her knees.
In Transylvania the Russians and
Romanians took SO more localities,
Moscow announced, including Bel.
rail junction 26 miles north of the
fallen ca Y,ifal nf TS1,,i
Evening star., 1944-10-16
By the Associated Press.

The Supreme Court today refused
to consider the case Of Tyler Kent,
code clerk in the American En-
bassy in London, who was convicted
in British court of violating the
British Official War Secrets Act and
sentenced to seven years imprison-
ment.
Kent's mother, Mrs. Ann H. p.
Kent of this city asked the high
tribunal to aid in bringing about
his return to the United States.
Her attorney, Don M. Harlan of
Detroit, presented motion for per-
mission to file a petition for a writ
of mandamus. He said the writ.
If granted, would call on President
Roosevelt to determine the cause of
Kent's detention and, if wrongfully
held, to demand his release. Mr..
Harlan said the President would be
required to use all acts short of
Evening star., 1944-10-16
Truman Is Emerging
As Major Issue in
Presidential Race
Possibility Of Taking
Helm Emphasized by
Missouri Newspapers
BY GOULD LINCOLN.
Star Staff Correspondent.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Oct. 10
In Missouri, as in other States,
Senator Truman, Democratic
vice presidential candidate, is
becoming more and more an
issue in the campaign.
1t is, alt linked with the question
of President Roosevelt's health.
The recent death Of Wendell l..
Willkie at 52-who was 10 years
younger than the President-has
served to focus public attention on
the uncertainty of human life.
AS result, voters are being asked
to consider whether they wish to
gamble on the possibility of Senator
Truman's becoming President, in
the event of victory for the Roose-
velt- Truman ticket three weeks
hence.
The people of Missouri are being
asked in the columns of newspapers
what kind of a President Mr.. Tru-
man would make. what his expert
ence has been that would enable
him to take over the job of Chief
Executive. and to whom he would
be indebted and why for such a
position.
Roberts Discusses Situation.
Roy A. Roberts, writing in the
Kansas City Star. of which he is
managing editor. had the following
to say about this question of the
Presidents health, after a Today
trip to Washington and New York ::
"A delicate subject nobody likes
to discuss. The sudden death of
Wendell L. Willkie emphasized the
strain and burden on men in public
life. The question Immediately
bobbed into the open. 1t was met by
carefully planted stories from the
White House that the President
was in fine shape This subject will
get more and more attention as
election day approaches. If the
President makes no more public ap-
pearances before election day, it
will cause additional comment.
This much can be said at this
time. The whispers of a serious
character going over the country
are not correct. The inspired stories
of his vigor, likewise. are not cor
rect. The facts are just what COM
mon sense would indicate. After IL
grinding years in the White House
carrying superhuman burden, the
President is thoroughly tired, worn
out man today, much older than his
81 years of age would call for. 1t is
entirely proper, not ghoulish, that
this should be taken into account
when considering who should run
the country the next four years with
the terrific problems ahead"
Question Out In Open.
This quotation is given as a sam
pie of the discussion which is going
on in the press. taken from one OF
(See LINCOLN, Page A-I4.)
Evening star., 1944-10-16
10000 Tons Of Bombs
Fall on Reich in IS
Weekend Assaults
Electrical Storms Fail
To Prevent Blasting Of
WiIheImshoven, Hamburg

LONDON, Oct. 16.-The Allied
aerial offensive swept over the
great German ports of Wilhelm
shaven and Hamburg last night
and even severe electrical storms
failed to slow up the climax to
an unparalleled week end which
broke almost every bombing rec
ord in the books.
Raj bombers hundred across the
North Sea to carry out the i4th and
18th major British American raids
on the Reich in 40 hours.
Halifaxes and Lancasters dumped
the main load on Wilhelmshaven,
while smaller. faster Mosquitoes
struck Hamburg.
American planes were out again
today and bombed Salzburg. not far
from Berchtesgaden, the German
radio reported. The enemy said the
Salzburg Cathedral was damaged
severely and that the Mozart house.
home of the great composer, was
destroyed.
Despite the weather last night,
crews said they found openings in
the clouds and bombed usually at
Wilhelmshaven, key water and rail
link with the northern sectors of
the western front, and saw groups
of fires which seemed to be taking
firm hold"
Fifteen Attacks Made.
Over the week end more than
10000 tons of bombs cascaded on
Western Germany More than 1000
planes participated in the Is prin-
cipal attacks.
Bombing reached its greatest in
tensity at Cologne and Duisburg,
where four day and night assaults
were carried out in rapid succession.
Other attacks were directed
against industrial and rail targets
at Saarbrucken, Kaiserslautern, Ber-
lin, Brunswick, Dusseldorf, Ham
burg. Mannheim, Reisholz and the
big Sorpe Dam, 20 miles southeast
of Dortmund.
+ The American and British fleets
co-ordinated their work smoothly
the 9th Air Force drawing Cologne
and the Raj taking Duisburg, while
more than 1900 Fortresses and Lib
orators hammered Cologne twice in
daylight. The British broke two
records on Duisburg Saturday morn
ing, then returned with another
1000 bombers that night.
4.500 Tons Dropped.
In their first visit the largest force
of RAF heavies ever dispatched in
daylight dropped 4,500 tons of bombs
in Is minutes.
More bombs were rained on Ger
many in "a hours than the Luftwaffe
used on London throughout the
blitZ.
The total cost for all the raids was
(See AERIAL, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1944-10-16
Horthy's Armistice Plea Puts
Hungary in Political Turmoil
Budapest Buildings Reported Seized
By Nozis; Regents Fate Uncertain

newspapers said Nazi troops swiftly
took over all strategic buildings in
Budapest and that a new govern
ment shortly would "try to get Hun
garian troops to continue battle on
the German side" One report said
Horthy had escaped arrest and was
holding out in a strongly fortified
castle.
A transocean broadcast from Ger
many said a detailed declaration"
on the Hungarian developments
would be forthcoming later. Mean
while, Berlin's morning papers re-
Trained from mentioning Hungary.
Pro-German elements, presumably
aided by German SIS divisions
rushed to Budapest from Vienna,
apparently seized control of the
country Immediately after the petit
ton for an armistice was broad
cast early last evening in an order
of the day signed by Horthy.
Within few hours another broad
cast from Budapest announced that
Evening star., 1944-10-16
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 16. - Hungary
has toppled into political chaos
after Regent Nicholas Horthy's
dramatic bid for peace.
Admiral Horthy's quick eclipse-at
least on the Budapest radio-by
Count Ference Szalasy's last-ditch
crowd of Nazis only emphasized that
Hungarians were fighting among
themselves instead of against the
invading Red Army. Reports via
Stockholm today said that in some
places they also we're fighting the
Germans.
This all added up to a melting
of the barrier between the Red
Army and a great drive past Buda-
pest to Vienna.
The Germans took quick measures
to stave off the debacle but admit
ted through, the official German
news agency that Horthy's petition
for an armistice had greatly dam
aged the waging of the war"
Berlin dispatches to Stockholm
Evening star., 1944-10-16
MAP on Page A-3.)

LONDON, Oct. 16.-Lt. Gen.
George S. Patton's Sd Army
troops, who penetrated the for
midable defenses of Fort Driant,
S miles southwest of Metz, have
withdrawn. front dispatch said
today, while at Aachen Amer
lean 1St Army forces flung back
third heavy German counter
attack.
German resistance was stubborn
and fierce along almost the entire
western front. but Canadians
knocked two holes in Nazi defenses
barring Allied use of Antwerp port,
a great springboard to feed supplies
into the assault on Germany.
Third Army troops pulled out of
their footholds in Fort Driant
strongest bastion before Metz, after
10 days of hard battle during which
they penetrated one of the steel
doored tunnels and overcame some
of the ingenious defenses of the
fort.
The withdrawal was completed
early Friday, it was revealed today
Farther south, Allied troops ad-
vanced through the Vosges foothills
to within 80 miles of the Rhine.
Advance Inside Aachen.
At Aachen, in the battle of the
Siegfried Line, Lit. Gen Courtney
H. Hodges men fought off the Ger
man countersYnash and edged for
ward BY blocks inside the city. Oper-
ations were proceeding slowly-with
a deliberation intended to save
lives.
The Americans threw a German
charge off Crucifix Ridge, northeast
of Aachen. and in bloody fighting
turned back a counterattack inside
the city by Nazis crafty screaming,
Hell Hitler" as they rushed the
American lines. The weather was
rainy and cold and there was no
aircraft support.
Thirty enemy tanks had been
knocked out yesterday and today by
artillery and planes at Aachen. a
staff officer estimated.
British patrols crossing the Neder
Rhine on probing expeditions
where British parachutists failed
three weeks ago to hold the bridge
head menacing Hitler's compara-
lively defenseless northern frontier
were a tentative threat TO Nazis
fighting fanatically in the Western
Netherlands.
Crucial Battle for Antwerp.
Canadians were waging a crucial
battle for the opening of Antwerp
as supply port before winter S
gales. and the drive in the Vosges
on the south of the long Allied
front, aimed at clearing the snowy
range before winter. Supreme head
quarters said the 9Th Army group
comprising the 1st French Army
and the American 7th Army, had
gained momentum" in the ad-
vance north of the Belfort Gap.
Gains were made against strong
resistance along a wide front and
several towns were freed" including
Baccarat, Glonville, Fontenoy and
Fremifontaine, the bulletin stated
German accounts, and the head
quarters communique itself indi-
Gated, however, that the Germans
had made some small gains in their
determined counterattacks around
Aachen. The headquarters COM
munique said Allied planes had
bombed Wurselen, 3 miles north of
Aachen, a part of which at least
had been previously held by Amer
ican troops.
Over the German radio came a
report that the Aachen home guard
is engaged in "a desperate struggle
to keep open very narrow corridor
leading into Aachen." 1t gave this
Gee yTyT1Cu,r-yr, m T3ro ORJ17 ~. a n \
Evening star., 1944-10-16
Jap Fleet in Action> Tokyo Says;
Yanks Withdraw From Fort Driant
Americans RepeI
COunteruttuck
Near Auchen
BULLETIN.

WITH THE AMERICAN 1st
ARMY tP).-American troops
driving Gown from above
Aachen joined forces today
with others working up from
the south and completely
sealed in the city by the juno
ture. The union was made
east Of Aachen. The Germans
are dropping supplies to the
garrison inside Aachen by
parachute.
Evening star., 1944-10-16

FIRST RACE-Purse, $4,000: maiden
2-year-olds claiming furlonss.
Ned Canran tSnellins) 1870 1910 $50
Grand Player tJemas) 1880 1900
Teddy Lass (Bowers) 40
Time-1.16a5.
Also ran--Fire Ladder, Briaresque, -Four
Queens, Omashane, Eir Jinx. Honey Bun,
Proud Pappy Romanicus, Guardship.
Evening star., 1944-10-16

SECOND RACE-Purse. 81 800; 4-year-
olds and up; claiming: i 10 miles.
Sails Sister (ArduinD $50 13.40 7.20
Herods PLATE Clark 40 $50
Ticky Otis tBowers) $50
Also ran-Miss Defense Bull Terrier, Van
TrySt, Glorene. New Face, Milky Moon. One
Link, Swell Time, Durable.
daily Double paid S4SS3ol
Evening star., 1944-10-16

(See WAR FUND, Page A-5.)
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{See DEWEY, Page A-l49
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LuureI Results

(See MCFARLAND. Page AS
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See WESTERN FRONT, Page A-30 )
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(See LINCOLN, Page A-I4.)
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(See AERIAL, Page A-3.)
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(See HUNGARY, Page A-3D
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(See FORMOSA, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1944-10-16
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