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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14

Tonight the Sitka cagers will play the Douglas High School in the Juneau High School gym. The main game will be preceded by a prelim- mary match between the Juneau and Douglas grade schools. The first game will start at 7:30 D. m.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14
GETS DECISION IN
 RUBINo BOUT

BALTIMORE, Md. March IA Harry Jaffra. bantamweipht cham pion, last night got the decision over Frankie Rubino of New York in a ten-round bout.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14
Connie | Mack
 ea s% ~ y s& Giving Dope
 On Training

FREDERICK, Maryland, March 14.--Connie Mack. ageless President of the Philadelphia Athletics. de- clared he thought the war and transportation troubles have taught
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14
JuNEAUE ELkS WIN 3RD GO
 BY 8 POINTS

The Ketchikan and Juneau Elks again competed last night, and the home team nosed out the visitors by a mere eight points. There was some pretty fancy bowling done, and Ziegler of Ketchikan rolled up Ia total of 568 points. Only one game was played last night
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14
lONSTANTIN0 i5 s'~
 GIVEN DECISION
 IN AviLEy BOUT

HOLYOKE, Mass, March l4.- Lulu Constantine, l33 poundeH of New York, decisioned Angel Aviles l30 pounder of Mexico, in a one sided bout last night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14
KN0CkED0U
 IN JIG TIME

CHICAGO, Ill. March l4.--Nate Bolden, l74 pounds, of Chicago, last night knocked out Freddie Griggs, 189 pounder of Memphis in the second round of a scheduled eight rounder.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14

the major league baseball clubs they do not need to travel to far away southern camps for spring training
 T do not think we will everstravel to distant camps again. said Mack. as the rain poured down and the wind blew on the Athletics spring camp
 Mack further said the present day players stay in condition over the winter and do not need long con- ditioning period the oldtimcrs need ed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14
DOES
 INDIGESTION wALLOP YOU
 BELOW THE BELT?

Help Your Forgotten 'z8" For The Kind Ol Relief That Helps Make You Rarin' To Go
 More than half of your digestion is done below the belt = in your 2S feet of bowels. So when indigestion. strikes, try something that helps digestion in the stomach AND below the belt.
 What you may need is Carter's Little Liver Pills to give needed help to that forgotten 28 feet of bowels.
 Take one Carter's Little Liver Pill before and one after meals. Take them according to directions. They help wake up a larger flow of the main digestive juices in your stom- ach AND bowcls-help you digest what you laye eaten in Natures own way.
 Then most folks get the kind of relief that makes you feel better from your head to your toes. Just besure you get the genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills from yourdruggist Pr-e2 2Se.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14
ATTENTION ELKs

Tonight, Tuesday, March IA, special meeting and initiation. Big attendance of members requested. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14
ATTENTION ELKs

Tonight, Tuesday, March II special meeting and initiation. Big attendance of members requested. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14

Captain Jonathan Carnes of Salem. Mass, accidentally discov- cred the source of pepper in Su- matra in 1796.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14
YOUR BROKEN LENSES

Replaced in our own shop. Eyes Examined. Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson, Blomgren Bldg. Phone 636. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14

Iucite. from which airplane turl rets are built. is coal derived plastic.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14
FOR RENT

IN DOUGLAS, furnished 3 room apt. clean, inlaid lino, overstuffed, plenty of cupboards. Phone Doug las 472 after 6:30 pm.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14

ROOM furnished apt. steanheat- ed, hot and cold water at all times. Phone 569.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14

FOR RENT-F'ur. Apts. Easily kept warm. Winter rates SIS a month Lights, water, Dishes. Also bath and use of Electric Washer and wringer in Laundry room. Sea- view Apts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14

cOLT BISLEY .38-40, good shape, two and half boxes shells. Call
 452 between noon and 3:30 p. m
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14

FOR SALE - Piano. Phone Blue 795 between 6 and 2 pm.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-14

MODERN four room house, two bedrooms, furnished, one year old A mile from bridge on Doug
 las Highway. $500 down, balance easy payments. Phone Juneau 458.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-06
Hearings Held To Find
Cause OF Wells Co. Fire

Fire Marshal Dennis j. Lahey
and Capt. Eugene Legge spent the
entire morning holding hearings in
an effort to determine how the ere
which leveled the war plant of the
A. H. Wells g. Co. at 563 WATERFOWL
avenue started and why the flames
spread so rapidly that the entire
building was ablaze before firemen
got there.
While not discounting the pos
sibility Of sabotage, officials believe
1t unlikely that any was present
here. Part Of the reason for the
spread Of the fire was that the
plants Waterman did not properly
open the fire box in sending the
alarm, SO that 1t was not until some
time later that firemen received
their first notification by telephone.
Roger r. Gleason, agent charge
Of the New Haven FBI office an
nounced last night that federal
agents are investigating the fire,
State police have also begun an in
vestigation.
The company was engaged en-
tirely IN the manufacture OF seam
less copper and copper alloy tubing
Is . subscontEaetpF ler prime
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-06

manufacturers Of war materials.
The exact amount of the loss viii
not be known until survey Is TAX
en- on how much of the machinery
can be salvaged. Fire Marshal La
hey unofficially estimated the dam
age at between $4,000 and $780,
600.
I. B. Schoonmaker, vice president
of the company revealed that the
fire was not as serious as 1t would
have been week earlier, as large
shipment Of finished materials left
the factory on Dec. 80. However,
large stock Of raw materials on
hand has probably been made use
less by the extreme heat.
Company officials have set up =
temporary headquarters at the Eli
ton, and begun working out plans
for double shift at the firms East
Aurora street plant TO absorb the
more than so employees burned out
of work.
Re-tooling Of Plant 2 to restore
the output capacity destroyed BY
the fire Is expected 10 be complet-
ed soon. Meanwhile the company
expects that the loss 10 the war
effort VII Be held down b ne
double use o. laAe plants equipments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-06
Radium Thief
Risks Life

Salt Lake City. Utah. Jan. g.
(UP)-Army intelligence officers ap-
pealed today to the thief who stole
several small walls Of radium TO re-
turn them before he Is killed.
Thirteen tiny bottles Of the pow
erful substance were taken from
the radium room at Hill Field, Utah.
last Thursday. Two Of the bottles
were discovered Tuesday night con-
cealed in the false ceiling Of the
radium room.
Officers Of the Ogden Air Service
command said the radium was used
in banana oil solution to paine
aircraft instrument dials. 1t was
in powdered form and was Of no
value to a layman. they said.
State and local police and the
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
were asked to assist in the search
for the missing walls. intelligence
officers issued warning Of the fatal
effect of the substance through
newspapers and radio stations.
One Of the first symptoms Of rad
ium poisoning is fatigue. authorities
said. Then follows burn resem-
bling sunburn, and rapid disinteera~
ton OF the bones OF the body.
Radium experts said the person
who took the radium undoubtedly
exposed himself to It inigrioasIy
while carrying 1t from the base.
Ordinarily 1t Is kept IN q lead sa1@
and handled only by persnnN
equipped with protective ciothznF
officers said. It win lose Its pn4SE
in about 5000 years, they said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-06
Jap Fleet
Bides Time
NEA Telephoto.

Washington, Jan. 6-UP)-Com-
petent naval observers said today
that failure of the Japanese feet
to come out and fight, rather than
resulting from outright fear of the
U. S. Navy, apparently was mott
waited by intentions OF the Japanese
high command to await the time
and conditions most favorable to
them.
These observers. who have fol-
lowed closely all developments in
the Pacific. believed that the enemy
was waiting for the U. S. feet to
come into areas where the Japanese
could use powerful land-based air
forces as support for surface ele-
mentS.
Furthermore, it YVES said. there
was evidence that the Japanese were
counting on time when the U. S.
feet was so split up that they
could polish 1t of" piecemeal
by throwing overwhelming forces
against each segment.
The major portion of the Jap
anese feet was reported still at
Truk. the big enemy naval base in
the Southwest Pacific. All efforts to
lure 1t out for fight, even to the
extent Of American Carrier Task
force sweeps within Turks patrol
areas, have failed.
The U. S. feet has been split up
into task forces on numerous &C.
casions. Each Of these units has
contained powerful carrier groups
which the Japanese feet either has
shown no disposition to meet or
failed to do so because 1t was con-
centrated at point too distant
from the scene Of action.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-06
u. S. And Britishers
Crash San Vittore

Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Jan
6-(UP)-A massive Allied offensive
roared into its second day in the
mountains of central Italy today as
American and British infantrymen
opened a l0-mile gap in the Ger
man defenses barring the road TO
Rome and crashed into the enemy
stronghold of San Vittore.
Striking down the mountain
slopes on either side of the Rome
road, the Allied troops smashed
head-on into the heart of the Ger
man defenses Tuesday night at the
height Of a driving hail and sleet
storm.
In SO hours Of bloody, close-quar-
tiers fighting they hacked out q
one-mile advance all along the To-
mile assault front, running roughly
five miles north of the inland road
to Rome and the same distance to
the south Of that highway.
Bad weather grounded the Allies
heavy bombing fleets and robbed
them Of part OF their expected aerial
support, but swarms Of American
attack planes swarmed in at dawn
Wednesday and laid down a con-
centrated rolling barrage Of bombs
and machine gun fire in the path
of the advancing ground troops.
Wave after wave Of dive bombing
Invaders roared in on the startled
Germans at zero altitude, threading
their way through the handicapped
mountains at more than 800 miles
an hour to blast the enemy's gun
positions, ammunition dumps and
front-line troops.
The Allied communique made no
mention OF 5th Army artillery fire,
but 1t was indicated that the magic
fire" Of the Anglo-American big
guns had joined in the mighty bonn
bardment.
American infantrymen striking
from the north side of the Rome
road spearheaded the offensive, the
fury OF their initial attack carrying
them halfway through San Vittore
by Wednesday night.
The Americans, who had been
perched on the hills 1000 yards out
side San Vittore for three days be-
fore the attack. punched their way
through a maze of German de-
fenses outside hte town, including
barbed wire, pillboxes and thou
sands of mines and BOBBY traps.
Inside San Vittore, they fought
with bayonet and grenade Ger
man garrison apparently committed
to a death battle for the she'll
pocked town.
Miniature FOrtresses
AS In the Adriatic coastal town
of Ortona, where the Canadians
were forced to battle seven days be-
fore driving the Germans from the
streets, virtually every house in San
iVttore had been turned into a
miniature fortress by the Nazis and
the advancing Americans grimley
set about cleaning them out, house
by house and street by street.
British troops on the south flank
Of the attacking line swept up to
the Gariglano river and then swung
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-06
The Pompono
Listed Lost

Washington, Jan. 6.-(UP)-The
submarine Pompano, which had
helped other underseas raiders in
sinking 1886 Japanese ships, was
listed today as the 18th U. S. SUBJ
marine lost In the war.
The Navy announced late yester-
day that the Pompano was overdue
and presumed lost. ALI hands ap.
parently persisted with the ship,
including the skipper. Comdr. Will
lis M. Thomas Of Vallejo, Calf,
who held the Navy cross and sill
yer star for gailantry in action
The complement Of the vesSed was
normally rs men.
The Potnpano was credited with
daring raid within sight Of the
Japanese coast during which II
7ank a destroyer, 5000 tons Of mer
:hant shipping and patrol vessel,
and another patrol into heavily
guarded waters during which 1t sen.
erelv damaged an enemy fircrafl
naNfiaK.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-06
Polish Emigre
Gov. Attacked

MOSCOW, Jan. 6-(UP)-The RUS
sian sponsored Union Of Polish Pa
triots launched O bitter attack on
the Polish emigre government In
London today and proposed that
postwar Poland expand her FROM
tiers to the west at Germany's ex-
pense and abandon all claim to
eastern Poland seized by the Soviet
union In 1899.
Joining the semi-ofiicial Russian
demands that Poland yield on the
eastern boundary dispute, the union
declared that the Polish Ukraine
and White-Russia belong "ethno-
graphically" to the Soviet Union
and suggested that Poland compen-
safe herself for the loss OF these
areas by expanding" westward.
Speaking through It's official pub
lication, Wolna Polska, the union
outlined q broad program for the
postwar reconstruction Of Poland
The program called for settlement
Of the Russian border controversy
linification Of all Poles. establish
ment Of 9 parliamentary Democratic
regime, redistribution Of land to the
peasant classes. and q purge Of AZ
"eanckionexv nlepAapts"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-06
Huge Firms
Bv
u. S. Gov.

Washington, Jan. 6 (UP) -
The U. S. Government today ac-
cused the huge British Imperial
Chemical Industries, Ltd, two
American firms and six individuals
including two members Of the Bril-
tish nobility, with violating the
Sherman antitrust act In the
manufacturing of chemicals products
firearms ana ammunition.
Attorney General Francis Biddle
announced that civil complaint
has been filed in U. s. District court
in New York charging a continuous
conspiracy since before 1920.
Named as defendants were:
e. I. DUPONT De Nemours and
Company, Inc. Wilmington, Del. !;
Lammot DUPONT, chairman Of the
board and Walter S. Carpenter, Jr.,
president
Remington Arms Company. Inc,
Bridgeport, Conn; Charles K. Da-
Wis, president and general manager.
Imperial Chemical Industries,
Ltd, London, Harry Duncan Nc
Gowan Gord McGowan), chairman
of the board. and Henry Mond
(Lord Melchett), deputy chairman,
and Imperial Chemical Industries
Of New York, Ltd, New York, ICI's
American agent.
Biddle said that the complaint
charges an international conspiracy
affecting thousands of products
ranging from explosives to paints
and varnishes. He asserted that the
defendant firms reached agree
mentS providing:
That Dupont and ICI not COM
pete with each other, that Dupont,
Remington and ICI eliminate COM
petition between Remington and
ICI, that DUPONT and ICI be as
signed certain exclusive marketing
areas, and that the defendants
eliminate competition in non-ex-
elusive territory and sell their pro-
ducts in accordance with agreed
quotas and prices
Exclusive Licenses
The complaint said the agree
Continued on Page ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-06
PUSH WITHIN
S. MILES OF
BESSARADIA

London, January 6.-UPl
- The Red Army drove
SOuthwestward through the
Ukraine to within SIS miles
of BesSarabia today and mid-
dleeaStern adviceS said the
Rumanian, govern m emf
panic-Stricken by the Soviet
surge, had ordered the civil
ian evacuation of that dis
puted border province.
General Ion Antonescus
Rumanian chief of state, was
reported by reliable diplo-
matte sources in Cairo to
have ordered the mass flight
from Bessarabia, which lies
in the path of Russian forces
hammering at the Bug river
defense line, the last formid-
able Notifications short OF
the DnieSter.
The Russian drive, its main
weight now swung against
the border zone of the
Ukraine, threatened to ey-
plode the simmering Balkan
situation.
Nervous Nazi propagandists re-
ported that the Russians had
launched a powerful new offensive
inside the Dnieper bend, where l.
900 900 Germans we're threatened
with enlightenment.
The Nazis were reported from
Stockholm to have declared all or
southern Poland or Galicia, dis
rect war zone" calling for the eyac-
uation of the civil administration
from that vast region.
A United Press dispatch from
Cairo reporting the evacuation Of
BesSarabia said AntoneScu had sens
his wife to Istanbul for safety.
Unofficial reports had told OF q
voluntary flight from Bessaraeias
the pre-war Rumanian province &C.
cupied later by the Russians. OF tens
of thousands Of peasants terrified
by the Red army approach.
Russian forces were reported from
Moscow to be battering down the
desperate counter blows Of the last
German reserves thrown into the
battle Of the Ukraine and driving
forward some 20 miles from the
Odessa Warsaw railroad, the last
main line Of retreat from the
Dnieper pocket.
The obscure situation along the
pre-war Polish frontier was fea-
tured by Stockholm press reports
that the German high command
had proclaimed the wide s-'eep OF
lower Poland as Galicia war
zone.
(Hnv4ffS,NaAd pnna A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-06
Argentine
Press Ban

Buenos Aires, Jan. 6.-UP)-
Publication Of all news or editorials
contrary ito the nations interest or
upsetting public order" was pro-
hibited today under a series OF
press statutes" bringing Argentina
newspapers, foreign correspondents
and press associations under strict
control.
The statutes. published yesterday
by the under secretary OF informa-
ton and press, empowered his Of
flee TO withdraw from circulation
all publications not meeting re-
quirements.
Other news prohibited included
"all attempts against Christian NOR
ais" "all attempts against good re-
lations between Argentina and
friendly nations"-Argentina Is the
only South American country main
tanning relations with Germany
"all injurious statements against
public officials" and all entirely
or partially erroneous information
misleading the public in detriment
to the general interest"
Foreign correspondents must de-
liver copies Of all their news and
other dispatches 70 the under-sec-
Rotary within four hours of trans
raission-in effect placing them un-
der the same restrictions as to
what they may send as what Ar
eentina newspapers may publish.
The statutes directed all daily pa
PEERS, to carry all governmental an
ricunceinents as prescribed by the
under-secrtary and that all news
papermen and foreign correspon-
dents as well as administrative, cir
culation and other personnel must
register with the office.
All editorials, articles and COM
mentaries and collaborations must
be signed BY the authors real or
pen name.
The statutes provided penalties
Of admonition Tor the first offense.
suspension for the second offense:
elimination from the reaiatrg for
paper with seizure Of aIl }uachinery
tho third and closure az the news.
<of Ihe fourth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-06
REDS LAUNCH POWERFUL drive
Allies Open Gap In Nazi Roman Line
Report On
Lend Lease
Aid To Reds

Washington, January 6. - (UP)
- American lend-lease aid to Soviet
Russia from December, 1871,
through October, 1913. included:
Nearly 1000 planes. More than
$500 tanks and $4,000 trucks, Jeeps,
motorcycles and other vehicles,
1,790,00 short tons of food and other
agricultural products, including 3d.
500 tons of butter. $500, 900 pairs of
Army boots, 100000 yards OF
wooden cloth for the Soviet armed
forces, Isl 900 tons of chemicals,
$4,000 tons of explosives, l,l98, 600
tons Of steel, 342. 900 tons of non
ferrous metals, Gil, 900 tons Of pc
troleum products.
Washington, January 6. - CUP
- President Roosevelt disclosed to-
day that extensive steps were being
taken to identity American products
sent overseas.
For example, he said in his lend
lease report TO Congress, green tea
shipped to North Africa goes in car
tons with American labels especial
ly designed by the Offic Of War
Information. Cotton cloth is iden-
titled by dropping flag decorated
insert slips every 10 yards as the
cloth is wound on bolts. Second
hand clothing is identified by plac-
ing labels in the pockets or by hook
ing special tags to the buttons.
American trucks carry the names
Of their American manufacturers.
Foodstuffs generally carry Ameri-
can brand names on the containers.
The American place OF manufacture
is cast into machine tools.
On labels, the American flag, the
American Eagle and the Statue OF
Liberty are used as markings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-06
Watery Snow, And
SLush Hamper Traffic

Residents OF Waterbury this
morning put to test their amphibi-
Gus abilities as they wallowed. slid,
sloshed and plodded through a mass
OF watery snow and slush, set up
by the combined rain and snow
storm that descended on the city
during the night.
Miniature ponds and streams
were created In the crosswalks and
cutters OF all city streets and many
unsuspectnig pedestrians sank into
watery depths that rose over the
protective heights Of rubbers and
galoshes,
Car towing concerns were doing
rushing business this morning
extricating the many cars trapped
In piled up snow in cutters and
driveways. No accidents of serious
nature were reported to the police
at noon time as the majority OF the
city's motorists proceeded with eau
ton.
Street Supt. Herbert Scott-Smith
today reported that all road en-
ployes were on the job in addition
to all available manpower that
could be spared for his type work
from other city departments.
Approximately 20 to % city trucks
were In operation while the fun
complement of the city's IA plows
and scrapers fought to get ahead of
the dire effects OF the storm. The
excess Of water created IN the
streets as result Of last nights rain
on top of the four and one-half
inches OF snow that had fallen the
day previously caused today's
greatest difficulty being encountered
by the workers. In many instances
the "slush" washed back into its
original placement as soon as a pillow
or scraper passed.
CONTINUED on Page a.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-06
Govt. Will Turn Business
Back To Private Interests

Washington, Jan. 6. (UP)-The
government will turn the multi
billion dollar import export BUSH
ness back TO private enterprise as
soon after the war as conditions
permit, Federal Economic Admins
traitor Leo T. Crowley said today.
Meantime, he said in an exclusive
interview with the United Press,
export controls will be relaxed as
rapidly and to the extent made pos
sible by improvement in the mate
rails and shipping situations.
I'VE do not want TO exercise con-
trolls or domination over the export
import business one moment longer
tha~ = necessary for the successful
prosecution Of the war;" he said.
I'VE feel that this Is q field for pri-
vate enterprise and not one Of gov
eminent operation in peacetime."
Crowley, however, cautioned the
industry against false hopes that
It can resume normal operations
within weeks o. even months follow
ing The end Of hosti|ltles.
"a took kae soHsfnndkni i've Neaks
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-06

to get lend-lease functionng eff
GENTLY and In high gear" he said.
"It stands to reason that you can't
dismantle this gigantic operation
overnight.
when the war ends there will
be many lend-lease problems still
to be solved-situations that will
need to be readjusted, and this will
take time. How much time, no one
knows. But one thing Is certain,
the government will get out OF the
picture as quickly 1t can do so.
1.-THE change over must be done
intelligently. It would be chaotic to
open wide the food gates precipi-
lately
Crowley emphasized that FEA
was anxious to preserve and expand
American markets abroad.
We are doing all we can to ease
export regulations as they apply to
south American countries and are
continually studying the many con-
.r0le 70 see where they can be SIM
pliiled Ii the interest Of our IN
6.s6tKl.g be declared