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Evening star., 1944-09-10


time to note while Madeleine Elise paused
at their desks.
MIR G. c. Brown. please" she said
Right in that office" thumbed Jane, tax
ing an instant dislike to her.
Madeleine Elise ankled neatly to Charlie
Browns office lowered in the doorway an
instant, and then entered. A moment later
the door was shut 1t was the first time
Charlie Browns door had been shut since he
had been with the Universal Broadcasting
System!
1t was half-ho before the door opened
again Madeleine Elise ankled out, looking
like the cat that had eaten the canary. She
stalked directly to Jane Clarett's desk. which
made it clear that she had asked number
of pertinent questions. and already knew her
way around Are you Miss Clarett?" she
asked.
Jane said yes, she was.
We'll, I'm Miss Hallbacker I'm Mr..
Browns secretary, for your information. |
believe you have been doing some of his typ
ing for him - and other things
Jane could only stare at her.
OU won't need to any more, said Made
lelne- Elise From now on I'll take care of
him. thanks" With a fling of her skirt she
walked back to Charlie Brown office.
War hey?" remarked Betty Powers.
Jane transferred her stare to Betty.
It's the man power shortage, all right,
SAID Betty trying to keep it light "Were
developing new crop OF go-getter girls FIRST
YOU and now this dame. What's her name -
Habacker? She certainly is stealing your
stuff"
What do you mean. stealing my stuff
Just what | say SAID Betty. "You stake
out your claim in the first fifteen minutes of
play SO does She that's all. My idea - this
Brown must be very desirable young man.
Maybe Id better get in on the game
Is she pretter than am?' Jane asked.
Nov is that logical question? Is she
prettler than you are? How do | know, not
being man? I'd say she wasn't - don't
like those fake eyelashes much - but on the
other hand a man might think she was. For
all we know she uses bust forms, but how
would a man know that? Honestly, now.
Jane - "
Jane tried to smile. 1t wasn't much of
success.
If he goes right ahead and takes you out
to lunch today. you win. But if he doesn't
Betty shrugged
He didn't
Instead. at twelve O'Clock Miss Habacker
again approached James desk. will you go
out to lunch with me- suggested Miss Hall
backer There are so many things need to
know" She actually smiled at Jane.
why why, yes" said Jane, dumb
founded
4 IIrrI Later Charlie stOpDeC 1T lane S desk
Evening star., 1944-09-10

Jane started to say yes, she understood.
But the words didn't come out that way.
Jane said, mo, don't understand"
Madeleine Elise gentled the shock. Char
lie and l." she said gently, "Charlie and are
married"
you re WHAT"
Married. said Madeleine Elise. But of
course it's graveyard secret
JANE finished the rest of her food - mechanl-
cally. Mechanically she put up fight about
the check, Mechanically she marched back
to the Office Once there, she yanked Betty
Powers out to the ladies' room, waited till
it was clear - and then burst into a flood
of words and tears. Betty hovered over her,
patted her. mothered her.
The - the louser' said Jane, The louise" u"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-27

law a prosperous child could be
forced 10 support paupcr parent
With what he thought was proper
legal procedure he asked 10 be hand.
cd over 10 the custody OF his million.
airc child. All he really wanted was
$4,000 a year 10 live on and an extra
$4,000 for incidental expenses so nc
could visit his offspring once a year
But one little point or law hadn't
been explained TO the SclfStyled
pauper parent. Only relief Office.
or superintendent of the poor
force a child to look after his fatht
Somehow he wangled few thou
sand dollars moro of the oil money
the last American coin he ever got
It probably was soon after this
final inStallmcnt that he went 90
work for Hitlcr's gang.
AS soon as the lifelong treasure
hunt took on political tinge. Count
Salm might as we'll have counted
himself down as well as out.
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-27
Ll1e-LOOgFOr
by IRMTS JOHNSON

TIIE spectacular fortune-hunting
career Of Count Ludwig Con
Stantin Salm Won Hoogstraetcn
SocrS at last to have come to
prosaic end. According TO reports
from Switzerland the once-more pen.
niles5 nObleman plunged to his death
the other day from the thirdStory
VindOW'of a Budapest hotel.
Such a final exit, if the reports are
true vas scarcely in keeping with
The rest of the life Of the titled AUS.
t,!an aOn-vivant who, as the eXhuS-
band of heircsS NIilliCcnt Rogers. has
been tying for % years TO get a real
slice OF the Standard Oil millions
He'd been laughed out Of court, too
Whol as the Paupcr Papa of rich
young Peter Won Hoogstractcn he'd
entered a plea that the boy be com.
PEELED 10 support him TO the tune of
$4,000 a year.
Now its reported the Count left
notes giving i'll health as the reason
t)r.tafng his life And AT the age of
50 ma 90 he was sick OF thinking up
now LEGAL twists TO hide his royal
panhau ling.
But other reports, coming out Of
Switzerland, suggest that when it no
longer was possible 10 mOOCn AinCrl-
can dollars or borrow large sums
from Continental friends, Count Salm
start ! using German marks TO pay
tor Ills Usual high style Of living And
these were supplied by Hitlcr-for
service rendered
WitH he recent turn Of Nali az
fairs the treasure chest finally stood
empty and supposedly the proNaH
Count c)uldn't dig up enough ran.
som honey to redeem himself in the
eyes of those he'd betrayed
This vas the lowest level he'd ever
struck on his financial roller coaster,
ard su eide may have seemed the
only vs. Y out.
Count Salm hadn't been just an.
other no-count owner of an ancient
and honorable title which he hoped to
trade in for cash when he came TO
this country in the early 1920s.
He baSkCd under the title OF most
fascinating lover in Europe was
the "most brilliant figure" along the
Paris boulcvards. From Austrian
cavalry officer he'd graduated to
20 August Fl, 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-27

only a few months Papa Rogers
brought his daughter to America.
Soon after, the baby Peter arrived.
So did the Count one year later
claiming. his rights as a husband and
father. All he got from Millccnt was
a cold shoulder.
The Count countercd by filing a
suit for separation, asking for Gus
tody of the boy. The Countess de-
manded a divorce.
Both separation and divorce were
granted in Paris three years later.
Part of little Peters time would be,
spent with his father, who naturally
expected 10 get at least expense
money out of the legally sanctioned
visits.
BY this time Count Salms friends
had persuaded him that he could
easily bring suit against Mama and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-27

Papa Rogers for alternating Millicents
affections. He expected 20 collect a
nuisance value of at least 81 100000
What he actually got was some
thing between $350OOO and S5OO,O0O
according TO reports. and that for
promising to keep permanently mum.
Years went by and the Count strug-
gled along. back home in Europe
playing tennis with kings, borrowing
money from plutocrats and OCCASION
ally letting himself be seen with some
international beauty. But Salm never
remarked Perhaps he feared that
would wipe out his already weak
chances of getting any more Rogers
dough
When shedding got too difficult
back in 1889 the royal beggar Matched
another scheme. He'd read some
where that according - American
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-27

continental movie star. But
he still was penniless. and
turning 40.
Then he used his brilliant
financial genius 10 check up on
the personal wealth of an
American beauty, Mrs. Grace
Montgomery Coffin, whom
he'd met in the French capital
Her bank account was crafty
ingly substantial. So on arri-
val in New York the Count
filed a document from the Re
public of Austria indicating
that there was mo impeachment
preventing his marriage to
Grace Sands Coffin, born
Montgomery"
Then Salm met Millicent, the
$40, 100000 oil heiresS. Secret
ly he eloped with this much
richer financial plum, thereby
instilling in his new father-in-
law a permanent hate.
AS a result, the unwelcome
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-27

Falling to Force His Own Son
to Support Him After 20
Years of Ponhondling at His
Wealthy Ex-Wife's Door. the
Noble Renegade Collected
and Spent His Nuisance
Value" and Now Is Reported
q Suicide
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-01
TANKS SLUG OUT ATTACKS
 UPON ALLIES
Vehicles Loaded with Ex- pIosiyes, Radio-Con-
 iroIIed, Shot Up

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, March 1.--German troops, armed with new secret weapon tank, loaded with explosives, slug ged out new assault against the Anzio beachhead. Allied Headquart- CTS said, and this may be the third great offensive aimed at driving the invasion troops into the sea.
 The Nazis opened the heavy att tack midway between Carroceto and Cisterna on Tuesday morning, this growing stronger as artillery duels thundered.
 Front line dispatches last night said the enemy pounded the beach, head under the heaviest Lombard ment since the initial landings.
 Headquarters disclosed the Ger mans used new o-controlled tanks. bearing 1,000- pound charges, designed to blow up within the AL ueu lines Tn the second major Ot- gcnsive against the beachhead but Allied artillery exploded 14 of the sanks before they reached the Allied ines and the blasts probably caused great damage to Nazi positions i.- stead
 The Germans struck the beach, head at two points Monday and Tuesday and continued to make pressure without results"
 On the main Casino front to the cast, British troops threw back NaM attacks near Mount Pernito, on the lower Garigliano River bend. and Allied guns successfully shelled Ger nan motor borne troops on the highway near Casino.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-01
DEMO WINS NEW YORK
 ELECTION.
Taken as Significant Fore ease of Presidential
 Rafe

NEW YORK. March 1. = The Democrats retained seat in the House of Representative from New York's twenty first district yester- day after a close special election and both Republican and Demo- cratic leaders debated it's -signiI- icance in the coming Presidential campaign.
 In the years first test of political
 sntiment and in the Presidents home state. James Torrens. 69. Tammany district leader who was a campaign supporter of the Presi- dent, beat William Bennett who has been elected to Congress four imes in the last IS years.
 Torrens won by approximately l570 votes and about 22,000 were cast.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-01
U UNIFORMITY IN
 WAGES IN NORTH,
 N0RTHWE5TA5KED
Contractors, Union Repre- sentatives Make Re-
 quest df Meeting

SEATTLE, March 1.--Contractors from Alaska and union representa- tiyes joined in asking the meeting studying Alaska wage and hiring practices to establish uniformity between wages i'll Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
 Jack Mcdonald, Hoisting En- gincers' Union agent. told the mem bers attending the conference that on cerpin jobs 8 lower rate was paid in Alaska than in Seattle and we are pat in 8 position of asking nen 10 ge to Alaska to work for less than they get at home"
 J. D. Stack, Personnel Manager Of tnc Western Construction Com pany, told the meeting that iron clad contracts are now in effect on return fares for Alaska workers and if mans passage is less than the charge made him, the company re- funds the difference, meeting the split
 Two committees are studying the various phases and problems and are expected to make report on Thursday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-01
S1oo,0OO
 FIRE HITS
 MILL HERE
Juneau Lumber Mills Main Building Is Quilted by
 Flames tuesday

Flames swept through the main mill building of the Juneau Lumber Mills late yesterday afternoon, gut ting the structure extensively be- fore fire-fighters got the blaze under control, and causing an esti- mated $200000 damages to material and equipment
 The fire started as workmen were engaged in thawing pipes at the edger on the main floor of the mill They were using an electric thaw- Ing device and it is believed that a spark from this work may have started the fire.
 Flames Spread Rapidly
 The blaze quickly swept through the main floor of the building and spread throughout the structure. By the time fire trucks from the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department arrived a few minutes after the alarm was sounded, smoke and flames were visible from all parts of town. The second alarm sound- ed on the heels of the first. and a military auxiliary engine as well as a Coast Guard fire boat and the Douglas Volunteer Fire Depart ment went to work on the con- flagration.
 Mill Just Overhauled
 The disaster came only a week before full-scale operations were to have been resumed at the mill. More than two million feet of logs were on hand for cutting, and dur ing the last 60 days the company had spent $3000o making extensive repairs and improvements. All equipment was in top shape and the mill had been thoroughly cleaned and blown out.
 Estimated Damage
 Roy Rutherford, owner and man. ager, said the loss could be estima- ted at about S200,000. However, accurate figures could not be given until a detailed survey of the dam- age to machinery and other equip mcnt has been made.
 Only minor damage touched a corner of the blaming mill and box factory building and the kiln and power plant were not damaged.
 Partially Insured
 Rutherford said the loss was par tiallv covered by insurance.
 Estimates are that if the entire mill had to be replaced now it
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-01
JAP FORCES IN BURMA AREA
 ARE ROUTED
Over 4, 800 of Original B. 900 Enemy Troops Either
 Killed or Wounded

NEW DELHI, March 1.-Allied troops killed or wounded 4500 Japs since February "A in routing the enemy force of 5000 strong that attempted unsuccessfully to encircle the Fifth and Seventh Indian Di- visions in Western Burma
 Mopping up remnants of the en- emy is progressing as these rem- nants retreat southward toward Akyd.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-01
LONG
 GANGl05E5
 IN BALLOT
Louisiana Doesn't Want Return 10 Liberal
 Government

NEW ORLEANS, March l. Louisiana Democratic voters reject ed yesterday a group of candidates for state offices who advocated a return to the liberal government of the late Huey Long,"
 Elevated to the governorship was Jimmie Davis, author of the song. You Are My Sunshine" who cam paigned with Hill Billy band.
 The voters also defeated bid for state party power by the old Reg ular" organization of New Orleans. Its leader is Mayor Robert Maestri of New Orleans, who was unable to deliver the expected heavy vote for the metropolitan district.
 The late Huey Longs onetime attorney, Lewis Morgan, opposed Davis for governor. An unofficial tabulation of the vote showed 1900 out of 1900 precincts reporting, with Davis getting 100000 and Morgan 158,0O0 votes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-01

LONDON, March l. - Russian troops are reported fighting in the very outskirts of Pskov as the bat tie for the great German com- munication base and key to the control of the Baltic ragged with unabated fury.
 "Our troops are overcoming Ger man resistance and advancing swiftly" the Russian communique said. The Red Army has captured more than 250 additional towns and villages including Pogorelka, six miles north of Pskov and Kutuzova, Il miles east.
 Helsinld dispatches routed through Stockholm, meanwhile, reported a Soviet drive across ice-bound Lake Peipus, and the establishing of bridgeehads on the eastern shore, and asserted the Russians are also attacking across the narrows be- tween Lakes Peipus and Pskov, 8 miles northeast of the Baltic gate way city.
 No immediate Russian confirma- ton has come from Moscow on the reported Soviet offensive in the Ukraine south of the iron ore city of Krivoi Rog, where the Russians are declared to have captured TO towns in a 26-mile drive down the Ingulets River to Nikolaevka, liqui- dating a German regiment and other enemy ystroops on the way.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-01
The W ashing ion Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON fua,or Robert 2. Alien on active dutyJ

WASHINGTON = Inside fact IS that, on the evening before Senator Barkley delivered his unprecedent- ed attack on the President, his son. in-law, Max Truitt, argued with him all evening, trying to persuade him not to do it.
 Parkley, however, was determin- ed. He was tired, half-sick, and not much interested in running for reelection. His wife has been an invalid and, for while, was almost at deaths door. He has been travel ling back and forth to Kentucky to see her, which has added to his weariness and mental depression.
 For seven long years, the Ken tuckian has battlcd on the Senate floor, trying to keep disgruntled Democratic cohorts in line behind a President with whom he did not always agree but to whom he was always faithful.
 Only once during his. thirty-one years in Congress has he had any serious opposition at the polls. That was in 1888, when the President threw all his weight and no small amount of money into Kentucky against Happy" Chandler to re- elect Barkley.
 In 1926. when Barkley stepped up from Congressman to Senator, it was Judge Fred Vinson who man. aged his campaign. Today, vinson, sitting at the right hand of the President as Economic Stabilizer, is the man largely responsible for per- suading him to veto the tax bill. The other man who helped persuade him was another old and intimate friend of Barkley's-Justice James Byrnes. For years they had work ed together in the Senate almost as brothers.
 That is why some ot Barkley's friends were shocked, not by his opposition to the tax-bill veto, but Oy LIle 1dCts tAldJ AiC WOuAA RuS3ANAy denounce the man who reelected him in 1888 and two men with whom he had cooperated far two decades-denouncing them without a word of warning to them.
 TWO TALKS WITH PRESIDENT
 The White House, of course, had ample warning that Barkley was opposed to the veto of the tax bill, but no inkling that the Senate leader, for years Rooeevelt's most intimate confidant on Capito! Hill would suddenly turn against him.
 Ten days before the veto message, both Barkley and Speaker Rayburn visited the White House, where Barkley pleaded:
 T beg you, MT. President, please sign this bill"
 The President, however, pointed out that the tax bill was full of loopholes benefitting big business and maintained that he had to keep faith with the men at the
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-01
Atroliiy 5iories
 Cost Treasury Big
 Sum of Cash, Claim

PORTLAND. Ore, March 1. - Resentment of the American peo- pie against the release Of the Ba- taan atrocities stories just prior to the Fourth War Loan drive cost tile Treasury at least $500,000. 900 III war bond sales, Ted Gamble. na- t3unal director of the Treasury War Finance Division. told the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
 The people blamed the Treasury Department for the release of the. stories, claiming they had been withheld to increase bond sales.
 Gamble said the Treasury was not responsible for the poor timing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-01
psk0v FIGHT IS RAGING IN
 BALTIC. AREA
'atile for coairol iaNorth. west Russia Goes Into
 Final Stage Now

BULLETIN-IONDON, March 1. = Tonight's Russian conn munique says the Red Army troops have established a bridgehead on the west bark of the Narova River. The Russian troops have broken through the strongly fortified enemy de- fensc line" on the Est0nian front and established a bridge head 2l miles long and nine miles deep.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-01
BOLD STRIKE E MADE IN
 90. PACIFIC
Gen. D. MaeArthur Diretfs Landing : Japanese
 Taken by Surprise

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, March In a surprise maneuver directed by Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur from the bridge of an Am erican warship, destroyer-borne troops on Tuesday struck boldly across the Bismarck Sea to land on the northeastern shores of the Admiralty Islands.
 The landing not only frightened the Allied envelopment of some 50,- 900 Jap troops at Rabaul, New Britain, but also severed the enemy east and west supply chain across the waters which a few months ago was little more than a Japanese lake"
 Brig. Gen. William c. Chase re-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-01
U. }. B0kBER5
 MAKE ATTACK, WAKE ISLAND
Jap Installations Bombed, Strafed : Planes De-
 stroyed on Ground

MISREPRESENTATION, March 1. = American bombers, flying in low altitude, bombed and strafed Japanese instalIa- tions on Wake Island, destroying six planes on the ground and dropping bombs on the air drome.
 This is the official report re- leased here tonight with no other particulars given.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-01
RATI0NING
 MEAT OFF IN CANADA
Some Cuts Will Also Be Made in United States
 Says BowIes

OTTAWA, March 1.-Temporary suspension of meat rationing in Canada is announced in the House of Commons. Heavy marketing of livestock and shipping shortages, limiting possible exports to Allied nations, is given as the reason for the action.
 Rationing will be returned when marketing drops and exports in- crease.
 SAME ACTION IN U. s.
 WASHINGTON, March 1. - The Office of Price Administration jumped in ahead of Canada Tues day night after learning Canada was preparing to withdraw meat ra- tioning and announced ration point cuts in pork and in some beef, but Administrator Chester Bowles said there is no chance of entirely with drawing rationing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-01
(ongressnlan
 passes Away

WASHINGTON, March Icon gressman Thomas H Cullen, Demo- crat of New York, died shortly be- fore midnight last night of uremia after two weeks illness.
 Cullen's death leaves 2l6 Demo- crats, 200 Republicans. four minor party men and six vacancies in the House.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-01
EsKEsENs LEAVE

Mrs. Eske Eskesen and daughter Bodile were passengers to the Vest ward on the steamer yesterday, and will join MT. Eskesen. who left bere several months ago. He was formerly employed at the Alaska Juneau Mine steel shop.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-03-01

Baja California, as the Mexicans and Spanish language-minded Am eYicans call it, is mostly 80O-by 50 miles of desert, rocks, and treeless, streamless plains. In spite of the fact that it has been there for sev- eral hundred years, it has only some 95, ,O0O inhabitants. Tia Juana and Ensenada are its best known towns and both of them are resorts. It has few good harbors, almost no good roads and no railroads at all.
 Yet immediately after Pearl Har- bor, 1t was considered one of the greatest threats to the North Am erican continent. The Japanese had exploited and explored it as thor oughly as they had the Aleutians. Fishermen" who went back to Ja- pan to don navy uniforms had been exploring it's coast for years, both on the ocean and Gulf of California sides. Their propagandists had been working hard on that scant popula- tion to build up antagonism against the octopus to the north. They had succeeded so well that visitor there shortly before Pearl Harbor reported an almost general anti-American feeling Ca situation which has changed radically since them.
 Mexico itself was fully aware of the threat to its outer bastion and rushed troops to the area as soon as possible after Pearl Harbor, but the problem of keeping adequate troops to resist invasion supplied was al- most insurmountable. There's one rail line to San Diego. According to Hinshaw, the roads through the interior of Mexico to ferry harbors on the Gulf of California are merely mountain wagon tracks.
 Its best harbor is Magdalena Bay, 600 miles south of San Diego. Only a good rail line and extension of good highways from Ensenada could pake it practicable defense out post.
 To take up Congressman Hin- shaw's argument: What has Mexico
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