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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-08-11
The W ASKING ton
Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON
Ut. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active
service with the Army)

WASHINGTON While Governor
Dewey has been so effectively
harping on delays on reconverslon
plans, his Republican colleagues. in
the secrecy of the Senate Military
Affairs Committee, were conduct
ing a behind he-scenes filibuster
against certain phases of reconver-
sion. They were cunning for the
Kilgore- Murray bill, which provides
high unemployment compensation
for labor.
Leader of the opposition was YER
mont's astute, capable Senator
Warren Austin, who, with support
from COP colleagues Chan Quincy
of South Dakota and Chapman
Revercomb of West Virginia, went
over the bill with a fine-tooth
comb.
Austin's chief strategy was to try
to separate the reconversion bill
into two parts, one dealing with
labor compensation, the other with
disposal of surplus property. Most
of his colleagues, thought he meant
merely to divide the bill for pur-
poses of discussion inside the COM
mittee. However, Senator Harley
Kilgore of West Virginia saw the
move as means of splitting the
bill, SO that the part dealing with
surplus property, which business
wants, could be passed with Re-
publican support, leaving labor COM
pensation, which business doesn't
want, to be stalled without Repub-
lican support. Kilgore, accordingly
spiked the move.
Austin also opposed plans for
the production employment public
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OF
WORKERS. Still
idle, DISPUTES
(By Associated Press

The number of workers, idle
through labor disputes dropped
abruptly in the ending of one of
the nations major controversies,
but still totals upwards from $4,000.
Employees of four Paterson, New
Jersey, area plans of the Wright
Aeronautical Corporation voted last
night to return to work. A commit
tee of CLIO Auto Workers and COM
pany representatives agreed to arbi-
trate grievances.
The company said 1000 were off
the job, and the union said 10000
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-08-11
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Aug. IL. - Alaska
Juneau mine stock closed today at
6N, American Can 90h, Anaconda
26, Beech Aircraft 81. Bethlehem
Steel 81, Curtiss- Wright SIS, In
ternational Harvester 1917, Kenne-
colt 3lA, North American Aviation
8ss, New York Central 1914, Nor
thern Pacific 1914, United States
Steel 58A. Pound $4.04.
Dow, Jones averages today are as
follows: industrials 1927, rails
46, utilities PATS.
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5UBURB0F
VERSAILLES
IS KNITTED
u. 5. Units Turn Northwdrd
Threatening German
Forces in South

BULLETIN SUPREME
HEADQUARTERS OF ALLIED
EXPEDITIONARY FORCES,
Aug. IL. - Field Marshal Won
kluge, German Commander i'm
the west is reported tonight to
have ordered a general retreat
as the great bulk of the Ger
man forces in northwest Eur
Ope are in bad way" Gen.
Montgomery, commander of the
Allied ground forces in France
made this announcement in q
special message to the Allied
soldiers tonight.
Associated Press war cOrres-
pendent Roger Greene, from
the Orne River Front, sent a
dispatch tonight stating Mar
shall Won Kluge's forces are
fighting for their lives tonight
in the great bulge on the Wist
River in the 0rne field and the
plight Of the Germans is hour
ly growing more acute.
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF
THE ALLIED ExPEDITICNARY
FORCES. Aug. ll.--Amerfcan arinor
and infantry formations are I'M
officially reported knitting into
Charters, only 81 miles southwest
of Paris. a suburb of Versailles.
and turning northward in scythe-
like sweep is threatening all Ger
man forces south Of the Seine
River.
The German communique also
says the American thrust has turned
northward from Lemans under
strong air support.
The Paris radio reported the Am
orleans have burst past Alencon, 30
miles north of Lemans, but have
run into heavy fighting in that di-
rection. Alencon is 81 miles west
of Versailles and just AZ miles south
east of the Canadian tipped wedge
which has been driven to within five
miles Of Falaise.
There is no official confirmation
from the Supreme Headquarters on
various positions Of the forces strik-
ing past Lemans, ITO miles south
west of Paris Lemans was captured
two days ago.
The. swing northward would
threaten the rear of the Germans
in the subbornly held positions be-
low Caen and approximately 20 Ger
man divisions or remnants of divi-
sions.
Rapid progress is being made on
Peninsula, combat forces
the capture Of the Loire
River cities of Nantss and Anglers.
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SOLDIER VOTING
Law AMENDMENT
IS IN PROSPECT

WASHINGTON, Aug. l1.-A re-
Taxation in the tight official con-
troll of news, pictures, and speeches
that the Armed Forces may read,
see, or hear, appears to be in pros
pect. Interested Senators and Rep
resentatives OF the Service have
agreed on an amendment to the
Soldier Voting Law, as applied to
political propaganda, and Congress
sional action will be pressed.
The latest application to the law
was the banning for sale at post
exchanges, The Official Guide to
the Army Air Force" because it
carried a pen portrait OF Roose-
yelt, captioned The Commander
and Chief of the Army and Navy"
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laps Destroy
Homes As Air
Raid Measure

NEW YORK, Aug. IL. - A
Tokyo radio broadcast to Ger
many, recorded by United States
monitors, said the japanese
school children have torn down
items of thousands of houses and
entire street sections in resi-
Dental blocks" of the capital as
an air raid protection measure,
bringing about lone of the
greatest dwellings, since the
earthquake of 1929"
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ST. MALO IS
CAPTURED BY
U. 5. FORCES
One Granite Fortress Cita
del Holds 0ut-German
Colonel 0bdurafe
By HAL BOYLE

Associated Press War Correspondent
ST. MALO, France, Aug. 1.-THE
beleagured Germans in the citadel
of st. Malo argued by telephone
with the besieging Americans over
surrendering or continuing to fight
but the trapped garrison has not
surrendered yet.
The Americans moved into the
streets of st. Malo and the Ger
mans began to surrender, some of
them shooting their own officers in
order to give themselves up.
The conversation over the tele-
phone asked other Germans what
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-08-11
Benefits for Kin OF
Missing Men Continue
Until Accounted for

behind enemy lines before they can
report; plane crews who may be
living with natives in the jungles
or hiding in the backgrounds OF
Europe; and the INDICATED dead.
After a man has been missing a
year, military officials go over the
reports, reclassify them as best they
can. But there's no real reason for
a family to despair because they re-
ceive a telegram from the Army or
Navy that their man in service is
missing. Thousands of them do
turn up.
In the interim, it isn't the inten-
ton of the government that any
family should suffer. A mans pay
continues as long as the official
status of missing" is maintained
on the service records. Benefits to
wives or dependents are continued
INST as if the man still were with
his unit. If family or dependent
auotments aren't IN effect when the
man is reported missing. they may
be established by applications to the
Secretary of the War or Navy. Such
payments also are made by the gov
eminent for maintaining insurance
on the missing man.
These payments are deducted
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-08-11
CHURCHILL ON
ITALIAN FRONT

ROME, Aug. 11-British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill has ar
rived in Italy on his first visit to
the Italian front.
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; 5UpER5
ARE LOST
BIG RAID
Craft Fail 10 Return After
Attacks on Sumatra,
Also Nagdsaki

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.-Three
planes of the two forces of Super
fortresses, which struck at targets
in Sumatra and the Jap homeland
at Nagasaki, have mot been ac-
counted for"
One was forced down in friendly
territory, the Goth bomber COM
mand reported
Bombing results were good" at
both targets
At Nagasaki, the mission en-
countered weak" opposition. One
Jap plane was destroyed.
There was no fighter opposition
at Pelembang. Anti-aircraft fire
was moderate or weak at both tar
gets.
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CREwsON IN TOWN

H. B. Crewson, salesman, is in
Juneau for a short time and has
registered at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-08-11
HAZEL BIRD HERE

Hazel Bird, of Crawley, Colorado,
has arrived here and is staying at
the Baranof.
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Airdromes on Philippine
Island Smashed in Raid
By Us. Liberator Planes

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Aug,
11.-American Liberator bombers,
raiding the Philippines for the first
time in 81 months, smashed Jap
airdromes at Davao on Mindanao
Island in three successive night
attacks, Headquarters announced
today.
The last three assaults were dur
ing Tuesday night and Wednesday
morning, but results are not an
nounced
Davao is the principal city on
Mindanao, main southern island
of the archipelago occupied by the
Japs late in December, 1941.
The last American raid on the
Philippines previous to the three
recent raids, was the attack on
Clark Field, 10 miles north of Man
liza, on April Is, 1912, a formation
from Australia, led by Brig. Gen.
Ralph Boyce. Bataan had capit-
ulated six days earlier, but Correg-
idor was still holding
Mindanao is within bombing
range of the newly acquired Am
erican airfields on the Schouten
Islands, Dutch New Guinea, 900
miles southwest of the newest AM
erican beachhead at SanSapor, tip
of New Guinea, about 600 miles
southeast of Mindanao.
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JAPs PREPARE DEFENSE


NEW YORK, Aug. IL. Aftel
studying detailed reports of the
raid by the superfortresses OF
Nagasaki, the Japanese Cabinet ha:
decided to prepare by August Il
a plan for Strengthening home de-
lenses, the Tokyo radio announces
in broadcast to the Nippon En-
pire.
The broadcast was heard by the
Federal Communications Commits
sion and contrasted strongly with
Jap attempts to minimize the eff
feet of the raid.
Damage was negligible" said the
first broadcast but a belated an
nouncement said in the raid or
Palembang six planes participated
but did not identify them as super
fortresSes.
The attack was extremely fierce
one oil tank was set afire and al
lease two raiders were shot down,
said the Tokyo broadcast.
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Paraguay achieved independence
in 1911.
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DEVASTATING BLOWS


SECRET NEW SUPERFORT-
RESS BASE NEAR EQUATOR
Aug 11.-First reports radioed from
B-29s returning from widespread
twin raids on Nagasaki, in the jar
homeland, and Palembang, in SUI
matra. indicated that the sky giants
struck devastating blows at two
vital war industries-oil and ship
ping.
They flew from this southeast
Asia Command Secret Base on the
longest bombing mission of the
war, a 360O-mile round trip. to drop
high explosives on the finest
petroleum target of the Jap En-
pire at Palembang.
At the same time China based
ships rained incendiaries on Maya
saki in the first fire bomb raid on
the Jap homeland
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ALL BoMBERs BACK SAFELY

NEW YORK, Aug. 11.-A BIC
broadcast said all American Liber-
ator bombers participating in the
raids on Mindanao for three nights
returned safely, although they flew
to the Philippines without fighter
escort The broadcast was record
ed by NBC.
The broadcast also said return
ing pilots related they started fires
several very big, and caused ex-
blossoms on the ground.
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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-12-14
EMERGENCY WORKERS
BIG HELP IN NEW
YORK HARVESTS

New York City (ILNS). - School
children, vacationers, men and women
furloughed from industry, stenog-
raphers, bankers and business men,
putting their shoulders to the task of
helping to get in the New York 194l
harvest, have just about finished the
JOB, says Mrs. Anna NJ. Rosenberg,
regional director Of the War Man
power Commission.
SO effective were these amateur
farmhands in supplementing the basic
farm labor force Of West Indian
workers, migrants from southern
states and prisoners of war, Mrs.
Rosenberg said, that despite the
above-average crops, the harvest sea-
son is ending with fewer crop losses
than are expected in a normal peace
time year with normal labor supply.
Mobilization of the city farmhands
was directed throughout the state by
offices Of the U. S. Employment Serv-
ice of the VINO under contract to the
New York State Extension Service to
recruit necessary farm labor. Re-
sponsibility for farm labor supply
was vested in the Extension Service
by Congress, Mrs. Rosenberg pointed
out, but the fact that employment
office facilities of the USES were al
ready geared for farm placement
made use of these facilities practical.
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MdnY important

who practices the discrimination anc
against what group it is directed, ano
be it further
Resolved, that this convention de-
mand the immediate abolition of the
poll tax and the establishment by act
of Congress, of a permanent Faii
Employment Practices Commission
authorized to eliminate discrimination
because of race, color, religion OF
national origin, in private industry as
well as in government work, and be
it further a.
"Resolved, that the unions affiliated
with the American Federation of La
Dor be urged to wage an unrelenting
struggle against the groups response
BILE for the spreading of the poison of
anti Catholicism, anti Professionalism,
anti Semitism, anti Negroism, and
other forms of racial prejudice, and
that the Executive Council give all
possible support to the international
and local unions in the undertaking
and carrying out of an educational
program calculated to promote toler-
ance, understanding, and m i t y
among the various groups comprising
the family of American organized
labor"
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4 4 4 4 4 4 4 i 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
OBITUARY
So j. 4 4 4 4 4 So
LEONARD USLER


Leonard Usler, SO, died suddenly
Tuesday at $50 p. m. in his home,
769 Fenton st.
Mr.. Usler was born in Pittsburgh
and came to East Liverpool with his
parents when he was a child. He was
employed as mouldmaker at the
Edwin NJ. Knowles China Co. I'm
Newell and was affiliated with Local
Union %, n. B. of o. P. He was a
member of st. Johns Lutheran
Church.
He leaves one daughter, Mrs. Dor
othy Schwertfager of Fredonia, N. Y,
two brothers, Charles Usler of Holly
wood, Calf, and Frank Usler of East
Liverpool; three sisters, Mrs. Ger
trude McNicol in California, Mrs
Clara Fassett of East Brady, Pa, and
Mrs. Hugo Miller of East Liverpool,
and two grandchildren. His wife, Mrs.
Margaret B. Usler, died in April.
Services were held in the Martin
Funeral Home. Burial was in River
view Cemetery.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-12-14
The Challenge Of
Christmas
By DIR. CHARLES STELZLE
(Written in 1879

The world is today seeing the other
side of Christmas = the God-side =
beyond the Angels song, and the
message of peace on earth and good
will among men.
1t is seeing for the first time, the
great heart of our Heavenly Father
who gave his only begotten Son that
the world might be made safe. For
that is what the angels song meant
1t meant much more; but, if it meant
less, it would mean nothing at all.
The world has passed through four
of the bloodiest years in history. Mil
lions of our sons have been sacrificed
They have entered into the fellowship
of suffering with Christ. They have
brought nearer the day of which the
angels sang, because world-democracy
is closer at hand.
After this, the rest of us dare not
cheaper the thing bought at such
fearful price; that purchased by God
through the sacrifice of His only Son
and that purchased by His children
through the sacrifice Of their sons.
We shall have to be better Christians
and better citizens.
The Christmas message now means
that neither class, nor creed, nor race,
nor color shall divide the sons of
men. The tidings of great JOY were
for all people.
1t is only as men themselves erect
barriers that the world is robbed of
Christmas joy. And it is the barrier
that is first erected in their own
hearts = covetousness, hatred, envy,
strife-that shuts out the SPIRIT of
Christmas which is love, JOY and
peace.
There never was a Christmas like
unto this. 9
Heretofore, Christmas, to most
men, meant merely the receiving of
gifts. We have at last learned that it
means the giving of our best to the
world And that, after all, is the great
thing of which the angels sang; it
was because God gave His Son that
Christmas was made possible.
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of Labor if we could some time have
a secret ballot on questions such as
this one. | cannot for the life of me
understand how we heads of National
and international Unions can be so
thoroughly disgusted and dissatisfied.
| am basing that on expressions
hear daily and have been hearing, and
yet we sit silently in this convention
and we do not raise our voices in pro-
test against such things.
"In my opinion, in self-respect we
should resolve to do one of two
things: Make up our minds it is the
right and proper thing we should
have, or stop gripping about it.
"In conclusion, President Green has
been stating, repeating, iterating and
reiterating since 1851 think that
was the year John l.. Lewis left the
American Federation of Labor-come
back to your fathers house; the latch
string is on the outside. Like many
other delegates, whether we are
rightly informed or not, we have been
led to believe that John l.. Lewis was
in a reasonable state of mind and he
offered a pretty fair basis of return
ing to the American Federation OF
Labor, and the door was slammed in
his face and he was refused admit
tance. | wonder sometimes how free
we are ourselves of animoSity, un-
founded animosity? | wonder some
times if we are not just little bit
too selfish, looking out for our own
personal and individual prestige and
standing within the movement to the
detriment of the fundamental aims
and purposes of this great organiza-
tion of the American Federation of
Labor. 1t has been great, and | hope
to God it will remain great in the
future and become even greater, and
that can only be through unity within
the ranks of labor.
GAS one who disagreed with John l..
Lewis when he was a delegate to this
convention, undoubtedly / will dis
agree with him if he comes back in
the future, and | hope and pray that
a way will be found to bring John l..
Lewis and the United Mine Workers
back to the American Federation of
Labor, and there will be a place and
a home equally warm and inviting
and beneficial for the Progressive
Miners as well, because never forget,
the American Federation of Labor,
like all other labor organizations, was
brought into being for one purpose,
and that for the betterment of man
kind, that men might live in decency
and in dignity, and especially that
they might be able to enjoy some of
the comforts of life and educate their
children.
'That is the one objective we must
never forget. Come what may to Us
Individually, we must keep that in
mind. In my judgment that will only
come about through unity within the
house of labor.
''That is why | would like to see
John l.. Lewis back into membership
in the American Federation of Labor
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Socialist Charge
New PdrtY Move
To Serve Stulin

New York City ULNS) Members
of the Moscow-controlled Polish Com
mittee for National Liberation Iub-
lin group have formed "Polish So
cialist party" disregarding the exist
ence Of the recognized Polish Socialist
party which is one of the leading ele-
ments in the Polish underground.
This was made known by the So
cialist party of America which re-
vealed that it had received a radio
gram signed by 3 leading members Of
the so-called "Polish Socialist Party"
The telegram came from Moscow, fol-
lowing conference by the general
council of the self-styled "Polish So
cialist Party" held Nov. IT,
Expressing surprise at the receipt
of message from Moscow, Norman
Thomas, Socialist party spokesman,
asserted that inquiry revealed that
the men signing the telegram, DR..
Boleslaw Drobner, Edward Osubko
Morawski, Major Stefan Matuszew-
ski, had no mandate to speak for the
Polish Underground fighters, and
were seeking to usurp leadership Of
those who expressed the legitimate
aspirations Of the Polish people.
Stain Ruse Charged
The recognized Polish Socialist
party which is the backbone of the
Polish Underground has headquarters
in London and in occupied Poland, the
Socialist party said in reply sent to
Moscow. The American Socialists
asserted that one of the signers of
the radiogram had joined Sin a con-
temptible attack on Warsaw's gallant
workers" during the Warsaw upris-
ing in the summer of 1914. They re-
ferred to Edward Osubka MorawsM,
who is also chairman of the Polish
Committee for National Liberation.
The Socialists charged that the ruse
Of the Lublin group was designed to
capitalize on the integrity and ideals
of Socialism, and to convert its pres
tige to the designs of Marshal Stain.
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miniOnS.
In the national field, the AFL as
serted it's belief in free collective bar
gaining and free trade unions. Be-
hind the scenes, however, there was a
strong feeling of pessimism about the
future. On the one hand, war controls
imposed by government during the
war will be continued during the
period OF reconversion; if labor ac-
cepts government prot e C t o n for
unions, it must bow to regulatory pro-
cedures which will be increasingly ir-
ritating
If labor helps remove the labor
agencies of wartime, employers may
be successful in reducing wages and
reducing the strength of all unions.
In this dilemma, the AFL proceeded
cautiously and discreetly, as the con-
vention record shows.
On the last day of the convention,
delegates voted unanimously to ask
the International Federation of Trade
Unions, of which the AFL is a mem-
Der, "to convene world trade union
conference of the free trade unions
of the world at the earliest possible
time" Such a conference, the con-
vention said, should be held in the
United States.
Two Conferences Asked
The convention also authorized the
executive council to call conference
of Western Hemisphere unions, in ap-
proving report of its special COM
mittee on international labor rela-
tiois, headed by Matthew Woll.
Throughout the report, the COM
mittee emphasized the role of "free
trade unions" in helping to rebuild
the economic life of the world after
the war and also stressed its unalter-
able opposition to "the principle OF
forced labor"
Apprentice Exchange Approved
In calling for the reestablishment
of fraternal relations between the
AFL and American unions, the
convention approved the principle of
exchanging apprentices as medium
of better understanding.
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Demand the Union Label.