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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-10
Trinity Guild Will
Sponsor Tea Feb. Z

February IL has been set as the
date for the annual st. Valentine
Tea sponsored by the Holy Trinity
Guild of the Episcopal Church.
Plans for the affair were made
at a meeting of the guild last Fri
day. The tea will be held at Trim
ity Hall between 2 and O'Clock
in the afternoon.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-10
YOUNG WOMAN dies
AT GOVT. HOSPITAL

Eva Lucy Mevcoroff, "a, died at
the Government Hospital this
morning. Survivors are her hus-
band and father who are in Juneau
The deceased was an evacuee from
Umnak in the Aleutians.
Services have been arranged for
tomorrow afternoon in the Chapel
of the Charles w. Carter Mortu-
airy at 2 o'clock, the Rev. A. M
Baranoff officiating.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-10
3 ARRIVE HERE
BY BOAT TODAY
FROM W Est

A steamer from the Westward
docked here this afternoon with the
following passengers from Seward
Frank j. Hart, Edith johnson, Fred
Straser, Carl M Anderson, John
A. Didrickson, Elery G. Gromoff
and Roy V. Abrams.
From Cordova-Capt George D.
Rowe and c. d. Parkinson
From Yakutat-Emma M. Sand
man and infant, Kitty Dixon, and
Martha Frank
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-10
MORE YOUNG
|. N f N TO BE
CALLED UP
Occupation Deferments
Now Off 10 Those Is 10
II Years Of Age

WASHINGTON, jan. 1O.-The Sc
lective Service has put ban or
occuation deferments of draft re-
gistrants ID through 81 years effec-
tive on February l.
The action is designed to make
at least 10000 more fathers
eligible to military duty.
Director Hershey warned however
that the move will not long he
postponed Of drafting of prewar
fathers
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-10
C0NGRE55MEN
CAN'T DOUBLE
UP IN SERVICE

WASHINGTON, Jan. TO- - The
President has instructed the Secre-
taries of War and Navy that mem
bers of Congress may not serve
in active components of the Armed
Services
Roosevelt said formal statement
by Attorney General Biddle advised
him the constitution forbids stimuli
taneous service with the armed
forces and Congress.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-10
PRIVATE CIVILIAN

WILLOW LAKE, S. DIT had
to happen, in an Army that has
already discovered Sergeant Sar-
gents" and Corporal Generals" in
its ranks. Now it has a Private
Civilian" Pvt. Civilian Forde OF
Willow Lake, stationed at Fort
Lewis, Wash.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-10
SMITH
PASSES AWAY

AUGUSTA. Maine, jan l0.-Dr.
George Otis Smith. 70. Chairman OF
the Federal Power Commission in
Hoovers Administration died sud-
denly this afternoon shortly after
being stricken with an attack of the
heart.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-10
0LDTIME RESIDENT
PASSES IN SEATTLE

Word has been received in Ju-
neau of the death of Carl Eng
strom, oldtimer of this district, at
the Firlands Sanatarium near Seat
tie last Wednesday. Mr.. Engstrom
was a well known carpenter here
and worked on the AUX Bay can
merry. He went Outside seven years
AGO
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-10

NOTE-Froni time to time, IN this space.
there viH appear an article Which uOe hope
mill be of interest to our felloW Americans.
This is number seuen of a series.
SCHENLEY INTERNATIONAL CORP.
NEW YORK
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-10

A baby daughter was born st
1915 yesterday morning at ST.
AIMS Hospital to Mrs Edward M
Howell The newcomer tipped the
scales at six pounds and five ounces.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-10
HOSPITAL NOTES

Bert Harold, a medical patient
has been discharged from st. AIMS
Hospital.
Howard Skipper has been dis
charged from st. AIMS Hospital
after undergoing surgery.
Mrs. Charles Lesher and baby
girl left st. AIMS Hospital on Sun
day and returned home.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-10

John L. Hodgson was admitted to
st. AIMS Hospital Sunday for med
ical care.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-10
DAVE FENToN HERE

Dave Fenton is here from Sitka.
He is enroute TO Haines on bust
ness.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-10
STUART RIPLEY IN

In Juneau from Seattle, Stuart
C. Ripley is Baranof guest
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-10

Frank Farnan has entered st
AIMS Hospital for medical treat
ment.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-01-10
THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG plCTURESl

Bargain sale on suits and dresses
this week at Jones' Stevens. adv.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-12-22
Snow Here
Greets Shoppers
On Final Rounds

The first snow Of the season
barely enough to cover the ground
greeted early risers today in Hender-
son and this section, and last-minute
shoppers on their final rounds of
arranging for Santa Claus had this
reminder of a white Christmas. But
the weather man held little hope
that it would actually be d white
Christmas.
Roofs and grass plots were covered
with snow, but some of it melted
during the day. Skies were overcast
all day today, and the mercury wa,
on a steady downgrade, with pros
poets for a minimum tonight close
to 20 degrees. Extreme temperature
was not likely, however, according
to forecast.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-08-11
u. S. Planes Within Easy
Bombing Range of Japan

The capture Of this island base
within easy bombing range Of Japan
means many things. 1t tends to
neutralize what heretofore has been
Japan's advantage in destroying
American bases in China. 1t brings
the war fguratively, as well as lit
orally, close to Japan. 1t registers
the success of a strategy which has
smashed Japan's outer defenses, her
great Pacific island empire. 1t
proves that "island-hopping" is un-
necessary. This means that the re-
naming japanese strongholds such
as Truk, and other outposts do not
have to be knocked Off one by one,
they can be by-passed and starved
out, if necessary.
Saipan in American hands means
also that the B-29's which have al
ready sounded their warning to the
Jap home folk will soon be in ac-
tive operation on scale hitherto
unapproached.
Germany, like Japan, has at this
writing a powerful land army.
But Japan, like Germany, has a
vanishing air force. Note the corol-
larry and see how 1t applies to ia
pan. The Allied air force crippled
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-08-11
l5Candidates Receive Degrees
At Close of PSC Summer Session

Preparatory to entering the
seventy year of unstinted
service in September, Philander
Smith College closed summer
commencement activities Satur-
day morning, August 5, with the
academic professional led by the
Reverend President M. Lafayette
Harris and faculty and board
members, as final tribute to
the fifteen candidates for gradu-
alton.
The opening professional, The
War March of the Priests" was
played by Miss Juanita Stokes.
DR.. K. T. Wayland, editor OF the
Arkansas Methodist" gave the
invocation. A solo, THE Lords
Prayer was sung by Mrs. Thel-
ma o. Betton as a prelude to the
commencement address delivered
by the college president.
Speaking from the theme. DE
stroying Tomorrow Tragedy with
Today's Opportunity" DR.. Harris
used as trilogy in tomorrow 8
world (a) Education; (b) Eff
ficiency; (c) Ethics, and present
ed excerpts from the famed pub
lication, Zone World" by Wen
dell Willkie, as spontaneous
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-08-11

awakening of the value of educa-
ton. Efficiency, a new problem
in the new world order was given
as one of the greatest dangers in
labor today, with the average
worker emerging with a philoso-
ply Of inefficiency and indiffer-
ence. Without efficiency, he said.
I'VE are not going to be able to
shift gears and catch up with
those in the new world order who
have looked upon education as a
must even during these war
times, unless we develop def
mite philosophy of loyalty and
efficiency. Ethics, the supreme
end, gives one the faith that Is
necessary to make the other two
major propositions work" He
said, Faith in the power Of God
is the basis of mans own power,
an dof reasons achievement. En-
deavor to be ambassadors of
goodwill wherever you go. in
the deep ethical sense which en-
ables up to lift up our eyes unto
the hills. In closing he
said, 1.-THE new world order will
be intricate and complete. New
skills are being introduced. Are
we developing proper attitudes
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-08-11

To Vote
New Novel Challenges Race
Prejudice

There is every indication that
Freedom Road" new book by
Howard Fast. will be the most
talked of novel in 1914. This
book is to be released on August
10th by Publishers Duel, Sloan q
Pearce.
Howard Fast will best be re-
mcmbered as the author of the
current best seller Citizen Tom
Paine. Mr.. Fast's foreeful style
seems to have reached its apex
in his latest work, Freedom
Road
Many books have been written
about the Negro but this story is
written about things that you
probably thought no one would
write. 1t attacks the very foun-
dations of Lip Service Democ-
racy' and gives us a frank por-
trayal of what actually happened
in the South during the days of
BLACK Reconstruction.
Freedom Road is fiction of
the highest order. The story
Of Negro named Gideon jackson
who fought on the side OF the
Union during the Civil War. This
character Is an embodiment of all
the fine qualities of Negro legisla-
tors, duly elected Immediately aft
er the Civil War. Through him is
shown the conflict of the North
and South, the struggle between
landowner and sharecropper and
struggle of races for adjustment,
and the political strife growing
out of a maladjusted social pat
tern that was allowed to run loose
through fragrant misappropriation
of judicial rights. Gideon Jack.
son grows mentally and spiritual.
ly as he labors tirelessly to work
out the destiny of his people who
were confused, abused, and perse.
cuted. OF special interest is the
manner in which Freedom Road
deals with the rise Of the Klu
klux Khan In its determined ef.
forts to stem the tide OF demo,
cratic thinking among the under,
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-08-11
Jdps Still Powerful, but
Position Grows Weaker
Shipping Losses Reduce Flow of Material:
Efficiency Of Pilots Suffers From
Poor Tactics in Combat.
BY BAUKHAGE
Netos Anaiyst and Commentator

the German air force. And as Nazi
fghter-defense dwindled. so the
weight Of sheer numbers reduced
the effectiveness of German anti
aircraft defense and offense. due to
the bombing Of her plane factories
and plane-part factories and to the
destruction Of her pilots Germany's
next greatest weakness is lack OF
gas and oil. This has been caused
by the destruction tby the Allied air
force AGAIN. of oil wells, gasoline
rehneries and synthetic oil plants.
Proofs Of the effects of this bomb
ing are not limited to photographs
showing the effect Of Allied air raids
on ball-bearing plants. on the Ploesti
oil wells. on the synthetic oil plants
and the refineries. 1t Is shown in
the German tanks and other war ve-
hicles in perfect condition aban-
doned and captured because they
ran out Of fuel.
Raids. really shake-down cruises
of the giant B-29's directed against
japanese industrial plants. have just
begun.
Japan Is already suffering from
shortages Of essential materials. Her
great stolen storehouses OF the Phil
ippines and the Dutch Indies are
long way from home. The trans
portation problem Is terrible one
Japanese shipping has been SUBJ
jected TO terrific losses by our SUBJ
marines and planes.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-08-11

and habits? The basic unit OF all
social progress is ethics. Take
out of the world the art of doing
for others and all social progress
is killed. We are entering a new
world of greater justice and tran
guilty, Are We adequately i'm
bued with goodwill to face it,"
Presentation of candidates for
degrees in their respective courses
Was made by Miss Henrietta C.
Harris, college registrar, with
Mrs, Vivian Anderson Arnold lead
ing in scholastic attainment. with
the Bachelor of Arts degree
magma Cum Laude,1 Others re-
ceiViHg the degree were Miss
Essye v Barber, Mrs. Irene Al
berta Clark, Miss Mabel NJ. Gam
Bile. Mrs. Eloyce S. Herndon. Mrs.
Louise Harroway Howell. Mrs.
Lady Waddell Jamison (Cum
Laude), Miss Erseline Johnson,
Miss Irene Neal. Miss Myrtle Neal,
Thurrell Russ, Miss Dorothy Rut-
ledge (Cum Laudel, Prof. Alden
Tate, principal of Malvern Color
ed High School. Miss zerita Tate
and Mrs. Naomi Reddix Yerger.
also cum laude, receiving the
Bachelor of Science degree in
Home Economics were Miss Eve
Ign c, Brewer, Miss America
Burns, Miss Minnie Bell Dawkins,
Miss Mary X. Scott and Miss Vi
Wan Louis Tolerson. Degrees
We're conferred by DR.. Harris. The
graduates, through Miss Rutledge
presented ninety-eight dollars to
the president to boost the Stud.
ent Loan Fund"
The Rev. James II. Taggart
minister of the White Memorial
Methodist church, gave closing de.
votionals.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-08-11

privileged in Gideon's community.
Throughout Freedom Road"
moves at rapid pace and the
moral victories which Gideon
wins will long be remembered by
everyone who reads this powerful
novel.
The documentary substance of
this book Is truly taken from the
lost pages OF American History"
This is, without a doubt, 1.-THE
story you thought would never be
written"
Freedom Road" Is represented
in the Negro market by w. B.
Graham and Associates. Inc, Sc
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-08-11
BRIEF S. by Baukhage

Unlike American movie heroes,
the japanese film hero usually
doesn't win the heroine in such a
way as to live happily ever after.
japanese movies have a tendency to
end on an unhappy note OF sorrow
or Illustration with the hero and
heroine being torn apart by some
incident that exalts family duty and
sacrifice above their own personal
desire.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-08-11
Distances Shrink in
Far Pacific Warfare

Is japan In any better position ia
resist air attack than Germany?
The answer seems to be no" Her
greatest defense Is distance. and dis
tances in the Pacific theater have
shrunk At 4 speed far greater than
most people dreamed was possible.
Japan's next defense - fighter
planes-has suffered in greater pro-
portion than was expected. The
quality. a. well as the quantity OF
Jap planes has fallen of SO that
Japan has become stingy In her
use of fighters as the Germans. The
quality of her pilots has greatly de-
Perforated. And this point blends
into another. Japan simply has not
the strategic know-how OF aviation.
When she does send her bombers
and fighters out in great numbers,
they are no match for Allied power.
man or plane.
There is no question that as ia.
pans resistance weakens the Allied
striking power Is increased. 1t Is
impossible to mention details, OF
course, for security reasons and it
would be unwise to assemble known
facts and figures concerning the type
of material manufactured and the
disposition of forces which, taken
together, would indicate clearly
enough how the weight of Allied
might is being distributed.
We can quote the statement OF
Prime Minister Curtin of Australia,
for instance, who says that this
year" British forces in great NUNS
bers will be transferred to the Pa
cihc theater
Finally, there is third factor
which seems to be Fastening of the
end. 1t is difficult TO speak Of MOI
rale" in connection with Japan since
the people are told how and what
to think. But the tone of the official
utterances has taken on decidedly
gloomy note. Even as to the shifts
in command-the fall of the TOTO
cabinet which might have been
hailed with a cheerful fanfare, the
phrases we're grave and grim.
1t is also reported. from sources
in touch with Japan's inner poll
tics, that the Jap militarists are
waiting hopefully to see If the Allies
grant enough leniency in their terms
to Germany to justify surrender on
their part. Although it was en-
phatically denied in Tokyo it is still
believed here that the Japanese rep
resentative to the Holy See laid
tentative peace offer before the
Pope,
Briefly, then, as the conservative
ly optimistic observers in Washing
ton look at the picture rapidly FORM
ing in the Pacific, they see several
factors which heretofore worked to-
ward a long drawn out struggle in
the Far East either removed or al
tered. First, the theory that the
Allies must fight their way to VIC
tory, sea-mile by sea-mile, island
by island has been completely ex-
ploded. Second, Japan's air force
has been measurably debated.
Third, the strategy Of blow at the
heart Of the empire rather than
attrition at Its perimeter is now
considered a reasonable certainty.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-08-11
WNU Service, Union Trust Building
Washington, ID. c.

Washington, ID, G.
Paradoxieally, on the eve OF what
may be the greatest land battle
America has ever fought. this coun.
try is turning its eyes eastward.
The nervous Berlin radio has al
ready announced that the war in Eu.
rope may be decided In three
months. That statement Lends color
to the hints that General Rommel.
the one Nazi commander who seems
to see eye to eye with the Fuehrer
and yet is apparently permitted to
work out his strategy according to
military science and not Hitlerian
intuition, is going to fight it out, win
lose or draw. along the outer edges
Of Normandy. What effect the events
following the attempt on the life OF
Hitler will have on the internal stu
alton In Germany-or what the in
cident indicates about Germany
within, remains to be seen.
Whether the German collapse
comes before the leaves turn. or
after the snow flies, the next weeks
will see emphasis placed on the Pa
ciflc campaign. It Is not beyond
the realm Of possibility that peace
can be wrung from Japan we'll with
In the current l2-month. The fall Of
TOTO and his cabinet indicates the
gravity with which tho Japs are
looking ahead.
First. let us examine the material
upon which Japan counts to make up
her sinews Of strength.
She has managed to keep her
main battle fleet "in being as the
phrase goes. Like Germany. toward
the end Of the last war, In spite OF
heavy losses In auxiliary craft. she
still has enough Of her big war wag-
ons to stage q battle Of Jutland."
or at least to attempt It.
Ascend; Japan still has q large.
well-trained. well-equipped army.
That army has never been subject
to the wear and tear Of sustained
battle with an equal. II Is true that
there are many retreats which we
have read about when the Japs have
staged what was advertised a. Z
big offensive and which petered out
with the flag Of Nippon back where
II started from. However, 1t Is gen.
orally agreed among military men
that, except perhaps in the recent
abortive morale drive into India.
and In Burma where General Still
well and the Chinese armies are
moving to a junction, the Japs have
usually done just about what they
expected to do and could have done
more if they had made up their
minds to it. For the most part they
have not tried to win territory and
hold it. They have tried to wear
down the Chinese army, contribute
to the impoverishment and the weak
ening of the Chinese government.
This they have accomplished to no
little degree. They have likewise
reduced the number of actual and
potential American airbases in Chi
ma. They have made possible land
invasion of the Chinese coast hard
er for the Allies Such an invasion
is considered inevitable and essen
tial to Allied victory,
On the debit side there are these
items:
First, is one word written in the
boldest hand because Of the thing it
symbolizes-SAIPAN.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-08-11

The Tokyo radio makes a point OF
accenting the friendliness Of Japan's
relations with Germany but Japa-
nese films make 1t clear that the
Axis pact can be carried only so
far, and no farther.
Seventy-hve American Red Cross
Home Service scholarships in ac-
credited schools of social work now
are available.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-08-11
AUTHOR OF .PLEASE GO
WAY AND LET ME SLEEP"
MANY OTHER HITS IN 1909

New York. Richard G. Nc
Pherson, Negro ballad writer,
known professionally as Cecil
Mack, whose plaintive Please Go
Way and Let Me Sleep" was .
hit song in 1902. died today in
his home at 1888 West 135th st.,
He was sixty years old.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-08-11
&C Gunner DESTROYS Nazi Jumkers 80

Coost Guodsmon John Smith Il yeo old Stewards Mote.
Junke SO during the Allied invasion Of North Afoo and assist
ed the destruction Of second Nozi plone the
eo9ement Smith serving the Somu Chose. Coost
Guod Manned transport which hos carried the nickname ~
Lucky by participating hundreds Of engagements ond ondns
its troops without the loss Of single The youths poren and
wife reside in Cincinnati, Ohio
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-08-11
sv cHARlfs ALIEN

West 42nd Street, New York Is,
New York.
Arkansas State press. [volume] (Little Rock, Ark.) 1941-1959, 1944-08-11
Let My PeopleC Go
Freedom, Road

BY Howard Fast
AT last! The Great American
NOVELETTE, book that will send
every American to the polls
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14
ENDS 5-YEAR SIEGE. !.
OF CONSTIPATION!
"Now as Regular as Anyonel"
Says II. G. Durand

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Sounds like "magic," doesn't
it? Yet, KELLOGG'S ALL-BRAN
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mon cause of constipation-lack
Of certain dietary "cellulosic"
elementsl That's because it is one
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prepare the colonic wastes for easy,
natural elimination. KELLOGG'S
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If your constipation is of this
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sist on genuine ALL-BRAN, made
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14
SURPLUS GOODS:
Consult Business

To prevent a disruption of ordi-
nary business channels, u. S. agen-
cies entrusted with the disposal of
surplus war goods for civilian use
have been instructed to confer with
the War Production boards $50 In
dustry advisory committees on dis
tribution of material through estab-
Lshed outlets.
Although most members of the
industry advisory committees are
manufacturers, some wholesalers
and retailers have been included in
the groups, and 1t will be their task
to help determine normal outlets for
certain goods, the amount of ma
terial to be released, and whether
distributors should bid for the mer-
chandise, negotiate for its purchase
or buy it at auction.
While the new procedure was an
nounced, Rep. Wright Patman (Tex-
as) pressed for enactment of bill
under which retailers would be given
equal voice in the disposal of surplus
war goods along with the bigger
manufacturers and wholesalers.