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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-08-01

FOR RENT-Fur. Apts. Easily kept warm. Winter rates $15 a month. Lights, water, Dishes. Also bath and use of Electric Washer and Wrtnger in Laundry room. Sea- view Apts.
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ALASKA AIRlINE5
HA52 BUSY DAYS

The Alaska Airlines had large
list of passengers both in and out
yesterday. Those coming into Ju-
neau from Fairbanks were Ernest
Board, Walter E. Collier, Paul Ploass'
Weston Jacob, Max s. Rhodz, Arthur
Oman, Walt Wath, j. p. Crossley
and j. H. Bowling.
Outgoing passengers to Anchorage
were Mr.. and Mrs. X. Nelson, S. P.
Whitley, Emily Kay, P. e. Smith,
p. G. Miller, M. L. Miles, Mrs. H. L.
Wood, Mrs v. G.. Anderson, Alma
jackson and Wildey Kimball. X. K.
Kent and Alene Demming were pas
sengers for Yakutat
A plane came in this morning from
Anchorage bringing Belford Minor,
r. Gishier and George Larson.
A flight was made this afternoon
to Anchorage with A. K. Lyle, B.
Goodfield, Alex Durham. Ray Baker,
B. M. Stewart, Lillian Gardiner, c.
G. Clark, S. Faulkner, Jim Sadler
and Norma Kimball listed for that
city, while Perry Ellis, Leona Ellis,
Franklin Ellis and Helen Bremen
were passengers for Yakutat. Hazel
Sager was to disembark at Cordova.
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TRUNK MURDERER
C0NFE5SES AFTER
ARREST IN TEXAS

CRYSTAL CITY, Texas, May 10.
Deputy Sheriff Barnes said today
that Soyla villegos, 26, has signed
a confession that he killed his wife,
Louise, in Chicago, by hitting her
in the back Of the head in fight
and that he had a friend ship the
trunk containing the body to Los
Angeles He did not tell his friend
what was in the trunk.
Villegos, war worker claimed
that he went home from work about
two weeks ago to find his bride had
been drinking. He Joined her and
later in the evening she declared
that she wanted to go dancing. Vii
legos said that he refused and went
to bed instead. Several hours after,
he was awakened by his wife, who
said that she wanted divorce so
that she could marry someone else.
When he refused, she attacked him
with pair Of scissors and he hit
her the death blow.
Villegos was arrested at the home
of his mother here in Crystal City.
He will be returned to Chicago to
answer to a Staying charge.
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Sneak Thieves Stealing
Bottles Of Pennies for
(hi|dren's 0rtho. Hosp.

The meanest sneak thieves are
operating in Juneau right now and
if caught we'll, no pity will be
shown, whether they are kids or
adults.
Mrs. George F. Alexander, who is
chairman of the Juneau Committee
soliciting pennies in the drive for
the Childrens Orthopedic Hospital
in Seattle. where many Alaskan
children have been or are being
treated, announces that the third
bottle of pennies for the Orthopedic
children, has been stolen-think OF
that-a bottle of pennies for charity
stolen.
The bottles, most of them pint
milk bottles, have been placed in
stores and other public places, to
receive pennies or other larger coin
denominations for the Orthopedic
Hospital
The authorities, police and Fed
eral have been notified of the meas
ly thieving and caution everyone
with bottles to watch and If cul-
prits are apprehended-well it is
going to go tough. The authorities
are puzzled because If children had
taken the bottles, surely iingling
sound would be heard when the
bottle was snatched away. II an
adult is taking the penny bottles,
tlsey would be lifted carefully and
thereby detection would be more
difficult
City Magistrate Monagle and
United States Commissioner Felix
Gray both state that If the penny
bottle snatchers are arrested and
taken before them the heaviest PEN
atty under the law will be passed.
But, Mrs, Alexander says that
does not replace the bottles nor the
contents, for according to bottles
still not stolen, the amounts con-
tanned are large.
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kEEp5MUM
4TH TERM

WASHINGTON, May l0.--Presi-
dent Roosevelt's renewed refusal to
talk about fourth term and thus
convinced most Of the Capitals Re-
publicans and some Democrats he
plans TO accept another nomination.
II is only a little more than two
months rernaining before the Chi
cago Convention
The President declined at new
conference m comment on the
statement of Nationai Democratic
Committee Chairmah, Robert +
Hannegan in New York Monday
night, that II was his firm con-
yictioa' he will again be cardid-
ate and will be reelected.
The President told the reporters
be was just back from a months
vacation in South Carolina. and has
not read Hannegans speech and
would not talk about it if he had
Senator Harlan J Bushfield, Re-
publican OF South Dakota, COM
nented tartly: THE President may
be fooling himself ON what he Is
going to do but he isn't fooling any
one else" and later said: He's
quite kidder, isn't he?"
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GOVERNMENT
OF DEvALERA
IS DEFEATED

DUBLIN, May 10.--It Is officially
announced that general election
will be held in Fire probably on
May 80 as the result of the defeat
of Prime Minister canon deValera's
Government on the transport bill
by vote Of "a to SO in the Dali
Eireann.
The party took minority spot
last June after the wartime elec-
ton ended with the Flame Dali
holding 81 seats to the opposition's
II. This portents rough going on
issues such as that resulting from
a one-vote defeat.
Irish observers fastened to say
deValera's neutrality policy had
nothing to do with the rebuff, since
leaders of the opposition endorsed
the Prime Minister'S stand on that
question.
The transport bill provided for
the amalgamation of Fires two
largest transport companies. The
vote was equivalent to a no conf
dence vote and the reversal means
not only deValera but all other
members of the Dali will resign
and stand for reelection.
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The W ashington
Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON
ut Col. Robert s. Alien now on active
service with the Army


WASHINGTON-Word leakin g
out from some of the Dewey ad-
visers is that, after a careful survey
of the entire country, they figure
their candidate can win against
FDR himself with II electoral votes
to spare, if Dewey can carry Cali
fornia. This estimate gives to
Roosevelt all of the border states,
including also the South, plus Wash
ington and Utah. On the other
hand, Dewey forces expect to carry
all of New England, most of the
middle west, plus Pennsylvania.
New York is doubtful.
However, both Democrats and
Republicans frankly admit that
California is going to be one Of the
keyest States in the Union. They
remember how it was California,
plus the trace jumping of Hiram
johnson, which reelected Wood
row Wilson in 1916 after Charles
Evans Hughes went to bed think
ing he was President-elect.
= They remember too how Hiram
johnson, Republican, again help
ed to throw the election to Demo-
crat-Roosevelt- 1882. They also
know that 1t was heavy Democrat
ic vote for Republican Warren that
made him Governor in 1912. In
fact, California is the one State in
the Union that is nearest to being
without a two-party system. Can
didates run on both tickets and get
votes from both parties.
The Dewey forces know that F'DR
is still a powerful figure in Califor-
MIA. But they also figure that
Warren, if on the Republican ticket,
could carry the State for Dewey.
Democratic leaders, on the other
hand, say that Governor Warren
has lost his popularity, could not
deliver for Dewey.
At any rate, the Far West is being
rediscovered by the political East
for the first time since Marshall
struck gold in 1849.
NOTE-This is the inside reason
why CALIFORNIA; Democratic Attor-
ney General, Bob Kenny. has sped
Eastward. OStensibly, he wants to
be heard on the new U. S.-Mexican
treaty. Actually. friends are pro-
posing him as the keynoter at the
Chicago Democratic convention.
Some even go so far as to propose
him as Vice Presidential candidate
with FDR-if the latter runs.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-10
ALASKA COASTAL ON
THREE TRIPS TODAY

Alaska Coastal planes made three
flights today, the first to Sitka
with Jack Garrett, Howard Stabler,
John Walton and Max Swiz as pas
sengers.
A flight was made this forenoon
to SlIagway carrying A. G. Webb,
Mae Stephenson, Mavis Soiden and
Webster r. Carter TO that city and
Bill Lawrence and Arnold Amund-
sen to Haines Joe Green was pick
cd up at Haines on the return
flight and brought back 10 Juneau
A trip to Ketchikan this after
noon took A A. Olsen to Wrangell,
Stanley Reid to Petersburg, and
Charles Tuckett and Ben Benecke
TO Ketchikan.
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MANY PERSONS IN;
OUT JUNEAU TODAY

Passengers coming into Juneau
this morning from the Westward
are as follows: DR.. Evelyn Butler,
v. c. Bingham, L. M. Carrigan, T..
r. Curtis, Peter Kesovia, Martha
Lawrence, D. A. Noonan, Arthur E.
Vienola, Constance Noonan, Lucians
Cabegas, T. w. Peterson, A. D. West,
H. A. Wertz, Mrs. G. w. Alexander,
Mrs. Sig Krogstad, Jerome Krog-
stad, Axsel Hill and DR.. George
Dale.
Those leaving here were Mrs. w.
j. Walker, CLAUS L. LARSON, Rose
Schneider, Mrs. Alma l.. Clark,
Philip Clark, Charles Gamble, An
drew jackson, Max S. Rhode, Paul
A. Plass, Mrs. ]. Plass and infant,
Weston B. Jacob, Sam Asp, Lozav
Perisich, Lucille Stevens, George
Wilson, Harvery S. Welcome, Walter
E. Lollier and Ernest r. Boord.
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OF
ADM|IRAL5IN
CALIFORNIA
(By Associated Press

The meeting in San Francisco Of
the Nays triple threat to Japan,
Admirals w. Halsey, Chester W..
Nimitz and E. j. King, is looked
upon by military observers as hint
that when the European invasion
begins, Tokyo will be too busy to
listen to the radio.
The Navy said little about the
meeting except that it was held last
week.
Admiral Chester w. Ninitz of the
Pacific received a new decoration,
q second Distinguished Service
Medal for his sound Judgment and
masterful conduct" of operations in
1941 and 1912. 1t is signal honor
and the only others thus decorated
are Admiral Halsey, South Pacific
Commander, and General Thomas
Holcornb, of the Marine Corps, now
retired
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40 Billions
Is Requested
For Military

WASHINGTON, May 10.--Presi-
dent Roosevelt has asked Congress
for new appropriations for the Army
totaling $15,676, 1852 900, to bring the
total of contemplated expenditures
for military purposes up to 40 bill
lion dollars for the next fiscal year
The White House statement said,
estimates contemplate maintenance
and operation Of an Army Of 7,700,-
600 officers and men and women on
the offensive in a global war"
The statement explained that
there would be also available for the
fiscal year starting July /, a sum
of 33.607 900 900 in unobligated bal
ances in current appropriations.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-10

TURNS BACK
WARD PLANT
Yesterdays Election Won
by Union Company Re-
fused 10 Recognize

CHICAGO, May 10.-The imme-
date extension of the enforcement
of the 10 Union contract to the
Montgomery Ward Company, re-
leased from government control last
night, was asked by the Union in a
telegram to the War Labor Board.
The appeal to extend the expired
contract pending negotiation of the
new agreement followed yesterdays
collective bargaining election which
was won by the Union whose con-
troversy with the company led to
the federal seizure of the plant on
April g.
The action came as Sewell Avery
resumed control Is days after two
soldiers carried him out of the
building when he refused to comply
with the WLB directive and presi-
dental order to extend the contract.
Secretary of Commerce Jesse
Jones issued the ruling last night,
ending Federal possession of the
properties.
Avery said in an interview he
planned to walk back to his office
under his own power and expects to
find business declined probably from
80 to 40 percent" during the two
weeks the Government has been in
full operation of the plants.
THE Government representatives
have not done a thing while they
were in charge except couple of
them sat at my desk" said Avery.
I'VE will not submit to the closed
shop or countenance checkoff sys-
tenn for maintenance of union men,
bership."
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EIGHTH ARMY.
In pU RSUIT.
OF GERMANS
Have Captured Pdlena and
I Driving Along Back
bone Of Italy

CALLED HEADQUARTERS IN
NAPLES, May 10. = Still pursuing
the withdrawing Germans, the
Eighth Army troops have thrust a
wedge deep into enemy territory
along Italy's mountainous back
bone, and at last reports were driv-
ing directly toward the German
base at Sulmona.
Dispatches from the front indi-
Gated little or no opposition, al
though the Germans used extern
sive demolitions.
The communique announced that
Allied troops have entered Palena,
IL miles southeast of Sulmona,
which carried them nine miles for
ward.
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STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, May 10. Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau mine
stock today is SIS, Anaconda 25h,
Beech Aircraft 8as, Bethlehem Steel
58A, Curtiss Wright SIS, Interna-
tional Harvester 72h, Kennecott
30%, New York Central 17A, Nor
thern Pacific 15A, United States
Steel say.
Dow, Jones averages today are
as follows: industrials 1873, rails
1919, utilities 1888.
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PIERCE End
DEFEN5E5 OF
TOKYO NOW
Strong Nippon Reinforce
mems Repulsed-N
Trusts Predicted
lBy Associated Press

The enlightenment of 10000 Chi
nese troops in North China's Honan
Province is claimed by the Tokyo
radio, but Allied reports OF the
fighting fronts listed nothing but
Japanese reverses.
Dispatches from Loyang said that
a counterattack hurled the Japan
csc back across the VI River from
their strongest push toward that
gateway to Chungking. This left the
enemy spearhead seven miles south
of Loyang, and another invading
force was annihilated As miles
northeast of the city.
Chinese newsmen said that most
of the 10000 Chinese soldiers whom
Tokyo claimed to have trapped are
presumably east of the Peiping
Hankow Railway. Chungking re-
ported the Nipponese brought up
strong achievements in an effort
to crack the stubborn resistance and
to close the 14-mile gap in the road,
the only escape for the defending
: :.
,rz~.<a.,,,a<l -. poUa Two1
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BIG DRIVE
OF ALLIES
IN BURMA
Americans, British, Chin
csc Battling 10 Reopen
Land Route 10 China

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD
QUARTERS IN HANDY, Ceylon,
May 10.-Allied forces are operating
on three sides of Mogaung Valley
in northern Burma 1t is disclosed
for the first time and indicating the
determined Chinese British Amer
lean drive is in full swing to reopen
the land route to China.
Mountbatten's communique said
heavy casualties have been inflicted
on the Japs south of Mogaung.
Sharp blows have also been dealt
in the vicinity of Mawla where the
airborne Chinese have been operat-
ing since last March against the
Mandalay- Myitkyina railway.
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F0RRE5TALI5
NOMINATED,
NAVY HEAD

WASHINGTON, May 10.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt has nominated
James Forrestal as Secretary of the
Navy, succeeding the late Frank
Knox. He is 81 and has been I'm
dersecretary since 1910, and form
erly was a New York investment
banker and is Democrat.
Forrestal's advancement was. urg-
ed by many leading members OF
Congress, both Democrats and Re-
publicans.
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RENO DIVORCE
OF DORIS DUKE
DECLARED VOID

ELIZABETH, New Jersey, May 10.
-Chancery Court Advisory Master
Dougal Herr has found null and
void the Reno divorce decree OF
Doris Duke Cromwell and husband
James, former United States Min
lister to Canada, and ordered it set
aside. He challenged the 3lyear-old
heiress of her competence as mar
ried woman.
To select a residence outside the
State SO long as her husband stayed
in New Jersey was said to be an
element of fraud and it was CON
spicuous" of her to claim to be a
Reno resident.
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RUSSIANS
REPAIRING
5EvA5T0p0L

MOSCOW, May 10.-While the
smoke of battle still lay over Sc
vastopol, captured yesterday, squads
of Russian engineers entered the
city and tackled the job of repairing
the wrecked port.
The Red Star correspondent said
it was unbelievable the difficult
job of advancing single step in
the face of fire from 16-inch guns
which the Germans and Rumanians
used in defense of the city"
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rF|oodsin
Dawson Area

DAWSON, Y. T., May 10.-Fears
of flood conditions in this district
were generally expressed when U.
S. Army planes failed to break the
ice jam extending 10 miles into the
mouth of the Klondike river.
Jams are moving relentlessly
down Coffee and Stewart Greeks
toward the Klondike and may IN
crease the depth OF flood waters
which have covered sections here
since Saturday.
A reconnaissance plane flew over
Monday, followed by large plane
whose bombs were ineffective. The
bomber returned again Tuesday and
again failed to break the jam.
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Peter Gruening
Kept Relationship
Very Secret

GLENDALE, Calf, May TO-
In answering a routine question
aire, Peter b. Gruening, FL, AAF
Aviation Cadet, gave his home
address as Governors Mansion,
Juneau, Alaska"
Until this time, officials at
the Mira Iona Flight Academy,
where the youth had been train
ing for three weeks, did not
know he was the son Of Alaska's
Governor, said Hugh G. Nichol-
son, Training Director.
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ORIGINATOR OF
POPPY DAY dies

: ATHENS, Ca. May 10. = Miss
Molina Michael. originator of Poppy
Day in 1918 as a memorial to war
dead, a custom which has since
brought millions of dollars, chiefly
for the aid of disabled war veter-
ans, has died.
Miss Michael, who had been Ill
for several months, was member
of the University of Georgia facul-
ty for Is years.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-10
JIM KELLEY IN TOWN

Jim Kelley, Personnel Manager
for the Bates and Rogers Company,
is in town and registered at the
Baranof. He is here for the purpose
Of securing men for construction
work in Whitehorse and other areas.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-10
CLAUS LARSON IS
S0U1HB0UND TODAY

CLAUS LARSON, for years machin-
list with the Alaska Juneau Gold
Mining Company, well known fish
erman and conductor of salmon
derbies, is enroute South for medical
treatment He has been in st. AIMS
Hospital for several weeks and his
condition Improved to permit Of
travelling.
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CASE DISMISSED

CHICAGO, May 10.-F d r
Judge Holly announced this fore
noon he will not rule on the legal
ity of the Governments seizure OF
the Montgomery, Ward plants be-
cause of events which have tran
spired have apparently taken the
case out of my hands and dropped
the injunction proceedings and I
consider the case dismissed"
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MRS. MORRIS HERE
TO VISIT DAUGHTER

Mrs Nellie Morris, paymaster for
the Washington Athletic Club in
Seattle, arrived recently for visit
with her daughter and son-in-law,
Capt. and Mrs. John Hulberg at
their residence in the Russell Apart
ments.
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ARRIVALS FROM WEST

v. G. Bingham, of the Graybar
Electric Company, and T. r. Curtis,
a merchandise broker, have arrived
from the Westward ana are regist-
cred at the Gastineau Hotel.
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SHINES GOES SOUTH

Norman c. Shines, area repre-
sentative for Alaska of the War
Production Board, left today for
Seattle on business by PAA plane.
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INDIAN AFFAIRS NURSE
TRANSFERRED TO JUNEA

Transferring from Point Barrow,
Miss Myrtle Salisbury, nurse with
the Office of Indian Affairs, has ar
rived here for duty at the Govern
ment Hospital.
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DAY, NIGHT
RAIDS ARE
KEEPING up
Thunderous Pre-invdsion
Air Offensive Con-
tinues on Europe

BULLETIN-London, May 10.
Flying Fortresses and Liberia
tors based in Italy arched over
the Alps today and bombed the
Messerschmitt factory at Weiner
Neustadt, Austria, In the wake
Of what was probably the hard
est night pounding yet on Hit
ler's channel defenses from Bri-
fish bases.
A broadcast from Ankara said
Bucharest, Rumania was also
bombed.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-05-10

The automobile industry is turn
ing out more than million dol
lars worth of arms an hour.
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HERE FROM GUsTAvUs

Mrs. l.. G. Nevius, guest at the
Baranof, arrived in town yesterday
from Gustavus.
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LONDON, May 10. - Royal Air
Force bombers hammered both
Paris and Berlin last night and to-
day the German radio said daylight
raiders are bearing down on the
European fortress for the Doth Gay
of the thunderous preinvasion air
offensive.
Heavy bombers concentrated on
military and industrial detectives
including the aircraft and foundry
plant in the suburbs Of Paris.
Swift Mosquitoes unloaded u.sns
twc-ton blockbusters on Berlin
which is still snoulderins trcm tire
American attacks on Sunday and
Monday.
The Raj lost seven planes dur
ing the attack.
Lancasters bombed the ballbear
ing factory at Annecy near the
French-Italian border.
American Marauders and Thun-
derbolts dive bombed and strafed
the railyards and airfields in
France and Belgium today
The German radio said fierce
battles are raging over the eastern
Alps, possibly heralding another
blow by Mediterranean planes on
Austrian targets.
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FRANKFURTER DIssENTs

You won't get any one on the
Supreme Court to talk about it, but
Justice Felix Frankfurter is in the
DOLLHOUSE with Chief Justice Stone
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Some progress have been made in
curtailing the black marketeers. but
not much Steps are being taken to
eliminate the counterfeiting of RAJ
ton coupons. Enforcement author
tiles are working on black market
rings all over the country. All this
helps, but just as in Prohibition, no
great strides can be made without
the cooperation of the public.
I am assured that there is no plan
whatever now for giving relief to