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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
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 BLASTED BY YANkpLANE5
Enemy Airbdses Pounded as Weather CurfaiIs
 Ground Operations

GENERAL MacARTHUR' HEAD QUARTERS IN THE PHILIPPINES, Nov. 28. American Leyte-based planes dropped 235 tor of bombs on Japanese airdromes at cepu, Negros and Davao, Friday, MacArthur's communique said. Thirty Jap planes rose to intercept the American flight, but eight were downed.
 Terrific rains brought ground fighting to standstill on the Ormoc corridor, and no American advances were reported. The weather also curtailed aerial activity over Leyte Sunday.
 Four attacking Japanese planes were downed, in addition to the eight bagged, on American assaults against other Philippine targets.
 B-24 Liberators. escorted by Light ming fighters, poun d e d Japanese Cebu, Negros and Minandao air dromes, aircraft facilities, bivouacs and supply areas. They also hit six enemy barges and destroyed an- other in strikes at Palawan, Celebes and Halmahera.
 Japanese planes again raided Morotai Island at night. Four at- tackers were downed by fighters and antiaircraft.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON Ct. Col Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.)

WASHINGTON-Bitter Brothers in-law. The busting of Dr. H. H. Kung as Chinese Minister of Fin ance was victory for Foreign Minister T. V. Soong. Both are brothers-in-law of Chiang Kali shek, both for a time were sta- toned in the United States, but scarcely spoke to each other. Even Madame Chiang, when she came here last year, saw her brother, T. V. Soong, only briefly. But smart T. V. Soong returned to China, got back in the good graces of brother in-law Chiang, while his sister, the Generalissimo's wife, now not in her husbands good graces, departed :. Such is Chinese politics.
 It. Gen. Mark Clark's daughter Ann sent a letter to her papa in Italy the other day addressed in a unique way She merely drew her fathers profile on the envelope under the word "To". Under the picture of her Dad, she wrote the word At" and then drew the Fifth Army shield. There was no name or address, but the letter reached Gen. Clark pronto. Bete nOir Sidney Hillman, who sent shivers
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
LOCAL FILIPINO
 GROUP REFLECT
 BELARDE AS HEAD

At a meeting held in the Nor thern Hotel Sunday night, the Fili- pino Community of Juneau held their annual election of officers and made first plans for the an- nual Rizal Day celebration.
 Eddie Belarde was reelected president; s. Constantine, vice. president: Fred Fulgencio, secre- tary; B. Sammy Samaniego, treasurer; Mac Curpos and Sammy Buejada, sergeants at arms; Dan Tucson, Pete Terencio and Fur tunato (Bata) Fulgencio, auditors.
 The Community will celebrate Rizal Day on December 30. B. Samaniego was named general chairman for the affair, and D. M Sarabia, vice-chairman.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
ALLIED PUSH ON COLOGNE IS UNDERWAY
Canadians Don'f Want 10 Fiqhf; Make Demand They
 Be Sent Back 10 Homes

VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 28.-- A dispatch reaching Vancouver from Prince Rupert, on the Northern Brit ish Columbia coast, said soldiers carrying rifles were demonstrating south of Terrace, where draftees are staging a "sitdown' strike while awaiting a reply from Army Head quarters at Ottawa to the demand they be returned to their Quebec homes.
 It is known that at least three regiments are stationed at Terrace, two English speaking units from Prince Edward Island and Saskat- chewan and the other a French Canadian unit from Quebec.
 There is no definite report on general demonstrations but the Que bee outfit has demonstrated. the correspondent said, but no damage has been done,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
SNOW SLOWS DOWN ACTION AT BUDAPEST

MOSCOW, Nov. 28.-The heaviest snowfall of the year, following a severe sleet storm, has slowed down action in the battle at Budapest.
 The German and Hungarian troops are occupying the defense positions along 20-mile curve from the southern limits of Budapest to the rail junction at Aszod.
 No report is made on the northern front but the Soviet war bulletin, however, reported the capture of fifty additional hamlets in the pup pet State of Slovakia.
 The Soviet forces have crossed the 2,7O0-foot Carpathian Moun- tains along the Polish frontier and other units in the south advanced to within II miles of the big Hun garian rail center of Satoraljaujhely.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28

Allen Shattuck, above, Juneau insurance and real estate broker, veteran of 15 years in the Terri torial Legisls-rre, announced his candidacy today TOT the Territorial Senate in the special election to be held December 27.
 A resident of Alaska for AT years, Shattuck has served in four previous sessions of the Legisla- ture-two times in the House of Representatives and twice in the Senate.
 In previous sessions, Shattuck be- came known for his service in matters pertaining to the Terri tory's finances, serving either as a member of the House Ways and Means Cenlnittass or the Senatf Finance Committee
 He was president of the Senate in the 1933 session.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
ARMY TRANSp0RT
 PLANE IS FOUND;
 WRECKED ON PEAK
Searching Party Reaches Scene in Mount Mo-
 KinIey Section

HEADQUARTERS, ALASKA N DEPARTMENT, Nov. 23-Hardened Army and civilian mountain climb CTS who reached the point where the C-47 Air Transport plane crashed on an unnamed 12,160-foo. peak some time ago in the Mount Mckinley section, found no trace of the l9 passengers and crew-men aboard the big ship.
 The transport had broken apart, rolled and tumbled approximately 1,500 feet down the precipitious, icy slopes.
 One motor was found at the point of impact, a wing and part of the broken fuselage far below under 10 feet of snow.
 The searchers reported that with out doubt all aboard the transport most of them servicemen on their way to the states-were instantly killed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
RAIDS MADE ON GERMANY
 ATpREDAWN
Supply, Rail Centers Blast ed = Great Fighter
 Battle Fought

LONDON, Nov. 23-At least 1000 Royal Air Force heavy bombers, in pre-dawn raids today, hurled some 4,000 tons of explosives on Mouse and Freiburg, German supply cen ters just back of the western front as the sustained 72-hour assault on the Nazi front line rail supply centers continued
 Freiburg lies behind Mulhouse in the Klomar sector where the French First Army and American Seventh Army are pressing up to the western bank of the Rhine.
 American heavy bombers at tackled the German rail movements at Offenburg, north of Freiburg, and Mosquitoes raided Berlin last night and also NeuSs, then as far north as the Dusseldorf area where the railroad junction is located, and where also the British Second Army and American First and Ninth are engaged.
 American fighter pilots downed 98 German planes yesterday in the greatest all-fighter battle of the war Another four planes were destroyed on the ground, bringing the kills in 24 hours to PIP. Thir- teen American fighters and one bomber are missing from yester- days operations.
 The fighter plane battle involved Sonic ouC MusCangs agallIsC more than 400 German Focke Wulfs and Messerschmits and occurred while the Americans were strafing air. ports and military transport cen- ters in northwest Germany.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
ARE "MUTINEERS"

VANCOUVER, B. O., Nov. 28-- French-Canadian draftee troops sta- tioned at Terrace, B. C., who have demonstrated for three days against conscription for foreign service are termed 'mutineers" by the Army spokesman and their pay allowances have been stopped and will continue so unless they take orders from of ficerS.
 The demonstrations at Terrace, the largest of half dozen in British Columbia over the weekend, was participated in by an estimated 1000 to 1.500 men. They paraded, then went on a "sitdown."
 The grievances of the men, boiled down, is the fact they just don't want to go overseas said an Army Fl. fff-y s-.st s-.-s-t q.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
NEW NURSE ARRIyEs

Kathryn Acker, newly-appointed Public Health Nurse of the Terri torial Health Department, has ar rived in Juneau. Previous to her appointment, she was a Field Nurse for the State Crippled Childrens' Service in Columbia, Missouri. She will be in Juneau for a short period of orientation before being placed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
BETA SIGMA PHI TO
 0pERAIE BOND BOOTH

Members of the Beta Sigma Phi sorority will be in charge of the bond booth in the Baranof lobby from to 10 o'clock every evening throughout the drive, it has been announced. This is the same booth used by the Girls Scouts during the afternoons.
 Sorority members are also helping to staff the bond booth which has been erected in the Capitol Theatre.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
YARKON RITES

Funeral services for Jacob Yarkou will be held Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Russian Orthodox Church instead of at the family residence. as previously announced
 Pallbearers will be Jimmy Han son, Johnny Jackson, John James, Tom Bowman, Jack Gamble and Edward KunZ
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
LOUISE KEMPER ARRIVES

Louise Kemper, formerly of the Forest Service at Juneau, has ar rived from Seattle where she has been employed for the past two years by the Alaska Spruce Log Program. She plans to remain in Juneau for the next month on a temporary assignment before re- turning to Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
DOCTORS BACK

Dr. George A. Dale, Acting Di- rector of Education, and Dr. Evelyn I. Butler, have returned from a months trip to Seattle and vicinity, where they have been on official business.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
TONGASS IN PORT

The Tongass arrived in port last night with freight for Juneau and the following passengers booked for discharge at Haines:: Mrs Louise J. Hamilton, Bonny Hamil- ton, Louan Hamilton, Mrs. D. A Hamilton, Lorraine Hamilton and Darrold A. Hamilton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
REAR ADMIRAL HERE

Rear Admiral Ralph Wood, Com mandant of the 17th Naval Dis trict, has been visiting Juneau for the past several days. He arrived here via Naval bomber Saturday afternoon. registering at the Bar anof Hotel, and left the city to- day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
DIVORCE ACTIONS

Actions for divorce have been filed in the Federal Court by Jessie w. Blankenship, charging Anola J. Blankenship with deser- tion, and Kenneth D. Greenlee vs. Merola Greenlee, incompatibility.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
PHILLIPS ILL TODAY

A. B Phillips, Superintendent of Juneau Public Schools, is con- fined to his home today with a severe chest cold.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
ENGsTRoM TO VISIT

Elton E. Engstrom plans to leave this afternoon for Wrangell, where he will visit for few days with his father, Adolph Engstrom and his brother, Linpie.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
CALIFORNIA PEOPLE

MT. and Mrs. D. J. Shoemaker are in Juneau from Alameda, Cali
 fornja, and are staying at the
 Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
MARIN TO sKAGwAY

John Marin, proprietor of the Derby Inn at Skagway, left last night on the Princess Norah after brief business trip here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
SIX LEAVE VIA PAA

Six passengers left for Seattle today via PAA, as follows: Patricia Muir, Joseph H. Sadlier, Russell Swank, Emelyne, La Roche, Julius La Melle, and Jess Blankenship.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
MRS. HENDRICKsoN RETURNS

Mrs. Evelyn Hendrickson, who has been south for several weeks, has returned to her Juneau home.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
ALASKA COASTAL CARRIES TWELVE
 FARES h0NDh1

Alaska Coastal Airlines carried l2 passengers yesterday, flying the following to Sitka: w. Tierney. Earl Forsythe.
 Sitka to Juneau-Mr and Mrs. Nick Pelago, Mrs. Rex Manehart, Rex Manehart, Harold Bates, Lynn Gemmill.
 Juneau to Hawk Inlet Fred Jacobsen.
 Juneau to Petersburg-Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Calp.
 Petersburg to Juneau-Kenneth Bell.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
sEATTLEITE HERE

John H. Gilbert of Seattle | registered at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
BISHOPS HERE

MT. and Mrs. G. E. Bishop and daughter are here from Whitehorse and are registered at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
VAUDEVILLE TO
 BE PRESENTED
 FOR TWO SHOWS

The Annual All-School Vaudeville of the Juneau Public Schools will be presented this week.
 The 12 acts. II from the high school and one from the second grade, will be presented Thursday afternoon at a student matinee and Friday night in the high school gym nasium at 8 o'clock for the public.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28

George Folta, counsellor for the Interior Department, has returned to Juneau after attending the h. dian hearing in Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28

GUEST FROM STEWART, B. c.
 Mrs. Charles Knipple, from Stew art, British Columbia, is staying at the Gastineau Hotel while in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28


 LONDON, Nov. 28. = The Ameri- cans. on the drenched Cologne plain today reached the Roer River and drove up to within one mile of the intricate German defenses along the flooded stream while infantry of tlle Third Army advanced to within 10 miles of Saarbrucken, the arsenal capital of the Saar.
 Surging forward in the pre-dawn blackness, First Army infantry of Lieut.. Gen. Courtney Hodges fought in the streets of Inden Jugersdorf and, close to Lamersdorf, the United Stasezs EtssatS Army reached the Roer at Kirchberg, B miles from Cologne. Less than one mile away. across the muddy Roer, lies Julich
 A French broadcast asserted French units of the Seventh Army crossed the Rhine north of Stras- bourg. There was no confirmation.
 Approach Saarbrucken
 l lit litdiSot l iiu0 Aliiy hPPiot>A to Saarbrucken, the sprawling steel and coal center. was at captured Seingbousse. To the Southwest, First Army troops won two-thirds of Langerwehe, the last important enemy communication point west of the Roer River German defenses. That village is five miles from Du- ren, which appeared to be breaking up as planes attacked the eastern exits while infantry fought through the town.
 Other men of the First Army fought in the streets of Grosshau and for the last third of the forest battlefield town of Hurtgen.
 Attack By Planes
 Fairly clear skies allowed planes to attack tanks and artillery po- Esitions all along the critical 18-mile front before Cologne. Between Lin- mich and Duren they struck farther back on the Cologne plain. shooting up trains and fortified hoases. The town pier was set on fire.
 The battle aim of Gen. Ike Eisen- hover is the destruction of the Ger man Army. His counterpart. Gen. von Rundstedt, is forced to commit new reserves in the past "A hours. Probably eight or nine tank divisions are bracing the enemy lines in this sector below Strasbourg.
 The Seventh and the French First armies are consolidating for clean ing out the Vosges Mountains and the Alsace plain.
 Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army advanced from two to four miles more, broadening it's battle po- sitions to close to the German from tier.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
FROM FAIRBANKS

Steve Inimel of Fairbanks is reg
 istered at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-28
BIG THRUST OVER PLAIN
 IS STARTED
Armies Reath Banks of Muddy Flooded Roer Riv-
 er-MOve on Arsenal

BULLETIN = LONDON, Nov. 28.-The Third Army of dough- boys have thrust to within eight and one-half miles or Saar- brucken while their comrades in the north reached the ROer Riv- CT and punched deeper into the defenses guarding Cologne. Other Third Army units cut into Germany at a new point along the seven- mile front, thrusting to within three and one-half miles of Saarlautern.
 This fresh invasion gave Pat toms men 26-miIe front inside the Reich and control of more than 46 square miles of Ger many. The German radio an- nounced wholesale retreats both north and south of Strasbourg.
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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-10
Germany's S. Forces
To Fight Partisans

BERN, Switzerland, July 9.-tRl
German SIS elite troops have
been placed in charge of the cam.
paign against French Partisans to
release units of the regular army
for frontline duty, it was reliably
reported today after tour of the
front by the new German com.
mander in France, Field Marshal
Guenther Won Kluge.
Informants in France said the
SIS with at least 5000 Gestapo men
added during the past three weeks,
won considerable strength after
the retirement of Field Marshal
Gen. Karl Rudolf Gerd Won Rund-
stedt, and that terrorism would be
Increased sharply.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel,
who won over Eundstedt, is re-
ported under the check of Kluge to
the extent that his decisions must
be approved by the commander
in-chief before they are executed.
This represents a small victory
for old army men over those who
have risen under the Nazi ban.
ner.
Kluge, after an inspection OF the
front, was reported to have ap.
proved continuing the present stra.
tegy but is said to have demand
ed more armered divisions and
more aircraft for the Normandy
front.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-10

DOMESTIC AIR
OPERATIONS Up

WASHINGTON, July 9.-tR---
Domestic airline operations in the
first six months of this year were
estimated today to be considerably
greater in payload-miles than for
the first half of 1912, which was
the last period when the compa-
MES had full fleets of aircraft.
The airlines operated about two
thirds as many planes during the
first half of this year as they I'd
in the comparable 1912 period, but
they flew them a third more on
the average and with near capaci.
ty loads.
Col Edgar S. Gorrell, president
of the Air Transport association,
estimated revenue passenger miles
for the period ending June 30 at
100000, 900, compared with 1885,
341,450 and 6,646, 588 in the re-
spective 1943 and 1912 periods.
He placed mail pound-miles at
Al, 572, 10000 an increase of 80
per cent over year ago, and 23O
per cent over the 1912 period, and
express pound-miles at 1921
O0O,O 900, an increase of and Sc
per cent, respectively.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-10
GERMAN OFFICERS
SHOW DEFEATISM

MOSCOW, July g. Up - Unmis
taxable signs of despair and de-
featism have developed among
German officers on the eastern
front, and on this 18th day of the
massive Red army summer Of
fensive they faced a growing and
for them - horrible spectre of
angry Russians moving ever for
ward upon Poland and upon the
Reich itself.
Pressing on the Soviet Baltic re-
publics, the Red army is only about
100 miles from east Prussia and
240 miles from Germany proper.
Every German officer and soldier
knows that the Russians sped from
Orsha to Wilno-21O miles-in that
II days. BY a process of simple
arithmetic that even fanatical
Nazi can understand, the implica-
tons are clear if the Russians
maintain the momentum in tae
next II days.
ALREADY, llefce Ightlng RACES to-
day near Baranowicze, which is as
close to Berlin as it is to Moscow.
(The Germans have acknowledged
evacuating the town.
Nazi arithmetic also permits the
German officers and men to count
to ten-the number of German gen.
erals wao have been captured dur
ing the first II days.
No longer arrogant and mouth
ing Nazi propaganda, captured
Nazi officers display a marked de-
parture from the hard models of
former Russian campaigns. Now
they seem quiet and depressed.
Many, even including the captured
generals, are admitting freely that
Hitler will lose the war.
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Pouerty-Stricken France
Will Welcome lnuaders

scene will change vastly Instead
of lush pasture land and orchards
of cherry, plum and apple trees
groaning under the weight of fruit,
smiling villages and neat towns,
they will find mean streets and
novels, especially in the industrial
zones. Here the children have pa
thetically spindly legs and arms,
young women are prematurely
aged, and during the past four
years everyone has just barely
managed to keep body and soul
together. AS the Yanks move farth-
er on, their welcome will assuredly
be warmer than most of the Nor.
mandy peasants who probably re.
scented the destruction brought by
war. They will be received with
open arms by people who not only
were despoiled Of everything, but
underwent untold foundations and
cruelties at the hands of the in.
vader.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-10
Texas Captain huasion Spearhead;
First Division Officer Led CHARGE

of New Jersey. Major Wash.
ington was on a crossroads OUT
side of Colleville. Joe said. He
stayed right there getting re-
Inducements up to us, feeding
us men and supplies to hold on
with, and he was all alone in
that hotspot." Lieutenant Karis
was one Of the officers who kept
fighting all night.
Three fighters with Dawson,
1t. Kenneth Bleau, of lion, N.
Y; Sgt. Stephen Sternik, Of
Johnson City, N. Y. and Sgt.
Frank Baldridge, of Quitman,
Ark, were credited with total
Of some 100 Germans during
the battle.
"We captured and killed a
lot more Germans than we had
in our outfit" Bleau said.
Bleau came into Colleville
with only 10 men. They grimly
held on in a courtyard which
the Germans repeatedly tried
to storm.
When endorsements moved
up in strength on the second
day. Dawson and his men still
were holding on in Colleville.
Then Joe's leg began to get
stiff, and he was carted off to
a hospital in northern Eng
land. X-rays showed he had
suffered only a superficial
wound. But although Joe de-
clared he was all right, a doc
tor insisted that he stay there.
So the next day Joe. got up
and left. He hitch hiked his
way to a port, and an old friend
helped him get back to the
beachhead. Meantime, the hos
pital sent out frantic calls for
the missing patient.
Now he is in the front lines,
commanding the mel he led
across the beaches on D-Day.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-07-10
By DON WHITEHEAD

WITH THE FIRST DIVISION
IN FRANCE, July 2.-Delay-
edD- R - When the history
books are written about the
great invasion of France, you
may never read of Joe Dawson.
But no history will be complete
without him. Thirty years old.
Joe is a black-haired, lean-fac-
ed captain from Waco, Tex, a
former oil region geologist.
Commanding Company G of
the fighting First Division, Joe
led the first unit to come off
the beach that bloody morning
of June 6. He was that one lone
man out in front of the tens
of thousands of doughboys
poured into Normandy.
Joe and his men faced muir
derous fire to open an assault
on Germans hidden in trench
es, pillboxes and concrete and
steel blockhouses.
Here's what that means:
When the doughboys hit the
beach on 'D-Day, the Germans
in strong positions poured di-
rect fire onto the beach with
machineguns. rifles, mortars
and artillery. The Yanks had
landed from a heavy sea, cross
ing mined log and steel bar
riers.
Shore gravel rose sharply
from the waters edge offer
ing slight cover, and be-
hind that embankment thou
sands of troops lay pinned to
the beach.
Joe's commanding officer
quickly assessed the situation.
"Gentlemen," he said, 1--WE are
being killed on the beach -
let's 60 inland and be killed"
So at the head of his COM
pany, Joe walked straight into
an enemy minefield and across