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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-08-17
SIX FLIGHTS TODAY
FOR ALASKA COASTAL

An Alaskan Coastal plane, flying
to Sitka today, carried Shirley Tin
nell, Jane Richard, and E. Ander-
son to that city and Isafi Perito
to Hawk Inlet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Syre, M. Olsen, and
Mrs. Schoonover and two children
were passengers today for Excursion
Inlet.
A flight to Hasselburg carried
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Martin, Mr..
and Mrs. N. B. Foss, Borghild and
Diana Hunsbedt to that point.
Mrs. Pryor, Larry Higgins, Al
Lubcke, and Cpl. Ausmus were pas
sengers today on the Skagway trip.
Mrs. Pryor disembarked at Haines.
In from Todd this afternoon,
were Oscar Bergseth, j. H. Hun
sen, A. R. Wolf, and Nick Bee.
A flight to Taku took Paul Tay-
lor, C. A. Huntley, A. A. Gray, r.
S. Manhardt and j. V. Tippets to
that point
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0pA EXECUTIVES
SPEAKER TODAY
AT CHAMBER meet

James P. Davis, Regional Director
for the Office of Price Administra-
ton, was guest speaker at the
Chamber of Commerce meeting this
noon in the Gold Room of the Bar
anof Hotel, stressing the Importance
of the office in preventing infla-
ton
He said the opinion OF those in
the Washington OPA headquarters
is that the office must be continued
after the war until such time as
normal national economy returns,
pointing out that the most serious
initiation threats are to be COM
batted after the war ends.
Davis said that the reason there
is no rationing in Alaska is that
the amount of goods consumed COM
pared to the national supply would
make such a system not worth
while.
He said he is happy to note that
the OPA has been accepted in AL
aska and that there have been no
serious differences.
President Homer Garvin was well
coined back after a trip to Seattle
and Portland, and spoke briefly on
his trip.
Tom Dyer gave report on the
recent hearing in Juneau before the
congressional party on the air trans
portation problems in this area.
Guests included the Rev. Ben F.
Judd, Jr., of the Presbyterian
Church at Wrangell D. j. O'Con-
nor, OPA price executive with the
Juneau office; L. NJ Hagen of the
Standard Oil of California, Alaska
superintendent; Mayor Fred c. Han
ford of Wrangell; Dian Mukerji of
Pan american Always Seattle Of
flee; E. A. Anderson, Seattle banker;
Ensign Milton Weiner, U. S. Coast
Guard, Ketchikan; DR.. j. P. Ander-
son, professor of botany from Ames,
Iowa, who has been in Alaska col
lecting plant specimens this summer.
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MANDER5' SON
IS DECORATED
p0STKUM0USLY
Alaskan FamiIy's Kin Div
ed His Bomber Into
Jap Ship

John E. Manders of Anchorage,
Republican candidate for Delegate
to Congress, was notified in a
telephone call here last night from
San Francisco that his son, Capt.
Jack Manders, who lost his life in
action last January, has been
awarded the Distinguished Service
Cross and the Distinguished Flying
Cross.
Captain Manders, pilot in the U.
S. Air Forces, was killed January
80 when he crashed his crippled
Mitchell bomber into a Jap
freighter at Hansa Bay, northeast
of New Guinea, destroying the
freighter.
Captain Manders. according to
Associated Press war correspondent
Asahel Bush, was pilot of the first
bomber to raid the Jap stronghold
of Rabaul. On later raid he re-
ceived two bursts of machine gun
fire in his pilot compartment,
wounding his navigator and radio
man and shooting out the by
draulic gear of the plane, but on
the way back to base he caught
nine Jap planes refueling on the
ground at a Jap base, destroying
four a wrecking three more.
He was a veteran of 80 missions
and was operations officer for the
famous Blue Panther" outfit.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-08-17
FLOWER SHOW
ON TOMORROW;
TEAT0BE SERVED

Prize blossoms from gardens all
over Juneau will go under the knife
tonight in preparation for the an
nual flower show and silver tea
of the Juneau Garden Club, sched-
uled for tomorrow afternoon in
the Scottish Rite Temple.
All Garden Club members are
contributing flowers for the affair.
While showings will not be COM
petitive, floral arrangements of all
kinds will be on display and the
bouquets will be sold during the
afternoon.
Tea will be served during the
hours of the display, beginning at
2 p. m. until 6 p. m. and in the
evening from 7 p. m. to 9 p. m.
Mrs. M. D. Williams, president
of the Garden Club, today an
nounced the names of those who
will preside at the tea table. These
include Mrs. Wellman Holbrook,
Mrs. G. E. Rice, Mrs. Ernest Gruen-
ing, Mrs. r. H. Williams, Mrs.
Willis Booth, Mrs. Robert Treat,
Mrs. j. J. Connors, Mrs. Walter
Sharpe, Mrs. H. L. Faulkner, Mrs.
Ted Carter, Mrs George Alexander,
Mrs. Tom Petrich and Mrs. Robert
Simpson.
A musical program featuring
duets by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest En-
lers and songs by Mrs. Alexander,
will be presented at 4;30 p. m. and
7:30 p. m.
Tea committee chairmen include
Mrs. B. D. Stewart, Mrs. Earl Nc
Ginty, Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. Flor
inc Housed, Mrs Harold Smith, and
Mrs. L. H. Clark.
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quarters, is comforting with DR.. E.
w. Norris and DR.. G. G. Carter on
the possibility of using hospitals at
Skagway and Excursion Inlet in the
new tuberculosis Program.
Due to the fact that these build
lngs were constructed for temper
airy use only, they will be expensive
to maintain. Whether it will be
better to build new hospitals or
merely reconvert the structures now
standing has not yet been decided,
DR.. McGibony reports.
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United Air Lines Mainliners
recently completed record Of
$1,000 flights over the famous
Main Line Airway between
Pacific Coast cities and New
York. First to blaze a direct
transcontinental route from
Seattle, Vancouver, B. c., and
other coast ports, first to pio-
neer air service from Seattle to
San Diego, United has achieved
an unmatched goal Of ITS mil
lion miles flying experience.
We're looking ahead. Through
an application recently filed with
the Civil Aeronautics Board,
United seeks authority to offer
the Territory Of Alaska the adj
vantages Of Mainliner Service.
If its application is granted,
Anchorage, Yakutat, Juneau and
Ketchikan will have through
service to Seattle thence
south and eastward over
United's nationwide system. AT
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Western Defense Command in Sep
TENDER, 1943, and assumed Com
mand of the Alaskan Department
on June 81.
Since the beginning of the war,
General Emmons has visited the
South Pacific, England, North Af-
RIGA, South America, Alaska and
the Aleutians. He was in Tunisia
at the time of the Sicilian invasion.
His wife and daughter, Deloise
Ann, make their home in San
Francisco. He is an Episcopalian,
and was born at Huntington, West
Virginia, January II, 1888. Cen
eral Emmons is a graduate of the
United States Army Air Service
course. Harvard University, 1920
81, Air Corps Tactical School, 1882,
and Command and General Staff
School, 1884
Brig. Gen. Robert Mike Bathurst,
who came here as General En-
mons Chief of Staff, served with
him in Hawaii and with the West
ern Defense Command. Born at
Huntington, Pennsylvania, August
%, 1898, and reared in Williams
port, Pennsylvania, he was grad
uated from the United States Mill
tary Academy in 1917 and served
in France during World War 1
with the Third Field Artillery. He
was promoted to Brigadier General
last Nav 81
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LAST Rites TODAY
FOR ANTOINE STRAND

Funeral services for Ante e
Strand, 74-year-old fisherman who
was found dead on Monday on the
Dupont trail, were held today in
the Chapel of the Charles w. Car
ter Mortuary. The Rev. w. G..
LIE Vasseur read the service. In
terment was in the Pioneers Plot
in Evergreen Cemetery.
Pallbearers were John Reck, Bert
Mcdowell, Tom Diell, Carl Edison,
Henry Tamma, and w. o. Carlson.
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GEN. EMM0NS
IN COMMAND,
ALASKA Dept.
Air Corps Veteran Is An
nounCed as Successor
10 Gen. BuCkner
Continued from Page One

during the last war, he reverted to
his permanent grade of Captain on
February %, 1920, and then was
promoted through grades to the
rank of Brigadier General in 1886.
General Emmons became Com
mander of the First Wing, Cen
eral Headquarters Air Force in
1886 and in 1889 took over Com
mand of General Headquarters Air
Force, later renamed Air Force
Combat Command.
Promoted to Major General in
1889 and to Lieut. General in 1910,
he was appointed to command the
Hawaiian Department on Deem
Der II, 1871, just 10 days after the
bombing of Pearl Harbor. He be-
came Commanding General Of the
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Anchorage, United's key east
west route would serve the net
work centering there from the
West, South and North; at
Juneau, the lines from the West
and North.
Today, United's objective is
to do its share in a tremendous
war job. In addition to conduct
ing its Coast-to-Coast and Bor-,
der-to-Border domestic airmail-
passenger-express services,
United personnel, flying for the
Air Transport Command, have
operated hundreds Of flights
from the U. S. to Alaska.
In postwar days, expanding
Alaska and the West will need
more and faster air transporta-
ton. United is therefore look
ing to the future, preparing yet
finer Mainliner service with
which we hope to serve the
Territory of Alaska.
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EIGHT OUT VIA PAA

Outgoing passengers, via Par
American World Always, today
were as follows: Doreen Wood, Mrs
Maurice Butler and baby, Lisle He
bert, and Frank Marshall to Fair
banks, and Wilfred Femley, Dor
othy Femely and infant Femley
to Whitehorse.
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today as Commander of the Alaskan
Department, succeeds 1t Gen
Simon B. Buckner, Jr. Emmons
has been serving as Commander
since June 81.
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DOCTORS. (0NFERRING
ON HOSPITALS FOR
Use IN TB PROGRAM

DR.. j. r. McGibony, Director of
Health for the Office of Indian
Affairs who arrived here several
days ago from his Chicago head
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TWO FOR ANCHORAGE

L. E. Kennedy and F. L. Duncan
were passengers on an Alaska Air
liner leaving Juneau late yester-
day for Anchorage Mcdonald and
Silver piloted the ship.
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POLICE COURT FINES

The following were fined today
in City Police Court: Jack M. Jor-
dan, S25, drunk and disorderly;
Jacob w. Sorri, S25. disorderly con-
duct.
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TUNDRA IN WITH CARGO

The Tundra has arrived in port
with 1000 pounds of halibut anc
$4,000 pounds of sable, purchased
by E. E. Engstrom.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-08-17

The Wisconsin State Historical
Library at the University of Wis
consin is said to be the largest of
its kind in the United States.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-08-17

SUCCEEDS BUCKNER
HEADQUARTERS, ALASK KAN
DEPARTMENT, Aug. 17.-Lt. Gen.
Delos Carleton Emmons, announced
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-31
Japan Releases
Soviet Rights
On Goa! and Oil

MOSCOW, March 81. (UP)-Jap-
anese oil and coal concessions in
the Soviet half OF Sakhalin island
off eastern Siberia were cancelled
by an agreement between Russia
and Japan concluded Thursday,
it was announced today.
At the same time the act giving
Japan fishing rights off eastern
Russian were extended for five years
in the negotiations between AM
bassador Naotaka Sato and S. A.
Lozovsky. representing the Soviet
foreign comrniSSariat
(Tokyo radio, in a broadcast heard
by United Press at San Francisco,
said that under the agreement Rus
sia was to deliver to Japan $4,000
metric tons of oil each year and for
five years after the war
In addition, the broadcast said
Russia was to pay Japan five mil
lion rubles lin accordance with stip-
ulation of terms" These provisions
Continued on page s, col. 81
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U. S. Plane Shot
Down by Error;
Six Crewmen Die

WASHINGTON, March 81. CUP
British carrier fighter planes, pro-
tecting an Allied Atlantic convoy,
shot down an American transport
plane by mistake this week and its
crew of six men was lost, the war
department and the British ad-
miralty announced Friday.
The plane was four-engined
C-54 operated by the U. S. army
air forces air transport command.
1t was flown by a civilian contract
crew.
The plane carried cargo but no
passengers.
Fighters protecting the convoy
attaked the C-54 in the vicinity of
the convoy route when, according
to reports, Identification was not
established the announcement
said. Evidently the fighters mis-
took the C-54 for a German four
motored bomber. the Focke-Wulf
ZOO"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-31
Go Union Chief
Faces Indictment

NEW YORK, March 81. CUP) -
Thomas De Lorenzo, president of
the Brewster Aeronautical corpC-
ration local of the United Automo-
bile Workers Union, (CIO) was in
dicted b. federal grand jury Fri
day on a charge of making false
statements in an appliction to the
United States civil service ccmmis-
sion for appointment as a labor
panel member of the war labor
board.
De Lorenzo was charged last year
with responsibility for labor trou-
bles which seriously curtailed the
production of navy fighter planes
at Brewster plants in townsville,
Pa, and Farminedale, N. Y.
The 35-year- -old, Brooklyn-born
labor leader admitted to a house
naval affairs subcommittee in No.
vember that he had cnce said our
policy is not to win the war at any
cost. 1t is to win without sacrifice
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-31
Sow lets
Push
On West
Press Naziis'
Defense in
Carpathians
MOSCOW, Mar. 81. CUP

MOSCOW, Mar. 81. (UP)
Russian advance guards
have pushed high up in the
Carpathians within sight of Hun
gary and have entered the ap-
proaches of the strategic mountain
passes guarding the border region,
front dispatches reported Friday
The vanguard of Marshal Greg
ory K. Zhukov'S first army of the
Ukraine raced southWestward from
captured Delyatin. Is miles short of
Hungary's Carpatho-Uk for
merly the eastern tip of Czechoslo-
vakia, in a bid to seize the noun
tain passes before the Germans
could plug them.
OPEN FLANKING MOVE
Zhukov sent other striking forces
down from captured Cernauti to
the Seret river, from which the
whole. German position in Ruma-
MIA east of the Carpathians can be
flanked.
Rumania acknowledged the war
was at her Threshold by issuing
its first supreme command COM
munique in two years which re-
ported the fall of Cernauti, the
Russian crossing of the upper Prut
and "fluctuating fighting in Bes-
sarabia.
The Nazi party organ VoelkiScher
Beobachter said streams of refug-
ees are fleeing from threatened
districts in Bessarabia, Bucovina
ano Moldavia into Rumania."
SEEK NEW RESISTANCE
Ankara advices said a group OF
Hungarian officers had fled west
ward from Budapest to gather SOL
! diers and organize resiStanceagainst
the Germans.
Soviet dispatches said the Rus
slams crossed the upper Prut in a
tWo-day battle that cost the Ger
mans extremely heavily after Red
army units seized river crossings
ahead of sizeable Nazi detachments.
- The Germans were reported un-
able to carry out their customary
destruction at Cernauti because OF
the speed of the Soviet advance,
but they left the city clogged with
thousands of mines and BOBBY
traps.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-31

assure servicemen and women a
feasible" opportunity to vote.
In a message to the house, Mr..
Roosevelt also appealed to congress
ito take more adequate action to
protect the political rights of our
men and women in the service"
And he urged the states Ito make
the bill as fully effective as its
defective provisions will allow"
The bill provic es for an abbrev-
lated federal war ballot which may
be used only by service personnel
overseas. But it further provides
that these ballots may be used only
if they are acceptable to the states
and only if the individuals certify
that they have asked for, but have
not received, regular absentee bal
lots from their home states. The
federal ballot would allow votes
only for president, vice president,
senator and representative.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-31
Big Bill" Tho mpson Hid
ST. 500.0 900 Away in Cash

CHICAGO, Mar. 81. (UP)
AS dramatic in death as he
was in life, William Hale
Big Bill Thompson, former mayor
and one of the most colorful fig
ures in Chicago's lush prohibition
era, added sensational postscript
to his story today when more than
$l,500,000 mostly cash, was found
in two of his safety ceposit boxes.
Mrs. Maize Thompson, Big Bills
widow who had been estranged from
her husband for several years prior
to his death March 10. tainted at
the sight of the huge pile of green
backs that confronted her as the
safety deposit box was opened, and
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-31

ing too many of labor's gains"
He strongly condemned the
Brewster management at that time
but agreed to cooperate with the
new management of Henry j.
Kaiser, which appeared to have
solved the production difficulties.
The arrests listed in the indict-
ment included ore on a charge of
'dsiorderly conduct, in New York,
March Is, 1888; charge of hcmi-
disorderly conduct, in New York,
Dec. 16, 1888; and an arrest in
Hackensack, N. j., July Z, 1941, on
charges of melting to riot and ma
licious mischief. According to the
indictment, De Lorenzo was indict-
ed by Bergen County IN. j.
grand jury on Dec. 2, 1941 for ma
liciouS mischief.
If convicted of the charges, De
Lorenzo would face a maximum of
10 years in prison or a $4,000 fine
or both.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-31

WASHINGTON, March 81. (UP)
Demands for some plan to get
AIS into essential war activities
mounted Friday but military and
congressional leaders still disagreed
whether they should be drafte into
army labor battalions or be utilized
through new machinery to be en-
acted by Congress.
The war and navy departments
and Congress agreed that an esti-
mated 100000 AIS now in non-
essential work must be diverted to
essential jobs, but Secretary of War
Henry l.. Simpson said Thursday
that he believed new legislation was
needed before the army could in
duct physically deferred registrants.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-31
Bombing Costs
Raj qb Planes

LONDN, March 81. (UP) The Roy
al air force suffered the heaviest
loss ever inflicted on an Allied air
armada last night when SO planes
were shot down by German night
fighters and anti-aircraft guns dur
ing a powerful British moonlight
assault on the arms center of Nurn-
terg and targets in the western
Reich.
The loss exceeded by II the
revious record toll Of 70 big bomb
ers which failed to return from a
raid on Leipzig the night of Feb
ruary 10. The highest loss ever
suffered by an American air fleet
was 68 bombers and II fighters shot
down during an attack on the Ber-
lin area March g.
Though tine Raj was believed to
have lost more than 10 per cent
of the raiding fleet, is dropped up
wards of $3.50 tons of explosives
and fire bombs on Nurnberg, the
medieval city which Adolf Hitler
converted into Nazi party show
place and industrial center.
German broadcast said 1872 Brit
ish had been shot down in the
greatest air victory ever won by
the LuftWaffe.
The night assault from Britain
followed the heaviest raid ever made
by heavy bombers from Mediter-
ranean bases With Sofia, capital of
war-threatened Bulgaria, the OBJ
jective yesterday.
Wave upon wave of Flying For
tresses and Liberators from the
18th U. S. air force hammered the
center of Sofia into flaming ruin
surmounted by pillars of smoke visi-
BILE for SO miles. Possibly more than
400 heavy bombers participated in
the 70-minute parade of destruc-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-31
Yankees Strike
Base Close
To Philippines

PEARL HARBOR, March 81. (UP)
A powerful American fleet, spear
heading the greatest coordinated Of
fenSive of the Pacific war, was be-
lieved Friday to have wrecked Japa-
neSe bases within 460 miles of the
Philippines in heavy attacks that
still may be continuing on the Palau
islands.
While American battleships, car
riers, cruisers, and destroyers were
making their deepest penetration
of japanese waters since the fall
of the Philippines, U. S. bombing
fleets from Southwest and Central
Pacific bases blaZed a trail of flam-
ing destruction through Truk and
and other enemy strongholds along
an arc stretching 1900 miles from
Palau to the eastern Marshalls.
The naval force launched its as
sault on Palau, 1.055 miles west of
Truk and nearly 1000 miles south
west Of Hawaii, at dawn Wednes-
day (Palau time) in a new attempt
to bring the reluctant Japanese
navy to battle, but such ships as
were at the islands fled before the
American warships could maneuver
into attack positions.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-31
In1hoff
Seeks
Dana sc
Files Action
For $4,000;
Names Union

Paul Imhoff Thursday fill
ed suit for 100000 damages
against the American Feder-
ton of Labor, Teamsters Union 10
cal No. 1913, Ed Achstetter, ano
others for injuries allegedly suffer-
ed in beating administered by
Achstetter at Seeley last Nov, 81.
In addition to the damages asked
in the suit, Imhoff asked for re-
payment of the salary he said he
lost while in a hos pital in FL Centre
and during the time he was unable
to work because of the alleged in
juries. He said in the suit that he
was employed by Wilson Maroon
of FL Centro as truck driver at
S55 a week at the time he allegedly
was injured by Achstetter.
Imhoff sale he was member of
the Teamsters Union of which
Achstetter was secretary-treasurer
or business agent when the incident
Continued on Page J, Col. A.
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cash found in the boxes. were re-
called in 1888. federal authorities
said they would be redeemed.
Thompson would have faced PEN
atty had he been alive when they
were found, they said.
Three more OF Thompsons safety
boxes remained to be opened. They
will be examined Monday. his at
torney said
Since Thompson apparently died
without a will. the money will go TO
his wioow, after taxes have been
deducted
Tax experts estimated that be-
tween 40 and so per cent OF the
estate would be taken for taxes.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-03-31
Staffs Prepare
Agricultural
Special Courses

Imperial county vocational agri-
cultural instructors met in Calexico
Thursday night to study present
high school programs and postwar
developments.
B. r. Denbigh. regional super
visor from the state bureau of agri-
cultural education from Los Angeles,
outlined the Future Farmers spring
projects, annual regional elections
and various program phases under
the direction of the instructors.
Meeting with MI Denbigh at a
dinner and discussion were Lloyd
Schmadeke of Holtville; Lyman
Fowler of BraWley; EllWood Spencer
and v. G.. Fulmer Of Ell Centro,
and Dwight Thompson, inland
farmer who formerly was an in
structor in the county. Their wives
joined them at dinner to MeXi-
cali.
THE boys returning when the
war is ended will seek out their
former vocational agriculture teach
ers an dentist their aid in mapping
their future plans, Denbigh said.
You instructors should know where
to send these men for vocational
guidance both as to rehabilitation,
purchase of farm lands. and credit
assistance"
The first three instructors named
are all subject to draft IA classifi-
cations and were of the opinion
that many agricultural departments
in the country will be closed for
the duration due to the lack Of
trained instructors. They agreed
that the close of the war would
find an increased and intensified
agricultural program in the nations S
schools.