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Evening star., 1944-12-28
A Bell for Adono'
Chosen for Command
Performance Jan. 28

"A Bell for Adano," the Paul
Hervey play starring Fredric
March and Margo. was picked
for the annual command per-
formance to be given at the
National Theater January %,
1t was announced today. Cur
rently running in New York, the
play has been sold to Goth Gen.
tury Fox, where 1t will be filmed
with its present principals.
Tickets for the Washington
performance may be obtained
at the soldiers booth directly
across the street from the Ma
tional at q date to be an
nounced. No telephone or mail
orders can be accepted.
Evening star., 1944-12-28
ADJUSTMENTS. ADJUSTMENTS
TODAYS NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIES
ADJUSTMENTS. A
ters Having Mstinees.
It Any Local Theater.

All Time Schedules Given in Warner
Bros. Ads Indicate Time Feature 10
Presented
Evening star., 1944-12-28
Time Changes Things

HOLLYWOOD.
Fifteen years ago Lupita Tovar, q
pretty Senorita, missed an oppor-
tunity to play opposite Warner Bax-
ter because she couldn't speak good
English. The actress, who now
speaks the language perfectly, re-
Gently was signed to play in a pic
ture with him, but she has TO- speak
with an accent that's Hollywood.
Evening star., 1944-12-28
Sonia Bans Michael
From Her Next Film

Sonia Henie and International
are negotiating for another movie,
following the blond skate champs
completion Of ITS q Pleasure" at
that studio. One of the stipula-
tions likely to- be made by Miss
Henie is that Michael O'Shea will
not be her leading man. Some
choice bits of unrecorded dialogue
were traded by the two while max
ing that film.
During one of the love sequences,
Evening star., 1944-12-28
Miss Barrymore Due a Prize
Even if Her Play Is Not
Nv Jay CARMODY.

Word reaching this department by Indian
he thinks George Dixon that Miss Ethel
will win this critics the
Broadway Not her play "Embezzed Heaven just
acting rather because has not
Evening star., 1944-12-28

Make the sweet bye and bye, the
sweet here and now-suppOrt the
Sixth War Loan Drive,
Evening star., 1944-12-28

Miss Henie protested that O'Shea
was acting too violently. Retorted
O'Shea: you've got about as much
sex appeal as a picket fence!'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
Third Army
 In Big Dawn
 Offensive
Doughboys Seize Four Vil- Iages, Make Mile Ad-
 vance, Early Morning

LONDON, Nov. 8-U. s. Third Army troops charged in a dawn offensive today at points along the 25-mile front between Metz and Nancy, seized four lightly contested villages and scored advances up to a mile.
 To the north, the Doughboys First Army still battled for the strongly-reinforced town of Vos- senace, 13 miles sout west of Aachen, while bloody and as yet unconclusive fighting continued throughout the Hurtgen forest area.
 Two Nazi counterattacks near Schmidt have been broken, but the Third Army has substantially im- proved" it's line between Nancy and Metz. A front dispatch said that midway between the two French cities, Americans have crossed the Seille.
 In Holland, Germans are retreat ing to the north bank of the Maas River and have wrecked every river bridge between the sea and Hedel, north of Shertogenbosch.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
WALLGREN TO BE GOVERNOR,
 WASHINGTON

SEATTLE, Nov. 8-Mon. c. Wall- gren, Democrat, in seeking to ex- change his Senatorial seat for the Governors chair, held command ing lead over Republican Gov. Ar thur B. Langlie in a surge of Democratic votes.
 If the victorious Wallgren would take office in the second week of January, he would be In position to appoint his Senate successor.
 Representative Warren G. Mag nuson, Democrat, claimed election to the Senate seat vacated by Homer T. Bone, and his Republi- can opponents conceded the elec- tion of two of Washington's six Congressmen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
NYEANDFISH DEFEATED IN
 BIG ELECTION

ASHING ON, Nov. 8.-The Democrats strengthened their hold on Congress and swept into defeat Senator Gerald P. Nye, of North Dakota, and Representative Hamii- ton Fish, of New York. bitter Roose- velt critics and oft assailed by Ad- ministration leaders as 'isolation- jsts."
 Nye conceded his defeat by Gov ernor John Moses after a similar announcement by Fish, when he fell before Augustus w. Bennett, smash ing Republican predictions that the Administration would lose control of both Houses of Congress
 Early afternoon totals showed 2i1 Democratic House members and 1ls Republicans.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
N0TRE DAME SAYS
 IT WILL NOT LOSE
 GAME WITH CADETS

NEW YORK, Nov. 8-Notre Dame has never lost both to Army and Navy in the same season.
 Irish Coach Ed McKeever, whose lads were dunked by Navy Satur- day, relayed to the New York football writers a warning that his team has no intention of breaking the habit this season in this weeks struggle with the Cadets in the Yankee Stadium.
 Capt. Johnny Buckler, one-time Cadet halfback, representing the Army's coaching staff, character ized this years squad as 'untested except for the Duke game. In that one we stumbled around like an old maid on skating pond"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
 FIGHT FOUR
 DIVISIONS
Convoy-Idden Jap Rein foreements Now Give
 Battle in Leyte

GEN. MacARTHUR'S H EA D. QUARTERS IN THE P P PINES, Nov. 8-The United States Twenty Fourth Division is locked in a critical fight in the Ormoc Valley on Leyte with elements of four Japanese divisions including three rushed in as endorsements, headquarters reported today.
 This was the crucial battle pre- saged by the Japanese convoy land- ings on Ormoc while the 24th was capturing Pinamopoan on Cari- gara Bay and swinging to the south.
 Today's communiqueS said ele- ments of the First, Thirteenth, Hundredth, and Second Nipponese divisions augmented the badly shattered Sixteenth, torturers of Bataan, in opposing the Twenty fourth.
 Three strong enemy counterat- tacks were repulsed less than lC miles north of Ormoc, Japan's last hope on western Leyte. American long-range artillery laid a deyas- tating barrage on the enemy de- fense at Valencia, smelling and wrecking warehouses and supply dumps. Large fires broke out, add ing to the destruction.
 Leyte-based Tank fighters dive bombed communications, oisouacs and supply dumps. A headquarters spokesman said the Japanese rein forcements were well dug in, how ever. Constant smelling forced the foe to restrict movements of troops and supplies to night hours.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
REDSREADY FOR ATTACK
 IN POLAND

LONDON, Nov 8-A promise of explosive action today hung over the long eastern front, where for the past two days Moscow has an- nounced no essential changes.
 Torrential rains have hindered Red Army troops, jabbing on the outskirts of Budapest, but Berlin said that the Russians are prepar- ing for a new large-scale attack toward Tarnow, in southwest Po- land, from the Soviet bridgehead on the west side of the Vistula River.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
SENATOR'S ELE(TED

The following Senators were elect ed in the various States yesterday as received up to press time:
 Alabama-Lister Hill, Democrat
 Arizona-Carl Hayden, Democrat
 Arkansas-J. William Fulbrightl Democrat.
 Colorado = Eugene D. Millikin Republican.
 Connecticut Brien McMahon Democrat.
 Florida - Claude Pepper, Demo- crat.
 Walter F. George, Demo- crat.
 Iowa = Bourke B. Hickenlooper, Republican.
 Kansas-Clyde M. Reed, Republi- can.
 Kentucky = Alben w. Barkley, Democrat.
 Louisiana - John H. Overton, Democrat.
 Maryland Willard E. Tydings, Democrat.
 North Dakota John Moses, Democrat.
 Oklahoma-Elmer Thomas, Demo- crat.
 Oregon-Wayne L. Morse, Repub- lican for the term of the late Charles L. McNary, Republican, expiring January 3, 1949, now held by ap- pointment by Guy Gordon, Repub- lican, who was also elected in yes terday's election.
 South Carolina-Olin D. Johnston. Democrat.
 South Dakota--Chan Gurney, Re- publican.
 Utah-Elbert, D. Thomas, Demo- crat.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
FOUR YEARS MORE FOR
 PRESIDENT
Thirfy-ihree States Certain for Chief Executive
 15 for Dewey

NEW YORK, Nov. 8.--The Am- erican people gave President Frank lin D. Roosevelt fourth term in the White House, but apparently by smaller margin than they voted him his third term.
 At the same time, the President carried with him every prospect of strengthening the Democratic ma jority in Congress which will act in the ending of the war and the mak- ing of peace.
 Roosevelt widened his big lead with the passing of the hours.
 Roosevelt's Republican opponent, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, carried 10 states, which Willkie won in 1940, and added Ohio, Oregon, Wisconsin and Wyoming Michi- gan. Willkie state in l940, headed for the Roosevelt column but later came back.
 Dewey's Thanks
 To the millions who voted with him in the Republicans losing fight under the battle cry of Its Time for Change went Dewey's thanks and his expressed confidence that all will join in the hope that Provi- dence will guide Roosevelt s'a 'n Nation to peace.
 Democratic Inroads
 Along with the President tory, the Democrats made sh roads ins~ the Republican,, 4 membership. as most Democr pected, and also clinched the jority in the Senate which pass on peace and other trei
 Foreign Interest
 Never before have foreign I ti displayed so much interest a National election. The | newspapers this morning ana this afternoon bannered the result and editorials hailed the Roosevelt vic- tory The Berlin radio commented that the vote given to Dewey indi- cated the Roosevelt foreign policy was worrying a wide circle of the American people.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
GOVERNORS
 ARE CHOSEN

The following Governors of States are known to have been chosen in yesterdays election as reported to The Empire by the Associated Press up to press time:
 Arizona-Sidney P. Osborn, Demo- crat.
 Arkansas-Ben Laney, Democrat.
 Connecticut-Raymond E. Bald win, Republican.
 Florida-Millard Caldwell, Demo- crat. F. Idaho charIes c. oossett, Demo- crat.
 Illinois-Dwight H. Green, Repub- lican.
 Iowa-Robert D. Blue, Republican.
 Kansas-Andrew F. Shoeppel, Re- publican.
 Maine-Horace A. Hildreth, Re- publican (elected September 12).
 Massachusetts, Maurice J. Tobfn, Republican.
 Missouri = Phil M. Donnelly, Democrat.
 Montana-Sam c. Ford, Repub- lican.
 Nebraska-Dwight Griswold, Re- publican.
 North Dakota-R. Gregg Cherry, Democrat
 Rhode Island = J. Howard Mo Grath, Democrat.
 South Dakota-M. Q. Sharpe, Re- publican.
 Tennessee = Jim Nance McCord, Democrat.
 Texas-Coke R. Stevenson, Demo- crat.
 Vermont Mortimer R. Proctor, Republican.
 West virginia-Clarence w. Mead ows, Democrat.
 Wisconsin-Walter s. Goodland, Republican.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
5TUHLDREHER SAYS SPORTS WOULD CURE
 FANATI(AL GERMANS

CHICAGO, Nov. 8-Harry Stuhl- dreher, Wisconsin football coach and quarterback on Notre Danes famed Four Horsemen, proposed to- day that full program of Ameri- can athletics be instilled in post war Europe as a means to lasting peace.
 He asserted quite a democratic education of hate-instilled Nazi youth could easily be accomplished by such a method.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
NEW DELEGATE E
 T0LEAvE JUNEAU
 FOR WASHINGTON

Delegate to Congress-elect E. l.. (Bob) Bartlett, is to leave for Seattle sometime this week.
 Bartlett said he would try to attend the Indian hearings in Seattle before going on to Wash ington, D. C., where he will find a place to live for himself, his wife and two children.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
HALIBUT FISHING
 ENDS NOVEMBER 30

The International Fisheries Con- mission at Seattle has announced November 30 as the closing date for halibut fishing in areas three and tour, according to a wire received here today by James J. Connors, Collector of Customs. Permits be- come invalid for the landing of in cidentally caught halibut at the same date.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
NAVAL TRAINEE5 ARE
 HAVING GREAT TIME

The five boys bound westward for Kodiak to go into Navy training for two years, are having a fine trip. Chester Zenger and John Dapce- vich have sent radiograms saying Flew in plane, rode in boat, rode on a train, rode in a car, all in twelve hours. The radiogram was sent from Cordova.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
COMMUNICATION RESTRICTIONS
 LIFTED, FRANCE

According to word received here today by Lew Williams, Secretary of Alaska, restrictions on commer- cial and business communications with liberated France, imposed by reason of German occupation, have been lifted by the Treasury De- partment
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
LUCE REELECTED
 IN CONNECTICUT

BRIDGEPORT Conn. Nov. B. The Daily Morning Post-Telegram early this morning declared Repub- lican Representative Clare Booth Luce had been reelected by 1865 votes over Margaret Connors, Democrat, for the Fourth Con- gressional seat.
 This statement was made after it had been broadcast she had lost her seat.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
WAR FUND LUNCHEON
 NEXT SATURDAY NOON

A luncheon will be held next Sat- urday, Armistice Day, to mark the successful closing of the National War Fund drive, is the announce ment made by Mrs. John McCor- mick, Territorial Chairman.
 The members of the Territorial Committee and all the campaign workers of Juneau and Douglas are urged to attend. The luncheon will be held at noon at the Baranof Hotel, and it will be a no-host affair.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
ARMY COACH STATES
 SURpRISES ARE DUE

WEST POINT, N. Y., Nov. g. It. Col. Earl Blaik, coach of the Armys unbeaten football team, in- timated there may be some sur prises being prepared for Notre Dame. Saturdays opponent in the Yankee Stadium.
 Blaik said, don't be surprised if Dean Granddaughter goes in as fullback Saturday and if Al Tucker does a bit of throwing
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
SUFFER
 BIG L055 IN
 2-DAY RAID
44O Enemy Planes Are De- stroyed and 19 Ships
 Sunk or Damaged

UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 8-Carrier based Helldivers, Hellcats and Avengers destroyed 440 Japanese planes and sank two enemy warships, probably sank a third, and damaged eight others in two-day raid on the Manila area in the Philippines, the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
BIG } TALK
 CERTAIN

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8-Presi- dent Roosevelt's election makes vir- tually certain he will hold an early meeting with Stalin and Churchill on key questions of postwar coop eration and the conference will shape a definite course.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
Housewives Take Noiice On Holiday

Housewives are reminded that stores will be closed next Satur- day, Armistice Day, which is a holiday. Orders should be placed on Thursday, or at the latest, Friday morning early.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON Ct. Col Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army)

WASHINGTON One of the hush hush family feuds of the Senate flared unblushingly into the open during the closing days of the campaign when Powell Glass, son of the venerable 86-year-old Sen- stor Carter Glass of Virginia, in effect called Justice ByrneS a liar and said his father was not for the fourth term. The White House previously had said that Senator Glass had telephoned Byrnes to congratulate him on his speech and to say he, Glass, was supporting the fourth term.
 Unwittingly in the center of this family feud is the second Mrs. Glass, a modest Virginia school teacher, formerly Mrs. Mary Scott Meade, who married the Senator in l940 when he was 82 years old and who is very much for Roosevelt.
 The Glass sons. on the other hand, are very anti-RooSevelt and also very anti the second marriage of their father. And the cleavage has become deeper and deeper as Mrs. Glass has turned out more and more a New Dealer. Ill and old, the Senator seldom goes out but frequently he is paired in the Senate in favor of Roosevelt legis- lation
 Even when the Senate overrode FDR's tax veto and Dear Alben' Barkley made his bitter speech of denunciation, Senator Glass called the White House to say that the veto was right. The personal letter which Roosevelt sent him in reply is a matter of record.
 GLASS STATEMENT WITHHELD
 Meanwhile, the Senator's sons, publishers of the prosperous Glass newspapers in Lynchburg, Virginia, have become more and more anti Roosevelt and not at all happy about Mrs. Glass. How much the future disposal of the Glass million dollar estate is involved is not known, but it is known that, just before the Virginia Democratic con- vention in Roanoke last summer, Powell Glass threatened to take drastic measures if his father came out for Roosevelt.
 At that time, it was reported that the Senator planned to an- nounce for a fourth term, despite the fact that the convention was called to boost Senator Harry Byrd. So Powell Glass in Lynchburg served warning on Rixey Smith, his fathers secretary in Washington, that if any pro-R Roosevelt statement was made, he would declare the Senator too ill to make such a statement. In order to avoid family embarrassment, Mrs. Glass and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
EARLY ELECTION RETURNS
 INDICATE HOW VOTE GOES

Dewey 134,326. Roosevelt had a substantial lead in Philadelphia and also in Pittsburgh
 In New York State
 Dewey forged slightly ahead of Roosevelt in New York State In early scattered returns. In 297 dis tricts out of 9,12l, Dewey boiled 84,754 votes to 80,354 for Roosevelt
 At 10:45 o'clock tEST), the As- sociated Press said Roosevelt was leading in states having a total of 318 electoral votes. as follows. Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Cali fornia, Connecticut, ware, Florida, Georgia. Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, l. ouiS i a na a, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missis- sippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsyl- vania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Dewey was leading in states with an aggregate elec- toral vote of 199, as follows. Colo rado, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Me- yada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York. Ohio, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming. Only two states, Oregon and Washington, had not been heard from at that hour.
 From California
 Returns received from 349 pre- cincts of 1S,841 in California, gave Roosevelt 26,068 and Dewey 17597. These returns included 279 pre- cincts from Los Angeles County and gave the possible trend.
 Seattle broke into the column by announcing that partial returns from only 15 of Washington's 3,l63 precincts gave Dewey 8ll, Roosevelt 70i. Then Syracuse, New York. an- nounced Roosevelt had carried that city, which has been normally Re- publican.
 In Missouri
 Pivotal Missouri swung toward the Republican column with returns from about one-third of the states precincts. giving Dewey more than 25,000 over Roosevelt, and the entire state ticket was riding along with Dewey.
 Shortly before II o'clock, Roose- welt breezed ahead of Dewey in 32 states, but New York's massive 47 electoral votes teetered from side to side. Dewey's camp at that time said returns were very encourag- ing"
 Claimed Election
 Chairman Robert Hannegan at HAS o'clock (ESTl, claimed the reelection of Roosevelt, and the New York Daily News, which sup ported Dewey. conceded Roosevelt had won.
 In Hyde Park, R oosevelt told torch-bearing neighbors that it looks very much like I will have to be coming up here on train from Washington for another four years"
 From Oregon
 The Associated Press, at Portland, (C0ofS,,,o<y oo, pnao Cisl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08

The first trickles from the flood of wartime ballots received by the Empire late yesterday afternoon from the Associated Press gave a popular vote lead to Roosevelt in To states, with Dewey leading in six, but all vote counting at that time was too small to indicate the trend. Roosevelt was credited with margins in Maryland, Kentucky, Arizona, New Hampshire, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Dewey at that time had a lead in Maine, Kansas, Michigan, South Dakota, Massachusetts and New Mexico.
 With pivotal states yet to be heard from at 8 o'clock tEWT) last night, Roosevelt was put ahead in IA states and Dewey had an edge in nine states. Roosevelt's states had I'll electoral votes and the Dewey states had 67, but New York, California and Pennsylvania, all key states, were unrecorded. Illinois, with 38 votes, gave Roose- welt an edge in the early tabula- tions, as did Ohio.
 State Returns
 In early returns from Philadelphia, 20 precincts gave Dewey 629 and Roosevelt 505. Wilmington, Dela- ware, first district, gave Dewey l68 and Roosevelt TIT votes.
 First returns from 16 counties cut of 254 in Texas, gave Roosevelt 37,862 votes and Dewey 6,320.
 Closely following this report, Illi- nois reported 50 out of that states 8,748 precincts gave Roosevelt 12,l02 and Dewey 7,546. From Ohio, 23 polling places out of 9,306 gave Dewey 2.951 and Roosevelt 2,544 South Dakota then reported 22 pre- cincts out of l,949 gave Roosevelt 1868 and Massachusetts, II pre- cincts out of LAST, outside of Boston, gave Dewey 1,075 and Roosevelt 459.
 Popular Vote
 At 9 o'clock (EST), the Associ- ated Press showed a popular vote for Roosevelt of 735,53l and for Dewey, Al, 1863. New Jersey reported that 21 districts showed Roosevelt with 2,990 and Dewey 5,324. The first election precinct in Upstate New York, in Tompkins County, gave Dewey 273, Roosevelt TO, New Haven. Connecticut the states largest city, with single precinct missing, gave Roosevelt 44,804 and Dewey 28,348.
 Tn early scattered returns from five New England States, the vote traced the election pattern almost identical with that of 1940 and gave Dewey an edge over Roosevelt. Figures were then mostly from small towns in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire. Ver- mont and Maine. Roosevelt was then ahead in Connecticut. Tn Pennsylvania
 Two hundred and twenty precincts out of 8,208 in Pennsylvania gave Roosevelt 64,140 and Dewey 55,559 votes. Shortly afterward, pivotal Pennsylvania's vote from $50 pre- cincts gave Roosevelt l62 2,296 and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
ROOSEVELT ELECTED, 4TH TERI
HOW STATES
 CAST VOTE
 IN ELECTION

BULLETIN-NEW YORK, Nov. 8-See-saw swings of three key states kept in doubt RooseveIt's fourth term victory. At midday there is possibility Roosevelt may gain New Jersey, also Ohio and Michigan, both in the Dewey column this morning.
 At midday, Associated Press re- turns from l06,755 of the Nations 130,S10 voting units shows the popular vote as follows:
 Roosevelt--21,724, ,603.
 Dewey--l9,155,4 ,488.
 According to noon Associated Press reports received by The Empire, the following B States, with 391 elec- toral votes, are for Roosevelt.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08

BABY CONFERENCE THURSDAY
 The regular weekly Well Baby Conference will be held Thursday at l p. m. in the Juneau Health Center, room 108, in the Territorial Building.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-08
WEATHER REPORT GU. s. Weather Bureau

Temperature, November 2
 In Juneau: Maximum, 43; minimum. 38. Rainfall, .26 of an inch,
 At Airport: Maximum, 42: minimum, 36. Rainfall. .28 of an inch.
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The following 15 States, with. an aggregate of 140 electoral votes,
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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1944-12-15
Merchants Consider
Four-D Day Closing
For Yuletide Holiday

Although all merchants of
Pascagoula and Moss Point have
not announced their intention,
the general trend during the
Christmas a Gems 10 be
thai most stores will stay open
ali dav on Wednesday and until
9 pm. Saturday, Dec, %. Many
merchants have announced that
they will close SATURDAY. night
and not will reopen until the
usual hour Thursday, Dec. %.
This will give employees an add
ed two DAYS holiday at a time
when business is abnormaliy
slow. Grocery stores viii not be
included among those closing be-
cause o. the hardship which
would be imposed on the aver
age citizen b. such a long clos
ing period.