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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
GOTHIC LINE |S PREACHED ON
 6-M|LE FRONT
Americans Suffer Heavy losses While Making
 Big Gains in Italy

ROME Sept. 20-American troops of the Fifth Army preached the Germans Gothic Line on a six mile front above Florence after a week of intensive fighting and struck within three miles of the important road center of Firen- zuola, Headquarters announced to- day.
 Storming steep mountain slopes American troops won heights oi Castel, Guerrino and Lacroce ano penetrated well into the heart oi the Gothic defenses, 22 miles north east of Florence.
 Front line dispatches of the U. $ Army paper Stars and Stripe; said that gains through the rugged mountains cost us an uncomfort- able number of losses"
 On the coast, units of the British Eighth Army battered within rifle range of Rimini, gateway to tho Pc Valley.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
MORE JAP
 AIRCRAFT \ DESTROYED
KuriIe Islands Are Attack ed Again by Liber-
 ators, Venturas
By VERN HAUGLAND

j UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 20-The conquest by American Marines, of the most eastern coastal area of Peleliu is announced by Admiral Chester w. Nimitz.
 The Japanese Anguar forces con- tinue to occupy only two isolated pockets in the face of the advanc- ing Eighty First Army Division troops.
 The Americans now hold ap- proximately the southern half of Peleliu, where the Palau Islands invasion was launched last Thurs day United States time) and the northern three-fourths of Angaur
 The communique announces the occupation of the town of Ngar- dololok in the northeast part of Peleliu. The Japanese were re- ported resisting stubbornly from pillboxes and trenches with mortal and artillery support.
 The IF badly damaged planes found on the Peleliu airstrip in cluded TT single-engine fighters, 2s medium bombers, 8 light bombers and four transports. A Navy spokes- man said these were in addition to those previously announced de- stroyed and they had not been in- cluded in any other compilation.
 Headquarters also announced ad- ditional bombings of the Japanese from the Kuriles in the north tc the Marshalls and Nauru.
 Liberators bombed Shumushu ir the Kuriles, Saturday and Ven- turas strafed personnel-loadeo boat, attacked a warship, possibly a destroyer, east of Paramushiro Several planes were downed by in- tercepting fighters. All planes re- turned safely.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
LESLIE STURM
 COMMANDER OF
 4. 1. POST NO. 4

Afford John Bradford Post No. 4, American Legion, elected new officers Tuesday night. New com mander for the year is Leslie A. Sturm.
 First Vice-commander is Joseph A. Thibodeau, Second Vice-com- mander, H. Lester Rink; Adjutant and Finance Officer, Paul Monroe; [; Chaplain, Leo Jewett; Sergeant at Arms, George Martin; Service Off, ficer, Claude Carnegie; Executive Committeeman G945- -'46), Al zenger and Bert Lybeck.
 At last nights meeting a l9E membership campaign was agreed upon wherein membership credit will be on point basis with first and second prizes to be awarded at the end of the year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
Ambassadors Named for }
 Free Nations
Roosevelt Names Envoys 10 luxembourg, Bel
 qium, Netherlands

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt today nominated ambassadors to serve in three countries, newly liberated from the Nazi invaders and others on the threshold of freedom.
 The President n m d Charles Sawyer, former Democratic National Committeeman of Ohio, as Ambas- sador to Belgium and Minister to Luxembourg.
 Stanley Hornbeck, Special Assist ant to the Secretary of State, is nominated Ambassador to the Meth erlands.
 Arthur Bliss Lane, New York, is named Ambassador to the Polish Government-in-Ex Exile, now in Lon don.
 Richard Patterson, New York, is named Ambassador to Yugoslavia's s Government- -in-E Exile.
 Lithgow Osborne, New York, now connected with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Adminis- tration, is nominated as Ambassador to the Norwegian Government-in- Exile.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
FALL0F RIGA EXPECTED AT
 MOMENT
First Phase of Russian Auf- umn Offensive Prom-
 ises Big Results

MOSCOW, Sept. 20-A massive Baltic drive, the first phase of the Supreme Russian offensives, rolled the Germans back steadily over the Latvian front, imminently menac- ing Riga and threatening to bring it's fall at any moment, front line dispatches said.
 Advance tank and motorized in- fantry units pushed deep into the city's defenses. The communique announced an approach of within six miles as the Red Army edged in on three sides and brought ar tillery to bear.
 In four days the Russian Baltic Armies captured nearly 5000 com- munities in their smashing attack which promises to clear all Ger mans shortly from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and pave the way for the remaining steps of the Autumn offensive winch is expected to be bigger than anything to date Developments may be expected from the Gulf of Finland to Yugoslavia in the south.
 In Rumania, combined Rumanian and Russian forces captured Tim isoara, 20 miles from the Yugo- slav' border and 73 miles northeast from Belgrade.
 There is no official Russian word of action on other fronts, but Red Army artillery kept firing at War saw across the formidable barrier of the Vistula River. A German broadcast said that the Russians have bridged the Vistula north Of Warsaw.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
.JApS FLEE TO HILL HIDE0UT,
 M0R0TAI ISLE
By MERLIN SPENCER

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS AT NEW GUINEA, Sept. 20-Carrier- based American planes smashed at Japan's Halmahera airdromes in 50 sorties on Friday, Headquarters announced, as the Japanese struck back feebly with two light air raids against the Allies, who are cleaning the newly invaded Moro tai Island.
 Allied troops pushed the Morotai perimiter lines outward as strong patrols sought Japanese defenders who fled to hill hideouts.
 For the first time it was dis closed the Morotai invasion troops were under the command of Major Gen. John c. Persons, one of the Army's two generals drawn from civilian life.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
FIRES ARE
 STARTED BY
 U. }. BOMBS
Jap Positions in Southern Philippines Under
 Heavy Attack

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NEW GUINEA, Sept. 20-Mitchell medium bombers started many fires in raid on Japanese posi- tions on Mindanao Island, South ern Philippines, Headquarters an- nounces, as Gen. Douglas MacAr- thurs Air Arm resumed attacks against the Philippines.
 Blows were struck at the Buayan airdrome Sunday and the airdrome on Sraangani Bay, near the south- ern extremity of Mindanao.
 The Langdon airdrome in the Dutch Celebes was also battered with 145 tons of bombs and three grounded planes were destroyed.
 The third Japanese attempt to raid the newly invaded Morotal in the Moluccas has been repelled and one Japanese plane was downed. The first two raids are described as feeble and ineffective
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
WORLD WAR l VETS FAVOR
 SERVICE LAW
Want Military Instruction Integrated with Atad-
 emi( Education

CHICAGO. Sept. 20.-The Amerl- can Legion urges immediate enact ment of a universal military train ing law in resolution adopted at the annual convention here and sug- gested Congress approve legislation providing every qualified young American" to receive 12 months Army or Navy training "at the age least apt to disrupt his normal edu- cational and business life"
 The convention recommended that such a statute become effective when the Selective Service Act ex- pires and the military instruction be 'integrated with academic educa- tion" of the young men.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
HOUSE WANTSA
 INVESTIGATION
 OF DE(EMB BER ]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. = The House Naval Affairs Subcommittee urged immediate Congressional in- vestigation of the Pearl Harbor at tack, declaring any inquiry by the armed forces themselves might be "biased and we should learn for our selves what happened"
 The subcommittee, consisting of Representatives Herbert, Democrat of Louisiana, Cole, Republican from New York, and Hess, Republican from Ohio, made the recommends tions in letters to Naval Affairs Chairman Vinson and Military Af- fairs Committee Chairman May, who the subcommittee assigned some time ago to inspect naval installa- tions in the Caribbean and South America.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
The W ashing ion Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON fit. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the ArmyO

WASHINGTON = Sleuths from the British Embassy and the State Department have spent several weeks trying to track down the mystery of how Ambassador Will liam Phillips fortnight letter to President Roosevelt advocating h. dian freedom leaked to this column. At first, Secretary of State Hull blamed the leak on former Under secretary Sumner Welles, which actually nobody, not even Hull himself, believed. Especially nobody believed it when other information, written long after Welles left the State Department, was leaked.
 And after the telegram to London from Sir Olaf Caroe in India, de- claring Ambassador Phillips per- soma non grata, was published, the British nearly went frantic. Next a. m. six British secret service men and two burglar alarm ex- perts arrived at the British Indian Office in Washington. They combed every file, took fingerprints from important documents, examined locks and windows. Finally, after everyone left that evening, they mt tape over each file, making 1t impossible to open without break ing the tape.
 Next morning, however, one file had been broken open.
 Meanwhile, British Intelligence, after first blaming Vice President Wallace for leaking the Phillips
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
PAY BIG PRICE
 FOR PEACE
Stripped of Rich Industrial Area-Hedvy Repara-
 lions Demanded

LONDON, Sept. 2O-Stripped of her richest industrial territory and burdened by heavy cash separations as the price of peace, Finland is dedicated, by Acting Prime Minister Ernest Von Born, to building up a new national existence with "op- portunities left to us"
 Of immediate concern is the probably bloody task of removing the German troops remaining in the country, one of the conditions imposed in the 23-point armistice agreement with Russia and Britain that reached Moscow yesterday
 Deadline Tomorrow
 An appendix of the agreement published today said the withdrawal of Finnish troops behind the new state frontier and the advance of the Russians up to it will begin at a. m. tomorrow.
 The London Times, declaring the Films obtained conditions much less onerous than those offered in March of this year." said that Moscow,s successive arrangements with Runania, Bulgaria and Fin- land removed any suspicion of a dark plot designed to bring the whole of Eastern Europe under Russian sway The plot" was shown to be lacking in foundation.
 Karelia Cetted
 The armistice ceded Karelia to Russia which includes the city of Viipuri, the most industrially de- veloped region in Finland.
 The agreement also provides out right ceding to Russia of the Pet samo area in the far north with it's port and rich nickel mines, and leasing for 50 years of the Kola Peninsula; it's naval base on the Finnish Gulf and use of the mili- tary region. In cash, Finland must pay reparations totaling $300,0O0,- GOO within six years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
PASSENGERS ARE FLOWN BY COASTAL
 AIRLINES TUESDAY

Alaska Coastal Airlines carried 38 passengers yesterday Those fly ing to Sitka were: Lewis Hamilton, Mae Stephenson, N A. McEachran E. Whalen, Virgil Baker, Ted Kett- leson, Pat Sweeny.
 Sitka to Juneau-I. c. Cordero Dorothy Kessler, Leo Jones, Capt Dunn, Legia Olsen, Mel Blanch- ard, c. H. Fellows, Mildred John- son.
 Petersburg to Ketchikan - MT and Mrs. Ralph Rogers.
 Wrangell to Ketchikan-Carl B Carlson.
 Wrangell to Petersburg-James P. Harvey.
 Ketchikan to Juneau-Frank Pet tigrew, John w. Haverstitch.
 Petersburg to Juneau Jim Boyle
 Juneau to Haines-Ray Lauby Robert Hardy, Al Kessler, Dale Stern.
 Juneau to Skagway-Phyllis Ne berfuer, Micky Swann.
 Haines to Juneau-E. c. Harris
 Skagway to Juneau-F. L. Phelps Dorothy Lawrence.
 Juneau to Excursion Inlet-B. c Canoles.
 Juneau to Hoonah - Wallace Jones.
 Hoonah to Juneau-Vernon War rich, Mary Davis, Charley Davis.
 Sightseeing trip-W, G. Balle, J w. Gonedeck
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
MINEWEEpERI5 LOST IN ACTON
 IN pALAU BATTLE

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 = The loss of the minesweeper Perry, in action against the Japanese at Palau, was announced by the Navy Casualties were reported light. The Navy also reported the loss of the auxiliary transport Noa, in a col lision in the Pacific with a United States destroyer. All crew mem bers of the Noa were rescued.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
Germans Being Rolled Back By Russiar
Army Plane Is Missing,
 Anchorage 10 Fairbanks,
 With 19 Persons Aboard

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 20-- The United States Army authori- ties of the Alaska Department Headquarters here announce that an Army transport plane with l6 passengers and three crew mem bers aboard has been reported missing on a flight between An chorage and Fairbanks.
 The transport plane left An chorage early Monday and was last reported over Talkeetna.
 The last radio report said the plane was up at 5000 feet and flying by instruments through tur- bulent air icing conditions.
 The names of the passengers are withheld
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
HITLER NOW IN CHARGE
 NAz| ARMY
Gen. Montgomery Says German War Machine
 Is Under LundfiC

LONDON, Sept. 20. Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery indicated in a speech to his troops in Belgium that Hitler might be taking closer control of the fighting in the west.
 He said: "The Allies have a lot to be thankful for in Hitler taking charge of operations, as it means that the enemy is being commanded by a lunatic In that respect I'm glad the German generals failed in the bomb attempt against the Fuehrer"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
New Route 0verAIaska
 Is Planned
PAWA Files Application for Flying System from
 Seattle t0 Canton

NEW YORK, Sept. 20-Pan Am erican World Airways announces filing of applications with the Civil Aeronautics Board for a new route 6e31 miles long that would connect Seattle to Canton with stops at Nome, points in the Kuriles, Tokyo and Shanghai.
 This route would connect at Canton with another operating through Hano, China, to Calcutta.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
HA, HA-NU15!

Yes, Genevieve, answering your letter of inquiry if censorship of mail still continues, yes.
 For instance, tthis is good in the last airmail from New York City, the envelope, officially stamp ed September 8, and marked horoscope" for Empire, Juneau. the envelope had been "examined' by 6034.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
THREE BOATS SELL
 CATCHES IN JUNEAU

Three boats sold fish to Alaska Coast Fisheries yesterday. The Mayflower sold 1000 pounds of hali- but and l3,000 pounds of sable fish; the Oceanic, 1000 pounds Of halibut, 10000 pounds of sable; and the Valiant, 2000 pounds of halibut, 2l, 900 pounds of sable.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
AGENT FLIES TO SITKA

Miss Mae Stephenson, district extension agent for Southeastern Alaska. left for Sitka yesterday, in connection with her work with the All Club movement.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
PARTICIPATING
 FOR BIG PUSH IN GERMANY
Allies Prepare for Wheel : ing Offensive Across
 German FIdtIands

LONDON, Sept. 20 = Massive forces of British Army airborne troops straddled the lower Rhine in Holland, five miles from Ger many, in position for great new invasion into the Reich around the upper end of the Siegfried Line.
 The British Second Army threw 30 mile long cutoff wall across eastern Holland in AS hours It merged solidly with parachute glider soldiers who dropped near Nigmegen on the wall of the Rhine. The British are apparently battling on to link with still other sky troops ten miles farther north on the upper branch of the river near Arnhem
 The Siegfried Line is being out flanked and a path is opening for wheeling offensive across the flatlands of northern Germany The Nazis in southwestern Holland are menaced With entrapment.
 Doughboys Thrust On
 The Americans struck fierce German resistence in the invasion of Germany and their offensives from the Nancy-Metz line and toward the Beifort Gap farther south, but Doughboy columns thrust 20 miles or more beyond Nancy toward Strasbourg.
 Brest Captured
 With the big supply port Of Brest on the Brittany Peninsula in United States hands, the Can adians battled into the channel port of Boulogne.
 An unconfirmed Algiers broad cast said that Boulognes garrison had already surrendered and with the British push underway and Montgomery in Overall Command of the ground armies on the nor thern front. it declared that there lS IlO QOuDt biidb tiiC WoA e@ctNAAA|S Hitler will end this year"
 The British drive enveloped Find hoven and stabbed on 45 miles farther north, joining the First Allied airborne army at or near Negmegen.
 Himmler On Front
 In western France, German re- sistence frightened considerably, and Himmler is reported to have visited German units in Holland, urging "stiffest resistance However, two Allied Armies are steadily enlarg- ing their stand and are blocking most of the roads to Rotterdam and Amsterdam.
 The Paris radio said that even the Utrecht Line retreat was cut by Allied landings from planes, and Berlin broadcasts acknowledged the retreat across the western Scheide.
 Polish troops burst more than three miles across the Hulst Canal and were within three miles or the Schelde estuary west Of Antwerp.
 Tanks Into Germany
 Americans in the southeastern corner of Holland crossed intf Germany, east of Sittard and Am stenrade, 20 miles above Aachen and east of Simpelveld, seven miles above that ruined city
 Perhaps the greatest steeling oi Nazi resistance along the west wall defenses is from well north of Aachen to Trier
 The U. s. First Army is on or across the Reich's frontier almost everywhere on the 80 mile front.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
TRAPPER HEARS PLANE

EDMONTON, Alberta, Sept. 20 Officials of the Alaskan Division oi the United States Army Transport Command said the transport plane reported missing between Anchor age and Fairbanks has been identi- fled as belonging to that command and added that a trapper reported hearing a plane near Lake Cheek 40 miles southeast of Mount Me Kinley.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
TIRpITz E HIT
 IN NORGE EFJ0RD
 BY RAF PLANES

LONDON, Sept. 20-RAF Lan- casters blasted the German battle ship Tirpitz with 12,000 pounds of bombs while it lay in a Norwegian ford, the air ministry said tonight. A smoke screen prevented observa- ton of the results.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
PA MAN TO ANNETTE

Don Graham left Juneau this morning for Ketchikan enroute to Annette Island where he will be stationed for the next ten days Graham is a mechanic for Pan American Airways.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20

The energy utilized by green leaves in building up carbohydrates is obtained from sunlight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
IN FROM GUsTAvUs

MT and Mrs. Herbert Schlange have come in from Gustavus and are guests at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20
IN FROM PELICAN

Jack Koby has come in from Pelican and is registered at the Gastineau,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-20

Bob Fickner, of Pelican, is in town and staying at the Juneau Hotel,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-17
Traffic Accident
 Figures Increase
Postwar Improvement in Speed Control Suggested
 Mishaps Kill More People Than War

saugatuck, Oct. l7.-Tigures of increased traffic accidents an- nounced by the Safety Bureau ef New York City's Police Depart ment drought suggestions today fur immediate and post-Whr improve ment in speed control from the Eno Foundation for Highway Traffic Control, affiliated with Yale Uni- VerSlty since 1883.
 Speed Is c factor in every motor vehicle accident" declared William Phelps Enc, founder and chairman of the Board of Directors Of the Foundation and originator of tllc New York city traffic code which has become the basis for practl' cally every traffic code in the civ. illzed world. Accident severity" ne said, lis directly proportional te speed"
 The crux of speed control, Enc officials pointed out at the Founda- ton building here, is that no unt. form speed Is both efficient and safe for an area even aS large az q business district. Instead, each locality and highway section mus be studied individually. Specific speed zones must be established to provide the greatest safety.
 Most drivers are prudent: records show but one accident for every 260,000 miles of driving. Most o! those who speed unreaSonably are speed crazy, willing to risk them. selves and others. And our acej- dents kill Americans faster than our wars, Foundation data shows.
 These suggestions, therefore, were made by Enc engineers:
 Ill preparing speed regulations permissible speeds for the follow ing locations and conditions should be specially studied by each city in. Voived:--
 1. On city streets within deSIg- mated zones.
 2, Through public parks and parkwayS.
 3, On suburban roads within designated zones.
 h VII GOuHbIJ EOhAb gbHgClhHy when approaching cities and townG
 s. On oil streets and roads when approaching or passing through (a) CrogsWallss (b) Crossroads Co Side roads on the right
 (d) Railroad grade crossings (e) Street car tracks
 CD School hospital or similar zones
 @ Curves
 (h) On grades
 d At places of restricted sight distances
 What the particular speed should be-" MT. Enc pointed out, "is q matter for local study. For existing conditions of traffic in particular localities must Dc taken into account. Studies have proved that when Q road Is crowded there IS c definite speed ct which the maximum number of vehicles can safely and efficiently pass given
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-17

(ContInued from Page 1) Of Llvergnano, and continued two miles north to the northern slope Of the hill town Of Santa Anna,
 On the Eighth Army front, Ca. Iladian troops paced gains oil along the Adriatic sector with c drive that carried to the east bank of the PiS. ciatelo canal on the outskirts Of Cesena, one of the main western positions on the Bologna. .Rinini highway.
 Another Crossing
 To the right Of the Canadians, New Zealand forces made another crossing of the ecoIo RigoSSa ca- mai on c broad front and were ap. preaching PiSclatelio.
 British arinored forces driving north toward the highway cap. tured Monte Romano, c high fea. ture three miles south Of CcSena, and held it against strong German counter attacks.
 Fighting continued, however, in the vicinity Of Monte Neale, one mile southwest of Monte Romano.
 On the coastal sector, Greek DO. troIs crossed the Fiuniclno river and headquarters said 1t seemed unlikely the Germans would cofls tinue trying to hold the river line. which rapidly was becoming out Of alignment with the rest Of their front.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-17
PRIESTS MOTHER
 TAKEN BY DEATH
Mrs. Anna Grinvalsky of TOrrington Leaves IA
 Other Children

Torrlngton, Oct. l7--Mrs. Anna Marie 0rinvalsky, 65, of l09 Har- winton avenue, widow of John Grln- valsky, died unexpectedly Monday at st. Francis hospital, Hartford. where she had been Q patient for the past two weeks. Born in Czechoslovakia, she had lived in Torrington more than 50 years. Her husband died here last May g.
 She leaves nine sons, Rev. stephen A. Grlnvalsky of Hartftrd. John, Jr., of Flushing, N. Yu Andrew Of Winsted. James of Torrington, Cor poral George drinValsky of Fort Leonard Wood, Mo, Private Bernard drinvalsky, Marines, stationed ct Paris Island, s. 0, Pfc. Henry drinvalsky of New York University College of Medicine. Jtseph of Tor rington and Michael of Bridgeport; six daughters, Sister Maria Thelma of Holy Ghost Convent, Olyphant, Pa, Miss Anna 0rinvalsky of New York City, Miss Rita Grinvalsky, student at New Britain Teachers college, and Mrs. Susan Lach, Miss Kathryne Grinvalsky and Miss Elizabeth orinvalsky of Torrington; two brothers, Andrew and stephen Zaharek of Torrington, and Ji grandchildren.
 The btdy was removed to the 0leeson Mortuary. Funeral arrange ments are incomplete.