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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
7ofh Congress Will Be
 More CoIoriuI ifan 78th:
 Many Issues Are involved
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Dec 28. - Make no mistake about it. the color of the 79th Congress on many matters is going to be quite different from that of the 78th. To explore all shades of it will take a whole series of articles and some of those shades can't be determined until the first battles of next January and Feb ruary make the alignments more clear
 However. one thing is certain: on the matter of foreign policy, the administration has made it's greatest gains since well before Pearl Har- bor.
 This is vital point now, since the resignation of aging Secretary of State Hull. Probably more than any member of the cabinet, Cordell Hull had the respect and admiration of Congress. His policy of coopera- ton with representatives of both sides of the Capitol did much to dispel the antagonism between the legislative and executive branches.
 But if the State Department re- turns to it's old conservative aloof- ness from the mundane matters of legislation, the President will need every gain that has been made in the Senate, where two- thirds of that body must consent to any treaties or agreements with the other world powers.
 Numerically, the change in the Senate alignment isn't worth men, tioning. The temper of the new Senate will be something else again. The voters turned out six of the Presidents most persistent oppon- ents in the upper chamber These are Republican Senators Gerald P. Nye N. D.; John A. Danaher, Conn.,; Rufus C. Holman, Ore, and Demo- crats D. Worth Clark, Idaho. Ben nett c. Clark, Mo, and the late F.. D. Cotton Ed Smith, s. c. Sen. Robert R. Reynolds, N. C., another thorn in the administrative side, didn't choose to run.
 Among the new Senators who have views, which to say the least, are far less antagonistic will be Democrats Clyde Hoey, N. C.; William Full bright, Ark. who made a brilliant
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
WALTER JOHNSON,
 ANG00N NATIVE,
 ARRESTED TODAY

Walter A. Johnson, 2l, was ar raigned in U. s. Commissioners Court this afternoon on two charges burglary, and attempted rape of Juneau woman, assistant United States Attorney R. L. Tol- lefsen announced today. He is being held under S3,00O bond.
 It is alleged, Tollefsen said, that the accused entered a home around 5 a. m December 27 City Police. at the time, were called to the scene but the intruder had made his getaway He was arrested late yesterday and identified this morn ing
 Johnson came to Juneau from Angoon about November Is of this year
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
STORES ARE SEIZED

CHICAGO, Dec. 28. - The Army took possession of Montgomery Ward Company properties in seven cities under an executive order of the President who declared the govern ment cannot and will not tolerate any interference in war production in this critical hour"
 The seizure caem amid strikes in the war establishments at Detroit, Chicago, Kansas City as protests arose by the CIO United Retail and Wholesale Department Store Em- ployees Union against the failure or the company and it's board chair man, Sewell Avery, to comply with the War Labor Board directives.
 The seizure came amid strikes in Ward would not be allowed to set aside government war time policies just because Mir Sewell Avery doesn't approve of the governments procedure for handling labor dis putes.'
 A staff of Justice Department ex- perts filed petition in Federal Court asking an injunction to re- strain Avery and other company officials from interfering with. 2oy- ernment operation of the company's facilities in Chicago, Detroit, St. Paul, Denver, Jamaica, N. r., Port land, Oregon and San Rafael, Calf.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
RETURNS IN
 FROM LARGE
 PRECINCTS
Veteran Alaskan Has Wide Lead 0vef Both
 Opponents

With returns in from l9 of the First Divisions 52 precincts, un- official returns from yesterday s special election indicated that Ju- neau's Allen Shattuck was elected to the Territorial Senate Returns tabulated late this afternoon gave Shattuck a wide lead over F. F. Davis of Juneau and Frank Price of Sitka.
 Shattuck had a total of 1,118 votes, Davis 616 and Price 489, with returns from all of the major precincts in Southeast Alaska turned in. The remaining precincts probably will not alter the picture, but the native vote yet to come in may put Price ahead of Davis.
 Here is the way other cities in the First Division voted:
 Ketchikan cast light vote of 326. Of this number Davis re- ceived 159, Shattuck l32 and Price 34.
 Mountain Point near Ketchikan gave Davis 6. Shattuck 8. Waeker Precinct near Ketchikan gave Davis 9, Shattuck 2. Ward Cove near Ketchikan gave Shattuck 5. Gra- vina gave Davis and Shattuck 6. Revilla Precinct gave Price 27, Shattuck ' and Davis 4.
 Wrangell cast III votes-Dayis 58, Price 32 and Shattuck Is. Sti- kline Precinct near Wrangell gave Davis 8 and Shattuck G.
 Sitka cast 176 for Price in his home town, gave Shattuck 79 and Davis 29.
 Haines gave Shattuck Is and Price 20.
 Petersburg gave Davis "A, Price 23, Shattuck P.
 In all precincts few votes were thrown out for failing to meet legal requirements and a few scattered votes were cast for other candi- dates, accounting for the discrep- ancy in the totals.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
jApS ATTACK TANK TROOPS
 ON MIND0R0
Enemy FIees from Scene of Battle After Loss of
 } Desfroyers
By c. YATES MCDANIEL fA. P. War COrrcspOndent)

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP PINES, Dec. 28--The battle for the central Philippines flared into &C., tion on the night of December 26 when a Japanese battle task force steamed from the China Sea and subjected eleven -day-old American positions on Mindoro Island to what MacArthur in his communi- que described as 'fruitless, inac- curate shelling.'
 American planes, Mitchells and Thunderbolts, and Navy PIT boats drove off the enemy ships, the communique said Three of six en- emy destroyers in the smelling force were sunk and a battleship and a cruiser fled with the remaining three destroyers after being dam aged.
 This belated enemy reaction to the virtually unopposed American occupation was discovered at dusk Oh December 20.
 Unofficial reports indicated that Japanese planes attacked American ground positions at the height of the fight off the coast and air raids followed with a light attack on the nights of December 25 and 26, which the communique said caused little damage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
sUpERF0RTs BOMB TOKYO
 PLANE WORKS
Surprise Raid Continues for 90 Minutes Over
 Targets Wednesday

WENTY- FIRST BOMBER COMMAND, SATAN, Dec B. Superfortress bombs, breaking from a clear sky, pummelled surprised Tokyo for an hour and half Wednesday.
 One returning pilot said his in- formation alone laid a pattern of explosives two blocks wide and seven blocks long across the im- portant industrial area where no missile could fail to hit the target"
 The Musashina factory of the Makajim Aircraft company was the primary target, but the first formation, led by Capt. Vance Black, pushed by terrific tailwinds, overshot the plant. Nevertheless, they said, they apparently hit the factory somewhere in it's 50 acres of one-story workshops,
 Early photographs showed at least dozen new bomb hits on the plant. Pictures of budding bomb bursts gave rise to the hope that later photographs will show heavy damage to the works one of the keys to Japans aircraft produc- ton.
 One of the giant planes was lost over Tokyo, but the Superforts downed perhaps the largest num- Der of enemy planes yet destroyed over the island of Honshu on which the capital is situated. The total bag has not yet been officially announced
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
BIG VOTE IS SHOWN HERE. FOR SHATTU(k
Juneauites Cast 1,108 Bal lots in Special EIee-
 lion Wednesday

Allen Shattuck, Juneau insurance man and veteran of four previous sessions in the Legislature, received an overwhelming majority of the l. 1O8 votes cast in the three Juneau precincts in yesterdays special elec- tion for Territorial Senator.
 Shattuck carried all three pre- cincts, receiving more votes in each than the votes for F. F. Davis of Juneau and Frank Price of Sitka, put together.
 In Precinct One where 557 votes were cast, Shattuck received 389 votes, Price 34 and Davis 79. In Precinct Two Shattuck received 129 of the 241 votes, Davis got 80 and Price 23. In the Third Precinct Shattucks vote out of a total of BIO cast was ITO, Davis getting 104 and Price 34
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
BULLETINS

LONDON = The German radio said tonight von Rundstedt's spear heads both to the west of the breakthrough area in Belgium and on the southern flank are with drawing according to plan" be- fore heavy American counter-at- Jacks.
 LONDON-Patton's Third Army is striking northward against the German offensive to relieve the Bastogne garrison and have ad- vanced Is miles.
 ARIS-American forces are cut ting deep into both sides of von Rundstedts bulge according to re- ports tonight The entire German line is yielding.
 LONDON = Seventeen hundred heavy bombers late today ham, mered II rail targets in Western Germany despite heavy weather.
 LONDON - German bombs anc V-bombs killed 8,9O8 civilians anc seriously injured 21,000 in the first eleven months of this year.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
CHURCHILL
 FIRED UPON
 BY SMIPER
Bullet WhistIed Close to Prime Minister-Afhens
 Case Sill Unsettled
By STEPHEN BARBER A. P. War Correspondent)


 ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 28-Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who came here to help solve the armed strife which has rent this country, was fired upon by an ELIAS sniper yesterday morning as he stood out side the British Embassy. The bull let whistled by him and struck a young woman three hundred yards away
 This is but one incident in the tense, dramatic day on which op- posing Greek factions agreed un- animously upon regency as the principal step toward ending civil warfare here.
 Churchill told press conference he, Stalin and Roosevelt would take up the Greek question at the meeting to be held in the near future.
 With the agreement of the all- party conference upon regency the next step appeared to be up to King George, now in London. He was reported cool to the regency proposal when it was first pro- posed
 We feel our course has been absolutely right" Churchill assert ed .In August, in consultation with President Roosevelt, we agreed to bring in food and relief help until things settled down. Premier Stalin was consulted and gave his consent on this course
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Dec. 28 Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 6A. American Can 891a. Anaconda 28h. Beech Air craft l4A. Bethlehem Steel 647s. Curtiss Wright 5aa. International Harvester 79%, Kenn ecott 35Ts. North American Aviation 10. New York Central 22as, Northern Pa cific 20N, U. s. Steel 59A, Pound $4.04
 Dow. Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, l5047; rails, 47.62, utilities, 25.98.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
AGREEMENT REACHED

ATHENS, Dec 28 Warrin g Greek political factions agreed to- day that formation of a regency was step toward peace as British military authorities reported with drawal of some of the ELIAS forces from Athens and from positions on the highways leading into the city
 The majority of the conferees expressed themselves in favor of an immediate regency, while minor ity favored postponement, it was announced by Archbishop Damas kinos, chairman.
 A sniper's bullet narrowly missed Prime Minister Winston Churchill yesterday morning as he stood in front of the British embassy, Brit ish headquarters commented this morning. Sniping is fairly continu- ous across the front entrance of the embassy and there is no indi- cation that the sniper who was manning the machinegun aimed es- pecially at Churchill.
 Driving On ELIAS
 The Prime Minister and British c m mander It. Gen. Scobie watched British parachute troops, infantry, tanks and armored cars begin driving the ELIAS from cen- tral Athens today. Standing on FilonaSpas Hill. they saw stiff fighting Taged in the narrow winding streets of the Iroon dis t,ict. northwest of Acropolis and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
NAzl FLANK
 5AGCINC AS TANKS HIT
Big American Attack Push ing Germans Bdtk 10
 RhineIand

PARIS Dec. 23.-Field reports to- day indicated that von Rundstedt's whole southern flank for 35 miles back to the German border is sag ging under the doughboy and arr mored attack on the Belgian bulge. American tanks and infantry, re- suming their advance under the belly of the enemy salient, crossed the Sure River in four places by Wednes- day dawn. holding a narrow but firm relief corridor
 It is too early to foresee the out come for the Americans in the counterattack now under way which faces formidable obstacles, but here 1t is clear that the bold Nazi bid for a great December victory has butted into serious trouble.
 The German Army held for more than AS hours up to Wednesday dawn without a significant gain. German pockets are surrounded on
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
SHATTUCK STATEMENT

Late last night Shattuck issued a statement thanking the people of the Gastineau Channel area for the large vote.
 T am very appreciative and over whelmed by the confidence shown in me by the many who chose to cast their votes for me in the cleo tion," he said.
 At that time. results from other cities in the First Division had not been received by The Empire. fl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
CHIMNEY FIRE

An alarm at 3 o'clock this after noon from Box IA took the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department to the old Senate Rooms building, opposite the Coliseum Theatre, where a chimney under construction caught fire. No damage was reported by Fire Department members.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
PIONEERS GOING TO
 MEET FRIDAY NIGHT

The last regular monthly meeting of the Pioneers of Alaska for 1914 will be held tomorrow night start ing at 8 o'clock in the LOOP Hall. Following the business session. there will be social gathering also at- tended by the Pioneers Auxiliary which organization will hold busi- ness meeting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
Government Will
 Seize St0res of
 MonfgomerY-Ward

CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 28-Major Gen Joseph Byron today designat- ed the War Department to seize Chicago properties of Montgomery Ward under presidential order in showdown of the company's refusal to comply with War Labor Board directives from Washington.
 Reports indicated that a seizure will be effected in six other cities where similar controversies exist
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
MENDENHALL ICE THICK

The ice on Mendenhall Lake has reached a depth of approximately 10 inches, according to Edward Keithahn, Curator of the Terri torial Museum. who has visited the lake. Many Juneauites are taking advantage of the ice while it lasts and large crowds are reported to be skating there,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
BAKER IN TOWN

Robert A. Baker is in town from Ketchikan and is registered at the. Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
HOPE DIAMOND CLIPPERS

Senator Claude Pepper of Florida found himself on a hot social spot during a dinner given by Washing tons No l social lobbyist owner of the Hope Diamond, Evalyn Walsh Mclean. It was during the height
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28
AIRCRAFT OF ALLIES
 IN ACTION
Twenty-Five Hundred Tons of Bombs Dropped on
 Ndzis Day and Night

BULLETIN--WASHfNGTON. Dec. 28. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said the latest news from France Is favorable but the overall situation on the western front continues critical up to now"
 Stimson told the newsmen al the late afternoon conference the Germans are unable to ex- pand their base and a maneuvcr is necessary for deeper pene- tration because time is now working our enemy"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-28

iO1NA<0iss i%tNs 3os--1S1tfi tbAttost and American heavy bombers struck Germany today despite sleet storm which iced the ground and restricted visibility on the western front.
 A strong force of Royal Air Force Lancasters and Halifaxes dropped 2,500 tons of explosives and in cendiaries just before dawn on rail- roads and workshops at Opladen. l2 miles south of Cologne. where the Germans are seeking to repair dam aged military rolling stock
 For the sixth consecutive day air- craft of the United States Eighth Air Force sped over Germany short ly after noon. it was announced by United States Strategic Air Force Headquarters.
 The German radio said that day raiders are also striking at the Reich from the south. suggesting that op- erations are from Italian bases of the United States Fifteenth Air Force.
 Official accounts said that almost 1000 pieces of German railroad transport were demolished yester- day and 90 German fighters shot down. Some 4.000 Allied bombers and fighters took to the air.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-15
UNION HEAD RApSCLAIMS
 OF INDIANS
Also Says Doubt Exists as 10 Desire of Indians
 for Control

SEATTLE, Nov 15.-A union of- ficial today asserted, as the Alaska Indian land claims hearings re- sumed, there is "a serious question as to the desire of Alaska natives to claim exclusive use of the Alaska fisheries area now being sought.
 J. F. Jurich, President of the In- ternational and Fishermen and AL lied Workers Union, said, in letter admitted as an exhibit, the question arose when union representatives made their own investigations in the Southeast part of the Territory.
 Extensive hearings on the claims were held by the Department of the Interior in Alaska two months ago. Claiming he represe d 22,000 union m e m bers, Jurich's letter stated he believed this was sort of discrimination and would create racial prejudice. and would con- stitute a serious threat to the econ- omy of Alaska"
 Dr. E. D. Clark, Secretary of the Alaska Salmon Cannery Association, said more than million dollars in taxes are collected annually by the f1efr1tory from the salmon industry
 Dewitt Gilbert, Editor of Pacific Fisherman, gave comparative fig ures on the Alaska canned salmon output over a number of years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-15
CORPORATIONS
 INDICTED FOR
 PRICE FIXING

WASHINGTON, Nov. Is - Att torney General Riddle announces that 18 steel corporations and six of their officers have been indicted in Trenton, New Jersey, on charges of conspiring to fix prices on stain less steel.
 Riddle said the Grand Jury in- dictment charged that beginning in 1884 and continuously until the present time, the defendants were co-cons2irators engaged in unlaw- ful conspiracy to arbitrarily fix and maintain uniform non-competitive prices, terms and conditions for the sale of stainless steel and finished products sold in the United States. Conviction will involve maxi mum penalty of a $5,000 fine and one year imprisonment on each of the two antitrust charges, Riddle said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-15
S0vIETS SAY
 LAPS LOSING
 PACIFIC WAR
Speaker Reminds Aud. fence Also that Nips
 Attacked Russia

SCOW, Nov. 15.-Col. Ivan Tolchenov. Soviet military author ity, said the war in the Pacific IS developing unfavorably for Japan and recalled to his lecture audience that the Japanese attacked and raided the Soviet Union several times"
 His listeners included Japanese correspondents and Red Army men The address came nine days after Stalin declared Japan an aggressive r1 4ir-- p-.r~ia and Japan are al pea yression pact
 officers saic
 he first stage a ed offensive as6 anag g the second stage of Lne AiIlvu counter -offen- sive.
 They declared the Japanese sea and air forces were inferior but "the Japanese fleet has not suffered blows sufficient to paralyze it's ac- tivity, but its losses will greatly of- feet it's possibilities for resistance
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-15
UNITED AIR TERMINATES
 ALASKA RUN

CHICAGO, Nov. 15.-Officials oi United Airlines announce that ef- fective immediately flights between Seattle and Anchorage, Alaska, will be terminated at the request of the Air Transport Command.
 The move is being made, company officials said, so that United Air lines may transfer it's personnel from that route to trans-Pacific op- erations which it helps to conduct for the Army Transport Command.
 Airline officials said they have compiled statistics showing that more than 5,200,000 miles have been flown by the company on the Seattle-Anchorage route with 16,- 500000 pounds of men and supplies since 1942.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-15
GEMMILL IS B0UND0vER,
 GRAND JURY
Court Permits Him fo Go fo Former WenatChee Home
 Linen Come North

SEATTLE, Nov. l5-After a final hearing before United States Con- missioner Harry M Westfall, the Commissioner found probable cause to bind Lynn James Gemmill, United States Attorney for the First Division of Alaska. with headquarters at Juneau, over to the Grand Jury for action
 Gemmill is charged in the com- plaint, filed week ago last Sat- urday, with the alleged soliciting and accepting of money as bribe in the case of an Alaskan woman who is a defendant in a pending theft case. He is free on a $5,0O0 bond.
 Immediately after the hearing, Federal Judge Bowen granted Gemmill permission to leave the jurisdiction of the court and go to Wenatchee. Washington, his former home, then to Alaska.
 Mrs. Cleo Patricia Wilkins is named in the complaint as the woman from whom Gemmill is accused of accepting bribe. She testified at the hearing that she met Gemmill on November l in the Gowan Hotel, where "he told me that for $2,OOO or $3,OOO he would assure me of a suspended sen tence."
 On November 4, she said, she gave him $500.
 When arrested, Gemmill said he took the money from the woman when the woman offered to make partial restitution of the theft.
 FBI agents testified criminal case is pending in Alaska against Mrs. Wilkins, also involving two men and another woman.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-15
TANKS TRAP
 JAP FORCES
 IN BIG MOVE
Nips on 0rmoe Corridor Threatened with An-
 initiation or Retreat
By MURLIN SPENCER Associated Press War
 Correspondent)

MacARTHURS HEADQUART- FRS IN THE PHILIPPINES, Nov 15.-Successful enveloping move-i ments by veteran Americans of the 24th Infantry and dismounted First Cavalry Divisions fashioned a new trap today which threatened to an- nihilate Japanese forces on the north end of Leyte's bloody Ormoc corridor.
 Twenty fourth Infantrymen drove spearhead through the rugged mountain country southwest of Pin amapoan, threatening the Yama- shita line below Limon. Gen. Mac Arthur reported the strategy was well executed.
 While units of the 24th, fighting along Ormoc road, maintained pres sure on the Japanese, other elements of the division swung through the mountains to the southwest and cut back toward the Ormoc road. At the same time. the First Cavalry swung toward the road from the east and southeast, placing the Japanese in a position of having to retire or face probable an- initiation.
 On the southern end of the west ern Leyte battlefield, a small scale Japanese attempt to bring rein- forcements was repulsed by troops of the American Seventh Division which caught the enemy moving forward in small barges toward Dumalaan, IA miles south of Ormoc.
 This is the first mention in more than a week of the Seventh Divi- sion, driving from the south toward Ormoc, the only remaining rein forcement port for the enemy.