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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-30
BOUND FOR ELFIN COVE

Mrs. Roy B. Elliott. recently discharged from St. Anns Hospital following surgical care. is regis tered at the Gastineau Hotel en- route to her home in Elfin Cove.
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STARTLING
 EVIDENCE
 IS GIVEN
Surprise Witness Testifies al War Crimes Trial
 at Nuremberg
By DANIEL DE LUCE

BULLETIN NUREMBERG, Nov. 30--At the German war crimes trial here, the one-time deputy Maxi fuehrer has made confession. Hitler's right hand-man admitted today that he had faked the loss of memory which he thought would enable him to evade prosecution. Hess declared that he wanted to be tried with the other top Naxis--tried as man who knows what he is doing and who accepted full reaponsi- bility for his deeds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-30

In 1943 there were 30,888, ,134 motor vehicles of all types in the United States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-30

A. T. Therandal has arrived from Nome and is a guest at the Baranof.
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adoption by the Board of Directors as recommended by the member ship. The bylaws were amended to conform with Federal Court de- cree which eliminated consideration of competitive factors in voting upon applicants for membership.
 LONDON-Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill is II today. Hun dreds of messages of congratula- tions poured in from all parts of the world. The only observance planned is a party at Churchill's Hyde Park Gate home tonight for his family and intimate friends.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-30

NEW YORK Pan American World Airways has announced a cut in its transatlantic schedule--a re- duction from five flights week to only two. The company says the reduction was ordered by the Brit ish government, in retaliation for Pan Americans low passenger rates. The company recently announced a fare of $275 for flights between New York and London, That's about $500 cheaper than the previous fare.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-30

Guam is the largest of the Mari ana Islands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-30

LUMBERTON, N. c. = At least four persons were killed and g were injured early today in a bus-oil tanker collision on highway about 10 mics from this eastern North Carolina city.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-30

NEW YORK-The amended by- laws of The Associated Press be- came effective yesterday with their
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-30
SPY EXPERT PLOTTED TO KILL HITLER
Freight Rate Case To Be Heard Ln Juneau
BULLET N 5

WASHINGTON General George c. Kenney said today the l1th Air Force will remain in Alaska and the Aleutians. He announced the Far Eastern Air Force and the Stra- tegic Air Forces were being con- solidated into a single Pacific unit under General MacArthur
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-30

PORTLAND-A. F. of L. lumber strike ranks are shrinking rapidly as one operation after another settles on the basis of 15-cent an hour wage increase. Most Everett, Seat tie, Tacoma, Grays Harbor, Long, view, Vancouver, Portland Willam- cite Valley and Oregon coastal mills have approved the boost which is five cents less than demanded.
 SAN FRANCISCO Anything can happen in California and frequently witness the new developments with the professional thumpers and groaners known as wrestlers. They are forming a union and will seek a charter from the AFL.
 CHICAGO - More than 100000 members of the CIO Packing House Workers Union are casting ballots today in a poll conducted by the NLRB deciding whether to strike for 25-cent an hour wage increase.
 NEW YORK The British liner Queen. Elizabeth now is being used to bring Canadian servicemen home, but because of winter storms it will dock in the future here instead of Halifax on this side of the Atlantic The returning Canadian servicemen will be taken from New York to Canada in Canadian trains.
 OSLO, Norway-U. s. Ambassador Lithgow Osborne will represent Cor dell Hull in the ceremony December 12 at which the former U. s. Secre- tary of State will be presented the Nobel Peace Prize for 1945, the Nobel Committee said today. Hull has advised that he will be unable to attend.
 CHUNGKING-The Communists have gone over to the offensive in Inner Mongolia, according to the government and have opened a new attack on the key rail city of Kwecsu, with the support of Japanese artil- lery.
 DALLAS was announced to- day that the University of Missouri has been given permission by the Big Six Conference to play in the Cotton Bowl football game on Janu- ary 1. Missouri will play the Uni versity of Texas.
 SALEM, Willamette Uni versity's veteran athletic director and head football coach R. s. (Spec) Keene-has resigned to enter the sporting goods business. A few days ago, Keene was discharged from the Navy, where he served more than two years as Lieutenant Commander in the physical educa- tion program.
 LUMBERTON, N. c. - At least four persons were killed and 22 were
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WASHINGTON = Five different Senators called today for an end to the wartime draft. The demand was voiced on the Senate floor after Congressman Chapman Revercomb of West Virginia asserted that the Army is getting volunteer recruits at the rate of 175,00 a month
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WASHINGTON-The House tcrday reversed it's Appropriations Co6l- mittee on the matter of navigation and flood control. The House added more than 122-million dollars for navigation and flood control to a deficiency supply bill The items had been removed from the bill by the Appropriations Committee.
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INSIDE

THE MANAGEMENT FARLEY Labor isn't the only group split
Evening star., 1945-02-04

Northern Alsace was likewise STEP
ping up its assault, and drove the
last resistance from Ofendorf, II
miles north of Strasbourg.
Nazi Corridor Reduced.
Three miles farther north and
miles from the Rhine, 1t. Gen
Alexander M. Patch's troops occu-
pied Rohrwiller, virtually liquidat-
ing the Nazi corridor which once
menaced Strasbourg from the north
The Americans still were held up
at Oberhoffen, Is miles north OF
Strasbourg, where forces thrusting
back across the Moder River were
engaged in hard fighting for the
third straight day.
Fighter bombers lashed at the
Germans there and in Southern AL
SAGE, where the railway bridge
across the Rhine due east of Col
mar also was under Allied artillery
fire.
The remainder of the Western
Front was in an ominous lull except
for the 3rd Army invasion of the
Reich in the Moselle Valley between
Luxembourg and the Saar.
Here the Oath Infantry Division
cleared the Campholz Woods, 3 miles
inside Germany and Is miles south
east Of Luxembourg city, a front
dispatch said.
Evening star., 1945-02-04
Russia
Continued From First Page. }

seized Schloppe, on the Berlin
Danzig highway and railway 10 miles
southeast Of Stettin and % south
west Of encircled Schneidemuhl.
At the other end of the front
the Russians took Jagdhaus, and
at intermediate points closed in on
Deutschkrone by seizing Sagermuhl,
|3 miles on the northeast; Quiram,
3 miles on the south, and Karls-.
ruhe, 5 miles on the southeast.
Reds Gain in East Prussia.
In East Prussia the Russians
gained up to 5 miles on a curving
32-mile front and captured 80 local.
tiles In the shrinking Axis pocket
below besieged Konigsberg. These
included Eichhorn, miles south
east OF Landsberg, and Spittehnen,
2 miles west of Bartenstein, two of
the last few big towns still held by
the encircled Germans.
Konigsberg itself still held out
and Moscow dispatches said it
AoOhCo 2lAS d NOlIdllO do A1Cll. 1NdU
Cherniakhovsky's Sd White Russian
Army troops fought in its suburbs
and poured streams of shells into
its buildings.
The German high command indi-
Gated that the six-week-old siege
of Budapest, Hungarian capital, was
almost over. Praising the bravery of
the garrison it disclosed that the
remnants of the once formidable
Nazi force there had been COM
pressed by the Russians into small
pocket around the royal castle in
Buda on the west bank of the DAN
ube, and was being supplied by air
The Russians announced capture
of 10 more blocks in Buda and for
the first time disclosed the power
of the German relief attacks south
west Of Budapest between the cap
ital and Sekesfehervar, 80 miles
away.
Evening star., 1945-02-04
World Bill Of Rights
Urged by Sumner WeIIes
Nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-Sumner
Welles, former Undersecretary OF
State. called tonight for an inter-
national bill of rights guarantee
ing fundamental human freedoms
to signatory nations of an interna-
tional organization.
Mr.. Welles told the American
Jewish Committee at a dinner meet
ing there was only one way the
United States would be able to OBJ
tain for peoples of other nations the
same rights guaranteed to the Amer
leans.
That is through the insistence OF
the Government of the United
States that the charter of the COM
ing international organization must
contain specific and contractual OBJ
legations to be entered into by every
state participating in the interna-
tional organization and which COM
init each contracting party to grant
its nationals the permanent enjoy
ment of the human freedoms in
volved," he said.
Evening star., 1945-02-04
Reds AssaiI neuiraIs,
See Third World War
fosiered by Spain
By RDDY GILMORE.

AsSoclafeo SFesS Wat CotIe6ponoent.
MOSCOW, Feb. s. The Soviet
publication, War and the Working
Glass, included criticism OF Spain,
Sweden and Switzerland In inter-
national discussions in its February
issue out today.
In an article entitled Search
for Franco Substitute" the peri
odical asked, In what way can the
Spanish republic be restored2
"The question must be answered
by the Spanish people themselves,
and before that by those who, dur
ing the Falanging terror. organized
resistance inside the country" it
said.
Soviet society is greatly interest,"
ed In what is going on in and
around Spain, not only because that
heroic people for three years re-
pulsed the first blows of the Ger
man and Italian aggressors but be-
cause the Soviet Union always SYM
pathized fully with them.
1--WE must always bear in mind
that Spain will remain under con-
troll 4. Of German financiers and
manufacturers and may become the
birthplace of a third world war.
mo change of faces will be able
to avert this danger. The only way
to destroy the danger is to restore
to the Spanish people full Freedom
to regulate their own fate after all
the various forms of Fascism are
completely destroyed"
Another article, entitled Some
thing More about Swedish Hospital
ity,' criticized Sweden on the
grounds that she allowed emigrants
from the Baltic and Gestapo agents
to carry on anti-Soviet activities.
1t declared that a Soviet journal
ist had asked reasonable question,
If serious, irreparable harm had
not been caused to the national in
terests of Sweden by the protec-
ton and convenience enjoyed by
anti-Soviet gangs"
The article concluded, "he who
goes to bed with dogs wakes up with
f1eas'
Accusing Switzerland of pro-Fas-
cist activities, War and the Work.
ing Glass" said: The Soviet esti-
nation Of the pro-Fascist policy of
Switzerland was made three months
ago. Everything which has hap
pened since has been proof for many
American commentators, who rea-
lie at last the full justice of the
facts arraigned against Switzer-
land"
Evening star., 1945-02-04
Mrs. Luce Hits 'CIods,
Women Who DON |
Support War Effort
BY the Associated Press.
Z AyUvry xy<Nnv n~l

~ the ASsociAted Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-Representa-
tive Glare Boothe Luce, Republican,
Of Connecticut today described q Ar,
"unimaginative clod and spiritual
fat-cat" any American physically
able and free Of domestic burdens
who does not voluntarily put mind
and hand to some sort Of war work. !"
She told the 24th annual luncheon
Of the Women's National Republican
Club that those Americans do not
"see that freedom is again In dam
ger" or do not care.
Mrs. Luce said they "have done
little or nothing to win the war ex-
cept perhaps to keep their skin lily
white for some GI to touch when he
comes home-if he is lucky enough
to come home with hands to touch
the skin with"
Senator Hickenlooper, Republi-
can, Of Iowa, another speaker, de-
clared American foreign policy has
been abused and confused" as the
result OF what he termed the failure
OF the President and the admin
istracion to make clear just what
their foreign policy IS"
Mrs. Luce said that II Americans
ARE forced to choose between the
political freedom Of the individual
and the economic security of the
individual, as they may we'll be II
we cannot give them both, they will
choose economic security"
Can any political party in this
Nation promise and give the indi-
vidual citizen both freedom and Sc
curity?" she asked, adding If Re-
publican leaders cannot make that
promise effectively and sincerely,
then we must face the plain fact
that the Republican party never
again will come TO power"
Evening star., 1945-02-04
Nazis Make Counterattacks.

On a 30-mile front east and south
east Of Sekesfehervar the Russians
had been pushed back almost to the
Danube, the communique disclosed,
in telling of the recapture Of more
than so localities, including Kisver-
lencze, miles east of Sekesfeher-
var; Perkata, 20 miles on the SOUTH
Evening star., 1945-02-04
Bishop Hunt Of Utah
To Preach Sermon
Al {. US Red Mass

The Most Rev. Duane G. Hunt,
bishop Of the diocese Of Salt Lake
City. Utah. will preach the sermon
at II am. today at the Red Mass at
Catholic University. The Red Mass
Is the solemn mass Of the Holy
Spirit annually held for the courts
and Congress In the National
Shrine Of the Immaculate Concep-
ton at Catholic University. Bishop
Hunt will speak on "The Sanctity
of Human Rights"
After the mass there will be q
reception for Supreme Court JUS
tices, members of Congress and for
diplomats, in Curley Hall on the
campus.
DR.. Brendan Brown, acting dean
OF the School of Law at the uni
versity, and other law school men,
bers are on the committee for the
mass. DR.. Brown said the observ-
ance had its origin in France, where
for centuries judges and legislators
participated in the Red Mass. The
tradition was initiated by the judges,
who met at the holy sacrifice of the
mass TO invoke the aid of the di-
vine source Of wisdom and justice
in their deliberation"
The Rev. DR.. Jerome D. Hannah,
associate professor Of canon law at
the university, will be the celebrant.
The Rev. John F. Maher, o. S. A.,
and the Rev. Ralph v. Sjuhler, o.
S. A., both of Augustinian College,
will be deacon and subdeacon, re-
spectively. The master of cere-
monies will be the Rev. Dr. William
j. Lallou, associate professor of
liturgy at Catholic University. He
will be assisted by the Rev. Walter
j. Schmitz, S. S., professor of liturgy
at the university.
Vincent L. Toomey, general chair
man Of the mass, announced that
Postmaster General Walker and Su-
preme Court Justice Murphy will
be honorary chairmen.
Evening star., 1945-02-04
y. 5. Tanker Sunk by Sub
With Loss Of s. Seamen
~ ths Associatsd Press.

~ ths Asoociatsd Press.
The War Shipping Administration
announced last night that m enemy
submarine sank . large American
tanker In the Arabian Sea with the
los Of - merchant seamen. The
date was not reported.
The tanker, the H. D. Collier Of
the Standard OH Co. OF California,
was transporting l02, 900 barrels of
high-octane gasoline and was struck
BY three torpedoes. The raider sur
faced and shelled the tanker as two
hfeboats were launched.
On lifeboat, carrying the vessels
master, Capt. Joseph Fox. Oakland,
Calf, was swamped and drifted into
the flames fed by the gasoline. All
aboard were lost.
Several days later the SS Empire
picked up "A survivors In the second
lifeboat.
Evening star., 1945-02-04
Won PouIus Reported
Seeking Peace Terms
sy the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Feb. 3.-The newspaper
lie Monde reported today that dis
patches from Bern said Nazi Field
Marshal Friedrich Won Paulus, who
is member of the Soviet-sponsored
Free Germany Committee, had ar
rived in Bern to negotiate peace
terms with the Allies. Won Paulus
surrendered the German 9th Army
at Stalingrad in February, 1943.
There was no confirmation here
of this report. 1t was unclear how
Won Paulus, already under Allied
control, could negotiate with the
Allies"
Evening star., 1945-02-04

east, and Sarbogard, "a miles on the
southeast.
The Germans for weeks had
claimed continuing successes in this
area until few days ago when the
Russians went over to the counter
attack. The new drive by Marshal
Feodor I. Tolbukhin's Sd Ukraine
Army now apparently is well under
way and Moscow has shown its
counterresults and what preceded it.
ed it.
In the drive on Frankfurt, last
major obstacle on the direct road to
Berlin, the Russians during the day
captured more than $50 German
localities, including the powerful
hedgehog positions of Zielenbig, "a
miles to the northeast, and Stern
berg. % miles to the southeast.
Pushing on through Reopen the
Russians cut the Kustrin- -Breslau
railway, last north-south German
communications line in the Oder
bend, and Moscow dispatches said
that Soviet artillery already had
been placed in the ridges over
looking the Oder and was shelling
the Germans east bank fortifica-
tions on the 16-mile front between
Frankfurt and Kustrin.
Much Equipment Captured.
Marshal Gregory K. Zhurkov was
pouring thousands of tanks. guns
and infantrymen into the big bend
formed by the Oder and Warthe
Rivers, and these troops encircled
the large German force in a forest
southeast of Kustrin, apparently the
Limmritz and Konigswalde forests
which stretch for 80 miles east of
fallen Sonnenburg.
The Soviet communique said that
5000 of the trapped Germans re-
sisted and were killed, and that
9,450 surrendered. In addition to
int1icting these casualties the Rus
slams said they captured 1853 guns,
IS mortars, 167 machine guns, 1926
trucks, 500 motorcycles, 200 carts
laden with war supplies and other
material.
Evening star., 1945-02-04

guished Service Cross posthumously
today to Capt. Alexander NJ. Patch,
Sd, son Of 1t. Gen. Alexander M.
Patch, jr., commander Of the United
States 7th Army.
Capt. Patch was wounded In an
engagement in which he led COM
pany against the enemy in q forest
near Sally last August, but insisted
on remaining at the head OF his
company for two hours until the OBJ
jective was in sight.
He was wounded fatally last Oc-
tober IN Parroy Forest. Previously
he had been awarded the Distin-
guished Service Medal and the Sill
yer Star.
Evening star., 1945-02-04
Western Front
Continued From First Page. J

field, only a mile from Schlieden In
the eastern edge Of the Siegfried
Line.
The 9th Infantry Division kept
pace 2 miles to the north and was
within miles of second communi-
cations center at Gemund, which
also is rear position in the elabo-
rate Siegfried defenses.
Gemund is 16 miles south of
Duren, where American forces are
drawn up at the Roer River barrier
to the Rhine plain-which would be
outflanked unless Won Rundstedt
could rally and stop this attack.
Schlieden is 3 miles south of Ge-
mund. Both lie far east of the main
belts of bunkers, pillboxes, dragons
teeth and mine fields which the Ger
mans-before American entry into
the war-boasted never could be
cracked
Main Highways Seized.
BY capturing Bronsfield, the 1st
Army seized control Of the main
highways leading into Schleiden.
The 9th Division captured Dreiborn,
miles from Gemund.
Against this growing attack, the
Germans threw in service troops and
rear echelon soldiers, but still the
two divisions streamed through
under artillery and motor IRE. More
than a half dozen towns were en-
gulfed in the sweep.
Trouble was developing for the
enemy five miles south of this sec
tor, where the 1st Division was
through two rows of dragons teeth
and was battling in Ramscheid, a
mile inside Germany and within the
main Westwall defenses.
Two miles farther south the 82d
Airborne Division completed the
occupation of Udenbreth, with its
heights commanding all Siegfried
positions in that area.
1t. Gen. George S. Patton's Sd
Army ran into rocky resistance as
it pressed to within 51a miles of
the West Walls fortified commune
cations city of Prum.
Approach to Prum Cleared.
A trent dispatch said the Ger
mans finally were cleared from
Bleialf in the nearest approach to
Prum. The town, 31z miles inside
Germany, was prematurely reported
taken yesterday.
Six miles to the southwest a 1-mile
advance by infantry overran the
village of Berg, and two Luxembourg
towns were liberated in mopping ur
operations on the west bank of the
Our farther south.
Rain and mist, turning snowfields
into quagmires, limited activity else
where on Gen. Patton's front to pa
trolling.
Counting the original gap torn ir
the Siegfried Line at Aachen, ano
later extended to the north, Allied
armies now are through As miles o1
the defenses and have broken
through the inner belt on a 35-mile
front from the Roer sector north OF
Aachen to a point south of Mons
chau.
Colmar Being Mopped Up.
In Southern Alsace, 1t. Gen. Jean
de Lattre de Tassigny's French 1st
Army mopped up the last German
resistance in Colmar, famed as the
birthplace of the sculptor of the
Statue of Liberty.
Without waiting for the cleanup
other units swept south both east
and west of the city to miles
Five or six more towns were lib
Grated, and the once-strong Ger
man Colmar pocket appeared to be
on the verge of collapse.
Enemy rearguards fought back
fiercely to keep open the roads oi
escape. Forty-eight miles of the
Rhine's west bank south of Stras-
bourg-13 more than yesterday
now were In Allied hands.
The United States 7th Army In
Evening star., 1945-02-04
New York Ex-OfficiuI
Given UNRRA Post

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 3.-Edward E.
Rhatigan, former New York City
welfare commissioner, has been
named deputy director general of
the United Nations Relief and Re-
habilitation Admins ration in
charge of operations at the Euro
pean regional Office, it was an
nounced today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-07
FitfuI Sleep Often Due
10 Such Gas Misery

One great trouble is that such
gas often seems TO be at Its worst
during the night. Frequently, II
seems to press up against the
diaphragm when one lies down.
making one feel smothery and
breathlesS In bed, and sleep may
be very difficult. Some people try
to sleep sitting in a chair. Others
keep rising up in bed to get their
breath easier.
WHEN SUCH MISERY is DUE
TO GAS HELD IN THE INTES-
TINES BY SLUGGISH BOWEL
ACTION. TRY KONJOLA AND
SEE WHAT RELIEF TT CAN
BRING
koniola contains Natures herbs
which help TO open sluggish bowels
and release such gas, and men and
women throughout the country
have written letters expressing
their thanks and gratitude 10 KON.
JOLA for the satisfactory results
10 produces.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-07
Hero Son S Medal
Awarded Mother
Flint Soldier Honored
for His Brave Death

FLINT. Jan. 6-The Silver Star
for gallantry in action awarded
posthumously to a Flint soldier
was presented 20 his mother in
the first such presentation ever
made here.
1t. Otto Stanhiser, Flint area
army commander, pinned the
medal on widowed Mrs. Magda-
lene Dobransk in her home at
1452 Massachusetts in recognition
OF the heroic feats Of her son,
Pvt. George NJ. Dobranski
Pvt Dobranski was killed on
the Anzio beachhead. Feb. s, 1914,
The citation read 10 Mrs. Do
bransh by 1t. Stanhiser. and
translated into Hungarian by the
Reg. Fr. Anthony Csaky. stated
that during an enemy counteFat-
tack, Dobranski was In an out
post 200 yards in front of us
con1pany's main line Of defense.
When the enemy advanced toward
his position he fired on them. &C,
coDsting for several and prevent
ing them from fanking the
company