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Detroit evening times., 1945-04-20
ANTICIPATED DEATH

Every one knows that Ernie
somehow anticipated his death
when he began his tour Of duty
in the Pacific.
'Cmdr. Paul Smith. former San
Francisco newspaper executive
serving as navy press relations Of
-fieer- at -tkInawa. disclosed that
a few days before the Okinawa
expedition embarked. naval au-
thoritles sought 10 disSuade Pyle
from covering il. Ernie was at
tached 10 the marine landing
force.
lie did not relish his assign.
ment. but considered II his duty.
First To reach Pyle after he was
killed was an army combat
photographer, Cpl. Alexander
Roberts. 33, OF New York City.
Crawling along the road behind
him were the volunteer pail
bearers-TL5 Robert Toaz Of
huntington, N. Y. Cpl Paul
IShapiro Of Psssaic. y. J.. Pfc.
Minter Moore of Elkins. w Va.
and Sgt. Arthur j. Austin of
Tekamob. Neb, along with army
Chaplain NJ. B. Saucier Of Coffee
Vile. Miss.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-20
BRING BACK BODY

With Sniper fire cracking above
them. the four stretcher bearers
hauled the body across that nc
mans land and back 10 safety
His body had lain some 10 feet
from the narrow crossroads for
more than four hours before the
GlS were able 10 reach n.
Pyle was hit IN the left temple
Cpl Roberts said Ernie seemed
10 haze died aS quietly and calmly
aS he had hvcd. for he found him
in the ditch almost As If ne were
taking q rest
Clad m hl, green CT fatigue
uniform and still wearing brown
and white canouhaged helmet the
marines had ISSUED 20 HIN. Pyle :
arms we're folded across his chest.
according 10 Roberts.
APPEA AIRED TO SLEEP
With considerable emotion. he
said
"His features were pleasant
and peaceful and you might
have thought he was Just sleep
ing"
lie still wore pair Of green
sun glasses. and one hand clutched
his green GI fatigue cap.
Even though he had been
dead FIVE hours when I saw
him" Roberts added. "he had
lost very little color and didn't
look at all like he was dead"
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-20
Pacific Area

DOCKsTADER WILLIAM L., CPL -Hus-
hand OF Mrx Eiigbefh DockKtadeT. Howell
DoLECoWsRf JOHN :. PvT.-son of Mrs.
Catherine Dolegovsh. Dorr.
KEMPPAiNEN MARTIN L.. CPL,-Son VI
Mlka KemnnAlnen Pelkle.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-20
The Detroit Timss~>'
The Detroit
I; - Honor Roll
%\ Official Casualty List

Ouae casualties announced by the department today
include IS dead wounded 20 missing and A prisoners The
navy lists killed four wounded and one
missing
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-20
ARMY MISSING
EurOpean Area

BALcoM. KENNETH W. rf%-sn OF Mrs
Fen sn s.iSSn, hhsdiiiss hhssdaiiissyoep W CAPT
SIs susq pr ni5sV pEVEREAuX ". isr IT'@HusOsnd
Of Mn. Clara ;, Bush. se6e~aine.
r.5m eE5Fsr cs.2.y soyAsR S2.sa s.sa MS5so" of Mrs
cHRIsroFF. CHRIS A, PFc.-son OF Mrs
Me3 c3,s eAT;,1n vsskE '.ss''s a 5 scr-son o, Mr..
RUBY {. coIs' Elk Rapids
GUERNSEY. LEWIS A. sGT.-son Of Mar.
GusTfN. JAMES T., PVT Son Of Mus
Nellie c. Gustin. Grand Rapids.
HARRIS. ROBERT $, PvT-Hasbsnd Of
Mrs susie NJ Harris. MOntrose
HAAS CLINTON u, S sCT.--Son Of LaS-
renee c. Haas. Adrian
INKS, LYLE z 90 LT--HuIosnd Of Mn.
Gloria r.. Inks Battle Greek
JAcoUARr. FRANCIS Lo. PFC Son Of
Mrs Edna C Jseagari. ITonSood'
YLuMpP. RONALD T.. PvT-son Of Mrs
Leila Klumpp. At Pleasant.
LAARMAs JAY 2 PVT Son Of Mrs.
LANE, DALE &. PVT Husband o; Mrs.
vii thfaD PSi r f--vrr- n s-fc
PRiNGLE JACK NJ. SGT son Of Mrs
liner Pringle. Lansing.
RoaERTs DONALD. CPL -Husoand Of
Mrs. Gsnsyie's R9qs,'' flint .,,,.w .,
Mt. AAuds Tisdc cenierviils
sABoL. EMIL ~ ~. o.-Sen of Ms
Anna Ssbol Irunwood.
-SAI.p- -ToIro -PFG-sen Of Eif.-itst
ssiO IshpeminI
sroicHiCK ADAM. PFC son Of Mrs
Msrie stoiehick. smiths Greek.
THIEFELs. ROBERT J. FL o-son Of
Ferdinand n Thiefels. Pontiac
THOMPSON JOHN } I'D LT-Son Of
John c. Thompson. D.Ster.
VAN pYK WILLIAM Il SGT Husband
Of Mrs Antoinstte D. Van pyk' Grand Rapids
WOODS, CHARLES Il Set Husband
OF MTI Thelma 81 Woods ESseKNilie
Pacific Area
BECKER DAVID z SGT Son u Mrs
sophie Becker. Saginaw.
LAsSlLA MARTIN J PFC.-Son % ATs
Mary a LASlla. itnpeming
MABpY CHARLES r CPL--Son Of
MIA OrenA p. MsbTy, FLINT.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-20
ARMY DEAD
European Area

BEATTY PROCTOR. y. PFc-Brother OF
Belly. RoBERT " PFc-son of Ms,
Lenore n. Belly. Charleyois
BROWN gStm ROBERT slpw n s.t,: cTtsF Of
Mrs e sinef c. Byrnes. Piesqua isie.
F1NKBErNER. DONALD TLs-Son OF
Mrs Bertha L. Finkbeiner, BridfeyateT
FUTRELL. EVERETT l., 7 Son OF Mrs.
Marion Futrsil MuSkegon Heights.
HARTwIcK ELLIS J.. PVT Son Of Mrs
Mary HArtWtck Lupton
HAYNES, HARRY JR. PVT Husband Of
Mn Ann " Haynes. Bay City.
HOFFMAN HENRY. PFc.--son OF Mrs.
Cora Hoffman. Hart.
JOHNSON IvER o PFC Son Of Mrs
Alfredo johnson, MenOmlnee.
HELTNER. JOHN r PVT -Hutband OF
Mrs Betty Keltner Stsndish
KuJDA LUDWIK r., PVT son OF Mn.
Nellie Kuids. LepoH.
MoREHousE ROLAND l. SGT Son Of
Mrs Irene NoiehouSe, Jackson
MoREY MAX e PVT -HdsbAnd Of Mrs
Emma MoTey RoEoOush
MOuILIESEAIx ANTHONY z. PVT
son of Mrs william c. Mouilleseaw, Nj,
Clemens.
PARISH. JOHN IsT 1T son Of Mu
Eyye 5. Parish. Hermansville.
RIPsrRA HUBERT " PVT son Of Mrs
RoLFE GEORGE W. PVT Son of Mrs.
Eva eolis Graylins pvc soo ., AZ, c.,..
.aNsa D.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-20

SMITH HENRY 2 T 4-Husoand Of Mrs
Adriss l. smith Moray
sTEENMAk. WILLARD ? PFC Son u
Mn. Anna &. Van Bisrrum. ColeSate.
WAGNER RAY l., PIC Husband oi Mrs
Margaret NtgreT Jackson.
zAvORAL FRANK JR. SGT -Hus-
O6nd OF NrE. Clara ZAFogsI BentOu HaTbOr
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-20
Pacific Area

MAYLE CHESTER W. PFC Nephew Of
Howard Krumm Leroy
MCDONALD EDWARD " IsT LT-son
of Cecil T. Mcdonald Grand EAplcS
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-20
81 Dieppe
Vets Freed

Sixty-two Canadian Commando
veterans of the costly Dieppe raid,
some of whom are members OF
the famous Essex Scottish Regi-
ment of Windsor, have been lib
Grated by their Yank comrades in
Germany.
All of those rescued were
wounded in the terrific fighting at
Dieppe in August, 1912. The army
has not yet released the names
of the men. and il is assumed
that next Of kin will be notified
first.
8 OFFICERS SAFE
Three Windsor offic RS of the
Essex Scottish. captured by the
Germans on D-Day in Normandy,
also are safe in Allied hands. an
official report to Windsor rela-
tives said today. They apparently
were not among the Dleppe vet
Grams.
They are Capt. John Baxter,
1t. Charles Ambery and Capt.
Wallace Hogan.
Cpl. Harold Nelson of Winnipeg
said the Dieppe men had been
marching away from the crum-
bling Nazi front for seven days
under SIS and Volkssturm guards
when the u. S. 87th Infantry over
took them.
In the confusion of battle the
Commands escaped 10 the Amer
ican lines.
They said they had been able
10 keep reasonably accurate
check Of the progress of the war
BY the way their guards acted.
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-20
NAVY MISSING

SMITH ERNEST n IN %. USNR-
Mothel Mrs Myrtle Wright, Flint
lprH 10, I945.~~~~~~~~
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-20
Pacific Area

BECKER DAVID z SGT Son u Mrs
sophie Becker. Saginaw.
LAssiLA. MARTIN J. PFc-son oi Mrs
May a LASila. itrpcmins
-a1.nYrc 81
Detroit evening times., 1945-04-20

MAnpY CHARLES 2 CPL son O
MfH OrenA p MabTy, Flint.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-28
Al THEE OFF T0p0TSDAM
 CONFERENCE
New British Prime Minister Joins Truman, StaIin
 in Talks

LONDON, July 2o.-Prime Minis ter Clement R. Attlee went to Pots- dam today as the freshman member of the Big Three. Herbert Morri- son, new Lord President of the Council, end Attlees principal un- derstudy, was left in charge of the country.
 Attlee departed after the six sen- fer members of his cabinet, named last night. teck the oath from King George VI. With Attlee away, it seemed unlikely that other members of the new Labor party cabinet would ke announced over the week. end
 Morrison and Ernest Bevin, long time Trade Union leaders who is the new Foreign Secretary, are destined to play principal roles in the gov ernment that busted Winston Churchill.
 Bsvin was expected to follow Att lee to Pctsdam, along with Edward Bridges, Secretary to the Cabinet, and Gen. Sir Hastings Ismay, Chief Of Staff tc the Ministry of Defense.
 After the cath-taking at Buck ingham Palace, At.lee ana his new cabinet conferses appeared before rhe 333 Labor members of the new 540-man Housa of Conacns, and re- ceiVed an ovation.
 The new government leaders were sworn in after several members Of Winston Churchill's government saw the King and relinquished their seals of office.
 httlee's selection of the six Labor party stalwarts as the nucleus of his cabinet was hailed by the British Labor press as constituting a new deal' in British government.
 Attlee himself took the posts Of Minister of .Defepse. and Lord of the Treasury. which were also held by Churchill.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-28

NEW YORK, July 28 Police headquarters reported today that an airplane struck one of the upper floors of the Empire State Build- ing, the worlds tallest structure.
 The plane burst into flames and police said the fire spread to other buildings.
 James w. Irwin, management eonsultant and former managing editor of the Chicago Herald Ex- aminer, who has offices on the 18th floor of the building, said he heard the plane coming through the fog and that it struck the north side Of the building, above Thirty Fourth Street, about the seventy seventh or seventy eighth floor
 Irwin said that the hall on the seventy-fifth floor was filled with flaming gasoline and fumes and that the tall elevator bank in the building was put out of commits sion so that people served by that bank could not leave.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-28
TAXPAYERS TAKE OVER
 CITY MEET
Petition Answer Due Mon ddy-Mdyor Jerks Bud-
 get for Rework

Juneau was presented With a prospective city budget last night but it was soon pushed out of the spotlight as representatives of the Juneau Taxpayers Association drove for action now" on their proposal for revamping the tax rolls.
 In the final wind-up to last evenings Council session, Mayor Ernest Parsons withdrew his pro- posed 1945-46 city budget and called for another special meeting of the City Council, for 8 o'clock next Monday evening, to act on the property owners petition.
 Hang Henretta" was the un- uttered by-word of the committee of solid citizens representing the Taxpayers Association as it pressed for re-survey of assessment valuations by businessmen who own their own homes here" Com mittee members strongly declared they no longer have confidence in the evaluating abilities of Howard s. Henretta, whose recently-com- pleted revaluation of properties in Juneau had stirred local property owners to concerted demands for relief.
 Petition Presented
 The petition which the commit tee laid before the council last evening was the one adopted Thursday night. at public mass meeting held in the Coliseum Theatre. Bearing the signatures of 139 dissatisfied taxpayers-and with other copies outstanding with many additional signatures-the petition asks the council to select one of its members who will act with a businessman named by the com mittee, and third agent to be appointed by the first two named, in checking over the assessment rolls to iron out inequities. Accept ance of the proposal, the commit tee maintained, will relieve the council of an almost impossible task that it would otherwise face when it comes time to sit as a Board of Equalization.
 Committee Member Allen Shat tuck cited several instances to the packed Council Chamber, demon Strating inconsistencies in Hen retta's valuations. The taxpayers proposal, he declared, offers way to cut the work of the council which will, at the same time, be satisfactory to the city's prop erty owners. The attendance at Thursdays mass m eting, he pointed out, shows the extent of the dissatisfaction with the present
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-28
RAT1LFSH!p SENT DOWN
 IS REPORT
Swarms of Ameritan, Bril- ish Planes Make Raid
 on Inland Sea
Bu HAMILTON ". BARON Associated Press Correspondent

c U A M, July 28.--A Japanese ,att.eship was reported sunk today as nearly l,50o U. g. and British ,arlier planes battled through heavy slak and fighter screens and dealt
 he third heavy blow of the week on the broken and bleeding enemy fleet in the Inland Sea.
 Pilcts reproted that the 29,990-ton 'attleship Hyuga, converted war lip with flight deck for catapult- ing planes, had been sunk in the great Japanese Naval Base of Kure, where tEe remnants of the Mikado's lleet took futile refuge under exten- sive camouflage
 Tn order to bore into their tar gets along the inland sea, the swarms of Allied carrier planes knocked down score of Japanese planes. which came out of hiding and tried to ward off the pre-invas- ion blows.
 Three of the first four Naval plares that roared in through a
 eayy curtin of flax landed their ralf f-tCn bombs squarely on war ships already hard hit by raids Tuesday and Wednesday. Associated Press Correspondent Richard OMal- Icy reported from the U. s. Third Fleet.
 i After the third attack within a week, Japan was left without g single heavy warship fit for action. Admiral Halsey's hard-hitting carrier planes knocked out 26 warships, in cluding three battleships. six air. craft carriers and four cruisers in strikes Tuesday and Wednesday alone
 Fires ragged through the harbor at Kure, O'Malley reported. and flames spurted skyward from the ships of what once was the third mishtiest fleet in the world.
 The enemy declared the raiders no. only struck the Inland Sea and Kure, but famed out over the southern island of Shikoku. batter ing at air fields, factories and ship ping. Reports from the fleet said East-Central Honshu's air bases also were under attack.
 Supplementing these hammer hlcws, the Japanese said 250 Mus tanes from Two Jima blasted air fields in the area of Tokyo and up ic 9 Superforts laid their mines along the Inland Sea and off the Vest Coast of the main home Island 9f Honshu
 In attacks Tuesday and Wednes- day. Halseys' pilots sank or damaged 238 Japanese ships or small craft and destroyed or damaged 290 anemy planes, Nimitz' communique today reported
 Tn the 19 consecutive days in which Halseys' great fleet has prowled virtually unmolested near Japan, ships guns, carrier planes and Naval land -based aircraft have 5unk or damaged 79G enemy ships c. small craft, destroyed or damag- cd 3j2 planes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-28
STRIKES,
 L0(k0UT5
 INCREASE
NewNdge and Price Policy Statement to AlIay
 Labor Unrest

WASHINGTON, July 28. AS strike and lockout totals edged to a new 1945 high. the administration today worked on new wage-and- price policy statement intended to aHay labor unrest in the transition to peace.
 The June dispute record was 485 stoppages and 292,O00 workers in- volved. Labor Department officials expected July to run about as high.
 While emphasizing that strikes since VE-Day have increased so moderately as to have hardly measurable effect on total armament production, WIPE officials noted that they had really hurt" some es- pecially vulnerable parts of the war program.
 The fear that unrest will grow, as workers forsee a sharp fall in weekly earnings because of short ened work weeks, prompted the drafting of a public statement on the governments wage and price policy during the transition.
 No attempt can be made to keep earnings at the high level attained through overtime payments and up- grading workers, Office of Economic Stabilization said, but compromise plan will be laid down to prevent any sharp break in the relationship between income and living costs.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-28
l ALASKA COASTAL
 FLIES NEW SHIP | ON FIRST FLIGHT
Grumman Twin engined Graft Makes Round
 Trip to Kefehikan

Inaugurating a new air service for Southeast Alaska, co-managers Alex Holden and Sheldon Simmons yesterday flew Alaska Coastal Air lines new Grumman twin-engined amphibian to Ketchikan and return on the ships maiden flight,
 The new seven-passenger ship is the first of several which the con- pany plans to put into operation as soon as they are obtainable on the routes serving Sitka, Peters, burg, Wrangell and Ketchikan.
 Passengers on the first flight were delighted with the new plane, which gives an unobstructed under- wing view from every seat, The passenger cabin is ultra modern in furnishings and soundproofcd to permit conversation in normal tone while the plane is in flight. Spun glass insulation, covered with @ flame-proof leatherette, covers the cabin walls and the seats are of fine grain cushioned leather. The cabin is air conditioned and heated A toilet is installed aft.
 For greater maneuverability in the water, a special retractable water rudder was installed by Alaska Coastal mechanics, enabling the ship to maneuyer in the water with one motor, reducing the water speed and increasing safety of op- eration
 The ship will be flown on the Sitka route as well as to Ketchi- kan as soon as docking facilities are complete at Sitka
 The Grumman has a 49-foot wing span and gross weight of four tons, loaded. It has a maxi mum speed of POI miles an hour at 5000 feet and 191 miles an hour at sea level. It will maintain a 6,000-foot ceiling on one engine fully loaded. It lands with the use of flaps as slow as 62 miles an hour.
 Alaska Coastal has an annual payroll of more than $8O,000 Last year, the company's pilots flew almost 300,000 plane miles, with almost 10000 passengers, slightly less than 100000 pounds of ex- press and 67000 pounds of mail Mere than a thousand round-trips were flown and planes were in the air almost 5000 hours.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-28
The W ashingto ion
 Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON It. Col. Robert S. Allen now on activ
 service with the Army.)

WASHINGTON-Presldent Tru- man, who has a well-earned repu- tation as a champion of clean gov ernment. faces another Dawes loan scandal when he gets back to his desk in Washington.
 While former Vice President Charley Dawes was President of the Reconstruction Finance Cor poration, the REC loaned his own bank in Chicago $90,000, 900. There were howls of protest from the Democrats.
 A similar situation exists in Washington where Democrat War ren Lee Pierspn, when President of the Export Import Bank, loaned the International Telephone and Telegraph Company and its sub salaries IA per cent of the Export Import Banks capital Following this, Pierson stepped out to accept a fat salary as President of an International Tel. and Tel. sub sidiary-All American Cables.
 Furthermore, just before he re- signed, Pierson tried to get an- other s23, 100000 from the Export Import Bank by which 1.T.&T could buy out telephone line in Mexico. All of this has caused one of the hottest inter-Cabinet fights of the Truman Administration, with Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace and Secretary of the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-28
FULL PAY
 IS ORDER
 OF VILE.
Insertion New Wage Stale Demanded in Labor
 Management Contrdlt

WASHINGTON, July 28 The War Labor Board for the first time today ordered guaranteed full em- ployment plan inserted in labor management contract.
 With industry members dissenting, it upheld tha New York Regional Beard in directing that such plan be inserted in the first contract be- ing negotiated for 300 salesmen em- ployed by 88 shoe stores in the New York metropolitan area.
 The plan provides for guarantee of A hours week for 52 con- secutive weeks per year for regular full time employees and five nights and a Saturday weekly for 52 weeks for regular part time workers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-28
No Official Rejection
 0fpoisdain UIfiInaiun,
 Reported Made by laps
By James D. White (Associa ted Press Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, July 2s -Japan's semi official Domei News Agency said that Premier Suzuki would broadcast to the nation to- day "his determination for the decisive battle in the streets, but a series of Tokyo broadcasts failed to report an official rejection of the Allied ultimatum to surrender
 Japanese propaganda agencies went through successive stages of professed fury, vague double-talk and ridicule of the Potsdam dec laration in which America, China end Britain bluntly told Japan to quit now or be destroyed.
 Domei started with an angry statement that the ultimatum would be ignored and that Japan would flight to the bitter end"
 The Tokyo radio soon toned this oown by saying that Nippon would adopt policy to strive toward COIil|lttlOI Ol tiit OiSetSi Gooe Asia war in conformity of the hitherto established basic prin- ciples.
 The Tokyo radio, in a broadcast heard by American Broadcasting Company monitors, then stated that the ultimatum was being dis missed as quite farce" by the Japanese press. It quoted the news paper Mainichi as calling it "a prepcsserous nonsense and bluff"
 But at the same time, 1t said Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo had reported the ultimatum to the cabinet yesterday and also on matters pertaining to the declara- ton"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-28
SKINNED JAP .ISEv!DENCE OF
 GAVIN REALISM
Gruesome Indications Are Found by American
 Patrol on Luzon
By JAMES HUTCHINSON Associated Press Correspondent

WITH THIRTY-EIGHTH D1- VISION, LUzON, July 25.-Delay- ed)-Strong evidence of cannibalism among isolated Japanese stragglers, although possibly on small scale was reporter today by members of an American patrol returned from the heart of the Sierra Madre mountains.
 Officers told of finding one Japa- nese soldiers body mutilated after leaving it unwatched for an hour They said one of two prisoners taken on their grueling six-day mountain trek pleaded he surrendered to es- cape the same fate, awaiting him as a non-combatant.
 The revolting evidence was report ed by Capt. Charles Yust of Baston Texas, who commanded the moun- tain expedition of two hundred Thirty eighth Division troops ano 300 Filipino carriers, and It. John Banton, of Ronceverte, w. Va.
 T was leading an advance patrol of 90 men moving along river when we spotted five Japs,' saio Yust. We killed four The fifth escaped into the jungle, but lost his pack and food. When We returned to the bodies about an hour later, VIC found that the skin had been peeled from the thigh of one of the dead Japs-a large piece peeled down ward from the thigh
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-28
G0ERING SUFFERS
 ATTA( K
May Not Be Able 10 Stand Trial for War Crimes
 Awful, Isn'f +?

MONDORF, Luxembourg, July 28 A U. s. Army Medical Officer, disclosing that Reichs Marshal Hermann Goering suffered heart attack during an electrical storm Thursday night. has raised the question whether the captive Nazi leader could stand the strain of a war crimes trial.
 "Goering is so emotionally un- stable you never can tell about his type" said Capt. Clint L. Miller, Summit, Mo.
 The officer attributed the attack to Goering's fear of thunder and lightning.
 Miller said Goering lis heart conscious"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-28
Seattle Fish
 Landings Up

WASHINGTON, July 2S-Thirty per cent more fish and shellfish were received at Seattle during the first six months of l945 than in the same l944 period.
 The Coordinator of Fisheries re- ported today that the pcundage rose to 36,ll5,663 from 277l9,753.
 Rockfish accounted for much of the increase, landings in this cate qory rising from l,Sl2,7l3 to G. 362,9l9 pounds Halibut rose from 4, ,060, ,l09 to 6,39l 43l pounds and sheIIfish from 2,550999 to 3,o3l,l3l pounds.