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Kodiak mirror., 1945-07-07
Barbara Altman Rites Held

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 Funeral services were held Monday morning for Barbara Altman, daughter of Jack All man, welI-known Alaskan and Kodiak Fire Chief and one of the owners of the CheechakO Club, whose sudden passing last Saturday morning was shock to the entire community.
 Holy Rosary was said at the Altman residence Sunday even ing at 7:3O and Father ' incent Edge said High Mass at the Church of Notre Dame de Kodi- ak Monday morning at 10. In terment was in the local ceme- tery. Pallbearers were Vincent Root, James Pierce, L. K. Wod- finger, George Magnusen, Al Miller and Stan Austermann. Business houses throughout town closed during the services.
 Miss Altman was stricken about 2 am Saturday while visit ing with friends at the Club Unique. Mrs. Stan Austermann called Mr. Altman, who rusbeG his daughter to the hospital, but she was reported dead on arrival there. Dr. A. Holmes Johnson, assisted by ,hree naval surgeons, performed an autopsy later at the base, and d ath was ascribed to cerebral embolism.
 Bal bara Marie Ann Altman was born November 6, 1922, at Seattle, Washington, and her mother passed away when she was a year old. As a child she was taken to France Ey her fath- CT, where she spent ? and a half years. Besides schooling in France she was educated Tn the East and at the Stella Maris convent, a French-speaking ln- stitution, at Biddeford, Maine.
 She came to Kodiak for the first time in 1940 and spent year with her father before re- turning to Florida. In 1922 she was married in Portland, Ore, to Air Corps Cadet Robert Wat son, from whom she was separ- ated. Following the separation she was employed for 7 months in a war plant in California, and then returned to Kodiak in Nov ember, 1914 and had been mak- ing her home with her father since.
 She was an only child and there are no other relatives be- sides her father.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-07-07

Mrs. Gloria England, daugh- ter of MT. and Mrs. Paul Swan son of this city, and her 2 child ren, left by boat recently to re- turn to her home in Bremerton, Wash, after visit with her par ents.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-07-07
Final Eth Loan Figures Given

Figures received this week by War Bond Chairman o. A. Tor gerson show that Kodiak made a little over two-thirds of it's quota of S6O,O0O in the Eth War Loan Drive.
 Bonds sold in Kodiak from May IA to June 30 amounted to $43, ,331.25.
 Bond sales for Alaska cities eo1Iou.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-07-07

J. c. Morris, well-knoWn An chorage businessman, is in Kodi~ ak this week visiting his son who Is stationed here in the navy.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-07-07

Mel Nelson, 10, of Kodiak, is an influenza patient at the GM hospital.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-07-07

Harvey Edwards, painter, left this week on 6-weeks vacation trip in the Interior.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-20
TEXAS club RAISES
S1,375.50 IN DRIVE

TYLER, Tex, Mar. 20 (ANP)-
In drive to aid in equipping the
proposed home economic building to
be erected on the Texas college
campus, a club sponsored by Mrs.
Willie Lee Glass raised 81 1850 in
a six weeks campaign in which the
157 members contested for first
honors.
The two highest ranking among
the contestants were Mrs. Dora
Wynn, who reported 1924; and Miss
Margaret Surrey, who reported
1913, representing the senior and
junior classes.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-20
NEGRO GIRL IS winner
in STATE WIDE CONTEST

FIT. WORTH, Tex, Mar. 20
(ANP)-A scholarship check for
$500, forwarded to the fiscal Of
flee at Prairie View, is the result
of prize-winning essay on the
constitution by Miss Billie Jane
Lewis of this city.
A senior in |. M. Terrell high
school, Miss Lewis entered the con-
test in 1914 when the Ft. Worth
Daily Star telegram opened the
subject to all high school pupils,
regardless of color.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-20

officially, Mr.. Powell said-"The Ur-
ban league should send Lester B.
Granger; the NAACP, Walter
White; the National Negro cong
ress, May Yergan; the National
Council of Negro Women, Mary
Mcleod Bethune; the senior secre-
tary of the National YMCA, DR..
Charming Tobias; the two Negro
congressmen-William L. Dawson
of the First Illinois district, and my
self, should also be members of this
delegation"
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-20
RANDOLPH LAYS RAILROAD
MANp0WER SHORTAGE
TO RACE BIAS

WASHINGTON, Mar. 20 (ANP)
A Philip Randolph, president OF
the Sleeping Car Parters, told SEN
ate subcommitte on education and
labor that race bias is robbing rail-
roads of manpower.
Randolph's appearance before the
senate group was in behalf OF the
permanent FEPC bill. He said that
the present shortage of skilled white
railroad labor is causing delay IN
the transportation of troops and
war materials, damage to rolling
stock and accidents to young and
experienced workers.
Citing figures on several individ-
ual railroads to show that they need
at least $4,000 additional workers,
Randolph pointed out that thou
sands of qualified Negro firemen,
switchmen, brakemen, machinists,
boilermakers and electricians are
now jobless.
'Evasions, chicanery and intimi-
dation have been and are today
being used against Negroes by
unions and management" he
charged by telling how railroads re-
fuse to hire Negro workers because
they are not union men and how the
unions reject them because they do
not have union cards.
There cannot be full employment
unless there is fair employment, !"
he said. 'sThe question of increased
racial tensions is not an imaginary
but real danger" Racial prejudice,
Randolph explained, and racial dis
elimination are two different
things: pref is an emotion, dis
elimination is a practice.
Those whose testimony favored
FEPC Dill enforcement powers were
Clark Foreman, president of the
Southern Conference of Human
Welfare; Alonzo Peroles, chairman
Of the Committee of 100, San An
tonic, Texas, and Charles thinner
man, secretary, international Gar
ment Workers. The United Auto
mobile Workers of America (CIO)
will welcome a permanent FEPC
bill, said George NJ. Adde's, secre-
tary-treasurer, in a statement read
ing by Irving Richter. Adde's said
his union has already taken action
against discrimination.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-20
POWELL CALLS FOR NEGRO
DELEGATION AT San FRANCISCO

DETROIT, Mar. 20 (ANP)-
New York's first Negro congress-
man, Adam Clayton Powell, Jrr
speaking here said, "Negro people
must be represented in the San
Francisco Conference on April 25."
DR.. Powell spoke under the aus
pices Of the Research Bureau for
Negroes Postwar Economic Sc
curity, Snow F. Grigsby, chairman.
The meeting was held in the Bethel
A.M.E. church.
The congressman's subject was
Whats Cooking in Congress-" He
reviewed his work while there, in
dicating that in two months he had
kept all of his prediction campaign
promises.
The high point of the meeting
was reached when DR.. Powell called
for the Negro to be represented at
the San Francisco conference. He
said:
"The Negro can no longer be con-
sidered as a minority. He is living
in the 'one world that Wendell Will
kie envisioned and as a member o.
the century of the common mar
proclaimed by Henry Wallace. He
belongs not only to the one billion
people of the darker races of the
earth but also to the hundreds of
millions Of peoples of other races
who are determined-in this their
lifetime-to build a peoples world"
He commended the CIO for being
"the greatest single force in Amer
lea for the establishment of real
democracy.
The congressman went on, "The
hour has arrived for Negro people
to take their place alongside of all
other peoples in building a just
world. The decisions Of Dumbarton
Oaks and Breton Woods must vi
tally concern Americas Is million
Negroes" He proposed that the
committee to go to San Francisco
be composed Of the heads of each
national Negro organization. Spe-
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-20
AT THE THEATERS

PALACE-'The Lodger" and the
"Mark of the Whistler" plus first
chapter of new serial, Brenda
Starr, Reporter"
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
President Harry s. Truman. ut the White House August IA Io45. announces thut Jopon will
 occepi the Potsdom surrender terms

The first carrier plane raids against Japan were made February, exactly one year after the hrst carrler strike Truk. For two days dive oombers and fighters swooped over Tokyo in an operation Ninltz sad that fulfilled the deeply cherished oesre ot every officer and man in the Pacific fleet Airmen shot up artieds damaged plane and engine factories and bombed ar escort carrler.
 Mitschel took his fast task force back to hammer Tokyo on February 25 and from then on Japanese waters became the carrlers favorite roasting ground Their planes ranged from the Kuriles to Kyusnu and the Inland Sea search out and batter the remnants of the Japanese fleet.
 Devastating as the carrier strikes, they were exceeded by the destruction now tumbling down from the Supertortresses. This destruction resulted primarily from lncendiary bombs contain ing jelly that spread flames over vast areas
 On June IS the head of Superfortress operations General Curtis Le May announced that 50 square miles of Tokyo were devastated. with only 10 square miles left in which the bombers had any interest The once great naval seaport of Yokohama was completely gone The industrial centers of Kobe, Osaka and Nagoya virtually were erased.
 Enemy air opposition was weakening. The num- Der of Superforts on single missions rose to 800, fnen to 600 Thousand plane raids, with destructive capabilities far greater than any that hit Germany tzsre only few months away.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
CHINA COMES BACK

FOR years the poverty ridden Chinese had waited for enough supplies to run the Japanese In- vaders out. But for years the Japanese had held most of the Chinese coast that shipments across the Pacific impossible, and had closed the Burma Road-China's lifeline to India.
 During the lean and hungry years American transports had flown supplies amounting to as much as 300O0 tons month-over the Hump to India. Key American officers had helped train the Chinese army into rugged fighting force. General Claire Chennaults U s. l4th Air Force and before that his Flying Tiger volunteer airmen had helped to harass the enemy and keep him from making too great inroads into China
 In January, l945, Stilwelrs victories in Burma opened the Ledo-Burma Road. Supplies to China doubled, With the road came an oil pipeline to feed gasoline and oil to growing force of U $. planes based in China.
 Chiang Kai-shek was ready to come back, His troops repulsed enemy attempt to take the American air base at Kweiyang, and began of- fensive against the long Japanese overland supply line from Manchuria to Indo-Chna. The Chinese hit the line at it's weakest spot -Yungning-an kept going until the enenly's ASiatic forces thoroughly split. By the British had cleaned up almost all of Burma storied Mandalay had fallen in March, and Rangoon in May-and hun dreds of thousands of enemy troops in Thailand, Malaya and Indo-China faced annhation.
 Meanwhile the enemys stolen possessions in the Netherlands East Indies were mperilled The Aus traians had gone onto the little island of Tarakan north of Borneo on May and had cleared 1t in five days They had moved down to Brunei Bay, in BfltlSn nOrIS BOFneO, dHu rom there -lldu pouISu into the British protectorate of Sarawak. On July 1 the big she'll battered refining port of Bakpapan on the east coast was invaded
 In the Philippines, MacArthur continued his mop up. Mindanao, the southernmost of the islands had been first invaded March 10. On May he an nounced liberation of Davao, the main city On Luzon tEe summer capital Baguio, had been taken April 29 after drive through the mountains, and the Tanks had continued north until they joined other forces moving down the island after land ing al Aparri On June 28, MacArtnur announced the liberation of the whole of Luzon. On July he announced the entire Philippines had been freed.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
u!TIMATUM FROM PoTsDAM

4 NEW member of the Big Three" appeared al Potsdam in July when the heads of the United States Great Britain and Russia met again to maks additional plans for the government of Germany the settlement of European postwar problems anc the war against Japan. He was Harry S. Truman elected Vice President of the United States in 944 who succeeded to the Presidency when Franklin D Roosevelt died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage in April
 Chang Kai-shek conferred at long distance with Churchill and Truman and on July 26-even a: Churchill was lowing out as Prime Minister as result of his election defeat to Labor Leader Cemen R. Attlee-the three issued proclamation calling
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
PRELUDE TO INVASION

THE plans were being drawn for the invasion of Japan's nome islands, General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz had been designated joint com manders for the operation and it was possible now with Germany defeated to throw the full weight of Americas war production and manpower into the Pacific struggle
 Airfelds were prepared on OkinaWa and cree ton of invasion supply centers began in the Philip pines But the experience gained in more than 50 amphibous leaps across the Pacific and the great landing at Normandy taught that the region to be invaded must first be thoroughly blasted by air and if possible, by sea,
 The pre-invasion blitz of Japan reached great and devastating peaks in July In the first ten days 5000 bombers and fighters roared against the homeland ot the Rising Sun Everything of military value was hit-big industrial plants, oil refneres shipyardS, railroads even the thousands of small backyard workshops and homes where the Japanese turned out parts for their war machine.
 On July TO- more thar 1000 fighters, dive bonn bers and torpedo planes from Halseys 3rd Fleet went up to blast 30 airfields near Tokyo
 Four days later Hasey sent his batleshps. cruisers and destroyers to pound iron and steel works only PTS miles north of Tokyo. The Japanese took itano kept their planes grounded and coastal guns silent.
 The next day Halsey moved of Hokkaido the northernmost of the four home islands, to shell Muroran, the second ranking steel producing city in the empire Then with British warships, the fleet moved down the Honshu coast again and cruiser destroyer force hammered the entrance to Tokyo Bay.
 It was an amazing demonstration of boldness- and sensational sign of Japans weakness
 By now It was obvious that Nippon would soon be thoroughly ripe for invasion. The Tokyo Radio spoke of secret weapons" being forged to repel the invaders, and said that Japanese troops were enrenched in Notifications all along the coast It reported that civilians of all ages were being formed into suicide corps to defend the sacred
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
sTALIN GETS READY

CTALIN had promised his allies he would get V into the war agalnst Japan three months after the Reich had crumbled and in preparation for the conflict he had denounced on April B. mon aggression pact signed with Nippon in 1889 On that same April day the world had been given glimpse of the jitters enveloping Tokyo: the cabi- net of General Koiso collapsed, and a new one headed by the moderate" Admiral Kantaro Suzuki took it's place
 Some observers envsaged an early end of the war but others-rememberin vividly the tremen- dous toll at Two and Okinawa-foresaw long and bitter struggle that would be finished only when every cave on the, Japanese home islands had been fired and sealed But doubted that the enemy already had been whipped
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
ATOM BOMBS AND RUSSIA MADE JAPAN SURRENDER QUICKL

homeland, and predicted that vast network o caves and tunnels built into Honshu's hills would make Japan super-Iwo for the Americans
 But the Superforts continued to pour their fire bombs onto enemy cities at will and began tc warn the Japanese of the cities to be battered next With submarines, they mined tne enemys coastal waters. Falses's fleet continued to prowl In Amer ica, great lines of troop and Supplyladen trains headed for west coast embarkation ports
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
THE ATOM FALLS

A LONE Experiences appeared over the coast A Honshu Monday, August 6, 1945, and heaoeo the skies above the industrial city of Hiroshima
 As it roared oyer the heart of the city It dropL a small bomb which gently parachuted to the @ esi
 There was flash of light many times orlsn than the sun Slowly thick, dark cloud cofIalf the pulverized bodies of human beings rose nito sky Nothing else was visible below Hlroslllliid become in one minute virtually a dead city.
 That bomb had harnessed the energy of the at' and had unlocked the secret of the uniVerSe'
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01

were causing tremendous damage.
 Nearly 100 Allied ships were lost or damaged off Okinawa The carriers Franklin and Bunker Hill, among others, were left with gaping holes battered superstructures and heavy casualties.
 Navy officials announced defense had been worked out against the Kamikaze But west coast shpyards issued frantic pleas for workers to repair the wounded ships that were steadily coming in.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-12-01
Mumoru shisemitsu, obourd the u.S.S. Nilsson September 2, Io45, signs Jupon's surrender
 behulf of Emperor Hirohito.

upon Japan to cease resistance or be destroyed
 The proclamation warned that the Allies we poised to strike the final blow at Japan. It call for unconditional surrender-and re-emphaslzeo u terms of the earlier Cairo declaration to strip u Japanese of all thelr aggressions and limlt them their Wur main islands of Honshu, Hokkaldo, hyus and Shikoku and some minor ones to be named
 A few days later Premier Suzuki announced UT Japan would ignore the ultimatum Tokyo broa casters in an obvious plea for softer peace told fable of the man who pulled his overcoat tlgn' about him as the wind blew cold but removed quickly when the sun shone gently.
 But RooseveltZand Truman--had commit themselves to unconditional surrender It remd', to be seen what the final blow at Japan" would
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-03-24
Gainesville News
Rev. A. r. Thomas. Reporter

Mr. and Mrs. Abram Apoe of
West Hamilton street were the
week end visitors in Gatesville,
visiting relatives and friends.
Rev. N. c. Lackey preached for
the mission band on Sunday, March
16 at Crystal Springs.
We share our deep sympathy
with Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Oxford in
the passing of Mrs. Oxford's mother
few days ago. Burial was in Uti-
ca.
Mrs. Anna Jones Johnson of
West Pascagoula street, departed
this life March Is. She leaves to
mourn her passing brother, Rev.
Wiley Jones of Gatesville, a sister,
Mrs. Emma Young of Crystal
Springs and other relatives and
friends Burial was in Jackson.
Mr.. Henry Harris, along time
resident of Gatesville departed this
life a few days ago. He leaves a
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-03-24
Madison County
News
Mrs. Artie Bullie, Reporter

Mrs. Martha Rouser is enjoying
an honorable age of "a years. She
visited China Grove Sunday, at
which time the chorus of Riddle
Hill rendered music, Mrs. Hattie
Williams. pianist.
Mr.. Bernard Rhodes of Madison,
the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson
Rhodes, lost his ring Saturday.
While out walking early Sunday he
found his ring and a purse con-
tanning $40, social security card,
Masonic travelling card on which
was the name, Leon Calvin, &c
who had recently been discharged
fro mthen avy. He was on his way
home in Madison county. Leon Cal
vim had been in California in a hos
pital Bernard Rhodes gladly sent
the purse to him by one of his sis
tiers.
Mrs. Addean Wells of Chicago
has recently returned home from
Madison where she visited her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs William
Dishman and other relatives and
friends. She reports an enjoyable
visit.
Mrs. Alice Trivillion returned
home Saturday from Natchez
where she visited her mother, Pes
LIMA Jones, who is i'll and other
relatives. She reports that her mo-
Their is improved.
Mr. Willie G.. Jackson took Rid
die Hill and China Grove Schools
to Madison, Friday to the Scott
day program, a pleasant trip was
enjoyed by all.
On Sunday, March Is, there was
| a glorious service held at China
Grove AM.E. church. Sermons by
visiting ministers, Rev. M. D. Gill
bert, Pilgrim Rest, Rev. S-Sgt. L.
C. Hunt, Blair street, Rev. P. F.
Parker, L. Winston preached with
special fire. Other visiting minis
tiers, Rev. j. c. Carey, Riddle Hill,
Rev. Slaughter, White Oak. Four
babies were sponsored in the con-
| test, they were: Josie Lee Lewis,
L. Winston, 1882; Rubbie L.
Thompson, Riddle Hill, $3.50; Dan
Jones, Pilgrim Rest $11O5, Horace
Parker, Jr., China Grove $80.81.
Total $123.87. Prizes awarded the
highest amount over $25 was SO
cash. Others received So each. Col
lection from public was $32.S8. To-
tai $156.75. Rev. j. C. CLANCY, pas
tor, E. Phillip, secretary.
Mrs. Kate Hart, 202 Lyon street,
Canton, Pleasant Gift B. church and
daughter, SAINT T. Buese visited
here Sunday and gave to Parker,
Jr., $15.95 to help in the contest.
Kate, the Parkers will not forget
you.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-03-24

Plan your victory garden SO that
it will produce food for family use
throughout the year, horticulturists
of the Extension Service advise.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-03-24

of Miss Rogena Davis, a member
of the senior class.
Vivian Thompson, member of
the senior class was proud to have
her relatives visiting her from var
ious cities: Mr.. Pearlie Hart, Rock
ford, Ill, Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. AL
fred of Hattiesburg, Mr.. Willie and
Jessie Bilbo of Memphis. They were
glad to meet their old friends and
make new ones.
The browning Of the music club
queen, Miss Hazel Harrison was
held in chapel Monday. A very
splendid program was rendered by
the associate clubs. Our hats are
off to the Marion Anderson music
club.
The junior class has taken on
new life. The Red Cross drive went
over in a big way $3.50. A very
"
unique party was given the win
ming section headed by Evelyn
Bennett.
The senior choral group is to ap-
pear on program next week at the
state BTU Congress at Mt. Zion
Baptist church.
We are proud to have Misses
Davis and Whisenton back in
school after some weeks of illness
Mrs. Emma Sanders is very i'll.
She is in Yazoo hospital. She has
several daughters in Canton.
Pvt. Willot Mccullough is home
on furlough visiting his friends and
relatives of Canton.
The students of the eighth grade
A are sorry to hear of the death
of Christeen Jackson's great-grand-
mother and second cousin.
GOSSIP
Ruth Sutton seem to be very sad
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-03-24

wife, children, a host Of other re-
latives and friends.
Officers and members of the
Egypt Hill NJ. B. church are plan
ming to move and rebuild their
church on a modern plan and are
hoping to- have the building COM
pleted by August l. Many thanks
is extended to each one for their
hearty cooperation in joining with
US in the work and building Of our
church. Deacons S. A. Ayers, d. L.
Lovelady and j. L. Lacey.
A list of new customers TO rthe
Mississippi Enterprise: Louella
Nickson, Myra Coleman, Mollie
Jackson, Ruth Brown, Rosa Brown,
Hattie Jones, Margaret Ayers. Now
i am hoping the day will come
when all Negroes will buy and
read their race paper.-Rev A. R.
Thomas.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-03-24

Collins. These contributed 81. Also
Cleveland Brown and Herman Chat
man.
Misses Willye NJ. Bass, Lillye M
Bass, Patricia L. Bell and Carrie
Anne Hoover were visitors of their
grandmother of Crystal Springs for
the last week end.
We are very proud to have Pvt.
Characy Williams home on fur
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-03-24

Tough visiting his relatives and
friends.
Cameron street school did fine
work in raising money for the Red
Cross drive. Up to date the amount
raised is $103
The Davis family was very glad
to have their son and brother home
from the army on a furlough. Pvt.
William Hughes who is the brother