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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
NI(0BAR {. ISLANDS
 SPELLED
British Fleet Units Bom bard Strategic Section
 -AirfieIds Attacked

CALCUTTA, July l3-British fleet units have bombarded the strategic Nicobar Islands while carrier planes attacked airfields in northwest Su- matra, Southeast Asia Command Headquarters announced tonight in a special communique.
 British minesweepers swept the approaches to Malacca Strait, which lies between Sumatra and the great naval base of Singapore, from July 5 to 10 without sighting Japanese vessel.
 While fleet units attacked the Nicobars, planes also laid their ex- plosives on the islands. The Nicobars lie 280 miles northwest of Sumatra, rich Dutch oil producing island. and about 300 miles off Singapore. They are 400 miles west of the Kra pen insula of Malaga, linking Singapore to the mainland of Asia.
 Rear Adm. z. R. Patterson com manded the attacking warships-the Fifth Cruiser Squadron-which in cluded the cruiser Nigeria the car riers Ameer and Emperor, the de- stroyer Roebuck and the Sixth Mine Sweeping Flotilla.
 Japanese broadcasts, first to tell of the attacks on the Nicobars, spec ulated that a landing attempt would be made.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
5eIetfive Service Makes Changes in
 Draii Regulaiionl

WASHINGTON. July 13.-Men 26 or over who do not meet the Army's regular physical standards are free today to change jobs without draft board permission.
 At the request of the Army, Selec- tive Service has relaxed it's regula- lions to exclude these men from the pe gsicility of induction as job jump CTS.
 Heretofore these registrants who iwitol'ed employment without ap- proval of their board could be draft ed for limited Army service.
 The job jumper penalties, invok- ed six months ago to nip a trend away from war work, remain in ef- feet for all physically fit men, as well as for registrants under 26 who fall shy of regular requirements.
 Men in the latter group who fail to clear job changes will continue to be inducted under relaxed physical standards.
 Older men freed of clearance re- sponsibility are those classified in 4-F, 2-A tF). 2-A CD, 2-B tFD and 2-B CD.
 All of these are classes for men who do not meet regular physical standards. sii
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
Serves Cherry ]! l! Pie
 To Reporters, Then {; ].
 Fates Firing 5qud1

I
 SALT LAKE CITY, July i3.--A few minutes arer calmly serving cherry pie toreporters. James Joseph Roedl ?, sharp-faced, partly bald young murderer of woman schocl teacher. died before q five man fir- ing g-squad in the Utah prison yard at daybreak today,
 B months ago he and a fellow hiteh-hiker beat to death. with a hammef middle-aged Abigail Agpfs Williams of San Leandro. CRlif.
 Mrs. Williams was killed in her automobile near the Ute Indian reservation in Eastern Utah after she had picked up Roedl and. LeH0y Ldward Ritchey, 26. Ritchey was sentenced to life imprisonment for tho killing.
 In the prison chapel Roedl. talk ing and laughing. cut slices of pis and handed these out with, cups of coffee to newsparermen. Guards said he had eaten intermittently all night, alternating his p;ecing with puffing on cigars. A
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
ARMY PLANE HITS LOADED AIRLINER;;
 ONLY TWO KILLED
Pilot of Transport, with 19 Aboard, Makes Safe
 Emergency Landing

COLUMBIA, s. O., July 13.-While the passengers prayed, the pilot of a crippled Eastern Airlines Trans port brought the ship to an emer- gency landing in a Carolina corn field yesterday after it collided with an army plane 5000 feet up, killing two Army fliers and a two-year- old boy.
 The child was one of IT passen- gers aboard the Boston Miami air liner, which went down 80 miles east of here. Four others, includ- ing the boys mother, Mrs. A. E. Williams, of Miami, Fla. were re- ported seriously injured, and sev- eral were shaken up.
 Che of the passengers, Mrs. Annie Ice Moore Walker, 26, of Columbia, credited Captain G.. D. Davis, of Miami, the pilot, with saving their lives.
 Captain Davis and Capt. N. L. Ahai tiiANuiS, w iA2Apt, oaAd ttiS SoAko : ion occurred as the transport was losing altitude preparatory <, to landing at Columbia. Davis said neither he, the co-polot nor any of the passengers saw the twin motored army plane until just be- fore the crash.
 The Army fliers killed were listed as Cpl. Robert B. Clapp and Cpl. Raleigh B. Allbaugh, Jr., both of Ok lahcma City, Okla. A third occu- pant of the Army plane parachuted to safety
 Both engines of the Airliner were knocked out, its left wing partially torn off and the fuselage aft of the cockpit was cut. One of the trans ports engines landed a few feet frcm tfe plane and the other fell mile away.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
FEDERAL WAGE DETRIMENTAL I5
 UP FOR STUDY
War Navy Departments May Bdek lip on EIim-
 indtion Order

Some further light concerning the red hot issue of Federal pay differentials for Alaska service-at least as far as the War and Navy departments and their graded civ ilian employees are concerned-was received here today.
 A wire to Gov. Ernest Gruening, from William H. Kushnick, Direc- tor of Civilian Personnel and train ing, Office of the Secretary of War, stated:
 Your protest to the Army and Navy agreement on application of differentials has been received through the Commanding General of the Alaskan Department.
 No discrimination was intended. Our view is supported by the Comptroller Generals decision, in that the differential was originally intended as recruitment incen- tive for people to leave the 48 States for extra Continental areas.
 ''The whole matter is being stud jed by the Budget Bureau and will probably go to the President for a decision. The agreement is a tenn porary measure, awaiting that de- cision Should the decision be made to pay all Government employees, regardless of their source of re- cruitment, then the War and Navy departments will restore money lost to those affected.
 We understand that the actual number affected by the agreement, in Alaska, is extremely low
 Gov Gruening today pointed out that such action, as the Army and Navy have already taken on differ entials. whether intended as dis elimination or not, actually is "in- tolerahle" discrimination and it is vital that Alaska make it known that conditions in tropical areas, where standards of living are low and where the order to eliminate differentials originated, do not ap- ply in this territory.
 The Governor also stated that he had this. morning telephoned Alas ka Delegate E. L. Bartlett, who confirmed reports concerning the status of the wage differential is- sue. But. it is important for Alas kans to realize that the decision is not yet final, Gov. Gruening said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
BRITISH EMPIRE
 WAR CASUALTIES
 ARE ANNOUNCED

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 LONDON, July 13.-The British Empire suffered total of l,427 634 casualties among members of the armed forces and civilians from the beginning of the war until June l, l945, according to the ministry of information.
 Of this total 532 .233 are listed as killed or believed dead. Empire los- ses in the last war were 1,089.9l dead and 2,40O,988 wounded.
 Civilian casualties in the United Kingdom due to enemy action in- cluded l46,760 killed and 60.585, be- lieved killed.
 iIt was announced yesterday in Washington that American casual ties now total 1.049, ,l04).
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
VIVIAN IS PROMOTED
 FROM PFC 10 TECH 5

FORT RICHARDSON, Alaska - Pfc. Robert M. Nyman. husband of Mrs. Lillian E. Nyman, of Juneau, Alaska, has recently been promoted to Technician Fifth Grade. Tee Nymap is a member of the Medical Detachment serving this station.
 Tee Nyman is graduate of the Aberdeen High School, Aberdeen. Washington, and completed two years of pre-dental work at Grays Harbor Junior College. Prior to en- .teiing the service Tee Nyman was engaged in commercial halibut fish ing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
JN0PP0SED AIR BLOWS STRUCK0NJ JAPAN
World Peace. Gets. Com. Approval.

WASHINGTON, July l3-The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today voted 20 to to recommend Senate ratification of the United Nations charter.
 Acting immediately after closing five days of hearings. the commit tee gave the unanimous approval of all of the members present to the 50- nation agreement signed in San Francisco last month.
 Senators present said the rolls would he held open for others who were not there to record their views. The committee numbers 23 members.
 Leaders have made arrangements to bring the charter before the Sem ate July g.
 Before the hearings were wound up, John Foster Dulles, Chief Ad- wiser to the American Delegation at San Francisco, told the committee the charter is the only practical alternative" to the same kind of postwar disagreements among the major powers which he said caused the Treaty of Versailles to fail
 Dulles, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor; Norman Thomas, former Socialist candidate for President. and Philip Murray, President of the CIO. all indorsed the charter today
 Green, first on the stand, told the committee members the Charter will make possible collective bargaining between the nations that ought to go long way toward preventing war.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
E SAVED FROM DEATH IN ICY
 BERING WATERS
Skilled Seamanship and Heroic Action of Crew.
 men, Prevents Tragedy !
By Olen Clements Associated Press War Uorrespondent)

ADAK, Aleutians, July 13-The skilled seamanship of Navy patrol craft skipper and the heroism of two comrades were credited today with saving a fellow crewman from the frigid waters of the Boring Sea a few minutes before he would have perisked.
 Fireman William E. Johnson of Pendleton, Oregon, was swept into the icy water while his ship was battling rough weather at 20 knots.
 The propeller wake kicked him under but the lookout in the crows nest spotted him. Lieut.. F. L. Mat heson of Miami Fla, the Skipper, brought his ship about sharply and eased the craft alongside Johnson. Ensign R. w. Kohanki of Loveland, o., tossed him life preserver, but Johnson's arms were so numbed by the 42 degree water he could not hold it. Crewmen tried to lower a small boat, but the high seas de- feated the effort.
 Seaman John Connolly of Rochest- CT. N. Y, went into action. Don ming a life vest, he leaped over the side into the cold water where he numtad quickly, but managed to reach the struggling Johnson and pull him to the ships side. Crew. men lowered ropes to hoist them aboard but the icy waters made Ccnnolly's hands so numb he could not lash the rope around his mate.
 Seaman A. q. Howard of Mont gomery, Ala, jumped overheard and knotteu the rope around the weary Johnson, who was pulled to the deck. Connolly ard Howard were hoisted aboard q moment later.
 Johnson was in the water fully eight minutes and medics said he would have perished had there been delay, as 12 minutes is regarded as the limit which a human. can with stand the Bering Sea waters.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
GEN. LUCIU5CLAY
 HEADQUARTERS .:lEl:I UP IN BERLIN

BERLIN, July 13. = The United States section of the Allied Control Commission for Germany has moved its forward headquarters to Berlin from Frankfurt on the Main, it was announced officially tonight. t
 The British section will move here shortly.
 Gen. Eisenhower's deputy on the Control Commission, It. Gen. Lucius Clay, will have his permanent office in Berlin. Frankfurt will continue to be headquarters for United States Army Forces in the European the atre.
 American and British occupation zones will start receiving food from western Germany next week.
 The Soviet responsibility for feed ing more than 100000 civilians in the part of Berlin transferred to western Allied rule will cease Mon- day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
NINE ARE RESCUED
 BY NOME BASE GREW WHEN PLANE DOWN

NOME. Alaska, July 13.-An Arc tic airplane rescue brought seven passengers and two crew members of an Alaskan Airlines passenger plane, forced down 300 miles from here, back safely to civilization.
 Within five hours after the plane sent distress signals last Saturday, Capt. James Millerick, Sonoma, Calf, commanding the search and rescue squadron of the air trans port commands Nome base, locat- ed and dropped supplies to the grounded party. A ground search party brought them to a takeoff spot, and they were flown to Mo- Grath.
 It was the Nome air base rescue party's thirty-first successful mis- sion in F months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
AU55IE5 PACED BY FLAME THR0WER5
 IN B0RNE0 BATTLE

MANILA, July 13--Aussie Sev- enth Division troops, paced by flame throwers and tanks, have knifed deep into Japanese defenses of smashed Stone. Ridge north of captured Balikpapan on southeast Borleo in heavy fighting. q
 At the same time, headquarters reported today, Dutch. units joined the ! Australians ins a left flank march up Kariango Peninsula to execute brilliant encircling man euver against the entrenched Jap anese who are pocketed some six miles north of Balikpapan town.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
Third Fleet Is Lashed by
 138-MiIe.an-Ko Wind;
 2fBaftIe Graft Damaged
By Jeff Erickson

GUAM. July l3--A raging typhoon dashed Adm. William F. Bulb Hal seys' Third Fleet with l38-mile an hour winds last June 5. tore tEe bow off the cruiser Pittsburgh and dam aged at least 20 other warships, Adm Chester w. Nimitz announced today after virtually every damaged ship was back in action.
 At least four of the damaged ships the battleships Massachusetts and Indiana. the carrier San Jacinto, and the destroyer John Rodgers--partic- ipated in last Tuesdays 1000 plane carrier strike at Tokyo.
 The typhoon damaged more ships than the Japanese Navy has been able to do in action in any single battle. But Nimitz made no men tion of anyone being killed or ser- iously injured. He said no ships were sunk
 Back In Action
 He listed 20 damaged ships as re- paired and back in action, including three fast new battleships and two Essex class carriers.
 The cruiser Pittsburgh, which mir aculously stayed afloat, is being refitted for action. Presumably some additional ships, not identified, were damaged and have not return ed to sea. 4
 Nimitz said definitely no one was lost from the Pittsburgh. Nor was q man on her seriously injured.
 The Pittsburgh returned to Guam under her own power for temporary repairs and is now being refitted at another port for return to action.
 Western Pacific Area
 The Nimitz announcement did not specify where the typhoon struck the Third Fleet for the second time in six months but presumably it was in the Western Pacific area between Okinawa and the Philippines
 This area is known as the Wes- tern Pacific .Typhoon Cradle where unpredictable storms zig gag in a general northerly or northeast erly typhoon path.
 Last December 18 another typhoon struck the Third Fleet between the Philippines and the Marianas and three destroyers capsized and were lost in the violent seas.
 100 Foot Seas
 Mony of the ships were badly hurt by towering 100 foot high seas. None was more heavily hit than the cruis- CT Pittsburgh, which was caught near the center of the storm off the Ryukyu islands.
 A thunderous sea ripped off l04 feet of her prom and tossed it aside as though it were a match box to wallow in the storm off the ships port side" reported Associated Press Correspondent Robbin Coons.
 Capt John E. Gingrich ordered the engines reversed and swung the C35 foot ship precariously around ill a circle to escape collision with her own bow She came out in the, dead calm of tt.e storms center
 Sealed bulkhaads kept the, Pitts i,mgh afloat and the Cruiser, nor mally capable Of 8 knots, numbered Lack to Guam at nine knots for I nlpcrary repails. The bow was taken in t9wn tug and brought to port.
 Towering seas crushed 25 feet off the carrier Hornets flight deck and badly damaged several destroyers. other correspondents reported.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
The W ashington Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON It. Col. Robert s. Allen now on active service with the Army.3 aS

WASHINGTON-There is more than meets the eye behind the ap- pointment of Carl Moran, ex-Con- gressman from Maine, as new As- sistant Secretary of Labor. It prob ably means gradual movement away from left-wing labor groups and no more clearing it with Sid- ney" ''s
 Moran is one of the early New Dealers, a fortnight, hard-hitting liberal one of the few Democrats ever elected to Congress from the rock-ribbed Republican State of Maine. He joined with COP Sen- ator Owen Brewster, when the lat ter was Governor, to fight the h. sull power interests, and he, him. self, came within a close margin of being elected a Democratic Cover nor of Maine.
 After two terms in Congress, Moran was appointed to the Mar itime Commission, got fed up with the dictatorial methods of Admiral Land and went back to Maine to run his fathers insurance company
 Moran is pro-labor, will fight for labor when it is right, but will also fight against labor when 1t is wrong. No one could have had a more pro- Roosevelt record when in Congress; but. on the other hand, Moran is one of the closest friends of labor-enemy Ed Burke, counsel for the coal operators.
 The two got to know each other when Burke was in the House and later in the Senate from Nebraska. And John L. Lewis would have had fits the other night if he had look- ed in on a private party where the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
Alaska Highway
 Discussion Takes
 Place in vitioria

SEATTLE. July l3. = Premier John Hart of British Columbia will receive members of the Alaska Highway Subcommittee of the Ad- yisory Committee, Washington State Department of Conservation and Development at Victoria today.
 Howard Costigan, executive sec retary of the committee, said an informal discussion would be held on proposed construction cf a north-south highway in British Columbia linking Alaska with the Pacific northwest.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
Flying Fortress
 Rises 43,4o9 Feet Into Atmosphere


 SEATTLE, July 13. = Climbing like a homesick angel' in the words of the co-pilot-a B-17 Flying Fortress rose 43,499 feet into the sky Wednesday and the Boeing Air craft Company claimed today the mark was new altitude record for planes in the United States.
 Another type, of plane reached 56,- 046 feet over Italy in 1888 but Boe- ing said the flight of "The Shadow" this week was a world record for four-engined aircraft. We could almost forecast weather by eye up there," Co-pilot Scott Osler said
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
Twenty Thousand Already Tried As
 CoIIaborationisis

PARIS. July l3-More than 2O,- 900 people have stood trial in the nine months purge ot French col laborationists, but 30,00o more re- main to face judgment. Ministry of Justice fisnras reveal.
 The courts have passed 994 death verdicts, 500 sentences of hard la- bar for life. 4,638 other hard labor sentences, 06S of imprisonment for five years or more. and 9.876 for shorter jail terms. There were 3,3l5 acquitted.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
Fair Investigation Of Subservive Elements Is 10 Get Underway

WASHINGTON, July l3.-A fear less but fair" investigation of any subversive clements was promised today by the new chairman of the House committee on Un-American Activities.
 Rep John s. Wood (D-GD elect ed to the post yesterday to succeed Rep. Edward J. Hart tD-ND, pledg- cd that policy as he called his col leagues to an organization meeting.
 "Iri my book all Americans are good ones until they are proved otherwise" Wood said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
PFC HELGE5EN E
 GIVEN PROMOTION

FORT RICHARDSON, Alaska .- Pfc. Robert M. Helgesen, son of Mrs. Gertrude Boggan, of Juneau, Alaska. has recenly been promoted to the grade of Technician Fifth Grade. Tee Helgesen is member of the Medical Detachment serving this station.
 Tee Helgesen is a graduate of the Juneau High School and entered the service at the completion of his High School course.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
B N 5

WASHINGTON-T Senate un- animously confirmed today the nom- ination of General Omar N. Bradley to be Administrator of Veterans Af- fairs He succeeds Brig. Gen. Frank Hines, resigned. It also confirmed Raymond M. Foley of Michigan as Federal Housing Administrator, suc- ceeding Abner H. Ferguson, resigned.
 WASHINGTON - Congress dis patched a $769, ,364 $50 War Agencies Appropriation Bill to the White House today after six weeks of con- troversy revolving about funds for OWI and FEPC.
 LOS ANGELES-Alia Nazimova, 66-year-old Russian-born actress, died today in Good Samaritan Hos- pital. The famous dramatic actress, once the toast of world capitals for her performances in Ibsen and O'Neil plays, has been in Hollywood the past few years.
 WASHINGTON-The motor mine sweeper YMS-39 has been lost in the Borneo area as result of enemy action, the Navy announced today. Casualties among her wartime com plement of 35 officers and men totaled five, including three killed, enc wounded and one missing.
 NEW YORK-Luisa Rainer, act ress who won the Academy Award twice, and Robert Knittel, publisher, were married yesterday at the Church of the Ascension Miss Rainer and Playwright Cliffort Odets were divorced in 1940.
 EVANSVILLE, Calif. = A court martial has convicted Maj. Harry E. Roy. 57. veteran of 30 years Army service, on IS of 24 counts that he sold liquor at Camp Beale.
  He was sentenced to forfeit $2OO a month of his pay for 20 months.
 NEW YORK-Film Actress Mar lene Dietrich returns from Paris with souvenirs acquired behind the fighting lines in Europe.
 WASHINGTON - Partial lifting of price controls on commodities no longer scarce will be announced soon by the OPA.
 WASHINGTON II About 45,000 workers are idle in over 20 cities today as a result of labor disputes. Those affected by strikes include thousands of war plant employees, newspaper printers in five cities, cigar workers in Florida and coal miners in Illinois and Pennsylvania.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
SPILLED MILK

ROCKFORD, Ill.-Alex Conratti believes he has legitimate reason to cry over spilled milk
 A one-gallon jug of milk upset in his car when he made a turn, and the cork popped out. Conratti tried to right the jug but his car crashed into parked car. caromed across the street and hit fire hy- drant. s
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, July 13. - Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7la, American Can 96l2, Anaconda 34ls, Curtiss Wright 7is, International Harvester 86, Kennecott 381a, New York Central 285s. Northern Pacific 32ls, U. s. Steel 7Ols, Pound $4.03as.
 Sales today were 960,000 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 166.67 rails G0.40 utilities 33.43.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-13
MEATLEss FRIDAY

TULSA, Okla Lots of things are left in post offices these busy days, but Postmaster George Watkins be- lieycs the Red Point for absent mindedness goes to the person who walker off leaving a good sized slab cf salt pork on writing table.