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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-19

most cordial invitation to you and the people to visit these ships that you may become better acquainted, one with the other.
 Tt may be anticipated that of ficers anu men alike will show an intense interest in both the voca- tional and recreational facilities that Alaska has to offer. They will sincerely appreciate any services and all efforts rendered to let them know they are once again amongst their own"
 Ship-Port Roster
 The proposed allocation of ships to Alaskan ports for the observance of Navy Day is as follows (Aftel each port designation, ships are listed by name, class symbol, class description and commanding of ficer)
 Juneau Fanamint (AGC-13) Communication Headquarters Ship Capt. w. G. Ammon; Charleston (PG) Patrol Gunboat, Comdr. w. E Makosky; Halford ODD Destroyer Comdr. R. J. Oliver. Ketohikan-Fullam ODD Destroy CT, It. Comdr. G. M Boyd; Guest | ODD Destroyer, Comdr. J. B. Veil CT; Ramsden tDE) Destroyer Escort It. Proctor Winter.
 SkagWay-Hudson ODD Destroy CT, It. Comdr. R. A. Zoeller.
 Sitka-Bennett ODD Destroyer Comdr. J. N. Mcdonald.
 WrangelI-Sellstrom DED De- stroyer Escort, Lt Carlton Schmidt
 Cordova-Rhodes DE) Destroyer Escort, It. Comdr w. K Earle Onandaga (PC) Patrol Craft, It Gg) H. M. Dyer.
 Valdez-Richey CDE) Destroyer Escort. It. R. H. Auge; ATR-68 Rescue Tug, It. K. L. Berg
 Seward - Savage (DE) Destroyer Escort, It. J M Waters, Jr.; YMS- 126, Minesweeper, It. tjg) J. M. Lip petts.
 Kodiak-Boxwood (AN} Net Lay CT, It. Gg) L. c. Chamberlain.
 Dutch Harbor-PC-792, Submarine Chaser, It. jg) H. E. Krobatsch.
 Petersburg Cyane PC) Patro Craft, It. (jg) w. F. Impson.
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OUT OF BOUNDS
 ORDER IN TOKYO

TOKYO, Oct. 19-All restaurants and drinking places in Tokyo have been placed out of bounds for American service men.
 Military police authorities, who imposed the ban after they found generally unsanitary conditions, said the order would be lifted as proprietors clean up their places to meet United States sanitary re- quirements.
 Have YOU tried that alluring "N-A-T-O-C-H-K-A" exclusively at YVONNE'S, the incest store in town? G0,095-t6) DRINK KING BLACK LABEL!
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NO. PACIFIC FLAGSHIpT0
 VISIT HERE
Navy Day to Be Observed by Vessels Calling at
 Alaska Port Cities

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Sellers of Books Mobbed;; Volumes
 Burned in Street,

BELGRADE, Oct. 19-A thousand militiamen were deployed through the city today to restore order fol- lowing disorders yesterday during which crowds mobbed persons sell ing a book entitled ''Demokratija and burned the volumes in the streets.
 It. Gen. Stretch zujovich, fin ance minister and secretary gen. eral of the National Front, said the demonstrations were unconnected with the front.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-19
North Sea
 From South

Steamer North Sea arrived this forenoon at 11:30 with 46 passen- gers to Juneau from the south, eight going from Ketchikan to Sitka, and Is from Seattle to Sitka. North Sea officials aboard were M L. Jordan, Master and c. D. Littlehales, Purser. The steamer leaves for Sitka at mid night,
 The incoming passenger list was as follows:
 From Seattle Mabel Hoopes, Mrs E. Samuelson, Violet Wellborn, Mrs Linore Smithberg, Thomas Balloff, Wm Makarenko.
 Mrs. James Wickersham, Mrs, Hennie Paananen, Miss Sally Marin covich, Mrs. Kate Marincovich, Bea- trice Vanderbilt, H. O. Williams.
 Mrs. H. O. Williams, Robin Lou Williams, D. Blakeney, c. Ohman w. D. Hawkins.
 From Ketchikan: G. Fungencio Ross Hare, Minnie Stensland, Louis Syah, John Meyers, " Chica, Char lie Sumdum, Frankie Wright.
 From Wrangell: Emma Everson Judy Everson, Tracy Devinney, Mrs Tracey Devinney. G. s. Dallas, w L. Paul.
 From Petersburg: Mrs. June Pike Mrs. Dora McGilton, Roslind McGil- ton, Lillian McGilton, Lillian Me Clifton, Eliza Williams, Randolph Williams.
 Elsie Watson, Barney Kane, Mrs Barney Kane, Mrs. John R. Horn Mrs. Dale Fleek, Roger Fleek, A. F Halvorsen, J. H. Jurevitz, R. Mur- phy.
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STORY HOUR AT LIBRARY

The regular Story Hour at the City Public Library will be held tomorrow morning at 10:15 o'clock, and all children of Kindergarten age, through the sixth grade, are invited to attend.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-19
FROM ANCHORAGE

B. H. Reddaway, from Anchorage, arrived in Juneau recently and is registered at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-19
TACOMA VISITORS

MT. and Mrs. J. w. Robinson, residents. of Tacoma, Wash, are guests at the Baranof Hotel.
Evening star., 1945-06-10

within that bunker and did their stuff. Our
Again, our artillery pounded the position.
AS the barrage lifted, the infantry. who were
our splendid Punjabi troops, again advanced
up the hill. The Japanese machine gunners
held their fire until the bayonets were almost
at their throats Then they gave 1t to our
Punabis The bombers were called back once
more and they unloaded everything they had
on the bunker The gunners were firing at the
same time, and it seemed that no living crea
ture could survive that hellish battering.
The Punjabi infantry1nen returned to their
task We watched them as they walked steadily
up the hill of death, and felt kind of cold
sickness as they reached the last few yards,
Evening star., 1945-06-10
BY MAJOR FRANK OWEN
British Fourteenth Army

area of this earth. In wilderness where few
white men had ever before set foot, 10000
Allied troops - British, Indian, American,
Gurkha West African. East African, Chinese
and Burmese - fought with artillery, armor,
aircraft and all the apparatus that goes with
the great modern military machine. Armadas
of gliders have carried entire armies over
mountains 10000 feet high and landed them
in the heart of an uncharted jungle. Then air
transports have supplied those armies for
months on end with the stores of war.
In the end, of course, every battle comes
down not to the machines but to the men in
them Hand-to-hand battles, which seem to
belong to the Middle Ages, of British and
Yank bayonet and Gukha knife against
japanese sword and mortar, have ragged all
day and on into the night by the light of the
Burma moon. ending only with the annlhlla-
ton of one side or the other.
jungle Fit Only for War
Only handful of men have ever surren-
dered on either side. In the bloody battles in
Imphal and kohima, where $4,000 Japanese
were killed, we took fewer than 500 prisoners.
The jungle is place fit only for war, and war
to the knife.
In Arakan one day saw Japanese bunker
position sfielled and bombed for two
hours on end. With tank guns firing at the
enemy until our infantry were within Is yards
of the bunker, the assault went in with the
bayonet. Up rose the Jap machine gunners
Evening star., 1945-06-10

How Allied fighters conquered
the terror of the unknown and
battled through to victory :.
NTor long ago Mr. Winston Churchill stood
~ upin the House of Commons and proudly
proclaimed: The British Fourteenth Army,
after marching through the jungle, have cap
tured the city of Mandalay." Then under his
breath he added, And thank God they have
got to a place that we can all pronounce"
This was the pay off to three years savage.
slogging war in the jungle. The world knows
little of that campaign in murky forest
10000 miles from home. The Fourteenth
known even in England, until recently,
as the Forgotten Army. These men inflicted
the greatest land defeat ever suffered by the
Imperial Arms. The japanese power In Burma
has been utterly smashed, and 10000 of
the Mikado's crack troops lie dead upon that
battlefield.
The Fourteenth Army marched 1000 miles
through the jungle to get to Mandalay 1t
was not the end of their road. Beyond, there
lay two other places bitter in British memory
- Rangoon [since takenl and Singapore. 1t
was at Singapore that 10000 British troops
became prisoners of war to the japanese. We
have avenged this humiliation.
This is the story of The War That Nobody
Knows. fought out in the most godforsaken
Evening star., 1945-06-10

Then with cheer echoed by all who saw
them charge, they rushed the mouth of the
bunker AS they did, there was final terrible
explosion When the smoke and dust had set
tied, there were found l26 dead Japanese in
Evening star., 1945-06-10

the warren they had constructed inside the hill.
There was one survivor Asked what had
happened, he answered The Commander
told us to fight to the last and blow ourselves
up with our own grenades rather than yield
and disgrace the Imperial Army" Somebody
SAID How come you didn't obey him?" He
replied navely, Il was unconscious"
Evening star., 1945-06-10
Japs Lie to Themselves

like, come on patrol 1t is night, and for
week you have been moving through a world
of trees 100 feet high. The moon makes shad-
ows on the walls of the forest There is the
eerie crackle of the bamboo branches high
above you in the windlesS night -. what
was that? Or the leaves falling softly, like
football Whose? You hear birds calling to one
another. They might be Japanese signalling.
Be dead silent and don't move, or a stream
of bullets will whip through the trees. If you
are silent the Jap will try again and then he
will betray his position. Perhaps he will fire
single shot to draw your fire. 1t is possible
that he is roped to the branches of tree as
many of his snipers are. We have learned
those tricks now, and some better ones. Japa-
nese are terrifying only when you do not
know them. They repeat the pattern of
their old devices after you have found the
answer, and applied it. Their strategy is
more daring than ours but often it amounts
to recklessness. Their supply system is poor
and their intelligence is faulty. The Japanese
are liars even to themselves.
remember a scene one day at Lord Louis
Mountbattens headquarters. Our men were
holding the crest of hill looking down on a
gorge. The Japanese had established them
selves on our side and were being supplied
Tw-s-Ie-45
Evening star., 1945-12-07
This Changing World
By Constantine Bro,pn

Those in close touch with the State
Department have known for some time
that middle level ofncials were fire.
quently In position to influence their
superiers by the presentation" Of inn
portant situations.
The upper level" of the State De-
partment, that Is to say, Secretary
Byrnes, Undersecretary Dean Acheson,
Counsellor Benjamin Cohen and the
chief Of the recently-organized State
Department intelligence" Col. Alfred
MacCormack, reNrelatively new at the
work OF the State Department
No American Secretary of State needs
to be an expert" on foreign affairs. 1t
is political job which Is given to a
man who has distinguished himself in
domestic matters or who has a good
record as an administrator. In the
first category were Secretaries Hughes,
Kellogg and Hull. In the latter was
Henry L. Stimson.
These men, like Mr. Byrnes, took over
the highest ranking post in the cabi-
net without any particular foreign ex-
perience. They were supposed to" for
mulate policies under the direction of
the Chief Executive. But in the past
they generally relied on the Undersec-
retary of State who, with few excep-
tions. knew the workings of the diplo-
matte game from lengthy experience
Such men as William Phillips, William
Castle and Sumner Welles, were the
executive officers of Secretaries of State
and took care of certain details in this
complex job. They were also well
acquainted with the personnel of the
department, which plays an unobtrusive
but important role in our foreign re-
lations.
There has been much deadwood in
the State Department in the past.
President Roosevelt was among the
first to realize this and had promised
his friends and critics of the depart
ment that some day, when he got around
to it, he would use a big broom
Throughout his long tenure of ofice
other far more important problems kept
him so busy that he never had q
chance to fulfill his promise.
When Mr.. Truman took the helm, he
little knew about foreign Affairs. While
he was in the Senate he was interested
chiefly In domestic matters and in the
short time he was Vice President he had
little opportunity to acquaint himself
with the complexities Of our external
policies.
Evening star., 1945-12-07

1t Is seldom that one hears, from q
supposedly intelligent man. the intellec-
tual double-talk put out by Harold j.
Laski chairman of the British Labor
party, in his address to the Nation
Associates, December 3.
Mr.. Laski pleaded for the end Of all
secrecy regarding the atomic bomb; he
said every implication of this discovery
means planned internationalism, and
the end OF national sovereignty
war" he said, lis the outcome Of the
exercise by governments Of unlimited
sovereignty"
Now in order that sovereignty should
60, the interests that sovereignty pro-
tects must be recognized as outmoded" :"
The source Of national sovereignty, and
war, Is society dominated by busi-
nessman free enterprise and the
market economy mean war; socialism
and planned economy mean peace .
Naziism, in all its forms, is the culmina-
tion Of a society built upon the anarchy
Of free enterprise.
The businessmen have split our So
ciety in two-the political society and
the economic society. They have made
the policeman the sanction of the first
and starvation the threat of the
second
And he deduces, there is only one
country in the world today where this
dichotomy has been transcended" (the
Soviet Union.
$50
Now wait minute!
ID The leading exponent of its own
unlimited national sovereignty is the
Soviet Union. From official leaders in
the United States and Britain have come
proposals ranging all the way from
world federation to international con-
trolls over atomic energy. On the day
that Mr.. Laski made his speech, Pravda
sharply censured all proposals Ito revise
the UNO by limiting the national SOW
ereignty Of the great powers" and in an
official broadcast Moscow branded those
who propose a world parliament as
Fascist" Ergo, Ernest Bevin, British
Labor's Foreign Minister, and Harold
Stassen are "Fascists."
CD The source OF this war Is not 4
society dominated by free enterprise and
a market economy" unless Mr.. LasH
agrees with Molotov's contention on Oc-
tober 81, 1899, during the Russo German
pact, that the aggressors were Britain
and France. NaI Germany was not DOM
mated by businessmen, nor was it "in
all its forms the elimination of q So
ciety built upon the anarchy of free
enterprise" It's economy was entirely
subservient to the party-dominated
state. The worker was subservient to
the employer, the employer to the party,
and the means of production were SUBJ
servient to state aims.
90 Mr.. Laski's description of the
dichotomy (highbrow for division into
exclusive spheresD between political
and economic life in the western de-
mocracies is bunk. The worker has po-
Evening star., 1945-12-07

The Murray-Green objections to the
Truman fact-flnding and coolng-off
plan are quite understandable. Labor
wants its road to Government to con-
tinue as a one-way street. Despite their
assorted differences, Messrs. Green and
Murray are united on a policy OF getting
as much from Government as possible,
but of avoiding any restraints by Gov
ernment. That is the principle Of the
Wagner Act and most other national
labor legislation.
Their emotion rises also from q
genuine fear Of that course of action
which Government may take when all
other measures fail-compulsory arbi-
tration. Life must 60 on in q nation,
and the ultimate power is Government.
The President is the head of that Gov
ernment.
Those who have seen the presidency
at close hand all testify to the lonely
sense Of responsibility which hovers over
the White House. A President lives with
an awe-inSpiring sense Of ultimate
power. He rises with 1t in the morning
and goes to sleep with 1t at night. He
can see any one and ask advice of
every one. But finally he alone must
decide. Even weak President comes
to realize this.
It is a heavy load to carry. Probably
no one else in the world, except Stain,
feels that burden. And even Stain has
firmly knit political party to share his
responsibilities Presidents inevitably
hovv Mou,,, and orrou, nld Yvs,dAr this Y,ros.
sure. Some Of them break under the
strain. AAn emerge from 1t changed and
sobered.
In seeking ONCE, Presidents count
prospective votes and angle for all sorts
Of minorities, They create obligations
and later try to pay for them. They
know, most Of them, that roughly half
the people want to put them out Of
Evening star., 1945-12-07
Republican Program

It is difficult to believe that any
Republican, with the possible ex-
ception of those who may be seeking
election on some Republican ticket,
will be able to indorse with en-
thusiasm the Republican program"
which is to be submitted for approval
to the Chicago meeting OF the Re-
publican National Committee.
This program, on the whole, is a
masterpiece of evasion. AS an
example. one might take the national
defense plank, which reads as fol-
lows: 1--WE stand for a well-trained
and fully equipped Army, Navy and
Air Force, adequate to meet any
emergency under future conditions
of warfare. 1t must be supported
by the most modern scientific re-
search, strong industrial system
and reserves of trained men with
weapons and equipment superior to
those of any possible enemy"
The key phrase in this plank has
to do with the reserves of trained
men," How do the Republicans
propose to provide them? President
Truman has come out squarely for
universal peacetime military train
ing as being the only means of
having the reserves of trained men
when the need for them arises. But
one can read the Republican pro-
gram from beginning to end and
he will not have the faintest idea
whether the Republicans are for
compulsory training or against it,
or, If there is some other alternative,
what its nature may be.
In these times, critical as they are
for this country and for the world,
it may be good politics" for the
Republicans to sidestep all contro-
versial issues. But In the forthcom-
ing elections thoughtful voters will
want to know with reasonable Ger
tainty what the candidates of both
parties have to offer. The RE
publican program" does not supply
this information. Whether the
Democrats will do better remains
to be seen.
Evening star., 1945-12-07
On the Record
By Dorothy THOMPSON

litica1 representation through his vote
and economic representation through
his trade union. That this economic
representation is powerless Is nonsense
to any one reading strike news.
kA4
There are other ways, however, Of
solving dichotomy, in which the police
man Is the sanction Of the first (politi-
caD and starvation the threat Of the
second (economic).
One Is the way of the Soviet Union
and its satellites, in which the execu-
tive OF party theocracy, carries both
the sanction Of the policeman and the
threat OF starvation over everybody
worker, manager intellectual and
scientist.
But Laski has his own dichotomy:
Laski speaking as chairman of the Brit
ish Labor party and speaking on his
own.
AS chairman of the British Labor
party (by the accident Of seniority, Mr..
Laski is fighting Moscow's Communists
in all European countries. He is cam
paigning against Democratic Socialist
mergers with the Communists proc
ess whereby the minority Communists
invariably become the masters Of the
majority Socialists.
BY one of those ironies, the same
papers which carried Mr. Laski's speech
revealed that Russian censors in Vienna
had blasted the Socialist Arbeiterzei-
tung for publishing an article by Michael
Foot, British Labor M. p, in which he
had asked whether Britain must be-
come lackey either Of the new kind Of
Russian imperialism or the older form
Of American capitalism"
who gave the Arbeiterzeitung the
right to print such things?" the Russian
censor asked Indignantly. Certainly the
article was not written nor permission
given or withheld by the press that is
now a branch of big business'-to quote
again, Mr.. Laski.
According to whatever logic there Is
in Mr.. Laski's argument only the Soviet
Union, in which the dichotomy leading
to war has been abolished should have
the atomic bomb, and all national
sovereignties should be abolished except
that of the U. S. S. r. This is certainly
not the view Of the British Labor party
Mr.. Laski is its dichotomy. Were it
Communist or Russian, it would deal
with the schism by banishing Mr.. Lash
to some equivalent of Arctic Siberia
Being democratic it will tolerate him for
the length of his term, after which, If
read the signs Alright, he will attempt
to split 1t.
Meanwhile Mr.. Laski has done his best
to poison relations between V ashington
and London at the moment when fl
nancial relations are being considered
by Congress. He has handed our own
neutrality-suspicious. their best am.
munition.
released by the Bell Syndicate. 1nc)
Evening star., 1945-12-07
Hospital Center

Witnesses before the House Dis
trict Committee have made out
strong case in support of the long
pending bill to create in Washing
ton, with Federal aid, a great Ma
tional Hospital Center, embracing
several of the larger nongovernmen-
tai hospitals in the city. AS Senator
Tydings told his fellow legislators at
the hearing, conditions at some of
the older of Washington'S privately
maintained hospitals are deplorable.
Stats and patients are compelled to
endure almost unbelievable hard
ships in antiquated buildings which
lack up-to-date sanitary, lighting,
ventilation and clinical equipment
and which, because of their age, are
difficult to keep free from dirt and
even vernin. Furthermore, Wash
ington's hospitals are congested to
the point where it is estimated that
more than 1000 additional beds are
needed to meet the nationally rec
ognized disqualification standard of
five beds per thousand of population.
Under the National Hospital Cen
ter bill, which passed the Senate
nearly eight months ago, the Emer-
gency, Garfield and Episcopal Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospitals and pos
sibly several more of the twelve non
governmental hospitals in the Dis
trict would be expanded and grouped
together in a center which would be
financed in part by Federal funds
and maintained thereafter by the
hospitals composing the center. BY
using a central heating plant, and
common laundry, kitchen and lab
oratory, operating room and other
facilities, large economies in over
head costs could be effected.
That the Federal Government
should defray at least part of the
capital investment in such project,
with the hospital paying it's own
way thereafter, seems but fair
when it Is considered that surveys
reveal that approximately A per
cent of the patients treated in local
nongovernmental hospitals are Fed
eral employees or members of their
families, many of whom do not con-
slider Washington as their perma-
nent home. There is no Government
hospital in the Washington area for
general treatment of these employees,
although cabinet members and
members of Congress are able to
obtain treatment at the Navy and
other service hospitals in and around
Washington. The National Hospital
Center would provide 1,500 beds and
modern equipment to meet the
urgent and deserving needs OF Fed
eral workers and others. Early
passage of the hospital bill Is highly
desirable.