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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-31
HEALTH WRITER IS FOUND DEAD;
 THROAT E CUT
Is Found Sprdwled Across Bed in His Fashion
 able Home

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 31 - Dr Logan Clendening, 60, nationally known writer on health matters was found dead at home this after noon with his throat slashed.
 The coroner reported he appar- ently died about midnight. His body was. discovered sprawled across the bed of the Clendening home in the fashionable Country Club district, southwest of Kansas City.
 Clendenings column was long syndicated nationally. It was called Diet and Health"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-31
PRISONERS
 SAY NAzIS
 SEEK PEACE
Say Two German Officials Leave 10 DiCker with
 Britain, U. 5.

SINdMERATH, Germany, Jan. 3l German prisoners said today these peace rumors are sweeping the Wes- tern Front: CD Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop has gone to Eng land to seek peace; (2) Baron Franz von Papen, former German ambass- ador to Turkey, may come to the United States to try to make peace
 The prisoners were at a loss to explain how the Nazis reached their alleged destinations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-31
US0 WILL CELEBRATE
 BIRTHDAY
Banouef 10 Be Held Safur- day Night, Followed by
 Dancing al Bardnot

Saturday nights USO party at the Baranof Hotel will undoupteoiy be the most interesting ana color- f,l in the local clubs history. This is the opinion of the Director zach Gordon, who said today that capacity crowd is expected to De in attendance.
 Although the affair originally was planned simply to celebrate the Fourth Anniversary of the founding of the USO as a national organiza- ton. it has been decided to make it more than just that. Accordingly the most significant feature at the banquet on Saturday will be the tribute to be paid the men from Juneau and Douglas who are in the armed forces. Our special guest of honor will be Marine Corporal Donald Williams, who has just re- turned from the South Pacific area where he has been engaged in some of the wars most decisive fighting.
 The presence of Cpl. Williams at the party, together with some other special features, will make the evening one long to be remem- sbered,p said Gordon. All the friends of the USO are invited to the banquet. However, since very large attendance is anticipated, it will be necessary for us to receive all the acceptances shortly"
 The banquet. in the Gold Room of the hotel, will begin at 630 o'clock. A formal dance for all servicemen and all the dinner guests will follow at g o'clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-31
MANY PARIS OF NATION
 5HIvERING
(By Associated Press)

Bitter cold kept the midwest shiv- ering today and the Chicago wealth CT bureau forecaster said the out look was fair for continuel cold for at least another 24 hour period. The mercury dropped to 20 de- grees below zero at St. Cloud. Min nesota, and Lone Rock. Wisconsin. It was IS below at Rochester, Min neSOta.
 Sub-zero minimums extended to the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Gen. tral Illinois and Indiana.
 It is four degrees below zero in Chicago.
 Less intense cold swept the lower Mississippi valley and the Central Gulf states.
 Rain developed along the Wash- ington and Oregon coasts
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-31
BASEBALL CHAR MAY BE CHOSEN
 THIS SATURADY
Ford Fritk Is Only Possible Choice If Decision
 Made

NEW YORK, Jan. 3l-For Sat- urday's meeting to consider a group of names for baseball commissioner Ford Prick appeared to be the only possibility No other individual either connected with the game or outside the sport has a sizeable number of votes.
 If Prick is not selected, it is probable the entire matter will be tabled until the December sessions
 According to. unofficial tabula- tions, the count stands 12 to for Prick No other candidate has more than one packer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-31
BIRTHDAY BALL Is SUCCESSFUL
 CHARITY AFFAIR

Last night the people of Juneau crowded the Elks' Ballroom where the Presidents Birthday Ball was held from the time dancing started at g o'clock until the end In the Baranof Hotel Gold Room five tables of bridge and two of pinochle were played. Five tables were play ed at the Governors House also.
 Collection of the March of Dimes jars will be made this week and it is reported they are well-filled.
 In 1791. Robert Fulton develop ed the first workable submarine in Paris.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-31
PROSECUTION OF
 WAR CRIMINALS
 IS NOW CERTAIN
Important Statement Made by British Minister
 of Stdte


 LONDON, Jan. 3l.-Richard Law, Minister of State, declared today that Britain will do her utmost to see that the Nazis are punished for crimes committed against the Ger mans.' N3a
 It is the first definite statement made that the Nazis will be made to pay for prosecution of Jews ard others in the Reich itself, although Law did not specify and group by names.
 Law said procedure, such as trials, will be far different from those of previous war criminals but he did not specify in what manner.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-31
EISENHOWER
 SMA5HE5 AT FAT1|HERLAND
SnowpIowing Doughboys Make New Gains on Long Front
(Conttnued from Page One)

controlling the flood levels of the Roer River, major barrier before Cologne.
 Patton's Third Army widened its bridgehead across the Our River with "a five-n1ile thrust into Ger many.
 New Offensive
 Eisenhower's forces are carrying the new offensive to the Germans as fast as infantrymen and armor can move through slushy and deep drifted snowfields.
 The Supreme Allied Commander is slamming new challenge from the west against the shaken Reich battlefront.
 Reports said Americans who lashed out east of Monshau found Siegfried Line pillboxes abandoned and undefended.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-31

s Bertrand Russell, English philos- opher, mathematician and sociolo- gist, belongs to one of the oldest
 families of Englands
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-31
50USA BAND5MAN DIES; ALL -TIME
 GREAT C0RNET|ST

LONG BEACH, Calif., Jan. 31- Herbert L. Clarke, IT, solo cornetist with John Phillip Sousa for more than 25 years, died here last night. Clarke was ranked by critics among the great instrumentalists of all time. He was the composer of many frequently played cornet solos.
 Henry Ford startled the world in 1926 when he announced a five day work week for employees,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-31

Benjamin Franklin received an honorary A. M. degree from Har- yard College in 1753.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-31

The first American theater was opened in Charleston, S. C., in l736
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-31
W. s. PARSONS HERE

William Stanley Parsons of An chorage is staying at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-31

Five rivers in Virginia are named after Queen Anne of England.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-27
Downey Brands
Water Pact as
Trouble Maker

Sen. Sheridan DoWney CD CAL
ifornia, charged Tuesday that the
Mexican water treaty is 80 absurd
and grotesque that it will be the
foundation for future controversies
and lawsuits beyond number"
DoWney resumed his attacks as
the senate entered its second week
of debate on the treaty which gives
Mexico a guaranteed 500,tO0-acre-
feet of Colorado river water annual
ly.
Almost every sentence, almost
every article is filled with ambi-
guities and confusion DoWney said.
THE treaty is life and death
matter for us in the Colorado river
basin.
"We want a clear and concise
treaty. If we ratify this treaty we
will have confused and unsettled
the situation beyond measure"
Mexico. Downey said, would be
unable to build up any use of Colo
rado river water if it were not for
the American diversion facilities.
Sen. j. william Fulbright CD
Arkansas, ar.d Sen. George d. Mil
likin RD Colorado. asked Downey
whether California water users have
been selling surplus water to l.Iexi-
co. Downey denied that such an
arrangement was in effect.
Downey said the treaty would
jeopardiZe California water users
contracts. He said it would create
a huge cotton industry in Mexico
to compete with southern farmers
and give two-man international
boundary commission virtually die.
tatorial powers over the Colorado
and Rio Grande rivers.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-27
yonks Invade jap Island
$50 Miles From Homeland

Tokyo also reported that Ameri-
can battleships, cruisers and more
than 1000 carrier planes were bonn
harding the OkinaWa group, espe-
cially the naval and air base island
Of OkinaWa itself, for the fifth
straight day Tuesday.
I.and-based planes and other Al
lied warships were reported sup
porting the purported invasion with
attacks along 1300-mile front
stretching all the way from Japan
itself to the island of Pratas in the
South China sea.
More than 200 Superfortresses
sparked the supporting raids with
an attack on two airfields and an
aircraft plant IN Kyushu, southern
most of the Japanese home islands,
iii daylight Tuesday. 1t was the first
Marianas-based BIO raid on south
crn Japan.
Tokyo said the raid on Kyushu
lasted two hours. The Japanese
also reported that about 10 Ameri-
can Liberator bcmbers raided Mar
Gus island, 1400 miles southeast of
Tokyo and 900 miles northeast of
Saipan, in daylight Monday.
The japanese communique did
not identify the islands in the Ker-
anna group on which 1t said the
Americans had landed. However, a
propaganda broadcast yesterday
said 1000 troops were attempting to
land from 100 barges on Tokashika,
Zamami and Aka, the three largest
islets in the group.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-27
GERMAN CIT ADE Is T0TTER +
Warren Forces
Let Cities
Tax Rider Stand
Opponents Hint Later
Maneuver to Cut
Out 81 Million Fund

SACRAMENTO, March 81. UP)-
Warren administration forces con-
ceded at least temporary defeat in
the assembly in their battle against
the attaching of a local subsidy
rider to the governors tax reduc-
ton bill
L. Harrison Call, (RO, Redwood
City, announced he would waive an
attempt to reconsider the al to 80
vote by which Tile rider was placed
in the tax reduction bill.
PREPARE NEW ATTACK
However, it was reported that as
sembly hackers of Warren's policies
were preparing amendments to null
lily the effect of the amendment
which would earmark $57,OO0,OO0 for
local public wolxs.
Walter j. -Four (R.) Ventura, as
sembly sponsor of the tax bill, said
the new amendments could be in
terpreted in that way 1t was be-
lieved they would not be offered
until early next week.
Democrats, who were the main
factor in adoption of the rik,r, have
not decided their future procedure,
minority leader Alfred w. Robert
son said.
AS it now stands, the tax bill
would hold major states tax rates at
lowered levels vooeo in 1943 and set
up the $57,O00,000 local public works
fund.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-27

dorf, near Berlin, shots were said
to have been exchanged between
regular army troops and SIS units.
Both Marshal Karl Won Rund-
stedt, dismissed supreme COM
mandar in the west, and Marshal
Johannes Won Blaskowitz, COM
mander of the southern group on
the wectern front, have been ar
rested and are awaiting court
martial the agency said.
KESSELRING BALKS
An Exchange Telegraph agency
dispatch from Zurich said a source
there with close contact with the
German war ministry learned that
Marshal Albert Kesselring, named
to succeed Rundstedt in the west,
appeaed unwilling to accept the
command after twc-day inspec-
ton of the font.
A memorandum from KeSSelring
was said to have prompted mid
night emergency meeting at
Berchtesgaden.
Startling evidence of the state
of disorganization of the German
army in the west came from the
Nazi- controlled Frankfurt radio.
The station appealed to leaders
of local groups in the upper and
lower Westerwald and lower Lain
areas-all Immediately in front of
the advancing American First
and Third a;mies-to report i'm
mediately to field command posts
and collecting stations.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-27
House Approves
Manpower Bill
With Penalties

WASHINGTON, March 27. CUP)-
The house voted 167 to 100 Tuesday
to apply stiff penalties to workers
who leave essential jobs and to en-
ployers who violate fixed manpower
ceilings.
1t approved compromise man
power control bill worked out after
long debate by house and senate
confereeS. Before going to Presi-
dent Roosevelt the bill must be ap-
proved by the senate.
House passage came after bit
ter last-ditch fight by opponents.
Rep. Forest A. Harness, (RD, In
diana, sought to kill the measure
by legislation not approved by either
house. He was overruled by speaker
Sam Rayburn.
Rep. Dewey Short, (R), Missouri,
declared this is tyranny and slav-
cry brought up to date"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-27
Nebraskan Calls
For Ceiling Ban
On All Livestock

WASHINGTON. March 81. (UP)-
Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry, (R.,) Ne
braska called Tuesday for removal
of price ceilings on livestock.
Do that, he told his colleagues of
the senate food investigating COM
mittee, and "the black market would
take care of itself"
when we we're swamped with
hogs" Wherry said, I'VE had no
trouble with the black market. And
when hens were laying SO fast we
couldn't stop them, we didn't have
any black market in eggs, either"
Removal of price ceilings on live
animals, he suggested, would slim
ulate production to the point where
it would meet all demand.
Wells E. Hunt, Baltimore, a
spokesman for meat interests, had
proposed increased subsidy pay
ments to packers and slaughterers
as the only way to get honest beef
and pork back on the nations din
ner tables.
1.-THE government has chosen to
plunge into the swiftly flowing
stream of subsidies" Hunt said
Nov we've gotten into this mess,
we've got to swim it out"
Wherry differed with Hunts state
ment that subsidy payments should
be increased.
If they do that" he said, they
would have to go to everybody who
has anything to do with an animal
from the time it is born"
Hunt said higher subsidies would
curb black market, relieve the civ
ilian meat shortage, and end the
governments difficulties in obtain
Continued on Page Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-27
Americans Land
On Cebu Island

MANILA, March 81. (UP)-Tokyo
radio said Tuesday that American
troops had landed on Cebu, one of
the last three major islands in the
Philippines still controlled by the
japanese.
"a Tokyo German language
broadcast, recorded by the FEC,
said 1900 American troops went
ashore in the initial landing0
The enemy broadcast, which was
not confirmed, reported the land
ings began Monday morning under
cover of a naval bombardment from
six cruisers and several destroyers.
According to Tokyo, the assault
forces went ashore at Talisay on the
east coast of the central Philippines
island. There are two towns of that
name en- Cebu. One is five miles
south of Cebu City. capital of the
island, while the other is near the
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-27

the lower Raab river.
Soviet reports said that the Ger
mans had thrown strategic reserves
against the Russians who are now
advancing with orders to pursue the
main forces of the Germans and not
halt tc mop up small detachments.
Fighting flared anew at Kuestrin
where the Germans reported in
tense Soviet attacks with heavy ar
tillery support had enabled the Rus
slams to score some gains. A Soviet
tank detachment at Genschmar, 36
miles east of Berlin and six miles
northwest of Kuestrin, was said to
have been smashed.
Altogeti.oi, 100000 Red Army
men and thousands of tanks we're
on the march in the new offensive
on both sides of the Danube river
toward the Austrian and Bavarian
Alps. where the Nazis have been
plotting a stand to the death.
Far to the northeast, Marshal
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's Sec
ond White Russian army drove
through the third and last outer
defense belt protecting the Baltic
port of Danzig and was within
mile west and northwest of the city.
One column broke into the western
suburb of Emaus.
Sixteen other towns and villages
fell to the Second army as it tight
ened it's siege arc around doomed
Danzig and the adjacent port of
Gdvnia.
The Thiro White Russian Army
chased the last remnants of the
German pocket southwest of Koen-
igsbe;g in East Prussia into the
varsity Kahlholz cape. Some $1,000
Germans we're captured Monday
alone in the pocket.
Skirmishes continued along the
Oder river front 30-odd miles east
Of Berlin preparatory to tic Red
Army's big push toward the enemy
capital
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-27
Funeral Services
For Lloyd George
Planned in Home

LONDON, March 81. CUP)-Fun-
eral services for David Lloyd George,
Britain's first World War prime
minister, who died Monday at the
age of 80. will be held Friday at
NeWydd, his home outside Criccieth,
North Wales.
Both houses of parliament ad-
journed Tuesday cut of respect to
the memory of the doughty warrior
who led Britain to victory in the
first world conflict but died before
the Allies again could crush his arch
foe--PrusSian militarism.
Last New Years Day he was given
the title of Earl Of DWyfcr, although
history probably will remember him
best as David Lloyd George, the
man who struggled SIS years for a
strong Britain.
Field MAJ shal Jan G. Smuts,
prime minister of the Union OF
South Africa, said in tribute that
"a very great figure has departed
one of the greatest"
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-27

northeast tip, only 18 miles west of
American-held Leyte.
Cebu, long, narrow island COW
ering 1900 square miles, has been
the target for increasingly heavy
air attacks recently by General
Douglas MacArthur's bombers from
the Philippines.
His communique Tuesday dis
closed that 18th Air Force Liber-
ators and Mitchells ripped Cebu
City and nearby Nagatan with $50
tons of explosives Saturday IN the
heaviest assault in the past week.
Gun positions, railroad yards and
ammunition dumps were shattered
in and around Cebu City, which Is
$50 miles southeast of Manila.
Despite the heavy casualties,
which amounted to more than 1900
a day, the japanese still were fight
ing savagely ON three frcnts In
LuZon
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-27

Anyone trying to escape military
service or forced labor, the broad
casts said, will be considered a
deserter and dealt with as SUCH"
REPORT TRACED
The brewing military revolt was
reported by the free German
press bureau, an anti-Nazi propa-
ganda agency in Stockholm, with
out indicating the source of its
information.
Elite SIS troops were patrolllng
Berlin, the agency said, with spe-
cial units cordoning off Adolf Hit
ler's reichschancellery and the
German high command offices.
Hitler himself was holding con-
ference after conference at his
Berchtesgaden mountain-top re-
treat with top Nazis, including
Baron Franz von Papen, often
mentioned as a possible peace en-
voy, the agency said.
CABINET SUMMONED
One such conference was re-
ported to have been held Monday
night, but no information was
available as to the outcome. Sum-
moned to the meeting by air were
members Of Hitler's cabinet and
district leaders.
Ccnspicuously absent from the
meetings, the anti-Nazi agency
said, was Marshal Wilhelm Kel-
tel, supreme commander OF the
German armed forces.
Unrest even has spread to MIL
itary training camps inside Ger
many, it went on. At st. StahnS-
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-27
u. 5. Planes Halt
Japs in China

CHUNGKINK, March 27. (UP)--
Fighters and bombers of the U. S.
air force flew mission after mission
again Tuesday in support of Chinese
ground troops at Empting to stem
the Japanese drive toward the air
base town of Laohokow in northwest
Hupeh province.
Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault's air.
men also bombed and strafed enemy
columns moving southwestward
along the Loyang-Loning highway in
southwestern Honan province.
Other reports said the Sunday and
Monday attacks against the Peip-
ing -Hankow railroad resulted in the
destruction of three locomotives and
the damaging of IL others.
japanese barracks around King
men and Ichang, both in western
Hupeh, we're hit.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-27
Yanks Smash so To 90 Miles
East Of Rhine I'm Mad Rush
Pa++on's Army, Unreported for 48
Hours Closes in on FuIda as
British Break Through Ruhr Lines

PARIS, March 27. (UP)-The American First and
Third armies Tuesday smashed deep into the Reich plung
nearly 60 miles beyond the Rhine at point and
sby 90 at another and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower pro-
claimed the Rhine victory complete and crushing.
Eisenhower warned that the Nazs might turn and
fight again. but said that military force the western
front they "are whipped army
Emphasizing Eisenhowers words, the American First
Army crashed So miles beyond the Rhine in 27-me
plunge to within two miles of Wetzar home of the famous
Ieica Camera Works, just west Of the River Dill.
PATTON GOES PLUNGING TOWARD BERLIN
1t Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army, officially
reported for nearly "a hours reported without con-
frmaton to be closing in the Hesian citadel OF Fuda
90 miles beyond the Rhine and halfway the Reich
The British Second Army pounding through the
Ruhr toward the plains before Berlin and was
within three miles of Essen Correspondents said its rate of
advance dictated only by the speed with which supplies
could be brought up.
The U. S. Ninth Army drove the Neue Emscher
canal and broke into the Ruhr city of Duisburg.
The u. S. Seventh Army was across the Rhine on
9e bridgehead north of Mannheim and moved at least
four miles to the east against spotty opposition.
The u S. First Army was rolling freely deep INTO
Germany. .
Four armored First Army spearheads were pushing
ahead and the miles west of Wetzar was only ~
miles from Frankfurt Berlin superhghway at point
254 miles from Berlin.
ONLY 1913 MILES FROM GERMAN CAPITAL
Fuda toward which Patton was reported driving is
only 1913 miles southwest of Berlin.
The First and Third armies had formed Juncture
near Launstein just south OF Coolenz , -, .
The First had three spearheads at the Dl river at
points just west and northwest OF Wetzar ana lour
five miles northeast of Weisbaden which is just north OF
tho Rhine directly across the river from Malnz
Eisenhower sent his Allied armies crashing eastward
bevond the shattered Rhine barrier with orders to smash
the remaining German forces before berh. .:.;
He pledged again that there would be no negotatl0ns
with the beaten enemy and that unconditional SURRENDER
would be imposed upon the Nazs at the END OF this ha
battle ELL, H. 1r g E;rst Armv ex
Continued Page g. COL 81
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-27
Military Revolt
Surges in Reich
Wholesale Deser+ions Hin+ed as
SIS Troops. Regulars Clash;
Runds+ed+ Reported Under Arrest

LONDON, March 81 (UP)-Increasng signs of
the military breakdown of Germany noted Tues
day in series of Nazi broadcasts calling all Ger
man troops to report at to their units to local
authorities.
TIE broadcast summons concded with Stockholm
rumors of possible military revolt in Germany be-
of the crisis.
The broadcasts ordered all troops to report to
stations and to local authorities. They explained that
many troops have lost contact due to "enemy action
These troops, it said, must be- brought into
action again All leaves except those for illness
ceptional galantry were cancelled and troops were
ordered to designated "front assembling points
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-27
Navy Announces
41st Sub Lost

WASHINGTON, March o. CUP)
The navy Tuesday announced los
of the submarine Albacore with its
crew of more than IS men.
This raised the total of American
submarines lost from all causes in
this war to al.
The navy did not disclose where
the Albacore was lest but it was
pres umed to be in the Pacific.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-03-27

bombardment, the enemy's imperial
headquarters said.
Japanese ground and air forces
"furic usly" counterattacked the in
vaders the communique said, but it
made no claim that the American
beachheads had been wiped out.
Tie official Japanese acknowl-
edgement of the landing followed
"a hours of conflicting propaganda
broadcasts ranging from an admis-
sion that an invasion had occurred
to denial that Single soldier"
had reached shore.