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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-19
III. Stephen Early, j.,
Wounded Slightly
Father Visits Him

First 1t. Stephen T. Early, jr.,
son of Presidential Secretary and
Mrs. Early, has been wounded
slightly while on duty in the Euro
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-19
Wounded

First 1t. Stephen T. Early, jr., al,
son Of the presidential secretary,
was wounded In action in the Euro
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-19

LIZ SoHut fft. NHkefSDn
s(MissinE) tPrisoner)
Pfc. Mcleod H. Farr, 20. a ski
trooper with the mountain infantry
in Northern Italy, was seriously
wounded in the right arm February
"a, the War Department. notified
his mother, Mrs Elmer Farr of
1902 Kenilworth avenue NE, March
Is. Born in Washington, Pvt. Farr
was graduated from AnacoStia High
School in June, 1912, when he went
to work in the accounting depart
ment of the Navy Yard. He re-
manned there until he Joined the
Army in April, 1913, and went over
seas in December. 1914. Pvt. Farr
has a sister Helen, who works for
the Red Cross.
Pvt. George West, %, SAP Second
street NV, has been wounded in
action In Italy. See story on this
page. q. -
Pfc. william H. Coeyman, whose
wife, Mrs. Emily Coeyman, lives at
256 Ninth street NE, was wounded
In action second time February
S in Germany, according to a War
Department announcement. A vet
eran of the invasion of France. he
was first wounded two days after
D day. Mrs Coeyman is visiting
friends in Maryland at present.
Pfc. Maurice p. Archer, the son
Of Mrs Mary Archer of Burke, Va,
is also listed as wounded on todays
War Department casualty list He
was wounded in the European the
alter.
Stories about the following men,
reported as wounded ON today's list,
appeared in The Star after the next
of kin had been notified.
Capt. Leroy A. McMullen, whose
wife, Mrs. Marjorie A. McMullen,
lives at 1910 Marlboro pike Sc.
Pvt. Angelo r. Munari, whose
wife, Mrs. Laura K. Munari, re-
sides at 1925 w street NV.
Pfc. Salvatore Pelicano, whose
wife. Mrs. Medora L. Pelicano, lives
at 814 G street NE.
Pfc. James E. Parker, whose wife,
Mrs. Dorothy L. Parker, lives at
6122 Bass street, Capitol Heights,
Md.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-19

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-08
, FRnM SEATTLE

Harold Chaser, of the Glaser Beverage Company, Seattle, and H. J. Fairhurst, Seattle, are guests at the Baranof Hotel 2
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-08
NORTH SEA HERE
 EARLY THIS A. M.

The North Sea arrived in port early this morning with the follow ing passengers:
 From Seattle-Mrs.. Brita Bland Mr$, Beatric Parsons, William. J Hoffmeister, Mrs. William J. Hoff meister, Mrs Carmelai Tutino, Mrs Helen Johnson, George Hansen Olaf Winther, C. A. Winthrow.
 Wesley A. Miller, Mrs, Wesley A Miller, John K. Stewart, Walter E Walsh, Miss Dinah Mcbride, Mrs Ella Carley, Miss Sandra Carley Mis- Lavonne Carley.
 Mts. Nellie Rudsky, Leonard Rud- sky, Mrs. Edna Swap, Ralph Swap Walter Swap.
 From Petersburg-Mrs. G. Thy nes, Egil Winther, Mrs Marie Win ther, H. B. Crewson, Wilfred Fleek Earl N Dinner. l73ssf From Ketchikanrr-Fred ,Newburn Mrss Marjorie Newburn, John Her man. George Folta, L. o. Jacobsen Mrs. L. o. Jacobsen, Mrs L. Tay- Tor, Oren Addleman, Paul Jacobsen E. F. Rodenberg, Miss Esther Ral- son.
 From Wrangell-Mrs. F. G. Han- ford. ,u
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 TOW taking it on the bounce. A daring performer lets a higr enc pass overhead. It rebounds from the back wall He leaps into the air to pass it in flight witr one swift swinging motion to the front wall for difficult ''rebote' shot that brings the crowd to its feet.
 1 CaromS, ettecIlve but risky shots glancing two walls, back-hand, side arm, short drop shots, liners anc high bouncing bloopers are the stock in trade of the court experts. They are also the thrill-producers who nightly, attract 5000 enthus- lasts to the brightly lighted From ton
 ea Bet On Players
 Safe behind a protective netting spectators make their choices from among the performers and back 'em with bets. The first pelota tosser to rack up a specified number of points sends his, packers scurrying to the mutuel windows to cash in their win" tickets. Second high scorer when the win mark is reach ed, takes place position, and third high, show. Jai alai mutuel handles skyrock- eted to $40,000 and more nightly af ter the government banned horse and dog racing in the Miami area Free-spenders came to look and re- mained to add their cheers to those of long time followers of the game
 Professional competitors are paid a salary, plus what share he can annex of a ten dollar bonus that goes with each game Champions earn from $500 per month upward in salary, others only half as much
 Under the games rule with teeth and jai alai association play CT adjudged out-of -line in any re- spect is automatically barred for life from every Fronton in the world. The Miami sport is super vised by the Florida State Rac- ing Commission, and is operated by Richard Berenson.
 !. Babe Ruth" of jai alai is Guil- lermo, now in Cuba. His speciality is the home run shot, which sends the pelota rebounding over head from front wall to back wall l76 feet away, to return again on a single bounce to the front wall. That feat, veterans agree, challenges the thrill of bringing home long g-shot.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-08
N0RTHB0UND SHIP
 ARRIVES IN PORT
 LATE YESTERDAY

A northhound steamer arrived in
 Juneau late yesterday afternoon
 with the following passengers disem-
 barking here: Virginia Delgrove, H
 Chaser Viola Groh, Homer Nord-
 ling, Elizabeth Nordling, Helen
 ShakleS, Linda Shakes, w. F. Shy der, Lawson Cummings, H. G. Fair hurs,. g.lsslls-s
 Leaving on the boat were the fol- lowing: Otto Engstrom, August An derson, L. P Martin, Mrs. M. Mar tin, Mrs. M. B. Martin, Cleora Hell
 bing, Florence Holton, Mrs J. H.
 Williams, Hugh Williams, Elmer T Olson. ssr L. Stainbrock, Lucille Stainbrook Lcuise, Steve and Ccleen Stainbrook, Mrs. P. Johnston, William John stcn, Lloyd Green, Nevin Detweiler, Robert L. Jernberg, William T.
 Johnson, Andy Kitka, E. Steinman, ard Welnel Salo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-08
GREAT PICTURE OF : "WIL50N" SNOW
 AT 10TH CENTURY


 With the showing last night of Daryl F, Zanuck's eagerly ed Technicolor production of Wi son." enthralled audiences at the 20th Century saw motion picture history made
 Magnificent is inadequate to des- cribe this picture. By every stan- dard Wilson" can be classed as the finest entertainment brought to the screen in the long and spectacular history of motion pictures. For herein one great entertainment is all the color, sweep, drama, ane power that the screen has striven to achieve. To see it will be as if you never saw motion picture be- fore, for Wilson" is something en- tirely different in film pr6duction- a motion picture that will open a whole rich. new world of emotional. experience for every man, woman or child who sees it.
 The 20th Century-Fox film brings to the screen in brilliant pam oramic fashion, the globe-sweeping drama of an era and a nation, the most exciting years of President Wilson's private and public life; the tribulations that faced cur nation during the turbulent years of World War I, and the inside story of world history in the making.
 Each role in the exciting film is infused with an intense reality by a superb cast headed by Alexander Kncx as Wilscn; Charles Ooburn a. his intimate friend, Professor Holiness the beguiling Geraldine Fitzgerald as Edith Boiling Galt; Thomas Mitchell as Wilson's secre- tary, Joseph Humility; Ruth Nell son as the first Mrs. Wilson; Sir Cedric Hardwicke as the fiery Sen ator Henry Cabot Lodge; Vincent Price as William Gibbs McAdoo, William Eythe as Wilson's protege George Falton; and lovely Mary An derson as Wilson's daughter, Elean- or.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-08
By FRED HAYDEN

.F at t tn.. 4t4
 MIAMI, Fla. A top-notch costa weilder leapes and lunges, the pelota rebounds with the speed of bullet; Latins from Manhattan Y and points south = shriek hysterial "Cye!"s of approval; that's jai alai at tke Miami Fronton, only sports arena in the United States where parimutuel betting is still operating and legal. - s
 Don't let the Spanish throw you If you know tennis, handball, or la crosse, you're half way to beccm- ing jai alai pronounced hie-lie) addict. 8e Cesta means basket; pelota-a a ball. "Oye!" is merely the Spanish way of saying a-baby!". Simple isn't it? W Not so the game, Having tried it, and almost inflicted bodily harm in initial attempts, I can vouch for it that jai alai is tougher to learn than any sport you'd care to name.
 Few American Stars
 Professionals must earn the game in their infancy to become proficient. Only a handful of Americans have become adept, yet the sport is a favorite in Mexico City, Shanghai, Barcelona and Havana.
 Don Budge tried his famous ten his arm on the pelota, and baseball and golf champions took whirl at the cesta The results were as dis ccuraging as my own experience.
 There are three requirements for playing jai alai: the speed of a thoroughbred, the. nerve of a flag pole sitter and total disregard for life and limb.
 Fast And Deadly
 Jai alai is fast and it is deadly.
 Pelotas hurled by skilled perform mers from the grooved costa, a wicker implement half tennis rac- quet and half lacrosse stick. ricochet from court walls at one hundred miles per hour.
 A blow in vital spot from the flying spheres. base ball in size and hard as rock, could mean in stant death.
 Miami has Americas only jai alai game: six nights weekly, competi- tors from roster of some 30 Span iards, Cubans, Mexicans and Braz- ilians take their places on the 176 by 56 court which is hedged in on three sides by high walls.
 The signal is given. The game is on.
 A pelota -whammer serves: the ball rebounds within specified floor lines or point goes to the opponent The receiver dashes in to catch and return the service in one smooth motion of the basket" braced to his arm. Momentary holding or juggling forfeits the point
 The ball whips back and forth from front wall to side. to back, at speeds often too great for the eye to follow, as players volley, now re- tiicving the sphere from the air
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-08
FRIDGE OF SAN
 LUIS REY" IS AT
 CAPITOL TONIGHT

The Bridge of San Luis Key showing at the Capitol theatre to- night for the last times is a picture which will symbolize many things to different audiences. There is a nct. of deep religious feeling, an earnest study of people and lavish ness of production.
 It is a performance piece for a group of skilled character actors and actresses and an opportunity for Lynn Bari to show the promis- cd talents in drama and coquetry
 Other leading characters are Akim Tamiroff, Francis Lederer. Nazi- mCva and others.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-08
HERE FROM ANCHORAGE

Carl Cooper and John R. Dodge, both of Anchorage, are guests at Hotel Baranof
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-08

Miss Bess O'Neill, Eileen Holland and Colleen Bucy at the Walter Holland home; Mrs. William Biggs at the home of Mrs. Mae Godkins. Cards-Dr., and Mrs. John Geyer. Those who have not made reserva- ticns for the affair are asked to get in touch with one of the hostesses for reservations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-08
NO SCHOOL HOLIDAY
 ON LIk(0IHs'SS BIRTH

Students of Juneau Public Schools were told today, by Super intendent A. B. Phillips, that Ab- raham Lincoln's birthday, on Feb ruary 12, which falls on next Mon- day, is not a school holiday despite the red numbers on the calendar
 However, Washington's birthday on February g, is holiday, but despite the fact it falls on Thurs day, the next day, unlike the Fri day after Thanksgiving, is a school day. Ei5
 Saturday, however, is still a school holiday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-08
GOA PARTY IS
 EVENT FRIDAY EVE IN HOMES

The series 4of pre-Lenten game and card parties to be sponsored by the Catholic Daughters of America tomorrow night at o'clock will be held at the following homes:s game parties-Mr and Mrs. Neil Moore,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-08
Tom Rudolphs Are
 Parents, Baby Girl

M/Sgt. and Mrs. Tom Rudolph are the parents of a baby girl, born at 8:25 o'clock last night in St. Ann's Hospital. weight pounds, 4 ounces. Rudolph is veteran mem OCT of the Alaska Communications System and has been recently sta- tioned to the Westward. The little daughter joins three other children
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-08
FROM KETcHIKAN

John Herman, representing the Seattle Harware Company, is reg istered at the Gastineau Hotel,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-09
VIE IS IN GUN R A N GE OF K0MAR0M
Germans Waging Costly Battle South of Danube
 Toward Budapest

MOSCOW, Jan 9.-Russian forces driving along the north bank of the Danube approached to within gun range of Komarom, while a costly battle ragged south of the river where the Germans are trying to reach the encircled Budapest garrison.
 A three-mile advance north of the Danube yesterday carried General Malinovsky's troops to point less than seven miles from Komarom, key communications center for the region northwest of Budapest. There the Russians stood less than 50 miles east of the Austrian border and 57 miles southeast of Brastislava, Slo vakian capital.
 Dispatches said the German troops were last reported only Is miles northwest Of Budapest and that they were shifting the weight of their attacks southward in an apparent effort to cut through to Budapest from due west.
 The Germans are said to be using large" tank forces The Russian communique said the Red Army force disabled or destroyed 90 Ger man tanks in that area in one days fighting. Russians inside Budapest have captured another 130 blocks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-09
TOKYO CLAIMS INVASION OF :LUz0N STARTS
Untonfirmed Radio Re- ports Tell of Attempt
 ed Landing"
(By Associated Press)

Tokyo radio said Monday night. U. s. time, that Tank invasion forces have begun attempts to get ashore in the Lingayen coastal area of Luzon. Philippines, but added they are still unable to secure even a foothold there"
 The broadcast lacked confirma- tion from any Allied source. Mani pulations by the Tokyo broadcaster, recorded by EGG, left the impress sion of a successful Japanese re- pulsion without actually saying that the Americans had embarked from their transports.
 The broadcast used the words enemy forces are at present at tempting to land" but in the next breath the announcer spoke of what awaits the anticipated land- ing operations" The broadcast also said the Tank invasion force is estimated to be approximately one division strong" about 15,000 men.
 In the broadcast, beamed at the United States for American con sumption, Domei, Japanese news agency, claimed without explana- tion that the defenders had al- ready dealt "a staggering blow" to the attempted landing
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-09
FOR ALASKA x
 PRESENTED
Inferior Dept. Makes Se1- ond Claim for Inyes-
 tigdfion Fund

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 = The second request for a S1 100000 fund for investigations preparatory to the development of Alaska was made to Congress by the President who included it in his l946 budget.
 The recommendation for an ap- propriation of $1,072,000 to be spent for this purpose by the Interior Department was made by the House Appropriations Committee last month but the House declined to provide the amount in the 1945 supplemental appropriation bill
 Among the larger changes from the l945 budget for Alaska is S650,- GOO for fisheries, an increase of S14.O00; forest management pro- lection, S175,000, an increase of S141, 100; game law enforcement, Sl47,000, a decrease of S3000, in- digent relief, S24,000, an increase of $4000; mineral reservations, sl57 ,OOO, a decrease of S20,000; gov ernors office, S44,000, an increase of $500; wagon roads construc- tion, under the 1882 act, SLOT, ,000, an increase of S77,000; Alaska railroad, $2,864 900, an increase of $31,000.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-09
D. 5. BUDGET ESTIMATE x
 $S3 BILLION
Roosevelt Says Figure May Vary S1O Billion Up
 or Down

WASHINGTON, Jan. g = Presi- dent Roosevelt sent Congress an billion dollar budget which he said might swing more than To- billion dollars up or down, all de- pending upon the war
 The President refused to predict when the shooting will stop in Europe, or anywhere else. He told congress, my only prediction is that our enemies will be totally defeated when we lay down our arms"
 At moment when fighting all over the globe reaches climax of fury Roosevelt sent the an- nual budget message for the fiscal year of 1946, starting July l.
 In the budget he estimated that the total government spending would be 83-billion dollars, the low est in three years, being nearly 17-billion below the record spend- ing of 100-billion during the fiscal year of 1945, now half over.
 He based his 83-billion figure on guess that the'war would require 70-billion and the other 13-billion would be needed for ordinary gov- ernment expenses, benefits to vet erans and for interest on public debt refunds to taxpayers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-09
STRIKE HALTS
 STREET CARS,
 BUSES IN 3. {.
Thousands of Workers WaIkout as Strikers
 Seek Higher Wages

VANCOU YER, B. C., Jan. g. Thousands of workers plodded to their jobs on foot, and it is expected that many thousands more were un- able to report to their posts, when 2,700 street railway men in Van couver, Victoria and New Westmin- ister struck in protest of the Ma tional War Labor Boards rejection of their appeal for higher wages and improved working conditions.
 Every street car and most of the buses remained in the barns. Picket lines are expected hourly at the main depots throughout the three cities. Picket lines have already patrolled the main bus depot at Vic- toria three days while the drivers there struck, demanding equal pay with the British Columbia Electric Company employees.
 A last-minute appeal meeting of the Regional War Labor Board and company officials was rejected last night by representatives of the Street Railwaymen's Union, AFL.
 Regional Board Administrator Me Geough said no further effort will be made on behalf of the Board un- less it is asked by the National Board. McGeough conveyed an of fer of five and one-half cents over all increase, but the offer was re- jected by the Union, which asked for increases of from 12 and one half to 29 and one-half cents per hour.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-09
FIGHT RACES,
 DEEP DRIFTS,
 WEST FRONT
Defensive Fighting of Ger mans Reported by Gen.
 eraI B. Montgomery

PARIS, Jan. 9-A big tank battle broke out in a blinding blizzard three miles northeast of Laroche where an American hell on wheels division fought violently for Samree on the severed main road through the Belgian bulge. Other Americans are within a mile north of Laroche. The battle is raging in drifts four to five feet high. There are heavy, new snow falls all along the 30-mile northern flank of the Ardennes salient.
 The Germans are declared by one Field Marshal on Gen. Mont gomerys staff to be defensive fight ing to resolutely bar the Allies from the one remaining escape route in the bulge. This is the Ouffalize-St. With road. The American First Army is five miles or so from 1t and is cratering it with artillery.
 On the southern, virtually winter-bound flank of the bulge, German counter-attacks drove back Gen. Patton's Third Army one mile.
 On a three mile front west of Bastogne, Marshal Gerd von Rund- stedt appeared to be trying to blast open communications on the south to compensate the loss yesterday of Laroche on the St. With road
 The Americans threw half a dozen attacks against the Ameri- can-French First Army south of Strasbourg in that drive from Colmar where Gestapo Chief Himm- Ter is still believed to be providing the leadership and inspiration The drive halted at Rossfled and Herb sheim, Is miles from Strasbourg. Despite paralyzing storm drifts which impeded equally the attack and the German escape.
 The U. s. Second Armored Di- vision struck heavily at Samree against mobile and dug-in German tanks. The Second is the hell on wheels division that won fame in North Africa Sicily, and Normandy and across France It's commander is "old gravel voice" Maj. Gen Ernest Harmon.
 The battle at Samree broke dur ing the morning and ragged on until afternoon The issue is still at stake. At 5 p. m. part of the Ger man force were captured by Am- erican Sherman tanks
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-09
125-Ton Bomb Raid On Luzon IsIeAnnounced
MaeArthur Will Not Con- firm Jap Reports of
 Invasion, However
By JAMES HUTCHINSON GA. F. War Correspondent

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP PINES, Jan 9-A 125-ton aerial bomb blast on Luzon, which the enemy radio insists is already under pre-invasion attack by Am erican warships, was reported to- day by Gen. Douglas Macarthur.
 The communique disclosed the bombings of enemy airdromes, but gave no confirmation of Nipponese reports that 450 American trans ports are moving on the prized island or on the new pounded Lingayen Gulf as if to prepare for landings there.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-09
3-pR0NGED AIR ATTACK
 LASHES NIpS
formosa, Luzon, Marianas Hit in Raids Coordindted
 with Carrier Planes

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9-Armadas of Superfortresses have plummeted new destruction for Japan on her mighty island bastion of Formosa.
 Lashing simultaneously from bases in the Marianas and in China, Brig. Gen. Haywood Han sell sent his Twenty First Bomber Command of B-29's ripping at in. dustrial targets in the nonsnu area, and Maj Gen. Curtis LeMay's Twentieth Bomber Command ham, mered at Formosa.
 These two forays coincided with pounding of Luzon by carrier based planes to make a three-Way soaring blast of Japanese soils.
 Formosa, 90 miles from the China coast and about 225 miles north of Luzon, is Japan's ihightiest is land stronghold. It is the home land staging point for air. troop and supply endorsements to the now beleaguered Philippines.
 Honshu is the principal island of the Japanese homeland and the industrial heart of the sprawling Rising Sun empire.
 The twin Superfort blows came as Tokyo blared confused reports of an American attempt to land a division of troops on Luzon, the main Philippine island in that great archipelago, but no Allied confirmation was forthcoming.
 Communiques on the three pronged air offensive were issued in rapid fire sequence by the War Department, but precise targets and the strength of the attacking air fleets were unrevealed.
 War Department officials said details of the missions would be announced on receipt of operations reports.
 TWO ISLANDS LASTED
 PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 9-Ameri- can carrier planes lashed Formosa and the Ryukyu Islands Monday in the second raid within a week aimed at the enemy's aerial supply lines between Japan and the Phil ippines.
 The raid was coordinated with Superfort bombardment. Admiral Nimitz's brief announcement said.
 Pilots of Vice-Adm. McCain's fast carrier force swept over the air fields at Formosa and over three major Ryukyu islands, flying with in 300 miles of Japan proper
 Basic details indicated that the raid is continuing in apparent sup port of Gen. MacArthur's Luzon operations
 The enemy's army headquarters on Formosa reported that 450 sea-borne aircraft attacked the is lands from $40 a. m. until 4.30 D. m, in concert with a small force of large aircraft from China. Enemy attacks were slack and damage negligible
 The communique claimed IS U. s. planes were downed.