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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-11
Christmas Party
 Enjoyed by BPWC

The Juneau Du>'1ess and Proles- sicnal Women held their annual Christmas party Monday evening at the home of the president, Mrs. Lillian Uggen with Mrs. Crystal Snow Ienne as co-hostess.
 Miss Margaret Welsh, Health Pro- gram Chairman, was in charge of the program for the evening, dur ing which two movies were shown depicting the aid given the fight against tuberculosis, by the sale of Christmas seals. A very instructive talk also was made by Miss Lulu Gardner regarding the need for hos pitals in Alaska, where the Territory could care for its own people who need disqualification.
 Each member brought a gift in Christmas wrappings to be given to these who might not otherwise be re- membered at Christmas, through the Community Toy Center project. A lovely doll dressed as a student nurse was presented, and has joined the Toy Center dolls in the window at the Alaska Light and Power Co., building.
 Singing of Christmas carols was enjoyed by the group of -21 mem bers and two visitors present. Mrs. Uggen and Miss Dorianne Barnes accompanied the group at the piano.
 Several announcements were made of forthcoming events, including the radio program to be conducted by Miss Welsh and Miss Anita Gar nick Thursday evening, Dec Is, at 8:15 o'clock over KINY, and also of the business meeting which will be a no-host luncheon at the Baran- of Hotel Wednesday, Dec. 19, at 12 o'clock, noon.
 The Executive Board will meet Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Frances Paul.
 The handmade quilt, which is now on display in the Juneau Young Hardware store window, will he awarded at the Capitol Theatre On the night of December 20.
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(COnJlnued Jf0m rage OHeJ
 his assailant. Also, the jagged character of the four slashes across the throat and about the head in- dicate a struggle and a not too- sharp weapon.
 Throat Gashed
 Death is accepted as having re- suited from the throat gashes, one of which almost completely sev- cred the victims neck No autopsy has been held, nor is one intended. U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray has indicated that he is prepared to hold an inquest at any time, though none has as yet been set.
 Officials Make Search
 Working with the FBI agent on the staying mystery are U. s. Marshals Deputies Walter G. Hellan and Syd Thompson, as we'll as City Police Chief John Monagle and his entire force, as Juneau's first murder in years is probed to the bottom. No arrest has as yet been made, but authorities are con- fident that the complications of the tragedy will bring speedy appre- hension of the perpetrator.
 Campbell is sIown on Alaska Construction Company records to have been 28 years old. He is mar ried, but was reported separated from his wife His father, who has been notified, is Lloyd J. Campbell, residing at 67l4 Fourteenth Avenue Northwest, Seattle. Campbell ar rived from Seattle to work on the Hoonah job the latter part of last May, and has been steadily em- ployed there since, except for brief occasional trips to Juneau.
 The large sum of money with drawn from his account in the bank here was received by Camp bell, and his known expenditures since account for but small DOT tion of the total thought to have been in his possession.
 Body Discovered .
 Discovery of the body was made just before noon yesterday by Spike MacLean, local heating contractor, and Chet Ellis, MacLean asso- ciate They made their gruesome discovery as they were just about to enter the nearby new residence where the MacLean firm is install ing a heating system Other work CTS in the building had arrived on the job before daylight, thus passing unnoticed the body of the slain man.
 Remains of the deceased are at the Charles w Carter Mortuary.
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actively working up arguments to
 present at the hearing.
 The Chamber committee has in- vited representatives from all other Chambers who will be at the hear ing, to meet in Juneau on January 4, to coordinate testimony to be pre- sented.
 Both organizations are depending great deal upon data that must be obtained from Juneau merchants. As I see it, the merchants, repre- senting their customers interests, must bear the brunt Of the labor in- volved in preparing Alaska's side of this matter. The reports required involve a lot Of detail and seem- ingly confidential information about the various businesses. However, the reports may well be made in per- centages and still be of considerable use.
 "A second form is being mailed from the Office of Price Admins tration and should receive prompt attention At the last rate hearing of this kind held in Juneau very little interest was displayed.
 Though it is possible that the carriers need higher rates, it is in- that the people of Alas ka should bear the addition of 30 to 100 per cent increase proposed.
 Tt is of utmost importance to Ju- neau and the Territory that our committees have complete and re- liable testimony prepared. Our mer- chants should not shirk this civic duty, even though the inconvenience and expense is very considerable"
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sioner Felix Gray of birth certifi- cateS for:
 Roy Willis DeAsis, born to MT and Mrs Alvero DeAsis of Angoon, Nov. 26. The father is fisherman.
 Charlotte Harriet Jackson, born to Angoon Fisherman Samuel Jack son and Mrs. Jackson, Dec. 3.
 Ragena Beverly Kenosh, daugh- ter of MT and Mrs. Joe Kanosh. born at Angoon Nov. 4. MT. Kanosh is also a fisherman.
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GI's Pull Fasf One On Army FurIoughs

FRANKFURT, Dec. l1-A United States Army spokesman admits with a grin that a number of CHS outsmarted the Army on it's furlough system. Many men fresh from the United States managed to get right back just by signing up in the Regular Army as soon as they arrived in Germany. Under old regulations any draftees sign ing up with the Regular Army were entitled to 30 days furlough immediately. Some of the GI' s even tried to return to the United States on the same ship which brought them over.
 However, says the spokesman, the loophole now has been plugged. Only soldiers with at least three months in Europe will now be granted furloughs to the United States
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CHUCK RE-ARREsTED

Charlie Chuck, arrested here last Friday, one day following his release from the Federal jail, had pleaded guilty before U. s. Commissioner Felix Gray to charges of drunk and disorderly conduct, the same counts on which he. had just completed serving jail sentence. Sentence on the new offense has been de- ferred.
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ARGUMENTS AT RATE HEARING IN JUNEAU
 URGED PREPARED

AS January has been set for the hearings to be held in Juneau on freight and passenger rates, Mayor Ernest Parsons has issued the fol- lowing statement:
 ITO the best of my knowledge the Office of Price Administration and the committee of the Juneau Cham Der of Commerce are the only ones
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WASHINGTON-P Presence of a former Republican political worker at the Congressional Pearl Harbor Committee table suddenly inter- rupted hearings today. Senator Scott Lucas accused him of voicing ''gra- tuitous insults" The man was iden- tified as Percy Greaves, of Ridge wood, New Jersey in the employ of Senator Owen Brewster, Maine Re- publican, who was temporarily ab- sent from the hearings.
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ANGooN BIRTHS

Three recent births to Angoon couples have been made known here with receipt by U. s. Commis-
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LONDON-B Britain's court of last resort today heard an appeal to spare the life of William Joyce, otherwise known as Lord Flaw flaw. Joyce's counsel argued before four Lords of Appeal in the House of Lords that international law would be violated if Britain hanged the American born radio announcer who broadcast for the Nazis during the war.
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MRS. FOLGER HERE

Mrs. Bernice Folger, Petersburg resident, has arrived in Juneau. She is a guest at the Baranof.
 There are more than 130 species of trees in Canada
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DR. PYLE RETURNS
 FROM NAVAL DUTY

T. J. Pyle, former Alaska Native Service Dental Officer, more re- gently It. Comdr. Pyle with the U. S. Navy, has returned now to civil ian status and to Juneau. He, Mrs. Pyle and their children returned over the weekend to again make their home here. Dr. Pyle will also return to his former post with the ANS.
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3 BULLETIN N 5

HEIDELBERG, Germany - Gen George s. Patton, Jr, was reported rallying tonight, with some improve ment from the paralysis resulting from the fracture of his neck His wife, flown from the United States, today reached his bedside.
 WASHINGTON The White House declined to comment today on a published report that Edwin w. Pauley had been picked to sue ceed James V. Forrestal as Navy Secretary
 WASHINGTON - President Tru- man is now working on a message to Congress outlining his views on proposals it merge the Army and Navy into a single department. Press Secretary Charles G. Ross told reporters today that he thought the message would go to Capitol Hill before the Christmas recess begins.
 CAMP MILES STANDISH, Mass. Soldiers of all faiths and of all ranks, about to be shipped overseas, have pledged to pray privately for recovery of Gen. Patton.
 MIAMI, Florida FBI Chief J. Ed gar Hoover told the members of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, that major crime wave is sweeping across the country and may be the vanguard of an orgy of gangsterism which marked follow ing World War I.
 WASHINGTON - President Tru- man today renamed Basil O'Connor as National Chairman of the Am- erican Red cross. The reappoint- ment is for one-year term.
 WASHINGTON-The Judge Ad- vocate in the courtmartial of Capt. Charles c. McVay, III, said today he was not certain whether he would call a Japanese submarine commander to testify on the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Ike HaShi- moto, Commander of the Jap sub marine I-53, reported to have sunk the heavy cruiser last July 30 with l.. Washington from Japan at the re- quest of Capt Thomas J. Ryan, Jr., the Judge Advocate.
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MAPLE CREEK, Sask.--Seyen pa tients were dead today in fire which destroyed the Union Hospital here The blaze is believed to have broken cut last night in an elevator shaft.
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Gen..MarstlaII
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 Acts of W ar

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The Army has built stills to re- claim cleaning fluid with only a 10 per cent loss.
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In China, more than 500 years ago, a treatise on carbon black manufacture was published.
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 Is Sheathed
 Win Mystery
Body of SIdshed Victim identified : Officers
 Run Down Clues

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WASHINGTON = The White House declined to comment today on published report that Edwin W. Pauley had been picked to sue ceed James V. Forrestal as Navy Secretary
Laurel outlook., 1945-04-25
NAVY:
Postwar Fleet

Although final action depends
upon the nations future policy,
tentative navy plans call for a
huge postwar fleet of $3.50 YES
sells and the scrapping of an
other 1904, according to testi-
mony released by the house ap-
preparations committee.
Of the $3.50 vessels, 1,191
would be combat ships, with the
remaining 4,639 auxiliary craft.
Plans call for use of 482 of the
combat vessels, ranging from
submarines to battleships, with
the rest laid up for recall on
short notice. Of the auxiliaries,
1874 would be kept active and
the remainder anchored for fu-
ture demands.
Among the 1904 vessels to be
scrapped or used as targets are
337 obsolescent combat ships.
The remainder are auxiliaries,
including landing craft. In ad-
dition, it was disclosed, the navy
will have some 66, 1000 other craft
on its hands as rehabilitation
proceeds, with some retained
and others disposed of by the
maritime commission.
Laurel outlook., 1945-04-25
FARM LABOR:
Draft Provisions

Seeking to assure essential farm
labor, congress moved to forbid To-
cal draft boards from comparing the
value of agriculture with that of
any other occupation when consider
ing deferments of farm workers.
Final passage of the bill de-
pended upon house approval of SEN
ate amendments, providing that ap-
peals boards could not make such
comparisons, and deferment of
farm workers shall not prevent vol
untary enlistments for the services.
The congressional measure was
framed to forestall a directive of
~selective service ordering local
boards to give first consideration to
the manpower needs of the army
and navy when considering defer
ments for farm workers.
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Return From Funeral
OF Relative At Denver

Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Gussie, resi-
dents of Laurel for a number of
years before moving to Park City,
returned this week from Denver
where they attended the funeral of
Mr.. Gussie's brother, August Gus
sic, who frequently visited here and
made his last trip five years ago.
August Gussie, II, died at the
Mercy hospital in Denver after a
long illness. Burial was in the
Mount Olivet cemetery in Denver.
Born in France, Mr.. Gussie and
his wife Anna came to America So
years ago. In 1917 they went from
Nebraska to Denver, where Mr..
Gussie was a carpenter until three
years ago when he was employed
by the Union Pacific railroad. He
belonged to the Holy Name Society
of st. Elizabeth's Catholic church in
Denver and was a member of the
Woodmen of the World in Ne
braska.
Surviving are his wife, three
daughters, Mrs. w. E. Egan of st.
Louis, Mrs. w. Sternberger and Mrs.
Dorothy Morletti, both of Denver;
four sons, Albert and Joseph of
Denver, Bernard of Nampa, Ida;
and Frank of Detroit; Is grandchil-
dren; one sister, Clara Kisling of
Fresno, Calf; three brothers, Leo
Gussie of Sidney, Australia, A. E..
Gussie of Park City and Ben Gus
sic of Ventura, Calf.
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EUROPE:
Defense Pockets

Their front shattered by Allied
break-throughs, Nazi militarlsts en-
yisioned the formation of numerous
strong pockets of resistance for a
last-ditch stand against the massed
weight of U. S., British and Rus
sian forces.
Discussed even as U. S. and Brit
tsh armies drove toward a link-up
In the Berlin region, the object of
the pockets would be to make the
war so costly to the Allies as to in
duce a willingness to talk terms.
Recognizing the possibilities of such
warfare, Supreme Allied headquar-
tiers indicated that We Day might
not be proclaimed until major
nests of resistance were cleaned up
10 prevent a lowering of civilian
and military morale because of
losses sustained in continuing opera
lions.
With U. S. and British forces
spearheading across the Reich, and
the Russians moving in from the
east, most prominent German
pockets shaped up along the North
sea coasts and mountainous Bavaria.
Nazi plans for a die-hard stand
shaped up as the great Russian
drive surged on battered Berlin and
u. S. forces moved toward a juno
ture with the Reds in Saxony.
With the Russians throwing over
1000, 900 men into the battle, and
the Germans concentrating the
bulk of their forces against the on
slaught, the fight for Berlin became
one of the bloodiest encounters of the
whole war. AS Red forces edged
through a network of strong fortifi-
cations under rolling fire, the enemy
threw in masses of tanks in an eff
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CONGRESS-:
Tariff Battle

Even as the Republicans senatt
steering committee called Dor
Pres. Harry S. Truman to wish hi,
administration well, a red hot legis
lative battle doomed in congress
over the new chiefs reciprocal trade
treaty program, with COP leaders
heading the fight to defeat the meas.
ure.
First sponsored by Mr.. Roose-
welt, then adopted as his W by
President Truman, the program
calls for a three-year extension of
the reciprocal trade treaties, with
permission to cut tariff rates so per
cent under January, 1915, levels.
Since the original trade treaties al
lowed a so per cent reduction on
duties imposed in the Smoot-
Hawley bill of 1880, and such cuts
were made on some goods, another
so per cent slash would amount to
rs per cent, in all.
AS former secretary of state and
so-called "father" of the reciprocal
trade program, Cordell Hull, called
for passage of the act from the
Bethesda, Md, naval hospital, AS
sistant Secretary of State William
Clayton led the administration fight
for adoption of the bill. With the
U. S. possibly exporting as much as
10 billion dollars worth of goods a
year after the war, he said, it will
be necessary to cut Dur own tariff
barriers so that our foreign pur-
chasers will be able to repay
us in kind. Otherwise, he said, we
will lose this trade or billions of
dollars extended in credits. !
Disputing the administrations
contention that passage of the meas
ure was necessary to assist in the
restoration of world prosperity and
prevention of unsettled economic
conditions leading to war, COP con-
gressmen, led by Rep. Harold Knut-
son (Minn.), declared that the pro-
gram accomplished neither objec-
tive prior to the present conflict.
Laurel outlook., 1945-04-25
PAFICIC:
u. S. Losses

For the first time in the Pacific
war, navy casualties in the Okina-
wa campaign ran ahead of the
army's and marines, with bitter
fighting threatening to make the
operation as costly as at Two Jima.
Numbered among the victims was
famed War Correspondent Ernie
Pyle, whose simplicity of reporting
the war from Europe to Asia
brought the realism of the con-
flict so much closer to the nations
folk.
With the Ryukyu island chain,
containing Okinawa, lying but 325
miles from Tokyo, the Japs put up
a stiff fight, throwing in waves of
airplanes in an attempt to impede
supporting U. S. naval operations.
Led by the silken-shrouded Kami-
kaze (suicide) fiers, enemy airmen
inflicted the greatest percentage of
naval casualties.
In ground fighting on Okinawa it.
self, chief opposition conferred in
the southern part of the island above
the capital city of Naha, where oath
corps army troops bucked against
the four-mile deep Little Siegfried"
line.
While fighting ragged about Okin-
ava, General MacArthur's forces
frightened their hold on the Philip
pines by edging into the enemy's
mountain strongholds on northern
Luzon, and establishing further foot
holds on Mindanao, second biggest
island in the archipelago.
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The Outlook Says:

Mrs. A. F. Elliott returned Mon
dav from a visit of three months
with relatives in California. She
snent most of the time with her
brother, F. G.. Ruggles in Los Ange-
les and before returning to Laurel
was a guest of her brother, Burt
IRuggles in San Diego.
Miss Mary Kortum of Bozeman,
accompanied by her brother, Harold
Kortum who is in the merchant
marines were guests last week at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. F. M.
Braswell. They had been visiting
in Columbus, their former home.
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Lieutenant General Simpson of oh army
Oeft) chats with British Field Marshal Mont
gomery on German front.
fort to break up the advancing for
nations, and swarms of planes
clashed in the leaden skies above.
Further to the south, other Rus
sian forces preached the Nazis'
Neisse and Spree river lines to
smash westward in Saxony for a
junction with the U. S. 1st and 3rd
armies.
While the LIST and 3rd fought to-
ward a junction with the Russians,
and the U. S. 9th built up strength
along the Elbe for an eastward
thrust to Berlin, the British and
Canadian forces and the U. S. 7th
army bore down on the potential
German defensive pockets along the
North sea and in Bavaria.
The British and Canadian task
was no snap, what with the enemy
concentrating large bodies of troops
in small areas behind stout de-
lenses. Included in the German
holdout regions was the western por-
ton of Holland below the Zuider
Zee, and the great port areas of
Emden, Wilhelmshaven, and Ham
burg.
Having cleared the Nazi shrine
city of Nuremberg, 7th army spear
heads pointed toward Munich and
the Bavarian mountain reaches.
where enemy die-hards are expected
to put up their %stiffest last stand.
With Allied armies on the move in
Germany itself, U. S. and British
forces pushed forward in Italy
also, threatening to spill into the
Pc valley.
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Army Strength at Peak

With a population OF 13,479,142,
New York led all other states
in the number of men and
women in the army with SOC, 1868
as U. S. military strength
totalled 8,050,O oil as of Deem
Der 81, the war department re-
vealed.
To the original army strength
of 513,410 in 1910, 9,444, 283 have
been added by induction, en-
listment or appointment since
then, with the normal release of
1907 ,682 giving the net figure of
8~,050,011, it was pointed out.
With the draft equalizing state
inductions on the basis of popu-
lation, Pennsylvania with $780,
100 persons and Illinois with T.
1877 PAL ranked second and third
in the number of men and wom-
en- in the army, with 663 ,666
and 507 1888 respectively.
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PLANE
Big Cut

In line with the army air forces
cut in aircraft production for the
rest of 1915, the huge 500, DOC, 00C
Ford-operated factory at Willow
Run outside Detroit, Mich, will
wind up manufacture of B-24 bomb
ers by next August.
Decision to terminate production
of the B-24s was predicated upon the
collapse of the German luftwaffe
and the need for heavier, faster
bombers like the BIOS for the
Pacific war, it was said. The over
all cut in output of other planes also
will permit concentration on manu-
facture of aircraft more vitality
needed against the Japs, includ-
ing the new jet-propelled ships.
Capable of turning out 1852 planes
a month at the peak of it's opera
tons, the Willow Run factory is
owned by the governments Defense
Plant corporation. Henry Ford has
eyed purchase of the property for
production of tractors and other
kinds of farm tools after the war.
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Mrs. ]. L. Forsyth of Billings
visited several days with friends in
the Byam community where she
formerly lived.
Mrs. Paul Propp and daughter
Dorothy were guests from Sidney
last week at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jacob Bait.
Richard Rehling, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Anton Rehling, left Sunday
for induction into the armed forces.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Young and
family were overnight guests Mon
day from Powell, Wyo., at the home
of Mrs. Young's sister, Mrs. j. j.
Russell.
Mrs. R. w. Easton and daughters,
Mrs. E. r. Keener, Mrs. Frank
Heiser and Mrs. Freddie Herman
and their children, spent Friday in
Fromberg with Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Easton.
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Honor Roll

Corporal Richard 4. Shingler OF Pitts.
burgh, Pa, ICON the distinguished service
medal for exhibiting a high degree Of re.
so~urcefulness and efficiency in the prep.
aration and dropping OF supplies and
medical equipment 10 isolated uuuiUor,
OF a%irplane crashes. During 1914 he ON
pleted over 10000 miles Of Lavel in China.
using Ill nodes OF transportation, mclud.
ing 500 miles on foot and horseback.
His outstanding achievements hare been
instrumental in the saving of SO cre.o
members.
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MODERN MINING

Indicated output of 625, 900, 900 tons
Of coal in 1914 was attained with
about 200, 900 fewer workers than
In 1918, largely because of extern
sive mechanization of the mines
man output per day in bituminous
mines has been raised from an av-
srage Of 3A tons during the last war
TO more than 5A tons in 1914. This
compares with slightly more than
one ton per man per day in Eng
land, and a little over two tons per
man in Canada, it pointed out.
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Next Tuesday, May 1, at 8 p. m.
the American Legion Auxiliary will
meet at the home of Mrs. r. b.
Packard. There will be installation
of the newly elected officers.
The Past Presidents parley will
meet at tn home of Mrs. D. H.
McCauley, Tuesday, May 8.