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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25
The W ashinqto Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON ct. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active
 service with the ArmyJ

WASHINGTON-W While hammers were mailing up platforms for. the inaugural, the White House was the scene of one of the grimmest conferences in months, as Congress sional leaders met the President and his military chiefs to solve the manpower problem. Leaders of the House and Senate Military Affairs Committees sat unsmiling as Gen. George Marshall and Adm Ernest King outlined the gravity of the present military situation.
 Its not a question of losing the war" Gen. Marshall told the legis- lators. But to do our job right we need legislation to provide the men and materials which will save the lives of thousands of American boys and shorten the war con- siderably.
 Marshall, with customary caution, did not talk in figures or months, but there was no doubt in the IIlllluS Ol HIS licdIelS tlidJ ne 1etlS the saving can be important.
 The Army and the Navy need some 90,000 men in the next six months, and, without new legisla- ton, they will have to rely mainly upon 18 year olds, of whom there are not enough to make up half the call. Another 00,000 men are needed in production to assure a speedy victory.
 President Roosevelt himself had little to say during this round table conference. He sat and listened. He was ready, he said, to send to Con- gress a message demanding full national service legislation for all men under 60. his was opposed, however, by Andy May, Chairman of the House Military Affairs Com mittee, and by Texas Ewing Thcmason, it's ranking majority member; also by Senator Ebert Thomas of Utah. Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Warren Austin, ranking Republican
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25
MAJ. BRINDLE RECIPIENT OF
 LEGION MERIT
Citation Is Given for Mer: itorious Duties Perform
 ed in AIeutidn Isles

SEATTLE, Jan. 25.-Major Alex ander w. Br.ndle, Alaska born, Transport Service Office here on leave after IS mcnths in the Aleu- tians, has received the Legion of Merit for conduction of what his citation described for most diff cult small boat operation without the loss of equipment despite heavy seas and severe gales"
 The presentation was made by Col. Charles Chubbock, Liaison Officer of the Alaska Department.
 Major Brindle is Ketchikan can- nery owner.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25
LEGISLATOR
 RECEPTION
 TOMORROW

A public reception to the members of the Alaska Territorial Legislature will be given by Gov and Mrs. Ernest Grueniag at the Governors House tomorrow night and residents of Gastineau Channel are all invited.
 All receptions during the past year have been formal but Mrs. Gruenlng announces that dress is optional for tomorrow.
 The reception hours are from 5 o'clock in the evening to midnight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25
NAzI50pEN DESPERATE
 OFFENSIVE
Possibly an Effort 10 Win Back Whole of NOrth-
 east France

PARIS, Jan. o5 The Germans opened a desperate new offensive against the Western Front, today in Northern Alsace, it was an- nounced by Supreme Headquarters.
 Possibly it is supreme effort to win back the whole of Northeast France and the province. The enc my is attacking on 20-mile front. from the Hagenau, northwest into the Vosges Mountains. The enemy has crossed the Moder River, Is miles below the Reich frontier.
 Far to the north, the British Sec
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25

In a 54-page speech which led off with a discussion of problems the Territory must meet in the postwar era, Gov. Ernest Gruen- ing this afternoon sounded the battle-cry for a new tax system for Alaska which would include a personal income tax on the workers pay envelope, a corporate income tax on business, and a Territorial property tax that would take in home owners outside of incorporated cities as well as those within.
 The Governor, delivering his bi- ennial message to joint session of both chambers in the House of Representatives, and a packed gallery, issued an implied invitation to the canned salmon industry to join sides in the campaign for a new tax system or face the possi- bilities of additional pack taxes as high as 75 cents per case. Two years ago the Legislature levied an addi- tional tax of cents per case which has brought in an estimated half million dollars.
 The Other Way
 After discussing the proposed new tax program, the Governor spoke on the salmon pack tax, prefacing this discussin by saying: "Of course there are other and simpler ways of raising money" He said it would be simple to raise most of the new revenue needed by increasing the salmon pack tax, that the industry could well afford it at present and that it probably would be difficult ito present. op- position to such tax" But, he ended this discussion by saying that he really is not in favor of a pack tax because it would be merely adding one more patch to the existing patchwork tax system
 The Governor revealed that after consulting with a few mem bers of the Legislature" he had again secured the services of Tax Expert Alfred Harsch of the state of Washington, who has drafted bill for the consideration of the Legislature, and who will be here soon from Seattle to discuss the bill or bills with the members of the Legislature. He said the in- come tax bill would be 'pay-as- you-go' plan, evidently similar to
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25
Walker Is
 Nominated

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-Presi- dent Roosevelt has nominated Frank c. Walker for another term as Postmaster General, his only Cabinet position whose term is fixed by law, which lasts as long as the Presidential term, plus one month. This requires a new nomi- nation every four years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25

One important thing about all of the former Governors is that they took their stand firmly with the administration on postwar partici-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25
By JACK STINNETT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-f you want to be a Senator, come up the hard way. There are 15 new faces in the Senate in the new 18th Con- gress, and only three of them can boast of winning without any polit- ical background.
 To dispose of these three first, they are: Senators Glen Taylor, the ex-singing cowboy from Idaho Homer Capehart, the music box tycoon from Indiana; and Alexander Smith, of New Jersey.
 Taylor and Smith are both avowed internationalists Capehart made his campaign on a straight-out anti administration ticket and is consid- cred a certain member of the old n-interventionist group.
 With these three exceptions, all of the new Senators are not only well schooled in politics but firmly grounded in government administra- ton. The only one who wasn't elect ed was 33-year-old Hugh Mitchell of Washington, just appointed to fill cut the term (two years) of former Sen. Mon Wallgreen, now Governor of his State.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-25

Senator Mitchell knows his way about in Washington better than a lot who have held elective positions for years. He was Wallgrens execu-
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Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
UNRRA SET
For We Ddy

WASHINGTON. May 5 (INS)
Herbert H. Lehman, director
general of the United Nations
relief and rehabilitation admins
Itration, announced today that
he had geared UNRRA to meet
m o u unting- relief demands in
Europe in anticipation of We
Day.
Lehman disclosed that the Euro
pean regional office in London
has been given direct supervision
OF all field operations in that area
except in Poland.
He said the new arrangement
was designed to leave him free
ITO move about as the situation
requires" with the assurance that
administrative machinery will con-
tinue to operate effectively.
He said that his time would be
divided between Washington and
London and field missions.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
HitIer's Body Hidden
Forever. NaZi Says

LONDON, May 5 tUP)-Hit-
ler's body has been hidden so well
that il never will be found. Nszi
propagandist Hans Fritsche told
his Russian csptors today.
Radio Moscow said F-itsche,
deputy German propaganda min
ister taken prisoner in Berlin. as
serted that the fuehrer's corpse
had been concealed in an 'undis-
coverable place"
Neither Hitler's body nor that
of Propaganda Minister Goebbels
has been found in Berlin, Moscow
said. Red troops who attempted TO
search the ruined Reichschancel-
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
Red DiCtdtiOn
Policy F|dyed.

CHICAGO. May 5 GNS)-The
New World, official publication OF
the Roman Catholic archdiocese
OF Chicago. today assailed Rus
sian dictation at the United Ma
tons conference in San Francisco.
Singing out Soviet Foreign
Commissar Molotov's insistence
on three votes, the New Worlds
editorial declared:
From the well planned ac-
.tlons OF the militant MoIotOv,
there never vas deep enthud-
asm In the Russian heart for a
World Security League which
guaranteed all nations an equal
break TO live a free and inde-
pendent life."
The publication charged that
Molotov's maneuvers have dem
that the Russian was
not in San Francisco to discuss,
but to dictate"
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
Italian
Plot
Fails

MILAN, May ; (UP)-
Crown Prince Humbert left
Milan hurriedly this morning
after narrowly escaping
death at the hands of venge-
full Italian partisans who
machine-gunned his villa in
the night.
Shortly before midnight a truck
load OF heavily armed partisans
drove up TO the Villa Crespi
where Humbert was staying and
riddled the building with machine
gun fire.
Humbert. who was sleeping in
a second-foor room at the time,
escaped injury. and so did mem-
berS Of his suite.
The royal party, which arrived
in Milan yesterday afternoon. left
afterward for an unknown
destination.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
Germans Quit
In Bits 10 Aid
Hero Dreams

LONDON, May 5 (INS)-
Official quarters in London
today expressed fears that
by the very manner of their
surrender, German military
leaders are following o plan
which they will try to utilize
to their political advantage.
The Germans. il was said, even
in the hour of their worst mill
tary defeat. may be carefully
building up a myth for future
generations TO the effect that the
German army surrendered to save
Europe from bolshevism.
AS these quarters viewed il, al
though Heinrich Himmler's offer
Of unconditional surrender to the
Anglo-American powers was re-
jected, that identical policy is now
being carried out piecemeal by
German military commanders in
the field.
The possibility that the whole
pattern of surrender was care
fully worked out and that Grand
Adm. Doenitz is playing a key
part in the plan was seriously
considered in the British capital.
Adm. Doenitz' latest proclama-
ton 10 the German forces which
still are holding out stressed the
"Bolshevik" theme and the me-
cesSity" for German troops in the
east to hold out against the Rus
SLAMS.
1t was seriously suggested in
London that President Truman
and Prime Minister Churchill
might spike the effectiveness of
this move with declaration that
would clearly state that Germans
to American or Brit
ish armies were considered the
prisoners Of all the Allied powers
Russia.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
Junior B. E..
Elects Aides

Election of new officers for the
Detroit Junior Board of Com
merce were announced today.
w. J. Macleod Jr. OF Murray
Corp. was elected president. He
succeeds Leon f. Jackman.
Elected also were the following
vice presidents: Louis J. Melicek
of Crowley-Milner Co.; Robert NJ.
Palmer, fleet division, General
Motors Corp, Robert w. Yokum
of Frederick D. Madison Co. and
f. r. France of S. S. kresge Co.
r. NJ. Grinager of ]. L. Hud-
son Co. was named secretary and
Ray Michaels of the Diesel engine
division. General Motors, was
elected treasurer.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
Vithyites on Way
To Face the Music

PARIS, May 5 CINSt-Three
former members of the Vichy
government have been seized in
the French-American zone Of mill
tary operation and today were on
their way to Paris for trial.
Captured were Ives Boutillier.
Vlchy minister of finance: Gen.
Laure. Marshal Petain's chief of
staff, and Gen. de la Porte Dutheil.
Nichy youth leader
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
HerriOt Urges French
To Support DE GauIIe

NEW YORK. May ) QNS)-
Edouard Herriot former French
premier liberated from the Nazis.
urged his countrymen IN a Mos
COW broadcast today 10 give help
10 the provisional government of
Gen. DE Gaulle.
The French leader. foe of
Vichy. said that the man who in
the darkest hours represented the
nations conscience and hopes is
in your midst.
81 shall sOOn he back among
you 20 put my shoulder to the
wheel" he added -
Herriot saluted the American
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
Expect Return
Of GreenberQ

a rumor that Capt. Hank
Greenberg will soon be discharged
and will rejoin the Tigers re-
ceived no confirmation today from
the baseball clubs officials.
According TO the report, Capt.
Greenberg is about 10 be hon.
orably discharged from the army
air corps in which he has served
approximately four years.
"Details on Page Nlnel
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
Swiss
u ear
Break

ZURICH. May : GNSb Of
fetal quarters in Bern today said
that the Swiss government re-
ganded it's diplomatic relations
with Germany as suspended.
The German legation in Bern IS
without communication with the
German government and II was
expected here that il will be in
formed shortly that its functions
have expired"
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
u. 5. Sub Swordfish
Reported Overdue

WASHINGTON, May 5 CUP)-
The navy has announced that the
submarine Swordfish is overdue
on patrol and presumed lost.
The Swordfish is the Add sub
marine and the 297th u. S. naval
vessel lost in this war. Skipper
Of the vessel was Cmdr. Keats f..
Montross, 33. a native of Saginaw.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
Son Of MussoIini
Seized by Patriots
REDS MoPPING UP

NEW YORK. May S 0NS)-
Vito Mussolini, son of Benito Mus
solini, and Domenico Giampietro
Pellegrini, former Fascist finance
minister have been arrested by
Italian patriots near the italian
frontier, the Rome radio said
today.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
Holland RejOices
With WiIhpIniina

EINDHOVEN. Holland, May
tINS)-Queen Wilhelnina an d
Princess Juliana rejoiced quietly
today that their country finally
was entirely free after crowds of
joyful Dutch parsded spontsne-
ously for hours past the queen.
I'm glad TO be with you on
this day" said Wilhelmina to
the cheering crowds. Long
live our country"
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07

DOenitZ FleeS
Into Norway
International News Service

Adolf Hitler's Germany came apart in bits and
pieces today.
On the far-flung battlefronts there was only
sporadic shooting.
The Nazs making desperate last stand in
Norway where fuehrer Adm Karl Doenitz apparently
fed and set up government
Diehard Germans were resisting the Russians in
Czecho-S Slovakia. Austria and Yugoslavia
But unconditional surrender in the air
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
Burma Ours Now;
Let The RdinsCome

KANDY. Ceylon, May 5 GNS)
Allied troops completed the
conquest of Burma today, well
ahead of the monsoon season.
which would have begged down
operations indefinitely.
Adm. Lord Louis Mountbatten.
supreme commander in the south
east Asia theater. hailed Allied
forces on their conquest of Ran
COON, which he said brings to an
end the battle of Burma
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
Patriots Rio
Ndzii Pocket;
Prague Free

MOSCOW. May 5 (INS)--
Patriot forces were reported
today to have liberated
Prague, capital of Czecho-
Slovakia and center of one Of
the last pockets Of Naxi re-
|sistance in Europe.
The uprising occurred early to-
day as Soviet armies hammered
deeper into Nazi-held territory
against fanatical resistance.
The German high command,
In q broadcast over ths Flens-
burg radio, heard BY FEC In
New York, indicated that the
war In the west was over but
"the war with the scviets Koes
on.")
REDS MoPPING UP
Soviet forces continued 10
mop up enemy pockets above and
in Berlin.
With German armies surrender.
ing piecemeal to the western Al.
lies, Russian forces driving to re.
duce the Czecho-Slovak redoubt
met fierce resistance from enemy
troops entrenched in the moun-
tains.
RESIST RUSSIANS
Attesting the German determi.
nation to resist Russian armies to
the end, while laying down their
arms to the British and Ameri.
cans, the Red communique spoke
repeatedly of the bitterness Of
Nazi resistance in Czecho-Slo-
vakia.
Resistance continued even west
of fallen Berlin.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
EnOugh's Enough;
Quisling Silenced

STOCKHOLM, May s GNS)-
The Norwegian Swedish news
agency said today that the Ger
man commander in Norway, Gen.
Boheme, had forbidden Vidkun
Quisling, Norwegian Nazi leader,
10 make a speech as he had
planned.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
Nazi Paper Ends
Work With a Bang

COPENHAGEN, May 5 dNS)
-Denmark's only Nazi news
Northumberland
publication today. A few hours
later its offices flew skyward in a
tremendous explosion.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
Lights On Soon

WASHINGTON, May S (INS)
j. A. Krug. chairman of the
WPB. announced today that the
brownout would be revoked Inn
mediately after President Truman
announces that the war in Europe
is ended.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
Allies Want Liners
Bremen and Europa

WITH BRITISH SECOND
ARMY, May 5 (UP)-The liners
Bremen and Europa were be-
lieved to be at Bremerhaven,
which the Allies are occupying
soon. II the ships are there, they
will be handed over to the Allies.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07

lery in Berlin were beaten back
by fires.
NEW YORK. May s uNSt-
Hitler and six other topflight Nazi
war criminals may be on their
way to Japan by U-bost. the
British radio said today. quoting
the London Daily Express. "
The Express story said the fiigf-
tives were Hitler, CoerinR, Hmm
Ter, Martin BorTmann, Robert
Ley. Goebbels and Won Ribben-
trop.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
WASHINGTON ALERT

&c erman resistance in
lower Austria all but ceased
after seizure of Berchtesgaden.
1O-There was an air of ex-
pectancy in Washington. Re-
porters kept an all-night vigil
at the White House, but when
President Truman arrived at
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Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
u. S.-Eng|dnd
Split on Rule
OF Islands

SAN FRANCISCO, May 5
(INS)-The United Nations
conference closed the door
today on any further pro-
posals for amendment of the
Dumbarton Oaks plan for
world security, as the United
States and Great Britain split
wide open over the issue of
international trusteeships for
dependent areas.
The Big -Four agreed on a series
Of amendments, but Russia re-
quested a 24-hour delay on two
suggested changes in the Dunn
barton Oaks formula. These
were:
Giving the security order
authority to review treaties.
2-Making regional security
arrangements subordinate at all
times 10 the world security
organization.
As result OF Russia's request
the United States, Britain and
China wrote broader language
into the original Vandenberg pro-
poSal TO provide a method of
peaceful change in postwar world
conditions. This change would
enable the new security organiza-
tion 10 review any situation aris-
ing anywhere in the world" if il
should affect world peace.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
Boost Bank Surplus

PHILADELPHIA, May 5-The
First National Bank of Philadel-
phia has increased its surplus TO
S., 500. 900 by transfer of $500, 900
from undivided profits.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
Hans Frank Captured

WITH U. S. SEVENTH ARMY,
May 5 tUP)-Army officials an
nounced today the capture Of
Hans Frank. Nszi governor gen.
eral of Poland during the German
occupation.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07

people and the American army
and paid tribute to the late
President Roosevelt
II felt the deepest and most
enduring sorrow at President
RoOsevelt's passing" he said.
"Frenchmen, never forget what
we owe him. Frenchmen, teach
your children to honor his
name. For myself, I have en-
grayed IL on my heart and
there IL will remain until nv
heart ceases to beat"
nae LAKE, LINES TO CLEVELAND
every night At tl:3O Travel In comfort.
Foot Of Third 81 CA $500. o.-AdV
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
THE WEATHER
HOURLY TEMPERATURES

The sun will set at s3sp , m TO-DAY ans
rise tomOTrow at 6:73 m.
The moon will set a. LOT . n todsy
and rise tomorrow at 3:47 .. m
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07

Outstanding developments were
THE war ended definitely
in Denmark. Holland and north
west Germany when British
Marshal Montgomery received
the formal surrender of 1,0O0,-
600 Nazi troops.
LINZ CAPTURED
2-Allied forces captured the
Austrian stronghold of Linz,
which has been menaced for
many days.
"A patriot uprising was
said TO have liberated Prague,
which has been in the hands Of
resistance forces for several
hours.
French Press Agency re-
ports said that negotiations
were now under way for the un-
conditional surrender of all Of
Germany and that military rep
resentatives of all the Allied
powers were sitting in with
German ENJOYS.
NORWAY, TOO
5-Included in the surrender
movements in the north, was
reports, in spite of Doenitz'
Norway, VII re the German gar
rison of 250,000 was reported
ready to lay down arms.
8-The United Press said
that Vidkun Quisling, Nazi pup
pet. had been ousted.
THE German garrison in
Austria was under heavy pres
sure from the u. S. Third Army
and was disintegrating rapidly.
S-The Russians were mop
ping up around Berlin, where
they scooped up another $4,000
reluctant Nazis trying to escape
westward into the lines Of the
western Allies.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
U. s. WANTS ISLANDS

The British came out boldly
first for international trusteeships
over all areas seized from the
enemy. The United States stands
for international trusteeships over
nonstrategic areas and u. S. occu-
patton Of islands captured from
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Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
STRIkES IN 8 PLANTS

The decision to return TO for
mer Jobs after the war emergency
was signed three years ago, the
management reportd by company
and union officials.
A conference last week attended
by management representatives
and local and international Off
GERS decided that the agreement
should stand. the company spokes-
man added.
Other unauthorized strikes con-
tinued 10 hamper war production
In other plants. with the closing
Of two small plants. bringing the
total of struck factories TO eight.
New strikes developed at the
Riley Stoker Co. l0l Walker,
with 300 members of Local 1907
United Steel Workers (ClO) out,
and a walkOut of 20 members of
Local 1877 UAW-CIO closed the
Alpha Tool Co. 6420 Beechton.
Strikes continued at five units
OF the Michigan Tool Co. and its
subsidiary Detroit Tap and Tool
Co, over vacation pay.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-07
REDS DEFEND OWN PACT

Russia insisted that its defense
pact with France should remain
separate from the international
organization. The Russians said
they wished TO move swiftly
against any aggresSor attacking
them without waiting for world
action. The United States did not
dispute this Russian position, but
insisted that all regional security
arrangements must be brought
eventually under control of the
world organization.
American statesmen were en-
thusiastic over the progress made
by the Big Four toward agree
ment on the major amendments to
the Dumbarton Oaks plan.
The Anglo-American break over
the trusteeship issue-which was
not a part of the Dumbarton Oaks
plan--waS accompanied by some
feeling. American statesmen said
the British took them by surprise
in announcing their stand pub
liclV.