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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-17
COASTAL AlRLlNES
 FLIES AFTER 4 DAYS
 WEATHER GROUNDED

Weather bound for the four pre- ceding days, Alaska Coastal Airways flew over it's usual route yesterday and today
 Passengers leaving yesterday for Sitka were: Bruce Parker, Burt Wildinger, Hazel. Ford, P. B. Noff, Hugh Brady, Tom Morgan and N, A. McEachran; for Ketchikan-Mil- dred Scheim, Mary R. Fea, Oscar Cecotti, Mike Haas, Leonard Evans, John Maurstad, A. w. Dyer, and Joe Elmyes; for Hoonah = Henrik Valle, Fred Wolf, and Jerry Mo- Kinley.
 Returning from Sitka were: Huriff A. Sanders, Orville Paxton, Art Franklin, Jim Brightman, Ben Mill Ter, Russ Clithero, Joshwa R. Gill braith, and Joseph E. Bolt; from Ketchikan - Austin Stevens, Ralph Tatum, Harris Smith, Orie Van Des Maer, Donald Gamm, and P. F. Breeding; from Hoonah-Clarence G. Campbell, William Johnson, and Frances Johnson; from Petersburg Joseph R. Werner and B. Putnam.
 Embarking for Sitka on today's flight were Fred Bryant, Charles F. Luck, Ralph Pitoviah, Henry Moy, Alvin Faber, George B. Henderson, and Carl M Buckawon; for Ketchi- kan-John R. Miller, Joseph E. Bolt, Joshua P. Gailbraith, and D. E. Alex ander; to Hoonah Henrik Valle, Fred Wolf, and Jerry Mckinley.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-17
SEATTLE-TA(0MA
 AIR ROUTE CASE
 WILL BE PRESSED

SEATTLE, Nov. l7-The Pacific Northwest Oriental Airline Commit tee has authorized Gerald P. lille to go to Washington about Dec. and press the Seattle Tacoma case for international airway recognition be- fore the Navy, State, Labor. War and Commerce Departments.
 The committee authorized the use of it's oral argument testimony at the Civil Aeronautics Board hearing for circulation in Alaska.
 We want to clear up the misun- derstandings that developed about cut position on Alaska" said Howard Costigan, Executive Secretary of the Governors Advisory Commission.
 "Our fight before the CAB, as a matter of fact, was a stronger case for Alaska's overall interests than was the fight presented by some oi the local Alaska counsel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-17
C-0F-( BURNS. UP WIRES vS. RATE HEARING
Top Officials, Congress- men, Other Chambers
 Solicited for Support

Pressing the protest program voted by the Juneau Chamber of Com merce at its meeting last Thursday against the rabbit -out-o f-a-hat' hearing on Alaska shipping rates, set for Seattle November 27-Cham- Der President w. M. Whitehead dis closed today that he, for the Cham Der, has dispatched protest wires to more than 50 United States Con gressmen; to Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace; to Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes: to Congress- man Hugh Peterson, Chairman of the House Committee on Territories and Willard Tydings, Chairman of the Senate Territories Committee.
 In addition, Adm Emory s. Land, chief of the U. S. Maritime Con- mission, has been wired directly and wires have been sent to all other Alaska chambers of commerce, so- liciting their support. The wire to Admiral Land reads as follows:
 We urge postponement proposed hearing November 27, Seattle, re- garding freight rate increases. Short notice prevents adequate showing of serious effects upon our present wage and price level and upon all prospects for an expanding economy and the development of Territory.
 If request for postponement de- nied. we ask supplementary hear ings in Juneau, also adequate oppor- tunity to examine briefs and exhibits of steamship companies, which we shall appreciate yotr forwarding.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-17
krupp 10 Be Tried
 Al Court
Tribunal Rules Against Son as Defendant-Hess
 Case Peculiar
NUREMBERG, Germany, Nov. IT

NUREMBERG, Germany, Nov. IT The International War Crimes Tribunal ruled today against the indict .lept of Alfried Krupp as a substitute for his senile father and ordered the trial of other Nazis to start next Tuesday as scheduled.
 Under another ruling, Martin Bormann, missing since he left Hitlers side during the battle for Berlin, is to be tried in Absentia with court-appointed German at torneys to defend him.
 The fate of Rudolf Hess, one of the "A top Nazis originally indicted, remained in question. Two of his former secretaries were ushered into his presence today by authori- ties studying his story of amnesia, but Hess professed not to know them.
 The request of Justice Robert H. Jackson, chief U. s. prosecutor, that 33-year- old Alfried Krupp be tried in place of his father, Gustav Krupp yon Bohlen und Halbach, was disposed of in a session which lasted exactly 2l seconds.
 The decision to try Bormann, Hitler's deputy and closest hench- man during the final hours of Nazi Germany, was made upon recom- mendation of Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, deputy to the British prose cutor The British report said there was doubt whether he was dead.
 Gen l. T. Nikitchenko, the Soviet judge, appeared on the bench for the first time after flying here from Moscow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-17
AMERICAN LEGION MEETS MON. NIGHT

The American Legion is promised a real" meeting Monday night by Commander Joe Thibodeau, with some interesting moving pictures, initiation and refreshments on the program, as well as several impor- tant current events to be discussed
 Wm Biggs is to show a one-half hour movie featuring the Hirst- Chichagof Mine, showing operations both above and below ground, and taken during the time he was en- ployed there.
 Despite Juneaus unusual" cold weather, Commander Thibodeau says he expects an exceptionally good turnout.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-17
THREE-pARTY
 DEADLOCK IN
 FREN(HGOvT.
Communists Insistenle on Key Post in Interim
 Govt. Creates Crisis
Bu RELMAN MORN

PARIS, Nov. 17.--The deadlock in formation of an interim French government continued today with the Communist party refusing to join in three-party appeal to Gen. de Gaulle to reconsider his resigna- ton as President,
 De Gaulle. whose ace card. accord ing to his associates. is that he does not especially want to job," pre- pared to state his case to the country in radio address tonight at 8 p. m. @ p. m., Eastern Standard Time)
 The crisis was precipitated by Communists demands for one of the three kep posts in the government which will rule for the next seven months while the constituent assem- bly drafts constitution for the fourth republic, As the largest single party in the newly elected assembly the Communists insisted they were entitled to the Foreign Af- fairs, War or Interior portfolio.
 De Gaulle. in his resignation. de- clared the demands were "incompat- able with the conditions of indepen- dence, cohesion and the authority essential for the government.
 The assembly, which unanimously elected de Gaulle president on last Tuesday. will meet Monday to act.
 No other candidates have come forward for the Presidency and. ul- less weekend negotiations produce a compromise the assembly faced the possibility of being forced to accept de Gaulles resignation and then -e-elect him, since he has no equa Tn French popularity.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-17
AMERICAN
 LEGION IN BIG NEE !
Many Problems of Peace lime Face Delegates
 at Convention

CHICAGO, Nov. 17--The Ameri- can Legion moved into Chicago today for it's first post-World War 9 convention, facing such prime time problems as universal military training, employment, housing and rehabilitation of vet erans.
 Hotel rooms for the four-day convention opening tomorrow were scarcer than congressional medals of honor. The Legion had only some 5000 rooms reserved for .2,03l dele gatts, as many alternates, plus of- ficials, staffs, distinguished visitors and speakers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-17
ADM. NIkITz I5 AGAINST
 ANY MERCER
Pacific Fleet Commander Makes Statement 10
 Committee

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.-Admiral Chester w. Nimitz asserted today the theoretical advantages" of merg- ing the armed forces "are unattain- able, whereas the disadvantages are so serious that it is not acceptable" |"
 Events which led to the Pearl Harbor disaster, the Pacific Fleet Commander told the Senate Military Committee, have shown clearly enough that not only between the War and Navy Departments but be- tween both of them and the State Department there should have been more coordination of thinking and action"
 But to bring this about in the fu ture, Nimitz said, he favors not a single Department of Defense but a National Security Council. composed of the Secretaries of State, War and Navy, as proposed by Secretary of the Navy Forrestal.
 Acknowledging that this stand against merger reverses his opinion of year ago, he said:
 For this change of opinion make no apology, since it represents my conviction based on additional experience and further study of the proposal and it's current implica- tions."
 As witness, Nimitz followed by a day General Eisenhower, the Eu- ropean theatre commander, who urged strongly that Air, Sea and Land Services be placed under a single department headed by civ lin,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-17
SHIpp!MG RATE
 BOOST HIT BY CITY COUNCIL
Council Follows Chamber Lead in Asking Hear
 ing Posiponemeni

The City of Juneau, through Council action last night, has taken it's stand in the gathering ranks of Alaska cities. governmental agencies and citizens organizations crying out against proposed increase of rates to the Territory.
 The Council voted unanimously to adopt the tactics mapped by the Ju- rsau Chamber of Commerce at its Thursday meeting; instructing May or Ernest Parsons to file strongest possible protests with the U. s. Maritime Commission and with all persons and bodies that might be able to influence the decision-in- cluding Delegate to Congress E. L. Bartlett and Congress itself.
 Asks Postponement
 The City plans to request
 That the rate hearing scheduled to be held in the Olympic Hotel, Seattle, on November 27, be pest poned for at least six months to af- 
 ford Alaska time to prepare it's side of the question.
 2-That. if the first request is de- nied, subsequent hearings be held in Alaska cities, so that the voice of Alaska may be heard.
 Councilman Harry Lea led a chorus of heated expressions on the disregard for Alaska's welfare that has long characterized the dealings of Seattle dwelling money princes regarding the Territory He ventur- ed that it might be well for Alaskans to go into the shipping business themselves-to carry their own car- goes in their own ships. Council man Ed Nielsen joined with Lea in suggestion that it would be a good move to bypass the Seattle toll collectors and give Tacoma a chance" as the gateway to Alaska.
 Councilman Lea voiced the motion that was quickly adopted with un- wonted Council unanimity.
 Unemployment Problem
 An application by s. w. Beitzel, an ex-Marine, for a position as patrolman on the Juneau Police Force led to discussion of the in- creasing problem being presented by unemployed and unsheltered new arrivals in the City.
 Stating that he already had told the applicant that there is no pres ent vacancy on the Polio Force, Mayor Parsons pointed to Beitzel's case as being only one of many much alike. Here is a war veter- an just arrived, with family to support, no job and no place to live, the Mayor stated. Probably more than ITS men are here in simi- lar straits, according to employment office estimates. There are not jobs enough for unskilled workers-even though the large proportion of them want to work. There is no place for them to live. The Salvation Army is overcrowded already and the problem is being augmented with each ship arrival. Some are coming here after being put out of Fair banks and Anchorage. Most are
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-17
B UL l E T ! N S

SOFIA = Maynard Barnes, U. s. Political Representative in Bulgaria, delivered a note to the Bulgarian government today stating that elec- tions scheduled to be held Sunday were not considered by the American government to confirm to the Yalta agreement.
 LISBON, Portugal-The French engineer Jean Pierre Janne, 31, swimming champion of France, drowned while bathing at Estoril.
 HELSINKI The Finnosh War Crimes Trial was adjourned today until December 10 to permit the eight accused former officials time to prepare their defense.
 TACOMA, Wash.-Yul Oktoyok, 20, of Hamlet, Alaska, is dead in a hospital here. He leaves his parents. MT. and Mrs. George Oktoyok, a sister and two brothers, all of Hamlet.
 WASHINGTON Talk of the for nation of a third labor federation, embracing unions independent of the CIO ard AFL, has been heard at the Labor Management Confer ence. John L. Lewis, chief of the United Mine Workers, was suggest ed as leader Of the projected organi- Zation.
 HOLLYWOOD-Esther Williams, movie actress, and Sgt, Ben Gage, former radio announcer on the Bob Hope program, will be married in Beverly Hills Sunday, November 25.
 BRUSSELS-The late President Roosevelt will be honored with degree from Brussels University to- day. U. s. Ambassador Charles Sawyer has been delegated to accept the award.
 MOSCOW-Usually well informed foreign sources here said today Gen. de Gaulle's clash with the Commun- ists, whether justified or not, un- questionably had made enemies in the Soviet Union for the French leader.
 LONDON-The U. s. Navy an- nounced today that Is men of war, including the famous aircraft car- rier Enterprise and the battleship Washington, have been converted for the redeployment of troops from Europe. Each will make at least four westward passages before Feb ruary l, 1946.
 CHUNGKING -~ Official Chinese quarters, while withholding con- ment, indicated today that China would support the Truman Attlee proposal to create a United Ma tions Commission to control atomic research,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-17
FROM THE STATES

Baranof registrants arriving from the States include: M J. Klepper, Seattle; James Metcalf and George Nicol, Seattle; MT. and Mrs Ed- ward A. Hall, Biloxi. Miss; Mrs. Florence H. Bason, Lorimer, Ia: Jess Malone, Kirkland, Wash, Mrs
 G. A. Bieri, Philadelphia. Pa; M
 R. Fred Fairly, Portland, Ore; MI. and Mrs. Charles Rhoden and Miss Barrbe Lee Rhoden, Madison, s. D.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-17
Nazi Prison Camp Chief Hammered p0Ws Like Blacksmith

DACHAU, Germany. Nov. IT = A U. s. military court was told today that Frederick Ruppert, former commander of the Dachau concen- tration camp, could beat people without change of expression-just like blacksmith hammering iron" The witness was Rudolf Wolf a young German engraver who spent nearly three years in the prison.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-17
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Princess Norah, scheduled to ar rive from Skagway Sunday morning at g o'clock, sails south at 1O:3O o'clock.
 Steamer North Sea scheduled to sail north from Seattle today
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-17
The W ashingt ion
 Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON = L:ien Admiral Dewey returned triumphant from capturing the Philippines in the Spanish American War, newsmen asked the conquering hero whether he was a Democrat or Republi- can The admiral wasn't quite sure which. That ended the Dewey boom for President.
 Today, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, perhaps the greatest all-around commander this country has seen in two decades, has returned and may be put in the same position as Admiral Dewey. Both parties are considering new blood for 1948. COP leaders are convinced that, given a candidate who can win labor votes yet not alienate the Hoover Conservatives, they can win. Obviously, Eisenhower is inn portant Presidential timber.
 Popular impression is that Eisen- hover is Republican. He was ap- pointed to West Point from the rock ribbed Republican state of Kansas by COP Senator Joseph P Bristow. And nobody in those days could get anywhere in Kansas unless he was Republican.
 However, though it may be news to COP leaders, Dwight Eisenhower put himself on record early in life as a Democrat. Furthermore, he was an energetic William Jennings Bryan Democrat, and in November, 1909, made speech at the annual Democratic banquet held in Abi- lene, Kans. The other speakers were older and seasoned Kansas Democrats; but Dwight Eisenhower, then only l9, was picked to stand up with them and harapsue the crowd. He did
 Eisenhowers spec h, hitherto overlooked by politicians and delv- CTS into the generals past, is printed in black and white in the files of the Abilene News, then the Democratic paper of the town.
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 IKE'S OLD FRIEND
 In am indebted for this infor- nation to J. w. Howe now of En- poria, Kans. Howe not only pub lished the Abilene News, but was a member of the School Board and knew young Dwight better than anyone outside his own family.
 The Abilene News office was headquarters for group of high school boys who came there to discuss their problems, talk sports and politics, read the papers and do odd jobs for the paper. J. w. Howe says of Eisenhower:
 Dwight liked to read the ex-
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-27
Want Charter Drafted

The British hope to have the
charter drafted and this conference
adjourned before the war ends in
Europe. There is apprehension here
that the end Of the fighting would
compel top members of many dele
cations to hurry home, leaving the
conference in part leaderless. An
other factor favoring speed is the
probability that the longer the dele
gates remain here the more they
will become begged down in detail.
Molotov addressed the conference
plenary session yesterday without
mentioning Poland, committee
chair1nanships. veto powers, or
Moscows' request for three votes.
He sharply reminded Britain and
France = without naming them
that events had proven their in
ability if not their reluctance to
prevent the war" now raging
through the world. And he warned
that cit is impossible to count in
definitely on the patience OF ma
tons if the governments manifest
their inability to set up an inter
national organization protecting
the peaceful life of people" He
promised that the Soviet Union was
"a sincere and firm champion Of
the establishment of strong inter-
national organization of security
His conference address was less
specific than his remarks at mass
press conference which preceded the
plenary session by about an hour.
Upward of 400 persons jostled into
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-27
EIbe River Juncture
Realized Yesterday
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the noon hour OF simultaneous re-
lease Ia the three capitals.
Humans Text
Following Is the text of President
Ttuman's announcement of the
iuncture Of Anglo-American and
Soviet forces in Germany:
The Anglo-American armies under
the command of General Eisen-
hover have met the Soviet forces
where they intended to meet in the
heart Of Nazi Germany. The enemy
has been cut in two.
This not the hour of final victory
in Europe, but the hour draws near,
the hour for which all the American
people, all the British people and
all the Soviet people have toiled
and prayed so long.
The union of our arms in the
heart of Germany has a meaning
for the world which the world will
not miss. 1t means, first, that the
last faint, desperate hope of Hitler
and his gangster government has
been extinguished. The common
front and the common cause of the
powers allied in this war against
tyranny and inhumanity have been
demonstrated in fact as they have
long been demonstrated in deter
mination. Nothing can divide or
weaken the common purpose of our
veteran armies to pursue their VIC
tories purpose to its final allied tri-
uunph In Germany.
Second, the junction of our forces
at this moment signalizes to our
selves and to the world that the
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passed"
Some 900 miles to the northwest,
a fleet OF $50 B-2o Superfortresses
TO-DAY hit seven Japanese suicide
plane bases on kyushu, southern
most OF the enemy's home islands,
for the second time In "a hours.
Early reports indicated good
weather favored the raiders in
marked contrast 10 the extremely
bad conditions which handicapped
yesterdays force Of 200 to $50
bombers over Kyushu and adjacent
Shikoku.
The targets for today's raiders
were USA, Oita, Saeki, Tomitaka,
Nittagahara, Miyazaki and Kokubu
airf1elds. A Tokyo broadcast said
the raid began at 8 a. m. and lasted
an hour and a half. Only sight
damage was caused, Tokyo said.
Mac r. johnson, United Press
War correspondent aboard the In
vasion flagship off Okinawa, said
the situation on the island was the
brightest since the American adj
vance toward Naha begged down
April 8.
The Americans hammered q deep
wedge into the center Of the enemy
line yesterday and won high ground
overlooking the inland town of Shuri
and the Machinato and Yonabaru
airfields.
A 10th Army staff officer said the
advances doomed both airstrips.
Machinato field lies on the west
coastal plain just north OF Naha
and 9th Division troops had nearly
cleaned out the Gusukuma pocket
above the field.
Seventh Division troops were
threatening the Youabaru Field on
the eastern coastal plain.
The Americans also outflanked
the inland town Osv Urasoe Mura
from the west.
Stiff Opposition Looms
Though the advances from here
out would be largely downhill, Hodge
told United Press War Correspond
ent Ed Thomas at the front that
the Japanese were excellent reverse
slope fighters" and stiff opposition
could be expected.
The big guns of American war
ships joined carrier aircraft and
land artillery in supporting the
American advance. A number OF
enemy gun batteries, emplacements
and caves were destroyed.
A few enemy planes approached
the Okinawa area and one was shot
down.
American carrier planes continued
their neutralizing attacks on air
field installations in the Sakishima
group south Of Okinawa Wednes-
day. Navy search planes strafed
and sank a number of fishing craft,
small picket boat and a torpedo
boat east of Kyushu yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1945-04-27

collaboration Of our nations IN the
cause Of peace and freedom Is an
effective collaboration which can
surmount the greatest difnculties OF
the most extensive campaign IN
military history and succeed. Ma
tons which can plan and fight to-
gether shoulder to shoulder In the
face Of such obstacles as distance
and Of language and of communi-
cations as We have overcome, can
live together and can work together
in the common labor Of the organi-
zation Of the world for peace.
Finally, this great triumph of AL
lied armies and Allied strategy Is
such a tribute to the courage and
determination of Franklin RooSe-
welt as no words could ever speak,
and that could be accomplished only
by the persistence and the courage
Of the fighting soldiers and sailors
of the Allied Nations.
But until our enemies are finally
subdued in Europe and in the Pa
ciflc, there must be no relaxation OF
effort on the home front in support
Of our heroic soldiers and sailors
and we all know there will be no
pause on the battlefronts.
69th Infantry First
The 69th U. S. Infantry Division
which made the first juncture with
Russian troops IS miles south OF
Berlin on Thursday is a part OF
Gen. Courtney H. Hodges First
Army. The 69th at last reports was
commanded by Maj. Gen. E. F.
Reinhardt.