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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-05
HEARING SET FOR CHANGE
 IN UCC LAW
Senate 10 Discuss Green Bill Tomorrow
 Afternoon

Senator Joe Greens bill to amend the Unemployment Compensation Law, making all employers subject to the payments under the act, will have an open hearing before the Committee of the Whole tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock, at the re- quest of the bills author.
 This action was decided on dur ing Saturday afternoons Senate session after considerable debate on the bill, begun when Senator N. R. Walker introduced an amendment to make the law apply to only en- ployers of four or more workers. At present. only employers of eight or more workers come under the act.
 Senators Andy Gundersen, Green and Frank Gordon spoke against Walkers amendment which never came to vote
 Walker said he believed that the small businessman, who has more than enough paper work at the present time, should not be requir- cd to carry the additional load which the bill would apply. He said that if the number of employees was re- duced to four that would be a 100 percent gain over the present sit uation.
 President E. Coffey suggested hold ing the bill in second reading and it when experts of the Unemployment Commission could be available to answer questions. lie said that he understood there is S6,000,000 or more in the fund at the present time and there was a question of whether or not the em- ployers 2.7 per cent payments shouldn't be reduced this year
 Senator Green secured the unani- nous consent of the Senate to have the open hearing tomorrow.
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GAL.LICAN0 REOCCUpIED,
 ITALY AREA
Fifth Army Troops Gain Against Only Slight
 Enemy Opposition

ROME, Feb 5-Fifth Army troops have reoccupied Gallicano in the Serchio Valley area, Italian west coast, against only slight enemy opposition, the Allied Headquarters announced today.
 Other advances were made along the Serchio River, regaining ground lost last December when the Nazis launched a short lived offensive in the direction of Lucca.
 Tn the Central Front area, south and southeast of Bologna, strong Fifth Army raiding patrols ran into considerable German resistance and casualties were suffered on both sides. A number of Germans were captured
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The aShinqton Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON Ct. Col Robert s. Allen now on active service with the Armyl

WASHINGTON-It is not often that the Democratic membership of the Senate holds an all-out caucus, but when it does, the sparks really fly and the issue usually gets down to the roots of what makes or breaks the Democratic Party-rivalry between the con- servative wing and the more pro- gressive north.
 That issue split the Democratic Party wide open in the 1928 race between Al Smith and Herbert Hoover Since then Franklin Roose- welt has been able to keep the two wings of the party together-at least at election time But the crevice has been growing wider and wider between elections.
 Last weeks closed door caucus over Henry Wallace involved the same basic principle. with the reactionary wing of the party wanting to join with the Republi- cans to defeat the liberal wing.
 Senator Hatch of Arizona prob ably summarized the issue more succintly than anyone else when in the secret hearing he said:
 What we are doing is helping the Republicans. They're adopting Jack Gamers old technique of
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Stars and Stripes Float Over Philippine Capital
 City After } Years
SNYDER FIRE GREETS
 lST CAVALRY DIVISION
MaIaeasan Palace Quickly Captured -Contenfra-
 lion Camp Taken
By C. YATES MCDANIEL JAP Wnr CorreSnQndentl

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD QUARTERS, LUZON, Monday. Feb. 5--American troops reach ed the heart of Manila yester- day and raised the Stars and Stripes over the great Philip pine capital for the first time in more than three years.
 Tanks of the hard hitting First Cavalry Division, in wide encircling move by dark, entered the city Saturday night against harassing enemy sniper fire and quickly captured Maia- oanan Palace and the Santo Tcmas concentration camp in which thousands of British and American civilians may be in termed.
 The northern half of Manila was in American hands as elc- ments of the First Cavalry and Thirty-Seyenth Infantry Divi- sions pressed in for the knock our blow.
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LIMA
 IS SMASHED
 ON 2 DAYS
Off Bombed Jap Base {. Comes Back, However,
 win Anfiaricrafi Fire

UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, FOR WARD AREA, Feb. 5-Army Liber- ators bombed Two Jima Friday and Saturday, concentrating on air ill- stallations and storage bases, re- ports Admiral Chester w. Nimitz.
 ft-bombed Two lima, 750 miles south of Tokyo, came back with in- tense anti-aircraft fire Friday and "one escorting fighter plane Of our fleet was lost" Says Nimitz.
 Chichi lima, in the nearby Bon ins, was also bombed last Friday.
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MILITARY MUSI OCCUPY GERMANY
 AFTER NAzIS FALL

WASHINGTON, Feb 5.-In Gov ernment circles the idea of keeping at least small military occupation fcrces in Germany for many years, is gaining increasing support.
 Information reaching here are that conditions are generally inter pretated as entertaining little hope for unified enemy surrender in- stead of the belief the military will disintegrate leaving the country in a state of chaos.
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Yanks Smash Through Jap Prison Cafes 10
 Liberate (ountryn1en
By DEAN SCHEDLER and
 FRED HAMPSON Associated Press War Correspondence

SANTO TOMAS PRISON CAMP, Manila, Feb. 5.--Liberty was steel tank with 75 nm gun for a tcrch and a white star on it's temp cred flank.
 The tank driver slipped the clutch and Liberty idled before the chained gate of this war prison which held, we prayed, some 5000 men and wo- men and children of the United Ma tions.
 open up the Gcd dam thing or I'm comin in anyway" the com mander shouted. He shouted again and the order brought no response from inside the prison.
 Then, from inside the gate was heard a low, speculative murmur, rising to a crescendo of cries con- taining fear. doubt and hope as some prisoners sensed that this was not just another of the endless Jap or gies. The voice beyond the gate was American, and contained a resolu- tion Of it's own kind.
 But the gate didn't open
 "Go on in but don't shoot unless you have to, and be sure they're Japs, the tank commander direct cd quietly.
 The snorting tank pushed against the gate. The engine clattered and the gate groaned, cracked and then crashed under the tank treads.
 The prisoners, guant. hollow-eyed and afraid of their own hopes, pour cd from the buildings.
 Tn the gathering dusk they saw that this was an American tank and as from a single throat, they poured out an agonizing cry of re- ! lief, thanks and welcome.
 There was a pause-as if they were afraid to believe their eyes.
 The American tank stopped atop the twisted gate and the signs of Jap bondage and lowly, wretched captivity began slipping away.
 On the upper floor of one of the houses, the Jap prison commandant, with his Formosan guards, was ready for the last fight.
 The commandant, Colonel Hay { ashi offered to surrender the pris- on in return for safe passage through the gates. The tank com mander answered Hayashi's mes senger:
 Tell him nothing doing I'll give him ten minutes
 The Nipponese officer stood his ground.
 Then American troops of the First Cavalry Division swarmed into the building and began room -to-room light. Soon it was all over
 Some of the prisoners were feared to have been trapped with the Japs, but General MacArthur announced that no prisoners or American troops were killed, although several | were hurt.
 Other tanks and dismounted cav alrymen poured into Santo Tomas where almost 2,500 American pris- oners engulfed them with embraces, f kisses and handshaking.
 All night long as the weary cav alrymen cleared out the garrison, the prisoners swarmed about them, eager for a word, greeting, touch of the hand of their countrymen af- ter three years of suffering the ignominy of captivity.
 Behind the cavalrymen came the Filipinos and a steady growing roar of welcome
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Battle for Leyie Gulf" Official
 Name Of Sea Fight

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The big Navy engagement off the Philippines is now officially to be designated the
 Battle for Leyte Gulf, the Navy announced. The new name is chos- en to supercede the popular Second Battle of the Philippine Sea-.
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LONDON, Feb. 5-German and Russian guns duelled across the Oder River today as Marshal zhukov moved his First White Russian Army tanks and infantry to the river line front of 40 miles threatening to outflank Berlin through north Germany as well as south Germany.
 The German command said vio- lent Russian attacks are in prog ress against the Oder River fort of Rebttrin, 40 miles east of Berlin.
 The latest official Moscow an- nouncements tell of the capture of Barwalde, 33 miles northeast of Berlin, in an 18-mile advance which outflanked Kustrin on the north and placed the Russian spearheads within 45 miles of the Baltic port of Stettin at the mouth of the Oder River.
 Thrust On Stettin
 Zhukov's tanks are thrusting to- ward Stettin in threat to topple it in the circle around Berlin Tanks are moving in radio silence but Moscow believes they are cut ting behind the enemy groups, causing great damage.
 The German accounts are far ahead of the Moscow announce ments from that area and tell of Red Army penetrations to the SchWedt area on the Oder River 2S miles south of Stettin, and at Pyritz, p miles southeast of Stet- tin.
 Simultaneously, zhukov's forces at the Frankfurt bulge, between the Oder and Warthe Rivers, push ed ssouthward in a flanking threat and captured zeibinger, 13 miles southeast of Frankfurt and five miles from the Oder.
 Flying Bombs
 German underground reports re- ceived in London said the Nazis are already building flying bomb ramps, 50 miles west of Berlin and facing the German capital for use against that city if it falls to the Russians.
 Moscow dispatches failed to bear
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The Japanese in the northern section of the city offered no major resistance. but explosions were heard and fires seen in the south on the other side of where the deep, wide Pasig River barrier splits the city in two.
 The enemy may put up bitter bloody fight for the historic com- mercial center of Manila, but for those who might survive there will be no escape.
 While the Thirty Seventh Divi- sion cautiously pushed through to Grace Airdrome from the north Saturday night, the First Cavalry spearheads circled into the city from the east and yesterday morn- ing reached the Santa Tomas University grounds, throwing a protective cordon around it's con- centration camp.
 It was just three years and six weeks ago that the last units of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's tired and outnumbered Filipino and American forces left the capital.
 With the First Cavalry and Thirty Seventh Infantry Divisions already in Manila, new para troop invasion behind the enemy's lines in Batangas Province spear headed the Eleventh Airborne Divisions drive along the straight downhill road. IS miles from the southern fringes of the city.
 tThe Tokyo radio strangely re- ported that American forces had been "cut off in the Clark Field area-40 miles north of Manila and "are now on the verge of be- ing isolated The enemy radio made no mention of MacArthur's entry into Manila)
 Good News Received
 Shortly after o'clock yesterday afternoon the Empire received the good news of the entry of Gen. Macarthur into Manila. The news in bulletin from the Associated Press under date Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters on Luzon. as follows
 Gen. MacArthur's American lib- eration forces have entered Manila, Headquarters announces. The Tanks entered the great city by a wide encircling movement under cover of darkness. Elements of the vet eran First Cavalry entered Manila by dark to secure safety to several thousand internees held by the Japanese garrison. Advance units then penetrated to the heart of the city and seized the concentra- tion camp of Santo Tomas.
 Outside radio broadcasts were
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Cleveland, O.. came very near to being the automobile capital ot the United States. instead of De- trcit, as more than 80 different makes of cars were built there dur7 ing the early days of the industry
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GUN DUEL iS FOUGHT,
 HOT SECTOR
Marshal zhukov Operating on 140-MiIe Front
 New Threats Made

BULLETIN = LONDON, Feb. 5-The Berlin radio tonight said particularly massive Russian force has reached the Oder River at Kienitz, north west of fortress Kustrin, only 8 miles from Berlin.
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Valentine Silver
 Tea Is Announced

Members of the Senior Guild an- nounce the usual Valentine Tea will be given in the Parish Hall of the Church of the Holy Trinity from 2 to 5 o'clock Saturday after noon, February l The public is in- vited to attend. Plans were made for the tea at the meeting held last Friday night at the home of Mrs. M. O. Johnson.
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Harvard College was expanded in- to Harvard University under the charter of 1850.
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The first degrees in Divinity at Harvard College were granted in the year 1892.
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HERE FROM ANCHORAGE

Cecil Metcalfe. of Anchorage, is a guest of the Baranof Hotel.
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The first LID. of Harvard Col lege was conferred on Professor John Winthrop in l773.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-13
VETERANS' GUIDE By MAJOR THOMAS M. NAL

WASHINGTON-Your newspaper undoubtedly has been keeping you up-to-date on the progress of the House Veterans Committee probe into how Veterans Administration Hospitals are being operated.
 Regardless of the committee findings, I don't think you'd be wrong in laying a bet that V. A. hospitals are going to increase in number, and that they are going to give constantly better service, better accommodations, and better medical care.
 Even though proposals-such as the establishment of medical division for V. A. Hospitals of equal standing with Army and Navy medical services, and the creation of a nurse corps for " A. Hospitals don't ever get a chance to take lead off first base, it's safe to assume that V. A. Hospitals will llllpIONe.
 That's because the weak spots have been exposed and have gotten into public print. On top of that, Gen. Omar Bradley, the new Ad- ministrator of Veterans Affairs, knows about these weak spots.
 As he's already demonstrated to the world that he knows what to do about weak spot, it can easily be imagined that the quality of veterans medical care is going to be looking up.
 Now, Congress intended that Vet eran's Administration Hospitals would be set up to give superior medical care-free-to all veterans.
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Since the president and his wife rarely accept invitations outside the White House, their daughter is considered their official representa- tive in social way.
 Friends explain that Margaret's parents feel much better, if she does not go out alone. Miss Odum, who appears to be around 30, IS congenial and dependable. The Trumans know her well and have a great deal of respect for her tact and judgment.
 So, Miss Odum just fits into the situation. She may drop a letter or other paper work for the First Lady and go out with Margaret shopping or on an errand.
 The two got so accustomed to being together. that Miss Odum just seemed the logical one to &C., company Margaret when she went out socially.
 Another Friend
 Of course, Jane Lingo, Navy commanders daughter, is Mar garet's longtime friend, her soror- ity sister and her college chum. (The two belong to Pi Beta Phil Miss Lingo can come in and out of the White House when she wants to, and she, too, gets in on some of Margaret's parties.
 However, generally speaking, to the Trumans, the more mature Miss Odum is the one to accom- pany Margaret on the rounds ex- pected of a presidential daughter.
 Hostesses naturally clamor to get the attractive Margaret, and her attendance is expected at some of the stuffy official parties which normally would not appeal to a young girl.
 So, Washington and the nation probably will see lot more of Miss Odum when the fall season gets under way and the First Lady and her only daughter return to the capital and take their place in official life.
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That's the ideal condition.
 But because there are limitations as to the number of veterans that can be cared for at any one time there has been an order of pref erence established for admitting veterans to V. A. Hospitals.
 This order of preference natural ly is headed by the ex-servce men who have incurred disabili- ties or diseases which need con- tinued or recurrent medical treat ment. Here is the order of admit tance to V. A. Hospitals:
 Veterans with a war-incurred disability or disease which needs treatment.
 2-Veterans who mad no service during a war period but who have a service incurred disability or dis case which needs treatment.
 3-Veterans who served during a war period, who have no service incurred disability, but who Su11er from some permanently disabling condition, or any condition de- manding quick or lengthy treat ment, and who are incapacitated from earning living.
 4-Veterans with no war period service but who have a service incurred disability, who may be suffering from some permanent disability or some condition re- quiring emergency or extensive treatment, and who are incapaci- tated from earning a living.
 5--Ex-Joes and James who served during war period, received nc disability, but who need some later
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fer various types of diseases or in- iurieS.
 This last group is going to be the big one and it's this bunch who shouldn't expect too much in the way of free medical treatment, at least for several years to come because the V. A. Hospitals are likely to be filled to the doors with vets who have wounds or service incurred maladies that need pro- longed treatment.
 have nothing to do with it., but I'm just tipping you-the sub ject has been pushed around in Washington and 1t seems there may not be enough V. A. Hospital space to give inclusive medical care to all vets.
 So it may be a while before the big group of undisabled veterans can have those tonsils out or be treated for that bad case of bron- chitis for free.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-13
ALA5kA AIRLINE5
 HAS TWO PLANES
 IN OVER SUNDAY

Alaska Airlines, yesterday. brought two transport planes from Anchor age into Juneau with 36 passengers aboard.
 Those arriving were as follows: The Rev H. E. Beyer, Thomas Jor- dan, Ross D. Crone, Mrs. Alma Bailey, V. E. Kimborough, Dr, R. M. Mckenzie, Dr. A. J. Dorman Dr. A. W. Stewart, J. P. Albright, Hugh Kimball, Thomas Allenbough, Goldie Brady, Eleanor Esary and child, Audre Esary, MT. Cartmell, Fred Johnson, Elmer Peterson, L. M. Brown, Charles Young, Mrs. Ruth Senour, Jean Senour, Denny Hew- it, George Hough, Ole Blakely. O.. Granulin, Thomas Lynch, Hazel Looney, Anker Steen, Mrs. L. R.. Reed. L. R. Reed, Earl w Boyd, Joe Rosetti, Irving Howser, MT. Case, Ross D. Crone and Dagner Dohl
 Passengers from Cordova: Mir. Most. Mir Dinneen, MT. Schaffer, MT. Boiling, MT. Danielson and MT. Carlson.
 Outgoing passengers to Anchorage were: A. c. Kuehl, Malcolm Bard well, w. D. Denit, Max LaLande, Edward Miller, Woodbury Abbey, Clarence Deborde, Doreen Galla- gher, Patrick Gallagher and Sally Gallagher
 Robert M. Redlich flew to Cor dova.
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-
 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
 Sealed bids for the construction of a gridiron, repair of floats, and pile driving, all in the Juneau Boat Har- bor, will be received in the office of the City Clerk, Juneau, Alaska, until 800 P. M, Aug. IT, 1945, and will then and there be opened and publicly read aloud. Bids received after the time fixed for opening will not be considered.
 Plans and specifications may be obtained at the office of the City Clerk, Juneau, Alaska.
 Each bid shall be accompanied by a certified check, cashiers check or bid bond in an amount not less than 5% of the amount of the bid.
 The City of Juneau reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive informalities.
 No bidder may withdraw his bid after the hour set for the opening thereof, or before award of contract, unless said award is delayed for a period exceeding 30 days.
 CHARLES L. POPEJOY,
 City Clerk, Juneau, Alaska. First publication, August 9, l945. Last publication, August l3, l945.
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VI0LAT0RS KEEP
 CITY COURT BUSY

Juneau's police Court has been busy place during recent days, fines from long list of arrestees swelling the City coffers.
 Drunk and disorderly charges resulted in fines of $25 each to the following: Melvin c. Lyon, Jack Cozad, Lee R. Rogers, Marion F. Downey, Clorince L. Appleby, Jane Doe Woods, Milford s. Cassell, Ross E. Blodgett.
 Finded $50 for disorderly conduct was William Hart. Fines of $25 each were levied against George Worth and Bill Willett on drunk counts.
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16 pA55ENGERl
 IN ON W00DLEY

Sixteen passengers flew to Juneau Saturday, on a Woodley Airlines' transport plane from Anchorage. Those leaving Juneau for Anchor age, numbering ten, were as follows: W. c. Arnold, James Wise, A. M. Coker, H. c. Tingnall, f1. E. Carle- ton, Val Wood, Ida Foley, Naimo McFarlan, Bert Kellog and E. Quimby.
 Those arriving were: Mrs. Violet Eidsmore, Mary Bussy, Gladys Grady, Fred Grady, Waiter Grah- nest, D. w. Farriss, Edward Nor ris, Pete Veniis, George Johnson, Vera Johnson, J. E. Wang, Marvis Soldin. Irene Soldin, Edith Soldin, Richard Austin and George Rickter.
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DIVORCE FILED

Permanent care and custody of two minor daughters is sought by the plaintiff, Patricia Margaret Concannon, of Petersburg, in an action in divorce filed with the Clerk of the U. s. District Court here against James Edward Con- cannon. Incompatibility is alleged as grounds for action. Mrs. Con- cannon now has her two daughters in her care at Petersburg.
 Some species of insects, including a number of butterflies, have taste organs in their legs
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 Thomas Edison was a pioneer in the use of electricity for traction.
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ALA5kA rcASTAL IN MANY FLIGHTS ON SATURDAY, SUNDAY

Alaska Coastal Airlines, yester- day. flew seven passengers to Sitka. four to Excursion Inlet, four to Hoonah, one to Tenakee, one to Wrangell and three to Ketchikan.
 Inl ming passengers numbered four from Sitka, five from Hoonah, three from Todd, one from Wrangell and three from Ketchikan.