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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
DE GAULLE IS FLYING
 T0AMERI(A
General Accompanied by Advisers-To Confer
 with Truman

PARIS, Aug. 21 - The French Government announced today that a giant York aircraft in which Gen. de Gaulle left Paris last night enroute to the United States had arrived safely in the Azores ahead of schedule.
 The bulletin said the plane might be expected to reach Washington before 4 D. m. tomorrow.
 De Gaulle, who will confer in Washington with President Tru- man, was accompanied by Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Chief of the General Staff Gen. Alphonse Juin, and several advisers. He ex- poets to return to Paris by next Monday or Tuesday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
5TARLINER HAS F
 FROM ANCHORAGE

Alaska Airlines' Starliner Fair banks, piloted by Larry Flahart and Bill Dodson, brought 12 people to Juneau, yesterday, and returned with the following five:
 To Anchorage: George Lesko, J. T. Edmonton, Caryl Hutcheson and Beverly Turner.
 To Yakutat: Commander H. c. Warwick.
 From Anchorage, passengers were: 1: Mrs. Homer Rose, Mrs. Dorothy Reed, Mae Gilman, T. N. Law, Jr., Dorothy Nelson, Eugene Gianola, Magdalene Klippen w. E. Straith, Ruth Baughn Mackessy, Helen Long and Letha Burns.
 From Yakutat; Ivan S. Sorenson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
METHODIST CHURCH WILL HAVE DINNER
 GET-T0GETHER WED.

Church Family Night at the Methodist Church will be observed tomorrow evening with a dinner at 6 o'clock, in the parlors of the Church,
 Mrs. Nina Anderson is chairman of the committee in charge of ar ranging the dinner. The program to follow is in charge of commit tee headed by Miss Ruth Brooks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21

cluding Americans, began a series of parachute descents last week and established contact with Allied prisoners of war in Japanese camps, including one 100 miles northwest of Mukden where It. Gen. Jona- than Wainwright was found.
 The Japanese broadcast a mes sage asking Gen. MacArthur again today to refrain from parachuting humanitarian teams to succor Allied prisoners, asserting that the International Red Cross and Swiss Legation had agreed to provide for the captives of the surrendered empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
New Protest 0fJapanese
 5hunted Up
Kick on Landing of Para Chuters to Rescue AL
 lied Prisoners

CHUNGKING, Aug. 21-Lt. Gen. Albert c. Wedemeyer, American Commander in China, announced today he had received word from Mukden that all American per- sonnel landing there probably would be interned until the Japa- nese are given permission by the Russians to allow such landings.
 Mukden, chief industrial center in Manchuria, was occupied by the Russians yesterday, Moscow an- nounced
 Allied humanitarian teams in-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
 THOMAS SAARI DIES HERE THIS MORNING

Thomas Saari, old-time resident of Juneau and vicinity died early this morning in St. Anns Hospital at the age of 68. Born in Finland in 1877, he came to Alaska in 1920. i
 He was last employed as watch man by United States Engineers out the Glacier Highway in 1943.
 Saari, who was single, had no known relatives in this country.
 Funeral arrangements will be an- nounced later, from the Charles w. Carter Mortuary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
IS
 RATIFIED BY
 RUSS UNION

MOSCOW, Aug. 21.-Thc Presi- dium of the Supreme Soviet Union ratified the United Nations Charter last night and the government news paper, Izvestia, today acclaimed the action as an important step on the road to maintenance of world wide peace.
 Russia is the third major power to approve the United Nations charter The United States and France previously had acted as well as number of smaller nations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
JAP TROOPS FIGHTING ON BURMA FRONT
Nippon Forces Continue Struggle Despite Sur
 render Demand

LONDON, Aug. 21--Japanese troops continued to fight all along the 30O-mile Burma front today as Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten awaited reply to his radio message directing the Japanese Southeast Asia commander to send surrender envoys to Rangoon by Thursday.
 Mountbatten, Allied commander in Southeast Asia, directed his broad cast order yesterday to Field Mar shal Count Juichi Terauchi, Com mander of the Japenese Southern Army, and advised him that the Japanese envoys should be empoW- cred to arrange for complete land, sea and air surrender in the thea tre.
 The order, broadcast by the New Delhi radio, was in accordance with the surrender procedure outlined in Manila by Gen MacArthur, who said responsibility for that portion of the Southwest Pacific area which lies south Of the PhlllpplneS VIII pc assumed by British and Australian commanders.
 The Japanese in Burma, who have lost approximately 12,000 men in bloody fighting in recent weeks, are continuing the struggle, apparently under the pretext that they do not know the war is over, said Rangoon dispatches.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
BOY FOR FURLONGS

A baby boy, weighing pounds, 3l2 ounces, arrived yesterday at St. Ann's Hospital to join the family of MT. and Mrs. Riley Fur long. Two little sisters, Judy and Nancy Kay, are awaiting him at the family home near Salmon Greek.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
HUNsAKER HERE

Levi Hunsaker, of Portland, Ore, arrived yesterday on an incoming Pan American Clipper from Seattle, and is a guest at the Hotel Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
MIR. MRS. TATE HERE

MT. and Mrs. P. w. Tate. of ,Kuethluk, arrived in Juneau Satur- day and are guests at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
FOREST FIRE AGAIN RACES, OREGON AREA
Flying Embers Reported Falling on Several Near
 by TiIIamook Sections

PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 21.-The 15o, ,000-acre Tillamook Forest fire the blaze that won't die-burst out of fire lines again today and swept into green timber along the Pacific coast.
 Flying embers reached within a mile and a half of the small com- munity of Mohler.
 The 245 inhabitants of Nehalem watched flying embers only a few miles away.
 Fire lines in other sectors of the 41-day old forest fire were holding.
 CAMPS ORDERED CLOSED
 Olympia, Aug. 21-An order closing all logging camps and allied opera tions in Western Washington was imposed today by State Forester T. s. Goodyear in a move to head off further outbreaks of forest fires.
 The Forestry office received re- ports of nearly TO new fires around the state yesterday and Goodyear estimated 1,500 high school boys and men are on the fire lines today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
SEATTLE MEN HERE

J. T. Edmonton and Roy E. Jack son, of Seattle, arrived Saturday and are guests at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
RALPH LoMEN HERE

Ralph Lomen, head of Lomen Commercial Company, arrived from the south yesterday afternoon and left this morning for the Interior
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
NONTELL HERE

H. J. Nontell, of Seattle, ar rived on a Pan American Clipper and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
TROPICO IN TOWN

James Tropico, of Skagway, ar rived on the Princess Norah and is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
WHAT ABOUT YAMASHITA?

MANILA, Aug. 21.-The riddle Of whether Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Singapore and Bataan, will respect the Emperor's surren- der orer in his Northern Luzon mountain hideout still loomed as large today as the day Tokyo agreed to capitulate.
 There has been no indication whether Yamashitas isolated head quarters is still maintaining con- tact with Tokyo or if any Imper- ial emissary reached Luzon.
 Meanwhile small groups of Japa- nese are continuing to fight. The number of surrenders has not in creased notably.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
MRS McGEHEE HERE

Mrs. J. G. McGehee, of Haines, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21

Mary Mackessy,. of Tacoma, ar rived yesterday on an Alaska Air lines plane from Anchorage, and is a guest at the. Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
MOORE HERE

T. E. Moore, of Anchorage, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
HART CHANGES MIND !. ABOUT JAIL ABODE

William Hart, taxi driver fined for speeding here, did a quick about face on his expressed determination to serve out in City Jail the $50 fine imposed upon him in Police Court.
 After little more than an hours taste of the municipal accommoda- tions. Hart concurred in payment of his fine and at the time yester- days Empire reported him as a City boarder, he was enjoying the liberties of unbarred spaces. Dorothy Nelson, of Sidney. Mont has arrived from Anchorage and is guest at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21

PARIS-The rrench Government announced today it had accepted British-American invitation to par ticipate in the Allied Control Con- mission which will help to supervise the coming national elections in Greece. The French expressed regret that Russia had declined an invita- ton to participate.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
ATTENTION ELKS.

Regular meeting Wednesday night at eight. (Mon.- Tue. Wed -Adv.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21

All sand contains certin amount of iron.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21

WASHINGTON-Maj. Gen. Max well D. Taylor, former Commander of the f01st Airborne Division, has been appointed Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, the War Department announced today. He assumes his new command September l, succeed ing Major General Francis B. Will by, who takes an important assign ment with the Engineer Corps at Fort Belvoir, Va.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21

WASHINGTON Senator Olin Johnston of South Carolina today expressed the opinion that all ra- tioning should end within six months. He made the statement after White House conference with President Truman.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21
B BULLETINS }

SAN FRANCISCO = Tokyo radio broadcasts hint Japan is on the verge of complete internal upheavel and trouble is brewing from both military and industrial circles.
 GUAM-It is reported here Gen. MacArthur will probably maintain his headquarters in Tokyo and will be backed up by strong forces to cope with any emergency.
 CHUNGKING = Negotiations for the wholesale equalization of the Japanese forces in China are under way. Japanese envoys, headed by Gen. Kyoshi, have arrived by plane.
 WASHINGTON - An Army Col onel, Frank Mccarthy of Richmond, Virginia, has been appointed Assist ant Secretary of State. He will suc- ceed Brigadier General Julius Holmes. Col Mccarthy has served as secretary of the Army General Staff since January, 1944.
 VATICAN CITY-Pope Plus XII invoked Gods choicest blessings" on the United States today and told II Congressmen at an audience that the cry of war-torn nations for help must be hardened to promptly and generously for the good of all man. kind"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21

of fifty United Nations at an in- ternational assembly in Chicago on October 2.
 WASHINGTON-An aviation of ficial has expressed the belief that four hundred thousand more per- sons will find jobs in the aviation field within the next few years. The official is Fred Parks, General Man ager of the Perks Air College in East St. Louis, Illinois.
 WASHINGTON-A succession of government officials and represen- tatives of veterans groups has ap- peared before a Senate Banking Subcommittee to testify on the so- called full employment bill. Secre- tary of State Byrnes sent state ment to the committee during the day expressing hearty accord with general principles of the measure.
 MONTREAL-The plane carrying General De Gaulle is expected to land at Montreal this evening en- route to Washington.
 SEATTLE-Jeeps went on sale to civilians in Seattle today. The first buyer was Col. A. H. Hooker of Ia coma, an Army veteran and business concern executive. He will go on inactive status this week and will use the vehicle on his farm. The civilian jeeps are heavier than those used by the Army and cost from $500 to $1700. ,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-21

KANSAS CITY-President Tru- man will speak before war veterans of fifty United Nations at an in- ternational assembly in Chicago on October 2.
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Reds BIored Nozis' Big Secrets
lover Radio, Deserter Reveals

words across before they had actual
ly been given to our sentries."
1t was evident even last winter
that the German high command ex-
pected the war to last into 1945
! An order was read to Karl's unit
saying that winter equipment had
to be returned in good order so that
lit might be used the following win
ter.
This carelessly worded order
made us very depressed, and we
stood tongue-tied. Karl said. $50
it would not be over in another year
as we had hoped"
Feet Always Wet.
Karl was In the Neutrality-suspicious.
telephone and telegraph unit and
consequently always had wet feet,
since high boots were delivered only
to front-line infantry.
"One of my comrades wrote home,
quite innocently, that he had had to
give back his extra shoes and could
not get new Ones" Karl recalled.
He said he could not get new soles,
either, because equipment was
scarce.
He was condemned to six years
In prison, but because he had been
Evening star., 1945-01-30

. good soldier the sentence was re-
duced to three years In q straf-
kompanie (penalty company. This
company worked in the front lines
is hours daily destroying mines
They got no alcohol or cigarettes
and worked so hard they rarely held
out physically longer than two
weeks"
Cigarette supplies varied, depend
ing on whether the Russians were
advancing or consolidating theil
gains. The German quartermaster'
stores suffered as badly as the troops
during the Soviet advances.
Suggestion for Revolt.
There is nothing, except lack Of
mail from home, that makes a SOL
dier so bad-humored as failure to
have SUFFICIENT alcohol and tobacco, y
the deserter said. 'I think the only
thing to do, if one wanted some
German soldiers to revolt, would be
not to give them any more tobacco
I'VE generally had plenty of our
Evening star., 1945-01-30
zone of a Series.)
BY NAT A. BARROWS,

| War Correspondent for The Star and
the Chicago Daily News.
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 30. - 1.-The
Russians knew everything about
everything"
Karl, the Wehrmacht deserter
now in Sweden, says that almost
Immediately after the arrival of his
unit on the eastern front in Latvia
Red Army loud speakers roared this
| greeting in German from the Rus
sian lines:
Welcome, he'll, to the Danish
whipped cream division"
Every effort had been made to
keep this German movement a
secret. Incoming troops from train
ing grounds in Denmark had been
forced to undergo a wide detour to
prevent the Russian intelligence
from knowing about the reinforce
ments.
yet they knew we had come and
where we had come from-before
we had even unloaded our baggage" !"
Karl related.
Changed Codes Often.
Eve Germans had constantly to
change our telegram codes and
cover names for troop formations
and command posts. The Russians
had found some of our secrets be-
fore Junior officers knew them
II remember, several times, how
the Russians called our new pass
Evening star., 1945-01-30

Russians. They told them that the
Russian invasion OF Germany meant
utter destruction OF everything and
Everybody.
Karl had been living in Denmark
away from the Nazis enough years
to know how much tommyrot pours
out from Goebbels' ofiice. But his
comrades had already been we'll in
doctrinated in Nazi poison before
they reached the army and they
believed everything.
Karl listened and kept his mouth
shut. Otherwise he would have died
iquickly-and not from Russian
bullets.
tCopyrieht, 1945. Chicago Daily News)
Evening star., 1945-01-30

own arms and ammunition-but the
Russian arms were better. When
German soldiers found a Russian
machine gun or Russian telephone
or telegraph apparatus, they threw
away the German one and used
the Russian.
Russian sets are of simpler con-
struction and resist better against
dampness and cold Russian ma
chine guns were especially sought
after by my Wehrmacht comrades
The German ones we're unreliable;
the Russian ones always worked. y
Day and night their officers
pounded into the German troops
intense propaganda against the
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Bill Would Save CITY
Jobs for. Residents

A proposal to write into law a re-
quirement of five years of bona fide
District residence for appointments
to many of the better paying posts
In the municipal government was
laid before Congress yesterday by
Senator Chavez, Democrat, of New
Mexico. 1t was referred to the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee.
Introduction of the bill was in
keeping with a promise made by
Senator Chavez in the last session
during the contest in the Senate
over the confirmation of Marshall
L. Shepard to be District recorder of
deeds.
At the time Senator Chavez and
others explained that. while they OBJ
jected to making political plums out
of District jobs, they were not op-
posing the former Philadelphia
clergyman as an individual. Mr.
Shepard was confirmed.
The Chavez bill would make five
years residence here prerequisite
to any municipal appointment made
by the President and to the offices
of United States attorney or United
States marshal and appointments to
the United States Court of Appeals,
the District Court, the Municipal
Court of Appeals, the Municipal
Court and the Juvenile Court.
In the cases of appointments to
the benches of these courts also the
Chavez measure would require not
only a five-year residence here, but
also that during this period the can
didates must have been serving
either in one of the courts or in
actual practice before the District
Court or a combination of such
services.
RnndanaO M
Evening star., 1945-01-30
Clerk Says She Wrote
Disputed Figures in
lckes' Tax Appeal
NJ the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Jan. 30. - Gordor
Nash, assistant Cook County State,
attorney, said yesterday disputed
rental figures on Secretary of the
Interior Ickes' tax appeal statement
involving downtown building, were
not written by Mr.. Ickes, but by 9
woman clerk in the Board of Tax
Appeals Office.
The information was reported
after Mr.. Nash questioned two en-
ployes of the board. He is investi-
eating charge by John S. Clark
Cook County (Chicago) assessor
that Mr.. Ickes obtained an $500 tax
reduction in 1943 and 1914
Mr.. Clark asserted Mr.. Ickes had
filed an erroneous affidavit with
the board.
The clerk, Mrs. Olive Flanagan,
told Mr.. Nash that the notarized tax
appeal was brought into the Office
by Mrs. Mabel Reinecke, former COL
lector of internal revenue, last June
but that the appeal contained insult
f1cient information.
Figures Added With Pencil
Mr.. Nash said Mrs. Flanagan told
him she added with pencil to the
document signed by Mr.. Ickes the
figures given her orally by Mrs
Reinecke. Arthur Rex, a deputy
clerk in the appeal board Office, told
Mr.. Nash also the added material
was penciled in on information fur.
nished by Mrs. Reincke, who assisted
Mr.. Ickes in making the appeal.
Mrs. Flanagan said information
added to the document was that the
rental received from the building
was $24,000 a year and that the
building was three stories high with
the two upper floors unoccupied.
Mr.. Clark, in his charge, con-
tended the building is five stories
high and that the entire building
has been rented and occupied. The
charge was based on Mr. Clark S
allegation that the property was
rented for SOL $50.
In Washington Mr. Ickes previously
had asserted that never, to my
knowledge, did I at any time make
an affidavit to the Board of Tax
Appeals"
In Hamilton, Mont, Mrs. Reinecke
said "the charge is ridiculous"
Illegal Reduction Denied.
"The property referred to was
greatly assessed and has been
for many years. I do not recall the
figures, but Mr.. Ickes did not obtain
an illegal reduction. Every one
knew what the value of the property
was at the time a hearing was held, -
she commented.
The building was five stories high
she added, but to my knowledge
the top four floors had not been
occupied in years"
After questioning the two en-
ployes of the board Mr.. Nash de-
clared:
The penciled notations are i'm
portant, because apparently the
whole case rests on those points"
Mr.. Nash also said he was investi-
eating whether a typewriter SEN
tence on the document had been
sworn to by Mr.. Ickes and that he
would check this. He said the SEN
tence is: "A long-term lease on this
property defaulted and has been
Cancelled, and the income now is
about half of what it was"
After questioning Mrs. Flanagan
and Mr.. Rex, Mr.. Nash said he
would confer with Mrs. Reinecke on
her return from Montana.
Evening star., 1945-01-30

"1N RECOGNITION of outstanding mainte-
nance performance and Development.
reads the coveted Aviation Maintenance
Award for 1914 just presented to United
Air Lines.
To whom, really, should this recogni-
ton of outstanding wartime efficiency be
directed? To the manufacturers. They
turned out the finest kind of planes. To
management 1t is fulfilling its func-
tions. However, United Air Lines wishes
to pass this recognition on to an impor-
tant and often unsung contributor to this
Evening star., 1945-01-30

high standard of efhciency-"The man
with the tool kit"
He represents great team hundreds
of finished technicians ;, mechanics
inspectors =. ground crews all contrib
uting vital part to the maintenance eff
cheney reflected in Uniteds outstanding
wartime operations.
Yes-a maintenance record such as this
results from combination of services
of teamwork. Because of this closely knit
organization, United is meeting unprece-
dented traffic demands has set new rec
ords for miles flown and passengers, mail
and express carried.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-04
~ Failure dO HDestrOy Antwerp Speeded End of War

The ereatog Gernaus did to destroy two Of the
four vital locks that control The l7toot tide dominating the
Schcdt estuary.
In the fashion of dime novel thriller they also managed
20 put third lock ouH action by sending specially trained
sabotl4e swimmers including former Olympic champion to
Vace explosive charges under 10 the middle OF the night
Had the Germans succeeded by any destroying
seriously damaging The fourth lock the port would have been of
no use 10 the Allied armies FOR many months
To deny 20 Gen Eisenhower of that port would have
been Important The Germans major victory on the
field Of battle
DuJng te Iou- months o Tie WofsI Wnfcr Europe had
known 30 years desperate need OF big docks that
Were IN working order.
Most supplies for m. Allied armies lined up along the
western front from Holland the Swiss Alps coming in
over heeheads from Normandy and being transported
hundreds Of miles by road the socaled Red Ball route
This hardly adequate enable the L. 5. Armys
service a. fy t effect u bi-uPoi thousands OF tons
ol supplies required Immediately behind the fighting front
fu mount offensive winch 70 carry the Allied
armies The Rhine and deliver hna crushing blow to
German military power The west, Eisenhower urgently needed
a great poit.
The encn ports which might have been helpful,
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-04

During the first month of his command Armstrong; forces
Knocked out 62 of the Wis which hurting over
Antwerp
BY March, the last month Of the frantic attack
American and British antarcrafers destroying per
cent of their targets.
The average for the entire five months period of the
offensive was 20 cent of the flying bombs against
Antwerp
During the height of the attack only two out of flying
bombs known to be bound for the port actually it.
Despite thousands of tons of high explosives against
Antwerp by the Germans the port lost single day OF
work.
Although the port facilities locks cranes railroads
including many loaded with ammunition extremely yu-
nerab and highly susceptible damage nothing the Germans
could do stopped their working.
The life blood for Eisenhowers great offensive DESTROY
the German armies the flowed through the port under
protective screen of the greatest antacra barrage
world has known.
When the battle was over Antwerp safe.
The city of damaged Four thousand Beleians
were dead direct result of the Vweapon attacks Two
thousand houses destroyed 10000 damaged
But the people of that gallant country can proudly
that their port played major role defeat OF
NaZidom.