davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16
OFFENSIVE IN ITALY
 UNDERWAY
British Eighth and U. 5 Fifth Fighting on En-
 fire Battlefront

ROME, April 16.-The Spring of. fensive in the Mediterranean theatre of war has started and the United States Fifth and British Eighth Ar mics are engaged in operations along the entire battlefront.
 The British Eighth is striking al the eastern end of the front and the United States Fifth has jumped into the fight along the central and wes- tern sectors.
 Heavy bombers of the U. s. Eff teenth Air Force Sunday hit Ger man targets south of Bologna. It is indicated the British Eighth vii have hard fight in an effort tC break out of the mountains south of Bologna into the broad Pc Valley
 The Germans appear to have chos- en to fight in Northern Italy de- spite military disasters which are ripping the Reich apart.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16
German Currency
 AIsaiian Headache

SAVERNE, France-The process of chasing German currency and coins out of Alsace continues, and French money soon will displace German exchange throughout south ern Alsace.
 Alsations who were taken over the Sayerne gap to refuges in the south of France have provided minor problem. They went with German money, they speak German or a dia- lect of it, they have been conditioned to German methods and ways. Ad- mittedly they have proved a thorr in the French body polite. It is intended that no more Alsatians be shifted across the Vosges and those now there will be brought back as soon as possible.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16
WORLD IN MOURNING
 FOR F.D.R.
(Bu Associated Press ]


 The world mourns with the United States in the passing of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
 High officials of many nations are still sending streams of con- dolences.
 The London Times says "He is mourned here as perhaps no other of another country ever has been" Saturday, American soldiers and sailors stationed in Britain filed into churches. The British honored Roosevelt's memory Sunday, scores of clerics Ieulogizing him.
 The King and Queen cancelled their plan for weekend in Glas- gow. Chiang Kai Shek invited high officials and foreign. diplomats to a memorial service in Chungking to- day. Special tributes and religious services were held in Jerusalem.
 The Portuguese fleet lowered the flag to half-mast.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16
RUSSIANS
 OPEN BIG
 OFFENSIVE
Germans Announce Large. Scale Drive from East
 AIong60- Mile Front

LONDON, April 16.-The German Command announced the Russians have launched the long-awaited large-scale offensive from the east side of the German waist
 At Berlin, the High Command de- clared the big Soviet steamrollcr swung into action along a 60-mile front from the mouth of the Neisse River, southeast of Berlin, to the Oderbruch, low plain on the west bank of the Oder River, northeast of Berlin.
 Bitter fighting is in progress on the entire front" Berlins bulletin said. German broadcasts indicated the Russian assault is being mounted On an even broader front, as they reported new bridgehead across the Oder forged in the first hours of the offensive in the Schwedt area, 30 miles south of Stettin and A miles northeast of Berlin.
 The Germans said strong Soviet tank forces made DreacneS Tn Ger man lines in their attacks toward Seelow Heights, 27 miles east of Berlin and II miles west of Kues- trin Absorbing to German accounts, the Russian offensive is directed by General Vassily Sokoloysky, said by the enemy to have replaced Marshal zhukov as Commander of the First Russian Army.
 At the southern end of the front, Moscow dispatches said the Rus sians have driven well past St. Poel- ten, 28 mile swest of Vienna. in their drive up the Danube Valley in Aus tria.
 Berlin reported the Russians in southeastern Moravia and central Czechosloyakia are driving strong ly from Goeding toward Austerlitz, the battlefield where Napoleon with his outnumbered French army, won a classic victory over Russian and Austrian forces in 1905.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16
PLANE RUNS
 OUT OF GAS;
 LANDSCAPE
Two Grew Members ol Missing Graft in Interior
 Finally Redeh Deering

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April l6.- The new Stinson Gull plane that had been flown from Chicago, and that left Galena on March 26 fol Candle, ran out of gas at Devil Mountain, 75 miles north of Deer ing. and landed safely.
 Search for the plane had been given up.
 Pilot Henry Duncan of Chicago and Mechanic George Burkhart o1 Deering, the only persons aboard arrived in Deering yesterday after noon on dog sled. They had walk ed from the grounded plane unti they met reindeer herders.
 Duncan said he overshot Deerine in storm. and as the gas ran out landed the plane.
 The airplane is the property o1 the Arctic Circle Exploration Com. pany of Deering.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16
NAzI5 RUSH UP TROOPS,
 WEST FRONT
Ninth Army Still 45 Miles Distance from Ruin-
 ed Capital City

PARIS, April 16-Third Army in fantry, which has advanced within eight miles of Czechoslovakia, has virtually bisected Germany, whose western front is already split into northern and southern commands.
 The Germans rushed troops and tanks from the Eastern Front to Berlin, to oppose the grave threat to their ruined capital city being made by elements of the Ninth Army, only AS miles away.
 North of Magdeburg, three Nazi divisions stamped out the original Elbe River bridgehead at Mag deburg, but another east bank sal tent at Barby was deepencd to four miles by Ninth Army troops, within 53 miles of Berlin on the open Brandenburg plain.
 Liquidation Today
 Some 5000 Germans were surren- dered by their commander in the eastern segment of the severed Ruhr pocket. War Correspondent Don Whitehead said, there is the strongest possibility that both sec tions of the Ruhr pocket will be li- quidated today
 Already 146,349 German prisoners have been counted from the Ruhr with hundreds more filling to prison cages from the great industrial re- zion.
 Assault On Bremen
 British troops opened their assault on Brennan, and moved within 21s miles of that port, while Third Army beseiged the big Saxony center of Chemnitz from about the same dis tance and the U. s. First Army frightened its grip on Leipzig, clear ed the northern third of Halle and fought to within miles of Dessau, 52 miles southwest of Berlin.
 100000 Nazis Pocketed
 Canadian and Polish troops reach ed the North Sea within five miles of Emden, pocketing perhaps 200,- 900 Germans.
 The U. S. First and Ninth Armies formed another trap in the Harz Mountains, on $50 mile front, while Berlin reports said Third Army troops are 75 miles or so from the Russian lines. and juncture is imminent.
 A German communique said Am erican troops had broken into west
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16
The W ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON
ct. Col. Robert S. Allen now on activs
 service with the Army.s

ct. Col Robert s. Allen now on active
 service with the Army.s
 WASHINGTON - Harry Truman will be known as the man who didn't want to be President.
 Unassuming, modest. in love with his jo as Senator from Missouri, Harry never wanted to be Vice. President in the first place. And after he was elected, he dreaded the thought that anything might happen to President Roosevelt. once, during the campaign, he awoke in a cold sweat. He had dreamed that Roosevelt had died and he was called upon to assume his mantle. Harry said he never had such a terrible dream before in all his life.
 Truman had arrived in Speaker Sam Rayburn's office to discuss that same awesome possibility when the call came to hurry to the White House.
 On Wednesday, the night before, Speaker Rayburn had had a pre- monition of things to come. Dining with friends, Rayburn said:
 This country is in for a great tragedy, and I feel it's coming very soon. I don't think the President will be with us much longer
 Rayburn's listeners were shocked. When they asked the Speaker for an explanation, he replied:
 "Roosevelt's not a well man."
 Refusing to be more specific, he
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16
Germany Bisected In Final Driue On Be
Body of Roosevelt in Final Resting Place in
 Native Soil, Hyde Park
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL Associated PrusS Correspondent

| thooONAatCu ANaSo 0YAAkoPOAA0SAAO
 HYDE PARK, N. Y., April 16-As President Harry s. Truman looked on with a face frozen in grief Franklin Delano Roosevelt was yes terday committed to the warn brown earth on his native soi under a cloudless spring sky.
 The body of the late Chiei Executive was lowered solemnly into the grave in the flower garden of his family estate.
 Waiting, with strained faces, were members of the family, dignitaries of the Government, and little sad faced groups of the plain people employees on the place, neighbors from the countryside.
 A detail of grey-clad cadets from West Point fired volley of three farewell salutes.
 A bugler played taps, it's sweet but still notes echoing through the wooded estate.
 Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, who held the American flag over the casket, folded it and handed it to Mrs. Roosevelt.
 A few feet to the rear, President Truman stood with dim eyes and lowered head
 There was hush-then in that moment of supreme grief, he squared his shoulders as if to as- sume completely and finally the enormous burden left by the death lof MT. Roosevelt.
 Franklin D. Roosevelt had left a task unfinished but had blazed for his successor, paths he be- lieved would lead most surely to "a swift victory at arms and to world peace and plenty. Where Body Lies The garden where Mir. Roosevelt rests, lies between the family home where he was born 63 years ago and the library which houses his state papers, the gift to the world which recognized him as one of the preeminent leaders.
 The body had been brought here Saturday night from Washington. where the state funeral was held Saturday afternoon in the East Room of the White House.
 Cabinet members, Supreme Court members, representatives of other lands, members of the Senate and House and other high officials in public life, accompanied the body to this place.
 The body was removed from the special train along the side of the shimmering Hudson River, just be- low the hills which sweep up to the estate.
 The Casket was placed on a caisson and driven slowly along between lines of men in uniform standing stiffly alert in honor of their late Commander In- Chief. Behind the caisson, Negro caval-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16
By MAX HILL

WASHINGTON. April 16.-Why will you be asked to buy more bonds in the seventh war loan than you have bought in any previous drive?
 You have right to an answer. It's your money.
 Officials of the Treasury's War Finance Division talk about the Seventh war loan in these terms;
 The cost of the war is not declin- ing. In January and February, war expenditures were actually higher
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16
Campaign Of 7fh War
 Bond Loan Drive 10 Layi
 from May "A flo June 30

than in the same two months year ago.
 The income of the people remains at dizzy level
 Goods available for civilians are getting scarcer. That puts more loose money in peoples pockets. The more of this sort of money there is, the harder it is to control prices and keep imitation within bounds.
 That doesn't mean we are to buy
 (COnfinned on pn0e Fi1,e)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16
EsTETH IN JUNEAU

Howard Esteth, of Anchorage, is in Juneau and a guest at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16
JOSEPHINE LYNN HERE

Josephine Lynn, of Whitehorse, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel while in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16
FIsHBEIN VISITS JUNEAU

l Julius Fishbein, of New York City, is guest at the Gastineau Hotel during his stay in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16
MAY IN JUNEAU

A. R. May, of Hood Bay, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16
400 5UpER5 MAKE RAID
 ON TOKYO
Bombs Are Dropped : Saturdays
 Fires Sill Burning

BULLETIN-W WASHINGTON, April 16-The Twentieth Air Force reports that II Super forts are missing in the latest Tokyo raid, but some of them may turn up later. This repre- sents the highest loss of Supers in any attack, but the size of the force, presumably up to 400 Forts, made the percent age loss low.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16
MACKENZIE, WIFE HERE

MT. and Mrs. J. F. Mackenzie, of Petersburg. are guests at the Gastineau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16

GUAM, April 16-Another 400 Superforts rained incendiaries early this morning on Tokyo, which was still burning from last Saturdays fire in which 10 and three quarter square miles were burned out. Re- connaissance photographs showed 296, 100000 square feet of Tokyo's arsenal area was burned out Sat- urday, bringing to 271a square miles the area devastated by incendiary raids on Tokyo since March TO-
 Saturdays fires swept over twice the target area, including the prized Itabashi Arsenal, the Japa- nese conmunique conceded.
 Today's raid started consider able number of fires" the Tokyo radio admitted, and some of them burned for seven hours.
 The Tokyo communique claimed, without confirmation, that 55 Supers were shot down and 50 damaged
 The Kawasaki industrial suburbs, adjoining Tokyo on the south, was the second target to be raided. Kawasaki is the ninth largest city in Japan. Pilots returning from to- days holocaust said fires were still visible for a distance of 150 miles.
 The section hit extends in a 25-niile strip along the Tokyo Bay and contains railroads, power and communication systems.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16
SIT. MARTIN HERE

John St. Martin, of Skagway, i a guest. at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16

(Continued on Page Three,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16

tContinued on Page Eight)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16

tContinned on Page Thvee)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16

tconsinued or Page Four'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-16

tconttnued on Page Fipe)
Laurel outlook., 1945-03-14
Auxiliary Stages Party
To Celebrate LegiOn's
Twenty-sixth Birthday

The American Legion Auxiliary
was hostess Sunday evening at a
dinner and birthday party in honor
of the Legion's twenty-sixth birth
day. The event vas at the l.. L.
club.
At the after-dinner program, Mrs.
R. B. Packard, president of the
Auxiliary, presided. She introduc-
Norwood Shay, vice commander of
post No. 1913, who responded in the
absence of Commander Baird. Fred
Graft acted as the posts spokesman.
E. l.. Fenton recalled certain mat
ters in his life connected with the
Civil war, and Mrs. Albertus sang.
Her accompanist was Mrs. S. S.
Bliss.
Others introduced, som of whom
spoke, were Mr.. and Mrs. Homer
Anderson of Columbus; Mrs. Hilmer
Wage, first vice president of the
Laurel Auxiliary; Mrs. Helen
Jacobs, district secretary; Miss Fran
els Fenton, district president; Mrs.
o. R. Burdett, past state president
vi GHc NGIcIdlLS VI OIclSH w dis
Auxiliary; o. R. Burdett, who spoke
briefly concerning the capture of
Manila in 1898. He participated as
a member of U. S. forces. The
father of the present General Mac
Arthur was then commander
A quartet composed of Mrs. AL
burtus, Mrs. A. w. Richardson, R.
B. Packard and S. S. Bliss, sang.
District Commander Hilmer Wage
and District Adjutant Packard were
introduced. State Vice Commander
Charles Rodgers of Billings spoke at
some length.
The evening closed with Mr.. and
Mrs. Anderson of Columbus exhibit
ing motion pictures.
The huge birthday cake appear
ing at the head of the table at the
dinner was prepared by Mrs. Jake
Kautz.
Laurel outlook., 1945-03-14
The Outlook SAYS:

Miss Lorraine Staiger, who has
spent the last four weeks with her
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Staiger, left Wednesday to enter
the University of Southern Califor-
mia at Berkeley.
Mrs. John F. Fisher returned
Monday from the Deaconess hospit-
al in Billings. Her infant son,
Marvin Francis who was born
March 2, remained at the hospital
for special care.
Mr.. and Mrs. Neal Shay were
hosts to the Young Peoples class
of the Methodist church at their
home Tuesday. The evenings les
son on the Psalms was in charge of
Mrs. M. j. Wilcox. Plans were
made for the annual Easter break
fast at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. T. Johnson. Next Tuesdays
meeting will be with Miss Ella
Rothwell at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. B. DeAtley.
Mrs. Gordon Fish and children,
Gary Gene and Carlin Rae, arrived
from their home in Beach, N. D., to
spend several weeks with Nh. and
Mrs. Carl J. Fish. Gordon Fish,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fish, is field
musician with the marines in the
South Pacific. Before returning
to Beach, Mrs. Fish and children
will visit friends in Livingston,
which was their home before Nh.
Fish entered the service.
Of general interest is an item
appearing in a Nebraska paper con-
corning relatives of Mrs. Jennie
Love who were recently released
from an interment camp in Manila.
The item, published in the Wesley
News of the University at Lin
coin states that Mr.. and Mrs. J.. C.
Moore had received a telegram ad-
them that their son, Rev. J.
w. Moore, a missionary in Manila,
his wife and three children had been
freed and will be allowed to return
The Moores r cousins of
Mrs. Love. No word had been re-
ceived from the family in the last
two years.
Ray Spaulding, husband of the
former Cleo Whitman, is reported
missing in a bombing mission over
Germany, Mrs. j. d. Bennett learn
ed from telephoning his parents at
Joliet to confirm news she had
heard.
Miss Neoma Thorne, who had
visited here for several weeks with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. E.
Thorne, left Wednesday for Fort
Wash, where she will be a
second lieutenant in the army
nurses corps.
Sgt. Don Scheidecker spent a few
days here this week visiting his
mother, Mrs. Emma j. Scheidecker.
After more than three years in In
dia he is now stationed at Rapids
S. d.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. M. Sexton and
and F. w. Schauer we're
Sunday at the William
Schwab home.
Laurel outlook., 1945-03-14

Mrs. Ray Spaulding of Park City,
formerly of Laurel, was a guest of
friends here Monday. Mrs. Spauld-
ing is the former Miss Cleo Whit
man. She was en- route to Joliet
Laurel outlook., 1945-03-14

to visit relatives of her husband.
Mrs. Dorothy Huston arrived this
week from Seattle, where she is
employed in the drafting depart
ment of an aircraft corporation,
Laurel outlook., 1945-03-14

]. w. Baldwin, proprietor of the
Laurel Trading company, returned
Sunday night from Duluth where he
had attended a meeting of hardware
dealers.
Laurel outlook., 1945-03-14

Mrs. Ivan Lyons has learned that
her nephew, Lieut.. Bill Standen of
Idaho Falls, Ida, vas wounded last
week. He is the pilot of a B-29 at
Siapan.
Laurel outlook., 1945-03-14

and is visiting hr parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. o. M. Void.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
Cleanup Move
Strikes AT Trash
In Pascagoula

Cleanup Week provided mo-
men.um for a Identification and
Improvement move n Pasragou-
IA this week thss members Of the
Civic Council, sponsoring agen-
cy. hope will continue in increas-
ing intensity throughout the suns
mer.
Under the direction Of George
Field. chairman, organizations
and city and county officials
were urged to take an active part
in the campaign
The county Board OF Supervi-
sofs put county laborers and
equipment into d elean-up Of tiis
entire beach front and grass and
weeds were removed as we'll as
other trash and litter. City crews
were sent out early in the week
To clean the sidewalks and city
property and grass flew under
mowers on a number Of private
lawns.
The yard Of the old Central
school building on South Pasca-
goula street was cleaned during
the week. Some painting has
been done and at least one Ole
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29

of Laurel left Thursday after a
visit With his parents Mr.. and
Mrs. r. l. Bradford.
Jackie Desommes, USN. lett
Wednesday after a visit with his
mother, Mrs. R. E. Desommes.
Mr.. ana Mrs. E. J. Masden have
returned from a visit with rel
atives in Louisville. KY, an
points in Illinois and Tennessee.
Meta Runnels, Joy Smith and
LLOYD Lee were guests Of Is
telle Gay at the home of he
grandparents in Gulfport last
week.
Miss Jackie Voivedich is visit
.ng her cousin, Miss Lucia West
brook, in Chicago.
Misses Hazel and Lillian Rus
cell, of New London. Conn, left
Thursday after a visit with their
aunt, Mrs. A. P. Moran.
The WSCS met Tuesday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Il.
Papst with Mrs. Oscar Joachim as
co-hostess.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
Program Honors
Past Presidents
Rotary Club

Past presidents of the Moss
Point Rotary Club were given
special recognition at the meel-
ing of the club Thursday. Dur
ing a program in their honor bout
tonnieres were presented to the
former heads OF the club and
the highlights OF each admins
tration were acknowledged.
L. X. Mcintosh opened the.
program with = brief talk on
the Duties of A Rotary Presi-
dent" in which he outlined the
variety of responsibilities obi
gatory to the executive position
OF the club.
Addressing his remarks TO the
incoming president, Claude Blan-
chard, Mr.. Mcintosh pointed out
that satisfaction in accomplish
ment will be the reward at the
end of a year of hard work"
Basing his Femarks on the min
u.es Of the club since its organ
ization in 1927, Z. A. Khayat,
program chairman, paid tribute
to each president as he outlined
the principal attainments OF each
administration.
Past presidents of the club who
were honored Thursday were c.
B. Barnett, w. C. Stewart, r. p.
Colmer, w. B. Herring, T. L. De
Lashmet, B. d.. Spann, j. f..
Brock, j. F. Colley, ]. w. Thomp-
son. A. l.. Monroe, X. W. Burn
ham, O. j. DeLamotte, E. v. Suth-
off, l.. L. Haye, G. P. Wood. G..
L. Bond. E. w. Wood, and F. G..
Spann, Jr..
Presidents who were not able
to be present were represented
by a friend or relative. DR.. R. C..
Eley represented c. B. Barnett,
Mrs. James Powell represented
her father, the late o. J. Della
motto, and Mrs. G. P. Wood rep
resented her husband, the late
Mr.. Wood.
Frank G.. Spann, outgoing
president of the club, made a few
remarks of gratitude to the
members for their loyal support
during his year in office before
he handed the gavel to the new
president, MI. Blanchard.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-06-29
furlough.

Mrs. w. E. Dorah had as her
guests over the weekend her
brother, Robert Hollingsworth,
Of Somerset, XIV, Mr.. and Mrs
d. A. Hayles, and Mrs. William
Wright and son, of Hattiesburg.
Mrs. Marcus Fiengerro and two
small sons who have been Wis
ting her mother, Mrs. A. d. Da-
wilson. have left for their home
In Memphis, Tenn.
Miss Margaret Brou left Tues
day to visit Miss Lloyd Patton
in Tupelo, Miss.
Walter Ray Massey Jr., cele-
brated his birthday Saturday at
his nome in Forest Hills. His
aunt, Mrs. Charles De Leir, and
cousins, Mailene and Charles, oi
Detroit Mich, were included in
the guest list.
Mrs. Bruce Thomas returned
Tuesday from a visit with friends
in the North.
James r. Leavell of Chicago
has joined Mrs. Leavell for a
brief vacation at their home in
Chenes.
Miss Carolyn Pittman of Lou
lsville, Miss, was the guest OF
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Lovelace Tues
day and Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Cravannes of
Knoxville, Tenn. were guests
last week of Mr.. and Mrs. G. c.
Gardner.
F. Z. Schmidt and grandson
left Tuesday for a visit in Sara
sofa, Fla.
Mrs. L. NJ. Mcclure and guests,
Mrs. L. A. Lundy and Mrs. j. IA.
vallee left Sunday for New Or
leans.
Miss Jessie Boyd and Miss Eth
el Rice have returned from a visit
with relatives in Jackson, Miss.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Lloyd have
returned home from a visit with
relatives in Iowa.
Ernest Harris and daughter.
Mrs. George Young, Jr., of New
Rochelle, N. Y, are house guests
of the George Youngs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cns rles Mosley
of New Orleans arrived last
week to spend the summer in
their cottage on Beauregard ave-
nue.
Sgt. and Mrs. Irwin Bradford