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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
;Kiips, Planes Bonobard Approaches to Japan
Families of Coast Cuardsmen Ordered
 To Leave Territory

SEATTLE, March 29.-Alaska Territorial Senator Don Carlos Brownell said in an interview here, the Coast Guard has ordered fam lilies of all married enlisted Coast Guardsmen in Alaska to leave the Territory. Brownell added that he has sent Gov Ernest Gruening a note of protest.
 The Alaska Senator said there were dozen Coast Guardsmen on the ship that brought him south to Seattle who had defied the or der and were being transferred.
 The Coast Guard Office here re- fused to make any comment saying such action is under the supervision of the Seventeenth District Head quarters at Ketchikan.
 It is understood here that the mat ter is being handled directly and entirely by the District Coast Guard Headquarters at Ketchikan. It. Warren M. Caro, Captain of the Port here, declared that he has so far re- ceived no communication from Ketchikan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
I5LAND50F RYUkYUARE
 pLA5TERED
Both Sea and Carrier Raids Carried Out = Nimitz
 Keeps Plans Secret
By MORRIE LANDSBERG (Bu Associated PreSS)

GUAM. March 29-Big American Eattleships blazed away in the eighth confirmed bombardment of the Ryukyu approaches to Japan Wednesday, while sky-dominating carrier planes plastered island de- lenses for the eleventh day of fiery action, since they tore into the enemy homeland on March IS, the Navy announces.
 Headquarters are still silent re- garding the continuing enemy broadcasts that American forces rave been on some of the Ryukyu Islands since Sunday.
 Extensive Smelling
 Admiral Nimitz, who reported pattleships were shelling the Ryu- kyus from Friday through Wednes- day, along with continuous carrier raids, disclosed that carrier planes destroyed 38 enemy planes. and damaged 19 or more ships, includ- Ing three warships.
 Sub Pens Smashed
 Admiral Nimitz said planes had oowned 25 Nipponese planes and sSdestfoyed 13 more on the rround in the three-day period covering Sun
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
OF NAzI SHIPS
 IN MUTINY
Refuse to Obey Orders to ScuttIe VesseIs-6es-
 tdpo Gets Busy

LONDON, March 29-The Mos COW radio today said in a German language broadcast, the crew of the German aircraft carrier Graf Zep- pelin mutinied at an unnamed Baltic port against scuttling or ders. The Gestapo seized the crew Of the ship and took them to Kiel
 The broadcast added that Grand Admiral Doenitz Chief of the Ger man Navy, has issued orders to crews of all German warships in Baltic ports to scuttle their ships if they could not safely remove them"
 Moscow reports said mutinies have occurred at other Baltic ports captured by the Russians as crews refused to scuttle their ships.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
NAzl PRISON
 CAMP ORDEAL IS REVEALED
German Soldiers Get Meal of Potatoes, Allied
 Prisoners Feelings
NAZI PRISON Q ETAOIN HRDL

NAZI PRlSON v EIAOlN nhOL
 HEPPENHEIM, Germany, March 29-Eleven hundred en.aciated pris- oners, including 290 wounded Am ericans, so badly treated by their Nazi captors they had lost an average of 35 pounds weight, have oeen freed from German prison camp.
 The prisoners were released when the United States Seventh Army infantry captured this town today.
 The pathetically happy liberated men related how they had been objected to filthy conditions and fed a slow starvation diet which made it virtually impossible for the wounded to recover and caused some prisoners to lose as much as one hundred pounds of weight.
 An American lieutenant, who with major did all the surgical work among the American prison CTS, said the average daily diet was about TOO calories In contrast to the $500 to 4,000 calories allot- nent for wounded men in Ameri- can military hospitals.
 The lieutenant declared that re- peated protests to the German commandant were met with the reply that Nazis just couldn't get any more food themselves.
 In the meantime, the Lieuten ant added, the Germans were fed po- tatoes and the prisoners were fed .hin soup made of the peclings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29

 OPTIMISTIC

LONDON, March 29. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill asserted today, "The hour of suc- cess is near in the European war.
 Churchill's prediction came out in letter endorsing Ronald Munro, Liberal candidate for the House of Commons in special election to fill vacancy.
 "The endurance of the British people and the steadfast devotion of our fighting services has at last brought us near the hour of suc- cess" Churchill wrote.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
''BIG RED" HITS
 2STH BIRTHDAY

LEXINGTON. Ky, March 29 = Ioday's an occasion in the rolling Blue Grass country, already tinted by the natural magic of Spring time.
 That grand old man" Man O War, most famous horse in all Am ,erican turf history. today reaches the 28th milestone of his now plu- tocratic life, Big Red The greatest boss of them all" is now in com plete retirement at Samuel D, Riddles Faraway Farm, near here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
CASUALTIES
 ON INCREASE

WASHINGTON, D. C., March 29 American combat casualties re- rorted since Pearl Harbor have neared the 900O,OOO mark.
 The Army sets it's losses at 80,000 end the latest Navy report declares a loss of 92,000.
 Total figure Of 872,0O0 casualties shows an increase of 13,000 over last weeks figures.
 Reported dead from the Army are 153,000, from the Navy, 35,000
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
The W Washington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON UA. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.A

WASHINGTON = In a highly secret session before the Senate Military Affairs Committee last Thursday, Gen. George Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, refused to guess when the end of the war with Germany will come. According to all logic, he said, the German resistance should be at an end now, but there is no sign that the army is collapsing. The Gestapo still re- tains its hold of terror on Germany
 Marshall pointed out that Ger man gasoline stocks are practically cried up, and that the Nazis do not lave enough fuel to move their supplies, let alone their armored 'ehicles and artillery. On the other hand, he said, their supply problem is far simpler than ours because they are fighting at home. Their repair and replacement job fol tanks and other vehicles is also comparatively simple. When Allied armor is knocked out, it means that it is lost if the damage is too much for the field repair bases, while g Nazi tank which has suffered fal more serious damage can be taker right into a tank factory not SC many miles from where it was hit This is a tremendous advantage he said.
 The Chief of Staff also told tht Senators that it is a mistake tt figure that the Japs will fold III quickly once Germany is out of tht war. Although it's losses have beer heavy, Japan still shas a formidable army and vast stores of supplies He would not estimate the lengtf of time needed to defeat the Islane Empire. But insisted it would b, extremely tough going.
 Marshall said nothing during thi session about his plan to take ove, ss supreme commander in the Pa cific once Germany falls, but mem bers of the committee now talk,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
Nearing Frontier


 LONDON, March 29-The Red Army, lancing through the shat tered defenses of Bratislava Gap in to the Danube Valley, reached l,laces along the Austrian frontier 1t is reported by Moscow.
 Big Stalin tanks and armored cars of Marshal Tolbukh'n's Third Ukrainian Army. smashing ahead rom captured Csorna hammered defenses of Pamhagen, 39 miles southeast of Vienna, St. Johann on the frontier to the northeast and Moson. near the Danube, 2, miles southeast of Bratislava.
 A German communique an- nounced withdrawal north of the Danube to Nitra River. ahead of a 25 mile advance by the Russians iom the broken Hrcu River Line
 Push Tn Slovakia
 This push in Slovakia, dovetail- irg with the assault below the great liver in southeastern Europe, has apparently placed the Russians close to the city of Nitra. 40 miles cast of Bratislava. capital of the uppet government of Sloyakia anc possibly as close as thirty miles te the border of Moray'a.
 There is no word of a coordi- mated offensive by Marshal Kone, from Silesia toward Vienna anc Prague from the northeast but the Russians are heavily bombing Maehrisch and Ostrau in the Mo- ravian Gap, in their approach from that direction.
 ToehoId Evacuated
 In the north, the Germans an. nounced evacuation of Kahlhols Cape, last toehold on the EasI Prussian mainland except Nortf Koenigsberg. Reports caid they hae withdrawn to Frische Hehrung, { narrow sandspit extending iron Danzig. almost to Koenigsberg between the sea and Frisches La goon.
 Russian forces have reached tn center of Danzig, which was lief alone by the fall of the riva Polish port of Gdynia nearby, an, Germans are giving up in larg numbers in the city's main streets
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29

WASHINGTON, March 29-Loss of a tank landing ship and a large support landing craft m the Philip rines by enemy action has been an- nounced by the Navy.
 The support landing craft type normally carries a crew of 50 men snd the LST type 9 normal crew of 65 to 75 men. No announcement was made of the total casualties in the loss of these two ships.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
ATTA(k50F
 NAzIS ARE
 BEATEN OFF

ROME, March 28.-German at tacks on the Eighth Army positions near Cotignola, six miles north of the Bologna-Rim Highway strong hold Faenza, were repulsed yesterday as the rest of the Italian front re- mained relatively quiet.
 Rain restricted visibility on the Fifth Army front to the southwest.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
GI0vANETTI
 ARRAIGNED
 HERE TODAY
Two Sentenced This After. noon in Federal Dis
 trict Court

Charged with l5 counts of alleged Notifications of records and one count of fraudulently converting Postal funds to his own use, Edward J. Giovanetti, Juneau man formerly employed in the Post Office here, was this afternoon arraigned in U. s. District Court.
 Next Monday at 2 o'clock in the afternoon was set as time for him to plead. Represented by Attorney M. E. Monagle, the defendant waiv- ed reading of the lengthy indictment returned against him by the Grand Jury. The indictment against Gio- vanetti was one of four secret" indictments brought in.
 Giovanetti was brought here from Ketchikan by Deputy Marshal James Nolan, of Wrangell. Bond was to be set by the court later this afternoon.
 Also arriving here in custody of Deputy Marshal Nolan and arraign- ed this afternoon was. Kelso B.. Hardness. He is charged with al legged forgery and was served with a warrant in Tacoma, Washington. His pleading time was also set for 9 o'clock Monday afternoon, after he had waived the reading of the indictment and indicated that he would engage an attorney immed- lately
 Two guilty pleas were heard to- day: Frank Douville admitted to a charge of receiving stolen property "a rifle. After it had been estab- lished that he had been held here in Federal Jail for approximately six months already, Judge George F. Alexander sentenced the prisoner to the time he has already been held and ordered him released next Mon- day. The prisoner was represented by Attorney Howard D. Stabler, who had been appointed to his defense by the court.
 Just arrived in Juneau today on the steamer North Sea, a fourth defendant in the M. s. Northland whiskey-stealing affair, Sydney Samuel Balcom entered a guilty plea to charge of knowingly buy ing and receiving interstate cargo stolen from a vessel" He was fined $50.
 Sandy Johnson. Skagway HatlVe youth, charged with alleged rape, plead not guilty. Attorney M. E. Monagle has been appointed by the Court to conduct his defense Time for pleading was set over until next Monday in the cases of Charles Axson, charged with elleged murder in the first degree, and Dan White, charged with al- ieged embezzlement. The court named attorney William Paul, Jr. to ,te defense of White, after the de- lfendant declared he had been un- sble to secure the services of a lawyer.
 R. E. Robertson, appointed as counsel for Axson, requested the Court to name an interpreter who would be in privileged" position with regard to any condolences rom the defendant. MT. Robertson pointed out that Axscn is not. only deaf but is unable to speak much English-and T can't talk Thlin- Iget," he remarked, Judge Alexan- ider took the matter under advise inent.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
Baby BoyBorn
 To Sobo!effs

A baby boy was born to the Rev. and Mrs. Walter Soboleff in the Government Hospital yesterday morning at 1:30 o'clock. Weight of the infant was g pounds, ? ounces. He joins an older sister, Janet. The father is pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian Church.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, March 29. - Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6A, American Can 915s, Anaconda 31A, Bethlehem Steel 71A, Curtiss-W Wright 5a4, In- ternational Harvester 76, Kennecott 37, New York Central 22la, Northern Pacific 21%, U. S. Steel 62B.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials, 15406; rails, 5056; utilities, 27.48.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
|nQvdId Vdrness
 Is Now Engaged

The engagement Of Miss Betty Thorson and Seaman. ingvald Var ress, USCG, was recently an- II ounced in Everett, Wash. Miss Thorson is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. c. M. Thorson, 1906 Oakes Ave, Everett, Wash.
 Seaman Ingvald Varness, son of Mrs. J. T. Holm. of Seattle. is a Juneau High School graduate.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
WIDE BREACH, NEAR LINES

WIDE DhEACn, NEAh LlNCS
 PARIS. March 29--The United States First Army today wheeled forth in a 4O-mile burst of speed Hand threatened to cut off the Ruhr.
 It advanced to the area of Lang wiesse, only 48 miles southeast of Hamm, eastern exit of the indus trial basin and reached Frankcn- berg, southeast of Langwiesse. 200 miles southwest of Berlin.
 All over the front, the American Iard British troops raced through wide breaks in the German lines.
 North of the Ruhr the armies are menacing Hannovers over 40 miles west of Berlin.
 The First Army's surge placed it within 78 miles of Muenster, also menaced by the forces north of the Ruhr.
 News BIackout The Third Army is also advanc- ing along the southeastern flank of the First Army, Dui most of the q ont is under a news blackout which prevents full disclosure oi the whereabouts of the probing columns of armored tank riding ,n- fantry
 General Hodges lifted the veil on lis First Army to permit disclos- ure of his northward swing after a thirty-six hour silence. but even then, outrun communications pre- vented the announcement of the full extent of his penetration to the north.
 20 Mile Advance
 It is known the British Second Army made twenty mile advance. while the U. & Ninth Army. fight ing along and into the northern fringe of the Ruhr, made another six mile advance along Hitler's broad highways, tearing up only occasional enemy pockets of resist snce.
 Haltern, twenty miles northwest of Dortmund ard thirty five miles vest of Hamm. the largest freighs yard in Germany, was captured by the Ninth Army. while Duisburg in the Ruhr ran up the white flag.
 Attacks at Frankfurt All of the city of Frankfurt-on- Main, except the northern outskirts has been captured by the Third Army, whose advance troops are operating in echclon formations.
 First Army troops moved east ward within 2l4 miles Of Berlin as Hamborn. Weisbaden, Hanau, Aschafffenburg and the northern half of Mannheim fell to General Fisenhower's victory -lI..shed armies fighting up to l45 miles deep into Germany.
 Three Towns Threatened
 The full extent of advances in Westphalia is hidden by security blackout, but AP correspondent, Ned Nordness, said Muenster, Osna- brueck and Hanover were all threatened by sweeping gains. 1 Outlanking the Ruhr to the north, the Seventh Army is fighting thirty eight miles east of the Rhine on a solid front The Third and First Armies have virtually en- circled the last defenders of Marn- helm by crossing the Neckar River lnear Mannheim.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
FRED CAMPEN RETURNS

Fred Campen, wellknown rancher on the Loop Road returned on the North Sea after on absence of sey- { ral weeks in the south.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
ARMIES IN BIG BURST
 OF SPEED
Ruhr Valley Nearly Cut Off -Deep Penetration
 in Germany

BULLETIN = PARIS, March 29-The United Ststes First Army has wheeled north in a 40-mile burst of speed and came to within 68 miles nf cutting off the Ruhr. The Third Army raced to within 199 miles of Berlin and has made the deep est penetration of Germany, only 125 miles from the western tip of Czechoslovakia. The Third Army advanced within 24O miles of the Russian lines along the Niesse. southeast of Berlin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
FROM PETERSBURG

Chris Dahl, of Petersburg, has arrived in Juneau and is guest at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
FROM sITKA

Larry Parsons. Robert Eide, Johnny Anselm. all of Sitka, are lat the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
CONRAD HERE

T. Conrad, of Seattle, is staying
 at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29
REDF0RCE5 AT BORDER
 OF AUSTRIA
StaIin Also Announces Re- sistanCe Over AIonq
 Baltic Coast

BULLETIN-LONDON March 29-The Red Army breaking through the German fortified zone of northwestern Hungary in surge up the Danube Valley, has reached the Sus- trian border, Stalir announced tonight. The border was reached at Koszeg, 42 miles south of Vienna and 20 miles west of Sarvar, captured yesterday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-29

BULLETIN-LONDON, March 29-Stalin announced toni gn t complete liquidation of German resistance along the Baltic Coast southwest of Koenigsbere, in a second order of the day and also said 80,00O Germans were killed and 5O.000 have been taken prisoners in the East Prussian cleanup.
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Detroit evening times., 1945-12-06
4 Thieves
Sentenced
U. s Army photo

-Four of five youths, all under
20. today were under Jail sem
tenceS imposed by Recorders
Judge John p Scallcn, after they
were convicted in four theftS.
Harold Shapiro, 10, of 2566 Les
lie, convicted Of robbing Is homes,
was sentenced TO from two and a
half to five years in jackson
Prison An admitted partner in
crime, Leo Hoffman, Il, of 1898
Sturteyant, was placed on three
years probation
Leroy Hubbard. II. of POOP
Chcne, was sentenced TO six
months to five years in jackson
after he admitted breaking and
entering the office of DR.. OSsian
Sweet 100 Chene.
Charles WoOdall, 10. of 9l22
Dryden, received a sentence Of
three TO 10 years for robbing a
Donald Eccleton, II, of 25337
Eureka, Flat Rock. one of a gang
which stole safe containing cash
and checks worth $1,000. pleaded
guilty and drew one TO Is years
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-06
Iran Troops Barred

TEHRAN, Dec. 5 (UP)-RuSSia
has refused another request by
Iran 10 permit Iranian troops TO
move into the rebellious AZerbai-
Jan province, it was disclosed
TODAY.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-06
Kenny Donations
To Help Detroit

Billy Baxter, Michigan admin
iStrator for the Sister Kenny
Foundation. said today that $3.50
600 OF the national Kenny fund
would be used 10 create a mobile
unit which. in the event Of an epi-
demic Of infantile paralysis, would
be rushed here to remove victims
10 the nearest Kenny hospital.
Half of the $35OOOO to be
raised in Wayne County will be
-USrd TO tram teChniCianS in The
Kenny method OF treatment BaN-
ter added, and TO establish clinics.
Donations can be mailed 10 Kenny
headquarters. Cannon Memorial,
Washington Blvd. at Michigan.
Bing Crosby. national chairman
OF the Sister Kenny campaign. is
deyoting his last broadcast of the
year to special program of
Christmas carols over the Mutual
Network al s o'clock tonight.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-06
Strike Vote Tomorrow

A strike vote under the Smith
Connally Act will be taken to-
morrow by 200 employees Of
Precision Spring Corp, who are
asking a 30 per cent wage in
crease.
Detroit evening times., 1945-12-06

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The Detroit Times delivered tn
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The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-07-28
BenDauis Wants
To Create Negro
State In South

NEW YORK-Benjamin J. Davis
Jr.. Negro councilman Of New YORK
and an Official Of the Communist
party, is allegedly backing a plan
to create a separate Negro state in
the South. according to q story in
the New York Times Tuesday.
The story quotes from an article
written by Mr.. Davis in the Sunday
issue Of the Daily Worker in which
Mr.. Davis announced . change in
the line of the Communist party
on the Negro problem.
Commenting on the New York
Times story regarding the Negro
state. Walter White Of the NAACP
told newsmen that II am against
segregation in any form. voluntary
or involuntary"
Councilman Davis has also be-
come the central figure in the fight
between Republicans and Demo.
Gratis in the city election.
Tammany Hall Democrats NOM
mated Mr.. Davis for reelection to
the Council and opened full scale
offensive against the action OF the
Tammany bosses. The Republicans
hope 10 split the Democratic vote
in New York over the issue OF
communism.
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-07-28
WINDSOR man
BLASTS B0B-LO
BOAT POLICIES

The discrimination policies OF the
Bob-Lo Island Boat company were
hit another blow last week when
Alderman Herman J. Bradley OF
Windsor suggested that the Fed
eral government should break the
Bob-Lo Island lease OF the Detroit
Windsor Ferry company.
According to reports, Mr. 0 'ad-
lev said, colored children Of
windsor taxpayers had been
stopped from boarding steamers
20 the island.
HE URGED the council 10 pro-
test the action OF the American
company, operating the Canadian
island on a Federal lease. in bar
ring the island to colored children
on a recent day set aside for Ca
madam children.
Mayor Arthur J Reaume asked
Mr.. Bradley IL he was in possession
OF the full facts. Mr.. Bradley said
that he knew only what he had
read in the newspapers and that
ne felt that the city council did
not want any racial discrimination.
During his absence on vacation,
Comptroller Gordon B. Ellis said
he had read OF the affair in an
outside newspaper. He was con-
cerned as TO whether Windsor po-
lice were being used 10 carry out
the wishes OF the ferry company.
II so, he felt the council should
- See BOAT, Page
The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1945-07-28
VIII TIE APPEALS mAHER RULING
Johnson Freed On $1,000 Bond
Negro Soldiers
At dwelling Of
Pyle Monument
By CHARLES II. LOEB
(NNPA War Correspo nd ent)

IE SHlMA, RYUKYU IS
LANDS-Thirty enlisted men
from Negro Quartermaster
company were among he sad
eyed GIS who watched the I'M
yelling by the nth Infantry d.
vision Of its monument 10 Ernie
Pyle. the Hoosier war corre-
spondent who was killed here
by a sniper's bullet during the
battle for this small island on
April u
The monument stands on the
exact spot where Ernie fell on lie
Shima, and replaces a painted
board sign that previously
marked the spot.
Pyle. whose intimate stories OF
plain CT Joes endeared him 10
soldiers of all races, was cut
down by a sniper while riding
with a regimental commander.
en- route to q forward observa-
-. .& ~ 4. a a a. ,S.ln