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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
Perpetual Basis For Fishing in
 AIaska k Urged

SEATTLE. Aug. 1--vernon H Mund. University of Washington professor who visited Alaska for the War Labor Boafd. says length ening of the Alaska Salmon fishing season would be a boon to the Territory. He added that Alaska Fishermen desire better houseing facilities. higher prices for catches and increased hourly wages. Main labor problem in the Terri tory, Mund said, is the seasonal character of work A perpetual basis for fishing should be estab- lished, he said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
The Washingt ion Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON It. Col Robert 8. Allen nov On active service with the ArtnyJ

4 q WASHINGTON-This column has sometimes reported the weird &C., tivities of the dilettante detectives from Wall Street who warm chairs in, Gen. Bill Donovarl's office of Strategic Service (oh so secret) In contrast we have praised the heroic work of young oSS officers who risked their lives abroad. Here is one example of. OSS bravery which now can be revealed.
 Shortly before the Nazis invaded Hungary more than a year ago. a peace fee}er reached the Allies from the Hungarian General Staff. It was evident that certain Hun garian Army. leaders wanted to make deal with the Allies rather than be engulfed by the Nazis.
 So three American O6S officers parachuted into Hungary to talk peace. They were: Col. Florimond Duke, former advertising manager of Time Magazine. 50 years old, and who never before had made a parachute jump; Maj. Albert Suarez of Peoria, H., and It. Guy Nunn of Los Angeles.
 They contacted the Hungarian General Staff, but it was too late The Nazis were just outside Buda- pest; two days later they took over the city.
 The three OSS men were taken prisoner, shipped to the nearest
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
Japs Screen Bomb Targeis with
 Allied Prisoners

WASHINGON, Aug. 1.-Convin ced that Japan still screens bomb targets with Allied prisoners. the State Department today awaited con- firmation of Tokyo radio report
 that Americans died in the bombing of Kawasaki July 26.
 The Department disclosed last night that it had requested verifica- ton by the Swiss government and International Red Cross. In an &C., companying statement, it denounced the persistent and methodical prac- tice of the Japanese government in locating prisoners of war in camps in areas subject to bombardment."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
ADM.LEAHY
 TO DEFENSE
 OF .pETAIN
Letter of U. 5. Chief of Staff Read dt Marshdl's
 Trial in Paris

PARIS, Aug. 1-Adm. William Leahy, Chief of Staff to President Truman, expressed the belief that Marshal Petain always. acted in the best interests of France in a letter read today at the treason trial of the old soldier.
 As read in court, the letter of Leahy, who is attending the Big Three" Conference at Potsdam, ex- pressed high regard" for Petain and said that he was unable to ap- pear as a witness because of his position. He had been U. s. Ann bassador to the vichy Regime of Marshal Petain until the Germans took over the unoccupied portions of France in November, 1922, when North Africa was invaded
 The old soldiers counsel said also that Pierre Laval, described yes- terday as Petain's evil genius. would be summoned as a witness.
 As Gen. Maxine Weygand re- turned for further cross examina- ton, bearded Prosecutor Andre Mornet demanded that i've re- turn to the essential facts of the Petain trial" and avoided repeti- ton of yesterdays session when Weygand, Petain and Former Pre- mier Paul Reynaud engaged in bitter recriminations.
 Attorneys for Petain, charged with intelligence with Germany and plotting against France, con tended that laval was responsible for the .yichy Regimes policy of collaboration with the Germans and hope that his testimony will save the aged marshal from a death sentence.
 The prosecution, on the other hand, has been m aintaini ng throughout the eight days of the trial that Petain worked hand and glove, with Laval. his No. l man and Chief of Government, in col Liberation with the Nazis.
 News that the swarthy, long fugitive Laval had arrived in Aus tria from Spain and surrendered was communicated to, court offi- cials and attorneys yesterday after noon by the Associated Press and it sent most of them scurrying off for hurried consultations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
To Greet Party

Lew M. Williams, Secretary of Alaska, and It. Warren M. Caro, USCGR, Naval Aide to Gov. Ernest .Gruening, were to leave Juneau this forenoon aboard Coast Guard vessel. bound for Prince Rupert, B. O., where they are to greet members of two Congressional Committees now enroute to Alaska
 Gov. Gruening flew to Seattle last week end to join the Con- gressional groups there. He will re- turn north with them
 The combined party, which is accompanied by several other Fed eral officials, is to arrive at Prince Rupert by Canadian National steamer. It will there board U, 8 Army vessel for transportation to Juneau, with stops scheduled at Ketchikan, Metlakatla, Wrangell Petersburg and Rake, enroute.
 The party is to arrive at Ket- .chikan Friday evening.
 According to advices received here today, Rep. James P. Geclan tD-Conn), member of the House Territories. Committee. is not .to make tho Alaska trip. as previously announced.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
1,546 SHIPS OF JAPANESE
 ARE WRE(kS
Thirteen Hundred Planes Wrecked or Damaged
 -Just Beginning
By Morrie Landsberg tAssociate Press War Corresponden'

i Associated Press War CorrespondenO
 GUAM, Aug. 1--Combined carrier and land-based plane attacks cost Japan by conservative, official accounts, at least 1,546 ships and small craft sunk or damaged hl her home waters in July, and more than 1900 of her warplanes de- stroyed or wrecked-but that is just a beginning.
 Adm. Halsey's Third Fleet carrier planes, including some 25o British aircraft, alone destroyed or dam aged 1,035 Japanese ships and small craft in 21 days of almost ceaseless assaults with torpedoes, bombs, rockets and 50 caliber bull lets. They accounted for l,278 air craft, most of which were caught on the ground.
 Halsey's force reduced remnants of the Japanese fleet to a shambles -99 warships sunk or heavily dam aged, including three disclosed to- day.
 Land-based aircraft in Admiral Nimitz' command sank another 85 vessels, mostly freighters and cargo ships, and damaged 176 and de- stroyed or damaged B Japanese planes, an Associated Press tabula- tion of his communiques showed The Far East Air Forces i'm nobilized 25o Japanese ships or small craft totaling 260,0O0 tons after they began operating from Ckinawa bases early in July, Gen. MacArthurs, communique said to- day. a
 The totals include many scores of barges. luggers and other small craft but exclude many com- munique repors of several or "a number of" vessels sunk or dam aged. They also exclude the num- Der of Japanese planes wrecked by the FEAT, by B-29's or by B-29- escorting Mustangs. figures for which are not available.
 July was just a pre-invasion be- ginning of the devastation to be wrought on Japan. warned nearly every commander in the Pacific. and Radio Tokyo said Halsey's Fleet still prowled off Honshu, where it already has spend p days,
 nchallenged by sea or air.
 It. Gen. Barney M. Giles, Deputy Commander of the U. s. Army Strategic Air Force, said today that B-29's would step up their tempo until the war lords are forced into unconditional surrender" He promised 8.000-ton bomb raids by forces of 1,200 Superforts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
FEAR FOR LIFE
 OFLAvAL WHEN
 REACHES PARIS
Four AirfieIds and Fresnes Prison Are Under
 Special Guard

BULLETIN-PARIS, Aug. - Pierre Laval arrived by plane al Le Bourgct Airficld from the Aus trian city of Innsbruck late today and was taken immediately to Fresnes Prison, it was announced at the trial of Marshal Petain. The Former Chief of the Vichy Government who surrendered to American authorities in Austria after he was busted from refuge in Spain yesterday. was accom- panied by his wife.
 PARIS, Aug. Fears that Frenchmen liberated from NaZi horror camps might break through police lines if they knew where they could lay ha ds on Pierre Laval were expressed by French spokesman as Laval's arrival from Innsbruck was awaited today. Mobile guards surrounded four airfields and Fresnes Prison here to prevent any possible disorders The spokesman said he himself had not been told where Laval would be landed.
 Laval was handed over to French officers last night by Americans of the Sixty Fifth Division.
 Laval gave me the impression he was a tired old man. said Capt. Robert c. Woodbury, Fort Worth, Texas, who talked with Laval and his wife after they landed. He said they were shabbily dressed and camera shy as Ameri- can Signal Corps photographers surrounded them Laval carried S10,000 in American bills. The two Luftwaffe men who piloted the plane were jailed over protests they had been assured be- fore leaving that the Americans would permit them to return to Spain.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
Situation Is
 Most Tense
 In Nip Land
Propae andd Broadeasts Reveal Horror of Na-
 tionaIs as Bombs Fal!
Associated Press Correspondent,


 GUAM, Aug. 1--The terror of life in a land writhing and burning be- heath the greatest bombardment of all time is reflected fully in Japanese propaganda broadcasts, becoming daily more tense as B-29 and Navy attacks mount In fury.
 We are enduring the impossible, with grinding teeth and clenched fists, when we see enemy planes penetrating our homeland and proudly flying over our heads. cry the Nipponese propagandists. The horror that there must be today in once proud Tokyo is ap- parent in another broadcast which described matter-o -factly how the great majority of remaining Tokyo residents, living underground, "de- sire to be provided with the mini mum amount of goods and services necessary for subsistence" A picture of thousands of in jured lowering in dark under ground shelters doubtless prompted the broadcasters to all "the goods of which they are in great need are medicines essential to the maintenance of life in air-faid shelters"
 Although Japan's propaganda machine gives Pollyanna ending to every story of personal injury, tragedy glares through. There is the case of the Japanese who ey- pIained that although he lost his home and all his possessions in a B-29 raid, he got to see some raid- CTS crash and that was worth the price of admission. And he added, next time he saw B-29 crash he wouldn't have to pay any admis- sion price-because he had nothing left to pay.
 Another picture that shone through the broadcasts: Once wealthy officials of the Hanshin Iron and Steel Corporation in Tokyo creeping by night to the charred ruins of their factory to salvage iron for the government collection drive. The broadcast wasn't intended to depict the ruins and the furtive creeping about by night; it was intended to urge civilians to greater scrap-collecting efforts.
 Japan's battlefront soldiers now are fighting an easier war than the homefolks. another broadcast reveals: Tt is soldiers in the front lines that are sending comfort bags to folks at home. Hold that line. mother is the battle cry of every Japanese soldier"
 Another broadcast was intended to be funny-but the grim plight of Japan was clearly drawn.
 "A night packed with burning had ended" 1t said, land groups of war victims assembled on the school grounds" when a magician attempted to lift their spirits by his tricks. He produced six eggc out of the air-but the people began to beg for the eggs. and he had to explain that they weren't real.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
TERRITORIAL GUARD MEET

The regular weekly meeting of the Juneau Unit of the Territorial Guard will be held tomorrow even- ing at the Mendenhall Rifle Range
 The program for the evening will be rapid-fire practice on the 200 and 300-yard ranges. Members are requested to report in coveralls and be equipped with rifles and ammunition belts.
 Transportation will be arranged in the usual manner. All members "~a urged to be present at this meeting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
Opportunities In
 Alaska ATe Beiler
 Than Any in Hawaii

SEATTLE. Aug. si:-A business man from Hawaii said here the Territory of Alaska held far better opportunities than his own sunlit isles. .Gp
 Frederick D. Lowrey, President of Levers and Cooke, Ltd. Honolulu, came to Seattle 10 purchase building materials for his firm
 Practically ell our fertile land is already under cultivation" he said. whereas there are virtually un- limited possibilities of expansion in Alaska if the people car, adapt them selves to the climate"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Aug. - Closing quotation on Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 6%, American Can 98, Anaconda B, Curtiss-W Wright G5s, International Harvester 81h, Kennecott STA, New York Central 26A. Northern Pacific 28, U. s. Steel 67a4. Pound 4.031s.
 < Sales today were $50, ,000 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials. l62.72: rails, 57.22; utilities, 32.55. -
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
5ifiang River Bend
 Battle Nearing End

CALCUTTA, Aug. 1.-The Battle of the Sittang River Bend in Bur- ma, in which 5000 Japanese have been killed, is approaching the clos ing stages, Southeast Asia Command Headquarters announced today.
 Aircraft joined in the attack yes- terday. scoring hits on machine gun positions and destroying huts and buildings
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
Small Arms 10 Be
 Released, Civilians

WASHINGTON. Aug. 1.-All small arms, except 12-guage shot, guns and revolvers using 38-caliber special cartridges. will be released for sale to- civilians immediately.
 Announcing this today the War Production Board said those to be released include 16-guage pump and automatic shotguris, automatic pis- tols and rifles.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
NEW BoARDERs

William Johnson. drunk and dis orderly. and Lola Deveney, dis orderly conduct. were meted out jail sentences in City Police Court here this morning. The latter re- ceived 30 days. Johnson 10 days in the City Jail. -AfI3
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
NEW GOVERNOR
 GENERAL NAMED
 FOR CANADIANS

LONDON. Aug. 1.-Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, who extricat- ed Britains overwhelmed forces from Dunkerque and Burma and led the epic comebacks from Fl Alamein, has been appointed Canada's 17th Governor General.
 The 54-year-old Allied Comman- der-in- Chief of the Mediterranean theatre was chosen by King George VI, Buckingham Palace announced. to succeed the Kings uncle. Lord Athlcne, II, whose normal term as Governor General expired last June.
 In Ottawa, Prime Minister w. L. Mackenzie King said the appoint mcnt of Field Marshal Alexander as Governor General will be warmly welcomed in all parts of our coun- try and by none more than by the members of Canada's armed forces, many of whom served under his command"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
GILCHRIsT HERE

Catherine. Gilchrist. of Prince Rupert, B. C., boarded the Princess Louise at Ketchikan to arrive in Juneau yesterday. She is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
KIRK FAMILY IN TOWN

MT. and Mrs. Van G. Kirk and daughter. Jacqueline, of Highland Park, III, arrived on the Princess Louise yesterday afternoon and are quests at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
JACKSON IN JUNEAU

Roy Jackson. of Seattle, arrived on the Princess Louise yesterday afternoon and is at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
BURKE ARRIVES

William J. Burke, of Ketchikan is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
STATEHOOD FOR ALASKA
 E BIG ISSUE
Congressional Committee
 Now Northbound, 0ut- lines Program

SEATTLE. Aug. 1.-The study of statehood possibilities for Alaska and other matters concerning the Terri tory will be undertaken by a Con- gressional Committee on Territor- iesi which, with Congressional Ropds Committee, which left today for Alaska, Rep. Peterson D-Ga) Chairman of the Territories Commit ted said.
 The Committee on Roads will study the Alaska Military Highway Coy. Ernest H. Gruening of Alaska met the delegations here and will travel back with them.
 America has "a big investment in that Alaska Highway" said Rep. Jen- nings Randolph D-W. va), "and we want to see that we make the most of it.
 k PThere can be an extension of the Alaska Military Highway south," he asserted This part of the country is the natural outlet
 Rive members of the two commit tees met here yesterday with mem hers of Governor Wallgren's advis- Iory commission to the Alaska High way Committee, with the latter group urging early construction of a connecting link between the Alaska Highway. near Whitechorse. YT. and the existing continental highway system at Prince Rupert, B. 70,
 Kirby Billihgsley of Wenatchee, chairman, of the Advisory Cornmis- 'sloA, declared. "The Western routa is 3S5 miles shorter to Fairbanks via Spokane, from any point east of Great Falls, Mont, than the Alcan road"
 Tn addition" he said, the wes- tern route runs through habitable area all the way, inviting settlement as soon as made accessible, and that settlement will justify perman- ent maintenance of the road when built"
 Donald Macdonald, Seattle, an- other member of the commission, said the western connection would cost roughly $13,00O,000, declaring a connection of the Alcan highway at Dawson Creek, B. C., to the ex- isting continental system at Edmon- ton, Alta. would cost considerably more.V
 After travelling to Juneau, by steamer. the Congressmen will fly to Anchorage, go either by air or highway to Fairbanks, and return along the Alaska highway to Edmon- ton, Alta.
 Delegate E. L. Bartlett of Alaska accompanied the committees. The Territories Committee planned to spend month in Alaska, while the roads group will return after 10 days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
BIG MEET I5
 DRAWING TO
 CLOSE TODAY
Truman 10 Fly 10 England Tomorrow-Rendezvous
 dt Sea with King

BULLETIN-POTSDAM, Aug.
 l.. x President Truman, Premier
 Stalin and Prime Minister Att
 lee tonight concluded the chart-
 ing of their joint foreign policies
 for. the months and perhaps
 years to come with special re-
 ference to the Far Eastern hos
 tilities and reconstruction of
 Europe.
 There still was no announce
 mcnt, however, that all confer
 ence formalities had been ended.
 The three leaders held a long
 plenary session this afternoon.
 A fleet of transport planes wait
 ed on nearby airfield as they
 moved through the closing form
 alities.
 A communique on the Berlin
 conference is not scheduled for
 release until Friday in Wash
 ington, Moscow and London.
 POTSDAM, Aug. 1-An indication that the Big Three Conference al Potsdam was drawing to a close came today with the announcement that President Truman will fly tc England tomorrow to meet King George VI before returning to the United States.
 There was speculation that the meeting today of Truman, Prime Minister Attlce and Premier Stalir might be their last before the ad- Jdurnment of the conference, pos slbly before nightfali. Truman, accompanied by Score tary of State James F. Byrnes and Adm. William D. Leahy, will ar rive at an unspecified British air port and proceed to Plymouth where they will board the U. s Cruiser Augusta. British an ilouncement said. King George will embark on H. M. s. Renown, and both ships will steam out for a rendezvous at sea.
 It was expected that the results of the Big Three" Conference would be announced in a joint communfdue to be released simul- taneously in London, Washington and Moscow. The conferences sur- vival of the defeat of Winston Churchill's Government apparently demonstrated the solid foundation for the decisions which had been reached.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
RANKIN HERE

John Rankin, of Anchorage, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
REQUEST BY .NEWsMEN

BERLIN, Aug. Sixty three Allied correspondents covering the Big Three"s Conference voted last night to send letters to President Truman, Prime Minister Attlee and Premier Stalin requesting a press conference with them or their Foreign Secretaries.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
SCI. ROBINSON IS
 HOME ON FURl0uGH
AsP ARRIVES

Sam AsN e Tenakee, is in Ju- neaG azd a w st at the Gastineau Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01
MRA RODB HERE

Mrs. w. A. Robh, of Anaheim. Calf. is q guest at the Hotel Juneau a.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01

c. D. Payne. of Ketchikan, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-01

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Smyrna times., 1945-08-16
PUBLIC SALE

Having sold my property, I will
sell at public auction, 8 miles north
of Leipsic, 51a miles east of Smyr-
ma, Just off the Woodland Beach
Road on the Dutch Neck Road, on
Smyrna times., 1945-08-16
FOR SALE

Chicken Picking Machines, West
inghouse Sterilamps, for every
purpose, Hobart-Dayton M a t
Grinders, Slicing Machines, Scales
for every purpose; Price Cards,
Price Card Moulding, Butchers
Supplies, etc.
Oriole Store Equipment Co.,
Phone 1155 Salisbury, Md.
Smyrna times., 1945-08-16

delphia, are visitin gthe family of
T. B. Megear.
Mrs. Elva and Mary Blackiston,
of Wilmington, are visiting Mrs. j.
w. Jones.
Jos. B. FAIRIES of Philadelphia, is
spending a week with his father,
E. c. FAIRIES.
Miss Mollie Wilson, of Philadel-
phia, is making a two weeks visit
to Smyrna friends guest of Miss
Maud Carr.
Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Hoffecker
are on a visit to Atlantic City.
Miss May Cavender, of Smyrna,
is the guest of the Misses Boggs,
near Crumpton.
Miss Rebecca Jones of Dover, is
visiting Smyrna friends.
Miss Annie Gale is on a visit to
her pparents near Eadesville, Md.
Miss Mary Anthony is entertain
ing Misses Lille Frazier and Lizzie
Smyrna times., 1945-08-16

iston, 130; Corp. John E. Shetzler,
120; Private Albert E. Killen 113;
Pfc. Norman R. Wagner, 122; Sgt.
Robert L. Davis, 127; Private Mel
son K. Rosengren, 123; Lieut.. Nell
son Everhart, 134; Staff Sergt.
Thomas F. Sylvester, 116, and Cpl.
Thomas B. Hughes, 1877. Winners
of the officers pistol contest which
was held Friday, who received
metallic bars at the review were:
Regimental Staff Team; Brig. Gen.
Paul R. Rinard, 1888; Col. ]. Paul
Heinel, 1874; First Lieut.. Thomas c.
Sullivan, 1856; First Lieut.. George
H. Latham, 173; Major Buckalew,
189; total team score, 914. The
Second Battalion placed second.
Members receiving medals are:
Capt. William R. Wilson, 1874; Sec
ond Lieut.. John j. Hall, 1877; First
Lieut.. Michael F. Amalfitano, 159;
Capt. William E. Donnell, 172;
First Lieut.. Francis ]. Reese, 1913;
total team score, s95. Leaving
Bethany Beach last in automobiles
were General Rinard, Colonel
Heinel, and various members of his
regimental staff. One of the first
projects which Colonel Heinel will
work upon now is the compilation
of training data in book form, and
the detailing of improvesd methods
developed in actual operations at
the summer encampment.