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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-13
SURPRISE

Last evening at the home of MT and Mrs. James DeMeres. a surprise birthday party was feld in honor of Mrs. DeMeres.
 Miss Solvieg Havdahl, sister of Mrs. DeMeres, and Miss Doris Balog planned the event, which proved very successful.
 A beautiful birthday cake was baked by Miss Virginia Langseth and other refreshments were fur nished by those attending. Several games of cards were enjoyed with Mrs. Gene Hulk and Miss Bernice Mead winning the honors.
 Attending the party were Miss Bernice Mead, Miss Virginia Lang seth, Mrs. Gene Hulk, Mrs. Larry Balm, Miss Lucille Goetz, Miss Solvieg Havdahl, Miss Doris Balog and Mrs. DeMeres.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-13
ELECTRICITY OFF NOTICE

Electricity will be off on Douglas Island Thursday, June l4, from g a. m. to II a. m. Alaska Electric Light and Power Go.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-13

MT. and Mrs. Richard A. Hilbert of Seattle, are guests at the Bar anof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-13
NFFE TO INVITE
 PRESIDENT HERE
 DURING NV TRIP

At the regular monthly meeting today of the National Federation of Federal Employees, held the second
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-13
ATTENTION ELKs

Regular meeting p. m. Wednes- day, June l3.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-13
CLARK IN JUNEAU

J. Clark, of Fairbanks, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-13
TRUMAN 70
 MEET WITH
 BIG CHIEFS
Announcement Made by President ai keWsmen
 Conference Today

(Continued from Page one)
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Freight Conductor Killed
In {. & 0. Collision
BY the Associated Press


HINTON, w. Va, Feb. 1.-THE
conductor of a fast Chesapeake &
Ohio freight train was killed and so
to 100 passengers on a huntington
Charlottesville local were shaken up
today when the local ran into the
rear of the stalled freight.
The conductor who lost his life,
G. A. Leakue of Russell, KY, was in
the caboose of the freight at the
time of the crash. The caboose was
ripped to pieces and Mr.. Leake's
body was found two hours later une
der wreckage piled up on the loco
motive of the passenger train.
LANCASTER, Pa, Feb. II R.-A
passenger train crashed into de-
rallied mail and express train today
at Leaman Place, II miles east of
here, but no one was injured seri-
|ously, the Pennsylvania Railroad
public relations Office reported.
The Office said first reports in
dicated 40 persons suffered minor
injuries, bruises and cuts when the
second section of the east-bound
st. Louis New York passenger train,
the American" ran into eight de-
rallied cars Of the mail and express.
Passenger traffic was being routed
over freight tracks. ofhcials said.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Allied Delays Enobte Germans
/ Reorqunize West Front Line

Because only the Canadian Army
has been attacking, the Germans
have been able to shift divisions to
meet this thrust and the opposition
to the Canadian forces is increasing
daily.
This one-army attack at time
has been typical of the Allied win
ter strategy and the Germans have
been able to shift their reserves
like a backfield defense in football
game along the long front to hold
the threatened spot at the expense
OF weakening other places.
While the Germans have been
able to reorganize the front, this
does not mean that it is strongly
held. It Is held with the least num-
ber of crack troops since last Octo-
Der and at places it Is little more
than . screen Of infantry using
(See GALLAGHER, Page A-3.5
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Dutch Officer Held by British
As Betroyer of Arnhem Attack
Accused of Tip Costing 5000 Lives;
Now Prisoner in Tower of London

/ had killed the Germans he named.
Thereafter they saw no reasons to
distrust him.
1t appears that among the secret
messages from London was one ad-
vising the Dutch underground OF
the pending Arnhem invasion, with
the view of soliciting underground
support.
When the parachutist remnants
had to fight their way out of the
Arnhem salient after relief column
was unable to cross the Neder Rhine
nobody suspected this man. He had
crossed to Allied lines when under
ground forces struck in cooperation
with the British attack.
He came under scrutiny of intel
ligence men, however, and soon suf-
ficient evidence piled up to warrant
his arrest. One problem remained.
He was an extremely cagey in
dividual, who always carried a pistol.
He was such superior shot that it
was considered inadvisable to try to
disarm him by force.
So ruse was hit upon.
The officer was invited to a cock
tail party. He thoroughly enjoyed
the party. But when he tried to
depart he was arrested. He was
handed over to British authorities,
since Anthem fell within the 21st
Army Groups jurisdiction. He was
flown to Britain on orders of
supreme headquarters.
The informant said he believed
the Germans shot by the officer as
proof of his loyalty to the resistance
movement probably were from a list
furnished by the German Gestapo
and would have been killed by the
Gestapo anyway.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Jops Claim RepuIse
Of u. S. Invasion of
Isle South of okyo
Bottle Is Raging on
Philippines Rock
Broadcast Says
Ey the Associated Press.

American paratroopers and
sea-borne troops landed on Cor
regidor in a two-way assault
today, the Tokyo radio reported,
and Immediately engaged the
Japanese garrison in fierce
battles" for control of the fort
ress guarding the entrance to
Manila Bay.
An unconfirmed Tokyo broadcast,
recorded by the Federal Communi-
cations Commission, said:
This morning enemy air-borns
troops landed on the island. In con-
cert with this action the enemy also
launched landings with assault
landing barges.
Pierce battles are now raging on
the southern shores of Corregidor
Island
Batteries Silenced Previously.
Anti-aircraft batteries on the
Rock" were sienced more than
week ago by heavy daily American
bombing attacks. Big guns were
knocked out in combined air and
naval bombardments preceding
Thursdays amphibious landing on
Southern Bataan Peninsula, across
a narrow strait from Corregidor.
Control of both Bataan, an
nounced in Gen. MacArthur's Sat-
urday communique, and Corregidor,
would reopen Manila Bay and the
recaptured Cavite naval base to the
American feet.
Eleventh Corps Yanks swiftly
formed new trap inclosing several
thousand disorganized japanese on
Bataan after the daring warship-
supported landing on the south
coast Thursday.
Losses were light as the Yank in
vasion troops, their path skillfully
cleared by minesweepers, lombard
ing cruisers and destroyers of the
7th Fleet, opened 500-yard beach,
head in Mariveles Harbor on
Bataan.
Light Resistance.
Meeting only light resistance,
they seized the town of Mariveles
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Snow May Continue
Throughout Tonight;
Freeze Held Unlikely
Three Persons Injured
In Accidents Due to
Slippery Streets

The snowfall which began this
morning will continue through
out the day and most of the
night, the Weather Bureau pre-
dicted today, with the tempera-
ture remaining around freezing.
If the snow remained on the
ground, there might be two or three
inches by tomorrow morning, the
forecaster said. However, because
the streets and the ground are warm
from the recent mild weather, the
snow is melting almost as soon as it
hits the ground. Therewas little
prospect it would freeze, the FORE
caster said.
Tomorrow will be clear, windy and
little colder, he said.
Three persons were injured in
accidents which police said were
caused by slippery streets.
1t. Col. Theron j. Taylor, So, Fort
Meade, Md, was hurt WHOM his car
struck column on the west end
of the H street underpass near
Union Station. He was treated at
Casualty Hospital for head injuries
and removed to the Army base hos
pital at Fort Myer for observation
Cecilia Johnson, 80, of 1040 South
Scott street, Arlington, Va, a pas
senger in the colonel,s car, suffered
abrasions to the knees and head in
juries. She was taken to Sibley
Hospital.
Mrs. Lilli Klagsbrunn, Ct, of 270O
@ street NV, was struck by an
automobile when she slipped from
the curb in the HOO block of G street
NV, police said. She was treated
for cuts and bruises at Emergency
Hospital. Police said the car was
driven by Daniel c. Biehl, 43, Of
It'll Forty-fir place Sc.
The Capital Transit Co. reported
there have been no bus or streetcar
delays as a result of the snow.
Sanders have been out since $3.50
am, working on slippery streets,
mostly in the outlying areas, officials
said. If the snow continues, sweepers
will be sent out on the carlines later
LII Gilc udy.
Meanwhile, William A. xanten,
District refuse director. said more
than 400 men are available If the
snow becomes deep enough to war
rant the use of snowplows Some
sanding has been done, he said, but
none of the heavy snow fighting
equipment has been needed as yet.
Snow was general throughout the
East, but more severe in the Middle
West. The coldest spots we're in
the North, where Minnesota re-
ported temperatures Of from to 10
degrees below zero.
In the South, showers, in some
places accompanied by thunder,
| were general. with temperatures
down into the Cos.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, Feb. ia Dutch
officer is being held in the Tower
of London, accused by the Brit
ish government, on the basis OF
carefully gathered evidence, of
tipping off the Germans to the
Arnhem air. borne attack, which
collapsed after an eight day
battle last September.
He is awaiting trial for treason
on charges of betraying Allied mill
tary secrets to the enemy. His arrest
was announced last night.
On the officer, whose name was
withheld, Britain may seek to place
the principal blame for the failure
of the assault. made by the British
Red Devil" 1st Parachute Division
at a cost of more than 5000 of its
5000 men.
From London informant came
this story of how the officer was dis
covered and captured:
Early last August there reported to
Dutch resistance liaison men this
officer, of whom they knew and
trusted on the basis of three years
of effective underground work. He
offered to bear messages to resist
ance representatives within Holland
by sneaking through German lines.
He was known to be an excellent
marksman.
To check on his reliability they
asked him whether he would be
willing to kill several Germans. He
readily named several stationed in
Holland and promised to get them
Subsequently Brussels officers
checked his list. They found he
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Illinois Camp Will Gel
First Job Jumpers
Through Draft Soon
Senate Marks Time Over
Legislative Proposals
For Compulsory Work
BY ]. A. OLEARY.

While the Senate marked time
today over compulsory work leg
islation, the War Department
gave a new demonstration of the
power 1t already possesses to in
woke the work k-or-fight principle
by announcing that a group OF
drafted "job jumpers" will ar
rive in a few days for basic
training at Camp Ellis, Ill.
The Army announced severa
weeks ago it would take men below
minimum physical standards who
leave essential jobs for which they
were deferred under the draft law
but this is the first sizable grour
to be sent to camp.
Four Week Course.
Some opponents of the pending
work or Jail bill have contendeo
since the measure was introduced
that the selective service law as il
now stands gives draft boards am
pie power to induct men who leave
essential jobs. Until recently, the
hitch was that if a man did not
meet Army physical standards. he
was turned down by the military
authorities.
The War Department explained
that men below minimum physical
standards, inducted under recent
instructions of War Mobilization Di-
rector Byrnes, will be given a four
week basic training course designed
to fit their physical limitations.
On completion of the Camp Ellis
training course these men, whc
possess skills needed in essential in
dustries and who volunteer to return
to those industries, would be given In
active status in the enlisted reserve
This would enable them to return tt
work as civilians, but subject to re-
call to active duty.
May Be Sent to Plants.
Men who do not volunteer in this
way may be assigned as uniformed
soldiers to work in Government.
owned plants, it was explained. The
remainder, who have no technica
skills that are needed at the time
would be assigned to Army operating
installations.
The procedure announced by the
War Department yesterday offers 9
means of accomplishing to large
extent the first objective of the
House-approved May bill, namely
to freeze essential workers in theil
jobs. It is not, however, a complete
substitute for the pending legisla-
ton, for two reasons:
First, the May bill would freeze ir
essential jobs and on farms all mer
between 18 and As, whereas, under
present draft procedure, men above
38 are not considered for military
induction.
Second, the May bill is being ad.
vocated to enable draft boards, OF
See VANCOUVER page A-21
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Showdown Nearinq
On Lack Of Supplies
For Liberated Nations
Demands Are Voiced
For Immediate Relief
In France and Belgium
BY the Associated Press.


A showdown appears to be de-
veloping over Anglo-American
failure to provide adequate food
clothing and other supplies for
the liberated countries of Europe
That is the Interpretation placed
here on the hue and cry which has
been raised in London this week
over the asserted shortcomings of
the United Nations Relief and Re-
habilitation Administration in the
situation. Involved are questions of
relief for France, Belgium and those
sections of the Netherlands from
which the enemy has been cleared.
The attacks on UNRRA are puz-
zling to the agency's international
officials here because UNRRA actu-
ally is not responsible, under its
regulations, for providing supplies
to the Western European countries.
Task of Military Command.
Both American and UNRRA off,
cials agree that this is the task of
the Anglo-American military COM
mand. The assumption here is that
the London criticisms of the relief
administration are intended simply
to use it as a whipping boy" for
the fact that-despite elaborate
plans which were laid down by the
military and Western Euro
pean administrations last summer
enough supplies have not been going
through.
The basic facts of the situation
appear to be these:
l. The Western European coun-
tries as well as those in Italy and
other Mediterranean states are at
the moment worse off in some re-
spects than they were under the Pc
riod of German occupation. A
factor is the chaos which battle al
ways leaves.
2. The Allies had planned on a
slower liberation. of France than
was actually accomplished and fig
ured on gradual, rather than sud-
den, need of supplies from the
United States.
3. Total demands on Allied ship
ping have strained cargo capacity to
the utmost. The military people in
siSt that there simply has not been
enough tonnage to carry forward
the offensives on both sides of the
-, -
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Reinforced Nozis Are Reported
In Violent Battle With Russians
Sixty Miles Southeast of Berlin
Reds Near Cottbus,
Huge Rail Center;
BresIou SheIIed
MAP on Page A-6.)
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Feb. 17.-Reinforcec
Nazi divisions and units of two
great Russian armies were re-
ported locked today in a violent
battle on the southeastern ap-
proacheS to Berlin-Within about
60 miles of the German capital
and 100 miles northwest of en-
circled Breslau.
Soviet front dispatches said Rus
sian troops moving toward Cottbus
huge rail center At miles southeast
of Berlin, gained up to 18 miles yes
terday and were within sight of the
Spree River, last natural defense
line guarding the Reich capital. The
German radio told of fighting in
the Forst area, II miles east of
Cottbus, and announced abandon
ment of Sagan, Bober River city
midway between Breslau and Berlin.
Can NBC broadcast from Mos
COW said Marshal Ivan Konev
had swept to within miles of
Cottbus)
Russian junction Reported.
The Germans said also that the
northern wing of Marshal Konev's
1st Ukraine Army and the southern
flank of Marshal Gregory K Zhu-
kov's 1st White Russian Army had
linked up at Crossen, SO miles south
east of Berlin and SO miles northeast
of Cottbus, but this was not con-
frmed by Moscow.
CA Moscow dispatch said Rus
sian infantry was closing in on
the Neisse River fortress town
of Guben from three sides while
it was being blasted by heavy
artillery and bomberS. Guben,
vital center of the German line
so miles southeast of Berlin, is
west and slightly south of Cros-
sen, where German reports said
Marshal Konev's and Marshal
zhukov's armies had made con-
tact.
(The Moscow dispatch con-
tinued that Russian armor ap-
peared to have captured strategic
positions perhaps as close as 35
to so miles southeast of Berlin
after cutting through thin Ger
man lines. 1t said all signs
pointed to desperate confusion in
Nazi ranks)
The Germans rushed veterans
and unseasoned home army recruits
into the area in an effort to stop
the Russian threat to turn Berlin's
eastern defenses.
Red Guns Blast Breslau.
Soviet siege guns, meanwhile,
shelled Breslau from all directions.
The Russians were officially de-
clared to be only miles from the
heart of Breslau, sprawling city
of $4,000 straddling the Oder River
They seized Drachenbrunn, adjoin-
ing Bischofswalde, forest on the
southeast side of the city.
An enemy broadcast late last
night said the decisive battle" for
Breslau had begun. Marshal Ko-
news troops have been closing a
steel arc on the lower Silesian
capital for many days.
The Germans also indicated the
fall of Poznan Posen), great hold
out strong point in Poland, was
near, saving street fighting ragged
in the heart of the city.
The Russians fought to exploit the
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Canadians Smash
Through Mud Almost
To Goch and CaIcar
Troops Advancing Under
Cover Of Heavy Fire
Cut Main Highway
BY the Associated Press.

bS the ASSOCldLeQ fIeSS.
PARIS, Feb. 17.-Canadian 1st
Army troops today battled to
within 112 miles or less of the
shell-ripped Nazi bastions OF
Goch and Calcar, southeast of
Kleve, in a sudden, resurgent
push over mired battlefields.
Britons, Scots and Canadians un-
der Gen. Henry Crerar's command
lunged forward yesterday behind 9
wall of bombs, rockets and bullets
from Allied planes, and British
troops speared ~ miles ahead, cut
ting the main Goch- -Calcar highway
at two points.
Troops closing on Goch and CAL
car gained $500 yards. They en-
tered Esperden and Hervorst, with
in l u miles of the Goch, and toppled
Hommersum and Null, S miles west
of the strongly held road center Z
1000 Nazis Captured.
Canadian tanks and infantry
troops fought a mile and half from
Calcar, southeast of Kleve, and II
miles from bomb wrecked Wesel,
northern gate to the industrial
Ruhr.
Gen. Crerar's men were S miles or
less from Uedem, third road center
strongpoint.
More than 1000 Nazi prisoners
were taken in the last "a hours,
boosting the total in the army's Of
fensive to $500, front dispatch
said. Another described yesterday S
air-assisted gains as probably the
best since early in the nine-day-
push.
British troops, biting 1000 yards
deep and across the Goch- Calcar
highway, almost scored break
through, front reporters said, spear
ing deep into lines of the German
116th Panzer and 18th Panzer
Grenadier Divisions.
Nazi Counterattacks Light.
This push carried through the
Siegfried Lines defense zone from
Kleve to Goch and cut just north
of Halvenboom.
Scottish troops on the western
flank struck down the Gennepvenlo
road and routed Germans from a
wood less than a mile northeast of
the Mas River town of Afferden.
The Germans-their strength now
Evening star., 1945-02-17

and the nearby airdrome and drove
swiftly northeast toward a juncture
with Maj. Gen. Edwin Patrick's 9Th
Division. The 9Th Division was IS
road miles away, after capturing
Lamao in a rapid drive down the
Manila Bay side of the jungled
peninsula.
Mariveles Airdrome already was
in use by American planes today.
Units of the 38th Division made the
Bataan landings Thursday morning.
They were under the command Of
Brig. Gen. William c. Chase, who
headed the 1st Cavalry Division
spearhead which liberated the
Santo Tomas internment camp in
Manila February 3.
The 7th Fleet, under Rear ADJ
nliral Arthur Struble, sailed within
4 miles of Corregidor on the swing
to kariveles from the Olongapo
Naval Base in Subic Bay, just north
of Bataan.
Yet bombardment of cruisers and
destroyers so effectively silenced
Corregidor's guns and naval forcs
was unscathed.
Associated Press Correspondent
Jim Hutcheson said only a half
dozen shots were fired from Cor
regidor. The fortress has been
bombed almost daily for weeks. Gen.
Macarthur today reported a 147-
ton bombing by Liberators and
fighters
Many Japs on Bataan.
Several thousand enemy troops
are still on Bataan. They include
service corpsmen and survivors of q
bitter To-day struggle to prevent the
Evening star., 1945-02-17
BY IVES GALLAGHER,
Associated Press War Correspondent

WITH THE UNITED STATES
9TH ARMY IN GERMANY, Feb. II.
German western front defenses, in
a chaotic condition three weeks ago
as result of the Russian drive on
Berlin, have been stabilized and
reorganized.
BY not striking at the height of
the German confusion, the Allies
have made 1t possible for the Nazi
high command to repair much Of
the damage done by its hurried
draining of divisions to the eastern
front at the height of the retreat
out of the Belgian bulge.
Except for air attacks and the
Canadian 1st Army offensive in the
north, the Germans have been
molested only by local actions and
patrol activity along the western
front.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TACOMA, Wash, Feb. 17.-One
person was known dead, and an
unknown number were feared trap
ped in blazing downtown apart
ment house here today.
Thirteen persons we're in nos
pitals with burns and other injuries
At least one person was known te
be missing.
An unidentified young woman died
in Pierce County Hospital of burns
Firemen rescued many of the oc-
cupants with ladders and life nets
Still others jumped from windows
or made their way down fire
escapes.
Fire Chief c. ]. Eisenbacher said
he feared a number of persons had
been trapped in the rear of the 43-
apartment Maefair, four-story
building occupied by war workers
and the wives and children of serv-
icemen. There were between rs and
IS tenants in the building.
The blaze apparently started with
an explosion in a candy factory in
the basement of the masonry-cov-
cred frame building about 2 am.
and was still burning three hours
later,
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Federal Liquor Taxes
Pass Two-BiIIion Mark
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Federal liquor taxes passed the
81, 900 900 900 mark in 1874 for the
first time.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue
reported that receipts jumped from
$1.454, 600 900 in l943 to $2,083, ,000, 600
in 1914.
The Commerce Department says
the increase was due partly to
greater drinking in 1914 and partly
to higher tax rates on whisky and
beer, which went into effect last
April /.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Japanese in Manila
lahore u. S. Offer of
Honorable Surrender
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MANILA, Feb. 17.-American
tanks and guns today renewed
their assault on the ancient
walled city in Manila after
the Japanese defenders there
ignored an offer by Maj. Gen.
Oscar Griswold, corps COM
mander, of honorable surrender
and safe conduct of several
thousand civilians.
The offer, made at s o'clock
last night, was unanswered at
the end of a four-hour limit set
by the general.
Gen. Griswold, in a message
broadcast by radio and through
loud speakers, told the jap
anese, Your defeat is inev-
liable. I offer you an honorable
surrender" The enemy either
refused or failed to receive or
comprehend the offer.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
Lute Bulletin
Woman Asphyxioted

Mrs. Jack Zellan, found
overcome by gas in the
kitchen of her home at 4306
Georgia avenue NV. early
this afternoon, was pro-
nounced dead by an ambu-
lance physician, police re-
ported, after a rescue squad
was unable to revive her.
Evening star., 1945-02-17
FuH-CoIor Air View
OF Jefferson Memorial

A full-color air view of East
Potomac Park, showing the
Jefferson Memorial, Tidal
Basin, Washington Monu-
ment and other landmarks
OF the Capital, is reproduced
on the cover Of The Stars
gravure section for tomorrow.