The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-17

next week in an effort to sell some kind of universal military training to a reluctant Congress. He will address joint session Tuesday on the subject, Congressional leaders announced today after conferring with MT Truman.
 EUGENE-A former Army major who served four years in Alaska, George Hall, has been named Assist ant Dean of Men at the University of Oregon The 1889 graduate has been living in Seattle since his dis charge from the Army He will assist with veterans aid work.
 LONDON-A broadcast by the AL India radio today said an attack by about four hundred Annamese who used pistols and poisoned arrows has been repulsed in Saigon, Indo- China.
 BERLIN-O of the most im- portant documentary catches of the war was disclosed in Berlin today. The Americans have unearthed the Nazi Partys master file of personnel records. The file includes almost 5000 900 membership cards, includ- ing those of the Ausland DeutSche organization.
 MOSCOW-Re Residents of portions of East Prussia, wrested from Ger many, and the KurileS and southern Shakhalin Island, taken from Japan, will vote in the Russian general election February 10 and elect depu- ties to the Supreme Soviet of the U. s. s. R.
 LONDON-TheB Brussels radio de- clared today that the Belgian Cham Der of Deputies has blocked a refer endum on the return to the throne of King Leopold.
 CHUNGKING-Foreign Minister Wang Shih-chieh said today the Chinese Central Government has been informed by Moscow that So- viet forces have begun a withdrawal from Manchuria which will be com pleted by the end of November.
 GUAM-Marine Brig. Gen. Lee B. Hermle, Island Commander here, estimated today there were 300 or more diehard Japanese soldiers still at liberty on Guam and playing a deadly game of hide and seek with American forces.
 LOS ANGELES-This is Admiral William F. Halsey Day in Los An geles. The famed Commander of the American Third Fleet arrived in southern California aboard Navy transport plane from San Francisco and was greeted by city and Navy officials.
 NEW YORK = Billy Conn, out standing challenger for Joe Louis heavyweight title, today refused to sign a contract for bout with Louis next June. Conn and his manager, Johnny Ray, objected to a clause in the contract stipulating that Conn could not engage in tuneup bouts or exhibitions without permission of Promoter Mike Jacobs.
 WASHIN TON Overnight slaughter of 40.000,000 American citizens and virtual destruction of this country" were described by atom bomb makers today as possibilities of the terrible new weapon. Both were seen as conceivable should war break out again in a distrustful family of nations. The scientists, Dr. J. R. Oppenheimer of the New Mexico Laboratories of the bomb- making project and Dr. H. J. Curtis of the Oak Ridge, Tenn, plants, tes- tified at Senate committee hearings.
 NEW YORK Police estimated that 10000 longshoremen returned to their jobs on New York City's cluttered docks today. And the President of the AFL International Longshoremen's Association, Joseph P. Ryan, declared more than 1000 were back.
 WASHINGTON-John L. Lewis today called off the soft coal strikes effective Monday. A United Mine Workers spokesman said the action was taken fin the public interest"
 WASHINGTON The National of Manufacturers join ed the United States Chamber of Commerce today in recommending 20 per cent cut in individual income taxes next year. The Chamber es- timated the cut might range up to 25 per cent.
 BATAVIA, Java = Extremists of the Nationalist Youth Movement got completely out of hand in many areas of Java tonight, killing and footing in frenzied zeal to show their