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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
SHORTAGE OF
FUEL CAUSES
Big CRISIS
Bitter Cold, Record break
ing Snow Reported
Gov. Dewey Acts
(By Associated Press

Northeastern States battled against
the transport and fuel shortage crisis
caused by weeks of bitter cold and
record breaking snow fall but else
where in the nation normal weather
conditions prevailed.
The States Of New York, PENN
sylvania and Ohio are the hardest
hit by paralyzing cold, ice and snow
drifts although temperatures CHINO
ed<oday to 10 to 20 degrese above
zero and reduced the fuel and feed
for stocks danger.
In many New York State com
munities, Guardsmen and volunteers
labored to free snowbound railroad
equipment at Albany, Buffalo,
Rochester, Utica and Syracuse.
Gov. Thomas e. Dewey ordered all
State buildings in Albany to be
closed tonight for the weekend and
longer if necessary.
All Pennsyly anthracite MIN
ers have been asked to work a full
day tomorrow on straight time pay
instead of time and half if neces-
sary to help relieve the coal short
age. The request was made by the
Fuel Administration
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
TO PROSECUTE
ALL LEADERS
OF ATROCITIES
Acting Secretary Of State
Grew Makes Important
Statement on Issue

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 The
United States has proposed to
Britain and her other Allies defi-
mite plans for Furnishing Nazi lead
ers and other Germans guilty of
atrocities against the Jews inside
Germany.
This is announced by Acting
Secretary of State Joseph Grew
to meet criticisms aroused by the
dismissal of Herbert c. Pell, Ameri-
can member of the United Nations
War Crimes Commission.
Pell wanted German prosecutors
of German citizens tried as war
criminals even though some ques-
lions have been raised whether
these crimes technically could be
classed as war crimes under the
International Law.
The announcement by Grew
made it clear that the Unit d
States, like Britain, distinguishes
between regular war crimes and
those atrocities committed against
the Jews or other minority groups
inside Germany, but the statement
declared emphatically the United
States intends to see that criminals
of both types shall be punished.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
HOUSE ACTS
ON pR0BL.
MANp0 WEIR
LEGISLATION Passed 10 Co.
cree Men Between 49,
as Into War Plants

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-Brushing
aside every proposed major change,
the House has passed and sent to
the Senate legislation to coerce
men between IS and As into war
plants
The roll call vote was 246 to 1865.
Passage of the measure was re-
quested by President Roosevelt and
came after the hackers of the leg
islation STAYED off a mighty drive
by opponents to substitute vol
untary plan of meeting manpower
needs. The substitute was backed
heavily by Republicans.
The House also defeated by a
standing vote, $50 to II, a move
to incorporate into the legislation
the so-called 'anti-closed shop"
amendment and ban against
giving essential rating to an en-
ployer unwilling to hire a worker
because of his race, color Or creed
Before the final ballot was
proposal by Representative Voorhis,
California Democrat, to handle the
problem by giving the War Man
power Commission authority to inn
post labor ceilings on employers
and to provide for fenegotiation of
war contracts by employing and
using labor obtained through the
War Manpower program
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
Sub Once Saved by
Command Take Her
Down" Now Is Lost

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-If words
written by unseen hands guide tine
destiny of ships, then the end OF
the u. S. S. Growers fighting life
must be signalled by these. Take
Her Down.. For il was these words
that made the gallant submarine
famous, despite her battling career
against the Jap navy.
Yesterday our Navy announced
that the Growler is overdue and
must be presumed lost She was
last skippered by Comdr. Thomas
Oakley, Jr., of Los Angeles, Calf.
Her personnel complement was an
nomced as about IS officers and
men.
Casualties among the Growers
complement once numbered Comdr
Gilmore, who won laurels for the
sub as he died, SO that Oakley
their men and the GROWER might
win some. more.
In the spring of 1913, in a fight
between a Jap gunboat and the
Grower, Comdr. Gilmore, then her
commander, was on the deck Of the
submarine. He was wounded and
the sub was in imminent peril Of
being sunk by the gunboat. His
men moved to rescue their skipper,
but Gilmore stopped them with the
only order that. could have saved
both the Grower and her crew.
Take her down. he commanded
and the Growler crash diyed 10
safety, carrying the wounded officer
to a glorious death. Comdr. Gilmore
was posthumously awarded the
highest honor grateful United
States can bestow upon her heroes,
the Congressional Medal of Honor.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
AMERICANS
GO ASHORE
AT NASUGBU
Jaws Forged on Trap North
and South Of Philip
pine Capital City

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, LUzON ISLAND, Feb.
New landings southwest Of Ma
Mia. the third invasion of Luzon
Island, are reported today, forging
the Jaws to the trap north and
south of the Philippines capital
CITY, with some Yank columns re-
ported a bare 30 air miles away
and virtually sealing off the pos
sibility of Nipponese troops south
of Manila joining those to the
north
The Eleventh Division troops OF
the Eighth Army landed at Ma
sugbu, on the west coast OF Ba-
tangas Province, 80 miles south
west of the Cavite Naval base.
They opened the drive north while
the Yank Sixth Army pressed south
from Calumpit down Bulacan
Province to Angat, closest approach
to Manila. These Yanks have COW
cred approximately 100 miles since
January 9 when the landing on
Lingayen Bay was accomplished.
Gen Douglas Macarthur report
ed in his communique today that
patrols are operating freely in this
closest approach to Manila.
The Eighth Army elements that
landed Monday northwest Of Ma
Mia, quickly securing Subic Bay
as base for the Seventh United
States Pacific Fleet, are reported
today to be moving against light
enemy resistance, across the base of
Bataan Peninsula toward juno
ton with the Sixth Army columns
driving southwest from Lubao.
Gen. Macarthur reports the
enemy was caught off balance and
we landed without loss" at Ma
sugbu where a fine road leads
TO Manila by way of Tagaytay ridge
through Cavite Province.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
; BULGARIAN
REGENTS DIE
FOR TREASON
Thousands Cry for Ven.
Qean(e as Executions
Are Carried Out

LONDON, Feb. 2.-Prince Cyril,
brother of the late King Boris OF
Bulgaria, was executed last night
along with former Premier Bogdan
Philov and 1t Gen Nikola Mikhov,
the Ankara radio reported. All three
were former regents.
About $4,000 Bulgarians demon
strated in the streets of Sofia,
shouting Death to the Fascists!
Death to the Murderers of Our Peo-
plei" while the executions took
place, q radio report said.
Previously, the Sofia radio, heard
by FEC, announced death sentences
for treason had been imposed on
the three former regents, % cab
met ministers, nine of the king S
counselors, and sc former members
of Parliament by the Bulgarians'
Peoples Court.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
CHURCHILL WANTS
PLANS MADE FOR
RULING GERMANY

LONDON, Feb. 2-On the basis
of reports indicating the possibility
of early political, and perhaps mill
tary disintegration of large sections
of northern Germany, Prime Min
lister Winston Churchill urged i'm
mediate approval at the Big Three
meeting of plans for ruling the
Reich.
This information came entirely
from reliable London sources but
there is still no official confirma-
ton that the Big Three conference
has begun but, in most quarters,
1t is the opinion that Churchill,
Roosevelt and Stain are already
discussing the future of Germany.
The Berlin radio also said the con-
ference was underway.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
SMALL FORCE
OF RUSSIANS
CROSS RIVER
Nazis Rush Women, Chill
dren 10 Front 10 Diq
Trenches

LONDON. Feb. Russian for
ces made one attempt to storm
across the Oder River in their on
slaught towards Berlin. A Ger
man broadcast said other Berlin re-
ports indicated Soviet patrols might
have already crossed.
The German command clamped a
blackout on news from that sector
as one military commentator told
of the attempted crossing in the
area around Kustrin, 40 miles east
Of Berlin.
The Berlin radio accounts said
General zhukov brought up strong
forces along the Oder, on both sides
OF Frankfurt. Assaults to reduce the
fortress of Kustrin underlay the
German communique. However COM
pletely emitting mention of the sec
ter, it said the Russians were check
ed everywhere else except in East
Prussia after hard fighting.
Moscow dispatches said zhukov
had run into thick minefields and
hasd- shell German armor along the
90-HaiIe front threatening Berlin.
Declaring the capital could, and
would, be defended. Hitlers news
paper said German armed forces
are in position to build barriers
which the enemy, who crossed the
Oder with very small forces only,
cannot even threaten
Heavy fighting ragged along the
line from the Glogau area on the
Oder River, lis miles southeast of
Berlin. to Kustrin. in an angle from
the Oder and Wharf.-The, east and
slightly north OF Berlin. The Ger
mans declared they would throw the
Russians out of Kustrin.
Thousands Of German men, wo-
men and children are being rushed
east to dig great system Of trench
es to make Berlin "a bloody disap-
pointment" to the Russians.
Moscow dispatches reported, how
ever, that zhukov is working to
bring up stronger forces and is
massing his infantry and storm guns
close behind his tank spearheads.
Storming the Oder is not too dis
tant a project" the dispatch said
Fires ragged in Berlin from Raj
night bombing, heightening the con-
fusion in the city Russian planes
ranged the roads from Berlin and
jammed traffic bound for the front.
Although the Germans declared the
Russians were thrown out of Kus-
trim, this, as the first attack, in
dicated strong Soviet forces might
be brought up for full-scale as
saut
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
The W ashinuton
Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON
Gt. Col Robert S. Allen now on activ
service with the Army

WASHINGTON-Very little APP
peared i'll the papers about it, but
highly important policies regarding
future relations with Japan were
discussed at the recent Institute
of Pacific Relations at Hot Springs,
Virginia. Most important of all was
a proposal by the British to retain
Emperor Hirohito and the Japanese
ruling class in the postwar setup
CT Japan.
Sir Paul Butler, leading advisor
to the British Foreign Office, led
the appeal for Hirohito
Behind closed doors at the sWank
Homestead Hotel, Butler made this
blunt announcement: mo alter
native to a monarchial system,
under the present Emperor or some
other member of his family, is
likely to provide focus of sta
bility which will be essential if
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
Centralizing Note

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 The
Senate Military Affairs Committee
voted today to centralize the coer-
Give manpower controls under Di-
rector of War Mobilization James
Byrnes, but delayed until tomorrow
the final vote on its adoption of
limited national service legislation.
The House, in passing the bill
yesterday to keep men from 18 to
As in essential jobs or force them
to take such jobs under penalty of
induction, fine or Imprisonment.
provided the controls should be
administered by local draft boards
The Senate committee, however
adopted amendments, Chairman
Thomas said, that have the GEN
eral effect of giving Byrnes' office
overall control.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
SUBS ADD 10
MORE TO NIP
SHIP LOSSES
Transports and Tankers
Punliured in Far
East Waters

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2-U. 5.
submarines have sunk ten more en-
envy vessels in Far Eastern waters, II
was announced today. The Navy
said that the toll included two med
ium cargo transports, two medium
tankers, three small cargo vessels,
one large transport. one medium
transport and small tanker.
The announcement raised to $3.50
the number of Jap ships sunk by
submarines to date, including 104
oombatant vessels and 1856 non-com-
Blatant ships. U. S. subs lost
through all causes since the start Of
the war now total 36.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
Statistics Break Down
Car Crisis; Home Front
Liable 10 Go 10 Smash
BY JACK sTiNNETT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Ths Or
fee of Defense transportation of T
icials have their fingers crossed, new
that we have got month into 1915.
IF the war in Europe drags through
another year or 18 months, war
production might have to be slow
ed temporarily to prevent trans
portation on the home front from
breaking down completely.
There are many phases OF trans
portation and all affected by many
things. 1t is impossible to say that
N such and such a day or month
he transportation crisis will be
reached.
However, there are some facts and
igures that are significant. The
American Automobile Association
las completed its survey Oh the
passenger car situation, and some OF
hose facts and figures are worth re-
3oring.
In the first place rs per cent OF
cur local transportation is in pas
senger cars. -Four cut of five war
workers in the nation go to their
Jobs in passenger cars. After three
years OF surveying the wartime au-
tcmobne situation, AAA has come to
the conclusion that 20,000,000 oper-
ating passenger cars is the absolute
minimum for maintaining the coun-
try's essential wartime driving.
It's most recent check-up ind1-
Gates that there are only $4,000, 900
passenger cars left on the streets
today, and that they now are dis
appearing at the rate of 5000 day
either through junking or being
placed in dead storage.
Not only that, but Is per cent OF
these cars are more than II years
old, and SO per cent are jallopies
that have been rolling along for
seven years or more.
1t doesn't take much juggling OF
equations to see that the passenger
car situation could become critical
within a few months. Amateur me-
chanics, baling wire experts and
Yankee caution have kept more
cars on the highways than the ex-
perts thought possible a couple of
years ago, but from here on it will
- = ,l;ffara,,t cfn-v
In the first place there's the mat
ter of tires. AAA says OPA re-
cords show that hundreds of thous-
ands of essential drivers with B"
and &C" cards have purchase certif-
icates they can't use, simply be-
cause there are no tires. Holders
of "A" cards were promised relief
early in 1945, but that promise has
vanished under new demands from
the military. Most of the nation
today is running and must continue
TO run on "recaps'' The driver
who lets his tire carcass wear down
beyond recapping stage is going to
have to join the army of dead
storage"
~
Repair facilities and the supply
{ (.Or,o}i,,,gorJ m, Dona En,,.l
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Feb. 2 - Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine
stock today is IA, American Can
9Osl, Anaconda 3lh, Beech Air
craft 1872. Bethlehem Steel II,
Curtiss- Wright So, International
Harvester 77ai, K nneeott 371a,
North American Aviation 99s, New
York Central 2312, Northern Pa
cific 1879, U. S. Steel 61la, Pound
$404.
Dow. Jones averages today are as
follows: Industrials, 15445; rails,
1880; utilities, 2750.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02

PRISONERS
TO RETURN
Army Will Bring Men Back
10 United States as
Soon as Possible

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. - The
Army plans prompt return of the
liberated American prisoners in the
Philippines. reported Representative
Philbin today,
Those liberated will be brought
home "as soon as possible" Philbin
said, and the War Department told
him families of the men can send a
25-word message to them via the
Army press wireless.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
Mine CAGE DROPS
1900 FEET WITH
II MEN; ALL Die

TIMMONS, Ontario, Feb. a.
Breaking of cables supporting a
mine cage allowed it to plunge 1900
feet TO the bottom of the shaft of
the Paymaster Gold Mine here
today.
Officials expressed the belief all
II men in the cage have been
killed.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
HANSEN ADVANCED

Roy E. Hansen, u. S. Coast Guard
Reserve, has been advanced in rat
ing to coxswain, according to an
nouncement today by Lieut.. War
rem M. Caro-.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
NO ACTION
IN ITALY

ROME, Feb. 2--Activity dwindled
nearly to an all-time low along the
entire italian front today.
Only minor patrol actions arc
reported by both the Fifth anc
Eighth Armies, the official com
munique states.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
TRAPPER FINED

Wayne Niemi of McGrath re-
ceived fine from the u S. Com
missioner at MeGrath for trapping
marten in the closed season of $50
and 30 days III jail He also sur
rendered 81 marten to the Govern
ment.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02

PARIS, Feb. 2-American and
French troops have cleared So
miles on the left bank of the
Rhine below Strasbourg and laid
down a heavy artillery barrage on
the Neufbrisach escape bridge,
from less than mile away in the
center of the Western Front.
The American First and Third
Armies have probed deeper into
the thinly manned Siegfried Line
and advanced up to two miles on
its fringes of the western slopes
of Eifel Mountains opposite the
late Ardennes bulge.
Half a dozen German hamlets
have been taken and more lines of
dragon teeth tank barracades have
been passed. Scores of pillboxes,
many undefended, have been taken.
There is only passive resistance
in the center, which. strengthens
suspicion that the enemy might
be falling back on the Rhine from
20 to so miles east OF the present
battle lines in the center and the
north
Big Victory Reported
An announcement from LIT. Gen.
Dever's Sixth Army group tells of
a victory below the Strasbourg
area, manned until recently by 25,-
600 resolute German troops. Prac-
tically all were dissipated and gains
were also made on German points
about Is miles below Strasbourg.
The United States Third Army
and Twenty Eighth Division and
the French First Army troops
fought to near Biesheim, one mile
from Neufbraisach. where few
standing bridges were crossed to
Breisach and were under fire of
German guns atop the 1,500-foot
IKaisedstuhl Hill
The troops moved across the sec
ton and have captured Colmar.
German tanks supported counter
attacks in the Moder River area
but the Allies fought back and
crossed the Moder between Ha-
guenau and Schweighouse and in
flicted heavy losses on the enemy.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
CITY COUNCIL TO MEET

Tonight at o'clock in the City
Council Chambers, the Juneau City
Council will hold its first meeting
of the month.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02
ALLIES NOW
ALONG
RHINE FRONT
Yank First and Third Arm
les Dig Deeper Into
Thin Sieufried Line

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Feb.
2 American and Freach
troops broke through the nor
thern end Of Colmar, Provin-
ciai French Capital, 40 miles
south of Strastourg at noon to-
day after clearing 30 miles on
the left bank of the Rhine and
laying siege to the Neufbrisach
Bridge. The French radio in
terrnpted tonights broadcast by
officially announcing French
troops have captured Colmar.
Supreme Headquarters then an
nouneed street fighting was
taking place in C0imar.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02

Continued on Page Four
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-02-02

Repair facilities and the supply
The union times., 1945-05-26
And
 Trades Sign Pact
(Continued from Page One) Endorsed In Connecticut

President Michael Barry and Secretary Treasurer James OKane of the State Building Trades Council that Zed labor in Connecticut endorses the agreement dcted that would be of great assistance building trades unions in the postwar period.
 detailed plan to meet conditions in this will be by the executive board the building sentaves when they in New Haven June 3rd plan drawn up meeting held in Boston under the auspices of the American Federation of LabOr with President Barry member of the committee which actually drafted the pan It will be published in full in weeks issue of The Union Times
 I'm addition preparing the June 3rd meeting inc executive board its special meeting Wednesday voted to take cOgnzance of report that maintenance crews were doing new construction work at SOuthbury.
 Submit Names Governor
 motion unanimously passed that the init five names to Governor Raymond R. Baldwin for his selection Labor Representative the State Labor Rea tOns Board Those chosen for recommendation ernor were George Josn Merden Sheet Metal Workers President Barry, Hartford Carpenters; Dennis F. Byrnes Bridgeport Painters; George Lockwood, Stamford Carpen ters and Thomas YOczik, Norwalk Carpenters.
 The Board voted send letter Secretary Harold w. Fenmark of the Conn., Federation of Labor con- Veng its hope for his speedy recovery Full support for pas of the OPA. bill before Congress- adequate funds for enforcement, also voted letter be sent Board also voted recommend each local they su scribe for their membership The Union Times in order to keep up to date in these fast changing times.
 ''Joe" Tone Is Guest
 The meeting host Joseph M Tone Labor Consuant to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins.
 In addition to those mentioned above the meeting was attended by George SabO, Waterbury Electricians; John Teamsters Paul WiInauer Hartford Seamers Gus NobiIi Bridgeport Laborers; Nicholas Smeone Hartford Labores Alex Miller New Britain Eectricians S. l. Coppola New Haven Operating Engineers
The union times., 1945-05-26
Bridgeport Unions Win National Praise For Cy Actiqtie,

Polish government in Warsaw was sharply criticized by Plane Facts, ar influential southern labor weekly pub hshed by Dist. Lodge 776, Int1. Assn of Machinists.
 NEW YORK-Time, influential weekly news magazine, paid tri- bute to the power of Iabor's argu- ment before a congressional com mittee that lowered tariffs would not reduce the living standards of American workers but would in- stead promote foreign trade, post war prosperity and peace. The re- ciprOcal trade agreements act. which would give the President power to lower tariff barriers up to 5O8o was approved by the commit tee, IA to II, despite hard fight from Republican and high tariff interests, and is now on the floor of the House.
 WASHINGTON. - OPA an nounced it hoped to hold retail price to about the levels of 1942 by accept ing industry figures on costs and ap plying ceiling-fxing formula de vised by its experts.
 AUSTIN, Tex.-The soak-the-poo amendment to limit income taxes t 25%o, promoted by the reactionar Gannett Committee for Constitutions Government, was slipped on the Texa house calendar without a public hear ing.