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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
ATTENDANCE LARGE
 AT SQUARE DANCE

With the largest attendance at any of the old fashioned square dances sponsored by the American Women's Voluntary Services and the USO, six sets were in action last night in the A. B. Hall with many spectators enjoying the music and watching the dancers.
 In the gathering were many real oldtimers who last night danced their first square dance in years, and there was an equal number who had never tried them before. The dancers were enthusiastic and at the conclusion of each number warmly applauded the musicians, E. M. Me Intyre, violinist, and Albert Peter son, accordionist, and clamored for more.
 The next square dance under aus pices of the American Women s Voluntary Services and the USO in the A. B. Hall will be February T. The regular dates for the dances at the A. B. Hall are the first and third Wednesdays of each month. On the second, fourth and fifth Wednesdays the dances are held in the USO headquarters.
 While the Legislature is in session the legislators and their families are invited to attend the fortnightly dances of the AWvS and USO in A. B. Hall.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
ESKlM0S BUY AIRpL ANE 10 HUNT WOLVES
Juneau Man, Fred Lorz, WiIIFIy for Deer Herd
 CTS 0ut of Bethel

Strong evidence of new era of air transportation is the news that a group of Eskimo reindeer herders have. gone into the airplane busi- ness. sE
 The herders, at Bethel near the mouth of the Kuskokwim River, have hired Juneau pilot Fred Lorz to fly small ski-equipped plane they recently purchased for hunt ing wolves.
 With several thousand dollars surplus in their cooperative treasury from reindeer meat sales, the Es- kimo group decided they could well spend it to equip and maintain an airplane for killing off wolves that have long rayaged the deer herds in the flat tundra grazing grounds back of Bethel
 Lorz will get his pay in bounties and belt sales and will be provided with a gunner.
 According to Reindeer Supervisor J. S. Rood, Lorz will leave shortly for Bethel Mrs. Lorz will remain in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
LEGION SCOUTS
 FORM ANOTHER
 PATROL AT MEET

With more boys joining the Am- erican Legion Boy Scout Troop 6l3 every week it was necessary to form fourth patrol at the meeting held in the Dugout last night. The new patrol chose as it's name, the Pine Tree Patrol.
 Members of the patrol are Thomas Hughes, leader; Charles smith Dewey Jones and Denny Gallagher, members.
 Scoutmaster De Vaughn kershaW reports the Legion troop consists of 28 boys and it is believed 1ull complement of 32 boys will be signed up within the next few weeks.
 Assisting the Scoutmaster In handling last nights meeting was Dick Wingerson, senior patrol lead
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
FIVE LEGISLATORS
 ARRIVE HERE TODAY

With the opening of the Seven teenth Territorial Legislature set for next Monday, Senators and Repre- sentatives are arriving every day now by boat and plane.
 Arriving here today were Repre- sentative-elect Alaska s. Linck. Democrat, Fairbanks; Senator Frank Gordon, Democrat, Fairbanks; Rep resentative-eiect Michael J. Walsh Democrat, Nome, Accompanied by Mrs. Walsh); Senator-elect John Butrovich, Jr., Republican. Fair banks, and Senator-elect Edward F Coffey, Democrat, Anchorage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
HOUSING
 pR0JE(T
 PLANNED
Public and Private Unifs 10 Be Recon m e nded in
 Juneau, CopIen Says

Early construction of increased housing facilities in Juneau will be recommended to the National Housing Authority by its regional .Representative George Copleps MIA officials declared today.
 How many units will be recom- mended is contingent on report of the War Manpower Commis- sion, ''N on labor availability, Coplen declared.
 Although no specific number Of units has been arrived at, Coplen said there will be some public housing units to take care of es- sential workers who are without means beyond medium rentals, are in no position to supply their own furniture, and who cannot afford to purchase new units,' adding, however, the bulk of recommended construction will be for private capital
 The National Housing Adminis- tration representative spent the past few days in Ketchikan and other Southeast Alaska cities and was to fly to Anchorage this afternoon.
 Tt is apparent" Coplen observed, that Alaskan towns must adopt progressive planning for future needs. There is nothing stop-gap in current construction plans to take care of existing needs These needs in Alaska are quite evident ly in an expanding stage"
 The public housing units which will be open to essential em- ployees, will in line with MIA policy, be delivered to private capi- tai wherever possible when the em- ergency is ended, actual renters h ving purchasing preference, Coplen said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18

The w ashingt ion Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON C1t. Col Robert S. Allen now on active
 service with the Army)

WASHINGTON-It it's last dying hours, the 18th Congress issued a report which might well have been labeled How to waste the tax payers money and the confidence of the American people,
 It was the last report of the House committee Investigating the Federal Communications Commit tee. It cost the taxpayers $ll0,000. It used up the time of five-man committee of Congressmen for two years, plus dozens of EGG off cials who had to drop the work they were doing to answer commit tee questions.
 In the end, it reported that nothing was wrong with EGG, praised Chairman Larry Fly and exonerated Tom Corcoran and Ed Noble of the Blue Network of any wrong doing in connection with the purchase of station WMCA.
 Behind the investigation was the
 
 personal vengeance of one man Congressman Eugene "Goober" Cox of Georgia. The EGG had learned he accepted a $2,500 fee from a Georgia radio station for lobbying before the EGG in connection with wave length and reported the matter to the Justice Department The head of the criminal division recommended prosecution.
 Whereupon Cox, one of the most powerful men in Congress, with a whole string of relatives on the public payroll, initiated an investi- gation of the EGG. For a time he had a field day. He employed as counsel Eugene Carey, one of Roosevelts bitterest enemies. And with Cox himself sitting as chair man, he rode roughshod over the EGG.
 Finally other Congressional lead- CTS realized that Coxs thirst for blood was blackening the name of all Congressmen and they forced him out. The probe dragged on in the less biased hands of Congress man Lea of California, in the end giving all those investigated clean bill of health Net result was to focus reams of unfavorable and undeserved publicity on Noble, Ccrcoran and Fly whom everyone now comedies did an Al job But more than that it boomeranged and hurt Congress.
 As long as one Congressman can use the comradery of his colleagues on Capitol Hill to wield the tre- mendous Investigating powers of Congress in a personal grudge fight, the public is not going to have much faith in our legislative in- stitution
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
10 REBUILD
 GOLDSTEIN
 STRUCTURE
Owner Reports Go Ahead 10 Be Given Consirul-
 lion Soon

Charles Goldstein, pioneerAlaskan businessman, announced today that "all indications are that can go ahead soon with the rebuilding of the Goldstein Building.
 The announcement came after a Chamber of Commerce meeting dur ing which the cooperation of Cham Der members was assured MT. Gold stein. He told the members that he was confident that the rebuilding of the structure would be accomplished without support of local capital.
 The building - Juneau and AL askas first all-concrete building and the first with elevators, was gutted by fire February 8, 1889. The flames originated in the basement.
 Full details concerning the plans and the date construction will begin will be announced by MT Goldstein later.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
FIRST IS LESS THAN 4 MILES FROM 5T. WITH
Foq Holds Planes on Ground-Thawing Blush
 Hampers Progress

PARIS, Jan. 18-British troops advanced almost three miles into Germany today to near Bongen the center of the Reich district jutting into the Dutch panhandle
 U. s. Third Army troops stormed across the Sure River near Die kirch, Is miles north of Luxem- bourg City.
 In a new assault which flatteneo the Ardennes Salient, the Ameri- can First Army troops picked ur yardage in slush leading to, St With. the last Belgian road center in German hands. They are closer than four miles and gaining along the main road northwest of the town.
 In the Recht sector, Allied ad- vances are costing heavily.
 The British offensive from the Maas River toward the Roer River overran at least five more villages and widened to a 28-mile curving front from Geilenkirchen to Roer- mond
 A German broadcast said that British troops had landed on Schouwen Island, just north oi Walcheren in Holland at dawn yes terday.
 It. Gen. Dempsey's columns slicing across the hook shaped tiE of Germany northeast of Sittard advanced up to 1000 yards before dusk, while other troops rolled up gains of a thousand yards else- where on the widening front.
 German opposition is bitter, and so is the weather Fog still ham, pered air support with curtained visibility as thaws melted the snow.
 One British force drove nearly a mile from newly captured Echt close to Schilberg, three and one half miles northeast of Maesyck and captured Dude and Roostern just north of fallen Dietern. Total British advances in the past three days ranged above four miles and carried them to less than eight miles from the Roer River, guard ing stream for Dusseldorf, Cologne and other Rhineland arsenal cities
 The Third Army completed the mopping up of trapped German troops in the Hennig pocket of the rich Moselle Valley.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK. Jan. l3 - Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7h, American Can 9lA. Beech Aircraft 13%, Bethlehem Steel 69as, Curtiss- Wright 6, In ternational Harvester 78, Kennecott 38, North American Aviation 10is New York Central 235s, Northern Pacific 1912, U. s. Steel 6l.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials, l5466; rails, 490l; utilities, 26.8l.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18

PARIS, Jan. 18.--New reports of German atrocities were brought back today from the First Army front by Capt Joseph Brown, swan sea, s. C., and Sgt Robert c. Jones, Hamilton. Ohio.
 Both fresh out of the line of the First Armys latest attack on the German Ardennes salient. they told numerous tales Of the brutalities of the Nazi troops of the First s. s. Armored Division which was in the hamlet of Parfondruy.
 Brown, battalion plans training officer with the Thirtieth Infantry Division, discovered two old women shot through the head as they lay
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
New Atrocities Are
 Committed by Nazi
 S. S. in parfondruy

in bed and a year-old child was killed in the same manner
 Jones, tank platoon sergeant, told of finding an invalid woman, all though confined to a wheel chair, apparently assaulted, then shot through the head
 Jones said. Tn Parfondruy my men and I took eight s. s. men as prisoners and questioned them as to why they had done these things. They said they had been ordered by officers to eliminate all soldiers and civilians who interfered with them That's why the baby had been shot, they said. It had been crying
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
American Armies Are Carrying Fight Now 10
 tazis on Wesiern Front

LONDON, Jan. 18.-British Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of Commons today that the American armies have done almost all of the fighting and lost 50 to 80 men for every one of ours" on the Western Front since the Germans launched their counter offensive De- cember 16.
 This is the greatest American
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
WOMEN MAY JOIN
 JUNEAU CHAMBER

The Juneau Chamber of Com- merce, heretofore a strictly male assembly, soon will have a woman member.
 Mrs. Laura Ordway, a prominent Juneau businesswoman has made application for membership and a check of the bylaws revealed that women may join if they wish.
 The new member probably will be introduced at the next meeting and it is understood that an effort to recruit more women members will be made by the Chambers Member ship Committee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
TEN PASSENGERS IN
 ON pAA PLANE TODAY

A Pan American Airways plane took the following passengers to Se- attle today-Ludwig Kann, Kenneth Kellener, Tom Dyer, John De Cham plain, Mrs. Beatric Parsons, Kalle Raatikainen.
 Juneau to Whitehorse-Joe Greba.
 Juneau to Fairbanks - George Coplen.
 Fairbanks to Juneau-Mrs. Alaska Linck, Henry Badger, Frank Gordon, Michael Walsh, Mrs. Louise Walsh, John Butrovich, Jr
 Seattle to Juneau-Edward Coli fey, Sumner Lucken, Francis Luck en, Ben McManus.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
ALI POLAND FAST BEING
 LIBERATED
Fall of Warsaw Is Prelude to Fall of Berlin,
 Red Press Says

BULLETIN-LONDON, Jan. Is The Berlin radio tonight an- nounced that Russian troops have reached the German border of Silesia and that Voksstum units have already gone into action to defend the Fatherland soil. Shortly after this disclosure, StaIin announced that Konev's Russians captured Piotrkow. "A miles southeast of Lodz, ''Po- lands Pittsburgh" Marshal Ro- kossovsky's Second White Rus sian Army on the northern wing of the Russian offensive, has cap tured more than 1000 towns and has driven to within F miles of the East Prussian border. Stalin said the capture of Piotrkow meant that the important strong point of defense, Lodz. has fallen. Berlin admitted that whole sale disengaging movement Is in progress.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
DIVORCE FILED

Action for divorce has been filed with the office of the Clerk of U. s. District Court here by Jack B. Burford, plaintiff, vs. Betty Bur ford. The complaint charges in- compability of temperament and desertion. Mrs. Burford is now residing in Olympia, Wash. accord ing to the complaint.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
Mrs. Dawes Will Read Poetry at
 Marthtd Society

Mrs. L. P. Dawes will read some of her original poetry and dialogues for special entertainment at the regular meeting of the Martha So- ciety at 1:30 D. m. Friday at the Northern Light Presbyterian Church
 Mrs. Walter Kleweno and Mrs. w. B. Glaske will be hostesses for the dessert luncheon, and Mrs. Ralph Martin will lead the devotions.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
USES MAN HERE

E. A. Vincent of the Anchorage USES office passed through Ju- neau yesterday on his way to Ket- chikan. where he has been de- tailed to the Ketchikan employment office for the next several weeks
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
HEINTZELMAN TO RETURN

B. Frank Heintzelman, District Forester, is expected to return to his office here early next week, 1t vas announced today, He has been in Seattle and Portland during the past two weeks on official business, principally in regard to proposed pulp timber sales from the Ketchi- kan district.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18

battle of the war and will be re- garded, think, as ever famous American victory" Churchill said
 The British Prime Minister also disclosed to the House of Commons that in the fighting last month, only one British Army Corps was engaged and all the rest, 30 or more divisions, were American troops.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
MAKE TRIP SOUTH

Shell Simmons and Bert Seaton of Alaska Coastal Airlines have flown south with PA to spend a few days in Seattle looking over possible additions to the. flying equipment of the local line.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
STREET-C CLEANER CONGRESSMAN

Congressman William J. Gala gher, the former Minneapolis street cleaner, has been having quite a time romping around the Capitol since his arrival in Washington.
 The other morning, Gallagher sitting in his office alone, answered
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
SOVIET TANK PRAISED

LONDON, Jan 18-A German re- porter. speaking on the Berlin radio, paid high tribute to the power of the new Red Army heavy tank called Joseph Stalin.
 Russians are using their new Joseph Stalin super tank on an ever increasing scale said Nazi Reporter Heinz Megerlein, adding that This is the most powerfully gunned ar mored vehicle in the world It is more than a match for our best tank, the Royal Tiger"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
TO
 HOLD PRESENT GREEK COURSE
Agreement Reached with SidIin on Balkans Says
 Prime Minister

LONDON, Jan. 18.-In a fighting speech, British Prime Mipister Win ston Churchill today asserted that he and Russia's Premier Stalin have reached agreement on dealing with the Balkans to prevent future wars. He said that United States President Roosevelt had been kept 'contantly informed
 While insisting that this agree ment is not intended to divide Eur ope into spheres of influence after the war, Churchill told the House of Commons that Britain will con- tinue to pursue a wartime policy of interference in middle Europe, so long as he holds office Under the Crown" Thus he challenged the House to another vote of confidence, if his course should be disapproved.
 To Stay in Greece
 In rapid-fire order, Churchill told the House of Commons that Britain will stay in Greece until impartial elections can be held in that coun- try. He declared the left-wing EIIAM- ELIAS factions, against which British soldiers have been fighting in Greece, are even dirtier than tia Germans. that they must be considered as Trotskyite Commun- ists, a phrase heard by many as Churchill's absolution for Moscow in the Greek troubles. ELIAS forces have already butchered up to 1900 fellow Greeks, mostly by knives and axes"
 YugosIavia Attitude
 Britain has no intention, the Prime Minister asserted, of getting young King Peter to stand in the path of a regency for Yugoslavia. King Peter will be ploughed under by "the march of events" unless he agrees that Marshal Tito must be considered the undisputed master of Yugoslavia.
 Italy Soon Free
 Italy, Churchill stated, will be free of the Germans in a few months, or sooner. They will with draw, or be thrown out as in Hun gary. Then the weight of vast liberated territory will be thrown on the fragile" government at Rome but (and this statement is not ex- plained) there is no combination of powers in Europe in which, we need Italy as a partner"
 AlI-Out Debate
 The speech by Britains leader op- ened a two-day all-out debate on the whole world situation.
 Churchill further said: We need Italy no more than we need Spain, because we have no designs which require the support of that colln- try"
 News Situation
 Taking up the contention existing between the British and American press, Churchill said that never be- fore in his experience had the Brit ish Government been "so maligned as to it's motives or so traduced in our own country by important or gans of the press and among our own people How can we wonder, still less how can we complain, at the attitude of hostile or indifferent papers in the United States when we in this country have witnessed such a melancholy exhibition as that provided by some of our time honored responsible journals and others to which such epithets could hardly anr1lN n
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
CAPT. BLACKWELL LEAVES

Capt. V. M. Blackwell, with the Army Engineers othe Westward, has departed for his post after spending the holidays with his family in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18
POOR FLIES SOUTH

Val Poor. owner of the Douglas Drug Store in Douglas, left by PAA plane for Seattle yesterday on a business trip.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18

LONDON, Jan. 18 Russian troops rolling toward with massive momentum in Stalin's greatest win < ter offensive may already have crossed the German frontier into the coal and industrial region of Silesia.
 One Moscow dispatch said that it is believed that Germany is now fighting on her homeland soil on both the east and west fronts. Three great Russian armies of D. 100000 men strung along the 250- mile front are fast liberating all of Poland after capturing Warsaw, Radon, and Czestochowa. and the Germans are reported falling back to the next natural line of defense. the Oder River 30 miles from Der lin.
 The liberation of Warsaw an- nounced the forthcoming fall of Berlin" proclaimed the Moscow press.
 Confusion in Berlin
 Berlin, admitting confusion in the face of the smashing onslaught. said that Tomaszow, 20 miles southeast of Lodz. Poland's greatest industrial city, has been evacuated. and said that Breslaw, Germans chief in- dustrial city in Silesia, is directly in the danger zone.
 Lublin radio said that Krakow, city of Poland's ancient kings, also has been captured.
 The forces of Marshal Zhukov, which took Warsaw, and of Marshal Konev, are converging on Lodz from the east as well as from the south. Zhukov after taking Zyrardow, 25 miles west of Warsaw, struck south- west toward Lodz, 46 miles away. Zhokov's forces are 28S miles from Berlin.
 Hits for Frontier
 Konev's First Ukrainian Army, which captured Czestochowa. Cath olic center known as Polish Ludue, struck for the German frontier, Is miles distance. It is Koney who is closest to Berlin, 260 miles.
 At Czestochowa his spearheads are just 35 miles north of KatoWice. Polish border town. where the first wagon loads of wounded were brought back from the front Of the Second World War.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-18

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The Coolidge examiner., 1945-09-21
Giant Sales Job

From now we going to hear great deal about
surplus materials. 1t is estimated by that there will
much 100 billion dollars worth of surpluses made
for and longer needed by the government which
must be disposed of in way These surpluses in
cude everything from nuts and bolts to huge factories
and ships.
The problem of disposing of this huge supply of
goods is a gigantic Ii must be done without
competing much with the products of in
dustry. IL must be done that it does not hurt the
interests of retailers and jobbers And it must be
done that the taxpayers of the nation get back
much money possible from their huge invest
ment in
Naturally in handling sales job of this scope, some
mistakes going to be made Some things will be sold
at prices which might appear scandaous. Other things
may be thrown instead of sod in order avoid
flct with normal business.
No matter how well this huge job handled, there will
be plenty of opportunity for politicians and scandal
mongers to find juicy bits of information which they
offer TO ndct whomever they cunning for But the
public would do well to take scandal stories about
pluses with grain of salt realizing that the worlds big
gest sales job involving thousands of employees operat
ing with many handicaps can't be handled with
out some slp-ups
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-09-21
9,o~ ON ~
E ~ ES
TEN WEARS AGO
COOLIDGE CELEBRATES ITS
TEN YEARS AGO

COOLIDGE CELEBRATES ITS
10th ANNIVERSARY - r. J. Jones.
the designer of the original town
site of Coolidge. bought 100 acres
upon which the own of Coolidge
now stands from Thomes ~ and
Lizzie c. Willis in 1919. At that
time Mr.. Jones was engaged In
business in Phoenix. but his busi-
ness acumen suggested to him the
possibilities of this location which
was later amply verified. After the
Southern Pacific built their line
through this section. Jones had the
foresight TO recognize In this spot
the location for an ideal town and
accordingly had his acreage plated
into a townsite In 1925. This was
only 10 years ago. There has
been no boom or undue excitement.
just natural conditions OF soil. To-
cation. climate and water from the
Coolidge dam that soon followed.
These conditions have made this
one of the most favored localities
of the nation. and at ten years OF
age this vigorous youth is attract
ing widespread attention. We feel
that we have just cause TO BE-
proud OF our development and are
celebrating this event tomorrow.
September II. 1885.