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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12
NAVY RELEASES INITIAL GROUP
 WITHIN ALASkA
Five Discharged al New Kodiak Separation
 Point-0thers Soon

NAVAL OPERATION BASE, Ko- diak, Alaska, Oct, 12.-Ceremony at tended the release here yesterday of the first group of Alaskans on duty within the Seventeenth Naval Dis trict to be discharged under the Navy's demobilization plan.
 Capt. Raymond R. Lyons, USN, commanding this Naval Operation Base, the separation point for men eligible for discharge in Alaska, shook hands as he presented Honor able Discharge Certificates and congratulated each discharge on the successful completion of his service in the Navy.
 The discharges had been some what delayed, the Captain stated because proper forms and discharge buttons had been slow in arriving Releases hereafter will be swiftly handled People of Alaska can ex- pect their men folks home as soon as they attain the necessary points.
 Capt. Lyons asked the discharges that they not forget entirely their training and that they consider en- tering the Naval Reserve after they have resumed civilian careers.
 Those to go were Jackson w. Martin, s 1-c, Kodiak; Frank Paul Bergdoll, GEM, Sitka; Harold A. Maxwell. BM 1-c, Kodiak; Dwer J. Bislinghoff, GEM, Kodiak and Allan S. Sinder, CPhoM, Kodiak.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12
vETERANSOF
 WORLD WAR
 II MEETING
First Annual Convention Gets Underway in Chi
 tdgo Proposals

CHICAGO, Oct. 12.-The Ameri- can Veterans of World War II, com- prised solely of men and women who served in the war just ended, opened it's first annual convention today
 Presiding over the meeting was National Commander Elmo Keel, veteran of the China Burma India theatre and now a student at the Washington University in St. Louis. Delegates firm 136 posts in 36 states were expected to attend the three-day meeting.
 Proposals slated to be introduced include simplification of the CT Bill of Rights to facilitate loans to veterans; demobilization, veterans housing. peacetime conscription, equal representation on the Veterans Administration, bonus. labor-man- agement relations, disqualification and tax exemption.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12
H0MEWARD TRAVEL OF SOLDIERS FROM EUROPE I5 HELD up

PARIS, Oct. 12-During the past two weeks the homeward travel of 65,000 American soldiers from the European theatre has been post poned, partly because of a slow-up of shipping from east coast United States ports over which the War Department has no control, the OISE Section Army Headquarters said today
 On one day recently, the sailing of 19 Victory Ships from Marseille was cancelled, headquarters added.
 Other contributing factors in the postponements, it was said, were the fact that the number of Liberty Ships available has been below original estimates and that the stormy season has begun in the North Atlantic.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12
STRIKE MENACE I5 MOUNTING IN
 BRITISH PORTS
Troops UnIoaded Ships al LiverpooI-London Tie-
 Up Is Threatened

LONDON, Oct. 12-Troops were ordered into the great, seven-mile long Liverpool docks today and began unloading 12,000 tons of urgently required foodstuffs from five freighters and nine coasters as the paralyzing dock strike raised 8 mounting menace to delivery of the nations meager rations.
 The strike spread to Edinburgh, where 1000 Scottish lockers quit work in sympathy with the English strike.
 In London, Strike Leader Thomas Powell warned that the huge port would be tied up completely by Monday unless settlement is reached over the weekend.
 Most major ports already were throttled as stevedores ignored re- turn to work pleas of union leaders, despite a government statement that negotiations could be con- ducted only through regular chan nels between union officials and dock owners.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12
Army Is Forgiven for Making Mistake But
 "A Happy, However

SEATTLE, Oct. 12.-The Army was forgiven today by "A persons, including seven mothers, for send- ing them rushing to San Francisco in the mistaken belief their sons and husbands, returning prisoners of war, would arrive at. that port from the Orient.
 These happy people were, waiting at the pier here today for the ex- pected arrival of the U. s. s. Gosper with her large load of passengers.
 They were flown north late. yes- terday by the Army after it was discovered the ship was bound, not for San Francisco, but for Seattle.
 For most of them it was their first plane flight and they enjoyed the trip up the coast in the big CAT transport.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12
NATIONAL LABOR
 CONFERENCE SET
 FOR DEC. } TO {
Secretary Slhwellenbath Wants Labor Com
 missioner There

Secretary of Labor L. B. Schwel- lenbach has requested Governor of Alaska Ernest Gruening to appoint representatives to the Twelfth Na- tional Conference on Labor Legis- lation which will meet in Wash- ington Dec. 3 to 6.
 Secretary Schwellenbach said in a letter to Gov. Gruening that 1t would be preferable to appoint the Territorial Commissioner of Labor. who is Walter P Sharpe, to at tend the state labor commissioner conference, which will meet sep arately Dec. 3 and 4 to consider common problems of administra- ton and Federal-State cooperation.
 State representatives of organ ized labor, he pointed out. will join the commissioners of labor for general policy deliberations on Dec. and 6, and the Secretary also requests participation by or ganized labor in Alaska at the conference.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12
127 Ships Of  Or Sent Down
Eiqht Thousand Houses FIooded- -Thousdnds
 Are Homeless
Associated Press Correspondent,

Associated Press CorrespondenD
 Okinawa today was shambles- reminiscent of it's recent battle ravaged condition following the 132-mile an hour typhoon that killed three American Navy per- sonnel, left 10 sailors missing and more than 100 Yank soldiers in- jured and sank, aged or beached 127 Naval vessels. The typhoon, which struck Oki- nawa Tuesday after having twisted l50 miles to the southwest for 24 hours, swept northward to kill at least 69 Japanese, flood 5000 houses, wash away 8l bridges and leave many thousands homeless in central and southern Honshu.
 Food Rushed By Supers
 Fifty Superfortresses from the Marianas delivered 284 tons of food to the l50,000 troops on Okinawa today. Approximately twice that amount will be transported to them during the next three days by bombers from Guam. Next week deliveries will be made from Saipan.
 In addition to food. the troops need shelted facilities to replace tents, Quonset huts and other in stallations that were demolished. or heavily damaged.
 Hours Of Darkness
 Parked airplanes were rolled about by the typhoon, the islands food stocks were nearly all de- stroyed, and hospital patients had a nightmarish time throughout the hours of darkness.
 More than 1000 acros of land washed out and many thousands flooded by heavy rains which &C., companied the typhoon. increasing the nations already critical food problem.
 Heavily damaged communications on both Okinawa and Honshu hampered attempts to get complete reports on casualties and damage. On Okinawa, damage was so great that the east coast was out of touch with the western side of the narrow, l0-mile-wide island.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12
|32 MILE TYPH00N SMASHES 0KINAWA
Activities in Mineral
 Exploration May Cease;
 Protest Made by Eng|e

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 - The House Appropriations Deficiency Subcommittee has indicated to the Bureau of Mines that it should be prepared to end it's mineral ex- ploration activities, Rep. Engle D-Calif) has told the House.
 He made his assertion in a speech protesting proposals to re- cover for the Treasury funds all ready appropriated to the bureau for exploratory work. The Presi- dent several days ago recommended that about $4O0,0o0 of the fund be recovered.
 Much valuable exploratory work now being conducted by the bureau will be closed down if the decision is made, Engle said.
 Citing what he asserted has been the great value of the mineral exploratory work carried on since the outbreak of the war, Engle said that approximately 5000 individual deposits of S2 types of minerals were examined and reported upon in 48 states and Alaska, with more than 100 deposits brought into production.
 He added that antimony and mercury deposits were brought into
  production in Alaska Bauxite pro- auction increased in Alabama and Arkansas; chromite deposits opened in California; coal production for the Army made possible in Alaska; new copper producers brought in in Arizona and Vermont; flurospar in Utah and Illinois, manganese in Nevada and Virginia; and mica in South Dakota and New Hampshire.
 Engle said he believed the mines bureau could submit a sensible peace time program, for carrying on the work"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12
Young Negro Taken
 From Jail; Is Shot

MADISON, Fla, Oct. 12.-A young Negro under indictment for assault with intent to rape five-year- old white girl, was taken from the coun- ty jail either late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning and shot to death, Sheriff Lonnie Davis re- ported.
 Sheriff Davis said that the Negro, Jasse James Payne, was returned to the jail here from the State prison Tuesday for arraignment. He had pleaded innocent to the charges. His case had been scheduled for trial next Tuesday.
 Gov. Willard Caldwell at Talla- hassee, said he had received only a "sketchy report" on the affair but would start an immediate investiga- tion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12
Kodiak Naval Headquarters For North Pacific; Wood Is
 Successor 10 Jatk Fletcher

KODIAK, Alaska, Oct. 12-With the transfer of command of the North Pacific Force and area from Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher to Rear Admiral Ralph Wood of Seattle, the Commander of the Naval District, Kodiak Naval Air Station today was head quarters for Navy sphere of opera tions in the entire North Pacific.
 The transfer was made Wednes- day, whereupon Admiral Fletcher who arrived recently aboard the U. s. s. Panamint, accompanied by five destroyers-flew to An chorage enroute to Washington, D. c. He will spend his leave in his Maryland home. Fletcher's flag ship brought him back from Omi- nato, Japan, via Adak, former headquarters in the Aleutians.
 Preceding the formal transfer of commands, Admiral Fletcher who formerly commanded the thirteenth Naval District with headquarters at Seattle-presented 12 awards for meritorious achieve ments and exceptional service. They included the Legion of Merit to his successor, Admiral Wood; to Capt. J. $. MacKinnon, Juneau, and to Commodore Robert E. Rob- inson, Jr., Camden, s. o.
 A Bronze Star Medal was pre- sented to Capt. John White of Fairbanks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12
War Correspondents In Pacific Setfions Are Civilians 0liober 27

TOKYO, oct. 12-War correspon- dents in Japan. the Philippines and Korea will revert to the civilian status of foreign correspondents at 12:01 a. m. Oct 27 (Tokyo Time) Allied headquarters announced to- day.
 Headquarters also established a quota system which will allow the Associated Press, the United Press and the International News Service five foreign correspondents each in Japan, three each in the Philip pines and one each in Korea.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12
GOVERNOR CALLS
 ONLEGIONNA!0ES
 FOR VETERAN AID
Tells Alaska Department Convention, We Have
 Our Job Still 10 Do"

SEWARD, Alaska, Oct. 12 - In a pointed message addressed to his Fellow Legionnaires," read here today at the opening of the An nual Convention of the American Legion, Department of Alaska, Gov Ernest Gruening expressed from Washington, D. C., his regret in not being able to attend the con- vention and conveyed his wishes for it's greatest possible success.
 The Governor termed the cur rent convention "an unusually inn portant one," because We all stand in the shadow of great events; excepting the Civil War, the greatest event in our history since our country came into being"
 Special Responsibility
 Referring to the proble em S brought about by the sudden ar rival of peace, Gov. Gruening con- tinued:
 Tn addressing you, my fellow Legionnaires, I cannot help but feel that we of the Legion have a pe- culiar and special responsibility We represent the survivors of the First World War. But for the almost vanished remnant of Civil War veterans and a handful of Spanish War veterans, the Legion embodies that group of Americans who have had experience in war and in the problems of postwar and are by that experience qualified to speak, to act and to lead. If in conse- quence we have any wisdom to inn part and counsel to give, the time to give it is now"
 Change GI Legislation
 Restating his previously expressed view that present CT. legislation lis inadequate to take care of the
 lCOHfin1Led on PaQe FiJe)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12
The Washington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Navy in- siders are hoping for new deal regarding discharges, recognition of reserves and other Navy injustices, following the shake-up in the Navy's Bureau of Personnel and the impending exit of Navy Czar Admiral Ernie King. In fact, some fresh air already has blown into the Navy Department.
 To get the full picture of what's happening, it's necessary to realize that for about five years the Sec retary of the Navy has chiefly been the performing puppet of hard-boiled, high-handed Admiral Ernie King. The late Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox was at swords points with King most of the time. The admirals would meet in formal session with him, show him few routine cables and, then adjourn. ta
 Later, King and his close asso- ciates would handle the really im- portant cables, which neither Knox nor Under Secretary James For restal knew existed.
 Admiral King pulled his own Annapolis classmates all around him. He formed the most powerful clique the Navy has ever seen, with no one able to penetrate it, least of all the Secretary of the Navy. The older men of Kings time at Annapolis Che is 65) got the chief plums, and the younger men bore the brunt of the. fighting. .Antago- nism against King was especially
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12
Poison Cocktail Party in Prison
 Causes } Deaths

SAN QUENTIN, Calif., Oct. 12.-A poison cocktail party claimed the lives of three San Quentin convicts and left nine others in various de- grees of danger" Warden Clinton Duffey announces.
 Duffy said the survivors admitted in the prison hospital they had drunk a cocktail. brewed out of poisonous duplicating machine fluid.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12
FROM ELFIN COVE

Arriving here from Elfin Cove yesterday were MT. and Mrs. c. w. Hubbard and Walter Larson, who are registered at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12
pER0N FLEE5 TO REFUGE kS ARREST
 DEMAND x MADE
Political Unrest in Argen. fine CompIiedfed-El-
 eCiion Date Sci

BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 12.- The Cabinet of Argentine Presi- dent Gen. EdeimirO Farrell re- signed today, under pressure of both military and civilian groups. Official announcement of the mass resignation came as some I20 Army and Navy officers met in the Officers Club, and a grow ing crowd gathered in the streets outside.
 VcrnengO Lime, new Naval Minister, announced that PcrOn had been arrested.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12

BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 12 - Col Juan Peron, political strong man busted from Argentina's Govern ment this week, apparently fled to a refuge in the countryside today in the face of demands by group of Army and Navy officers for his arrest.
 The regime of President Gen Edelmiro Farrell set next April 2
 as a presidential election date in a decree issued shorty after the military group demanded Peron's detention and resignationS of Farrel's entire cabinet.
 The political unrest was compli- cated by both military and civilian pressure on the government.
 All Buenos Aires morning news papers, with the exception of La Nacion and La Prensa, refused to go to press today as protest against the closing of one morning and three evening papers yester- day, although the government an- nounced last night the ban against the four publications had been lifted.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-12
Grew of Grounded
 Vessel Safe Ashore

SAN PEDRO. Calif.. Oct. 12.- Forty-six crew members of the Can adian freighter Westbank Park were brought safely to port here last night after their ship was ground ed off Lower California.
 Elmer L. Higgs, steamship agent, said the freighter was grounded three or four days ago, but that he had no further information regard ing it.
 ELLINGE NARRIVES Harry E. Ellingen, of Haines. is a gest at the Gastinea Hotel.
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Evening star., 1945-05-20

ice); vocational rehabilitation of the
disabled, and the CT Bill of Rights,
with its unemployment and educational
benefits, its disqualification guarantees,
and its partial guaranty of business,
home and farm loans.
These were the tasks added to an
agency already overloaded with re-
sponsibility Ifor pensions, insurance,
disability allowances and operation of
veterans hospitals. 1t has given rise
to congressional demands for establish
ment Of new, modernized agency to
cope with the situation, but spokesmen
for the Veterans Administration have
fought back, insisting that in due time
it will be able to function quite ade-
quately. They have taken sharp issue
with outspoken critics like Millard w.
Rice, national service director of the
Disabled American Veterans, who views
the agency's towering burden as a
'monstrosity" that will divert care for
the disabled.
The agency thus far has granted
422,000 service connected disability pen
o1oAAo AVA fCtC1 dAlc VI Vic pICoClt Wal,
or $4,000 more than the total allowed
World War I veterans between 1918 and
1941. And the crest is still far away.
The Senate Subcommittee on Wartime
Health and Education has estimated
that the number of disabled alone in
this war will be not less than a million
and a half, and may be as great as two
and a half million, depending on the
length of the war.
Hospital Critics Answered.
Considerable criticism has been di-
rected at the administrations hospital
program, only partly mitigated by con-
gressional authorization for q greatly
expanded construction program. It is
charged that the agency will not be
prepared for the influx of sick and
disabled veterans when the peak is
reached several years after the war
ends. Complaints are heard that even
today many veterans are finding great
difficulty in gaining admittance into
veterans hospitals.
Agency officials admit that some hos
pitals are badly overcrowded, and have
long waiting lists, but point out that
other hospital facilities have unoccupied
beds. AS of last month, there were
Evening star., 1945-05-20
By Ed,Oard A. Harris

A storm of controversy has arisen over
the Servicemens Readjustment Act of
1914, popularity known as the CT Bill
of Rights, and the manner in which its
provisions are being carried out.
While the act was hailed as mo-
mentous Magma Charta for veterans of
this war, and was designed to prevent
repetition of the neglect and indifference
that disillusioned so many World War
veterans at the end of that struggle,
already dismay has overtaken many of
the 100000 men and women who have
been discharged from the services.
The veterans organizations, as a
whole, look upon the CT Bill of Rights
as a good piece of legislation, although
they would like to see some of the
provisions liberalized. The confusion
and dissatisfaction lie % in the belief
held by many ex-servicemen that the
benefits are more extensive than they
actually are CD in the narrow, re-
stricting interpretations Government
agencies are placing on the acts essen
tial provisions and 90 in the inability
of the Veterans Administration to
handle smoothly the staggering new
burden of responsibilities.
Without question, the Veterans Ad-
ministration, which is headed by Brig.
Gen. Frank T. Hines, has been extremely
cautious in dispensing Government
funds to eligible ex-servicemen. This
has been partly due to reaction against
the scandals of the Harding admins
tration, when Uncle Sam was taken for
ride by innumerable takers. and partly
due to the physical problem Of coping
with ever-increasing duties.
Showed Under With Mail.
Now budgeted at $2,7Oo, 900 900, this
agency is currently receiving million
and half letters a month at its WASH
>tngton headquarters. In two years its
work load has jumped 800 per cent,
while personnel has increased only IA
per cent, according to administration
officials.
Within the past two years the agency
has taken on the responsibility for nom
service-connected disqualification for
veterans Of World War II dnjuries or
ailments not incurred during war serv-
Evening star., 1945-05-20
War Review
Fire Bomb Raids Wreck
Nasoya War Plants
By Howard p. Bailey

Japan last week received somewhat
larger portions of the bitter medicine
which has been prescribed for the Nip
traces of the virus of war.
Twice during the week Nagoya ia
pans third largest city, was transformed
into raging inferno by the new in
cendiary bombs, and Friday Tokyo re-
ceived another blasting which no doubt
strengthened the hands of those reported
already to be putting out peace feelers.
The high lights of the week were:
Sunday: Well over 500 Super Fort
resses drop $500 tons of incendiaries on
Nagoya while more than 900 carrier
planes raid various airfields and other
objectives on Kyushu Island. Mitsu-
bishi aircraft plant badly damaged in
Nagoya raid. Marines reach business
district of Naha, capital sof Okinawa,
but fighting is fierce and advance slow.
United States planes penetrate Korean
waters, damaging cargo ship and oiler.
Churchill pledges full aid in war against
Japs; warns world United Nations Or
ganization for peace must not deteriorate
into name only.
and set up thunderous barrage to halt
United States forces penetrating Naha.
Check on raid over Nagoya indicates
area totaling nine square miles set
ablaze with heavy ordnance, electrical
equipment and aircraft factories devas-
tated. Minesweeper 103 sunk off Oki-
nawa. Yanks blast stubborn Japs near
Davao, but progress is slow. Aussies
take Wewak on New Guinea after two
year campaign. Formosa raided by
United States planes and Is freighters
and five coastal vessels are sunk. Four
Russian armies crushing out last Naz
resistance in Czechoslovakia. United
Nations Conference nears agreement on
security agency to prevent new wars.
Tuesday: Yanks take airfield, opening
way to final capture of Naha. Planes
smash communications in Southern
Honshu. More Nazi submarines give up,
bringing count to in American hands,
80 in British. President Truman re-
verses Elmer Davis owl, which had
barred American and other Allied news
papers and magazines from Germany.
Gen. Eisenhower agrees that free press
consistent with security should be main
tanned. Russian silence delays final
agreement on world security organiza-
ton. Stettinius urges drafting of in
ternational bill of rights. President
Truman hopes for early meeting Of Big
Three.
Wednesday: Heavy casualties mark
seesaw battle for Naha. with only slight
change In position. Fighting near
(See REVIEW, Page Gill;