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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26
DOUGLAS
 NEWS
FIREMEN HOLD OPEN HOUSE

The Douglas Volunteer Fire De- partment held open house yester- day afternoon in the Fire Hall between the hours of 2 and 5 o'clock Refreshments of all kinds were built to suit the personal tastes of the hundreds of guests who called on the fire laddies. Music was provided for dancing with John Neimi on the accordion. The affair was like those of the Good Old Days with many local boys on hand just returned from war service. With everyone present, it was "a Merry Christmas to you, and--"a Happy New Year to you, ' making the party a great, success and Christmas Day merry one, thanks to the D. V. F. D.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26
CHRISTMAS WEDDING

At his Douglas home last eve ming, U. s. Commissioner Felix Gray read the marriage VOWS that united Porfirio Tabernilla and Pauline Glover, both of Juneau, in a simple Christmas evening cere- mony. Witnesses were MT. and Mrs. Sam Constantine
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26
Mrs. Wdnamaker, HenryC CropIey, I.
 Are Married Here

Henry Cropley, Sr., and Mrs. Mar garet Wanamaker were married last Thursday at Memorial Presbyterian Church. Rev. Walter A. Soboleff, pastor, officiated. at the service. Wit nesses for the ceremony were MT. and Mrs. Jake Cropley.
 The newly-married couple are at home to their friends at 926 West 7th Street.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26
GORDON MILLS CIVILIAN

Gordon Mills arrived home yes terday in time to spend Christmas Day with his parents here, MT. and Mrs. John Mills. He is now a civilian, having been discharged at Fort Richardson with more than three years of service in the Army.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26
CAsHEN TWINS HOME

Frank and Harry Cashen, twin sons of Mrs. Sadie Cashen, arrived by plane the day before Christmas to spend the holidays at their home here. With Christmas leave eXtend- ing through the New Years holi- day, the boys expect their dis charge from the service soon after
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26
O.E.S. INSTALLATION

All officers of Nugget Chapter, No. 9, Order of Easter Star, who are to be installed Saturday eve ming, Dec. 29, will practice in the Eagles Hall Thursday evening at 2 o'clock, according to an an- nouncement by Helmi Bach, the Worthy Matron.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26
DOUGLAS CALLERS

MT. and Mrs John Solon and young daughter, Ann, Nome resi- dents, called on Douglas friends last weekend. Mrs. Solon, the former Hazel Johnson, was on the Douglas Grade School faculty sev- eral years ago.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26
FIRE BOYS PROVE
 EXCELLENT HOSTS

Members of the Juneau Volun- teer Fire Department proved to be excellent hosts at the annual Christmas Day open house yester- day afternoon from 2 to o'clock. Nearly 300 of Juneaus prominent citizens attended the affair and pronounced it one of the most successful events of the season.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26

CHUNGKING - Leaders of the Democratic League, third largest political group in China, today pre- scented to Gen. George c. Marshall American Presidential Envoy, their views On the current situation in China.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26
DIED AS SOLDIER

DIED AS SOLDIER
 HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 26.-"My son was soldier, and of that am proud. He died soldier and that is what his mother and will always remember"
 That was the sad reaction today of actor James Gleason, himself a soldier for Is years, to the death of his son Russell, in New York
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26
WASHINGTON Inclemen

w A D III " VI V V lIICfCIiIcfIO weather, gloomy, snow-laden skies in the East and rain and sleet Tn much of the nation failed to spoil Christmas Day for those families reunited after four years of war. The worst traffic jam in history is reported.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26
A(for Falls
 To His Death

NEW YORK, Dec 26.-Sgt. Russell Gleason, 36-year-old actor son of screen star James Gleason. fell to his death last night from the fourth floor of the Hotel Sutton, used by the army as barracks for men sta- toned here.
 Gleason, who had appeared in All Quiet on the Western Front" and many other films, landed on a second floor extension, police said. He had teen attached to the Army Signal Corps Photo Center. He had been in good spirits shortly before his death, police said they were told by his friends.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26
WILLIAM GEARY ARRIVES

William Geary, Fairbanks resi- dent, has arrived here and is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26
100 VETS STAGE
 DEMONSTRATION

DENVER, Dec. 26.-More than 100 veterans carrying signs reading We can't live in foxholes here" and What about those wartime prom ises' picketed Denver's city hall yes terday in a demonstration against the housing shortage.
 The demonstration was sponsored by the American Veterans Commit tee. Several of the veterans were accompanied by their wives and children.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26
RULERS IN JUNEAU

Barbara Killer and Stanley E. Killer, Fairbanks. are in town. egistered at the Gastineau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26
MRS. MAN5FElDT IS CONVICTED OF
 MANSLAUGHTER

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26-The same jury of six men and six women which convicted Mrs. Annie Irene Mansfeldt of manslaughter for the jealousy-inspired shooting of Nurse Vada Martin today began hearing the second phase of her dual plea of innocent by reason of insanity.
 Despite reports Mrs Mansfeldt wanted to withdraw the plea and serve a prison term instead of being confined in a mental insti- tuition, her attorneys brought the hearing to trial.
 WASHINGTON-Federal depart ments concerned with the Coast Guard service today were drawing up final plans for it's return from the Navy to the Treasury. One source reported that the change over would be effected possibly within Is days, through one of Presi- dent Truman's first 1946 executive orders.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26
LIT. PETERSON HERE

It. L. w. Peterson of Sitka is a guest at the Baranof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26

Empire Wdnt-ads primo results
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26

Three-fifths of Bolivia is tropical lowlands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-26

DRINK KING BLACK LABEL!
Evening star., 1945-07-29

B-24 Liberator's $1,000, but the
Army does not term it a super
bomber" Alongside the B-29s
135, 900 pounds, the B32 is rated
merely as heavy
The B-32 is a high-wing type.
It's fuselage is cigar shaped with a
front and aft cabin. Double bomb
bays are arranged in tandem in the
center. 1t has tricycle. landing gear
The engines turn the largest di-
ameter propellers installed on any
production airplane-l6-foot 8-inch
Curtiss electric reversible pitch
props. BY pressing button, they
may be reversed during the landing,
reducing the planes landing run
and increasing its maneuverability
on the ground.
Automatic Synchr0nizer.
In addition the engines are
equipped with a Curtiss automatic
synchronizer, providing constant
speed control for each engine by
altering the propeller blade angles.
1t Is unnecessary to manually ad-
just separate control for each
engine.
The B-32 is destined never to
appear in equal combat strength
with the B-29, however. Under an
Evening star., 1945-07-29

AAF aviation cutback program. pro-
duction at Convair's San Diego
plant was halted, and output at
Fort Worth was leveled off at the
current rate with the entire pro-
gram to be Cancelled at the end of
this year. Meanwhile, Super For
tress production continues at five
plants throughout the country
The B-32s went into action
over one of the shortest training
routes in aerial history. The Army
Air Forces began breaking in crew
units on the huge bomber at the
Fort Worth Army Air Base. The
tremendous Convair plant lies on
one side of the field and the AAF
Base on the other. AS the B-32s
rolled off the production line they
could be towed or TAXED across the
field and put to work AS one plant
official said, 1T is the shortest ferry
run in the AAF."
Evening star., 1945-07-29

final decisive battle between Japan
and America"
The speech was under the aus
pices of the Tokyo newspapers,
which have had some difficulty ex-
planning the shift Of the war tide
to the Japanese people, and the
aircraft industry association, which
has taken a battering from Ameri-
can air power.
Evening star., 1945-07-29
laps Await Address
By Suzuki Rejecting
Allied UItimatum
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 28.-The
Japanese people today awaited an
address by Premier Suzuki on the
war and the coming battle Of the
streets" in which ne was expected
to reject the Big Three's ultimatum
to surrender or die.
Meanwhile, the Tokyo radio today
broadcast a speech by speaker
introduced as Toyohiko Kagawa,
japanese Christian leader, in which
he accused the United States of
horrible cruelty" to Japan but con-
tended that reconciliation still was
possible"
His speech came shortly after the
Tokyo radio quoted Gen. Jiro Min
ami. president of the Political Asso-
citation of Greater Japan as saying
the Japanese nation will remain
absolutely unaffected in their reso-
Lutte determination to save their
country from national extermina-
ton
Appeals to United States.
In the speech purportedly deliv-
cred by Kagawa in English and
recorded by the Federal Communi-
cations Commission, he said that
'if America has not lost the spirit
of George Washington and Abra-
ham Lincoln. her leaders will cease
the cruel perfidy of this war against
Japan
The speaker asserted that
American capitalistic ambitions
for the domination and control of
Oriental markets" were responsible
for the war which the Americans
we're prosecuting with the most
horrible cruelty since Genghis
Khan. As an example of this as
serted cruelty he said 100000 civil
ians burned to death in Tokyo MAY
10 as a result of an American air
raid.
Despite all this, he said there
still was sufficient ground for
America and Japan to reconcile
If the United States would plan
Ito give freedom to China. to liber-
ate the Philippines, to cut off the
iron chains of India and to give in
dependence to IndoneSia."
Kagawa, 81, often quoted before
| by the Tokyo radio but never intro
duced as a speaker, has lectureC
widely in the United States. where
he once was a Princeton University
student.
Ultimatum Scorned.
The earlier broadcast quoted
Minami as describing the ultima
tum terms as contrary to what the
japanese people think are righteous
peace conditions" and saying that
the japanese had no alternative
but to fight.
Domei, Japanese official news
agency, said the Big Three procla-
nation was conceived by the Allies,
to revitalize their own peoples
tagging war spirits by creating the
opinion the war had to continue be-
cause Japan wouldn't accept the
peace terms: Anglo-Americans
were dissatisfied because the un-
conditional surrender terms car
ried out on Germany had brought
heavy sacrifices; the ultimatum
served as propaganda to magnify
the military might of the Allies; it
was merely propaganda aimed to
impress the japanese.
Dronlo x~,, {iov, ConrnoI
Terms such as "tomfoolery," "day
dream" and ridiculous" were ap-
piled to the proclamation by var
ious publications.
Suzuki's expected address, his
first to the people since he took
office, was billed by Domei as a
speech expressing determination
for sure victory and firm and un-
shakable measures to cope with the
Evening star., 1945-07-29
By JOE VAN DENBURG.

The B-32 bomber which has gone
into action against the Japs is a
sturdy, stocky craft, not quite as
large as the Super Fortress, but gen.
orally comparable to it's highly sue
cessful predecessor for it was de-
signed to meet the same perform
ance requirements.
1t is powered identically-four 49,
cylinder, air-cooled radial engines
rated at 1900 horsepower each.
However, its wingtip to wingtip
measurement of 135 feet is 6 feet
paigned against the Navy plan, said,
I'm afraid we have lost.
There seems to be no further
recourse. / think we would get
nowhere by seeing the Secretary of
the Navy, although I feel like 60
ing up to him with my group
She said she had received tele-
gram from Senator Tydings, Demo-
crat, Maryland, whom she had
petitioned for an audience, report
ing the congressional action and
informing her he had not voted
on the matter.
Mrs. Rigg, chairman of the dele
CATION who stormed the office of
Gov. O'Conor Thursday to demand
that the Chief Executive take
stand in the matter of preserving
the college, sent the following tele-
gram to the Maryland Senator late
yesterday:
Members of the Committee of
100 Women, protesting destruction
of st. Johns College, request you
see them, preferably Tuesday
morning, July 81. If impossible,
then Thursday, August 2, or Friday
August 3. Urge you use your in
f1uence to delay action until we have
presented our case"
Want Campus Preservde.
The committee asked Gov O'Con-
or if the State had a moral respon-
sibility to preserve for the Amer
ican people one of the country's
few 18th century campuses, to which
he replied that he had taken up
that phase of the matter with the
Navy Department, and felt the
Navy's request for the campus may
be paramount He added that the
matter was not one for the Governor
to decide.
The 100 women asked the Gov
ernor whether he had personally
convinced himself, by studying
Navy blueprints. that Navy acquisi-
ton was governed by genuine
necessity and not mere convenience
He said he had studied the prob
lem thoroughly and had consulted
with Navy authorities while in
Washington the day prior to his
conference with the 100 women on
Thursday.
Evening star., 1945-07-29

Chambers jurisdiction, each with
its individual subchairman, are en-
ployes of the administrative office
Court of Claims, Court of Customs
and Patent Appeals, Emergency
Court of Appeals, United States
Court of Appeals, District Court
and the Supreme Court. Employees
of the Federal and District Gov
ernments will be solicited at their
places of employment.
Mr.. Chandler, whose home is al
3525 Edmunds street NV, is the
author of several articles on Gov
ernment law. A native of Indian
Orchard, Mass, he spent part of his
youth in California and received
degrees from Leland Stanford Uni
versity and Harvard University. He
was admitted to practice by the
Supreme Court of Illinois in 1906
and by the Supreme Court of the
United States in 1887. For 10 year,
an attorney for the Chicago Plar
Commission, he entered his presen
position in December, 1899.
Evening star., 1945-07-29
transportation
Continued From First Page J

Mead he had conferred with Col
johnson, President j. J. Pelley of the
Railroad Association, and Under
secretary of War Robert P. Patter-
son and had been assured by them
that troops and supplies are now
moving with dispatch and with a
minimum of delay and incon-
venience"
Il have been convinced" said Mr.
Snyder, through my talks with the
officials that they now have a
working agreement which will go
a long way to. solve this complex
transportation problem and that
each will keep in close touch with
each other
To Continue Demands.
You may rest assured that this
Office is fully alert to its response
bilies, and will do everything pos
sible, in an orderly fashion, to aid
and encourage this terrific move
ment of men and materials in or
der to expedite the redeployment
with the least possible hardship and
inconvenience to the civilian popu-
lation."
-, Col. johnson said, in a broad
cast last night, that Il propose to
keep talking" about the rail en-
ployment needs until we get the
men we must have or the job cam
not be done in time"
He said that almost Is per cent
of the total railway work force had
been lost to the armed forces, that
the railroads have had to hire in
experienced men as requirements
and that there is very high month
ly turnover of new workers.
Ickes First Witness.
Chairman Mead said Solid Fuels
Administrator Ickes will be the
first witness at the opening hearing
on the coal situation at 1890 am.
Tuesday.
AS in the transportation inquiry
the release or furlough of trained
personnel from the Army has been
suggested as solution. Although
the Army has consented to fur
lough 1000 men to help the rail-
roads, the War Department at
recent hearings has resisted pleas
that this policy be extended with
the contention that it would dis
rupt the point system.
Senator Mead said yesterday he
sees no reason why Army railroad
battalions in France should not be
brought home to relieve the rail-
road shortage. The Army contend
ed at Fridays hearing that those
battalions are transporting military
units to ports of embarkation and
If they were brought home first,
troops would have difficulty in get
ting home.
Operated Own Railroads"
Senator Mead declared yesterday,
however, that France operated its
own railroads before the war" and
that it would be better to let French
unemployed run them now. He took
the position that transportation of
troops after they land on this side
of the Atlantic also is important
In the Tuesday hearing, Sena-
tor Ferguson, Republican, of Mich.-
gan, a committee member, said he
wanted to get "the whole picture"
of how much solid fuel is on hand,
how much is in prospect and how
much will go to Europe. Senator
Mead also included the coal situa-
tion abroad within the scope of the
hearing.
Evening star., 1945-07-29

ever, the B-32 does not have pres
surized cabins or remote control
guns. Engineers for Consolidated
Vultee Aircraft Inc. abandoned
these features after testing early
combat models of the huge craft.
Direct gunnery permits equally
accurate fire control, and does not
require long training in new special
lied devices. Cabin pressuriZa ton
was dropped to conserve weight. AS
combat planes must carry oxygen
for use over enemy territory. even
when cabins are supercharged. Army
and Convair authorities decided the
B-32 should use oxygen exclusively
for high altitude flights.
The B-32 has gross weight OF
100, 900 pounds, compared with the
Evening star., 1945-07-29
Senate Group Calls
For Study Of Postwar
Transport Problems

a. The Senate Interstate Commerce
Committee voted a favorable re.
port yesterday on a resolution call.
ing for a survey of the long-range
postwar problems of all forms Of
; stransportation-by railroad, high
way, air, water and pipelines.
Senator Mcfarland, Democrat, oi
Arizona, in charge of the resolution
expressed doubt, however, that he
would be able to get Senate actor
before that body adjourns this week
until October s. The Senator eX-
planned that the proposed study has
no connection with the current wal
emergency transportation problem
which the Mead committee is inves-
stigating.
. The Interstate Commerce Com
mittee declared in its report that
this Nation, and the world, are ap-
preaching a new era of transport.
The railroads, basic method OF
interstate transport, have been en-
joying the most prosperous years OF
their entire existence" the report
continued. But they face tremen-
dous problems, fiscal and economic
as we turn back to a peacetime econ
omy. New forms of transport, par
ctlcularly by air. must be reckoned
with, both in interstate and foreign
commerce. We have no national
transportation policy; there exists a
Jack of coordination and interrela =
-tion between forms of transport
which may prove inimical to the us
ing public. the employees and the
carriers themselves.
There is urgent and compelling
need for an immediate and thor
ough study of this entire problem
IN the opinion of the committee. 1t
Is imperative that the Conrgess
have at hand the facts to guide it
In the consideration of this general
transportation problem-a problem
involving such important competing
agencies as transportation by rail
highway. air, water and pipelines
Each of these agencies is capable OF
performing service that in some
respects has advantages over the
others. But the Nation has the prob
lem of co-ordinating these different
types of transport with the objec-
tive OF having each best serve the
interests of the Nation as a whole
and with fairness and equity to each
OF the forms of transport"
Evening star., 1945-07-29
Oregon Forest Fire
Menoees Fighters
BY the Associated Press!

by tne ASsoClate0 Press.
PORTLAND, Greg, July 28-Pa-
trolls holding the center of flaming
15-mile- wide front on the south edge
Of Oregons Tillamook Forest fire
are menaced on two sides by fires
racing along mountain ridges and
may soon have to withdraw, for
esters said today.
State forestry officials reported
most OF the 5000 men in the fire
zone were in the pocket last night
when flames raced ahead to 5
miles.
Spot fires were reported breaking
out ahead of the main front as a
northerly wind famed burning en-
bers for miles across the rugged,
isolated country.
Evening star., 1945-07-29
BroziI Ends Discount
On Coffee for Coast
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 2s.-Bra-
zill has suspended its half cent a
pound freight allowance on coffee
moving over United States railroads
from New York and New Orleans
to the West Coast, a departmental
Nacional Cafe spokesman said to-
day.
He said the step was taken in view
Of the disappearance of the sub
marine menace. Discontinuance of
the subsidy, he added, would EN-
courage return to the former sys-
tenn of direct maritime shipping to
West Coast ports"
Evening star., 1945-07-29
B-32, Smaller Than Super Fort,
Desiqned for Similar Work

short of the Super Fortress wing
span, and its fuselage-83 feet from
nose to tails 16 feet less than the
99-foot overall length of the B-29,
Like the B-29 it has huge single
fin and rudder.
Cabins Not PresSuriZed.
Although the War Department
has not released data on the B-32s
defensive armament, it is safe as
sumption that it, too, compares to
that of the BIO which has five gun
platforms.
Unlike the Super Fortress, how
Evening star., 1945-07-29
.eoh1zgA' Co.,

DEPARTMENT STORES FOR HOME OWNERS AND BUILDERS
MAIN OFFICE BslcHrWoop AhAcos1lA CHURCH, Va
18th 4 ST., NE 5925 Co. Highway
Evening star., 1945-07-29

We still need to finish the war
with Japan and we need tin to do
the job! Americas only tin mines
are in your kitchen, so prepare your
tin cans now, place them in separate
containers by your garbage bins. II
not collected, phone Republic S4S8.
Evening star., 1945-07-29
St. Johns
Continued From First Page.)

cision should be made in the mat
ter until it is definitely determined
whether the Navy intends to es-
tablish another academy on the
West Coast, as he has advocated
Opposition Admits Defeat.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Morden Rigg
chairman of a committee of loo
Maryland women who have cam
Evening star., 1945-07-29

Fund SOllCltd =
tions in the
courts.
His appoint
ment as a group
chairman was
announced yes
terday by Maj.
Gen. U. S. Grant
III, chairman of
t h e Govern
ment unit of the
Community War
Fund, W h ! c h
annually raises
half the cam
paign goal.
I'm dor Mr.
Evening star., 1945-07-29
Chandler 10 Coordinate
Court Gifts 10 War Fund

Henry P. Chandler, director of
the administrative Office of the
United States Courts. will be the
co-ordinator of Community War
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1945-09-21

Prior outbreak of the war; industrial leaders walled
and moaned that the country rapidly going to the bow
when the national debt approached the forty billion
mark but little heard from these that treasury
figures show that corporation profits since 1889 total about
SAT with the total Pearl Harbor about $780,