davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-01-21
|taly's New Envoy
To u. 5. Will Seek
Easier Armistice
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, Jan. 20-Alberto Tarchi-
ami, Italy's new Ambassador to the
United States, said today his first
task in Washington would be to
seek modification of Italy's arrni-
stice terms and acceptance of Italy
as full member Of the United Ma
tons.
The terms under which Italy made
peace with the United Nations. he
asserted, have made solutions of the
nations economic and political
problems more difficult.
"The United States alone can give
Italy substantial help in reconstruct
ton after the war" Tarchiani said
in an interview, because the rest
of the United Nations will have a
big job helping themselves.
He said that before leaving for
Washington within two weeks he
will confer with the minister of
public works to determine Italys
primary needs for restoration of
public services and industries, par
ticularly in electric generating
equipment, and agricultural ma
chinery.
In the United States, he added.
he intends to propose that some of
the Italian ships seized at the out
break of the war be used for trans
porting supplies to Italy.
There are now 10000 italian
merchant seamen not working who
could be used to man those ships
and 1t would give great impetus to
reconstructing the country morally
as well as materially" he said.
Tarchiani said he hoped his wife
and four children would be able to
leave France soon to join him in
Washington. He has not seen his
family since he left France ahead
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-01-21
Western Front
Continued From First Page.)

zorn Canal, the Germans fought
into the edge of Weyersheim, 6
miles west of the Rhine and 9
miles north of the Alsatian capital
in the deepest penetration from
their bridgehead.
1t is here, apparently, that Field
Marshal Karl Won Rundstedt has
decided to make one more supreme
effort to upset Allied plans on the
western front after his costly Ar
denneS failure.
1t is possible he may have brought
regrouped tank forces down from
Belgium under cover of a fog that
def1ed aerial reconnaissance, al
though front dispatches said tanks
and troops were pouring back across
the Rhine all the way north to
karlsruhe.
Big Odds at Stake.
More than Alsace was at stake
In the battle. With the Russians
sweeping ahead in the east, an
other desperate German gamble in
the west might well decide the out
come of the war quickly.
Inc Germans were coming back
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-01-21
Annual Shrine Circus
Planned for Early April

The 4th annual Shrine Circus
will be held early in April at the
Uline Arena, Ringmaster Howard
P. Foley announces. AS in the past,
the proceeds will be donated to the
Shrine Charity and Activity Fund,
which turned over $25 900 last year
to crippled childrens hospitals.
The committee which will super
wise details also includes: James A.
Councillor, first vice president and
treasurer; Edmund o. Carl, second
vice president: Needham c. Tur-
mage, third vice president; Earl
Whittier Shinn, fourth vice presi-
dent: Frederick Wilken, secretary
and assistant treasurer; Raymond
M. Florance, Ralph M. Wolfe, Floyd
d. Akers, d.. william M. Mann
Maj. Omer w. Clark and Frank T.
Shull,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-01-21
Russia
Continued From First Page

order of the day that Marshal Thu.
kov's LIST White Russian Army hao
made the crossing of the Warts
River in a 30-mile advance to q
point 100 miles west of Warsaw
capturing the strategic road hub OF
kolo, 2lO miles east of Berlin.
Striking along the Warsaw Berlin
trunk motor road and railway, these
units were only 70 miles from
Poznan, last big Western Polish
fortress city barring the way to the
heart of Germany.
Other units of Zhukoy's army cap.
tured Wloclawek, IS miles north.
west of Warsaw, and only 30 mile.
southeast of Torun, road center con.
trolling communications into the
Polish corridor. Brzesc -Kujawski
7 miles southwest of Wloclawek, alse
was overrun, putting this Soviet
spearhead within 223 miles OF
Berlin.
Tilsit Biggest Prize.
1t was Premier Stain who also
announced the fall of Tilsit, the
biggest prize yet taken by Marshal
Ivan Cherniakhovskys Sd White
Russian Army. These troops also
drove toward the Baltic and seizec
Kaukehnen, Is miles northwest Of
Tilsit.
In a l7-mile westward sweep Ii
miles below Tilsit other Soviet units
outflanked Insterburg by capturing
Gross SkaiSgirren, only As miles
northeast of Konigsberg.
Cutting the Insterburg- Tilsit rail-
way midway with the seizure OF
Szillen, the Russians also spilled tc
within II miles north of Insterbure
with the capture of Aulowonen.
Berlin officially reported the pen
etration of Southern East Prussia
by Marshal K. K. Rokossovsky's %
White Russian Army coming ul
from Poland. The German com
munique said his troops had reached
the East Prussian towns of Gilgen-
burg and Neidenburg and the
Polish frontier town of Chorzele on
37-mile front.
5 Miles From Tannenberg.
At Gilgenburg the Russians were
only IS miles from the Baltic, 80
miles south of Konigsberg and rs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-01-21

across the Rhine, and it is on this
side of the Rhine that Gen. Eisen-
hover has declared the power of
Hitler's armies can be shattered.
Gen. Patch's army, with its vet
cram divisions of the African and
Italian campaigns and many newer
but already seasoned units, are in
good shape to meet the onslaught.
Beside it were other elements of
Gen. de Tassigny's French LIST
Army, now swollen with many
Maqui fighters equipped for the
first time with adequate arms, uni
forms and shoes.
Weather Favors Germans.
Again the weather played the
German tune as in December Mists
shielded the pontoon bridges from
Allied air power, and enemy tanks
crossed them in considerable num-
bers.
At the, opposite end of the 300
mile western front 1t. Gen. Sir Miles
IC. Dempsey's I'd Army ran into
enemy tanks for the first time, but
drove on three miles into Western
Germany and the Holland appendix
in gains of nearly two miles, Selling
at least six more towns.
The British cut off German area
five miles by three miles with a
pincers movement of two armored
columns northeast of Sittard. One
British unit. attacked eastward from
Echt and the other pushed north
from Hangen until the junction was
made. More than 400 prisoners were
taken by the British.
Gen. Dempsey's troops crossed
the Meuse River unopposed and
captured SteyenSWeert, seven miles
southwest of Roermond, as the Ger
mans pulled out under the gathering
threat of enlightenment from the
east.
More Towns Taken.
1t. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges
American 1st Army was method
ically tightening the screws on st.
With, the Belgian highway and rail
center miles from the Reich bor-
der
Five or more towns were taken
by Gen. Hodges forces as they
marked up gains of a mile or so
around st. With.
The 30th Infantry 10 miles from
the German border seized Ebervet-
ingen and nearby Iveldingen, miles
north of st. With. Montenau, miles
northwest, and Deidenberg, miles
north, also fell. The 83d Division
coming up from the southwest took
Courtil, 10 miles from St. With.
Along the southern flank of the
Belgian bulge 1t. Gen. George S.
Patton's American Sd Army troops
made number of gains in ad-
vancing to Orscholz, cleaning the
Germans out of pillboxes at Borg,
hopping up the village of Longs
dorf and occupying Tandel.
Counterattack Repulsed.
To the east, other Sd Army units
repulsed an enemy counterattack
in the Vianden sector in Northern
Luxembourg The 5th Infantry
gained mile and one-half and
reached point IT miles northeast
of the Luxembourg capital after
throwing back two German attacks.
A front dispatch said there we're
signs the Germans were withdraw
ing into the Siegfried Line as the
Sd Army pressed on a mile and
half, deepened its Sure River
bridgehead to three miles near the
Reich border, and moved up to the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-01-21
German

Continued From First Page
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-01-21

frontier along three-mile front
on the Our River.
In Holland. British units of the
Canadian LIST Army lifted the threat
to Nijmegen by routing crack Ger
man parachute troops from the
village of Zitten, six miles to the
north.
The Sd Army's invasion of the
Reich. east of Luxembourg in the
Moselle Valley, apparently was
checked, but the Gath Division held
on to positions around Tatingen,
three miles inside Germany, while
Warding off repeated counterblows.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-01-21
Mrs. Woodhouse to Talk

Representative Woodhouse; DEM
ocrat, of Connecticut will speak on
opportunities for women in Govern
ment service at meeting of the
Connecticut College Alumni Asso-
citation 8 pm. Thursday. Mrs. Wood
house was professor of economics
at the university until her recent
election to Congress. The meeting
will be held at the home of Mrs. E
Hewitt Oimmitt, 1905 Sixteenth
street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-01-21
Wool Rugs With

Pads With All Russ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-01-21
Michigan Fire Drives
Guests From Two Hotels

By the Associated Press.
MT. CLEMENS, Mich, Jan. 90
Fire swept half a business block
drove guests from their rooms In
two hotels and caused damage esti-
mated at more than s250,000 this
morning.
Chief of Police Arthur I. Rosso
said the fire apparently started from
heater. ~
Guests in the Van-Ross Hotel
were evacuated shortly after the
fire was discovered. Later In the
morning occupants of the John r
Murphy Hotel vacated their rooms
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-01-21

Half of the total resources of the
United States are now being devoted
to waging war. Since Pearl Harbor
war expenditures have amounted to
about SOS, 000, 600, 900. More War
Bond money is needed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-17

 Raging
tBy The Associated Press)

A blizzard from Lake Erie de- posted up to AS inches of snow on Buffalo, N. Y, causing state of emergency to be proclaimed there, as a large part Of the country shivered today in frigid weather.
 Major Joseph J. Kelly of Buffalo ordered schools and most city of fices closed, limited telephone use to keep lines open for emergency calls, and asked citizens to stay home and guard against fires. Within a 51-hour period, 48 inches of snow fell in South Buffalo and 30 inches in the downtown district.
 Temperatures generally were be- low normal in wide area east Of the Rockies. The mercury fell be- low zero in east Montana and the Dakotas eastward through central Illinois and Indiana. The coldest spot in the country last midnight was Glasgow, Mont, where it was 20 below.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-17
SCIENCE MAY POINT FINGER
 AT MURDERER
Investigation of Campbell Staying Hinges on Lab
 oratory Findings

Investigation of the murder here a week ago of Clarence J. Camp bell continued at slow pace today as law enforcement authorities marked time awaiting laboratory reports of important clues that have come to light from the mass of conflicting leads developed since the discovery of Campbell's brutally slashed body last Monday in the Scatter tract.
 Both the local agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Deputy U. s. Marshal Syd Thompson, who has been closely associated with the FBI in efforts to penetrate the mystery surround ing Campbells death, are carrying on with the interrogation of sev- eral persons believed to hold pos sible knowledge concerning the cir cumstances of Campbell's staying.
 Several women with whom the murder victim is known to have as- sociated have submitted to volun- tary questioning. No arrest, how ever, is expected before report on the laboratory findings has been received here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-17
ENLISTED MEN JUMP
 SHIP HERE
Soldiers Claim Army Prom. ised 10 Get Them Home
 by Christmas

Eighty-five U S. Army enlisted men who were told they would be home by Christmas have jumped ship" in Juneau in what probably will be a futile attempt to get to Seattle before December 25, it was learned today. One hundred and seventeen civilians aboard the s. S.. Toloa, now in Juneau enroute to Seattle from the Aleutians, also have left the vessel.
 Most of the enlisted men, an Army officer on the boat said, are re enlistments" who signed up for long CT hitches in the Army because they were told they would be home for Christmas, but because of comner- cial stops at Juneau Ketchikan and Prince Rupert to load and unload fish the vessel probably won't get to Seattle until December 26 at the earliest.
 A civilian worker said it is cost ing the government $1O,000 a week to pay travel time to the civilian workers aboard the ship, most Of whom have been in the Aleutians from two to three years.
 One of the officers on the boat, none of whom has left the ship, hasn't had Christmas at home for five years.
 Men aboard the ship say that if the vessel had sailed direct to Seattle from the last military stop it would have been in Seattle today Many of the men on their way home still have to travel to the East Coast.
 Petitions have been telegraph cd to various offices in an attempt to clear the boat directly from Juneau to Seattle. A petition sent to the Alaskan Department of the Army has been turned down.
 The Toloa, United Fruit boat op- erated by the Alaska Steamship Company for the War Shipping Ad- ministration, left Adak Island in the Aleutians December 1, and the men claim it should have been in Seattle December 9. Military stops included Dutch Harbor, Kodiak and Whit tier, where the men said there were delays in loading and unloading the cargo. At Whittier, they claim, the enlisted men doing the longshoring worked only six hours day on the job.
 The ship is loading fish here and will also load fish at Ketchikan and unload fish at Prince Rupert before heading for Seattle, according to the present schedule.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-17
Legislation Over
 Public Lands Is
 To Ge! Attention

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Public lands, which have been both ooon and a burden to the West, may con- tribute more to the support of local communities under legislation to be considered early next month.
 Development of such policy will receive attention of the House Pub lie Lands committee.
 Chairman Peterson D-Fla) has had printed for use of the commit tee several bills and suggestions sub mitted by various organizations and individuals interested in the problem
 We plan to get started on our own bill right after the Christmas recess" he says.
 Including the Territories, 36 per cent of the land area of the United States, is owned by the government, he observed. In Alaska only one per cent of the total area is privately owned.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-17
EXPEDITION
 ORGANIZING
 FOR STUDY
United Sfdies and Canada Make Plans for Joint
 Work in Far North
By JOHN M. HiGHTOWER CAP. Diplomatic Reporter)

WASHINGTON, Dec. l7-Mindful of atomic age possibilities, the United States and Canada are beginning to work out joint plans to defend North America against any attack from Asia or Europe across the North Polar Regions.
 Disclosing this today, Allied dip- lomatic officials said one of the first specific steps taken by this country was the assignment of six observers to accompany a Can adian Army Air Force expedition on an 81-day Arctic exploration.
 Exercise Musk-Ox"
 Assigned the task of gathering military and scientific information. this expedition has been designated officially Exercise Musk-Ox" by the Canadian Government. It will cover 3,l00 miles through territory which heretofore has been con- sidered an impenetrable barrier against attack.
 Now diplomats say the wasteland area is regarded as one of the potential approaches to some of Americas most vital cities. In two segments, the expedition is sched- uled to start from Churchill, Mani toba, in mid February, and from Edmonton, Alberta, in early May.
 In addition to sending observers, the United States has given the Canadian Government assurance of full cooperation in developing and carrying out the expedition.
 Supplied By Air
 During the 81 days the scores of men on the trip will be supplied by air. The air forces will obtain what officials expect will be vital information on Arctic operations, and the ground troops and scien- lists will gather essential facts on the clothing, food and equipment needed for ground operations in extreme cold.
 InQulIltS dDOuJ WlidJ 10 bOiib Oti were prompted by recent assertions by Gen. H. H. Aronld. Army Air Forces Chief, that the next war might bring fantastic trans-Polar assaults with atomic weapons. Military and diplomatic officials say Canada is on the strategic routes of attack over the Pole, the North Pacific or the North Att lantic.
 Thus the same basic pattern Of cooperation used successfully by the United States and Canada in World War II now is being de- veloped further against the possi- bility of another and more terrible conflict.
 Work Intense
 The heart of this pattern is the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-17
COALITION WITH
 COMMUNISTS K
 GIVEN APPROVAL
Chinese Government Now Ready to Aef-MarshalI's
 Arrival Is Awaited
By SPENCER MOOSA

CHUNGKING, Dec. 17-Minister of Information K. C. Wu declared as his personal opinion" today that the Chinese Government would agree to a coalition with the Communists providing there were no independent armies or terri tories in China.
 Wu asserted the Communists, however, wanted to retain their armies and obtain independent control over northern provinces.
 The minister declared that of ficial quarters here did not con- slider President Truman's state ment on Americas China policy in the light of a warning because the aims were identical with those of the National Government.
 Awaiting the arrival of Gen. George C. Marshall as they gather here to talk of peace, both factions looked to the new U. 5. Ambassa- dor to China to complement the Presidents hopes that China's diff faculties can be solved without re- course to full-blown civil war.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-17
Oil industry Wage Scale Taken Up by
 Govt. Fad Finders

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17-Govern- ment fact-finding temporarily shelved by Congress, bitterly op- posed by labor, and coolly regarded by management-gets under way today in the oil industry's wage dispute. The General Motors strike is next in line.
 The oil case, although actually engineered by the Labor Depart ment, will provide the first prac- tical test of President Trumans plan to use the pressure of public opinion to settle industrial strife.
 Involved as a demand by the CIO oilworkers union for a 30 per cent wage increase-an issue which provoked a strike and Navy seizure of 35 refineries and other facilities last October.
 Eleven properties of the Sinclair Oil Corp. are due to be released at midnight tonight as the result of a wage settlement which the com pany said provides for an IS per cent increase for a basic 40-hour week. Return of the Sinclair fla cilitieS will bring to 15 the number thus far freed of Navy operation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-17
SiaIe Treasurer Of Washington 5tale
 Acquitted, Charges

OLYMPIA, Wash, Dec. l7.-A jury of ten men and two women, after five hours of deliberation and five ballots, acquitted State Treasurer Russell H. Fluent of charges of mal- fesance and misappropriation of public funds.
 Fluent had been on trial four days on charges preferred by the State after the sale of $7.35l ,09646 in State securities and the payment of 2 $1,10797 brokers commission to Vern Cole, Seattle.
 The State had contended Fluent had acted without authority on the sale.
 State Attorney General Smith Troy remarked after the verdict that the jury apparently was convinced that Fluent had no intent to de- fraud the State
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-17
Crack Train His Anoiher;;S Persons
 Killed; 60 Injured

POLLOCK, S. C., Dec. 17.-Eight persons are reported killed and more than GO are known to have been hurt when the crack diesel-powered Florids -bound Silver Meteor" of the Seaboard Line ploughed into the Northbound Sun Queen" near here yesterday.
 Both trains were loaded to cap acity and carried about 400 passen- gers each.
 The locomotive, one coach, and four sleepers of the Silver Meteor were hurled from the tracks when it crashed into the Sun Queen near this village in northeast South Carolina
 The accident occurred in cold-pre- dawn darkness as the northbound train was pulling into siding. The dining car and four coaches of the Sun Queen were derailed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-17
UN0 Headquarters Are 10 Be in United Sidtes

LONDON, Dec. 17.-The United States has been selected as the site for the United Nations organization.
 After a roll call vote of 30 to IA. with six abstensions in the commit tee of the preparatory commission, Canada moved to make the decision This motion was sec onded by Philip Noel-Baker for Brit ain and the Norwegian delegate. Selection of the United States as the permanent home followed one of the ardest-fought battles of the preparatory conference.
 The deciding vote came after dele gates had voted down motion to locate the site in Europe, 25 to 23
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-12-17
JAppRINCE TAKES LIFE
 BY POISON
Dramatic Suicide Starts Re. pereussions About Im-
 periaI Household

TOKYO, Dec. 17-Prince Fumi- marc Konoye's dramatic suicide yesterday-a new and powerful blow to the prestige and position of Emperor Hirohito may have profound repercussions in the i'm perial household as well as in po- litical circles.
 The prince himself, in his final hours, expressed concern for the future of the imperial house as discussions of possible abdication were revived. Some Japanese said the suicide might be the final factor in precipitating the em- peror's resignation.
 Doubtless, Hirohito personally felt the blow deeply. Konoye long was his close confidante and it gen. erally was believed the Mikado placed great authority in The Dangerous Prince
 Konoye, 54, took his own life with poison before dawn Sunday after entertaining friends and relatives at a farewell dinner in his luxur- ious suburban home. He had been scheduled to surrender to American authorities by midnight Sunday.
 The Prince, three e-time Premier. left suicide note with his second son, explaining that he could not bear the humiliation of American trial as a war criminal.
 Joseph B. Keenan, American special prosecutor, issued state ment declaring to the Japanese peo- pie that anyone with clear con- science had nothing to fear from American justice.
 Suicide of the prince, highest ranking Japanese yet to take that way out, was a Japanese sensation, particularly since many here dis approve of poison as providing too easy a death.
 Konoye's death was swift par allel blow to Gen. MacArthurS recent directive agalnSt Snlillo. That directive struck deeply at Hirohito. Before that, the vide spread network of MacArthurs war criminal lists had stripped from around the throne all but two of the principal and still active court actors in the tragedy of the past Is years. The imperial household had been invaded by the arrest of Prince Morimasa Nashimoto. Yesterday, few hours after Konoye's pre-dawn suicide, Mar quis Koichi Kido, until recently Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and another close adviser of the em- peror surrendered as war crimi- nal suspect.