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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-26
Style Note
From Guam
Bu Marine PFC. J. NJ. Purcell

Bu Marine Pic. J. NJ. Purcell
GUAM-For all their shrewd and
canny reputation, the japanese,
when ingratiating themselves with
the women, are about as subtle as
q "Banzai' attack
Long before enemy occupation OF
this island. the women of Guam, all
of whom claim native, flashing
beauty, were incorrigibly American.
They thought American, acted
American, spoke American-except
for trace of Chamorro tongue-and
even INDUCED in envious gossip and
glances when the gal in the next
grass hut broke out with new adj
dition to her wardrobe.
They followed American fashion
trends with the enthusiasm OF a
C. 1. Joe describing the contours of
a pin-up model, and they talked
about the wares of Elizabeth Arden
and Helena Rubinstein with author
ity
But the japanese, who should have
teen satisfied with their military
victories of 1941-42 and let the
native tastes in feminine finery go
by the board, put their little feet
down.
A short time after their occupa-
ton, invading authorities issued an
edict warning the natives that Amer
lean habits, particularly those deal
ing with dress, would not be toler-
ated.
1t began with some sort of gibber
ish that the emperor frowned on
loud American colors and styles and
ended with the suggestion that the
Guamanian women conform to a
more conservative japanese dress
or else.
And that is where the Japanese
made their first mistake-discount-
ing, of course, the military sagacity
of coming to Guam in the first
place.
Their popularity with the native
women, which was nil at the be-
ginning, sank to a new low, and a
campaign was started to outwit the
tiny Oriental-sartorial speaking.
Instead of disposing of their sty-
lish Occidental garments as their
masters ordered, the women of
Guam wrapped them in bundles and
put them away in secret hiding
places.
Cosmetics of all types, silk stock
ings and undergarments were placed
in boxes and concealed from the
prying japanese.
The clothes came to be looked up
en- as priceless items of morale and
the women were determined to keep
them at all cost.
Today the japanese are gone, and
although the women have lost much
due to the necessary ravages of war,
their homes blasted and their fer
tile fields gouged and pocked by
shell fire, Guam nevertheless is
colorful place.
Everywhere native women are
turning cut in a riot of color, their
faces generously powdered and
rouged. in victorious gesture to the
West.
And red. white, and blue is the
popular color combination.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-26

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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-26
TWO REPEAT
WINNERS IN
ALASKA DIV.
MtGowon Voted Top Box
er al Edmonton Tourney
Joe Louis Referees
canadian Press

EDMONTON, Alta, May 26-Cpl.
Charlie MCGOWAN Of Houston, Tex,
retained his lightweight boxing
championship of the u S. Alaska
Division Golden Gloves tourna-
ment last night by earning three
round decision over Pvt. Manuel
Caballero Of FL Paso, Tex Nc
Gowan was voted the outstanding
boxer Of the two-night tournament
Pvt. Billie Peterson of Billings,
Mont, also became a two-times
winner, retaining the middleweight
championship with decision over
Master Sgt. Henry c. Kuchenbrod
of Louisville, KY.
Other results:
Featherweight-Pvt. Nelson En-
erson, Kansas City, won from Pvt.
Nathan Berkowitz, New York City,
third round, technical knockout.
Welterweight-Sg William Smith,
Unadilla, Ca, defeated sam Ora
ziano, Buffalo, N. Y
Senior welterweight--Cpl. Jerry
Drees, Milwaukee, Wis, won from
Cpl j. Hill, Hammond, Ind, first
round technical knockout.
Light Heavyweight-Cpl A. Has
ten won from Pvt. John Sciscoe,
Lintonn, Ind, second round tech
meal knockout.
Heavyweight-Sgt. L. NJ McClel-
land Crowley, La, knocked out
Pvt Robert Sullinger, Van Vert,
Ohio, first round.
EDMONTON, Alta, May 26-St.
Sgt. Joe Louis has his sights leveled
ON a postwar championship boxing
bout with Billy Conn, but right
now the Army is my manager, SO
I guess I'll have to wait until this
thing is all over"
Joe, here to referee in the u. S.
Army Airforce, Alaska Division
Boxing Tournament, said after the
action last night that Conn gave
him the toughest fight of his
career.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-26
PANIC IN PANTS

GREAT FALLS, Mont.-A shop
litter grabbed pair of trousers
from a store counter, eluded police
and sprinted down the alley and
through another store-where he left
the pants.
The only answer Officer Fred
Peres can think up is that the thief
brought the old ones along for size,
to make sure the loot fitted.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-26
GRAzlAN0 EARNS
C0CHRANE CRACK

NEW YORK, May 26 = Rocky
Graziano started training today to
meet weight Champion
Freddie Red" Cochrane in nom
title bout June 20, having earned
the chance by virtue of four
round technical knockout of Brook
lyn's Al BUNNY" Davis in a
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-26

Games Yesterday
Seattle, 8; Los Angeles, 2.
San Francisco, sd; Portland, OIL.
Oakland, 5; San Diego, 3.
Hollywood, 7; Sacramento, 6.
Evening star., 1945-04-29
Posters Made
For Theafer

Posters for the Washington Mu-
nicipal Theater have been placed in
various marine departments in the
hope that all who read will interest
themselves in the opportunity offer
ed to became a part of this living
theater. The parts offered are to
actively support the project or to aid
in fully developing latent dramatic
talents in this theater, which will
be made a highly skilled, profess
sional theater
A committee for the seafaring
services and the Public Health Serv-
ices has been organized under the
Craftsmanship of Mrs. Phillip Eaton,
representing the Coast Guard. Mrs
Clark Woodward and Mrs. Harold
Bowen, for the Navy, and Mrs.
George Barnett, for the Marine
Corps, are vice chairmen. Assisting
these leaders on this committee are
Mrs. Luther Bolton, Capt. Ernest
Reed-Hill. Capt. Louise E. Stewart,
Marine Corps Reserve, and 1t.
Muriel R. Barthelomew, Coast
Guard.
A group of civic-minded people
are keeping open the Washington
Municipal Theater headquarters in
the Tivoli Building at Fourteenth
street and Park road, where those
interested may have questions
answered or find what they can do
to further this very worthwhile
undertaking.
Evening star., 1945-04-29

Miss Elizabeth Dean, 2s16 o street:
Mrs. John Gilliat, 2911 o street:
Miss Katharine Dougal, 5000 P
street, and Miss Lucy Bentley, 2el8
p street.
All the gardens are within easy
walking distance of each other, all
may be reached by bus or trolley.
Tickets for the pilgrimage MAY be
secured at the Willard Hotel, the
AAA, at Mrs. Whitehead's home,
1924 Twenty-eighth street, or at
any OF the garden gates.
Proceeds go to Georgetown House,
the only settlement in the George
town area. Although supported by
the Community Chest, this annual
benefit is permitted as means of
supplementing the budget.
Evening star., 1945-04-29

Mrs. ]. r. Boland, Mrs. Laurance
M. Thompson, Miss Margery Hall
and Mrs. J. Arthur Jef1ers.
Luncheon will be served in the
parish house of Christ Episcopal
Church at 1913 North Columbus
street.
The annual pilgrimage to the
lovely gardens of old Georgetown
will be held Sunday afternoon
from until o'clock Sunday, hav-
ing been chosen by Mrs. Robert
F.. Whitehead and her assistants
because of the many activities with
which wartime days in Washington
are filled.
Charming small gardens as well
as those of stately beauty are among
the 13 gardens listed for the pill
grimage.
Mrs. William Burden, who lives
in the rambling yellow house which
the late Mrs. Albert Sims did over
when, as Congressman Ruth Hanna
Mccormick, she played an i'm
portant role in the political picture
here. is opening her garden, dis
playing the garden within a gar
den." The garden of Mrs Henry
Leonard at 3038 N street, laid out in
successive levels, is to be open. And
historic Evermay. estate of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. Lammott Belin, 1923 Twenty
eighth street, with its beautiful old
lockwood, vistas Of bloom, fountains
and statuary set in bowers of green
will again be shown through the
courtesy Of its public-spirited own
erS.
Still other gardens on the list
are the rambling historic garden of
the Misses Hollerith, 1888 Twenty
ninth street; that of Mai. and Mrs.
Evening star., 1945-04-29

George strawbridge, 3017 o street,
with its fine old box and holly trees;
Mrs. Charles Burial Hoffman S
carefully planned garden, 2815 @
street, and Mrs. Robert S. Aliens
small garden at 1926 Twenty
eighth street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss,
who always opened their Dunn
barton Oaks for this annual benefit,
will open their garden at 1887
Twenty eighth street, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Benjamin Thoron, 29O0 N
street, have listed theirs.
Other smaller gardens which are
excellent examples of design, show
ing what may be accomplished In a
small space, are the pink and blue"
garden of Miss Blanche Halbert and
Evening star., 1945-04-29
Annual Tours
Continued From Page B-3.)

eral chairman for the tour and
those assisting her are Mrs George
Carter, Mrs. Gordon Wenner, Miss
Nancy Lee Tackett. Mrs. Albert A.
Smoot, Mrs. Irwin D. Mathew, Miss
Mary Lindsay, Mrs. Ivan H. Green
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-26
.Jops Starved
 Army Nurses Deliberately

San Francisco, Feb. 26-(UP)- The Angels of Bataan," 68 Army nurses returned to this country after three years under a brutal Japanese starvation policy in the Philippines, set about regaining their health today in the Army's Letterman General hospital.
 They arrived at Hamilton Field. Calf, Saturday, aboard four giant Skymasters just three weeks after their liberation in Manila.
 After jubilant reunions with rela- tives who gretted them, the nurses were taken to the hospital.
 None were seriously ill. Their major trouble was lack of food. All were thin and few were emaciated. There was not mental case among them.
 It. Gwendolyn Henshaw, an at tractive brunette from Los Angeles. said she was absolutely convinced" the Japanese had deliberately starved the nurses.
 "They confiscated our warehouse, although they had plenty of stores of their own," she said. 'No one could bring food in. Our weight plummetted down. I lost 40 pounds and some of the others lost even more.
 Every U. s. military success brought a reduction in food rations.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-26
Men 30 33 Facing Draft

Washington, Feb. 26 - (U.P) - Local draft boards had orders to- day to begin drafting large num- Der of the 1,500,O0O deferred men in the 30-33 year age brackets.
 Selective Service Headquarters an- nounced over the weekend that such deferments will be allowed to continue only if the registrant is necessary" to an essential indus try. Heretofore, man who was simply engaged in an essential industry was eligible for deferment.
 There was no estimate of the eX- act number of 3O-33 year men who will be called up. But officials said large number" of the estimated 1,500,000 deferred registrants of those ages would be affected. Men over 30 are expected to make up 90 per cent of the entire draft call by tn end of 1945.
 If all other factors are equal" the selective service order said, ia father should be given greater con- sideration for occupational defer ment than non-father in this age group"
 As regards men in the IS through 29 year brackets, it said the prospect was that they will be inducted un- less the information submitted to local boards by employers indicates that they are indispensable and irreplacable' in an essential in- duStry.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-26
Clemency Considered For C0nuicted GI's

Paris, February 26. - (UP) - American Army authorities are con- sidering clemency for many of the almost 200 members of the 716th "Millionaires" Railway Battalion who were convicted and sentenced to long prison terms recently for footing military supply trains, it was learned today.
 The judge advocates office will file formal clemency petitions with Major General Pleas B. Rogers, commander of the Seine base sec- ton, on behalf of an undisclosed number of the GI's now serving sen tences ranging from two to 50 years.
 The clemency recommendation are being made at Rogers request after consultation with It. Gen. Ben Lear, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower deputy for morale, who has had several talks with the convicted soldiers.
 It was understood the men told Lear they were eager to return to active service. Some of them re- quested permission to join the Para troops or front-line Infantry outfits but the majority wanted to rejoin the Army Railway Service.
 The United Press informant said the men whose sentences are com muted will be given six months probation and offered chance to join another battalion. Their gen. eral attitude as well as the offenses for which they were convicted will be taken into account.
 This informant said clemency recommendations probably will not be made for the two convicted off, cers of the 716th, Its. John Springer and Norris E. Loop, who were found guilty of receiving cigarets and food from their men.
 However, the charges filed against Sgt. Anthony J. Palermo and PVts. Edward c. Kelly and Arthur F. An derson have been dropped and all three will be returned to duty. They signed confessions to the theft Of cigarets from military trains, but testified for the prosecution at the courts-martial of Springer and Loop.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-26
TOKYO CENTER LEFT N RUINS
ALLIED UNITS
 NOW A MILES FROM COLOGNE
BY BOYD ID LEWIS

Paris, February 26. (UP) - Four Allied armies ripped through Germany's western defenses on a blazing 150- mile battlefront today in a general offensive that rolled the enemy's vital Rhineland line back within about 14 miles of Cologne.
 London press dispatches said the bomb-Scarred spires of Cologne could be seen by the advancing Americans. Captured German soldiers reported that the city itself was in ruins with only a handful of civilians remain ing there.
 The entire German defensive sys- tenn guarding the Ruhr and Rhine was buckling under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's battering ram attack and the merciless pounding of thou salids of Allied warplanes.
 Field dispatches reported increas- ing signs of German demoraliZation, particularly on the southern wing of the ofefnsive front where It. Gen. George. s. Patton'S American Third Army was beginning to roll in a wide end run toward the Moselle Valley and Coblenz on the Rhine.
 The American First and Ninth Armies, estimated by German prop agandists to number 100000 men, were believed to have captured well over 5000 Nazis in the first three days of their offensive. Coupled with enemy losses in killed and wounded, the prisoner bag indicated that the six Nazi divisions original ly facing the Roer ofefnsive rapidly were approaching disintegration.
 All Allied armies in the west were disclosed officially to have taken 10000 prisoners thus far in Febru- ary, about 12,OO0 of them on the Canadian First army front.
 Renewed Drive
 Patton's advance and a renewed drive on the Ruhr by Gen. H. D. G. Crerar's Canadian First Army in the north poised deadly thrust to the Hanks of the hard-pressed NaA divisions falling back across the Rhineland on Cologne.
 There the American First and Ninth armies were swinging out more than seven miles beyond the shattered Roer river line in giant strides against surprisingly weak re- sistance.
 Four days after the start of the big push for the Rhine, the Ger mans still had been unable to launch single major counter-at- tack and had lost the key heights overlooking the Roer from which their big guns might have been able to halt the flow of American tanks and supplies into the Rhineland.
 A score of fortified German towns and villages fell to the Americans in
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-26
Two Invasion In.2nd Week
By FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, Feb. 26-(UP)--American Marine have firm grip" on nearly half of Two and their situation in the bloody battle for the island springboard 750 miles south of Tokyo grows brighter every day." ranking Marine officer said today.
 The Marines held the east-west runway and tWo-thirdS of the north- south runway of Iwos central air I1eld. They were battling tireleSSly to complete the conquest of the base and win more high ground over- looking the northern half of the island.
 The most optimistic official pro- nouncement of the week-iong inv9- sion came today iron: aboard Ads miral Richmond Turner's dagstAD off Two. The Marine officers aSser. ton that the situation was becom- ing brighter by the day reflected confidence that the Marines were over the hump in the hardest fight of their 168-year history.
 The officer said the Marines had won some of the high ground around the central air field, and now were concentrating on seizing more elevated positions for use in the drive northward on the island.
 When the Marines win peaks far ther north, they will have excellent observation of the entire northern part of the island, the officer said, and spotters can direct artillery ant naval gunf1re.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-26
l3,ooo Dodge Men Strike

Detroit, Feb. 26- (UP) - Union officials were ordered today to ex- plain g strike at the main Dodge plant which threatened curtailment of war production at all Chrysler Corp. plants.
 The 13000 Dodge strikers said they expected 600 maintenance and skilled tool and die workers to join the walkout which started Friday over the discharge of seven aircraft department workers.
 Officials of the Dodge local of the United Automobile Workers of America (CIO) were ordered to re- port at 10 a. m. for a show cause hearing before the VILE.
 With 135 of Chrysler's 16O inter plant truck drivers on strike, the wlakout threatened to involve all of the company's war plants, which employ 100000.
 The union said 1t would rent a hall where thousands of members" could wait to hear the result of the VILE hearing.
 Meanwhile, another JAW local voted to return to work today at the Thompson Products Co.,. truck parts manufacturer. The 900 work CTS re-struck last Tuesday after a 10-day truce.
 Dodge plant strikers voted at a three-hour secret mass meeting yesterday to stay out over the de-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-26
Hirohito's Palace May Have Been Hit In I win Superfort- Carrier Raid
BY FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, February 26. = (UP) - Much of the center of Tokyo was believed in flaming ruins today follow ing yesterdays record one- two air assault by more than 200 Superforesses and 1000 carrier planes.
 Some fires may be smould- ering on Emperor Hirohito's palace grounds. Bombs fell near the Stables Bureau oJ the Imperial Household Min, istry on the palace grounds as well as near Omiya palace. residence of the Emperor's mother, a mile and a halt away, Tokyo said.
 CThe American Broadcastlng station in Europe said about 25,OOO square yards in the heart of Tokyo was in flames following the double raid. NEG monitors reported. BEG headed by Blue Network, said part of the Imperial Guards barracks was demolished by 8 bomb which fell in the palace precincts.)
 (Japanese broadcasts recorded by the EGG said a single SuperfortresS flew over the Tokyo Yokohama Metropolitan district and adjacent areas early tonight Japanese time. Tokyo said that earlier today sin- gle Superfortress flew over Korea)
 Radio Tokyo said enemy nlgnv bombers" following up the dayllgN raids crossed the Japanese coast In the direction of the capital at D. m. yesterday (Tokyo time), but did not say whether they hau dropped any bombs.
 Another Attack Likely
 It was expected that planes from Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitschera Task Force 58, the worlds greatest concentration of aircraft carriers would send the attack into a second day today.
 However, there was no word to
 
 this effect from either Pacific fleet headquarters or radio Tokyo up to mid-morning.
 At least 1,0O0-and probably more-tons of demolition and ftr0 bombs were cascaded on Tokyo in the twin raids yesterday. Together they constituted the heaviest assault ever made on Tokyo, one twice as heavy as the heaviest German raid ever made on London during the height of the 1940-41 blitz and ap- preaching in weight those now being made on Germany by the Allies.
 Crewmen who manned the great- est armada of B-29s ever sent aloft said they laid their bombs right
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-26
Bombs Again Rock Berlin
Rv LEO S. DISHER

London, Feb. 26.-(UP)-Almost 2O0O American warplanes rocked Berlin with a 60-minute broadslde of bombs and gunfire today.
 Carrying the record aerial offen- sive into the reich for tine 14th straight day, the U. s. Eighth Air Force sent more than 1,200 Flying Fortresses and Liberators thunder ing over the heart of the Nazi capi- tai to bomb and burn Berlin's railway yards.
 More than 700 long-range Mus tang and Thunderbolt fighters cov- cred the big raiding fleet and pour ed their cannon and machine gun fire into the burning city.
 The attack was directly ln SUD- port of the Red Army forces massed along the Oder river line 30-odd miles east of Berlin.
 Berlins railway lines are con- sidered vital to the NaA armies braced east of the capital against the oncoming Soviets. Virtually all the supplies and troops moved from other sectors to the eastern front must pass through Berlin.
 The size of the raiding fleet in- dicated today's attack was prob ably even heavier than the last big American strike on Berlin last Feb. 3 when more than 1000 heavies drop- ped about 2,500 tons of explosives on the city.
 German broaucaSts said great column of bombers speared to the greater Berlin area" shortly before noon and cleared it about l p. m. (8 a. m. EWT).
 Escorting fighters also were re- ported by the Nazi to be lowering over the area of the capital.
 After the Feb. 3 raid on Berlin by daylight, German communica- tions were off schedule for days. Neutral sources furnished lurid de. scriptions of terror and havoc IT, the capital
 RAF Mosquito bombers rocked Berlin with two-ton block busters last night for the sixth straight night. The air ministry said the Mosquitos had dropped 400 tons of explosives on the capital in the past week.
 Erfurt, Mainz and Bremen also were attacked by the RAP last niGht.