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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-05

has given legal authority to It's
policy of exempting fathers. Draft
boards were specifically ordered to-
day not to draft any man who has
three or mere children under 10.
MIAMI. Florida The mercury
took nose dive today and went
down to 81 degrees, setting a 35-
year-old record for this tropical
resort. Women pulled sweaters over
their sun-back dresses
WASHINGTON-British Ambas
sador, Earl of Halifax. said the sit
uation of the Arab-Jewish con-
troversy in the Middle East is OF
an explosive nature not realized by
Americans.
NEW YORK-A heart attack was
suffered today by Jerome Kern, The
composer of many popular songs.
Physicians at City Hospital said his
condition is serious. He is 60 years
old.
BUDAPEST, Hungary-The Small
Holders Party, representing the
center and conservative elements in
Hungary, apparently swept the
country yesterday in the first free
general elections held in central
Europe since the war.
WASHINGTON = The Supreme
Court refused today to rule on the
validity of the governments war
time seizure of Montgomery Ward
and Company properties in seven
cities.
BREMEN-The U. S. 29th IN
fantry Division, commanded by Ma
jor General Charles Gerhardt, ex-
poets to leave Germany November
IT. 1t will be replaced by the 18th
Division from Berlin
HELSINKI-Fie Marshal Baron
Carl Mannerheim, Finland's ailing
78-year-old President, has left Cor
Stockholm enroute to Portugal
where he will seek a climate more
favorable to him.
ATHENS-New Premier of Greece
Panayotis Cancellopoulos will leave
here in about two weeks on visit
to Washington and London to ask
more aid for Greek rehabilitation.
WASHINGTON Administrator
Omar Bradley announces appoint
ment of Frank Kelsey as Assistant
Veterans Administrator in charge Of
the finance service. Kelsey replaces
Maurice Collins, transferred 10 the
Federal Security Agency.
PARIS - Frances newly elected
Constituent Assembly will meet To-
morrow to begin its job Of creating
a Fourth Republic.
LONDON-Prime Minister Attlee
will takeoff for Washington to dis
cuss atomic energy with President
Truman and Canadian Prime Min
ister w. L. Mackenzie King after a
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-05

MOSCOW - The Russian news
paper Pravda says that the canal
linking the Baltic and the White Sea
will be in full operation again next
spring
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-05

Mayors Luncheon at London No
vember 9, it is learned.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-05
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WASHINGTON-Selective Service
has given legal authority to its
policy OF exempting fathers. Draft
boards were specifically ordered to-
day not to draft any man who has
three or more children under 10.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-05

LONDON-Prime Minister Attlee
will takeoff for Washington to dis
cuss atomic energy with President
Truman and Canadian Prime Min
lister w l.. Mackenzie King after a
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-05

MIAMI. Florida The mercury
took a nose dive today and went
down to 81 degrees, setting a 35-
year-old record for this tropical
resort. Women pulled sweaters over
their sun-back dresses.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-11-05

NEW YORK--A heart attack was
suffered today by jerome Kern, the
composer of many popular songs.
Physicians at City Hospital said his
condition is serious. He is 60 years
old.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
ECLIPSE OF
 SUN MONDAY

WOLSELEY, Sask., July 7.-The weathered brick school of this little community. 70 miles east of Re- gina, became center of unseasonal activity today as astron m c a scientists prepared to photograph and study the total solar eclipse next Monday morning
 The moment of totality is ex- pected at SIT am. tPWT).
 Carpenters were on hand to con- struct wooden tunnels which will serve as the bellows of astrono- mical cameras.
 The expedition. representing the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia is headed by Dr. R. K. Marshall, Director of the Fels Planetarium, and includes Dr. A. c. Mohler, as- tronomer of the McMath- Hubert Observatory at Pontiac, Mich, a part of the University of Michigan and Dr. Richard M. Sutton, Pro- lessor of Physics at Haverford Col lege, Haverford, Pa.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
GREAT PORT, AIRFIE:i;.LD5 }.
 ARE RE SEIZED
WhirIwind Five -ddy Thrust Results in Important
 Captures
By SPENCER DAVIS Associated Press CorrespOndenO

MANILA, July 7.-Australian troops killing Japanese at the ratio of 13 to 1, struck today for south eartern Borneo's richest oil fields after a whirlwind five-day invas- ion thrust that conquered Balik- papan, it's vital harbor, and two sup porting air bases.
 The invasion's first phase ended Thursday with a rapier-like thrust across the bay three miles northwest of Balikpapan which knocked out gun position that might have harassed free use of Balikpapan's excellent port.
 With their backs to Borneo's fear som jungles, the Japanese falling back toward the big Sambodja and Samarinda oil fields northeast of Balikpapan had the unpleasant prospect of meeting head-hunting Dyaks and venomous snakes when- ever they desert the coast for the unexplored interior.
 Associated Press Correspondent Russell Brines said the Australians had plowed into some of the strong est Japanese defenses in the south west Pacific when they stormed ashore just east of Balikpapan. In five days they seized Sepinggang and Manggar air fields and the port of Balikpapan itself.
 With the docks secured, the Aus tralians then moved west across the waters of Balikpapan Bay, travelling in amphibious tanks and landing craft manned by American fighting men.
 Brines said that in the Balikpapan operation to date, casualties might have equalled those on bloody Two Jima inview of the stout enemy de- lenses, but they had been limited to PA Australian dead, APO wounded and g missing.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
MUST MEET
 LAPS OWN
 HOMELAND
Vinegar Joe" Sti|weI| Talks of Campaign 10
 Kill Nipponese

OKINAWA, July 7.--Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell, commanding the U. s. Tenth Army and American forces on Okinawa. told a press confer ence that in his opinion we must meet the Jap in his homeland and kill him." because air assault alone would not win the war.
 Vinegar Joe" then laughed and added that he had been wrong on so many predictions that another would not affect his batting aver age one bit.
 A great part of Japanese indus try has been devastated and we are working on second-rate cities now" Stilwell declared. But no matter what the air people say, it is my opinion that air war alone won't whip the Japs."
 The General asserted he had found no evidence of Japanes morale cracking; in fact, "all you have to do is look around at prisoner of war camps on Okinawa. They don't look too bad" The Japanese must feel depressed over results of the Okinawa campaign, however, he acknowledged.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
BATTIM RESIGNS
 WLB POST HERE

Dr. Charles F. Battin, Alaska Di- rector for the War Labor Board, has resigned from that position to return to his former post as pro- lessor and head of the department of economics and business admin istration at College of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington.
 Dr. Battin left Juneau by south- bound steamer today, enroute to his Tacoma home, where he will rejoin his wife and daughter. He plans to vacation on his boat be- fore going back to his teaching position at c. P.S.
 D. E. Davis, who recently has been assisting Dr. Battin as inves- tigator, will be in charge of the Alaska office as Acting Director pr. Battin's resignation is effective today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
FIVE CITIES
 5(0R(HED BY u. 5. B0MBERS
Industrial Targets Are Sci Ablaze While Others
 Badly Damaged
By LEFT ERICKSON
Associated Press War corrsspsndsnp

Associated Press War CorrespondenO
 GUAM. July :. - New fires, touched off by about 500 night -raid- ing Superforts, blazed through five Japanese cities today, adding major aluminium producing and oil refin- cry areas to the 126 square miles of industrial Japan already knock ed out by B-29s. 3
 As jubilant airmen returning from today's pre-dawn. strike told of gigantic conflagrations that they had lighted, the Fist Bomber Con- mand announced reconnaissance photographs showed five additional square miles burned out in recent strikes on five other cities. They were Kure, Himeji Kurnamoto, Ube on Honshu Island, and Kochl on Shikoku. This makes the f2C square mile total. &
 Additionally. an ngineering works was wrecked and an oi! re- finery damaged Sf
 Another major oil refinery hit today in perhaps the laryest raid of the war blazed through the clouds like a sterrific tropical sua- set.' The ereatsS6 blaze lighted by the Superforts' 4,0OO torispo ii,- cendiarics and high explosives was in Japan's largest aluminium, pro- ducirig center.
 The mission was the fourth in six days in which the B-29s have dumped 11.000 tons of bombs on Japan. s
 Meanwhile assorted American tactical planes. notably l00-odd Mustangs from Two Jima. beat up airfields around Tokyo and on Kyu- shu with scanty enemy opposition. Chief targets of B-29 strikes be- tween midnight and dawn were:
 Shimizu. 20 miles southwest of Mt. Fuji and site of a plant that produced half of Japan's aluminium.
 Shimotsu, 35 miles southwest of osaka ana ste ot the big Maruzen oil refinery, one of the empires most vital plants.
 Kofu, TO miles west of Tokyo, city of 100000 with rail shops, spinning mills and military bar racks.
 Chiba, 20 miles southeast of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay, railway junc- tion and military depot center; and Akashi, home factory of the Kawasaki Aircraft Company. hit in four previous raids
 Most spectacular blow of the five was struck at Shimizu, where re- turning fliers used the word ''coa. flagration'--superlative in the fiery language of B-2o crews-to describe the results.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
.IN50N TO : BE HEAD0F
 TREASURY
Announcement Made from White House as 10 Mor-
 qenthdu's 5 Successor

WASHINGTON, July 2. = Judge Fred M Vinson will succeed Henry Moggenthau Jr., as Secretary of the Treasury and with that question settled new one arose today.
 Who will succeed vinson as Di- rector of War Mobilization and Re- conversion?
 That one caught official Wash ington flat-footed. President Tru- mans decision to appoint the 55- year-old Kentuckian to the Cabinet announced by a White House aide leaves wide open job that is so important its holder has been call ed assistant president"
 Vinson, the shaggy browed for- mer Congressman and one-time Federal Judge, will not actually be appointed Secretary of the Treas ury until MT. Truman returns from the Big Three meeting in Germany later in the summer.
 When he does take office it will be his fourth lofty executive po- sition in little more than two years. He has been:
 l. Director of Economic Stabili- ration until March of this year. g. Federal Loan Administrator for exactly one month.
 3. Director of War Mobilization and Reconversion since April T.
 An admiring Senate approved his various appointments without a murmur.
 Some in Washington puzzled by their impression that moving from assistant president" to Secretary of the Treasury is not exactly a promotion were wondering whether President Truman plans for Vim son to hold both jobs at once It has been suggested too that Tru- man intends to make only one job out of it by merging the War Mob- ilization office with the Treasury.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
5WpC FLIES TO SITkA THIS A. M.
 WITH GOVERNOR

The four officials representing the Smaller War Plants Corporation, on tour of Alaska to determine need for their agency's services, this morning took off from here for Sitka on a trip delayed from yester- day by adverse weather. They were accompanied to Sitka by Gov. Err nest Gruening.
 The four officials plan to return to Juneau this afternoon and de- part immediately for Cordova, from where they will continue through westward and Interior cities.
 Howard MacGowan, Regional Dir ector for the SWPC, expressed pleasure at the response with which his party had met in Juneau. At least 10 sound ideas were discussed with citizens here, he said Last evening two more proposals were gone over with Douglas residents following a dinner at which the SWPC representatives were guests of the Douglas Chamber of Commerce dining on venison.
 The unexpected delay in their plans yesterday was put to use by the party members for conferences with governmental officials regard ing the resources and potentials of Alaska.
 Ross Cunningham, Associate Edi- tor of the Seattle Times, who ac- ccmpanied the SWPC group here from Seattle, was to return to the Pudget Sound city by PAA plane this afternoon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
HOME ISLES
 WIDE OPEN
 FOR ATTACK
Commanding General oI Marines Says Japan Be
 Inyaded-No Trouble

HONOLULU, July 7.-The Japa- nese home islands are wide open for invasion and the United States can move in any time with no trouble at all' in the opinion of the new Commanding General of Marines. in the Pacific.
 It. Gen. Roy s. Geiger, back from the Okinawa wars where he led the Third Amphibious Corps, asserted that victory could be won only by the invasion, that the Americans would be met by men and women civilian fighters. but all that wont te any worry to us."
 Its question now of wading in and finishing this war he told a press conference here yesterday upon his arrival to take over as Marine Commander from It. Gen. Holland H. Smith
 Geiger scoffed at the idea, cur rent at the outbreak of the war, that the Japanese as fighters were super men"
 At heart they are towards and they have an inferiority complex" he said. They haven't near the stamina we have and haven't the brain we got. When they get into bad straits they kill themselves"
 Geiger expressed belief Japanese
 
 industralists would have stopped the war before if they could. AS to whether they would spearhead any peace offensive-as many have speculated-he said the question was whether the industrallsts will be able to get sufficient control"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
Dorothy MeCuIIey, Sgt. Winfred King
 Are Wed Today

The Methodist Church was the scene of simple wedding ceremony this morning, when Miss Dorothy L. McCulley, daughter of MT. and Mrs. s. P. Field of Walla Walla, Wash, became the bride of Sgt Winfred w. King. son of MT. and Mrs. O. King, oi Auburn, Alabama.
 The Rev. Robert s. Treat read the VOWS before palm banked altar, using the double ring ceremony.
 The bride was given in marriage by her father, MT. s. P. Field, and had as her bridesmaid Miss Beverly Leivers.
 Sgt. Guy Amsden was best man for the groom.
 The bride wore cobalt-blue suit dress, with white accessories. Her hat was of white sequins with shoulder-length veil She wore a corsage of pink roses and gardenias
 Miss Leivers wore gown of acme blue, with black accessories and had a corsage of red rosebuds.
 Mrs. Field, mother of the bride wore grey with black accessories and yellow rosebud corsage.
 The Wedding March was played by Mrs. Robert Treat. Mrs. Forrest Pitts sang Until"
 A wedding breakfast for the bridal party in the Iris Room of the Bar anof Hotel followed the wedding ceremony.
 Mrs. King has been with the ACS in Juneau, coming her about year ago. She recently went south, re- turning yesterday accompanied by her parents, and her brother Billie
 Sgt. King has been with the AC. in Juneau for the past three and one-half years. The future plans of the young couple are indefinite, but they will make their home in Juneau for the present.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
Juneau Chapter Nearly Doubles Quota for Red
 Cross in Recent Drive

The Juneau Chapter of the Red Cross went over the top in the re- cent drive. then beyond. nearly doubling the quota, the Rev. Wm. Robert Webb, 1945 campaign chair man, has been informed by Allen Shattuck, local Red Cross Chapter Treasurer
 The quota of the Juneau Chap ter was $16,500, but the final report of Treasurer Shattuck shows the subscriptions totalled the sum of $31, ,073.49 or $14.573.49 over the top.
 The sum of $1l,545.15 was con- tributed by the armed forces in Alaska and is included in the Juneau total. The sum of $126 was con- tributed by the local Coast Guard.
 Juneau residents will be interested to know that approximately 17.9 per- cent will remain in the local treas ury which will amount to $5,562 IS. This amount will be usesd for emer- gencies in Alaska and especially in the Juneau area.
 T am very proud of this report" 7" said the Rev MT. Webb, this morn ing. Tt shows the immense con- cern that the people of the Gastin- eau Channel area have in seeing that the Red Cross and the mercy for which it stands is carried to not only the members of the armed forces but to all areas of the world where suffering and hardship still predominate. I want to personally congratulate every one of my CO., workers on this fine showing"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
PAN AMERICAN HAS
 SEVENTEEN FOR HERE

Pan American World Airways brought the following IT passen- gers to Juneau from Seattle, yes- terday: Mrs. Alice Coughlin. Joseph Zimmerman, Arthur Knight, Mrs. Doris Birkeland, Mrs. c. c. Carter, Carla Carter, Ed Locher, Sydney Larrabe, Bernice Parker, LeRoy Parker, Mrs. Nell Parker, Virginia Ludlow, Irwin Erickson, William Holbrook, Phillipe Berthall, Clifford Thorgaard and Major J. c. Clark
 From Fairbanks: Edward Bur- nell, Fred Baxter, Jirdes Baxter and Fred Baxter, Jr.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
Nisei Casualties Now Announced; Soldiers Are Highly Praised

SAN FRANCISCO, July 7.-Cas- ualties among the 20,529 Japanese Americans in the Nations armed forces are estimated by the War Relocation Authority at 5000, R. B. Cozzens, Assistant Director of the WRA, reported today.
 Cozzens also made public let ter from Gen. Jacob L. Devers, head of all U. s. ground forces, in which he said the Nisei under his command "are, in my opinion, among the finest soldiers in the United States Army
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
n'sSon
 Is Missing

LONDON, July 2. = Sgt. Simon Eden, eldest son of Foreign Secre- tary Anthony Eden, is reported missing today on an operational flight in Burma.
 The Air Ministry said the Brit ish aircraft on which he was fly ing as a crew member has been unreported for several days.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07

The w ashington
 Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON It. Col Robert s. Allen now on active service with the Army)

WASHINGTON - Wise-owl Sec. State Jimmy Byrnes has decided not to consider State Department reorganization of personnel until he returns from the. Big Three Con- ference. Most other policy matters, unless of major importance, will also wait.
 One policy matter which will come up for review soon-it may even be brought up by Stalin at Berlin-is our continued close re- lationship with Dictator Franco of Spain.
 Byrne's predecessors in the State Department, led by Jimmy Dunn, have followed a policy of sending oil, sugar and other strategic ma terials to Franco. If we withheld these or withdrew our ambassador, Franco would fall overnight.
 The extreme lengths to which Byrnes predecessors in the State Department have gone to protect Franco is known to very few For instance, it has been kept care fully hushed-up secret that, in ad- vance of the San Francisco Con- ference, State Department officials brought pressure to bear on several Latin American governments to keep them from breaking with Franco
 Latin American countries are sovereign nations and not supposed to require advice on how to con- duct their relations with European neutrals. However, on April 4, when a resolution to break rela- tions with Spain was about to be presented in the Cuban Congress, the American Embassy in Havana discreetly but vigorously protested. So, virtually taking orders from the U. s. A., Cuban Foreign Min ister Cuervo Rubio met in secret session. with the Committee on For eign Affairs and urged that no ac- tion be taken toward a break with Spain. Temporarily, the resolution was held up; to be passed over whelmingly about month later. Again, on April 26, the Venezue- Ian Chamber of Deputies was dis creetly informed that it must with draw its resolution calling for a break with Franco. A much more automatically worded resolution was substituted.
 Also, the Costa Rican Congress voted 36 to to break relations with Spain. But suddenly U. S. diplomats called upon the Costa Rican President and Foreign Min ister, and assurances were given that no action would be taken to break with Franco.
 In the end, such surge of anti Franco resentment boiled up at San Francisco that State Depart ment officials were powerless to stem the tide.
 However, more show-downs re- garding our pro-Franco policy are certain to come unless the new State Department under Jimmy Byrnes beats Latin Americans to it by revising our prn-Tre;sso5 policy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
MRS. CARTER HOME

Mrs. c. c. Carter and daughter Carla returned by plane yesterday from three-weeks' visit with Mrs Carter's parents, MT. and Mrs. L Tatham of Hamilton, Wash. The visit was made more memorable with the arrival of Mrs. Carter's brother, It. Lewis Tatham. who had just returned from Italy and was home on leave.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
BERNARD ASKS DIVORCE

Attorney M. E. Monagle has dis closed the entering here with the Clerk of the U. s. District Court of an action in divorce brought by R. L. Bernard against Manda Elise Bernard. MT. Monagle represents the plaintiff. Incompatibility of temperament is charged. The couple has no children, Mrs. Bernard now resides in the State of Oregon and is represented by Portland attorneys.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
OLAF HALvERS0N TRAvELS BY AIR,
 ALA5kA 10 EAsT

Olaf Halverson, school teacher from Kodiak, has been visiting in Juneau while enroute to Warren, Minn. He Is making the entite trip from Kodiak to Warren by plane, and thus far on his trip visited Anchorage, Palmer, and Fairbanks.
 Coming to Alaska 10 years ago on the Northwestern, now aband- doned at Dutch Harbor, he has since taught school at Bethel, and Naknek. and for the past seven years at Kodiak He has spent the summer months prospecting at Goodnews Bay and Wiseman, as well as surveying In the Matan- uska Valley and on the Kodiak Naval Air Base.
 Mir. Halverson plans to return this fall. with Nome As his next destination. After 10 years in the Territory, he b much impressed with Alaska's possibilities as well as it's natural beauties.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
DAUGHTER FOR BENECKEs

A baby girl weighing ' pounds, ounces, was born last evening at St. Ann's Hospital to MT. and Mrs. O. F. Benecke.
 MT. Benecke, with the Alaska Coastal Airways, is expected home today from a trip south. Fellow workers at the office are expecting him to pass around the usual cigars in honor of his new daughter.
 Both mother and daughter are reported to be doing well.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
MRS. ANsELL JOINS HUSBAND

Mrs. J. w. Ansell, of Seattle, has arrived in Juneau to join her husband who has been employed at the Juneau Heating and Plumb ing Company for quite some time. They are guests at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07

Mrs. E. o. Davis, wife of E. O. Davis of the North Transfer. re- turned last evening from a months visit in Seattle. Edmonds and Vas hon Island She was accompanied on the trip by her daughter, Caro- line, her son. Jack Sorri, and her mother, Mrs. Grace Purdue.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07
BROWN PLEADS GUILTY

Hubert George Brown, charged two days ago with disorderly con- duct, following an assault and dis turbance in a South Franklin street house, this morning pleaded guilty before U. s. Commissioner Felix Gray and was sentenced to serve 90 days in the Federal Jail here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-07

Mrs. Joe Werner and daughter Karen arrived home yesterday from a visit of several weeks in Seattle and Portland. They were accom- panied by Mrs. Werner's mother, Mrs. Alena Berg. who will spend the summer with the Werner fam lily.