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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
RECEPTION TO LEGISLAT0RSI
 SOCIAL EVENT

Hundreds of Gastineau Channel residents attended the formal re- ception last night in honor of mem- bers Of the Seventeenth Territorial Legislature given by Gov. and Mrs Ernest Gruening at the Governors house from 8 o'clock to midnight.
 Both aides of the Governor were present, Lieutenant Warren M. Caro-, welcoming and receiving the guests, ard Major c. F. Sehreibner giving the introductions.
 The receiving line was headed by Gov and Mrs. Gruening. next, Sec retary of Alaska Lew M Williams and Mrs. Williams, then the mem hers of the Territorial Senate and House and elected Territorial of ficials.
 Music was furnished during the evening and for the dancing in the ballroom.
 Pouring during the reception hours were Mrs. G. F Alexander, Mrs. E. L. Bartlett, Mrs. Charles Burdick, Mrs. J. J. Connors, Sr.. Mrs Don Foster, Mrs. Fred Geeslin, Mrs Arthur Glover, Mrs. Weilman Hol- brock, Mrs. Crystal Jenne. Mrs. Earl McGinty, Mrs. Oscar G. Olson, Mrs James Ryan, Mrs. B. D. Stewart, Mrs. Ike Taylor, Mrs. Hugh Wade and Mrs NJ D. Williams.
 Assistants were Mrs. Gladys Over by, Mrs. Katherine Alexander, Mrs. Katherine Nordale, Mrs. Henrietta Power, Mrs. Karl Theile, Mrs. Helen Smith Cass, Katherine Pinson. June Gabrielson, Etolin Coulter and Pearl Peterson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
SHAW OFFERED UCLAGRIDIR0N
 COACHING JOB
Former Santa Clara Chief Gets Nice Offer 10
 Succeed HorreII

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27 = Buck Shaw is most likely to be the new head football coach at the University of California at Los An geles, provided he can arrive at a satisfactory agreement with his present business affiliates. The former Santa Clara m e n or has been tentatively offered the UCLA berth, to succeed Babe Horrell, who has resigned, the Associated Press learned.
 Shaw who is now affiliated with a contracting business, said he will not make final decision until he has conferred with his partners. Shaw agrees that the coaching po- siticn is highly desirable, with many opportunities for the future. The terms offered him are very attractive he said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
PANIC FEARED
 ON NAzI HOME
 FRONT, RUM0R
''Phoney" Label Put on Reports of German
 Peace FeeIers
(By Associated Press)

The German radio today called on the home front in Germany to show neither illusions nor panic, as rumors told of mounting anxiety and even disturbances within the Reich. Allied officials cautioned against wishful thinking or Nazi propaganda efforts.
 A British Foreign Office spokes- man labeled as "phoney" rumors from Lisbon, Madrid and Barcelona that the Germans are fishing for peace. Other reports, which includ- ed the Paris radio, said that civili- ans had staged a protest demon stration when several high-ranking German officers arrived in Berlin.
 Moscow radio said that clashes had occurred in Breslau between Volksstrum and SS men.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
TOKYO GETS MORE BOMBS
 IN NEW RAID
lIndo- China Also Hit in Far Ranging Raids of
 Superforfs
lBy Associated Press)

Japanese Imperial Headquarters announced today in a communique that about 70 Marianas-b B. 29s raided the house of Tokyo last night
 Dropping explosives and incendiar- ies, damage was done, Tokyo report ed, in several places,7 and fires were not brought under control until dusk.
 The Jap-controlled radio in Sai- gon, Indo- China, asserted the Sai- gon and Cholon areas in southern Indo- China were bombed Tate this morning with some material dam age caused and twenty dead, two hundred wounded"
 The Nipponese report did not dis close the identity of the raiding planes, but the goth Air Force earlier announced that India-based B-29s had attacked do-China.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
MEN AVAILABLE FOR JOBS NOW
 AT USES OFFICE

Both skilled and unskilled work CTS are now available for any sort of job you may have, whether it's the basement that needs cleaning, the roof repairing, or any of those numerous repair jobs you have been delaying these many months because of the lack of help, says the USES. There are quite a number of unemployed in Juneau at present who would welcome any full-time or part.time work you may have.
 Ii you have a job to be done, now IS the time to do it. Due to the shortage of workers on the Pacific Coast, if these men do not secure work at this time they may have to be shipped out to the states and will no longer be avail able for work in this area.
 Just contact the U. S. Employ ment Service office, stating your needs, and worker meeting your requirements will be sent you. says Jack Carvel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
FOR ACT
 LOST IN
 CHICAGO
Judge Rules President Has No Right 10 Take
 Over Wards

CHICAGO, Jan. 27-The Army seizure of 16 Montgomery Ward properties in seven cities under order of President Roosevelt has been declared illegal by Federal Judge Philip Sullivan.
 Judge Sullivan said: Tt is with considerable reluctance that I have arrived at the conclusions in this case"
 The ruling. which the Govern ment said affected the entire na- tion's wartime labor dispute and settlement machinery, assert e d. "our nation is engaged in a global war and it is imperative we con- tribute everything we have to in sure a speedy and successful con- clusion.'
 50 deeply do I feel on this subject" Sullivan said, T believe it is not too much to expect for the duration that employers, en- ployees and unions make deter mined effort to adjust their labor disagreements without resorting to strikes and lockouts. 2
 Declaring the seizures on De- cember 23 as illegal, Sullivan fur ther said, T am of the opinion that the President is without au- thority either under the War Labor Disputes Act or the war powers conferred upon him under the con- stitution to take possession of the plants. The recommendation of the War Labor Board are only advisory.
 Attorney General Francis Riddle previously had announced he would appeal the case if it were lost in this court
 Judge Sullivan also held the company was not war production plant.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
WHEELER TAKES WALLACE'S OFFICE

Wallace's office staff was none too happy on inaugural eve. The fact that Montanas Senator Bur- ton K. Wheeler was taking over the Vice. e-Presidential office suite pour ed salt in their wounds. Though Wallace still had several days to run in office, electricians, tele- phone men, and furniture movers moved in week ahead of schedule, virtually jerked the rug out from under his legs. Then the Vice President found painters crawling around his office as he reported to work the last day He took one long, last look and fled.
 Wallace sent all his official papers to the Library of Congress where many will be sealed for 20 years, including complete reports on his globe-girdling trips. Behind, he left only battered tube of shaving cream and a shabby hair brush which his secretary, Mary Huss, had purchased on January IS, 1941, to make him spruce up,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
5LUSH. BLOWS
 ITALIAN WAR

ROME, Jan. 27.-Action along the Italian front has been limited to patrol activity as driving rains turned the deep snows to slush.
 German prisoners taken by the Fifth Army confirmed reports the Nazis are constructing defenses rap idly in the Appenines. particularly before Bologna.
 A naval communique reported AL lied warships have been bombarding enemy positions near the Franco Italian frontier off the southern coast of France for the past nine days. scoring direct hits on enemy supply dumps and occupied build ings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
HOSPITAL NOTES

Andrew Merculief has been ad- mitted to St. Ann's Hospital for medical attention.
 Jessie Fallis, a medical case, has been admitted to St. Arms Hos pital
 Waller Thompson has been ad- mitted to St. Ann's Hospital for medical care.
 A baby girl was born to Mrs. Chris Jorgenson at St. Ann's Hos pital at l:45 o'clock this morning. Weight, 5 pounds, 10 ounces.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
KANSAS CITY BOSS OF OLD pAS5E5 AWAY


 KANSAS CITY Jan. 27. = Thomas J. Pendergast, 72, former Kansas City political machine boss. died today.
 The stocky Democratic boss made Governors and Senators and his nod of approval was sought by Missouri politicians for many years before his downfall in 1889.
 Pendergast had been in the hos pital since Tuesday with an 'un- disclosed ailment.
 The end of Pendergast rule came when he was sentenced to the Fed eral Penitentiary at Leavenworth for income tax evasion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
BRITISH WIN
 FRESH GROUND
 IN BURMA WAR
Indian Troops Land on New Island Nip Attacks
 Beaten Off

SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND HEADQUARTERS AT YLON, Jan 27--British Fourteenth Army troops have captured Ondaw, IS miles northwest of Mandalay while Indian troops in Allied landing on the west coast of Burma, the fifth this month, invaded Cheduba Is- land, 100 miles southeast of Akyab.'
 The communique announced that other Indian troops took Myomaung, 38 miles northeast of Akyab.
 Renewed Japanese attacks were reported in the Singu sector, 42 miles north of Mandalay, but all at tacks were reported repulsed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27

 pANICkED::
 RED HORDE
FaiherIanders Flee Flood of Advancing So-
 viet Armies

LONDON, Jan. 27 = Germany's Volkssturm, organized to defend the Reich, has been called out to help keep order on the home front as the mass of westward fleeing refugees swelled with each mile of the Russian advance.
 While Nazi propagandists warned the people to prepare for more disappointing news other Nazi leaders tried to whip up resistance by threats of their fate under Red domination.
 The German radio reported home guards had been called out to help snarled traffic and jammed rail- way stations
 A Moscow broadcast told of chaos and panic" in Berlin
 Tackling their toughest propa- ganda problem yet, the Nazi press and radio sounded the theme of strength through fear.
 The German radio announcer warned Germans to make no bones" of Russian plans for mass German deportations if Germany is conquered.
 The propaganda story was told of the Silesian mother and four children who made the arduous trip to Berlin, declaring "a trip to Siberia would surely be longer and more strenuous.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
The W ashing ion Merry -Go Round
By DREW PEARSON Gt, Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.)

WASHINGTON-Even the enc mics who opposed him so bitterly at Chicago now admit that Henry Wallace has grown ill stature He went out of the Presidency in defeat a bigger man. There was no rancor, no trace of disappointment in anything he did, though by na- ture Wallace is a sensitive, easily hurt man.
 Wallace was at his best when he gave the oath of office to his suc- cessor, Harry Truman. There was a ring of sincerity in his voice which electrified those around him, and which made the Vice-Presi- dential ceremony almost more im- pressive than that which followed. And the night before, Henry was at his best when he introduced at the Electors Dinner, the chief speaker of the evening, Vice Presi- dent-elect Truman
 You know, Harry" he said, I'm not supposed to leave office until noon tomorrow. But I was talking to the Fiscal Clerk of the Senate today and he said I go off the payroll at midnight. So if I show up for work at the White House tomorrow, I want you to know I'm doing it oD tho n,,ff
 A few minutes later, Truman told wallace, I've been off the payroll for two days already myself. The boys are talking about taking ur a collection to tide me over"
 NOTE Truman resigned his Senatorial seat two days before llection.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
NIP FORCES
 FIGHT BACK,
 FIRST TIME
Clark Field Is Under ArfiI- Iery Fire from Gave
 Placed Guns
GENERAL GARTH U R'S

GENERAL M A R T H U R 5 HEADQUARTERS, Luzon, Jan. 27. Ut. Gen Tomoyuki Yamashita s Japanese forces on Luzon showed the first signs of fight today.
 In the central plains sector, south of the Bamban River on Friday Nipponese artillery also opened up on American-sei Clark Field an center.
 Tcday's communique reported no sizeable gains anywhere on Luzon as the enemy maintained bitter resist ance against the U. s. First Army S left flank. This resistance has been almost constant since the January invasion day, but the Fourteenth Corps, whose spearheads yesterday, were reported at angles. a little more than 40 airline miles from Manila, got the first real taste of organized resistance after easily passing through two natural enemy
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
NO TAFT VOTE
 FOR WALLACE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Senator Robert Taft today predicted that most Republicans will vote against Wallace's cabinet nomination re- gardless of whether or not the post is stripped of lending authority.
 The Ohio senator voiced his pre- diction after a Republican steering committee meeting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
SUB TOTALS
 STILL RISE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. = Sub marines have sunk 21 more enemy vessels, including a light cruiser, in Far Eastern waters.
 Included in the list of sunken yes- sels was a large tanker, large cargo transport a medium auxiliary transport, nine medium cargo ves- sels.
 This announcement brought to 979 the total of Jap vessels sunk by submarines. Included in the total are 1O4 combatant craft and fifteen cruisers
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
APPEAL GRANTED

CHICAGO, Jan. 27-On an ap- peal motion, Judge Sullivan stayed all proceedings pending decision, thus permitting Army forces to continue control of the establish ments in question
 On the New York Stock Ex- change, Montgomery Ward common stock jumped S2.75
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
EVACUATION
 OF BERLIN
 UNDER WAY

STOCKHOLM, Jan 27 - Three travellers arriving here independent ly from Berlin declared a slow and gradual evacuation of women and children started this morning in the German capital
 A shortage of rolling stock and lack of housing elsewhere handicaps the movement.
 It is Reported g trains have been placed in readiness 10 miles south of Berlin
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
pULLENS BACK
 AFTER MONTHS

W. s. Pullen, General Manager of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, accompanied by Mrs. Pullen, returned home last night aboard the Princess Norah.
 The Pullens have been absent from their home town for the past four months and during that time have visited their son and daughter and grandchildren. They have been to Maine on the east coast and also to points on the Pacific before hiking north again.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
AVERY HAPPY

CHANDLER, Arizona, Jan. l27-- Sewell Avery, Montgomery Ward Board Chairman, said the decision means "a great day for us-the labor battle of Wards for seven years has been to maintain inde- pendent constitutional rights to join union or not to join. a union and to resign from the union if one wishes"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
NEW AIR PLAN ANNOUNCED BY
 CANADA GROUP

NEW YORK, Jan. 27 Canada announced today adherence to a Two Freed omsp air agreement giving rights of transit and non commercial stops to Transatlantic and Trans-Pacific planes.
 The decision was announced at the conclusion of two day Civil Air Transport conference between officials of Canada and the United States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Jan. 27. - Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7l9, American Can 91, Anaconda 317s, Beech Aircraft 1874, Bethlehem Steel 70A, Curtiss- Wright 5A, International Harvester 757s, Kennecott 38, North American Aviation 9ai, New York Central 23ls Northern Pacific 1873, U. s. Steel 61, Pound $404.
 Dow. Jones averages today are as follows industrials. 154.13; rails, 4817; utilities 26.65.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
 SHUTDOWN
 OF MINING

DENVER, Colo, Jan. 27 -. The Western War Mining Conference delegates have been told by Maj Gen. William Shedd, Commanding General of the Ninth Service Com mand, that he could see no revi- sion in the gold and silver mining order and also that lead and coal production is critically short.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27

LONDON. Jan. 27. = Red Army spearheads have advanced into Ger man positions along the Oder River to the borders of Brandenburg Prov mce, the German High Command announced today The river runs from 75 to 95 miles east of Berlin.
 The German accounts indicate two ~prongs of Marshal zhukoy's drive outflanking Poznan. in Central Poland. have reached or crossed the border of Brandenburp Province, which nearest point is 9l miles from Berlin. as admitted yes- terday.
 The German High Command said one arm of this drive has advanced between the Leszno Netze River. which winds northeast, touching the border. apd Schneidemuehle, l36 miles northeast of Berlin and in dicated the spearhead is storming across the shortest route to the Ger man Capital City.
 The German High Command also says the Russians have made many major penetrations" into the Ger man lines in the upper Silesian in austrial area south Of the vistula River, and meanwhile a force of per- haps 100000 Nazis are trapped in East Prussia and face destruction as a result of Marshal Rokossovsky.s brilliant drive on the Danzig Bay area.
 Moscow reports that so far the Russian winter offensive has cost the Germans 3S2,O0O killed or cap- tured.
 Fresh Red troops are said to have been hurled into the drive through Central Poland and indications are the Germans are carrying out hur- ried major shifts of troops also to the eastern front.
 The Russians are using a huge weight of tanks, artillery and infan- try in the attacks now.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
CONVENTION TO END

The CIO convention of all resident Alaska local unions will end to- morrow, it was announced today. The convention. held in the Miners Union Hall. started Thursday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
FROM WRANGELL

c. P. MacCreary of Wrangell is a guest of the Hotel Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
AT BARANOF

Harold Anderson of Anchorage and A. E. Lucas of Fairbanks are staying at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
MRS. ROMIG HERE

Mrs. Howard Romig of Anchorage is staying at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
FROM ANCHORAGE

Charles A. Parker, registering from Fairbanks, is guest at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27
RUSSIANS
 ADVANCING
 } W | F IL Y
Spearheads Penetrate Into German Positions, Says
 High Command

BULLETIN-LONDON, Jan. 27-The Germans tonight an- nounces the Red Army has knocked out Hitler's war-vitaI industries in the rich upper Silesia and lungcd to the Obra River, 97 miles from Berlin. Workers have been evacuated somewhere to the rear.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-27

BULLETIN-LONDON, Jan. 27-The Germans permanent defense system in the Masurian Lakes region, East Prussia, has been smashed, Stalin says to- night in an Order of the Day. staiin addressed the order jointly to Marshal Rokossovsky and Gen. Cherniakhovsky and also announced the capture of Rastenburg and other cities on the approaches to Konigsburg. The Masurian Lakes area stretches across the south and central area of East Prussia.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-25
ILLEGAL FISHING BRINGS LCSS OF
 BIG FISH CATCH


 Caught fishing 'in the wrong place" as one of the defendants ex- pressed it, the captain and four members of the crew of the seine boat Yukon pleaded guilty here this morning on arraignment before U S. Commissioner Felix Gray to ille- gal fishing.
 Salmon, totallying 2607 fish, in the cargo of the Yukon were ordered confiscated by Commissioner Gray A fine of $100 was assessed against Harry Marvin, master. Joe Alimor- eng, crew member listed as a second offender was fined S75. The three other crew members, Carl Marvin, Nick Marvin and Sam Knutson, were each fined $50 All fines were paid immediately.
 The complaint, sworn to by Earl w. Bright of the Fish and Wildlife Service charged the five defendants with illegally seining salmon in a closed area, the Icy Strait District, at 1:45 o'clock p. m., on August IS, 1945 The violation was spotted by Juneau District Fisheries Agent Clay Scudder.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-25
HOUSING PROJECT
 HERE K STOPPED
 BY FpHA ORDERS
Contractors Are Notified 10 Cease Work-No Water
 Approval for Hoondh

Thirty units of war housing plan ned for Juneau are now, for the time being, to remain as an unten- anted rock fill, at the big bend of yvilloughby Avenue, according to dis closures made here today
 The Territorial Construction Con- pany, holder of the fill contract, has teen notified by the Seattle Public Housing Administration to clean up what has already been done, then stop work.
 A similar stop work order has been received by the Alaska Construction Company, which was recently award ed the general contract on that FTP IA project
 It was explained that the Lanham Act, under which funds for such war housing were provided by Congress, is now suspended for new projects, with the end of the war.
 While the FPHA Hoonah Recon struction project, now 65 precent completed, is expected to be carried out to completion of the general contract, application for a water system and fire protection facilities for Eoonah has been denied by the Federal Works Agency. The FPHA Seattle office has been so advised by L. R. Durkee, EVA Division En- gineer.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-25
FEDERAL EMpS. SOON TO WORK
 FIvE-DAY WEEK

A 40-hour, five-day work week is now looming for Federal employees in Alaska and over the nation, fol- lowing signing by President Truman of an executive order authorizing such work basis.
 The executive order, according to advices received here by the War Manpower Commission today. sets September g as the deadline for put ting the 40-hour Federal week into effect. Provision is made for justi- fled exceptions. H
 The U. s. Customs Service here has received wired notification that it is to go on 40-hotu week basis, with no work Saturday and Sundays as of next week The Customs Ser
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-25
pR0p0SAL5
 ARE MADE.
 BY CHANG
Suggests Many Changes as Result of New Chinese
 Russian Treaty
By SPENCES MOOSA fAssociated Press sCorrespundenD

CHUNGKING, Aug. 25.-General- issimo Chiang Kai-shek said today that outer Mongolia should be grant, cd independence; that Tibet should be made autonomous, and that. the status of Hong Kong as British crown colonly would not be chang cd without negotiations
 Chinas major aims are the re- establishment of the nations terri torial and administrative integrity in Manchuria, recovery of Formosa and the Pescadores and restoration of Koreas independence, Chaing said in statement which may have been designed. in part, to prepare the people for the new Chinese-Russian treaty.
 CTerms of the treaty have not been disclosed officially The Bern radio said in a broadcast recorded by the FCC that the treaty provided for Russian recognition of Chinese sovereignty in Manchuria," and that the price for Moscow's accommodat- ing attitude is said to be establish ment of joint Russian-Chinese naval bases at Port Arthur" Moscow in return denounced intervention in Chinese internal politics, the broad cast said, and the Chinese Com munists will thus nc longer have a foreign political preteXt to continue their controversy with the govern r2ont of Chungking.