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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-12
SkIERS GREETED BY BEST SLOPES
 OF THIS SEASON

Half a-hundred skiers took to the hills here yesterday as slopes deep with new snow afforded some of the best conditions of the year. A dozen or so of the harder slat-riders went all the way to the Upper Ski Bowl, some of them going Saturday even ing, but the majority confined their activities to the Sladom hill. Concerted co-ordinated activity by nearly all early arrivals at the Second Meadow broke up the crust on the lower reaches of the Slalom slope and packed the snow to a really excellent sliding surface. Ju- neau Ski Club members and most everyone else turned to with their efforts before individual skiers ,lad opportunity to cut up the course with solo runs in the new snow
 Ski Club proxy Bill Hixson stok- ed up the fire and had a constant string of hog dogs available to be washed down by coffee. It was all "on the house."
 Eric Sundsten and Joe Werner de- voted their efforts to instruction of beginners and reported that several newcomers to the sport had made excellent progress by the close of the day.
 A brief series of time trials was run over short slalom course in the afternoon and demonstration of mountaineering first-aid was put on by members of the Ski Patrol who have completed course of five lessons under Joe Werner, instructor. Those who have completed the course are: Art Kassner, head of the Juneau Ski Clubs Outdoor Commit tee; Leon Alexander, chief of the Ski Patrol Bob Thiboudeau, Miss Gayle Tomlinson, Buddy Hunter, Jim Klein, Bill Carlson and Jim Rude.
 Despite al the snow that fell last week, the Douglas Ski Trail was yesterday still closed from the Treadwell Ditch down to the High way.
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WC 10 HAVE RADIO
 INTERVIEW ON WED.

The Present Organization and Immediate needs of the Health De- partment' will be explained by Dr. George Hayes during his radio inter- view with Mrs. Burras Smith on Wednesday as part of the program planned for February by the legis- lative department of the Juneau Wo- mans Club cooperating with Mrs. A. E. Glover. radio chairman.
 On the following Wednesday, Feb ruary 2l, Mrs. Robert Sanford will discuss the proposed national amendment on equal rights. The third radio program for the month will be given by Representative Alaska Linck, as guest speaker for the organization.
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posed to be a super patriot. and the busiest of Nippon's invisible allies.
 War and diplomacy. too, are in- separable to the Japanese, and Hachiman is recognized by them as their smoothest diplomat. The Japanese also say that their nation can never be defeated as long as they have 'the only competent war god in the world"
 Hachiman paved the way for the war with the United States and Great Britain, the Japanese be- lieve. Much of his activities dur ing the peace years between the two World Wars, they say, were centered on weakening" western powers for the benefit of Japan.
 Hachiman, the Japanese credit, was responsible for the ineffective ness of the League of Nations in 1881 when Nipponese soldiers took over Manchuria and created the puppet state of Manchukuo. It was Ha chiman, the Japanese reason, who created the cabinet crisis in France that permitted Adolph Hitler to march into the Rhineland in 1885.
 The Japanese say the Allies won the first World war only because Hachiman directed the strategy flor the glory of Nippon" Even now the Japanese believe that every war in the world is ''honey- combed" with the spirit of Hachi- man.
 These agents have been on their jobs for a long time. They are supposed to be in Washington, London, Paris and everywhere in the world where there are forces "conspiring" against Japan. Being invisible, they have survived the changes in government in all coun- tries and have managed to "send back" the most confidential of secrets.
 That to the Japanese must be
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miles from the Rhine River city of Koblenz.
 American occupation headquart- CTS were in Koblenz after the last war.
 Flooded By Nazis
 Between the two focal points of battle, floods loosed by the German preaching of the Schwammenauel Dam flood gates immobilized the United States Ninth and British Second Army lined up along the Roer River. The Roer is rampag- ing river today, two miles wide at one point.
 When the dam was preached, the water level behind it sank 45 feet and deflated five-mile long reser- voir, flooding the Roer Valley.
 Allies Gain Control
 British and Canadian troops under 1 General Henry Cregar's command took control of three-fourths of the Reichswald thickets or fir trees and crossed in force over the Spoy Canal which binds Kleve to the Rhine four miles north.
 The Dutch border town of Gen. nep was captured and the Niers River to the east was crossed. Van guards passed through the shell 1 splintered Reichscwald a mile north of Kessel, which lies four miles northwest of the West Wall road center of Goch. The prisoner bag rose to 4,00( Nazo soldiers, most of them teen age youths or inform old men.
 Oberhoffen Cleared The United States Seventh Army in the Alsace sector have virtually cleared Oberhoffen, eastern anchor of the German Moder River line striving to push the Wehrmacht line back to Drusenheim between the Hagenau Forest and the Rhine.
 The French First Army farther south is credited with destroying seventy-five per cent of the German Nineteenth Army in clearing up the Colmar salient.
 Scattered showers along the whole front handicapped air support and kept most planes on the ground Sodden troops of the Third Ar my invading the Saarland captured another block of buildings across the Saar River from Saarlautern in a limited attack. 4
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HANGOVER PROBE NOW
 UNDER WAY
Congressional Committee Investigating Funds
 Big Strike

DETROIT, Feb. 12-Representa- tives of the Senate War Investigat- ing Committee, charged with de- termining whether Detroit areas are using their manpower to the fullest extent, arrived here to find approximately l3600 workers idle through strikes.
 Employees of the Briggs Manu- featuring Company are out and five other plants are closed. In the companys Rivard Avenue plant $500 workers struck Tuesday.
 In the main Mack plant dis pute over wages and rates for F workers led to a strike They voted to go back to work but stipulated the WIPE is to have representatives at the plant to hear grievances The WIPE did not reply to this de- mand.
 The rest of the plants closed down when the flow of part. stopped. They had been making parts for B-29's and tanks.
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ARCTIC KING BR0WER DIES
 AT BARROW
Famous Character Is Last ot Old Line Tundra Trad
 CTS of Far North

POINT BARROW, Alaska, rep 12-The King is dead-Near-legen- dary Charles Digory Brewer, per haps the most colorful figure the Arctic has ever known.
 Long known as the King Of the Arctic" Brewer, who had resided at Point Barrow for the past 5s years, passed away yesterday of a heart attack at the age of 82.
 Born in New York in 1863 while his father was serving ill the Civi War, Brewer followed the natural course of many youngsters of his time and followed the sea.
 While a sailor he first saw the Arctic on a whaler and returned a short time later, never to per manently leave the country.
 For many decades Brewer has run his trading post here, the focal point of all Arctic activities. He was nationally known for his book, recently published, "50 Years Below Zero" His favorite hobby was his garden, in which he grew B varie- ties of Arctic flowers. F
 Two sons are in the, armed forces, Major James Brewer, and Pvt. Arnold Brewer, the latter a paratrooper now training at Fort Benning, Georgia.
 ' Brewers death almost wipes the slate of the Arctic's famed char acters. Preceding him in death last year was polar bear hunting trader Jim Allen at Wainwright. Three
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A Pan American Airways plane took the following passengers to Whitehorse from Juneau today - Stanley Estensen, Robert A. Cruzen, Virgil Bruck, Finis R. Hamilton Brick Beardsley. Robert c. Affler- back.
 Juneau to Seattle-Dr. c. C. Carter. Mrs. Margaret Carter, Har- old Foss, c. Don Miller, Mrs. Jessie Miller, Sgt. William Richard.
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the reason for their success at Pearl Harbor, their conqrest of the Malay States and Singapore and their early victories in Burma, Dutch Indies, at Hong Kong and Shanghai.
 The third force is made up of the spirits of all dead warriors. Dead warriors occupy a place of honor in the Japanese way of life. That accounts for the fanaticism Of Nipponese and their unwilling ness to surrender.
 Only Three Smiles
 A story told by Americans who have lived in Japan for many years is an example of the affec- tion placed on soldier. The Jap anese mother, the story goes, smiles only three times during her life. The first time is when her son is born, the second when her son goes off to military service and the third, when his ashes arc returned after he had been elimi- mated in battle.
 It is then that the spirit of the dead warrior becomes "a shield" and "an inspiration" for other fighting men.
 Do you remember the Aleutian campaign? Approximately 2,000 Japanese were killed when Ameri- can forces reconquered the island of Attu. When the Americans landed at Kiska several months later, they found the Japanese forces there had escaped in the dense Aleutian fog.
 It was then that Radio Tokyo boasted of a major triumph" by ghost army" The spirits of the Japanese dead at Attu. the official radio announced, formed "a walr' around Kiska and hid" the Japs from the Americans.
 Do invisible weapons work? The Japanese still think they do. But Uncle Sam's victories tell a differ- ent story.
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CONTRACTOR SELLS
 FIRST OF IS HOUSES

First of the fifteen dwelling units approved for Juneau by the Federal Housing Authority was sold last weekend to Harold Gum derson, Contractor Walter J. Stutte announced.
 The house will be completed in the next few months. It is located on Spruce Street, in the Waynor Addition. The sale price was not disclosed, Stutte merely saying it was sold below the $3,000 ceiling.
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BERG HAUG pAS5ES
 ON THIS MORNING

Bert Haug, 82, of Elfin Cove, died at 2:30 o'clock this morning in St. Ann's Hospital He was native of Norway.
 Funeral arrangements are pend- ing word from a sister, Mrs. Chris. Christopherson of Everett. Wash ington. The remains are at the Charles w. Carter Mortuary.
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NIpp0N5 SEND
 WAR PRISONERS
 TO MANCH0UKU0
If. Gen. Wainwright Is Among Number Trans
 fened from Formosa

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 - The War Department discloses that It. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, com mander of the American Filipino forces captured in the fall of the Philippines, was transferred, with IT other Generals, 1l9 Colonels and six Navy Captains from the Jap prison camp at Taiwan, Formosa, to Hoten Camp, Mukden, Man chuokuo.
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GAME COMMISSION
 SITTING ON RULES

With all seats at the table filled following the arrival Saturday after noon of Andrew A. Simons, Game Commissioner for the Third Division the Alaska Game Commission i'm mediately got down to full week end of work at it's annual meeting.
 Consideration of regulations was the first order of business and they are still under discussion today, it is reported.
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COLLIER
 RESIGNS
 OLA JOB
Brophy of New Mexico Moves Up from Post
 in Islands Office

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 The Presi- ident has nominated William Bro-
 phy of New Mexico to succeed re- signing John Collier as Commission CT of Office of Indian Affairs. Brophy has served as chief of the Puerto Rico section of the h. terior Departments Division of Territories and Island Possessions since 1943.
 Secretary of the Interior Ickes said he was extremely sorry MT. Collier found it necessary to retire after he has served with such dis tinction."
 Born in New York City in 1903, Brophy attended the University of Mexico and later graduated from the University of Colorado.
 Collier had served in his capacity as Indian Office head since 1933.
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Geography

Most of the distilIing in America is concentrated in the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania Ken lucky, Indiana and Illinois. This is not accidental. Let's look at the map. Draw a line down the coast from New England to Phila- delphia, then westward through Pennsylvania and along the Ohio River valley to the Mississippi, and then let's follow the Missis- sippi down to the Gulf. Here is an area of great fertility, fed by innu- merable streams and waterways, natural routes of communication, and by these routes the early set tiers penetrated the hinterland in the pioneering days in America.
 Along these important rivers and their tributaries, settlements sprang up; settlements of English, Irish and Scotch immigrants. Later came Germans and Scandinavians; and still later came immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. And, along with these pioneers, came the arts and crafts such as weaving. tanning, blacksmithing, candle making-and distilling.
 Let's look at the map again Louis- vile, Kentucky, IS on the Ohio, as are Cincinnati, and Lawrence burg Indiana Frankfort, Kentucky, is on the Kentucky River, a tributary of the Ohio. And Peoria, Illinois, is on the Illinois River, a tributary of the Mississippi. The famous whiskey counties in Ken lucky, namely, Jefferson, Frank lin, Bourbon, Mason, Mercer, Nell son, etc, all are close to the Ohio and it's tributaries.
 This accessibility to transporta- ton and communication routes, more than any other one thing, contributed to the establishment of the distilling industry in these areas. Here were the settlements; and here began the first social life in what had been wilderness. Here the distilling industry was es- tablished, and here it is today. Plenty of raw materials; grains, fuel, sparkling spring water, as well as accessibility to new markets winch were constantly being opened up by the ever increasing trek of immigrants westward.
 So the distiIling industry in Amer ica dates back historically to the settlement of the regions west of the Allegheny Mountains. Whiskey was considered an essential com modity. It was non-perishable, easily transportable, and not too bulky. Its manufacture helped the early settlers to become self sustaining, and to erect a stable economy.
 ! Today toO-the Alcoholic Rev. craze Industry Is playing an im- portant part in the economic life of the Nation. Besides being the Ma tion's number one tax collector, through the sales of it's products, the distilling industry is one of the most important producers of war time alcohol, necessary in the manu- fracture of smokeless powder, syn thetic rubber, chemical warfare 1 material, and host of other essen tial products vitally needed in the prosecution of the war.
 MARK MERIT ofScHENLEY INTERNATIONAL CORP. FREE "A booklet contdining reprints of eariier articles in this series WiH be | sent you on request. Send q posf-cdrd to me core of ScteTiey Aforementioned CorP.. $50 Fifh Auenue, New York I. ~. Y.
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Paul J. Wingren, netchikan, is staying at the Baranof Hotel. He and his brother, Al, who worked for the old United Food Company in Juneau several years ago. own and operate Wingren's Food Stores in the First City.
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FLETCHER SOUTH

Jack Fletcher, manager of the Baranof Hotel, flew south over the weekend, enroute to San Fran cisco, on buying trip for the local hostelry. He expects to be gone only a few weeks.
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MINING MAN HERE

c. R. Burley, of the University of Alaska, at Fairbanks, is regis tered at the G Gastineau Hotel. Burley teaches mining extension courses throughout the Territory for the School of Mines.
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WELL BABY CLINIC

A We'll Baby Clinic will be held at the Government Hospital to- morrow afternoon between and 3 o'clock. Dr. H. F. Kaack will be in charge, it was announced.
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NOTE From timc to time, in this spocs, there i9iH appear Gn article tcliich De hope 8H Dc of interest to our feiio'0 AmerIcdns. This IS number hirty-efght Of c series. scHENIEy INTERNATIONAL CORP, NEW YORK
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JAPAN'S ARMY OF STOCKS
Don't Look Nov v- but There s Ghost
 From Tokyo Spying on Your War EttorH
By NORMAN J. MEDREcH Central Press Correspondent

JAPANESE BELIEVE they're winning the war because their invisible" forces are working miracles" on all fronts and at the same time striking terror inside the United States and Great Britain"
 Train wreeks, floods, fires and other disasters in America are at- tributed to these invisible forces" by the Japanese peasant. { Achievement of the ghost army" is often mentioned in Nip ponese communiques but are more common in Tokyo broadcasts mon- itored by experts of the Federal Communications Commission and reported through the Office of War Information. @f
 In America the news of Japan's ally" is received with a smile and is "buried" on back pages of news papers or used as "fillers." More often, the Japanese claim-made in all seriousness-is displayed as a humorous item.
 But in Japan it's a different story. The "news." authorities on the far east agree, receives solemn and prominent treatment in the press, wider circulation by radio and is beamed to all parts of the globe by Radio Tokyo.
 The latest report of the ghost army" was given to the Japanese people by It. Gen. Yasuapi Tom onago.
 In a broadcast Nov.. IT. heard by the EGG. the general seriously an nounced that the Japanese ':have a secret tactic of projecting spirits at the enemy before battle and thus destroy the enemy's warriors entire will to fight"
 The broadcast was reported to American newspapers by owl but the item skipped the attention of most readers.
 In fact, the Japanese believe that three honorable invisible arniies"-their ace cards-are bat tling for their country.
 Ogami Are Tops
 Each of these armies" has a specific sphere of influence and none ever conflicts with the august work" of the others.
 There's an elite corps, the Ogami. A vast army of invisible agents-the best in the business, the Japanese say-is headed by Hachiman, the Nip's god of war, while another army of invisible shields" protects and inspires fighting men.
 The Ogami are the ancestral spirits of Emperor Hirohito and they occupy the No. l place in the life of Japan. They are kept in- formed of the country's plans and the son of heaven makes trips reg ularly to the shrine of the Ogami to report" on the affairs of the nation, affairs that are none too bright these days.
 The ancestral spirits are sup posed to guide the imperial family and no decision affecting the royal household or nation is made until the Ogami are consulted.
 What other nation in the world could boast of celestial consult ants?" the Japanese ask.
 Hachiman. as the national god of war, is "brainier" than the gen. eral staff of all occidental powers. At least, that is his rating in Japan. The generalissimo of Japan's military effort, he is sup-
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WEIGH LEAVES

F. E. Welch, construction man with the USED, left for Seattle on the North Sea, after visiting in Juneau for the past several weeks.
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MRS. AHLERS OUT

Mrs. Lorene Ahlers, Juneau busi- ness woman, left over the weekend for combined business and vaca- ton trip in the States.
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years ago at Kotzebue, Paul Davi- dovich. roadhouse operator, who used to run the dog-team mail to Brewer and Allen, died.
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 WEATHER REPORT (U. s. Weather B1He1W


 . Temperature for 24-hour { . period ending at 1880 o'clock { this morning . TODAY'S TEMPERATURES . In Juneau-Maximum, 38; . minimum, 31 Precepitation, . 20 of an inch. . At Airport---Maximum, 38; . minimum, 29. Precipitation, . .06 of an inch. . TEMPERATURES SUNDAY Tn Juneau-Maximum, 40; . minimum, 33. Precipitation, . .l9 of an inch. . At Airport-Maximum, 39; . minimum, 31. Precipitation, .19 of an inch.  . TOMORROW'S FORECAST . Partly cloudy and cooler tonight. Clear and cold . Tuesday and Tuesday night, . temperature dropping to IA . Tuesday night. Gusty winds . Tuesday, ranging from 25 to . 30 miles per hour.
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HERE NO FURLOUGH

TiSgt. Milo Kapp arrived in Juneau over the weekend to spend a 30-day furlough. This is Kapp's first visit to his home town in 20 months.
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FROM PALMER

John Long, manager of the meat department in the Cooperative Store at Palmer, is visiting in Ju- neau. He is staying at the Gas tineau.
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 this appears, on the surface, tre- mendous advantage The United States, say some, will become the greatest distributor, by sea, of world supplies. Having most of the worlds ships, it sounds that simple.
 But some shipping men, mer- chant marine executives and State Department officials are looking be- yond that. With lower wages paid merchant seamen of other maritime nations, and ships built more cheap ly and better than those turned out on our wartime production lines, how long would it take competitive nations to put our Liberty ships in- to dead storage and our merchant marine on the breadline?
 That, at least, is the question that is being asked in some circles. The answer they're giving is to let some of the stripped maritime na- tions like England, Norway, Hol- land and others have a portion of our shipping for what we can get out of it.
 This, they argue, will bolster the economies of nations which are our Lest consumers-will, in other words, put them back on their feet more rapidly than any other thing we can do except outright extension of credits and ,oans. To put it simply these officials argue that the best thing for the United States to do from a purely selfish standpoint will be to give up part of the vast merchant marine fleet we have and still are building
 There is, of course, another side to the argument and some shipping men, government officials, and poli- ticians already are squared off to fight for maintaining our more than half the worlds shipping in post war times and seeing to it that the United States becomes the No. l shipper in both hemispheres.
 It's just another of those worri- some postwar problems but it may be one which will determine whether the United States dips into another world depression or emerges into peace with sounder economy than followed World War I.
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HELLAN RETURNS

U. S. Deputy Marshal Walter G. Hellan returned to Juneau Sunday from Skagway He had in custody an insane patient who has been committed to Morningside Hospital.
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FROM SITKA

Orville Paxton, William Bands and G. Whitcome, Sitka, are reg istered at the Baranof.
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ASBACHS HERE

Mir. and Mrs. William Asbach Ioi Skagway are registered at the Gastineau.
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MAKES VISIT

MT. and Mrs. Harold Maxi, of Wrangell, are staying at the Cas- tineau Hotel.
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WADE RETURNS

Hugh Wade, Territorial Director of Social Security, returned over the weekend from an official busi- ness trip to Sitka.
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FROM coIoRAnn

FROM COLORADO MT. and Mrs E. B. Sherry, of Denver, Colorado, are staying at Hotel Baranof.
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FROM WISCONSIN F. s. Gombar, Broadhead, Wis. is staying at the Hotel Juneau.
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U. S. Merchant Fleet
 After War 10 Present
 Complicated Problem

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DEWEY KNIGHT HERE

Dewey L. Knight, Immigration Inspector, Ketchikan, is visiting in Juneau. He is registered at the Baranof Hotel
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BATTLE OF kLEVE IS
 AB0UT0vER
Pruem Is Also Reported Beaten-FIoods Do
 Damage

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