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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-12

L. E. Leonard, It. John D. Cochrane and John E. Lawyer s tfisa
 To Anchorage R. R. Stryker, Ed win By, Jack Crossley, w H. Row ell Leonard Reed, Mrs. Leonard Reed, Eric Frebock, Ralph Have stein, Albert Jason. V. Wakefield, Mrs George Mumford, Haaken Friele, Carl Robinson, Major Ralph Bratt, R. P Lesh. Mrs. R. P. Lesh and Geneva Logan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-12
TO GROW SEEDS

William L. Irvine, of Dillon Montana, extensive grower and dis tributor of seed potatoes, is now a passenger aboard steamer, en- route to the Westward and Interior to inspect possibilities for extend ing his growing activities to Alaska While in Juneau yesterday, he con- ferred with the Alaska Develop ment Board.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-12
ThistisYth:e :.|: | Jap
 we haven't yet tdckled

He's sirong-for 20 years the Jap has feverishly worked to make Manchuria an immense war arse nal. Here, out of bombing range, he has huge war plants. He has ample resources-in many cases greater than ours. He can build ships tanks, guns in great numbers. And thousands of swift planes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-12
STARLINER JUNEAU BRINGS IN 5; TAkE5
 21 PASSENGERS WEST

The Starliner Juneau, Alaska Air lines new Douglas transport plane piloted by Capt Bill Lund, with First Officer Sam Silver and Stew ardess Katherine Anderson aboard, brought five passengers into Juneau yesterday and returned with 21 westbound passengers. s5
 Incoming passengers from An- chorage were: Albert Hotter, Peter R. Strong and Lee Greening.
 From Yakutat: MT. Foster and MT. Watson.
 Outgoing passengers to Yakutat were: Major B. E. Cuddy, Sergeant
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-12
PROGRAM
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THURSDAY, .uiy 12. 800 pm Dancing class, second floor of USO 9:30 p.m.-Dance in USO to mu- sic of Servicemen's Band.
 FRIDAY, July 13, 6:45 p.m.-En- tertainment Committee meets for supper in USO. 7:30 p.m.-Pre- sentation by USO Commandos over KINY of Small Voice." an original script. 8: p.m.-Portrait drawing by Mary and Jean Shaw. 9:45 pm.-Special team contests in USO. 10:30 pm.-Special en- tertainment, followed by dance. SATURDAY, July IA, 8:30 p.m.- Movies in USO. 10:30 p.m.-Juke box dance in USO. IT
 SUNDAY, July IS = Sightseeing trips to i'Mendenhall Glacier and other points of interest all after noon and evening. 1:3o p.m.- Hiking Party leaves USO. 5:3o pm-Coffee with waffles, Ruth Brooks at piano. 7.15 Sun- day Night at Seven Fifteen in uSO. 10:15 pm.-Special moving pictures of Alaska. MONDAY, July 16, 8:30 p.m.- Forum Club leaves USO for party at private home. 9:30 p.m.-Song fest in USO.
 TUESDAY, July IF, 7:30 pm. - Broadcast of quiz contest from USO. goo p.m.-Meeting of Ser vlcemen's Council. 9:45 p.m.- Customary Tuesday night games in USO. fT f WEDNESDAY, July 18,-7:30 p m.- Meeting of GSO in USO. 800 p.m.-Movies in USO. 9:30 p.m.- Square dancing in USO.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-12

He's hard 10 hii-Every punch at the Jap has to travel thousands of miles. It takes three times long to carry men, guns and food to our rear bases in the Pacific as it did to front lines in Europe. Three times as many ships for the same amount of material-and more men in our supply lines.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-12
TO KETCHIKAN

Assistant U. s. Attorney R. L. Tollefson is to leave Juneau this week on trip to Ketchikan to ac- quaint himself with affairs of the District Attorneys office there. R. L. Jernberg, Acting U. s. Attorney. who has been in charge of the Ketchikan office, has rendered his resignation, effective the middle of this month.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-12
, WE WONDER

The headlines of the War, day after day, stab at the heart. "To- kyo Raid Costs U. s. Thirty Planes" -"American Casualties Heavy On Okinawa Sub Presumed Lost"
 Rarely do the items below the Alaskan headlines give the names of those who are the Wars vic- tims. We can only guess as to their identity. Those headlines sound so very general-but are they, in fact? We wonder-- t"
 Ever-recurring are the questions: May some of those fellows be OUR OWN BOYS? Are their names appearing in our USO Registry Book, fellows from a thousand dif- ferent cities and towns? Maybe they were in our clubhouse only a few months ago, ate in our canteen, danced with our girls, were enthu- siastic over what a swell town Juneau is," and said "goodbye-we sure hope to be coming back this way before long!'
 Perhaps we'll never know the 'nswer One thing we do know for certain: These headlines from the far-away places of the earth are out of combat areas into which hundreds of our friends have gone from here. Throughout Europe, and in India and China and the Phil ippines and on many islands in the Pacific, and on scores of Navy ves- sels and cargo ships, men are serv- ing who gratefully remember Ju- neau and it's USO. Until we learn definitely that these friends are not victims of the horrors of com- bat. our hearts will continue to be i'll at ease lf
 Word of a different kind comes our way once in awhile-just this week, for example Its source is an article in the Atlantic Monthly, a brief but heart-warming account of the kindness of some American boys in the wake of the war. It's the story of 300 young Navy Sea- bees who found three nuns and an old French priest in a forlorn little mission on a lonely South Pacific island, and brought to them 1945 model civilization, USA-style.
 It's the story of the thoughtful ness of a bunch of energetic kids whose Kindness was as overwhelm- ing as was their ingenious Yankee skill in modernizing the dilapidated old mission. When the boys were finished, it contained just about every up-to-date convenience, in- cluding electric lights, refrigera- tor and radio.
 But more than these material things, q. . they managed to incorporate the Sisters in their American way of living with an al- acrity which left the Sisters gasp ing They were swept into a new world of laughing banter, bewilder- ing candor, and casual generosity.
 Before long, the Sisters were swapping jest for jest, flying about the island in jeeps, and enjoying their unexpected but never unex- citing life as the Sisters of the Seabees.'
 No mere paragraph or two can do justice to the rt-touching quality of that story as it is told in full It closes:
 When the Sisters shyness has worn away, they will ask you to sign their guest book below the names of more than three hundred Seabees. If you want to feel a warming pride in your country men, ask about those Seabees, what they were like, whether or not they were mostly of the same religion as the Sisters. .s. s..s s.,.-A ...s .... ,.4 ----
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-12
TAKE-A-Bow-DEPARTMENr

We've space for only the briefest mention of few of the men and the girls who rate more than just a line or two in this column. But at least we can introduce them to you and ask them to take a quick bow.
 For example, charming Doris Graves, one of the newest members of the Girls Service Organization,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-12
:;OTfCE.

:,OTfCE. Not responsible for any debts contracted only personally by our selves.
 MIR. & MRS. CHAS JOHNSON.
 Tenakee, Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-12

He's big The Jap now controls one of the largest empires in the world. He has 100000 to 5,0OO,O0O war-hardened soldiers-twice as many as the Ger mans had to defend the Reich in the West. He is intrenched in China, Korea, Manchuria and the homeland-we have yet to meet these major forces.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-12
s5. 100000 WAR WORKERS

He's a hvsiler-The Jap war worker works like beaver-he is 35,OOO,OOO strong, working 12 to 16 hours day, days a week, taking only days off per month He isn't quitting. He isn't wilting. He isn't easing up-he's hustling every muscle he's got building ships planes, guns to beat us.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-09
Suicide Foi|ed
|ByWife, Police

Charles Fabian, 54 of 653s
Wagner. tried TO commit suicide,
police said. but he failed to take
into account a frantic wife and
two policemen from the McGraw
station.
Now he's in Receiving Hospital
in serious condition after being
cut down from rafter in the
basement of his home by Patrol
men Robert Mcintyre and James
Raley. The officers resuseitated
the man by artificial respiration.
Mrs. Josephine Fabian, 53, the
wife, told police her husband had
been brooding last night and walk
ing through the house with a belt
when she left to get police. He
used the belt in the attempted
suicide.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-09
sac Visions
.Gdudy Autos

Hundreds Of the nations leading
automotve engineers. IN Detroit
today for the third annual war
meeting OF the Society of Auto
motive Engineers. heard predlc-
tions of highly decorative cars
and trucks IN the postwar era.
The artistic effects will be
achieved by use OF new synthetic
materials for upholstery, trim
and finish. according 10 Morris
Sanders. industrial ConSultant and
architect The synthetlcS now are
getting tests IN planes.
Sanders envisioned plaid-colored
station wagons. buses with
opaque ceilings by day and trans
lucent ones by night. and passen.
ger cars with convertible tops as
light as a woman's raincoat and
much more enduring.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-09
ADVERTISEMENT
ApvERrlsEMENr
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Detroit evening times., 1945-01-09
INJECTION PROJECTED

Water-alcohol injection devices
TO make engines operate smoothly
and powerfully were described 10
the visiting engineers by a. T.
Colwell of Thompson Products,
Cleveland. lie said that recent
tests of the carburetor injection
indicate that a $3.50 combination
provides both shock control and
internal cooling
Colwell stated that this device
would facilitate use of higher
compression. lighter-weight en-
gines. II will permit the use of
fuels 10 70 Is octane numbers
lower than those normally re-
quired, he said. Fighter pilots
reports on the device being used
in plane engines were given as
proof.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-09

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styled to At the personality Of your
home.
AL these finer radio features are
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Years OF experience, plus all the
tested, war born Electronic improve
ments - many Of these results Of
Majestic's own research - will be
your guarantee of better listening
with Majestic. Your choice Will be
both easy and wise when YOU
choose Majestic.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-09
HEATER AIDS STARTING

Electrical immersion jackets 10
expedite starting in cold weather
were recommended by +. p. Gohn
of the Atlantic Refining Co
Philadelphia. He reported results
/ of experiments on commercial
vehicles as showing the immersion
heaters reduced engine starting
time TO seconds and appear TO
ireIse the temperature of crank
case oils. bearings and parts 10
degrees which assure lower main-
tenance costs.
Gohn urged that engines be de-
signed for heater installations to
take advantage of relatively
simple and economical means of
quick starting.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-09
Going to Buy a Radio?

Nationwide surveys reveal that
radio is one of the FIRST things mil
lions OF families will buy for their
homes after the war. Many will buy
a radio before anything elsel
II a radio is near the top OF your
postwar" buying list, here are a
few tins on what TO look for before
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-09
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MAJESTIC
RADNNEW
STANDINGS OF THE STARS
Hope Back On Top

Bob Hope Is At the head Of the
class again. with Fibber right be
hird him. In third place Is Bob S
bantering buddy. Bing Crosby. II
Der Blngle" stays UP there, you
may hear the boys talking about
something other than Bob's nose or
Bings horses. This Is Bing highest
ranking Of the season.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-09
Caro- Driver aces
Auto Death Inquiry

CARO-. Jan 's-Samuel Wright,
81. OF Caro-. has been ordered 10
appear al the Office of Sheriff J.
ri. GoSlin today for questioning in
the death OF William Benjamin
yesterday.
Benjamin was killed when
struck by WrightS automobile on
Highway M-Sl.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-09

hazard OF enemy intercsption. And
radio contact was impossible be-
cause the men had a voice trans
mitter and the ship had a code
receiver. Not 70 be stynied how
ever. the men contacted San Fran-
cisco by voice, and their message
vas relayed 20 Australia, Shuttlec
out 20 New Guinea. and from there
sent by code 20 the ship -. a dis
tance Of some 1859 miles all Il
matter OF FIVE minutes
Ca,ynrat nsissnt EadsA Is.sytsiss oorvarsuss iau
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-09

you m K e a
choice. Crystal
clear reception
that seems TO
bring your ia
vorite stars
night into the
room with vi
brant richness
OF tone. I'M
proved FM
ency
Modulation).
More faithful
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-09

seems q commu-
nications unit on
Ley1e had 70 con-
tact a ship lying
200 yards off
shore. Blinker
signals were out
because OF the
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-09

Danny Kaye, movie singer
and mimic, bowed into radio
with his own show Jan. 6. With
Danny. as straightman and
music maestro, will be the pop
ular trImpeter, Harry James
and Lionel Stander, comedian.
Detroit evening times., 1945-01-09
Round Trip Via Radio

The shortest distance between
two points isn't always a straight
line, or not IN this case anyway. Il
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15
'AII-Hands' Casualties
Continued from Page D

q could feel the brush of flames as part of the deck split and jam med into my room," Haynes said. q grabbed a life jacket and start ed for the deck. AS flames burst from below I passed out. When l came to, something was sizzling 1t was my hand burning.
 Everybody got lost in the frantic confusion of trying to get out" Haynes said. Somehow grabbed rope and pulled myself through a transom to the deck"
 AS the ship listed heavily, 800 men grabbed life jackets and rubber life rings and literally walked into the sea. In the water they locked arms and struggled to keep their heads above the oily surface.
 Scores of the injured died before dawn. On the second day others slipped from their lifebelts from ex- haustion and during hallucinations brought on by swallowing salt wa- ter.
 Shock!
 Many of the men began to talk Of home, food and water" Haynes said 'They were babbling of going oo the galley for coffee or swimming over to that island where there is beau- tiful native girl, Seabees and tomato juice.' Then they began swimming toward the island that wasn't there. Twenty five of them drowned. You could hear their rav- ings growing fainter and, then si- lence."
 After the kapok life jackets had passed their normal water tolerance of 48 hours they becNne water logged and lost their buoyancy. They barely kept the mems heads above the surface, and waves were slapping them in the face"
 Fifty six of the group in life jac- kets were rescued by Catalina flying boat, piloted by It. Radrain Marks, Ladoga, Ind, which loaded 20 men on the wings, McVay said.
 Surprise Hit
 McVay and 92 officers and men were brought to Peleliu by the de- stroyer escort Cecil J. Doyle. Other destroyers picked up the remainder from nferafts.
 The Indianapolis was blacked out and travelling at IT knots when she was hit, the skipper declared. At first he thought his ship had been struck by suicide plane.
 McVay was washed overheard as the ship went down. He grabbed floating debris and later found a raft.
 Other survivors included NM 1ic John J. Muldoon, New Bedford Mass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15
Communists
 Moy Revolt;
Continued from Page D

Simultaneously, he broadcast a victory proclamation to the Chinese people declaring that China's sacri- fees will not have been in vain n this proves to be the lISt war.
 But he warned his countrymen that the "stupendous" tasks of peace might demand greater sacri- fices than the war years.
 Chiang preferred China's friend- ship to the misguided" people Of Japan and disclaimed all intention of exacting revenge on the Japanese masses for China's sufferings.
 The Communist party office in Chungking released Chu's state ment along with defiant proclama- tion of its own denouncing Ohiang as a Fascist chieftain."
 "We wish to declare to the three great Allied nations, to our country men and to the people of the world that the Chinese command in Chungking cannot represent the Chinese people and the Chinese anti-Japanese forces" the Commu- mist proclamation said.
 "The Chinese people and the anti- Japanese forces demand that they should have the right to receive the Japanese surrender, military con- trol of Japan, and c voice at the coming peace conference"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15

(Continued from Page D permitting. the Japanese represent ative and advisers from the Japan csc army, navy and air force fly from the southern tip of Kyushu to an Allied airfield on Ie Island, just west of Okinawa. on Friday between 8 and II a. m. Tokyo time c and 10 D., m. Thursday EWT)
 'Bataan"
 He directed that Japan, in com- municating with him regarding the flight, use the single code word. '1aataan"-a word that recalls Mac Arthur's worst defeat and one that spurred him to his greatest victory, the liberation of the Philippines.
 The Japanese air force adviser accompanying the main surrender delegate must be thoroughly famil- jar with airdrome facilities in the Tokyo area, MacArthur said. This indicated that a high Allied repre- sentative would accompany the en- emy delegation back to the Japan csc capital.
 The order was MacArthur's sec ond of the day to the Japanese. The first, addressed to Hitohito, the .Im- perial government and Imperial headquarters. called for cessation of hostilities at the earliest possible moment and asked that radio sta- tion in the Tokyo area be designat- ed for communication with his headquarters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15

blasted them to defeat Before that, Hirohito and his advisers had de- tected Q trend.
 '"The war situation" said Hiro- hito has developed not necessar- fly to Japanus advantage. The general trends of the world have all turned against her interest. Moreover, the enemy has begun to employ a new. and most cruel bomb, to power of which to do damage is indeed incalculable, taking the toll of many lives"
 Japan, he continued, had declared war only for her own self preserva- ton. ''it being far from our thoughts either to infringe upon the sov- ereignty of other nations or to erf1-
 bark upon territorial aggrandize- ment."
 He did not mention Pearl Har- tor.
 Hirohito's radio address. first ever made by a Japanese emperor, also was his last as free agent.
 Macarthur takes over now. T thank God" said the general in Manila when informed that the war was over.
 T shall at once take steps to stop hostilities and further blo0dshed. At the moment MT. Truman was announcing Japan's surrender agreement and full acceptance" of Pctsdam declaration, Secretary Of State James F. Byrnes was dispatch ing another note to Toko. 2t was handed to the Swiss legation here at p. m. Brnes ordered the Jap anese to take these actions immedi- atedly:-
 1. Order prompt cessation of hos tilities and inform MacArthur Of the effective date and hour. 2. Send enissaries at once to Macarthur with full power to make all arrangements necessary for nm to arrive at the place designated by him for formad surrender.
 Byrnes also notified the Japan csc that Macarthur will fix the time, place an dother details or the formal surrender.
 First subsequent returns from Tokyo were that 58-year old War Minister Korechika Anami, Q dls- tinguished professional soldier. hao committed suicide to "atone for ms failure in accomplishing his du- ties"
 Blow by blow the bad news Tell upon Japan. The cabinet broad. cast to the people the facts ana necessity of surrender. Premier, Kantaro Suzuki warned them by radio that "a bloody ana fearful life will begin for the peo- ole. beginning today"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-15

(Continued from Page D
 ssThe secretary of war regrets - The telegram had come that very day. Her husband, Pfc. Carlos Luz ciano Okinawa ... ..
 But the sound of tears is a small sound, and the sound that smothered everything else was a big one-tne sound of people celebrating victory.
 Another people had celebrated VIC, tory. The Japanese had celebrated after Pearl Harbor, Wake, Bataan, Corregidor. Singapore. Java. i. But while they celebrated voice was saying-"What kind of people do they think we are?" On Dec. 26, 1941, the day after a sorrowful Christmas, a short, thickset Briton with a bulldog face, the then Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, faced the Congress or the United States and shouted:
 'sWhat kind of people do they think we are? Is 1t possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught lesson which they and the world will never 1orget?"
 The Japanese did not realize then what they realize now.
 In Philadelphia the Liberty Bell rang out seven times-once for each letter in the word liberty" On the day of liberty the United States learned that the proud ship Indianapolis, flagship cruiser. had been destroyed by a Japanese plane at a cost of 880 Americans dead or missing; 3l6 wounded.
 The next of kin of the Indianap- dis men were not among the dusk 1o-dawn celebrants of victory.
 And President Truman said on the day of victory:
 I've are faced with the greatest task with which we have ever been 1aced It Is going to take the help of all of us I know we are Roing to do It."
 It Is even harder to build world peace. he said. than it is to wage H&ks