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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
JAp5BEING MODIFIED up
 LUz0N ISLE
Advantage Taken of Dis organized Stdfe of
 Enemy in Areas
By FRED HAMPSON ZAP War CorreSpondentJ

MANILA, April 12.-American forces moving swiftly to liberate southern Luzon are exploiting the enemy's disorganized state.
 Gen. Douglas Macarthur amour ced dismounted troopers of the First Cavalry Division had advanced 14 miles from Lucban, occupying Sam paloc, and had sent dvance units to Mauban on the east coast.
 In southeastern Luzon, elements of the Eleventh Airborne Division meanwhile moved in force into the Atimonan area. On the east coasts of the island, the 158th Regimental Combat Team pressed the attack in the Legaspi area, capturing IA piecess of artillery and other mili- tary equipment.
 The Fortieth Division on Negros Island, advancing 30 miles around the northern end of the island, forc- CT enemy remnants into narrow pocket, and Gen. Macarthur said the civil government on the island is rapidly being restored
 H0ngk0ng Bombed
 In the air war, heavy bombers hit the Victoria docks in Hongkong, bombed two radio stationss, and rail installations on Hainan Island in the China Sea. sank a small freighter off Luichow Peninsula, while farther to the south in French Indo-China, an enemy troop train was destroyed with direct hits.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
HOMELAND OF JAPAN
 HIT TODAY
Tokyo, Also Industrial Gen. E fer of Koriydma Bomb
 ed in Daylight

GUAM, April 12-Tokyo and the industrial center of Koriyama on Honshu Island were plastered by bombs from American Superforts roaring out on 3,800-mile round trip mission from their Marianas base at Naka Jima, with the Mu- sashiho Aircraft engine plant at Tokyo as one of their targets.
 Returning pilots who made the flight, the longest Central Pacific bombing mission to date, termed the attack very successful" The Superforts were escorted by Two Jima- -based fighters.
 Koriyama targets were not iden- tified except as industrial" in the city l10 miles north of Tokyo Bombing was done visually from 5000 feet, and with the aid of un- usually good weather.
 While Jap fighters were encoun- tered, Superfort crewmen said they were lon the timid side" There were no reports of Superfort losses
 Tokyo radio reports said a fleet of approximately l50' Superforts escorted by a "sizeable" force Of fighter planes, concentrated then attack on Tokyo's west section while some 50' Superforts bombed Fukishima Prefecture, north oi Tokyo.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
I HARBOR LIGHTS NOW PUT BACK TN
 OPERATION HERE

Under direction of the U. s. Coast Guard, work has been completed here recently on reconstruction of aids to navigation in Juneau Har- Dor, substantially improving the saf- ety of the harbor area, it is arlnoun- ced by It. Warren M. Caro-, Captain of the Juneau Port.
 Filling has been replaced in four dolphins with lights and all four light are now in operation, It. Caro stated. One of the pile dolphins is known as Lawson Creek Bar Light and is located on the Douglas Island side of the entrance to Ju- neau Harbor. The other three are located at the Small Boat Harbor
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
FREEING OF
 VIENNA I5
 DUE TONIGHT
Guns May Roar Out City
 Conquered : German Defenses Punched

LONDON, April 12 Marshal Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army has punched big hole in German defenses west of Vienna, Moscow dispatches said, while Berlin re-
 ported Soviet armor had reached a
 point between Krems and Melk, Ills miles from Berchtesgaden. Dispatches from Moscow said So- viet troops have virtually completed occupation of Vienna, adding, Mos COW guns may salute the freeing of the ancient capital tonight" Northwest of Bratislava, the Rus sians are fighting within sight at
 least, of the Bruenn Highway, last
 escape route for the Germans
 northward out of the capital. Zero Hour Push
 The German commander on the Berlin front is reported by the German radio to have issued an
 order to his troops warning of a zero-hour push by Marshal zhu-
 kov's Army from it's bases along the Oder, which could be expected at Iany time.
 The German communique said Gen. Lasch, commander of Koenigs- berg, had been courtmartialed for cowardice in surrendering the East
 Prussian capital, and sentenced to death, in absentia. "Reprisals would
 Dc taken against his family tEs German war bulletin said. In CzechoslOvakia In Czechoslovakia, meanwhile, the Second and Fourth Ukrainian Ar
 mics linked up in the Carpathian
 Mountains and cleared the supply road from Poland to the Vienna front.
 | The Soviet command reported Austrians who were forcibly mobi- lized by the German Volkssturm
 are joining the Red Army, and that ianti-Nazi demonstrations have oc-
 cured in several Austrian towns.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
ATROCITIES ARE(HARGED
 TO GERMANS
Cruelty in 1reatmen! of Prisone;s Revealed R by
 U. 5. Departments

WASHINGTON, April 12.-The U. s. Government has charged Ger many with deliberate neglect, in- difference and cruelty" in their treatment of American prisoners.
 The War and State Department declared in a joint statement that actions are being uncovered daily which shocked the entire civilized world The statement issued by Secretary of War Henry Stimson and Secretary of State Edward Stettinius was read by Stimson at his weekly news conference today.
 The statement declared atrocities against American prisoners is doc amented by the pitiable condition of liberated American soldiers, and the American nation will not forget them It is our relentless determin- ation that the perpetrators of these heinous crimes against American citizens and against civilization it. self be brought to justice.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
The ashinqton Merry -Go Round
By DREW PEARSON Nt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.e

WASHINGTON the in- creasing U. s. Meat shortage. it remains an unpublished but actual fact that 100000 pounds of Ar genuine beef has been sitting se- renely in Mexico for two years awaiting admission into the U. S. And because of British-American red tape, it is still sitting there.
 So far no Government officials have been able or willing to cut the red tape and permit this canned beef to cross the Rio Grande northward. It is among the choicest corned beef ever produced in Argentina and there is no sani- tary restriction against it. Only red tape keeps it out.
 Here are the inside facts as to what happened. Late in 1942, one year after the war started, the S. s Rio de la Plata steamed into Man. zanita, Mexico, carrying a cargo of 100000 pounds of canned Argen- tine beef. It was shipped by the Argentine Meat Cooperative com posed of 5000o Argentine cattle men. At that time no permit was required to import meat into the U. s. by Mexico overland.
 wever, just as the good ship Rio de la Plata was about to
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
ARTILLERY
 DUELS ARE
 FULLBL0WN
Marines on North End of Island Run Into Stiff
 Resistance
By MURLIN SPENCER ZAP War CoryesDondent) j

GUAM, April l2-American cas- ualties in the first nine days of the Okinawa invasion are set at 2,695 Of these, 342 are reported killed 2,1o3 wounded and 160 missing, as announced by Admiral Chester w Nimitz, in a communique which re- ported bitter fighting on both ends of the island.
 Doughboys of the Twenty Fourth Army Corps are stalemated in the southern sector for the seventh straight day amid a fullblown ar tillery duel, while for the first time since the Easter Sunday invasion Marines in the north ran into organ ized resistance.
 The Third Marine Amphibious Corps scored some advances but their speed was slowed materially Marines now hold about two-thirds of Motobu Peninsula on Okinawa's $ west coast.
 Americans on this vital Ryukyu Island are killing Japanese at the rate of about II to l, considerably less than the ratio on Two Jima and Saipan.
 Admiral Nimitz again reported mo substantial changes in the lines in the southern sector, where strongly entrenched Japanese art putting in artillery, mortar ant small arms fire in increasing amounts. Admiral Nimitz's com munique also reports night fighter raids on Haha Jima, and Chich Jima in the Bonins, while medium bombers made raids on the Palaus and Tap Islands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
Explosion Of Liberty
 Kills Many
Italian Civilians and Allied ServiCemen Die when
 Ship Blows Up

ROME, April l2-Hundreds Of Italian civilians and a number of American and British servicemen were killed in Bari Harbor Mon- day in an explosion of an Ameri- can Liberty ship loaded with mu- nitionS.
 An Italian Government spokes- man said more than 1000 others were injured. The cause of the ex- plosion, one of the major disasters of the war in the Mediterranean theatre, is not yet known. The spokesman said the authorities did not disclose the identity of the ship.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, April l2 = Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine stock today is T. American Can 95A, Anaconda 32, Bethlehem Steel 745s, Curtiss- Wright 5A, Interna- tional Harvester 78h, Kennecott 387s, New York Central 23z, Nor thern Pacific 22l4, U. s. Steel 64as Pound $4.04
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials. 15848; rails, 5274; utilities, 28.24.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
BANKERS
 IN(0Nv0Y
 IN CRASH
Fire Breaks Aboard One vesseI-Men Jump Into
 Sea and Are Lost

NEW YORK, April 12-The War Shipping Administration discloses that 34 men are missing, two known to be dead, as the result of a col lision between two tankers on Mon- day, about TOO miles from New York.
 The statement said the tankers were the Nasbulk and St. Mihel which were in convoy when the accident occurred about T o'clock in the evening.
 The St. Mihel took fire, but this was controlled after abandon ship orders had been issued.
 Both ships returned to New York
 All but one of the dead and miss ing are of the crew of the St Mihel. Those missing were lost when they jumped overheard when fire seemed about to envelope the tanker.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
U. TANKS 57 MILES
 OF BERLIN
Simpson $ Men May Reach Gateway 10 German
 Capital Tomorrow

PARIS, April 12-American Ninth Army tanks crossed the Elbe River, and debouched onto the flat unbroken plain leading 57 miles to- ward Berlin, and 115 miles from the Russian Siege lines.
 A front dispatch said General Simpsons men could reach Branden- burg. gateway to Berlin, by tomorrow night or Saturday, provided the Germans switched no tank forces from the east. One report. how ever, said the Germans were indeed shifting the battered Sixth Panzer Army from the eastern front.
 A special French communique an- nounced the French First Army had captured Baden Baden on the Rhine, crossing at the town of Ras- tatt in the Black Forest southeast of Karlsruhe.
 The American First Army ap- preached Leipzig in Saxony, over old battlefields of Frederick the Great, while one unconfirmed report placed American tanks near Halle, 15 miles from Leipzig.
 Allied planes destroyed or disabled 120 tanks near Halle, while cities fell like tenpins, including Weimar, Helibronn, Essen, Coburg, Nord- hausen, Schweinfurt. Halbertstadt, Emmen, Neustadt, and. by German account, Bochum.
 The Third Army, farther to the south, broke out again in armored gains of up to 46 miles, which car- ried them within AZ miles of the Czechoslovak border. and 32 miles of Bayreuth in the Bavarian redoubt where the Nazis may make last stand.
 The British Second Army thrust to within less than 50 miles of Ham, burg, Germany's greatest port, cap- tured Celle and Rathen, and cross ing the Aller River they shelled Bremen, second largest German port.
 All along the western front it is a hound and hare chase of the disor- ganized, shattered German armies who may soon lose the last water barrier before Berlin, the Elbe River, with traps containing up to 100000 Germans in the Ruhr and 100000 in Holland under vigorous assault.
 The last river before Berlin was forced by the Second Armored Di- vision of the Ninth Army which blazed more than 50 miles to Mag deburg yesterday in 12-hour dash. The precise spot of their crossing was not announced, but Germans said it is ten miles south of Mag deburg in the area of Schoenbeck, 63 miles below Berlin.
 The crossing of the Elbe River by American forces marks the first crossing made by conqueror since Napoleon besieged the country. while cities falling in the path of the Ninth Army troops included Bruns- wick, Dortmund and Erfurt.
 The Germans said Bremen is un- der an all ouS British assault, while infantry, following the swift tanks of the Third Army, beat within 40 miles of Leipzig, and 95 miles of Dresden. A juncture with the Rus sians may come between those two great Saxony cities within a week. The German Gestapo Chief, Him. mler, issued a decree saying every German town, every house must be defended"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
CanoI Oil projett
 Inquiry k Made

WASHINGTON, April 12--Sen- ator E. H. Moore, of Oklahoma, to- day asked the War Department what steps are being taken to carry out provisions of the Surplus Prop erty Act in disposition of the Canol Oil Project.
 Senator Moore said he presumed operation of the refinery and pipe line were discontinued by the Army on April l, as previously an- nounced
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
Laohokow Base Is
 Captured by Nips

CHUNGKING, April 12 The Chinese command announces to- night that Jap troops have cap- tured Laohokow. the former ad- vanced base of the U. s. Four teenth Air Force, 200 miles from Hankow and $50 miles from Chung king.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
c. G. OFFICERS HERE

Coast Guard officers stopping at the Baranof include Ut. Comdr. ;. F. Mccoy and Ensigns James P Gwynn and A.. T. Blanchard, all from Ketchikan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
RITES FOR MUsCHICK

Funeral services for John P. Muschick will be held tomorrow afternoon at o'clock, in the Charles w. Carter Mortuary Chapel. Rev. Peter J. Nickel of the Douglas Bible Church will conduct the ser vices. Interment will be in Ever green Cemetery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
FOREMOST LIBERAL OF DAY

The thrtysecOnd President of the United States born January 30, 1882
 He threaded his through of political barriers and physical obstacles reach the White House March 1885, and within six months became known the foremost liberal of his day.
 Revolutionary economic policies marked his program which became known as New Dea and world attention focused upon him. He started America vast new scheme of controlled agriculture industry fn ance and employment He uneased forces which clashed with every tradition and received popular
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
JOHNSTON, BRADSHAW HERE

P. J. Johnston and M Bradshaw, of Sitka. are guests at the Baranof Hotel during their stay in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
THOMAS VISITS JUNEAU

Ralph R. Thomas, CAA, from Anchorage, is a guest at the Bar anof. Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
MRS. DICK HERE

Mrs. H. M. Dick, of Whitehorse, is guest at the Baranof while in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-12
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF
 UNITED STATES DIES
 ATWARM5pRING5, GA.
BULLETIN : WASHINGTON, April IT, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is dead as inc result of cerebral hemoYhage.

PfeSl0enI fTdnklln U. k00SeveI H 0edQ dS
 inc result of cerebral hemonhage.
 BULLETIN WARM SPRINGS, April 17.-The pres- dent died unexpectedly as inc result of cerebral hemonhage al 3:55 otIotk this afternoon. Central War Time. in inc bedroom of his Iii|e while bungalow atop of Pine Mountain where he had been coming for 20 years.
 The President and his party came here Mar,h 30 for what was 10 be fhree weeks resi-.
 BULLETIN WASHINGTON. April 12. : The While House announced late today that President Franklin Deano Roosevelt died iis afternoon aWarm Springs, Georgia.
 The statement said: ''vite-presidenl Harry5. Trl- man was notified. He called inc While House and was informed by Mrs. Roosevelt.
 The 5eueiaIy .oi Siaie has been sdyised lhsl a Cabinet meeting will be called.
 The four Roosevelt boys in inc servite were sent ths message by heir mother:
 The President sIept away this afternoon. He did his job 10 inc end as he would waniio. :"
 The funeral will be Saturday afternoon in inc east room of ihe While house. Iniemenf will be al Hyde Park Sunday afternoon. All flags on buildings have been ordered al half staff and flags on ships ai sea al hall mast.
 vite-presideni Harry ,. Truman, inc former Sen- aior from Missouri, will become inc ihiriyhird presi dent of ihe Unified Siaes and Commander Chief of inc Army and Navy.
 President Roosevelt had been in Warm Springs for more than one week. Secretary Early informed reporters.
 "Mrs. Roosevelt. Admiral Ross MssntVe, inc Presidents physician, and l will leave Washington ihis afternoon by air for Warm Springs"
 Truman was al work in his office when ihe news came. He received call about 5:25 o'tIotk and few minutes Iaier. Secret 5eryitemen came and whisk ed him away in White House automobile.
 The death of inc President was announced a few minutes Iaier and about his time high Army oiftiaIs said inc war in Europe will soon be over in Germany
 Cabinet members began assembling al o'tlotk. The first 10 arrive were membey Perkins, Itkes, then Maj Connolly. Tumans executive secretary, who said ihe new President will fake The oalh immediately.
 FOREMOST LIBERAL OF DAY
 The thirty-second President of the United States
 He threaded his way through of political barriers and physical reach the White House March 933 and within six months became known as the foremost liberal of his day.
 which became known the New Deal and world attention
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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-09-13

shipped out of Mississippi over the
/. c. Rail Road are forest products,
according to a statement made by
MI. Dawson. He also stated that the
income from forest products in Hol-
mes county holds third place, cotton
and cattle holding the first and sec
ond respectively.
Mr.. Dawson said that timber will
pay dividends to the planter in from
three to five years. However, he
pointed out the fact that any one
who is not interested in the next
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-09-13
Hendrix Dawson Speoks
To Picken Rotory Club

The Pickens Rotary Club in their
regular weekly meeting Wednesday
heard Mr.. 1. w. Carson, County
Agent and Mr.. Hendrix Dawson,
State Reforestation worker, present
the reforestation program. Mr. Daw-
son pointed out the Importance OF
planting and protecting trees. Sew
enty percent of the natural products
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-09-13
Rafioning News

Meats and Fats: Red Stamps-Q2,
RI, So, To, w, now valid, expire
August 81; w, VIZ, X2, W, 70, now
valid, expire September 80; AL, B1,
CT, Dl, Ell, now valid, expire Oc-
tober 81; FL, Gil, HI, il, XII, now
valid, expire November 80; Ii, MI,
Nj, P1, OF, become valid September
l, expires Dec. 81.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-09-13

generation is selfish and will no,
make much contribution to a last
ing peace.
The three essentials to the refore-
station program, according to Mr.
Dawson, are tree planting, proven.
Other guests at the Club were
Hilery Davis and J. D. Malt. James
McKie, president, was in the chair
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-09-13

Mrs. A. w. Mitchell and Mrs. Mer-
rin Mitchell of Durant were Licking
ton visitors last Wednesday.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-05-18
The
.Acklinite
By Chet Krzeminski

Collection for the Servicemen
for April netted the following:
Day shift, $41.10; office force,
$25; night shift, $50.
Acklin softball schedule: May
21-DeVilbiss Highland No. /;
May 24-W.-O. Highland No. 2;
May % - Champion-Highland
No. 2; May 31-National Sup
ply-Highland No. 2. Games cam
celled because of wet grounds
will be played at later date to
be announced on the bulletin
board. Come out and give the
team your support.
This would be a fine time for
us to sit down and write letters
to the boys who just completed
a good job of wiping out the
Nazis.
The welfare committee con-
sisting of Frank Young, Lewis
Mattox and Chet Krzeminski
needs your cooperation in giving
them the names of Unit mem
bers who are sick. Give them
the names of any members you
know are on the sick list.
Frank Majcharowski and fam
lily have returned from their. va
cation which they spent in Col
linsville, Ill.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-05-18
Seeing Eye-w,oUnis Unit

couple of nicknames such as
the chandelier Kid" n d
Junior" We would like to sug-
gest that you quit making bets
when you know you haven't the
will power to say no.
Congratulations to the pow
ers to be in Dept. 103 for being
one step ahead of a bill asking
for repairs to the floor. We
often wondered when some
member was going to break a
leg. We wonder what brass hat
is going to occupy that new of
flee which is being built be-
tween 103 and 662, or are they
going to store your dream orders
in it.
We wonder if Jess Kinsey has
finally achieved the goal he has
been shooting for, Brother Kin
sey started as a pencil pusher
went up to supervision and
back down. Now he has the best
job he ever had, Dept. Steward
of 981-2nd. shift.
Sights you seldom see -
Stubby, steward of Dept. COS
sewing buttons on his trousers
in his private dressing room. AS
you know he is a bachelor. We
would like to suggest he take
unto himself a helpmate to sew
his buttons on.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-05-18
Champion Unit
Sparklets

When paying dues or attend
ing your Unit meeting, you can
also pay your utility bills at the
Local No. IL Service Bureau,
End floor, AIS Winthrop ST..
They accept gas, phone, light and
water bills. Another service of
fered by your Union for your
convenience.
Never in our history has
America faced so many difficult
problems which can only be
solved through political action
on the part of the people. Join
the PAC today, help PRESERVE
AMERICAS CONSTITUTION.
A reminder to all members
who haven't paid their 1945 In
ternational assessment. The final
date to pay it is May 81, 1945,
don't wait until it is too late.
Were sure glad to see Otto
Bartz back in his usual spot in
the time office. Duck the Flu
germs Otto, from here on in.
If anyone noticed girl jump
ing five feet in the air from a
sitting position, in Dept. L. the
other night. Well, that was Con-
ME Harrison when she learned
that her husband Arnold" had
landed in San Francisco. A Ma
rine with 27 months in the South
Pacific, and an employee of the
Champion Spark Plug.
1t was sure nice seeing Grace
Mailer back to work and look
ing grand after her operation.
Congratulations to Georgia
Weppler, on a fine baby boy.
We extend our best wishes for
speedy recovery to Betty
Dressed who is convalescing in
Toledo Hospital.
Did anyone notice the happy
smile Louise Ruehle was wear
ing as she so proudly displayed
the medal sent her from France
by her fiance.