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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
Air Fight Takes pIate Between liberaiors, Jap
 Fighters in kuriles AFea
By LIN CLEMENTS
Associated Press War Correspond

Associated Press war IorreSpOnociit
 ELEVENTH AIR FORCE HEAD QUARTERS, Jan 26.-Army Lib orators downed three Jap fighters, and damaged or destroyed four more on Wednesday in running fight off Paramushiro, Kuriles group, in the North Pacific. One American plane was downed by enemy fighters,
 Most of the fighting took place near Kashiwabara, the enemy army staging area, at a high altitude.
 A small force of Liberators were jumped by eight or 10 Jap fighters. Three of the enemy planes, twin engined craft, followed the. battle but did not participate.
 Jap antiaircraft fire was inaccur- ate.
 The sudden appearance of Jap fighters in numbers may indicate the Japs are reinforced in the far northern Kuriles which have been shelled and bombed more than usual lately by the Army and Navy air forces.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
JAp5 PUSH AHEAD IN
 CHINA NOW
Nip Drive Cutting Already Slim Hold on Canion-
 HdnkoW Railroad

CHUNGKING, Jan. 26. - U s. Fourteenth Air Force P-51s destroy ed 40 enemy aircraft, probably de- stroyed six and damaged two in a strike yesterday on the airfields at Peiping, an American communique said
 Five enemy fighters were destroy ed in the air by northern based American planes. They also wreck ed four locomotives and damaged another. On the return trip three American planes were lost.
 Chinese, on the ground, were fighting Japanese troops. It was re- ported by an Army spokesman that the enemy slashed down from Vest ern Human Province and cut into the slim Chinese hold on the Can ton-Hankow Railway by occupying Lokchong. 150 miles north of Can ton. Pinkshek is IS miles or so to the south.
 The Chinese command announced the Japanese were smashing north along the railroad in Kwangtung Province and had reached the sub urbs of Kukong, provisional capital, l25 miles from Canton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26

 SYSTEM HIT
 BY SEA, AIR
Supers and Liberafors Join Navy in Bdttering
 Enemy Island

UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL KARBOR, Jan 26-An American Naval task force shelled Two Jima Island, in the Volcanos Tuesday, while Superforts and Liberator bombers also attacked the eight square-mile enemy island. More than 187 tons of bombs were dropped.
 Adm Chester w. Nimitz an- nounced that this is the third time in two months that Marian nas-based B-29s have joined with ships of the Pacific Fleet in CO., ordinated sea-air attacks.
 With the blasting of the fortress island, 750 miles south of Tokyo, the air attack and Sixth Surface Force smelling continued the steady 1 hammering of the Japanese island defense system guarding the South Sea approaches to the Nip home Hand.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26

PARIS, Jan. 26.-American Ninth and British Second Army troops cleared the entire west bank of the Roer River for 40 airline miles in Holland to below Duren, achieving a strategic springboard for attacks on Arains, the industrial Ruhr and the Rhineland.
 Flame throwing infantry of the Ninth Army advanced more than a mile in a limited night attack, cap turing Brachelen, 27 miles south west of Dusseldorf, 8 short distance from the Siegfried Line pillboxes German survivors withdrew to the east bank of the river
 British patrols, just to the north reported they had reached the Roer in front of several miles, without contracting Germans Wes Gallag- her reported from the Ninth Army front.
 Sector Cleared
 This clears the Second Army sec tor west of the Roer and liberates the Sittard sector in Holland he added. @sf
 On the opposite flank of the Vest ern Front, Lt Gen Patch's Seventh Army appeared to have brought the new German offensive, north of AL sace, to standstill. Associated Press correspondent said the Am ericans sealed off penetrations by seven Nazi divisions and slowly hammered the line back to it's orig inal position, fighting during one of the worst snowstorms in Alsace since the war started.
 House-to- House Fighting
 House to house fighting continued in Schillersdorf, 10 miles north of the Saverne Gap. The Allied life line is imperilled at Strasbourg, Will son said. The Germans are being herded into the southeast sector of the town.
 In the woods just west of Hague nau, IS miles north of the Alsatian capital. Americans are hopping ur the Germans who crossed the Moder River between Neuborg and Sch wieghouse. Wilson said the Ameri- cans counter-attacked before the Germans could consolidate their bridgehead. The penetration east Of Haguenau was also cleared. A hundred Germans were captured.
 Snow Is Inches Deep
 Fighting broke out near Bisch- willer. four miles southeast of flag uenau. Snow is 18 inches deep in places, begging down infantry and tanks and grounding planes. The First and Third Armies ham, mered the Ardennes bulge flatter
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
SETBACK IN EARLY FIGHT
 I5 AVENGED
Tanks Take Great Airbase Also Fori-Jdp Defend
 CTS Scatter to Hills

GEN. MacARTHURS HEAD QUARTERS, LUzON ISLAND, IN THE PHILIPPINES, Jan. 26-Clark Field whose 13 airstrips constitute che of the richest prizes of the Pacific war, was captured Thurs day by southwark driving Tanks, along with adjacent Fort Stats enberg. Other columns pushed even deeper within the scant 40 airline miles remaining along the road to Manila
 Yesterdays climax to the push of more than 70 miles from Lin- gayen Gulf, in campaign which has yet to come upon any concen- trated Japanese resistance, avenged one of Americas major setbacks of the Pacific war. Clark Field, where Japanese dive bombers wiped out Gen. Douglas MacAr- thurs main air strength in the Philippines early in the war to facilitate Nipponese conquest ot
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.-Already we are beginning to get foretaste of what the war is going to cost us, not for shot and shell, but for the things which President Roosevelt, in his budget message, called the aftermath of war.
 Three items m this aftermath category, somewhat overlooked in the excitement over estimated ex- penditures for war purposes, call for a total expenditure for the l946 fis- cal year of s9,848 100000. These three items are:
 Veterans pensions and benefits $2, ,623 ,000 900; interest on public debt, S4,5oO ,00O, 900; tax refunds, $2,- 725 ,000,O00
 Together these three items cost comparatively paltry s1,6o0, ,Oo0O0e in the 1899 fiscal year In the cur rent fiscal year, ending June 30 l945, they are costing an estimated $7 200 100000.
 l The President pointed out that the l946 figure was larger than the whole federal budget five years ago
 The size of that veterans pensions and benefits item can be better appreciated if you consider that dur iinp the entire history of the cOun- try, up to June 30, 1926, care of vet erans of all wars cost only little more than II billion dollars.
 The recommended veterans ap' prcpriation for 1946 is about 20 pel cent of the estimated appropriation for other than direct war purposes It is more than double the curren years figure.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
IC K ES IS CAUGHT IN
 MISDEED
Alleged False Affidayifs Made Regarding His
 Rental Property

CHICAGO, H., Jan. 26. John Clark, Cook County Assessor, today said Secretary of Interior Harold l.. Ickes obtained tax reductions of S8,548 in 1943 and 1944 on Loop building he owns by filing an af- fidavit concerning rental yields.
 Clark emphatically called the tax reductions erroneous" as investigat- ors from his office determined the annual rental of the five-story building on South State Street, in the heart of the shopping district, was $61 1850, also that Ickes, in his affidavit, stated it was three-story building and the annual rental was $24,000.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
MASSINC OF
 SHIPS, MEN
 ISREp0RTED

NEW YORK, Jan. 26 The Tokyo radio says American ships and troops are being massed in the Philippines for new attacks.
 This unconfirmed broadcast has been recorded by the EGG here and probably is linked with the bombardment of Corregidor and carrier aircraft attacks on For mosa and Okinawa.
 Japanese reports also said an increasing number of U. s. surface craft is moving into Lingayen Bay and waters south of Luzon.
 Domei broadcasts statement that the enemy intends to attempt new .airborne operations in the Luzon area.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
HAPPY RIRTHCAYS FOR TWO OFFICERS
 IN pHILIppINES

MacARTHUR R'S HEADQUAR- TIERS IN THE PHILIPPINES, Jan. 26.-Spearheading Am eric an m- fantrymen in Luzon presented Clark Field. enc of the greatest single mlll- tary prizes in the Philippines. as a birthday present to Gen. Douglas MacArthur and It. Gen. Walter Krueger
 Macarthur is 65 today and Kreu- ger is GA.
 The two Generals celebrated their joint birthday by commanding the victorious Army in lands where each began their active career as a com- missioned officer.
 KIeuger is Commander of the Sixth Army. He was born in East Prussia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
ASK CREATION OF COMMISSION 10
 ADMINISTER LAND
Poles Would Have Allies Take Care of Country
 UntiI Elections

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 - The United States has received me morandum from the Polish Gov ernment- -in- Exile, asking establish ment of an inter-Allied commission to administer their land until cleo tions can be held.
 This was disclosed by Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew at a news conference. He also re- vealed that Russia had agreed tc exempt the United States and Britain from the clauses in the Hungarian and Rufnanian armis- tices, giving the Soviets command or control over all communications including those in code from those two countries.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
Americans Capture Clark Field Near Manila
Tanks Half German
 Offensive Threats
 On Western Froni

BULLETIN--PARIS, Jan. 26. The American Ninth Army has captured the last four mile section of the Siegfried Line and the British have closed up the gap to the Roer River below Duren. Strangely, the Germans are abandoning Qualifications and have fled to the Cologne Plain.
 WhitecIad men. of the Ninth Army have closed to within 25 miles of Dusseldorf. All Am- erican lines lost to the Germans yesterday have been restored completely.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
Spearheads Now Close or on Prussidn Province
 Border Lines
ALL-0UT DRIVE 5TARTS
 ON NORTHERN SECTION
German Defenses on Oder River 'CrdCk Under
 Iron Pressure"

BULLETIN = LONDON, Jan. 26. Marshal RokOss0vsky's Second White Russian Army burst through the last German defenses along the border of the former free State of Danzig. in East Prussia, reaching the Bay of Danzig and isolating the Ger man forces in East Prussia.
 Stalin announced also tonight that with the capture of Marien- burg, the Russians stand only "A miles of Danzig where the Sec end World War started Sep- tember l. 1889. It is estimated that perhaps 25 German divi- sions are cut off in East Prussia.
 StaIin also announced the caps ture of Muhlhausen, another important rail center on line to Konigsbcrg.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Jan. 26 = Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7ss, American Can 909i, Anaconda 31 l2, Beech Aircraft 13M, Bethlehem Steel 701s, Curtiss- Wright 57s. International Harvester 757s. Kennecott 37as, North Ameri- can Aviation 9A, New York Central 23h, Northern Pacific 18M. U. s. Steel CO.'S Pound $404.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows; industrials l53.30. rails 1908, utilities 2662.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
NEW SECRET
 NAH WEAPON IS REVEALED
Patriot Sabotage May Pre- vent Use of ArtiI-
 Iery Submarine"

LONDON, Jan. 26.--The French News Agency quotes Ankara reports that one of Germanys new secret weapons, artillery submarine, " might be used for terror lombard ments of American coastal cities.
 Neutral travellers, the French agency says, who have reached An kara. declare the subs are in final stages of construction but the pro- gram is reported delayed by patriot sabotage so there is little chance they can be used before the fall of Berlin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
Says Roosevelt May Be On Way To Conference

LONDON, Jan. 26. The Transocean News Service, Ger ma.ay propaganda agency, in a broadcast from Wilhelmstrasse, says it is regarded quite pos sibIe President Roosevelt has al- ready left the United States for a new meeting with Churchill and Staiin.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
TRAINING U. $. TROOPS

However, there is one o t h e I factor discussed very frankly by Americans returning from the Western Front and by men who have trained in the U. s. Army here at home. It is the fact that the German system of training and also the Russian system may better develop the enlisted man.
 The German Army, for instance, builds up the ego of the individual soldier He is taught to believe that he is the best fighter in the world, that no other soldier and no other army can stop him. The German officer, among other things, makes a ceremony of singling out each enlisted man on his birthday and lighting his cigarette in front of the entire mess hall.
 The American soldier, on the other hand, is taught to suppress his individuality. It is drilled, into him that he is merely cog in
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
The W ashingt ion Merry -Go Round
By DREW PEARSON Gt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active
 service with the Army)

MERRY GO-MOORE Sf ETAOi
 WASHINGTON = The amazing advance of the Red Army compared with the present stalemate of Am erican- British forces on the Vest ern Front, naturally has caused some soul-searching among U. S. military experts.
 However, there is one important fact to keep in mind. The Rus sians are now putting across al most the same type of advance as the American Army did in Nor mandy six months ago. U. s. troops, then fresh and rested, attacked in force, crashed through the At lantic Wall along the coast of France, then raced on through the unfortified empty shell of France.
 Likewise the Red Army, after several months to bring up fresh troops and ample supplies, crashed through Germanys outer Polish defense along the Vistula River and is now racing across the flat and relatively unfortified plains of Poland.
 The Red Army will soon hit Germany's bristling Todt Line. The thing to watch will be whether the Todt Line will stop the Russians as the Siegfried Line has stopped us in Western Europe.
 In each case, it is important to note that artillery played tre- mendous role. In the Normandy invasin, Allied warships stood off in the English Channel, laid down a curtan of steel which scattered the Germans. Before the recent Russian advance, the Red Army lined up big guns and did the same thing. (When the Allies reached the Siegfried Line artillery was slow in coming up; still is reported in sufficient.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
PAA PLANE ARRIVES

Arriving in Juneau this afternoon from Seattle were the following passengers on a Pan American Air ways plane: Wallace Green, Alec Standfield, Art Beaudin, R. S. Brown, A. R. Seaton.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26

The original drawing for the in- signia of the Army Chemical War fare Service reputedly was made on cigarette wrapper by an officer who is now a clergyman.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26

LONDON, Jan 26--Russian tank spearheads have driven close to the eastern border of the Prussian province of Brandenburg, of which Berlin is the capital city, a Ger man broadcast says, while the Red Army newspaper, the Red Star, asserted we have reached the last road--the road we have dreamed about for three long years
 Tine nearest point on the Bran denburg border is 9l miles from the German capital city but the Russian broadcast did not place the Russian spearheads exactly. al- though the German radio did hint the distance was only about 9l miles away from Berlin.
 Moscow reported yesterday the Red Army forces were 125 miles from Berlin but tanks were moving far ahead of the infantry and ar tillery columns.
 Threaten Other Capitals
 Two other capital cities in Ger man provinces are also threatened, the Russians announcing that "all direct communications with Bres- lau have been cut off and the Germans declared the Soviets have launched an all-out drive on Ko- nigsberg.
 Moscow places the Russian forces within five miles of Poznan and the German broadcast said the Russians had driven past both sides of this key city, thus reaching the Brandenburg frontier.
 Nazi Defenses Crack
 The Red Star newspaper dis patches report the German de- lenses along the Oder River line are cracking under iron pressure. 7
 Hitler's newspaper admitted mo continuous line today" and that contact between the German forces on the eastern frontier was broken
 Later Moscow dispatches report ed flatly that East Prussia has been cut off and the German troops there are isolated,
 Mop-up Operations
 Associated Press Correspondent Eddy Gilmore says the Russians are now starting the grim task of storming Konigsberg and FL ping, two of the biggest centers of resistance, and wide mopping up operations are in progress in East Prussia, with Soviet columns still 10 to l5 miles from Konigsberg. 1 Today's communique says bitter fighting for Poznan. Bydgoszcz and Forum is in progress
 The German high command an- nounces a fierce tank battle has developed southwest of Gleiwitz, important mining and communica- tions center in upper Silesia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26

In connection with veterans ex- penditures. the President made one exceptionally interesting side point. He said the number of veterans of the present war will increase until at full tide these veterans will con- stitpte one-tenth of the population and almost one-fourth of the labor force
 INTEREST ON THE PUBLIC DEBT: The estimate for 1946- $4,- 5co,000 0000-represents an increase of $75A000,000 over the current fiscal year. The figure, of course, is out of sight compared to anything dreamed of before the defense era opened in 1940.
 TAX REFUNDS: A phenomenon new to this war About billion dollars will go to individual income taxpayers who are temporarily over charged through withholdings from paychecks. .- Another billion or SC will go to corporations and others who pay wartime excess profits taxes. The law calls for ten per cent of these taxes to be returned aftel the war
 The rest of the refunds will be made to persons and corporations who built emergency war factories were taxed on their profits but who find their profits will not be SC great as expected because their pro- duction is cut back or the factorie: closed entirely.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
SAME OLD
 "0H, YEAH''
(By Associated Pressl

A broadcast of a Japanese com munique says' several enemy B-29 heavy bombers" attacked Singapore today and added the usual claim, absolutely no damage was caused by the enemy nuisance raid.''
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26

The Catholic population of the U. S., Alaska, and the Hawaiian Islands numbers 23,000O00.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
Aftermath of War Is Going 10 Be Expensive;
 Three Items Shown Up

One million dollar item is for construction and reconditioning of hospital facilities that the President said might ultimately have to in clude 300,000 beds.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
SENATOR'S
 WANT NONE
 OF WALLACE
Also Would Take REC Away from Departmento
 of Commerce

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 The Senate Commerce Committee voted today, IA to 5, to reject President Roosevelts nomination of Hbnry Wallace as Secretary of Commerce
 The nomination will be reported unfavorably in the Senate on Mon-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26
FROM KETcHIKAN

G. L. Harrell of Ketchikan is
 staying at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-01-26

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-13
Current Rationing Regulations
MEATS AND BUTTER.

MEATS BUTTER D, Az through worth 10 points valid Stamps T6 through Ks will April 28 Stamps Y5 through D2 will 2 through J2 will be valid through Stamps through P2 will expire July 3l 2
 PROCESSED FOODS .at Blue stamps c-2 through x2 worth 10 points valid Stamps ca through G2 April 28 Stamps through expire June Stamps N2 through s2 expire June so Stamps T2 through ga expire July 3l.
 
 stamp pounds in through June An additional will validated
 SHOES Arpane stamps of shoes indefinitely GASOLINE A15 gallons through Be- C6 B7 and CT valid for five gallons Applicants to the local ration board with the application
 
 Period five Io44 Aug All coupons worth 10 gallons unit
 SOLID FUELS delivery permitted declaration solid ue delivery 3 lS46 of ntted deliver 50 between April and Scarce solid uel indicates anthracite eastern htunnos and hnuuetS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-13
Smoke Degrades City Soil; Gardener
 Must Choose Seed Wisely For Results

I covered the entire plot with a three-inch layer of partially decayed leaves, gathered in the neighborhood, and a load of manure Fifty pounds each of coarse lime stone and Victory Garden 4-12-4 fertilizer was then dug under to a depth of six inches and mixed. The area was deeply raked to improve the mixture and to fill in the area that had been walk. The yield for the first year was nothing to brag about, but last years crops were most satisfactory. This improve ment was due to the spading in of more decaped leaves after the harvest. side dressing with fertilizer during the growing season, and dig ging in of all weeds while culti- vating. A cover crop of winter wheat was sown last autumn and this, nearly a foot tall. was dug u,2der this spring.
 You, who garden in the smoke and soot of industry, after my ex- perience, should stick to carrots, beetS. radishes, turnips, Swiss chard, leaf lettuce Gin the spring only), onion sets. endive, parsley, and to- matoes. Insect pests and diseases thrive in smoke and soot, so be always ready with your spray and dust guns.