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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
LOW LOSSES IN BATTLING
 OVER JAPAN
That Is Reason Adm. Hal. sey Has Been Able 10
 Hit Time and Again

GUAM, Aug. 3.--Low losses consti- tute one of the reasons Adm. Hal sey's Third Fleet has been able to re- main in Japanese home waters sse long -24 days. assuming it is still there-and to hit the enemy again and again, both from the air with more than 1000 carrier planes and from the seaiwith seven naval bom- bardments.
 Adm Ninitz'S commhniques for the period July 10, date of the first attack on Tokyo, through July 30, date of the last reported assault, reported only 116 American planes and 13 British craft lost in many thousands of sortieS.
 Nimitz reported only 97 Ameri- can pilots and air crewmen and three British airmen lost in the same per- iod. s
 Marianas-base B-29s have flown 27,0C0 sorties over Japan with loss of only 0O55 percent, Headquarters reported today.
 Altogether, l49 Superforts have been lost to enemy action since the first attack on Tokyo last Thanks giving day They have flown a total of 237 missions-180 missions without the loss of a single plane.
 At a cost of 1889 crewmen in the 149 Superforts lost, 56 Japanese cities have been gutted by fire = some almost completely destroyed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
TAxpAyER5
 SAY JUNK
 ASSESSMENT
Executive Committee Says Some Taxes Raised
 400 Percent

The Executive Committee of the Juneau Taxpayers Association this noon issued a statement urging the city to junk the recent assessment for which Evaluator Howard s. Henretta was paid $l1,000 on the basis that the new assessment contains too many inequities.
 The committee said that if more money is needed to run the affairs of the city last years assessment should be used and the millage rate raised.
 The statement was issued after the Executive Committee heard a report made by the Taxpayers Association representative on the committee that has been author ized by the City Council to go over the new tax rolls and suggest changes as a result of protests lodged by irate taxpayers.
 Said the statement:
 Because of the many inequ;ties
 
 in the Henretta appraisal, some assessments being raised as much as 400 per cent and many being placed far in excess of actual value, there will not be sufficient time to correct the assessment roll for this year.
 We believe that the recent ex- penditure for the new assessment should be. charged to profit and loss, and the new assessment dis carded W sA
 "'The new assessment, when the taxes on automobiles are listed. will total more than $12,000, ,000, an increase of more than 100000, or 50 per cent increase over 1944. The major portion of this new assessment is general increase on property already listed.
 We recommend that last years assessment be used, together with any new property not heretofore listed and, if necessary, in order to secure enough revenue to properly run the city for the coming year, the millage be raised. By applying this theory all taxpayers will be treated the same, eliminating the majority of grievances and also saving the city thousands of dol- lars in expensive lawsuits. which there no doubt would be as the result of trying to enforce this assessment"
 The City Council meets tonight and will probably discuss this latest demand in addition to con- sidering how much money the city is to spend this year and on what.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
TOKYO PAPER WARNS EARLY
 INVASION DUE
Declares 500 U. 5. War. ships Concentrated in
 0kinaWd Area

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3.-Fve hundred U. s. warships, including battleships and cruisers, were re- gently concentrated in the Okinawa area. the newspaper Yomiuri Hochl is quoted today by Radio Tokyo.
 Ire Tokyo daily warned that 2 landing operation against Japan might come in the near future "Even as early as next month"
 If an invasion of Japan is at tempted before l946, the daily edi- torialized, the U. s. will be able to mount only 40 divisions Americas $ invasion potential is limited by mill itary manpower resources now in the Pacific theatre, by the question of shipping and by the experience and hazards of such amphibious opera tions.
 The 500 ship fleet, said Yomiuri was concentrated principally at re- gently captured Nakagusuku Bay trenamed Buckners Bay for It. Gen Simon Bolivar Buckner who lost his life in the closing days of the Okin- ava campaign which he command ed) The editorial said that the U. S now has five principal bases in the Pacific-the Marianas. Western Carolines. Admiralties, the Philip pines and Okinawa.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
AIR ATTACKS "BEA5TLy"I5
 JAP. CLAIMS

SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 3.-Amer- ican air raids destroying forewarned Nipponese cities were denounced as "beastly' by the enemy's domestic radio network today, but it predicted that they will be carried out fierce ly to wipe cut the Japanese people. !"
 No hope that the advertised bomb raids could be prevented, even though showers of leaflets give ad- vance warning that the B-29s will come, was offered in the broadcast, monitored by the Federal Commun- ications Commission.
 Widespread destruction was re- flected in the statement that the number of cities which have the appearance of cities without being harmed has become extremely small"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
AGREEMENTS AT p0T5DAM
 STIR G0pER5
Taft Talks Out, Indicating Senate May Cause
 Truman Trouble

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3-Vigorous Republican criticism of the Pots- dam agreements gave President Truman notice that there may bt Senate trouble ahead for the peace treaties that document envisages.
 In a statement that lent added significance because of his Chair manship of the Minority Steering Committee, Senator Taft (R-Ohio) contended that the Big Three's' agreement to give Poland at least temporary control of an eastern slice of Germany "sows the seeds of future war"
 In paragraph by paragraph an- alysis with reporters of the under standings reached by President Truman, Prime Minister Attlee anc Generalissimo Stalin, Taft found room to praise only what he called the harsh" terms imposed upor Germany.
 Democrats led by Chairman Con- nally D-Texas), of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, gen. erally voiced approval of the settle ments either reached or proposed for Europe's problems.
 But there were some, like Sen- ator Wheeler (D-Mont), who won- dered why no mention was made of many continental sore spots.
 Wheeler was sorry, he said, that nothing was said about Yugoslavia adding:
 Tt is my understanding that ir Yugoslavia they have no freedom of speech, no freedom of press and that the goods we are sending are used by Marshal Tito and his CO., horts and not given to Serbs"
 Others wondered why there was no news of possible Russian entry into the war agains. Japan, why the disposition of German prisoners in Allied hands was not set out why Greece was unmentioned and whether Russian troops would be withdrawn from Poland.
 Observing that the agreements seemed to formalize a Russian sphere of influence in Poland, Bull garia, Finland, Hungary, Romania and Eastern Austria, Taft said the Big Three" understandings fir effect recognize that the Russians can do as they please with the Puppet Polish Government
 It appears to him, Taft said, that Premier Stalin "gets everything he wants and won out on all po- sitions he has taken in the past"
 "The transfer to Poland of nearly fourth of Germany certainly sows the seed of future war" Taft as- serted. The transfer of millions oi Germans to an already crowded area is at best dangerous ex- pertinent"
 President Truman, the Ohio Sen ator said, had assumed to speak for the United States in settling many of the most controversial boundaries and the terms to be inn posed upon Germany without any consultation with the Senate or the people of the United States"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
T0UGHNE55 ON GERMANS
 GET50kEH
Only Complaints of Pois-
 dam Agreement Is Z What Was Nof Said

LONDON, Aug. 3-Veteran dip lomatic observers agreed today tha, the Big Three's' Potsdam com munique displayed toughness with Germany sufficient to assure the world that it would be long time before that nation again could threaten universal peace.
 The London press chorused ap- proval of the Potsdam decisions Virtually the only complaints = either from newspapers or diplo- matic observers were aimed at what President Truman, Prime Minister Attlee and Premier Stalin did not say, rather than at what was announced.
 It seemed agreed here in diplo- matic circles that the mistakes of Versailles had been avoided and that closer cooperation of the big powers was assured in the recon struction of Europe.
 Dispatches from Madrid said it was expected that the sharp lan- euage of the communique telling Generalissimo Francisco Franco's spain it was not welcome in the ranks of the United Nations would bring about another shift in the Spanish Cabinet.
 An auth horitative source in London closely connected with the Polish Government at Warsaw, said that on the whole. the Polish Government probably was satisfied with the Potsdam decisions, but added there had been some ex- pectation regarding Stettin, so we didn't get all we asked" Polish sources said they stiIl hoped for some concessions regarding Stettrn possibly a declaration that Stet- tin is a free city with commercial passage allowed Poland and Czecho- slovakia.
 GA British Foreign Office com- mentator in London said today that Stettin would come under Polish administration in the extension of Poland's western frontiers by the Potsdam conference
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
OF WAR
 CRIMINALS WILL
 BE STARTED SOON

LONDON. Aug. 3The long-awaited list of major war criminals will be made public before Sept. l, the Big Three declared in communique is sued at the close of the Potsdam conference.
 Thus far the only persons public ly accused of major war crimes is Reichmarshal Hermann Goering.
 Promising swift and sure jus tice," the communique signed by President Truman, Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Attlee said it was "a matter of great importance that the trial of these major crim- inals should begin at the earliest possible date"
 Representatives of the four powers have been meeting in London for nearly a month in an attempt to reach an agreement on procedure for the trials.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
ALL HARB0R5
 OF JAPANESE ARE: GUT OFF
No Aid from Asia Can Now Reach Nips-AIlied 0f-
 fensive Expected
By Leonard Millinlan Associated Press War Editorb

A complete aerial blockade has cut Japan off from any aid from Asia where a huge Allied offensive Is expected soon, American com manders said today shortly after reporting ll9 more Japanese vessels have been sunk or damaged.
 The air blockade was announced by Superfort Headquarters A. spokesman said every harbor of Japan and Korea has been virtually closed by history's most extensive air-borne mining operation.
 Whatever shipping manages to run the gantlet of mines Is hunted down by patrolling American air craft from Okinawa.
 Fighting On Continent Expected
 The expectation of major fight ing on the continent was voiced by It. Gen. Albert 0. Wedemeyer. U. s. Commander in China. Such a campaign. he said. would be sup ported by the American trained. equipped Chinese forces who did so well in the, re-conquest of Northern Burma.
 Other Chinese forces are being coached in the U. s. style of war fare by American cadres Ultimate goal wedemeyer said, is the re- oyaening of coestaI postt 70 supply, Chinese troops. Presumably. this would involve an American landing on the China coast.
 Wedemeyer's statements were &C., companied by a renewed drive by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-sheks forces in southeast China. They were reported hammering against stubborn and reinforced JapaneBe 37 miles northeast of Kweilin, re- gently recaptured U. s. airbase city.
 On Other Fronts
 Tn other land actions, Tanks hunted down corncred Japanese Generals in the northern Philip. pines and Australians were sup ported by their own light naval units in the re-conquest of nor- thern Solomon Islands. British forces fighting through shouthern Burma's monsoons have killed 8.630 Japanese and captured $50 In the last three weeks.
 Major Air Bla-.
 Major blows Of the war were still being struck from the air.
 AS 100 Mustang fighters struck the Tokyo area again today. Japa- Iese domestic broadcasts said that the "beastly' air offensive would be "carried out fiercelys with the objective of. "wiping out the Japi.- nese people,
 Brig. Gen. James Doolittle. com- mander of the Eighth Air Force which is soon to go into action with it's B-29's from Okinawa. said the objective was to knock out Kamikaze suicide planes which would be the Ernperor's principal anti-invasion weapon.
 Whatever the purpose, new re- ports of Allied air strikes added 9i Nipponese naval vessels to this weeks toll. in addition to exten- sive land damage.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
JAPANESE HOME ISLANDS BL0CKADED
0pA FILES 5UITS; ASKS REVOCATION
 OF FISH LICENSES

In a suit filed in District Court here today. the Alaska Office of Price Administration seeks to re- yoke the license of the Union Trade and Packing Go. and Hans Nord- ness to buy or sell fish. The de- fendants in this action are fish buyers operating in Kalinen Bay, Who last year had criminal cases filed against them. In the trial of one of these cases in the Commis- sioner's Court at Sitka, the defend ants were fined $l.000 This case was appealed and is still pending here in the District Court.
 The complaint filed today charges the defendants with wilfully pur- chasing fish, particularly salmon, at prices in excess of the price per- mitted by regulations. and with otherwise defying the price control act. The present action seeks to suspend the operations of the de- tendants for one-year period, as provided by the Emergency Price Control Act.
 In commenting upon the filing of this action, enforcement offi- cials of the OPA stated that certain ether fish buyers were also wilfully violating the provisions of the act, and that considerable time and effort has been spent to obtain the evidence against them. Action is planned for the suspension of licenses for these other firms also engaged in this illegal operation.
 Over-ceiling prices being paid by these firms would indicate that Alaska fish might become con- signed to black market operation somewhere along the line. OPA's move to obtain license suspensions against such buyers is intended to prevent the diverting of this much needed fish supply into Illegal market channels, OPA officials said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
DEFEAT OF
 JAPAN IS
 NEXT MOVE
Truman, Atflee Agree for Coordindted Program
 in Pacific Section
By ERNEST B. VACCARO
 Associated Press Correspondent

WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN ABOARD USS AUGUSTA. Aug. B. President Truman and Prime Min ister Attlee were disclosed today to have agreed at Berlin upon coor- dinated program for the total de- feat of Japan which may involve major shifts in the Pacific com mand
 An Angelo-American statement said the American and British Chiefs of Staff perfected details at daily meetings in Potsdam for coor- dinating their forces to force Japan's unconditional surrender and the lib- eration of Japanese occupied terri tory "at the earliest possible date"
 The joint statement was issued simultaneously aboard the Presi- dents homeward bound cruiser and by Attlee in London. It did not mention Russia, which is not at war with Japan.
 The British, the statement assert ed, will bring to bear against Japan all of their naval, land and air forces which can be advantageously used.
 There has been rather wide spec ulation that Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, now Southeast Asia Commander, may be assigned to clearing out the Japanese by-passed areas in the Pacific. This would permit Gen. Douglas Macarthur, the American Commander in the Pacific, to concentrate on the for ward areas.
 Mountbatten attended the Pots dam conference
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
OREGON FOREST FIRE FATHERS
 ASK ADDED AID
Fight 10 Project Forest Grove Watershed Is
 Winning Out

PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 3.-Addi- tional equipment has been rushed to the Tillamook forest fire lines in nothern Oregon, and forest officials have appealed for still more crews to help fight the flames.
 Fire has jumped nearly all the line along HeInbre Ridge at the southern tip of the blaze. But in western Washington county. the battle to protect the Forest Grove watershed has been successful A heavy pail of smoke is hanging over the Salmonberry- -Nehalem area. where spot fires have been burning for days. On the extreme northern front. loggers have set a series of backfires.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
LAVAL GIVES. TESTIMONY AIT PEIAIN TRIAL
Tells of Agreements Enter ed Into With Know
 ledge of British

BULLETIN = PARIS Pierre Laval ruefully admitted today that he had said There is where we overthrow the French Republic when he was pushing through acts which made the old soldier a vir- tuaI dictator. He c0ntended his remark was jest.
 II am not a Fascist! am not a Nazi! love the Republic" shouted the haggard, white-tied former Chief of Government of Petain's Vichy regime.
 Laval admitted he had said "I desire a German victory" He tes- fified that he made the statement to make the Germans believe he was on their side.
 On two or more occasions, Laval cleared his throat by drinking Vichy water.
 PARIS, Aug. 3.-Pierre Laval de-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
GI Wives and SWeeihearis
 Reported True

STATE COLLEGE, Pa, Aug. B. Chances are that when G. I. Joe comes home, he'll find his wife or sweetheart has been true, a poll of a Pennsylvania State college shows
 Dr. c. R. Adams, associate profes- sor of Education and Psychology who conducted the canvass, said married girls answered an emphatic No" when asked whether they are dating while their husbands are in he-service.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Aug. 3 = Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine stock today is 7b. American Can 99A, Anaconda 8, Curtiss- Wright 6%. International Harvester 82h Kennecott 37A, New York Central 26A, Northern Pacific 28h, U. S. Steel 67A, Pound $4.027s.
 Sales today totaled 5l0,000 shares
 Dow. Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials. 163.06; rails 574l utilities, 32.42.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
The Washington
 Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON It. Col. Robert g. Allen nov on active service with the Army)

WASHINGTON-~Onc conclusion drawn from the British elections is that the people in England were thinking about peace-tfme pros perity and postwar reconstruction more than the military achieve ments of their wartime leader.
 Likewise in the U. s. A., all the political soundings of Congressman all the reports of political experts indicate that the American public is beginning to worry about whats going to happen here at home after the war. The many letters pouring in on this writer. especially from CHS, substantiate this.
 Tn view of the above, Harry Tru- man may have pulled his first inn portant domestic boner when he suddenly jerked Judge Fred Vinson out of the War Mobilizer's office to make him Secretary of the Treas ury, replacing him with the St Louis banker, John Snyder.
 Actually, the Office of War Mob- Mization has come to be the Office of War Consolidation and Recon version, and it is one of those delicate cogs in the governmental machine which, if it gets out of gear, can smash just about every wheel in the shop. Versatile Judge Vinson, even after his many years of experience, was finding it a nerve-racking, back -breaking pSob- lem-and he will be the first to admit it.
 Therefore, to put John Snyder almost fresh out. of St. Louis, into this intricate job is like trans ferring a product of the sidewalks of New York into submarine and asking him to operate it.
 This is meant as no reflection on Snyder. He is a working conscientious gentleman, an able banker, and faithful to his good friend Harry Truman, with whom he trained every year in the Mis- sorri National Guard. But it just isn't fair to put him on such a. hot spot.
 No man not previously steeped in the complex reconyersion, demobi- lization picture, as Judge Vinson was, can expect to step in cold and do the job Result is that John Snyder sits in meetings, his ears literally Tapping, as curved balls fly at him from every direction. He doesn't even know. the terminology of various reconversion problems.
 Meanwhile, if the Japanese peace should come suddenly-as it may well do-this country might be in for a sudden stoppage of wal orders, disastrous { unemployment and the worst economic dislocatior since l930.
 TRUMAN AND CHILDREN
 Mrs Truman is certainly careful to protect her husband regarding the small niceties of life which sometimes can be important.
 When she and the President visited in Independence, Mo, he was entertained by Mayor Roger T. Sermon. And just before enter ing the mayors home, at 70l Proc tor. Place, Truman was met by a
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
.FIREMEN HOLD
 MONTHLY MEET

The Juneau Volunteer Fire De- partment last evening observed it's regular monthly meeting date with very brief business session.
 Two fires and one fire drill were reported during the month of July. Another fire drill is to be held during August, it was decided.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
BULLE I l N 5


 MANILA--A meeting has been held at Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Headquarters to make plans for bombing raids on Japan i'll which up to 1000 tons of bombs can be dropped in single attack.
 ASTORIA, Ore.--Fis,,crmen lave joined those in Ilwaco and Grays Harbor in protesting an OPA cut back in the price of troll-caught salmon. Grays Harbor and Astoria prices are lh cents pound below those in Seattle.
 WASHINGTON Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois has urged that in any Pacific peace settlement, the power of the Japanese Emperor be wiped out completely. Lucas de- clares that the influence of the Emperor must be eradicated it Fascism in Japan is to be up- rooted. The Senator believes that the time has come for the Allies to make a decision on what ttey intend to do about Hirohito.
 CLIFTON SPRINGS. N. Y. - The founder and first President of the Nanking University in China, Dr. John Calvin Ferguson. 70, died today. He spent 56 years in China and returned to the United States in December, l943.
 BRADENBURG, Ky.--Arlmy off, cials from Dayton. Ohio. are in- vestigating the cause of a jet propelled Shooting Star" plane crash near here. in which the pilot was killed. The plane was a sister ship of the craft which flew from Dayton to New York in a record 62 minutes. It was on a routine test flight from Dayton to Texas.
 SAN FRANCISCO - Eighteen hundred hjgh-score veterans of the Pacific war have arrived in San Francisco aboard transports within the past 24 hours. The men will be honorably discharged The four transports also brought home sol- diers to be furloughed. hospital personnel, Navy casualties and 62 civilia repatriated from the Philippines.
 QUITO, Ecuador The Interior Minister of Ecuador has announced that what it calls "a subversivc plan has been discovered and sup pressed. A spokesman for the min- istry says that part of a battalion of soldiers quartered at Lola was implicated in the plot, and the two Army officers have been imprisoned, on charges of sedition.
 
 PETTICREW HERE
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
DOROTHY WHITNEY HERE

Dorothy K. Whitney arrived on a Woodley Transport from Anchorage and is a guest ct the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03

are imports, which could feed a secret war effort.
 Nevertheless, Germany has been told that she can have a standard of living mot exceeding the aver age of the standards of living of European countries" expressly ex- cepting Russia and Britain.
 Germany is told she must work for her living.
 Democratic principles are to re- place Nazi indoctrination in Ger man schools, courts, and public life.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-03
BENSON HERE

Russell R. Benson. of Indian apolis, Ind. is guest at the Bar anof Hotel.