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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-07-21
Platoon Leader
Wins DISC For
Heroism in Italy

An intrepid Negro officer from
from Cheyenne, Wyoming, who
killed or wounded nine Germans
while personally knocking out 3
enemy machine gun nests and OBJ
servation post in Italy, has been
awarded the Distinguished Service
Cross, the War Department has re-
ported.
The recipient, LIST 1t Vernon j.
Baker, 25, a rifle platoon leader in
the end Infantry (Buffalo) Divi-
sion, thus becomes the second liv-
ing Negro of the three who have
been decorated with the DISC in
| this war.
The text of the official citation
from Headquarters, Fifth Army,
dated June 10, 1945, follows:
For extraordinary heroism in
action, on April and 6, 1915 near
Viareggio, Italy, 1st 1t. Baker
demonstrated outstanding courage
and leadership in destroying enemy
installations, personnel an equip
ment during his company's attack
against strongly entrenched ene-
my in mountainous terrain. When
hise company was stopped by con-
centrated fire from several ma
; chine gun emplacements, he crawl
ed to one position and destroyed
1T, killing three Germans.
Continuing forward, he attack
ed an enemy observation post and
killed its two occupants. With the
aid of one of his men, 1t. Baker
attacked two more machine gun
nests, killing or wounding the four
enemy soldiers occupying these po-
Sltlons. He then covered the evac-
uation of the wounde pedsonnel of
his company by occupying an ex-
posed position and drawing the en-
emy's fire. On the following night
1t. Baker led battalion advance
through enemy mine fields and
heavy fire toward the division OBJ
Jectlve. 1t. Bakers fighting spirit
and daring leadership were an in
splratlon to his men and exemplify
the highest traditions of the Armed
Forces"
1t. Baker was commissioned a
ina Lieutenant in the Infantry at
FORT Benning, Ca, on January IL,
l943. and promoted to LIST Lieut..
on May z, 1945. Prior to receiving
his commission he was a staff SER
geant in Company D, 25th Infan-
try Regiment
The other Negro veterans wear
ing the Distinguished Service Cross
today is Captain Charles Thomas,
OF Detroit. Michigan, who won the
award for leding his platoon of
TANK Destroyers in a breakthrough
OF the Siegfried Line last Decem-
Der.
Pvt. George Datson of Rirming-
ham, Alabama, first Negro to win
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-07-21
Columbus Private
With 87th Enginrs.
At Clark Field

With the 87Oth Engineer Avia-
ton Battalion in Clark Field-Pvt.
Theodore Johnson, husband of Sa-
rah Johnson, 2413 4th Ave, Column
bus, Miss, and son of Mr.. Eddie
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the Army's second highest honor
IN this war, received the award
posthumously in 1943 after he lost
his life at Pordoch Harbor, New
Guinea while going to the rescue
OF comrades in sinking boat.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-07-21
State Men Help
Assemble Military
Vehicles

The only Negro company in the
United States Army with the mis-
sion of putting together military
vehicles, the 3119th Motor Vehicle
Assembly Company of the 9Th Bat
talon, has just completed its train
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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-07-21

Spilled drops of medicine can
cause holes to be burned in table
cloth.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1945-07-21

Sgt Filyour c. Bankston. son of
Mr. and Mrs. c. Bankson, TAO West
Pearl Street, has returned to his
home after nearly 31s years Of
service in the South Pacific.
Sgt Bankston is well known in
Jackson and his many friends are
delighted to have him at home.
He is the brother of Mrs. Thorn
as Bennett, Canal Street.
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Kodiak mirror., 1945-04-21
"Horle Tn Indiana" Marks Anniversary

The Lyric celebrates the 5oth Anniversary of the 2Oth Cen tury-Fox Film Company with the presentation of their Iechni- color triumph, "Home in Indian a, featuring Walter Brennan Lon McCallister, Jeanne Craln' Charlotte Greenwood and June Haver.
 "Home in Indiana" tells an unusual story of young love set against the background Of fiash- ing hoofs, pounding hearts and the, thrilling moments of Grand Circuit racing.
 Unique in conception, the story is 8 refreshing one of a young boy and two young girls who take an interest in him when he comes to the beautiful estate to learn horse raeing-the film stands by itself, a warm. { human drama of the peaoetime world. l Charlotte Greenwood scores a first in her appearance in a dra- matic role and 3-time Academy Award winner Walter Brennan gives his usual steriiHg perform ance in a character role
Kodiak mirror., 1945-04-21

Mrs. Mary Coulton is a guest of MT. and Mrs. Frank Kempton following her return after a 5 months trip in the States. She visited her father in Eastern Canada, her sister in Detroit and other relatives in North Dakota. She also visited friends in Bellingham en route to Kod- iak.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-04-21

It. Wilson Erskine left Kod- iak Sunday after spending a few days here on business. It. Frs kline was released from submar- inc duty in the South Pacific recently because of the illness of his father. It. Erskine is now stationed in San Francisco, where Mir. Erskine has been spending the winter.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-04-21

Olof Olson, president of the Kodiak Civic League, has an- nounced that the next public for um of that organization will be held the 2nd week in May on postwar employment, based on the question "Can private enter prise provide full employment.
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after leaving Kodiak.

Jack King. formerly on the local deputy marshal's staff and city police force, and who has been driving taxi in Anchorage, was recently added to the police force in that city.
Kodiak mirror., 1945-04-21

Mrs. Doris Landin returned by plane Saturday after attend ing the funeral of her father, Franklin Brown, in Everett, Wash. MT. Brown passed away in 8 hospital in Seattle shortly
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ed the Island Transfer company, and who has been engaged m private bookkeeping since, left on the Lakina to return to the States. He plans to visit relatives first in Portland and Eugene, Oregon.
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Town Topics

Lumber for the new addition to the McConaghy cannery was brought to Kodiak from the Kupreanoff Lumber company on Fritz Deveau's boat Alvin Sum- erlin made the trip with Deveau.
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"Bill" Taylor, son of MT. and Mrs. Warren A. Taylor, is now in Gulfport, Miss, where he is taking navigational training for the operation of amphibious landing craft.
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Ben Sholl left Sunday on tho Shuyak for Carmel. where he will be employed for the summer as cannery foreman for the Grimes Packing Go.
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Mrs. Ray Dell left Anchorage last week to make her home in Fairfield, Calf, with her hus- band, who has been employed there the past 3 months. MT. and Mrs Dell formerly operated Delps cafe here where the Smoke Shop is now located.
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It. Donald Mccormick, naval intelligence officer at the base and a member of the local Rotary Club, is to leave this weekend on a transfer to a new post in Cal
Kodiak mirror., 1945-04-21
COMMUNITY BAPTIST
 CHURCH


 CHURCH
 Kodiak, Alaska SsV. Gregory s. Morony, Pastor
 Services for
 Sunday April 22 "l5 Sunday School. Classes for all ages. Ills Morning Worship Sermon: Klndling a Forest Fire 'So Christian Fellowship League Intermediate, High School and Young People'sgroup 'So Evening Gospel Hour feung Peoples Society will De in charge 'londay s3O Cub Scouts lsesday: a9O Camp Fire Girls dSO Primary teacher training
 course aSO SO Children's choirs $50 Girls choir 'SO Vesper Hour. Prayer
 Fellowship. Bible Study. Bible Book of Isaiah hiday: 'iS Boy Scouts Troop 625 rS0 Church Choir
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Mrs. Clara Peck returned to Kodiak recently after visiting her parents in Yakima, Wash, and MT. Peck's parents in Tac- oma, Wash.
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Ray ;.ange, bookkeeper, who came to Kodiak to work for w. F. Lewis when the latter operat-
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.ifornia.

Martin J. Jensen left by plane for Seattle where he will join Mrs. Jensen to return with her.
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Anyone desiring to get in uueh with a Lutheran pastor nay write to Rev. G. E. Nitz, Da 1924, Anchorage, Alaska.
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PRAISE CHAPEL Rev. John Marshall

Sanday School l0:4O Morning Service II:4O Sunday Evening Service 7;OO Classes for young people IMou. & Fri. evenings at 700 Studying lives of Missionary
 Heroes uasses for young children Monday afternoons at 3:45
Kodiak mirror., 1945-04-21

lCA TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT, GREETING:
 You are hereby required to ap- pear in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska, Third Div ision, within thirty days after the last publication of this sum- mons, namely, within thirty days (3B) after the 28th day of April, 1945, in case this summons is pub lished, or within forty days after the date of its service upon you, in case this summons IS served upon you personally, and answer the complaint of the above nam ed plaintiff on file in the said court in the above entitled ac- tion.
 The said plaintiff in said action demands the following relief: A decree of the said Court forever dissolving the bonds of matri- mony existing between the plain kscc oJ JofooJonf
 And in the event you fail to so appear and answer. the plaintiff will take judgment against you for want thereof, and will apply to the Court for the relief de- manded in its complaint and as hereinbefore stated.
 WITNESS, the HONOR ABLE ANTHONY J. DIMOND Judge of said Court and the seal [ of said Court hereunto affixed on this 30th day of March 1945. M. E. s. Brunelle Clerk
 By Catherine Brundage Deputy
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CATHOLIC SERVICES Father Edgar Gallant
KODIAK MIRROR

f0VhOA &hL SOllouO s:3O Mass at Hospital Chapel S;3O Mass at Fort Greedy 1000 Mass at new church site formerly known as Wayfarer's Cub building)
 73O Benediction at Hospital Chapel
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Legal Notice

AS6 6~A @SO IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA. THIRD DIVISION = THELMA MARQUART,
 Plaintiff.
 Vs. ALVIN MARQUART,
 Defendant. Summons for Publication Ay c oc0E
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Summons for Publication

No. S-3695
 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMER ICA TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT, GREETING:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-02
BIG BUILDING PROGRAM K PUT
 up TO CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2-Congress was asked today to put up $193,- o00,000 for new government build ings in the States and Territories.
 The proposed legislation also seeks SIP ,405,0 ,000 for buildings in or near the District of Columbia. It was submitted jointly by the Public Building administration and the Post Office Department.
 A list of 4,O20 eligible projects ia the States and Territories esti- mated to cost S774,795, ,0OO was sent to House Speaker Rayburn D-Tex) with the proposed bill.
 w. Englebert Reynolds, Commis- sicner Of Public Buildings, said that if the legislation is approved projects totaling $193, 100000 out side the District of Columbia will be selected from the list on the basis. of need and equitable dis tribution.
 The proposed projects include Public Health Service hospitals, Federal Court Houses, Post Offices and miscellaneous office buildings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-02
Former p0Ws Are Put On
 K. p. Duties
Just an Administrative Duty So They Hang Up
 DishtoweIs, Ete.

SANTA ANA, Calif., Oct 2.--Forty Army Air Forces veterans, former prisoners of war, have hung up their diAltcwels and put away their potato-peeling knives-itheyre off K. P
 The fact that they went on kitchen police duty Sunday after arriving Saturday was "afl administrative error which I have corrected" said Brig Gen. Arthur E. Easterbrook commanding officer of the air base here. His statement added:
 Tt is not the policy of this base for liberated prisoners of war to do KIP. It is our policy to afford them every facility grateful nation can bestoW"
 Anmong the 40 who washed coffee cups and scraped trays Sunday is Staff Sgt Jacob D. DeShazsr, who participated in Jimmy Doolittle's Tokyo raid. DeShazer was in a Japanese prison camp 40 months, in- cluding 34 months in solitary con- finement.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-02
Criminal Police in
 Berlin, Touch Bunch

BERLIN, Oct. "A former Ger man police executive filed charges today with the Allied Komman- dantur that the Criminal Police of Berlin contained both former mem bers of the Gestapo and under world clements.
 The charges were made by Dr. Anton Haselmeyer. until Aug. 3l director of the criminal section Haselmeyer was suspended after making a detailed report to the police chief of conditions in the department.
 He charged that members of his staff destroyed records by which Nazis and men of the Gestapo would have been accused. He as- serted that a relatively high per centage" of the criminal police had criminal records.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-02
Full Report on Military Produetion, Existing
 Stocks Now Sought CABINET SHAKE-Up
 BEING DEMANDED
Allied Authorities Continue Search for Hidden
 Gold, Silver, Ete.

TOKYO, Oct. 2-Pressure mount ed among Japanese today for top- to-bottom reorganization of their cabinet by the time demobilization is completed in mid October; and Gen. Macarthur demanded full accounting of Japan's military pro- duction as we'll as existing stocks of war materiel.
 He asked the Japanese Govern ment for full information on the annual production of arms. ord- nance, ammunition and automotive equipment from 194l through Aug ust, 1945. plus estimates for the remainder of 1945.
 Custer Looming
 Japanese sources reported ris- ing sentiment for elimination from the cabinet of ministers once as- sociated with the beaten. war making regime. as we'll as those blamed for failure to anticipate growing food, housing and fuel shortages.
 Early reports strictly without confirmation have hinted that Emperor Hirohito might abdicate in thorough government house. cleaning. When his task of carry ing out the principal surrender terms is finished.
 Tojo Not Taking
 Army doctors today reported that former Premier Shigenori Togo. suspected war criminal, isn't fak- ing; he does have a heart attack and consequently his appearance at U. s. Eighth Army prison has been delayed
 Allied occupation authorities con- tinued their search for hidden gold. silver and currency which the Japa- nese wartime administrations mili- tary commanders plundered in the nations they overran.
 May Force Reshufile
 The Tokyo newspaper Mainichi said today that new loud demands for a less tainted. more energetic government may force Premier Prince Higashi- to shuffle the cabinet even before the end of de- mobilization, set for about Oct. IS.
 Higashi Kuni had specifically asked the Army and Navy Min- isters to stay on the job until they finish breaking up the armed forces and the repatriation of servicemen from abroad, Rumors intensified that these two would quit at their earliest opportunity and that others would go out with them or perhaps ill advance, Mainichi said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-02
TAX PROPOSAL
 GIVEN OUT BY
 co M M M|TTEE
Millions of Persons Would Be Dropped from
 Income Taxation

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 = The House Ways and Means Committee has voted to drop l2,000,000 per- sons from income taxation in l946. But the committee refused to re- peal entirely the three per cent normal tax on individuals.
 Instead of outright repeal of the normal tax, as recommended by the Administration, the committee de- cided to retain it with set of exemptions reducing the burden for virtually all taxpayers.
 The committee voted down two substitutes to the Administration program offered by Rep. Knutson -Minn.) One, instead of outright repeal, would have reduced the normal tax to two instead of three per cent. The other proposed to put the normal tax at one per cent.
 The normal tax is collected on all personal net income over $500 regardless of the number of tax payers dependents. Its repeal is the top point in the program sub mitted by Treasury Secretary Vim son, for a peacetime l946 overall tax cut of $5,000,000 including re- peal of the 95 per cent excess profits tax.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-02
Barring Negro from Constitution Hall
 k 5tariing Trouble

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 Rep. Adam c. Powell, Jr., Negro Demo- crat from New York City asked President Truman today to take immediate action" on what he called the barring of his wife, Pianist Hazel Scott, from pro- posed concert in Constitution Hall The hall is owned by the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution.
 Powell said Miss Scott, former night club entertainer, was barred "as a Negro, because she is a Negro"
 Miss Scott said in New York she had been denied permission to play here, but added that she did not know whether it was because of her race
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-02
NORTHWEST
 ALASKA ARE
 BIG TOPICS
Washington State Unit, Gruening, Bartlett in
 Important 1alkfest

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2-Members of Washington States Congress sional unit, along with leaders from the home state and Alaska's Gov. Ernest R. Gruening and Delegate Bartlett tD), mulled over a score of topics yesterday of prime in- terest to the Northwest.
 In the office of Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) they covered such matters as the Columbia Basin appropriation, Alaska high ways, utilization of the Spokane air depot and Puget Sound ports, Columbia Valley Authority bills, Alaska shipping prospects, Navy activities in the Sound area, Air lines to the Orient, Foster Creek Dam, disposition of aluminium plants, truck regulations and a proposal to make Puget Sound a free port.
 Present, in addition to the Wash ington and Alaskan lawmakers, were Frank T. Bell, former U. s. Commissioner of Fisheries; Former U. s. Sen. o. c. Dill, member of the State Columbia Basin Commis- sion; Kirby Billingsley, Wenatchee newspaperman.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-02
Japs Abandoned Paper Balloons win Bombs
 Because No Excitement
By RUSSELL BRINES Associated Press Correspondent

TOKYO, Oct. 2 Japan's ex- pensive VI weapon-bomb- laden paper alloons-intended as retail ation against the Doolittle raid on Tokyo, were abandoned because neither the Japanese nor the Am erican people seemed to pay any attention to them.
 This explanation was given today in an interview by the staff officers technical section, Japanese head quarters.
 Nine thousand balloons were launched from three sites near Tokyo before the experiment. was abandoned on April 20, 1945.
 It took more than two years to complete experimentation, before the first balloon was launched, and cost more than 100000 yeh tmore than $2,000,000 at pre-war ex- change) to manufacture the strange weapon-but officers said they heard of only one landing in Am erica.
 And that one, they added wryly, was reported to have been found, unexplcded, in Wyoming.
 Officers said they finally decided the weapon was worthless and the whole experiment useless, because they had repeatedly listened to the Chungking radio and heard no further mention of the balloons.
 Actually, there were quite a number of the balloons reported found in America)
 Intending to create confusion" by starting forest fires and frighten- ing civilians, the officers said they had no expectation of causing any military damage because the bombs were too small-the balloons car- ried weapons weighing 30 pounds or less-and they were uncontrolled
 Japan was so poor, they added, it was necessary to use paper for the balloons. Families working in their homes glued together the five big sheets which made up each balloon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-02
PATTON IS RELIEVED,
 COMMAND
Eisenhower Acts Following Differences Dendzi-
 fiCation Policies
By IVES GALLAGHER

Associated Press C0rrespondent)
 FRANKFORT ON THE MAIN Germany, Oct. 2-It was officially announced today that Gen. George s. Patton, Jr., who differed with ! Gen. Eisenhower over de-Nazifica- tion policies in Bavaria, had been relieved of command of the famed Third Army he led through France He will take over the Fifteenth Army. which is reduced now to a paper" organization.
 The Fifteenth, which completed it's job as an occupation army in July, now consists of headquar- ters staff and a few troops doing research work.
 It. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, .Jr. commanding the Fifth Army which is slated for official dissolution Dec 1, will succeed Patton in command of the Third and of the Eastern half of the American occupation zone.
 The changes will take place about Oct. 2.
 No Reason Given
 Although no official reason was given for the transfer of the swash- buckling, pistol-packing Patton, il came on the heels of his widely criticized statement to newsmer Sept. 22 that some Nazis should remain in office for the sake oi better administration this winter This was in conflict with Eisen- hower's stand for immediate elimi- nation of all Nazis from office, ir line with the Potsdam Declara. tion.
 It. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow former commander of the Fifteenth Army, is back in the United States for reassignment. The headquarters which Patton will take over are al Bad Neuheim in Hesse IT miles northeast of Frankfurt. Controversial Figure Statements by Patton in the past have made him a controversial figure in the United States and Britain. During the drive across France and Germany until VIE Day and the lifting of censorship none of his utterances were au- thorized for quotation.
 In Washington it was reported reliably that Gen. 0Rrow will be named Chief of the Army's Con- mand and General Staff School at Leavenworth Kas. Gerow is due to arrive in Washington todayD
 Recent Utterances
 Gen. Patton recently was ques- tioned concerning complaints that de-Nazification in Bavaria was not proceeding satisfactorily. He replied that conditions in the occupation zone might be compared to condi- tions back home between the Re- publicans and the Democrats when the so-called "outs" com plain of the behavior of the so- called "ins."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-02
The W ashington Merry -Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON = Last week this column revealed that two Military Intelligence colonels in Washington warned their superiors that the Germans were about to launch the disastrous Belgian Bulge attack in December 1944, and urged that Gen. Eisenhower be put on guard It was also revealed how this advice had been ignored with the result that American forces in the Ar dennes Forest were caught off, guard and. their thin line of de- fense wiped out, resulting in 60,00C casualties and weeks of further warfare.
 An additional chapter to this tragic blunder can now be told.
 On Dec. 10, 1914, six days before the German surprise attack, Col B. Albert Dickson, Chief of h. telligence for the Second Army wrote strong report to his su- periors warning that German of fensive was coming. His report labelled NO. ST." is in the files oi the War Department and is avail able to any Senate Committee wanting to get the real truth re- garding this blunder which cost SC many American lives.
 Col. Dickson reported that from interviewing captured German prisoners, he was convinced they were planning a big attack. He re- ported a new spirit of jubilant enthusiasm on the part of the Germans he interviewed, a new determination to escape and go back to fight the offensive. He even reported that the Germans were training men to infiltrate
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-02
Immigration of
 Jews Discussed
 Al Jew Congress

TELAVIV, Oct. 2-The extraordi- nary Congress of the General Fed eration of Jewish Labor reiterated last night it's demands for repeal of the British White Paper limit ing Jewish immigration to Pales- tine.
 At the same time the congress adopted a resolution urging that Jewish survivors of the Nazi purge in Europe be sent to Palestine.