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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-18
DRIVES ON
SINGAPORE
GO DEEPER
Nips Much Concerned Over
Soviet Attitude Toward
Pacific Struggle
BY Leonard Milliman
ASSOCIATED Press War Editor

Tokyo worried today over Amerl-
can fleet movements, while British
commands reported the deepest
slashes yet made in the campaign
to regain Singapore, base for one
of the largest remaining segments
of Japans broken fighting and
merchant fleets.
There was increasing interest in
Russias attitude toward the Pa
cific, although there was nothing
to contradict repeated Japanese
broadcast that the Mikado's En-
pire is maintaining completely
friendly relations with the Soviet
Union"
Russian Attitude
Moscow newspapers prominently
displayed letter from the people
of the Soviet portion of Sakhalln
Island, north of Japan, ION the
Day of the Twentieth Anniversary
of the Liberation of Northern SAX
hahn from the Japanese Invader
Southern Sakhalin belongs to the
japanese. The letter pledged con-
tinued efforts toward Strengthen
ing the defensive power OF Soviet
Sakhalin."
Paris radio quoted British diplo-
mats as saying Russia might join
the war by first addressing an
ultimatum to Japan, demanding
complete surrender and abandon
ment of continental conquests."
Japs Step Up Defenses
Japanese broadcasts reported in
creasing home defense measures,
including the streamlining OF the
Tokyo police board for this pur-
pose, as it warned that power
full Allied fleet" leaving the Mari
anas Islands requires rigid watch
ing" Extent of Japan's defenses
was indicated by a report from
Mustang fighter pilots that they
found Tokyo's Atsugi Airfield
loaded with planes despite re-
peated strikes at Japan's air re-
sources. Thirty-two were knocked
out.
The Admiralty in London an
nounced British warships and air.
craft sank a 10,00O-ton japanese
cruiser Wednesday in Malacca
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-18
PICKED GANG
WAS OUT TO
KILL GENERAL
Star- faced Political Kid
ndper, Other Germans
Involved Captured
BY Tom Ochiltree
ASSOCIATED Press Correspondent

It. Col. Otto Skorzeny, the scar
faced political kidnaper, and a
picked gang of English-speaking
Nazi assistants plotted last winter
to kill Gen. Eisenhower. Supreme
Allied Headquarters disclosed to-
day.
Now in American hands, the six
foot-four Skorzeny and his group
of German soldiers had kept the
entire western front in stage OF
alert for months during and after
the Ardennes Battle.
Skorzeny, hatchetman for Ges-
tapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, was
captured recently by the Fifteenth
Regiment, U. S. Third Division, in
the Arl Valley.
Plot Is Hatched
The plot against the life of the
Supreme Allied Commander was
Matched months before the German
attack in the Ardennes. Setting up
a special school near Berlin. the
Nazis enrolled German soldiers
who spoke English either with an
American or British accent. After
weeks of training by the SIS, the
men were weeded down to a bat
TALON headed by Skorzeny, who was
appointed by personal orders of
Adolf Hitler and Himmler Skor-
zeny himself was believed to have
been elected to kill Eisenhower.
In American Uniform
Special small groups Of Germans
in American uniforms were sent
deep into rear areas with missions
to commit major sabotage and ass
assinate key American Generals.
The capture and rigid questioning
of some of these men disclosed the
general plan to the Americans.
Himmler Traced
A British war correspondent said
in dispatch from Lueneberg that
Himmler had been traced but not
yet arrested, and that the British
Army could take him into custody
at any time.
Maj. Gen. Albert Won lime, one
time secretary Of Hitler's Chan
celery, has been captured in the
villa of an Italian Count near
Revoreto. Italy. where he had been
hiding since April 81.
"Blackmailing" Allies
Continued dissatisfaction in
Moscow over the Allies treatment
of captured German military lead
ers was reflected by Michael Mix
hailov, Moscow radio common
tator. Mikhailov said in a broadcast
that Germany's military Fascist
clique" headed by Grand Admiral
Karl Doenitz, lis holding up a
bugbear of chaos before the eyes Of
the Allies as a way Of matchmaking
them into allowing it to retain au-
thority.
French spokesman said Pierre
Laval, the former chief of the
Vichy Government, was believed to
have been sent to France. When
the Nazi regime in Germany col
lapsed Laval unsuccessfully sought
asylum in Spain. 1t was assumed
that Spanish authorities placed him
aboard British warship last night
for movement to France.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-18
JOE BILL
PLEADS INSANITY
TO TOT Staying

SEATTLE, May 18-Joe Bill, 33,
Eskimo formerly of Nome, Alaska,
stared listlessly at the floor today
as his court-appointed attorneys
entered an insanity plea to first
degree murder charge for the re-
cent brutal rape-slaying of five
year-old Irene McGough at the st.
Vincent De Paul Salvage Depot.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-18
U. 5. Aircraft Carrier,
Charred, Battered Back
Home from Pacific War
BY Pope Haley
ASSOCIATED Press War Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May 10 The
Aircraft Carrier Franklin, which
miraculously survived one of the
severest ordeals of this or any war,
is home.
She came home, sadly crippled
but under her own power, her
charred and battered hull manned
by a skeleton crew of survivors.
Now undergoing repairs at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, she will re-
sumo her place in the war against
Japan.
Until now Japanese radio propa-
gandists never knew how close they
came to being right when they
boosted that the 27000-ton vessel
of the Essex Glass had been sunk.
Without the incredible stamina and
strength built into her and without
the superhuman courage OF her
personnel, their claim might easily
have been true.
AS it was the carrier suffered 1872
men killed and missing and more
than 270 wounded-more than one
third her total complement in
blazing, agonizing hours.
Armor- Piercing Bombs
Chance played into the hands of
the lone enemy dive bomber that
sneaked suddenly out Of the clouds
within 60 miles of the japanese
coast on the morning of March 19
and dropped two 00-pound armor-
piercing bombs.
Released from low altitude, both
scored direct hits. One exploded
beneath the flight deck, on which
! armed planes were ready for take
off. The other went off on the
hangar deck, where other planes
fueled and armed, were waiting to
be taken to the flight deck.
The attacking plane was shot
down a moment later, but the
bombs exploding where they did
started a train of fires and ex-
] plosions which for hours were to
bend and torture the vessel.
Many Explosions
Explosion after explosion fol-
! lowed the initial blasts Large
bombs exploded and hurled mer
and planes the length of the ship
The whole after-end of the
vessels flight deck became a mass
of flame and smoke. Airplanes dis
integrated, and torrents Of burning
gasoline streaked across her decks
Bombs, rockets and bullets exploded
all around, and splinters Of wooc
and steel rained on survivors hugg-
ing the deck.
But, without panic, those who
miraculously had escaped death
or injury and the slightly injured
moved in to fight the fire.
Among those especially cited by
the Nays account was the ships
Chaplain, 1t. Comdr. Joseph O'Cal-
lahan, Boston, whose actions
brought from one Of the ships
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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-18
Gold Sandal
IS Revealed
From China
Foreign Minister Soone
Promises Punishment
10 Be Drastic
By James ID. White
ASSOCIATED Press War Correspondent

WASHINGTON, May 10 - De-
tails Of multi million dollar
Chungking gold scandal involving
yellow metal loaned by this coun-
try, are coming to light here de-
spite a tight Chinese censorship.
The scandal stemmed from pre-
mature leak of Chinese Govern
ment decision in March to raise
the official price of gold, thus per-
hitting Chungking spectators to
make fantastic profits in few
hours.
DR.. T. v. Soong, Chinese Foreign
Minister. took note of the incident
late yesterday by authorizing the
statement to reporter that drastic
punishment awaits those involved.
Soong declined further comment,
however, explaining he has not yet
learned the results of an investiga-
ton he ordered just before leaving
Chungking last month for Wash
ington and the San Francisco
United Nations Conference.
But, from his office here it was
learned that:
On March %, the official price of
gold in China was raised from
10000 Chinese dollars an ounce
to $4,000 dollars. (The American
price is $35 an ounce)
Because information of the i'm
pending increase leaked, speculat-
ors and insiders" made a financial
killing by acquiring gold at the old
price. The buying wave was said
to have at least doubled a normal
days transactions in the metal.
Some of the gold involved had
been flown to China as a part OF
100000 loan to help stabilize
Chinas inflated currency.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-18
BIG FIvE'5
vET0v0TE
50RE5p01
Small Nation Opposition al
Conference May Re-
suit in Modification
BY John M. Hight0wer


SAN FRANCISCO, May 18-The
outspoken opposition of many small
nations to the big-power plan for
a veto control of future peace
keeping machinery today nears a
United Nations Conference test
vote.
1t appears possible that the big
powers-the United States, Russia,
China, Britain and France-may
accept some modification of the
veto where peaceful settlement of
disputes is concerned, although
Russia could block this. But they
all stand firmly on the proposal
that no force should be used against
any nation except when all five
agree.
Battle OF The Veto
Prospects are that ON show
down the powers can put over the
voting formula as they want it
With the argument that unless they
stick together ON great international
issues of the future no peace-keep-
ing league can hope to prevent war
AS the battle of the veto builds
up in one OF the key committees
here are other top conference de-
velopments
1-Considerable support. appar-
emily enough to put it over, is
forming behind an Australian pro-
posal to pledge the United Nations
to respect each others territorial
integrity and political independ
ence.
Risk Russian Rift
2-The American delegation and
probably others are about ready to
risk rift with Russia, if neces-
sary, by going ahead with United
States formula for giving regional
groups of nations the right to or
ganize for their mutual defense in
event the world league fails to pro-
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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-18
Russian War Bride
Is Given Passport

ANDIMESHK, Iran - Comely Ia
tiana Ostapenko is the first Russian
wife of an Allied officer to be grant,
ed a passport from the Soviet Union.
A former actress and singer, she is
married to Maj John F.. Waldron,
South Orange, N. j.. Medical corps
officer who went to Moscow in 1941
with the American Military Mission.
They have son, seven months old.
Maj. and Mrs. Waldron met in
Moscow in 1912 during the German
blitz. She and the baby recently
joined him at this Persian Gulf
command post.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-18
FALSE ALARM

DENVER-Manuel Martinez, 60
was cleaning his kitchen when a
gas hot-plate toppled from its
moorings and hit the floor with a
smash
AS Martinez whirled about, the
rays of brilliant sunset caught
him full in the face. Almost blind
Martinez concluded there had been
an explosion. His cry for help
brought five companies of firemen
and two squads of policemen.
They helped him set his stove
back up.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-18
STOCK QUOTATIONS.

NEW YORK, May ID - Closing
quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine
stock today is ~. American Can
81. Anaconda 34ss, Curtiss- Wright
6. International Harvester 86is.
Kennecott 80. New York Central
253s, Northern Pacific 1914, U. S.
Steel CTS. Pound, s4.04. Sales today
were 1,430.000 shares.
Dow, Jones averages today are as
follows: Industrials, 1857; rails,
56.01; utilities, 31.06.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-18
italian Press in
Sharp Resentment
Al French Propose

ROME, May 18-The Italian press
gave a hostile reception today to
the reported statement by a French
Foreign Office spokesman that
France would seek an adjustment
of her frontiers at the future peace
conference.
The independent newspaper II
Momento, asserting that such a
grant would sow new explosive
hatred" said:
If this is the spirit destined to
triumph in Europe the San Fran
cisco Conference might as we'll ad-
journ and the hundreds of good
men gathered there spare them
selves further work"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-18
; DEFEN5E5
REPORTED
CRUMBL|NG
Daily Raids Will Be Made
on Nippon Empire In
dusfriaI Sections
BY Leonard Milliman
ASSOCIATED Press War Editor

Banazi charges, led by officers in
full dress, indicated today the stub
born Japanese defenders were be-
ginning to crack on Okinawa, 1926
miles south of Japan, and on Min
danao in the southern Philippines.
In general, however, the enemy
yielded slowly on both islands.
The see-saw battles in the pos
sible invasion sector Of the North
China coast, west of Okinawa, saw
the Chinese recapture Wuyi. The
town is several hundred miles north
of the port of Foochow which
Chinese troops reentered and lost
again to reinforced Japanese with
in the past week.
Sea Forces Attacked
Japanese planes continued their
attacks on U. S. Okinawa sea
forces while Tokyo radio prepared
the Nipponese at home for the
loss of the strategic island to lex
tremely severe and concentrated"
American ground attacks that
threatened to crumble the three
strategic defense strongholds.
Enemy aerial sweeps caused no
damage, Adm. Chester w. Nimitz
reported. Enemy broadcasts claimed
a carrier was sunk and three other
ships damaged.
Raids To Be Daily
American air attacks, which Sec
rotary Patterson said would con-
tinue almost daily strikes against
Japanese industry" have virtually
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WERNER BACK

Joe Werner. Regional Accountant
for the U. S. Forest Service. re-
turned to Juneau by plane from
Ketchikan yesterday afternoon,
after a week in the First City
looking over the books of the
Southern Division. Tongass Ma
tional Forest.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1945-05-18
MR., MRS. MALONY HERE

Mr.. and Mrs. John F.. Mallory
have arrived from Seattle and are
guests at the Baranof Hotel.
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1945-09-08
The DETROIT EDISON Co.

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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1945-09-08

Only generation ago household tasks drudger, par
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1945-09-08
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The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1945-09-08

Wafer heaters are nor generally
aydiiabIe for sale non A fep are
being manufactured and distributed.
IL uiH be 10 yonr advantage 10 have
your name on Your electrical dealer
hsf so fhnf YOU iciH BE- able 10 ger
one az fhe enriic5f possible time.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-09-21
Ne,Vs Exchange Column for Coolidge
Men In The Armed Forces

CPL. CARLTON WOODY arrived
home Wednesday from the Euro
pean theater Of operations on 30
hay mrlouEh 10 visit his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G.. Woody OF Chand-
Ter. long time Coolidge residents.
Woody entered service In May of
1913 and went overseas In August
of the same year He will report
% Mobile. Alabama. at the conclu-
sion Of his leave.
SGT. EDMUND c. JOHNS writes
from Antwerp. Belgium. TO let us
know he Is receiving his home town
paper o. k. and | notice that quite
a few OF the boys are home" Johns
Is glad for them. but he'd like 10
be home. too. He has been over
seas for many months now and has
seen action in both France and
Germany. I'm guarding the docks
and supplies that are stored here
now. Ships come In every day
with cargoes and on their return
trips they take a few troops along.
I hope In the near future To be one
of those few" During a formal
retreat held In Belgium recently.
decorations were awarded and
Johns was presented with the
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-09-21

Floyd has recently completed boot
camp and will be assigned TO active
duty on his return TO the coast.
GEORGE r. sellers, HA t/c,
writes from the Hawaiian Islands
to say hello TO his old friends. He
is stationed about two miles from
Honolulu. land | guess | will be
here until | get TO come home.
which will be around the first of
the year. | guess. went TO see
Spurgeon r. O'Donnell from Cool
idge yesterday and ii sure was
good talking about home. He is
stationed at a sub base here" 1t
is not hot there now. but it rains
quite a little, Sellers says, "and
these Hawaiian Islands are not
half as pretty as they say they
are" Sellers, who was waundod
on Two Jima, wishes to be remem-
bered TO his old school mates. He
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Z.
Sellers
PVT. KENNETH TROUT, who
is training with the infantry at
Camp Roberts, California, writes
home that the boys in his company
don't have to go on any more lorg
hikes, no more bivouacs, and are
now on a 40 hour a week basis
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-09-21

Bronze Star Medal for personal
courage and GOODNESS shown by an
outstanding action he performed
during the battle OF the Bulge
last December Johns is an In
dian whose parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Santiago j. Johns. make their home
In Oldberg. lie was employed by
the San Carlos Irrigation and
Drainage District here before he
entered service in January OF 1914.
He attended Sherman Institute at
Riverside. California. and had one
year OF preparatory college.
PFC. CECIL o. GOODMAN writes
from Italy TO tell his parents. Mr..
and Mrs. l.. o. Goodman. that he
expects 10 be home by Christmas.
lie has recently been transferred
from the infantry TO an engineer
ing division. Goodman entered
service before Pearl Harbor and
went overseas in the spring OF
1913. He has a brother. Pfc. ii. y.
Goodman. now in Germany. and
another brother. Leonard o. Good
man. who has received a medical
discharge from the service. The
Coodmans have made their home In
Coolidge about five years.
SGT. NORMAN FIR & MA N
writes Coolidge friends from Sal
pan that the main concern OF the
men there. now that hostilities have
ceased: is getting back TO the good
old L. s. A. in some respects /
suppose we will find II the same
as when We left II. but | do know
that when We get back there we
will look at the things we left be-
hind through. perhaps. al little dlt-
ferent colored glass" Not long
ago Freeman had a letter from J.
Housto n Allen. "He was oki-
nawa. and as always. he seemed
to think that would be his last Job
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-09-21

and 1872 probably sunk by her
planes during her 275. 900 miles of
war duty. During the last two
months OF the Okinawa campaign,
the Enterprise was hit four times
while protecting land troops from
Jap air attacks. Twice she re-
tired from Task Force SIS. for re-
pairs at nearby base. Then, on
May IA. this flagship of Vice Ad
miral Marc A. Mitcher. was hit by
a Jap suicide plane Fourteen
members of the crew were killed
and "a wounded. In a record time
of II minutes the valiant crew had
the flames under control and -
minutes later. the fires were COM
pletely out. The history of the
Enterprise is the history OF the
Pacific war The Japs claimed to
have sunk her six times. She Is
the only carrier to have been
awarded the Presidential Unit CT
tation. Tarpley is the son of Mrs.
Nita Nix.
FLOYD M. (PEWEE) HAMMoN,
S sc, left Thursday TO report for
duty at San Diego. California, at
the conclusion of nine day leave
spent visiting his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. +. NJ. Harmon and family.
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-09-21

cations. minesweeping and cam
outage operations.
CLIFFORD &. TARPLEY, sic,
USN, Coolidge. served aboard the
famed Pacific Fleet aircraft car
rier. Enterprise. the "fightingest
carrier In the fleet" now back in
the states for repairs after having
been hit by a Jap suicide plane on
May IA. The Enterprise. whose
record OF battles dates back to
Pearl Harbor, accounted for Gil
Jap aircraft shot down by her
planes and guns. and II ships sunk
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-09-21

before heading back for the States.
He has been out here for quite
some time and ! can't blame him
for keeping his eye open for the
boat that is headed eastward" One
thing they always leave out OF the
colorful articles and write-ups A
bout the various South Pacific Is
lands is the "monotony" OF life
there. Freeman says. THAT is one
thing that we have here, and plenty
of 1t. Any activity that we have
may lead US from one end of the
island TO the other, or. IL We do 4
little promoting we can get a ride
TO Tinian or Guam; then when we
get there. it's come right back here
and there you see the same things
you see here. so you might as well
stay here In the first place" At
present they are running call POW
missions. hauling supplies to the
PW camps in Japan and dropping
the stuff near the camps, para
chute method. These missions
should come to a stop in the near
future. he says. Now that war has
ended. what will happen TO his
group from here on out Is hard to
say. Freeman believes. but that
is part OF IL and they expect IL
more or less as a matter of course,
he says, Freeman was clerk OF the
county board of supervisors before
he entered service.
GEORGE SHERMAN cANFiELO
S nc, OF Eloy. is serving at an
amphibious repair base in the Pac-
ific. according 10 word received
this week. His base supplied
troops and landing craft for major
inyasions in the Marshalls. the
Gilberts and at Okinawa. Carrying
a 24-hour. seven-day schedule. his
unit maintained all types of land
ing and assault equipment and re-
pair supplies. The base also trained
personnel in amphibious communi-
The Coolidge examiner., 1945-09-21

after hard training. we even set
to play athletics now" he wrote.
Il hope nobody don't wake me up! >
AL Singh is also at Camp Roberts
and Billy Joe Irvine is training for
the merchant marine at San Mateo,
nearby.
Evening star., 1945-04-18
Get More
Comfort For
Standing Feet

Don't let tired, burning sensitive feet
longer. Rub on little Ice-Mint and feel
the blissfully cool and soothing sensation of
comfort that follows, as this frosty white
medicinal cream goes to work driving out
fiery burning and aching tiredness. Grand.
too, to help soften up painful corns and
callouses. So don't delay get foot happy
today the Ice-Mint way. At all druggists.