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The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-23

FRANK WATERS fireman first lass LLOYD A FLOWERS. boahvvins mate and TRIO
S PARKER machmhhs mate three brhenhnlaw whc have gone down to the sea in defense OF
heir country The first is in the Navy md 1.-The Two last are in thu Cosi Guard. Fireman Parker
is in the thk of hmss in the Southwest Pacific Hist first bMew was pdsu. Oft he says that
he wsn not scarce at ALI that it was really md experience that he'll lever forget Landings at
Lem 1884, next the aie of SudgM Straight then in thee carrier strike at Luzon.o Oct 1914 Min
doh Dec 1sG and the Ligym landings in Early January; ue are experiences tha he wn
be able to recount to his wife the frmer Mar1la Waters and their two year old SON when he
comes home. Employed in the tool room at Ingalls, Waters entered te Navy JAM 1914 and va"
sent to Fanaut IDAHO there he nred as mastrHt arms for hsc company until the omphhn
of his training H them made his oy visit pm having to spend nine of the ft@n days Ohs
maker second class He passed from ht TO frstda ass and is now up for msdnhtsm mate third
lass lie is the son of Mr. and Mrs William Waters of Biloxi Chief Flowers who rceed his
discharge from the u s. coast Guard Feb l. 1896. has been put On Inactive duty with a pension
after Ia Yes of sree. chef Flowers entered the Coast Guard when it vas established in Pas
caghas and vase nj of the first ent be stationed here when he was irandeued from Miami
Fla. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs I. A. Flowers of PMcagoua His wife the rmer Ada
Waters and their nney ear od daughter reside in Mobile Mate Parker is stationed with the
coaaC uard at Lake PonchnuGnL La Following his enNshmenLo Oct ls2h he was stationed in
New Orleans. for e months. thenw ass to Chandelier land Miss A shift backto New
Orleans was followed by a transfer o Galvatonw where he spt x weeks in hospital because
of an ear Infection A transfer back to New Orleans ad again to Galveston found him as"
sgnedt p boat which "a Iauoned at Fort Crocketd DURING three months dry dock. Mate
Parker did not get overseas as a rehmn of the ear infection AGAIN put hmi noa hospital just
as hsb boat se leaving Because of his trouble hsh now on sh@ed duty fort duration. Hes snow
at Algera La. H is married to the former marguerite Waters"
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-23
wINNIE's sTocIE ON BOAT

London-The tugboat Empire
Winnie, which went to France on
D-Day, has on each side of her
funnel a picture of Prime Minis
ter Churchill smoking a cigar.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-03-23


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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
PRESENT ALA5kA HIGHWAY SERVES
 MILITARY NEEDS
Opposition 10 Proposed New Route Made by 0f-
 fieidI of War Dept.

TACOMA, June 6-The present
 Alaska Highway serves military
 needs better than the proposed
 route from Puget Sound, the Ta- coma Chamber of Commerce was
 informed yesterday by John w.
 Martin, administrative assistant in the War Department.
 He repled to a query from the
 Chamber, which asked Secretary of War Stimson to what extent mili- tary needs would be served by the proposed route and to what extent the War Department would support a permanent Puget Sound-Alaska road
 In view of the War Departments stand, proponents of the coast route now must determine whether fits construction will be practical as a tourist attraction and whether the area to be served is worth de- veloping, Chamber officials said. Martin said in his letter: "The purposes of the Alaska Highway from the military stand point were two-fold: CD to pro- vide a supply road connecting the established military air bases at Fort St. Johns, Fort Nelson, Wat son Lake and Whitehorse, on the airway between the United States ard Alaska and t2) to provide an auxiliary supply route to Alaska to supplement the sea and air routes.
 The construction of new con- meeting road from the state of Washington though the western part of British Columbia to con- meet with the existing highway, would not serve the first purpose as we'll as the existing highway, be- cause it would not follow the pres ent well established military air route. As for the second purpose, the present highway is believed to be fully as adequate as new highway such as mentioned in your letter.
 You will appreciate that the considerations have just mention ed are military in character. There may be other considerations of a non military character which would justify the construction of a new highway. These matters, however, lie outside the jurisdiction of the War Department"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
LEGION AUXILIARY
 NAMES MRS. B0DD!MG
 A5 PRESIDENT OF UNIT

Mrs. Anna Bedding was named president of the American Legion Auxiliary at last nights business meting in the Dugout, while Mrs. Elsie Sofoulis became first vice. president and Mrs. Ida Carnegie, second president.
 Also elected to office for the 1945- 46 term were Mrs. Silva Zenger, secretary treasurer; Mrs. Flora Full ton, historian; Mrs. Virginia Ashcraft chaplain, and Mrs. Edwina Moore, sergeant -at-arms. Members of the Executive Committee are Mrs. Mable Lybeck, Mrs. Agnes Kiefer and Mrs. Dorothy Manthey, retiring Auxiliary president.
 Members voted to purchase $500 war bond during the business meet ing, and it was decided to hold a Gcodie Sale June Is, with Mrs. Mabel Lybeck and Mrs. Elsie So- foulis in charge, assisted by Mrs Hattie Peterman.
 The Tuesday evening meeting closes formal activities until Sep tember, when regular meetings will be resumed, it was announced.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
CLAIMS HITLER'5
 BURNED BODY E
 FOUND IN BERLIN
Former Fuehrer Dies Underground df Hands of
 Allied FIdmethroWers
By JOSEPH ". GREGG, T.

1 (Rep. Combined American PreSS)
 BERLIN, June GA high Russian military source said today a body found in Berlin had been identified with fair certainty as that of Adolf Hitler.
 The body, smoke-b -blackened and charred, was one of four discovered in the ruins of the great under ground fortress beneath the new Reichs Chancellory after the fall of Berlin These four bodies, any one of which answered pretty well to Hitler's description, were removed and carefully examined by Russian Army physicians.
 All were badly burned from the flamethrowers with which the Red Army soldiers finally cleared out the underground Command Post where Hitler and his leading Nazis made their last ditch stand
 After careful examination of the teeth and other characteristics the Russians singled out one body which they believe almost certainly is that of the Nazi Fuehrer.
 Asked why no official announce ment of the discovery has been made yet by Moscow, this Russian source said that as long as any element of uncertainty exists the Russians do not wish to state definitely that Hit lers body has been found. The source added, however, that there seemed little doubt that this actu- ally is the corpse of Hitler.
 Examination of the body showed that the man almost certainly died of poisoning.
 The bodies of Goebbels and his family also were badly burned, but were identified by the Russians without too much difficulty. The Russians have given no hint as to how the bodies of Hitler, Gobbels and other Nazis found in Berlin have been disposed of.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
REPUBLICANS HIN MONTANA MAKE THRUST

HELENA, Mont, June 6-Republi- cans thrust an opening wedge into Mcntana's traditionally Democratic Second Congressional district today, and party members throughout the land looked to the 1946 elections with renewed hope.
 Wesley A. D'Ewart, State Senator and rancher of Wilsall, defeated Democratic Rep. Leo c. Graybill. Great Falls attorney, to fill the vacancy left by the death in Wash ington last January IA of Rep. James F. O'Connor, Livingston Democrat
 Graybill conceded defeat on the face of unofficial Associated Press tabulations in 380 of the districts 754 precincts which gave D'Ewart 20,351; Graybill 17,253.
 It was the first balloting for 8 national position since the Novem- Der general elections, and the first since President Truman assumed office. It was viewed as of national significance by party leaders.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
YEAR AGO NORMANDY
 w AS H l I
Americans, British Crossed tO BedChes-D- -Day Is
 Army Holiday

LONDON, June Just one year ago today American and British troops under Gen. Eisenhower hit the beaches of Normany and launched the great assault that was to bring Germany to her knees within eleven months.
 To mark the anniversary, Gen. Eisenhower proclaimed today an Army holiday. although no official ceremonies were scheduled.
 Red Cross Clubs held "D-Day Night last night and provided free meals for soldiers who could prove they were in on history's greatest invasion.
 The London News Chronicle picked out Gen. Eisenhower as the Allied military leader deserving the great est tribute on the anniversary
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
ALEUTIAN
 B0MBER5
 MAKE RAID
Kataokd Naval Base Al. talked, Also InstalId-
 lions dt MdsugdWd

AN ALEUTIAN BASE, ALASKA June 4EDeleyed) Army and Navy bombers from the Aleutians today attacked the Japanese Kataoka Ma val base at Shimushu Jima in the Kurile Islands, bombing by instru- ment through heavy overcast with unobserved results.
 A raid on Kataoka last month by Army planes accounted for six en- emy ships sunk or damaged. Today's strike was by Eleventh Air Force Liberators and Fleet Air Wing Four Harpoons.
 Antiaircraft fire was meager and inaccurate and flight of enemy fighters sighted by the Liberators did not attack.
 Thirty miles south of Kataoka, Eleventh Airforcee Mitchells bomb- ed installations at Masugawa on the east coast of Parmushiru. Co., ing in at 250 feet altitude, the Nit chells made numerous direct hits, leaving several buildings burning.
 All planes returned safely.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
RAGS NEEDED IN REHABILITATION,
 WAR WOUNDED

Clean cotton rags of all kinds are being gathered here for use of returned war veterans now receiving treatment at the American Lake, Wash, rehabilitation hospital, under local sponsorship of the American Legion Auxiliary, it was announced here today.
 Rug weaving, spinning and other handcraft arts play an important part in therapies now being used successfully to restore full use of injured limbs, and to aid in mental adjustment of the maladjusted to civilian life. it has been explained by medical authorities.
 Because of the number of men receiving the constructive therapies, all available rag supplies are ex- hausted rapidly, and many hands must lie idle, the appeal states.
 Rags may be left at the Juneau Florists, it was stated here, and quick shipment is guaranteed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
Allied Control CountiIConles
 ToAbrupt End
Anxiety Caused Over Short Session 7 Big Three
 Meet Site Is Set

LONDON, June GA hint that the site of the next Big Three barley already had been set was given Commons today, as one report that the first meeing of the delegates to the Allied Control Council in Berlin had ended abruptly" created new anxiety here.
 Without elaboration, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Anderson told Commons there was mo chance that the Big Three would meet in London, leaving the suggestion that a site had been selected.
 Meanwhile, fresh concern arose over the situation in Austria.
 Gen. Eisenhower and Field Mar shal Montgomery left soon after the Berlin meeting without attending a Berlin banquet, saying they had to return to their headquarters yester- day evening.
 Tn first brief Berlin meeting of U. S., British, Russian and French delegates left unsettled details con- corning the organization of the AL lied control council and how it will govern Germany.
 Richard K. Law, speaking for the Foreign Office, told Commons that although Allied military missions ar rived in Vienna last Sunday for pre- liminary discussions, Tt might be some time before control commis- sion for Austria is set up"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
CONFERENCE
 LOOKING TO
 STALIN NOW
Word from Moscow May Prevent Big Split Over
 Veto Vote Issue
By John M. Hight0wer Associated Press Diplomatic News Edito

l
 SAN FRANCISCO, June 6.-Ur- gent talks seeking to avoid a per- manent Big~Five split over the veto- vote issue are reported underway tody in both Moscow and San Fran cisco. Premier Stalin is said to be reviewing Soviet insistence on the right to veto even discussion in a world security council.
 1 President Truman's personal emis- sary, Harry Hopkins, is handling the negotiations in the Russian capital. Secretary of State Stettinius, as the chief United States delegate to the United Nations onference, is hold ing conferences on the subject here with Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko
 American officials hope for an answer, which must come initially from Stalin, by this weekend, at the very latest. They consider the issue of such importance that they are declining to fix any deadline. Their expressed view is that if the present split aligning Russia against l the, United States, France, China { and Britain continues, small nations will demand that opposing view be put to the test of a conference vote
 In that event the odds are about 100 to that the Russian view would be batted down hard and the posi- tion of the other four powers up- held. Virtually all the small nations except those directly in Russia s sphere of influence favor limiting the veto power.
 The Soviet position is that in the 11-member security council, in which the Big Five would have per- manent seats, all the Big Five would have to agree before the council could take up a dispute and begin to discuss it-except that if one of the Big Five was a party to the dispute it could not vote.
 The United States, with the SUD- port of the other powers, has taken an adamant position that no one power must be able to prevent a dispute from coming before the coun- cil for discussion. The World Char ter itself would guarantee any state the right to call the councils at tention to a dispute or situation" threatening peace. The Russian in- depreciation is regarded by the other four to mean that any one power should have the right to force the council to ignore the dispute even after receiving such a vote. On this anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normany, Denmark be- came the 50th member of the con- ference as committees plodded along on various issues. About II remain mostly of a technical nature.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
MISSING PLANE
 HAS FIRST WAC5
 LOST OVERSEAS

WASHINGTON, June 6. An Army Transport plane carrying Is WACs and three crew members is reported missing on 766-mile flight in Africa, the War Department an- nounced today.
 The plane left Accra, British West Africa, on a flight to Berts Field in Liberia, on May 30.
 The WACs, members of a group assigned to the Army Transport Command base at Accra were being transferred to a new assignment.
 Although some WACs were wound ed by bombing in England and at least one lost her life in crash in this country, these are the first WACs reported lost overseas during the war.
 The WACs and their next of kin, who have been notified, include Pfc Mary M. Gollinger; Helmut w. Gollinger, brother, Tacoma, Wash.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
ATR0(ITY
 REVEALED
 IN REPORT
Sword Falls on Neeks ol Victims-0thers Put to
 Death by BaYonets
By RICHARD BERGHOLZ

ILOILO, Panay, June 5.-(Delay- ed)-Mrs. Charma Covell, her hands tied behind her, pleaded with the Japanese captain, Kunoyi Watan- abe, as he prepared to wield his Samurai sword.
 Why will you kill us all?" she asked.
 We are Christian missionaries"
 The imperturable officer, sur rounded by Japanese soldiers, said nothing.
 Eleven times that day at that spot Watanabes sworn fell. Eleven Am ericans were beheaded. In another house, the same fate befell five others. Three small American boys were killed by Japanees bayonets
 Then fires were set in an effort to blot out the crime.
 Six of the victims were women. Eleven of those killed were Baptist missionaries.
 The story of the tragedy, which occurred at Hopevalle-"The Val
 tContfnued on Page SiT)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
B N }

WASHINGTON-The House has turned down move to eliminate a multi-million dollar world currency stabilization fund for the Breton Woods agreement. The vote to retain the fund was 122 to 18.
 LOS ANGELES-Charlie Chaplin was denied new trial today in the bitter paternity suit in which he was recently adjudged to be the father of Joan Berry's baby, Carol Ann
 LONDON = Responsible sources said today that the United Nations War Crimes Commission would weigh the question of whether Japa- nese responsible for sending balloon bombs over the United States should be classified as war criminals.
 LOS ANGELES = Mrs Dorothy Arnold Di Maggie today obtained her final decree of divorce from Joe Di Maggie, former New York Yankee outfielder and Army Air Forces sergeant.
 RIO DE JANEIRO-Brazi declar- ed war on Japan today. Brazil broke diplomatic relations with Germany, Italy and Japan on January 28, 1942, and declared war on Germany and Italy August g of the same year.
 NEW YORK The American Broadcasting Company monitors said today they heard the Bern radio broadcast that reports continue to persist in Moscow that the U. s. s. R. has been asked to transmit peace offers" from Japan
 WASHINGTON-The Senate has passed the $l40, 100000 Interior De- partment appropriation bill for the next fiscal year The bill goes back to the House for action on Senate amendments adding s39, ,106 .304. WASHINGTON-Ciyilians will be allotted about the same amount of meat for the July-September period as for the current quarter although total supplies are expected to be nine per cent smaller.
 CHICAGO Former President Hoover told press conference he was taking no active part in Presi- dent Truman's Democratic Admin istration but that Truman is moving in the right direction in food handling abroad.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
USO OFFICIAL FROM
 PRINCE RUPERT HERE

Peter c. Wamback, Assistant Dir ector of the USO in Prince Rupert, arrived in Juneau yesterday, via Alaska Coastal Airlines,. to renew old acquaintances and to visit the Juneau USO.
 MT. Wamback has been an Assis- tant Director of USO's for four years. going to Prince Rupert from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
 He is the author of the Prince Rupert USO musical comedy. Music and Muskeg" which stars 35 GIs and which will be taken to Ketchikan and produced.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06

MICHIGAN SCENE
 OF NEW LANDING
 BY JAP BALLOON
First Disclosure of Nip Graf Penetrating So Far
 East in Nation

DETROIT, June 6. The Army disclosed today that Japanese bal loon has fallen in Michigan within the past few weeks.
 The information, released by the Sixth Service Command, was re- stricted to that statement only.
 Neither the date nor the place where the balloon referred to or any other balloons, might have fall en, were disclosed.
 The announcement was the first official disclosure that Jap ball. loon had fallen so far East on the continent of North America.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
War Bond Sales
 Are Mounting Up

WASHINGTON. June 6.--Pur- chases of E bonds total one billion. 992 million dollars. That's 49 and eight -tenths per cent of the four billion dollar quota.
 Total individual purchases amount to four billion, 139 million dollars. or 59 per cent of the overall quota of seven billion dollars. The cam paign has 25 more days to go.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
BLA(k0UT ON
 FRONT NEWS UNEXPLAINED
Campaign on 0kinawa Probably Neors End
 Liuthow Captured
By LEONARD MILLIMAN Associated Press War Editor)

By LEONARD MILLIMAN
 Associated Press War Editor)
 A new kind of underground war fare was promised today by in- vasion jittery Japan as an unex- plained American news blackout hinted at the possible end of the campaign on Okinawa, potential staging base for the assault on Nippon,
 Four American divisions drove to- ward the climactic battles of the Philippines. and semi-official re- ports from China said Chinese troops this morning captured Liu- chow, one-time important U. s: air base.
 Fighing Fierce
 Only reports on Okinawa fighting, 325 miles south of Japan. came to- day from Japan. The government controlled Domei News Agency said fierce fighting" was underway, with Japanese entrenched in new posi- tions facing overwhelming superior Tanks.
 However, Adm. Chester w. Nimitz' silence recalled previous official Am- erican news blackouts preceding major developments such as the end of organized resistance. Recent sweeping U. g. advances tended to support the possibility of final col- lapse of the shattered and dismem- bered enemy garrison known to have been reduced from 85,000 to less than 10000 soldiers.
 Direct Invasion Feared
 The American advance which re- duced Okinawa to a "strategically isolated island" and air attacks such as yesterdays 450 plane Super fort raid on Kobe were interpreted by the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Hochi as 'unquestionably significant of direct invasion attempt aganist the Japanese mainand' in the near future.
 As Yomiuri warned that ''the mo- ment of battle of decision on our own soil is rapidly approaching the newspaper Mainichi published poem calling on Japanese children to follow in the wake of the chill dren of Aka lima who is reported charged American tanks on Okin- ava with hand grenades.
 Underground Forts
 Tokyo radio boasted of elaborate underground Qualifications of type never seen before which will mark a new epoch in military history" It described them as bomb-proof and they probably are.
 Eight American Superforts were lost in the successful fire raid on Kobe, at least one of them to . piloted "Baka" rocket bomb. Para chuting American airmen were strafed by Japanese pilots.
 Tokyo reported southern Japan was raided again today.
 Patrol Sinks Ships
 American planes sank seven Japa- nese ships and damaged five in their daily patrols along the shores of Japan and Korea. Troop-ladcn barges were caught by others in the Hongkong- Canton area. where Chi nese reported Japanese were stead- fly shortening their lines. Private Chinese advices said the Nipponese were also preparing to abandon the important river port of Wuchow, l20 miles west of Canton.
 Wuchow would be threatened by the fall of Liuchow. l55 miles to the northwest, announced unofficially by Chinese general. The battle for Foochow, at the northern end of the enemy's broken Indo-C China cor ridor, has been the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in China.
 Showdown battles approached in the Philippines on northern Luzop and western Mindanao.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, June 6. = Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7h, American Can 99h, Anaconda 34A, Curtiss- Wright 6as, International Harvester 87E New York Central 23ss, Northern Pacific 30as, U. s. Steel 681a. Sales today were 1.520,0O0 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials, 16729; rails 5833; utilities, 31.87.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
BATTIN BACK

pr. Charles E. Battin, Alaska Di- rector for the War Labor Board, returned to his Juneau headquar- ters yesterday by plane after spend- ing a week in Seattle conferring with the Regional Chairman and Regional Attorney for the Board. He reports that Regional Attorney Roy Jackson expects to visit Alaska again sometime in July.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-06
PETERSON IN TOWN

w. R. Peterson arrived in Ju- neau yesterday, via Woodley Air ways, from his home in Anchor age. He is guest at the Baranof Hotel.