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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-15
OUR STATE REGISTRY
Another Supplemental Report)

(Another Supplemental Report)
 If you happen to be regular reader of this column naturally, we are flattered if you are) you'll recall that we often refer to the Juneau USO's State Registry. Tn it each seryiceman coming to the club is asked to record his name, his home town and his favorite hobby.
 Needless to say, the contents of this registry have been a constant source of interest both to our staff and also to almost every new man on the occasion of his initial visit to the clubhouse. It's thrill, of course, to discover in the book the name of fellows home town and the signatures of friends from back there.
 It was over eight months ago (early in March) when we last wrote up a general report concerning the book. At that time the three leaders among the States in the number of registrants were, in this order, Washington, California, and Illin- ois. Now the first two have reversed places, with California just over the 450 mark and Washington slightly under it. The state of Chicago-and- Vicinity is still in the number three spot; but it's being closely pressed by New York and Pennsylvania. Delaware continues to be represent ed by the smallest number-four- but, at that, it has exactly doubled it's total since March. Vermont and Nevada each have six native sons in the book, and New Hampshire has but one more. Practically all the other States have rather sub stantial number of men recorded.
 Los Angeles, together with it's inn mediate suburbs, leads the cities by a wide margin The others most widely represented include Seattle, Chicago, Boston, St. Louis and New York.
 Personally, we continue especially to enjoy examining the book from time to time to learn the names of the lesser-known towns that spell home to our men. Often, we think, those names possess striking dig nity that no name of any great city can hope to match-Liberty both in Texas and Idaho; and Freesoil, Michigan; and New Freedom, Penn sylvania. Then there are the towns whose names echo the history of their frontier days-for example Tomahawk, Wisconsin, and Rifle, Colorado, and Broken Bow. Okla homa. Also there are those places that arouse your curiosity and make you wish you could see if today they hold traces of the why-and- where fore of their christening-Lib Pennsylvania, and Harmony, Minne- sota, along with such apparently diverse communities as Pleasureville, Kentucky, and Stark, Kansas.
 Many name impresses us with tffe simple loveliness of its very sound or in the descriptive quality of it-Bay Minette, in Alabama, and Honey Brook, Pennsylvania, and Grand Prairie, Texas, along with Bluefield, West Virginia and Red Bluff, California, as well as Oak Hill, West Virginia, and Iron Moun- tain, Michigan, and Bird Island and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-15
JUNEAU'S US0 NEWS
 Interesting Items for Everybody

i White Bear Lake in Minnesota, and Turtle Lake and Sturgeon Bay, in Wisconsin.
 1 Before leaving the subject of names. Deeming it our duty to keep this columns readers informed about the more significant population trends throughout America, we hast fly advise you today of the shrink age in the census rolls of our per- sonal favorite among the cities of Southwestern United States. After a ten-year absence from her old home town, Pat Fleek recently re- turned to Cactus Garden, Arizona, to discover that it's total population consists of exactly two families. We are familiar with the merits of the arguments in favor of decentraliza- ton of population as applied. to ,fher over-crowded cities, such as New York and Philadelphia But We are i'll at ease over the possibility that the notion may be adopted by some of the civic leaders of Cactus Garden, AriZonaD
 Some of the fellows signing the registry do not disclose much about themselves, but that minimum often is vivid, at least. Thus, one man prefers to be known to us simply as The Kodiak Kid"; while another lad signing last week chooses to be cherished in our memory just as Frankie, the wild kid from Brock lyn." Every once in a while a sig nature is entered in the book that you are absolutely sure was written with understandable pride, though you weren't standing beside him when the man wrote it in Yes, and We are just as proud to have it in our registry--such an entry as that which reads: R. J. Summers, M-Sgt. U. s. Marines, Chicago, H., AND GUADALCANAL."
 Maybe if we turned a psychiatrist loose on the book he would have a field day over the hobbies listed there He might well find enough material for a learned treatise on "American Youth: Its Problems, Present and Future" AS for us, we just get some hearty laughs out of it. As reported to you in March, the favorite hobbies continue to be by a very wide margin, indeed in varying phrases, the ladies and the beverages. Not infrequently the width of that margin of choice will be emphasized: Thus, an exclama- ton point is sometimes added, or even several of them Gas in Girls 2! :! D; sometimes, lest there be a possibility of misunderstanding the hobby is entered as Girls, of course" CT Women, definitely" Less ex- plicit, but hardly less emphatic, were the lads from California and Con- necticut who wrote, respectively, Fun fun fun" and Love and kisses, and the fellow from Iowa whose hobby is set out simply as "FoolishneSs.
 It never surprises us to find that
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-15
] 1FEATURE BILL
 AT CAPITOL E
 ENDING TONIGHT

Those clown princes of comedy, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are having an old-fashioned field day at the Capitol, where they will present for the last two times tonight their laugh riot, Nothing But Trouble. " Others in the cast include Mary Roland, David Leland, Philip Meri- vale, Henry ONeill, Connie Gil- christ, Matthew Boulton and John Warburton.
 Columbia's stirring drama of the stout Balkan guerrilla defenders of their country against the Nazi invaders. "The Black Parachute is also 8 feature ending tonight It is filled with excitement and is action packed.
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a fellow has entered several hobbies as his personal favorites. But oc- casionally we wonder whether he has preference between the ex- pressed choices-as in the cases Of the two lads who signed at the same time "Wolfing and skating and "Wolfing and skiing" And we wonder if there might be any signif- icance in the order with which a North Carolina man listed his choices as Rum and coke and wife" eve cnce before told you, in an earlier report about this Registry, of the soldier who signed it in our pres ence, selecting as his hobby Base ban'-it wasn't until he had re- flected for several minutes on the matter that he took up his pen again and entered just above the word "Baseball' in an outburt of gallantry My Wife and -O
 Some men don't enlighten you much as to the hobbies they prefer. But, at lease, they leave you in no darkness as to what they do not like. For one example, the young sailor who was here during Fleet Week-he wrote: Not the Navy. for sure" And, for another, the man who said his hobby was "Evicting myself from the U. S. Coast Guard ,' Two other fellows, from Missouri, signed the book on the same day; the first wrote Getting home,' the second added simply. I'll be right behind him" It was young sol- oier from Ohio who had exactly the same idea as these others but who expressed it more wildly because te said it more simply--he used just the single word Freedom.
 In our March column concerning the Registry, composed not many weeks after the liberation of the Philippines, we closed the piece with 8 comment upon the fact that most of the hobbies listed were gay and jolly, and then added: But once in while one will stand out, full of
 significant, sudden beauty. The latest signature on the final page of the Register was entered in Sep- ternber, l944. It was dritten by a man named Ricardo Florez. His residence and his hobby listed there didn't seem particularly significant when We read it then. But we hap pened to re-read the entry a month ago The residence given is Manila, Philippine Islands. The hobby is 'Home!
 Today. in this new report, we close with reference to our personal fav- orite among all the thousands of hob bies in the whole book. By an odd coincidence we again mention home and the Philippine Islands But this time home" is Juneau and the Islands are the place from which this serviceman once had looked longingly toward his home. For it was in July that young Kenny Allen after months in hospital, re- turned to Juneau on a furlough; and that night he came down to the club, and we met for the first time Tn the desperate fighting at Leyte he had been wounded by bullet barely missing his heart, and pass ing through his chest. The night of our meeting Kenny was still a very sick young man and suffering much pain; and he was still facing grave uncertainty about his eventual re-
 covery. We will never forget how
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-15
POSTSCRIPT TO A COLUMN


 A postscript-that's about all we've space allotted to us for today-but at least it will serve to celebrate a sort of preliminary Thanksgiving by voicing our gratitude briefly over the fact that during recent weeks che of our most charming GSO girls, Agnes Tubbs, has been at the club much more frequently than used to be the case and that we had visit Tuesday from an especially well-liked friend, Pete Schneider, still in Army uniform and headed South but hoping soon to be back to stay and tWhile on the sub ject of popular GIs) the fact that Dick Garrison is out of the service and home again .. and that Dicks fascinating sister-in-law, Jo Mylly, of Seattle, has been regular visitor at the USO lately and that such a delightful surprise was in store or us on Monday when we were greeted down here by so many old friends of the crew of the Navy tank CT, the VOC 68. unexpectedly re- turning here for the second time in several months.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-15
MERCHANTS' KEGLERs
 BOWL AGAIN FRIDAY

Merchants League bowling at the Elks, going into it's third week to- morrow evening, will see Butler Mauro pitted against California Grocery and Coca Cola Bottlers meeting Juneau Drug at 7:30 o'clock At 8:30, Hennings will roll against Juneau Florists and Harry Race will meet Sabin's.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-15

slowly he wrote his name in the Registry, nor the expression in his tired face as he looked up after writing as his hobby; Getting well. - A long time has passed since that night And it was just day before yesterday that we saw Kenny Allen for the first time in many week. He was all smiles-so were we-when he said, in answer to our question: "Yes, now at last, I'm practically entirely well again."
Evening star., 1945-06-08
Gen. Waison's 5 DSM
Presented 10 Widow

A Distinguished Service Medal
awarded posthumously to Maj. Gen
Edwin M. Watson, military aide and
secretary to the late President
Roosevelt; was presented to his
widow today by President Truman
at ceremony In the White House
rose garden.
Mrs. Roosevelt and other friends
and associates of Gen. Watson were
present. Mr.. Truman read the cita-
ton which said that Gen. Watson's s
broad and thorough knowledge and
his genial manner enabled him as
military aide to be of the greatest
assistance to the Commander in
Chief" This service, the citation
continued, contributed "in no small
part to the successful prosecution
Of the war"
President Truman escorted Mrs.
Watson and Mrs. Roosevelt to the
scene of the ceremony and in pre-
senting the medal expressed his
pleasure in comforting this honor
on Gen. Watson.
Mrs. Anna Boettiger was with
her mother, who was a luncheon
guest at the White House today.
Secretary of War Stimson, Gen.
George G. Marshall, Army chief of
STAN, and Admiral William D.
Leahy, the Presidents chief of staff
also attended the ceremony.
Gen. Watson died at sea while
returning with President Roosevelt
from the Yalta Conference Feb
ruary 20.
Evening star., 1945-06-08
BY RALPH MORTON,

ASSOCIATED Press War Correspondent)
HOLLANDIA, Dutch New Guinea
June 5 Delayed "A wartime air
tragedy has unlocked in dramatic
fashion the mysterious hidden val
ley of Shangri-La."
Paratroopers first men from
the outside world to invade the iso-
lated home of 6-foot, spear welding
tribesmen-are building a glider field
in the valley. $50 miles southwest of
Hollandia, to rescue a 30-year-old
WAC and two Army airmen.
CA dispatch today, June 8, from
Manila by Associated Press Cor
respondent Dean Schedler said
the rescue still had not been ef-
fected, but the survivors were
safe and living comfortably
The trio are the only survivors
among % Army personnel in trans
port plane which crashed into the
4-by-25-mile jungle-surrounded val
ley's Oranje Mountain wall "a days
ago during a sightseeing trip.
In Contact by Walkie- Talkie.
Eight Filipino paratroopers and a
medical assistant have been para
chuted to effect the rescue. The
plan is to build the landing site,
send in the glider, then jerk it into
the air with a low-f1ying CAT by
means of grab line.
The trio are in constant contact
with circling planes, using para
chuted walkie -talkie.
Food and medical supplies are
dropped to them. The natives, while
Evening star., 1945-06-08

Have you thought about going
into business for yourself? Buy
and hold enough War Bonds and
you'll be set to open a small business
Of your own.
Evening star., 1945-06-08
'Shongri-Lo' Crash Kills 20;
WAC, Flyers Await Rescue

WACS killed were;
S/Serrgt. Laura Besley, Shippen-
vile, Pa.
T/3 Marion w. McMonagle, Phil
adelphia.
sergt. Helen G. Kent, Taft, Calf
Sergt. Belle G. Manner, New York
City.
Pfc. Alethia Fair, Hollywood
Calf.
Pfc. Maria C. Gillis, North Holly
wood. Calf.
Pfc. Mary Landau. Brooklyn, N. Y
The CAT crashed about pm
May l3 against mountain which
rises up to 1900 feet. The mountain
helps form the wall around the fab
ulous valley where an estimated
$4,000 to 100000 natives live in
walled communities. completely shut
of from the world outside by Jungle
and mountain areas largely unex-
plored.
May is the wreckage was spotted
high on the mountain wall and the
two men and the woman could be
seen alive near the burned fuselage
They were suffering from slight
burns and shock.
I'VE are all right" one survivor
assured after the walkie-talkie was
dropped.
Blast Attracts Natives.
1t. McCollom said the exnlosion
and bright glare of the burning
plane attracted natives from the
valley.
Il am fine and enjoying 1t ALL"
said l00-pound WAC Hastings in a
clear, firm voice over the walkie-
talkie.
Paratroopers in the valley are
building the emergency landing strip
below the crash scene.
Two of the paratroopers reached
the survivors within an hour and
a half after making the lump
Others landed further down the
mountainside and hiked three days
to reach the scene.
The funeral service plane took of
from Hollandia May 26 and arrived
over the crash site late that after
noon. Services were conducted by
Col. August Geardard Of Milwaukee
1t. Col. Carl Mellberg, Dayton, Ohio,
and Chaplain Cornelius Waldo of
indianapolis.
Valley Discovered Last Spring.
The hidden valley was discovered
accidentally in the spring of 1914
while an aerial survey was being
made of shorter routes by which to
bring supplies from Australia to
Hollandia.
In an unexplored sector, the vicin-
ity OF the valley was approached
Evening star., 1945-06-08
Committee 10 Review
Baby Broker Act Named

A committee to review the regula-
tions under the Baby Broker Act,
recommended almost two weeks ago
by the Board of Public Welfare, was
named yesterday by the Commits
sioners. Members are:
Mrs. Radford Moses, chairman:
DR.. Ella Oppenheimer of the Health
Department; Mrs. Theodore Peyser
of the Jewish Social Services; Miss
Florence Murray. Catholic Char
tiles; Seton Darr, st. AIMS Infant
Asylum; Mrs. r. r. Miller, Chill
drens Services, and Mrs. Fred
Wright, Children's Protective Asso-
citation.
The annual review of regula tions
Is ordered by the Baby Broker Act.
Evening star., 1945-06-08
| Truman Turns Down
Labor 5 Appeal 10
Ease Wage Controls

bS tne AsSoclhteo Fre66.
President Truman yesterday turned
down an urgent request by labor
leaders for immediate relaxation oi
wage controls.
The President told his news con-
ference that the Little Steel wage
formula would stand, at least pend
ing a thorough study to be under
taken later of present wage and
commodity price schedules.
Only short time before, AFL
President William Green and CIO
President Philip Murray had called
at the White House to press for
quick revision of the Little Steel
formula, by which basic pay raises
have been limited to Is per cent
above January, l94l, levels.
Fear Fall in Earnings.
They expressed fear of a down.
ward spiral in wartime earnings and
employment even before Japan is
defeated.
While these appeals were being
made at the White House, the WLB
was considering the overall wage
policy question.
WLB Chairman George w. Taylor
disclosed that the board will make
an announcement on its reconver-
sion policy within 80 days. He so ad-
vised group of presidents of CIO-
United Auto Workers locals at
Chrysler Corp. Detroit plants.
Mr.. Murray and Mr.. Green both
urged Mr.. Truman to grant a 20 per
cent increase in basic wages to alb
sorb the loss in "take-home pay
when war plants shift from the 4s to
40-hour work week.
Living Costs Stay Up.
The Chrysler workers told DR.. Tay-
lor that cutbacks already are dis
turbing Detroit's economy and that
Chrysler plants there all will be
idling or converting to automobile
manufacture by the end of Septem-
Der. This will mean unemployment
to $4,000 to 100000 workers, they said
While the shorter work week is ad-
vocated all around in order to share
employment. the union leaders ex.
press fear that unless the hourly
rates are increased, reducd earnings
will be disastrous. Food and other
living costs remain swollen, said
Frank Danowski of the Chrysler
Plymouth local, speaking for the De.
troit group.
Evening star., 1945-06-08

eQM OF MONEY, on r st. NV. Can Shep-
Asrd 1920 before s p.n.
Evening star., 1945-06-08
Man Held by Police
AFTER Fatal Fist Fiqht

Theodore Brown, "a, colored, first
block Of Z street NE, was charged
with murder yesterday in the death
OF Charlie Davis, As, colored, 5000
block of B street Sc.
Police said Davis died In Casualty
Hospital yesterday Of injuries suf-
fered in fist fight Wednesday night
at First and K streets NE.
Reports from witnesses, police said
indicated Davis was hit IL. the face
and then fell to the sidewalk, strik-
ing his head. He was found near the
scene and died in the hospital about
80 minutes after being admitted in
unconscious condition.
Evening star., 1945-06-08
FOUND.

"a" GAS COUPON BOOK. bearing nam,
Gordon A: Mosteller, 1907 8. Wayne st.
ArltnEton, Va" Reward.
Evening star., 1945-06-08
One of Twin Brothers
Dies in Air Crash,
Other Is Survivor -.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, June g.
The Army transport crash in
the Valley of Shangri-La,"
Dutch New Guinea. has sep
arated the McCollom twins, al
most inseparable since birth
and whose Army careers have
parallel each other since 1912
when they were commissioned
after graduation from the Uni
versity of Minnesota.
1t. Robert E. McCollom was
one of those who died in the
crash. His twin brother, 1t.
John B. McCollom, Trenton.
Mo. was one of the three sur
vivors.
Robert was married here In
1943.
Evening star., 1945-06-08

slow to make friends, have not been
hostile. After a gift of parachuted
salt pleased the tribesmen. they even
brought the survivors pig to roast
An odd funeral service, with Cath
olic and Protestant rites observed
II 900 feet above the wreckage in q
circling aircraft, has been held for
the dead Twenty crosses and Star
of David for a Jewish victim were
dropped
Survivors of Crash.
The surviving trio:
WAC Corpl. Margaret Hastings,
Oswego, N. Y.
1t. John B. McCollom, Tren-
ton, Mo.
sergt. Kenneth w. Decker, Kelso,
Wash.
Those Killed in Tragedy.
The dead:
Col. Peter j, Prossen. pilot Of the
plane, San Antonio, Tex.
Maj. George H. Nicholson, Med
ford, Mass.
Maj Herman F. Antonini, Dam
Vile, Ill.
Maj Philip J. Dattle, Louis
vile, KY.
Capt. Herbert F. Good, Dayton,
Ohio.
Capt. Louis e. Freyman, Calumet
City, Ill.
1t. Lawrence F. Holding, Raleigh,
N. G.
1t. Robert E. McCollom, st. Paul
MINI.
sIsergt. Hilliard Norris, Waynes-
vile, N. c.
Corpl. Charles r. Miller, st.
Joseph, Mich.
Corpl. Melvyn A. Weber, Compton
Calf.
Pfc. Melvin A. Mollberg, Baudette
MINI.
Pfc. George r. Newcomer, Mid
dleton, NY.
Evening star., 1945-06-08
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Evening star., 1945-06-08
Big 3 Talks Planned
Within Next 40 Days,
Truman Announces.
~ the Associated Press,

- VAC heSoS1dtSd TtcSSs
President Truman expects to meet
with Premier Stain and Prime Min
lister Churchill within the next 40
days to discuss world affairs.
Announcing this at his news con-
ference yesterday, Mr.. Truman at
the same time rejected Frances bid
FOR a Big Five meeting to explore
the knotty Middle Eastern problem.
He re-emphasized that the confer
ence, planned for some time. would
include only the Big Three-the
United States, Russia and Britain.
Then he stated his belief that the
Levantine question can be worked
out at lower level
This did not mean that the
United States would discuss a solu-
ton OF the Middle East question
at q meeting from which France,
Syria and the Lebanon were absent.
The Presidents position was that
the question could be settled on
less formal basis than Big Five
session.
france Asks Conference.
French Ambassador Henri Bonnet
handed to Acting Secretary of State
Grew yesterday note inviting the
United States, Russia, Britain and
China to conference on the
Near East. Mr.. Truman said he
did not know about this note but
reiterated that he did not believe
. flve-power conclave would be
necessary.
Acting Secretary of State Grew
said today that this Government
does not feel that the time has yet
come for full-dress Big Five con-
ference to consider settlement of
Near Eastern problems.
He told a news conference that
reply to the French note suggesting
such a conference is under consid-
Grafton.
The President also told his news
conference that he is in complete
agreement with the report of JUS
tice Robert H. Jackson proposing
war crime prosecution of German
ndustrialists as well as members
Of the German general staff.
The report of Justice Jackson,
chief American prosecutor for the
trials of major Axis war criminals,
had been made public earlier in the
day.
Britain Will Join Trials.
Asked his opinion of Justice Jack
sons assertion that the Americana
case is being prepared on the as
sumption that the responsibility
rests upon the United States to in
vestigate war criminals alone if
necessary" the President said that
meant exactly what it said.
He emphasized, however, that,
there is no prospect that we will
have to conduct the trials alone. He
said Great Britain already has con-
sented to an international tribunal
and he believed Russia and France
would soon do so.
Evening star., 1945-06-08
Droft Law Violation
Charge Dismissed

A charge of failing to report for
induction against Zip Wah, 35-year-
old Chinese waiter, was dismissed by
United States Commissioner Need
ham c. Turnage yesterday.
According to the FBI the defend
ant had been reported delinquen,
with a Brooklyn draft board.
Plan now for your Seventh-invest
in bonds through payroll savings.
Evening star., 1945-06-08

some years ago by ground expedi-
ton. but never entered.
The farmlands are neatly laid out
for many square miles. There is
row upon row of water-filled bitches.
The natives practice crop rotation.