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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-09
The W ashingto ion
 Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON Ct. Col. Robert s. Allen now on active service with the Army.A

WASHINGTON = On March 4, l943, this column exposed the fact that R eprese tive Alvin E. O'Konski. Wisconsin Republican, had placed his wife, Veronica H. CKonski, on the payroll as his secretary at $500 year. O'Kon- ski immediately tore his hair, called this columnist liar, and told his constituents that his wife had been placed on the payroll only tenn porarily because he was short handed.
 We now wish to apologize to Congressman O'Konski This col umnist's 1943 report failed to do him justice. However, fighting Will liam T. Evjue, publisher of the Madison, Wisconsin, Capital Times, has done the Congressman real justice. He has exposed the fact that not only did his wife receive Sl,955 in 1944, plus $1,024 in 1943, but O'Konski even put on the pay roll four employees of the news paper which he publishes.
 After O'Konski bought the Mon- treal Miner, a local newspaper, from Martin vickers, he placed yickers on the Congressional pay roll for two years at total of $2,749 Another employee of the newspaper, Francis A. Secor, re- ceived $3,509 during l943 and 1944; a third employee, Virginia Reifen- stuhl, received $l,754 in l943; and a fourth employee on OKonski's newspaper, Frieda Morichetti, re- ceived $500 at the taxpayers ex- pense.
 This adds up to grand total of
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REICH DEGREES ! REGISTRATION ALL MALES 16-65

LONDON, March 9-Germany has summoned every male in the Reich from Is to 65 to be registered by military authorities in a drastic effort to unscramble the tangled army units and scrape up more manpower for defense.
 Hinting that confusion is pre- vailing, the decree, broadcast by DNB, apparently had as its pur- pose the rounding up of deserters and sorting out soldiers of lost units. The decree cancelled all fur loughs except for reasons of ill health.
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Good Political Move Pulled by Roosevelt
 Pulling for 5tassen
By JACK sTINNErT

WASHINGTON, March 9-Capital soothsayers. observers and what have-you are frankly baffled.
 The question is why did President Roosevelt pull Commander liar old E. Stassen, youthful former governor of Minnesota, back from Navy Service on Adm. Halsey's staff to make him one of the three Repub- lican appointees to the all-impoi tant United Nations dress rehearsal conference in San Francisco April 25?
 The only answers they have to the question so far are lot more questions.
 They are in pretty general agree ment on one thing: that the Presi- dent, for political and maybe even personal reasons passed oyer Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the COP stand ard bearer of a few month ago and still titular head of the party.
 This couldn't have been because of Dewey's youth. since Stassen is the younger Che will be 38 just 12 days before the San Francisco con- ference opens)D
 It couldn't have been simply be- cause Dewey has attacked the Presi- dent on the home front. A year be- fore Pearl Harbor, Stassen too, was attacking the President for slow pre- paredness and he never has rubber stamped the New Deal, although many of his state reforms have been definitely liberal.
 What it is then? Don't seek conclusions yet, but some of the possibilities propounded by the pol itical soothsayers are interesting CD That MT. Roosevelt wanted to give the young man from Minnesota boost over Dewey in the race for the Republican nomination in 1948.
 @ That he was paying off Sen. Joseph H. Ball (R-Minn.), appoint ed Senator by Stassen originally and chief packer of prediction ef- forts to get Stassen nominated in 1914 The Senator came out for MT. Roosevelt against Dewey in the gen. eral election.
 (3) That President Roosevelt was paying his respects to the memory of internationalist Wendell L. Will kie. Although Willkie and StaSsen later had some minor differences, Stassen was No. man in that Phila- delphia Willkie landslide in 1940. Not only was he keynoter of the con- vention but he took over floor man. agement of Willkie's nomination. Many politicians consider him Will kie's true heir in matters of foreign policy.
 (4) That MT. Roosevelt is trying to split the COP 1948 prospects by making a three-way race for the nomination between Stassen, Dewey and Vandenberg.
 There are many more political speculations. The truth is probably an amalgam of all. In other words, | it was a good political move. | It was even good political move l --------------------------
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 GET (l05ER
 T0vERGAT0
Make Advance on Posi. lions Held by Germans
 for Four Months

ROME, March = Fifth Army troops closing in on the German highway stronghold of Vergato, IT and one-half miles southeast of Bologna, have occupied Carviano, about a mile east of their objective, Allied Headquarters said.
 Although slowed somewhat in the last 24 hours, the push has brought them to the closest approach yet to Vergato, which has held out against Allied attacks for four months.
 The Nazis, meanwhile, have step- ped up artillery fire against the Allies newly-won positions border ing the Bologna -Pistoia Highway.
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BRIDGEHEAD BUILT UP

PARIS, March 9--The American First Army has steadily reinforced and built up it's Rhine River bridgehead at a point south of Cologne, which German advices said is Remagen, PIT miles south east of Berlin.
 The NaZis said American forces had captured intact the bridge at Remagen. The Ludendorff span there is double-track railroad bridge, capable of bearing tanks, trucks and foot troops.
 A Berlin military spokesman said First Army troops found bridge, which was "by chance not de- stroyed," at Remagen. about mid- way between invested Bonn and threatened Coblenz.
 Of the crossing the Berlin radio said: At Remagen the Americans succeeded in crossing to the eastern bank of the Rhine. Before these relatively weak U. s. forces could penetrate on the eastern bank of the Rhine, their advance guards, however, were halted by German positions before the town of Linz"
 Linz is three miles east of Remagen, where the Ludendorff rail bridge was intact only two days ago.
 Strict Secrecy
 Supreme Allied Headquarters con- tinued it's policy of strict secrecy. This much is known. however:
 Through more than AS secrecy shrouded hours since the infantry crossed at $50 p. m. Wednesday. in one of the greatest military strokes since the invasion, Gen Hodges has been pouring troops, by thousands GIT words censored)
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STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK. March g. - Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 67s, American Can 92A, Anaconda 313a Beech Aircraft IFS, Bethlehem Steel 72B. Curtiss- Wright 6, International Harvester 781a, Kennecott 37A. North Amer ican Aviation 10as, New York Gen. tral 22M, Northern Pacific 20, U. s. Steel 625s.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials, 156.34: rails, 4986; utilities, 27.64.
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FOR Wants
 Manpower Atf To Have Teeth

WASHINGTON, March g The President today expressed prefer ence for manpower legislation with authority in it rather than a pro- gram that would rely on voluntary methods. He told news conference that we are still short of men,"
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MOVE UP SCHEDULE

WASHINGTON, March g - The Senate War Investigating Commit tee has called on the Army to move up the schedule of June 30 for a shutdown of the Canol Project.
 Chairman Mead quoted Ickes as saying that by dropping the whole thing now and transferring 28l Of Canols skilled workers to specific refineries, aviation gas production could be increased 2,000 barrels a day.
 "In view of the urgent need for aviation gasoline, we cannot afford to waste manpower on Canol any onger," said Mead.
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TW0pT B0AT5ARE
 SUNK BY MISTAKE
 IN pK|LIpp|N ISLES

WASHINGTON, March 9.-Two U. s. motor torpedo boats were sunk in the Philippines by another U. S.. vessel as result of mistaken iden- tity, the Navy announced.
 The shippers of the PIT vessels, numbers IT and 79, were both saved. Other casualties were light, the Navy said.
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JApS SAY MINDANA0
 IN vADED
Says Naval Task Force Off, shore Is Minesweeping
 and Bombarding
(By Associated Press)

The Tokyo radio said today that American forces have landed on Mindanao Island after heavy bom- bardment from a Naval task force that included four battleships and 20 other craft
 The broadcast declared "the en- emy has been trying to land on Samboanga and Mindanao since March B."
 It pointed out that the American fleet is carrying out minesweeping operations showing signs of land- ing attempt"
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REPORT HITLER
 ON ODER FRONT

LONDON, March 9-The German radio said today Adolph Hitler had visited the Oder River front, and had convinced himself personally of the fighting spirit of the Nazi soldiers on the Oder, and a number of pictures of his visit were pub lished in the German press.
 The date of Hitler's visit was un- specified.
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LEAVES FOR SEATTLE

J. Burford Jenkins, superintend- ent of the Alaska Construction Company, holders of the Hoonah contract, left today by plane for Seattle where he will line up ma- terials and labor for the Hoonah reconstruction job.
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Alaska prospetior
 Leaves Large Esfaie

SEATTLE, March 9-Nicholas Schultheis, 84, Alaska prospector and former professional baseball player, who died February 20, left an estate estimated to be $5O.O0o00.
 The filing of his will disclosed a son Pearl, Seattle hotel man, and a daughter, Mrs. Annie Mclaughlin of Fort Worth, Texas, were named beneficiaries.
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BIG WEDGE MADE INTO
 RHINE AREA
Important Bridge, Ferry Terminal Cdpiured-
 Ruhr Basin in Peril

BULLETIN-PARIS, March --The A m rican First Army steadily enlarged it's Remagen bridgehead to the east bank. The wedge is at least five miles deep and 10 miles wide.
 The U. S. Third Army won domination of the Rhine north of Coblenz by capturing the ferry terminal of Andernach and the town of Brohl, eight miles south of Remagen. Daring armored infantrymen of the Ninth Armored Division cap- tured the double tracked Lu- dsndorff railroad bridge at Remagen and swiftly raced along it's 1,200-foot length into the steep cliffs of Erpel, 276 miles southwest of Berlin, and 30 miles southeast of Cologne.
 Tanks quickly followed the
 
 foot troops, aware of the danger that the Germans, any second, might blow up the structure. In a matter of seconds after the infantry company, com manded by It. Emmct Burrows, of Jersey City. N. U. scized the Tudendorff bridge, the Ninth Armored was racing across and flaming out in all directions.
 The great Ruhr Basin is in imminent peril of being out flanked and the very heart of Germany Is menaced.
 Some explosions accompanied the Ninth's dash across the Rhine and caused slight damage to the bridge. Wires to the ex- plosive charges were swiftly cut before any more superficial harm could be done. Repairs, under German fire, were started immediately.
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BarIund Is
 Tk0viefinl

MIAMI, Fla, March g Joe Baski. Kulpmont. Pa, heavyweight, scored a technical knockout over Gunnar Barlund. of Finland. in one minute and 30 seconds of the tenth round of their scheduled To- round fight here last night.
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American personnel and movable equipment will be withdrawn as rapidly as possible, the War De- partment said. Still to be left in operation is the petroleum products pipeline which will deliver motor fuels to Skagway from Whitehorse and also down the Alaskan High way to Watson Lake and up the Highway to Fairbanks.
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NOLAN HERE

James Nolan, of Wrangell, is guest at Hotel Juneau.
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Evening star., 1945-10-31
Makers 10 Announce
Car Price CEILINGS,
Probably This Week

The first price ceilings on new
automobiles probably will be COM
pleted late this week, but the Office
Of Price Administration plans to
allow manufacturers to announce
them, after which they will be off,
cially printed in the Federal Reg
lister, it was learned today.
District dealers, it was indicated,
do not expect more than $500 new
cars to reach them by the end of
this year. At present, 60 sales
agencies here have less than 100
sample cars on display.
OPA officials said ceiling prices
for two or three of the nine pro-
ducing manufacturers were about
ready. They would not name the
companies, but 1t was understood
that the Ford Motor Co. would be
among the first.
The OPA decision to let each
manufacturer announce his own
prices within the determined CELL
ings is dictated in part by the fact
that some companies may wish to
sell under them. The only official
indication of what the ceilings may
be was given by Price Administrator
Bowles recently when he said they
would be close to the top prices o1
three years ago.
A subcommittee Of the OPA Au.
tomobile Dealers Advisory Com.
mitee scheduled a meeting with
OPA ofhcials today to discuss in.
dustry conditions, including the
question of whether dealers will alb
sorb any proportion of increased
prices.
Evening star., 1945-10-31

a letter to Gen. Homma's headquar-
ters.
In the letter I begged Homma to
send radio to President Roosevelt
in my name. asking that a ship be
dispatched at once to the Philip
pines with food, clothing and medi-
cal supplies for American and Fill
pino prisoners of war. In the letter
I told Homma that I had been in
formed reliably that Americans and
Filipinos were dying at the rate
of 300 q day at ODonnell, from NAL
nutrition and for. want of proper
medical care, and that by the end
Of the year every man in that camp
would be dead.
I gave the letter to 1t. Uramura
and every day for many days after
that I asked him if he had heard
from Homma. But all he would say
was an infuriating 1T is under con-
sideration." In time I knew with a
feeling of utter helplessness that
the message never would be sent.
Tomorrow: Gen. Wainwright Is
moved to Tarlac Prison, and the bru-
tality of the Japs is stepped up.)
Copyright. 1915, King Features
Syndicate, Inc. Reproductions in
tUhole or in part strictly prohibited.
Evening star., 1945-10-31
Dr.. Duncan Enrich, SHAEF.
Historian, Gets Library Post

DR.. Duncan B. M. Enrich. Official
American historian at Gen. Eisen-
hower's headquarters from January,
1914, until the end Of the European
war, has been appointed chief of the
archives of American folk song in
the music division Of the Library of
Congress, DR.. Luther Evans, libra
rian, announced today.
Or. Enrich succeeds B. A. Botkin,
editor Of the best seller "A Treasury
Of American Folklore" who resigned
May 81 to devote his time to writing
on folklore.
DR.. Enrich is a member Of the
American Folklore Society, the Ma
tional Council on Religion and
Higher Education and the American
Oriental Society. He was awarded
the French Croix de Guerre in June,
-l945. He IS graduate of Brown
University and received his Phi. D.
at Harvard.
Evening star., 1945-10-31
Recreation Board Sees
Playground improvements

Recreation Board members today
inspected seven District Fairgrounds
where SITS, 900 worth Of improve
ments have been made in the last
18 months.
The improvements included con-
struction Of shelter houses, filling in
swamps and dumps to make tennis
courts And excavation for football
fields and spray pools
-Four of the Fairgrounds visited
were the last Of n improved during
the last three years with $730, 900
ailocated under the Lanham Act.
One of these, the Parkside, adjacent
to q new elementary school for coll
|ored children. Thirty-seyepth and
Grants street NE. IS the pi1ly one
where ssoEne L,anham Act 4l1de SIN
are available for improps Y work.
Evening star., 1945-10-31
Loshbough Appointed
Deputy for NCHA

Bernard E. LoShbough, formerly
director of planning for the National
Public Housing Conference, has been
named deputy in charge of opera
tionS for the National Capital Hous-
ing Authority.
Mr.. Loshbough, formerly of the
NCHA staff, left in June, 1914, to
become associated with the public
housing conference. A graduate of
Notre Dame University, he first
came to Washington in 1890 as a
War Department architect. From
1884 to 1889 he served the Public
Buildings Administration.
In his new post Mr.. Loshbough
will supervise designing of new de-
velopments, determination of eligi-
bility for low-rent and war housing
and the operation and maintenance
of NCHA properties.
He is a member of the Washing
ton Board of Trade, National Asso-
citation of Housing Officials, National
Public Housing Conference, Amer
ican Society of Architects and Plan
ners and the Board of Governors OF
the Notre Dame Alumni Club of
Washington
Evening star., 1945-10-31
Senator Glass 10 Quit,
Richmond Paper Says
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, Oct. 31.-The
Times-Dispatch says in a. special
story from Washington that it is
highly probable that Senator Glass,
Democrat, of Virginia, will retire
from the Senate next January. 4,
his 88th birthday.
The paper adds that announce
ment Of Senator Glass intentions
to resign the seat he has held since
1920 may be forthcoming in the
near future. 1t probably will not
be made, however, until after Tues
days election, and it may not be
made until a few days prior to his
birthday"
At the Office of Senator Glass at
the Capitol the reports were de-
scribed as purely speculative. j.
w. Rixey Smith, the Senator's sec
retary, said he would not say the
Senator will not resign at some time
in the future, but says he has no
definite information.
Evening star., 1945-10-31
Father Of Three, At 3 Years,
Under Doctor S Core Inducted

A Prince Georges County police
man, father of three, who was classi-
fled 4-F for nearly three years and
who has been under constant med
ical attention, was inducted in the
Army yesterday approximately
three months after he was reclassi-
fed la. !.
He is Wallace L. Baker, %, Of 6403
Kilmer road, Cheverly, who was
appointed to the county police force
six weeks ago.
According to his wife, Mr.. Baker
suffered head injury when he was
q child and suffers from headaches
and dizzinessS She said her husband
volunteered pr the Army early, In
1912, before he was married, but was
rejected.
In August, 1914. he was called
again by his draft board for q
physical examination and again re-
jected, Mrs. Baker said. She said
he remained in AZ until last July,
when he was examined and passed.
After being classified IA, his
wife said, he appealed on. physical
and hardship grounds. The appeal
Evening star., 1945-10-31
I Outlying US0 Clubs
To Be Closed, Work
Ceniered Downtown

Seven United Service Organiza-
tions' Clubs in outlying sections of
the District will be closed by the
irst of the year rs part OF a pro-
gram TO reallocate money and ia
cilities to downtown area clubs
where attendance has increased
greatly.
This was admitted today by
George o. Draper USO area direc-
tor, but he pointed out that in con-
trast to the reduction of USO facih-
ties at home, the overseas units
would be increased in an effort to
see that troops on occupation duty
do not suffer for lack of entertain
ment.
''It is the policy Of the National
USO to consolidate whenever pos
sible to save money and give better
service where needed" he said. 1.-THE
clubs we intend to close in WASH
ington are in areas where attend
ance has gone down a great deal"
He did not reveal which clubs
would be affected.
E. j. Read, chairman OF the Man
agement Committee of the Ana
costa Club 1000 Fourteenth street
Sc. reported that his club was one
Of the ones to be closed. He said his
committee intended to fight for re-
tention of the club and he main
tanned that attendance had not
dropped OF.
Mr.. Draper said clubs such as the
one at Union Station have had a
phenomenal increase In business and
the consolidation is necessary if
service is to be given where needed.
Washington is big attraction for
servicemen on leave and for that
reason the USO has much work still
to do, Mr.. Draper said.
Evening star., 1945-10-31

Jap conquerors were superior in
every way.
1t was heart breaking spectacle
this strange review of my troops. ]
learned that they were being led to
Bilibid Prison, where the Americans
were separated from the Filipinos
and sent to Cabanatuan while the
Flipinos went to O'Donnell.
Among the marchers, with his
chin in the air, was Chaplain John
K. Borneman, a valiant soldier OF
God and the United States. Col
Borneman was to report to me later
that he had to witness IL murders
of American Army officers at Caba-
natuan, II murders which followed
sadistic beatings lasting "a hours.
Col. Borneman also reported to
me that another chaplain, Col. Al
fred C, Oliver, was beaten pitilessly
for days. They broke Col. divers
neck eventually, but somehow he
survived. He must go through the
rest of his life with his head trussed
in high leather collar.
Our food stuck in our throats that
day we saw the men of Corregidor
march past our windows. With this
in mind, and the memory of Gen
Francisco's whispered revelation
about Camp O'Donnell, I addressed
Evening star., 1945-10-31

to be school teacher, met her hus-
band at a church function. He has
been in Manila, but is expected home
ANY minute" A graduate of East
ern High School and the University
of Maryland, he was an examiner
with the Farm Credit Administra-
ton before the war. He is 80
she "a.
Her mother-in-law kissed and
husged her and said over and over
again: isn't she cute!" Then she
2atted the girls hand and added
And what's more, she's got a very
attractive husband"
The girl blinked at the flashbulbs
and tried to answer reporters ques-
tons.
How do you like the United
States?"
Bully" she said
What do you think about all the
Australian brides who are said to be
giving up and going back homer"
"Homesick
"Are you homesick?"
Not yet" she said. ~
Evening star., 1945-10-31
lsiHRstsoninq
&Remiinder@a

Meats, Fats, Etc. = Stamps Al
through Ell good through today.
Stamps FL through XII good
through November 80. Stamps
L-i through Q-1 good through
December 81. Stamps RI through
vi good through January 81.
Stamps WI through Z-1 and
green stamp N-8 become valid
tomorrow and remain good
through February %.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
win pay four red ration points for
each pound Of waste kitchen fats
you turn in.
Sugar Stamp SO good through De-
cember 81. Next stamp valid
January l.
Evening star., 1945-10-31

The Australian bride of an
American soldier had to wait half
an hour to meet her in-laws at
Union Station this morning. But
she said that when you have been
travelling 16 days in 12-to-a-c cabin
cargo ship and six days in crowded
trains, 80 minutes more or less
won't make much difference, and
it feels pretty good to just sit, and
wait, even If you are nervous.
And after she was spotted by her
father-in-law, Jacob Fischer, 1924
Illinois avenue N.W.-and especially
after her husbands mother and
aunts and sister came through the
crowd-she felt 1t had been worth
the wait.
So did they. They had been watt
ing to see her since she married
T/Sergt. Isador Fischer a year ago
last May in her home town of
Brisbane. They thought her train
was due at 9 am. but it arrived at
$3.50 instead.
The new Mrs. Fischer, who used
Evening star., 1945-10-31
Condemnation Ordered
For New School Tract

The District will institute con-
demnation proceedings to acquire
land near Benning road and East
Capitol street to construct $500 600
elementary school.
The Commissioners ordered the
proceeding yesterday after being in
formed that the land cannot be
purchased at satisfactory price.
The property Is q 5h-acre tract
containing some private dwellings
and q small frame church, 1t was
said Action will be against some
so property owners.
An appropriation Of $4,000 Is
carried In the present budget for a
site for 24-room elementary school
in the area where more than 1,10O
dwellings are to be built.