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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
DOUGLAS
 NEWS
PROPERTY SALES

Two pieces of real estate changed hands recently in Douglas, one business house and one residence The Joe Reidi property on Third and D Streets, which was formerly "Joe's Place." was sold to Lee E. Swift, who is also proprietor ot the Douglas Trading Post. The Reidis then purchased the Joe Peloza property on Fourth and E Streets, and are moving this week into their new home.
 Lee Swift's plans for the busi- ness location are not immediately ready for publication, but will be announced later
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
WELFARE BOARD
 IN EXECUTIVE
 5E55I0Ny NOW

Executive sessions of the Alaska Board of Public Welfare were start d here yesterday afternoon, with
 he expectation that they would be concluded this evening. Previously, members of the Board had been in meeting with members of the De- paltment's administrative staff.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04

Empire wanr aos geu quick results
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
(American LGague)

Standings unchanged-Scheduled games rained ou0.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
GRAND OPENING!

At Spruce's Delicatessen Saturday. We are moving into our new quar- ters and will serve Free Ice Cream to the Riddles, and Coffee and Doughnuts to the Grown-ups, from 2 to 4 D. m. You are invited to call and see our new store We are proud of it! (Adv)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
5T. NICHOLAS 10 SHOW PATRIOTIC
 AGAINST JANIR0

NEW YORK, May Tony Ja- miro of Youngstown, Ohio, was ex- pected to record his thirty seventh victory in thirty eight professional fights when he mixes with Sammy Parrotto of Pittsburgh in the fea- tured eight-rounder at the St. Nicholas Arena tonight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
TIME OUT

Jimmy Collins, recently named for basaball's Hall of Fame, was noted for his speed at coming in for bunts, but there was one occa- sicn when Jimmy almost wasn't fast enough It was late-season game between two tail-end clubs, Chicago md Boston. Chicago, far behind caught fire and had the tieing and winning runs on base when Billy z. Klingman caught Collins mapping on a bunt. Klingman beat Jim ny's threw by a shade but Umpire Tim Hurst raced across the diamond shouted, Yer cut" and kept on run ling for the exit When Klingman pro ested later, Hurst explained
 c1thinglg Billy, we had only IS minutes to catch the boat train"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-05-04
DIR. RAE LIL1IAN CARLSON

DIR. RAE LILLIAN CARLSON will arrive in Juneau on May 5th, md will be in her office in the Blomgren Bldg. to examine eyes and fit glasses. Phone 636 for appointment. ttf.-Adv)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23
EXTENSION
 DRAFTLAW
 DISCUSSED
Fiqures Are Presented for Quick Action Before
 Recess Is Taken
BULLETIN = WASHINGTON March 23-The House has passed and sent to the Senate legisla- ton extending the draft law to May Is, 1946.

WASHINGTON, March 23-Con- gressional opposition to the un- qualified extension of the Draft Law dissolved in the face of figures showing the need for more than 405, ,000 inductions between now and July l, with prospects thereafter of a 31 per cent drop, from the present draft rate of 135.000 to 93,- coo men per month.
 What started out as well backed movement to fence in the extension of the draft act, promised to turn into a stampede to rush it through without strings before the House recesses next Wednesday for Easter vacation.
 The House Military Affairs Com mittee took little more than two hours yesterday to approve unani- mously one-year extension of the law which is due to expire May 15
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23
NO. PACIFIC
 FISHING TO
 BE EXTENDED

WASHINGTON, March 23-War Food Administrator Marvin Jones is listed by Senators Hugh Mitchell snd Warren G. Magnuson, of Washington, as an advocate of ex- banded fishing operations in the North Pacific.
 The Senators conferred with Jones on their proposal that the United States claim jurisdiction over the Boring Shelf, a SOU re of great supplies of marine fot
 Senator Mitchell said Jonr 8- ported their views. and p p'onNefl to prepare immediately apr ieat.n to the Defense Plant Cor ol for financial aid in the cons ctlan of floating cannery.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23
GemmiII Is Denied Reinstatement: Will
 Resign Immediately

SEATTLE, March 23-Lynn J. Gemmill, 41, acquitted in the Fed eral Court here on March 10 on two counts of bribery, has been denied reinstatement as United States Attorney of the First Judi cial Division of Alaska with head quarters at Juneau.
 Refusal of reassignment, Gem;nill said, came in a wire from the Office of Attorney General Francis Riddle, denying reinstatement even for a limited time"
 Gemmill was tried on charge of soliciting S3,000 and accepting $500 bribe from Mrs. Cleo Pa tricia Wilkins.
 The jury freed Gemmill after deliberating only 12 minutes.
 Despite the rapidity of my ac- quittal, the Attorney Generals ac- ton leaves me no alternative except to resign, effective immediately, '' said Gemmill.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23

PARIS. March 23.--Berlin report ed shortly after noon today that Gen. Sir Bernard Law Montgomery seems to be ready" for grand scale crossing of the lower Rhine's smoke shrouded 65-mile front from Dusseldorf to Arnhefn. where Ger man targets have been blasted by 'massed artillery and bombers.
 Earlier enemy reports said the assault crossing had already started, while Supreme Allied Headquarters maintained cagy silence. and battlefront reporters are cramped by security regulations.
 MainxC Captured
 Far to the south, Gen. George s. Patton's Third Army has captured Mainz, with population of 5000, and Landau, fortified Palatinate road center. Hopping up operations are being carried out in the chemical capital of Ludwigshafen, a city of l43,0O0 people.
 The First Army'S east Rhine front widened to 3l miles when Gen. Hodges shock troops captured the Rhine factory town of Neuwied, af- ter crossing the narrow Wied River at dozen places.
 At Ruhr Basin Tip
 Seven or eight miles from Bob- lenz, the First Army pulled up to the Sieg River, the north end sal- tent on ten mile front less than a dozen miles from the southern lip of the Ruhr Basin.
 For nineteen hours phenomenal smoke screen drifts, like the trail of a raging forest fire, obscured the winding lower Rhine Front, from Nijmegen south almost to the Ruhr, a report from Ross Monro, of the Canadian Press said.
 Fortified Pirmasens Taken
 The Seventh Army has captured heavily fortified Pirmasens in the Siegfried Line, while its. Sixth Ar- mored Division entered Worms, which was captured by the Third Army when it reached the Rhine. two days after 60-mile dash through the Palatinate Saarland.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23
ANOTHER ISLAND I5
 INVADED
Landing df Guimdras, in Philippines Easily
 Accomplished
By JAMES HUTCHINSON ZAP War correspondent

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 MANILA, March 23-Fortieth Di- vision Doughboys who invaded ranay, hopped across the mile and a half wide strait. and seized the s5 mile long Guimaras Island with out opposition. Wednesday in a move to safeguard the shipping lane into the captured port of Iloilo.
 The mountainous island of Gui- maras, directly opposite Iloilo helps to form one of the best harbors and seaplane bases in the central Philip pines.
 Gen Douglas Macarthur reported the Twenty-Seyenth island inva- sion of the Philippines in a con- munique today, announcing that lin Ia shore to shore operation our troops seized Guimaras Island southeast of Panay"
 Meanwhile. heavy bombers lashed Cebu Island with 240 tons of ex- plosives for the third consecutive day.
 Heavy bombing of Cebu Island across the Camotes sea from Leyte is concentrated on Japanese biy- Cuac and supply areas.
 In the vicinity of Cebu City many explosions and fires were observed communique reported and also told of the sinking of many small craft along the Cebu Coast by PIT boats and patrol bombers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23
v.B0kB WRE(k5
 FACTORY
Direct Hit Scored in South ern Eng|dnd-Explo-
 sion Kills Many

LONDON, Marsh 23-A German v-bomb scored direct hit on a southern England factory recently exploded inside the building, turn ing it into a blazing inferno, it was announced Thursday Many in the factory were killed.
 Rescue workers, including Ameri- can soldiers, toiled for hours amid smoke and debris in an effort to save those trapped in the wreckage, as the crowd, many of whom had relatives killed in the explosion, gathered at the main gate. Many of the watchers collapsed when they learned of relatives who were killed or injured.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23
WILLIAMS IS TURNED DOWN
 BYU.S SENATE
Allied Planes Batfer En. emy Communications
 in Burma Hard

WASHINGTON, March 23.-The Senate rejected today 52 to 36 votes, the Presidents nomination of Au- brey Williams to be Rural Electri- fication Administrator.
 The Senate action came two months after the President submit ted the name of the former Nation al Youth Administration Director to be director of the lending program.
 Opponents said it may soon reach the proportions of a billion dollars. Some Southern Democrats joined with Republicans in defeating Will : jams. It is the first Senatorial le- jection of a presidential appointee other than postmaster, said to be in June, 1889 when nominee of a U. s. attorney in Nevada was turn ed down.
 Supporters contended that Will Hams was falsely accused of having Communist leanings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23
GermanyIs
 Bombed by
 Day, Night
Over 200 Tons of ExpIos. ives Every Hour Turns
 Reich Into Chaos

! LONDON, March 23-Continuous day and night bombing of Ger many at the rate of 274 tons of explosives an hour is turning the Reich into chaos, in preparation for the knockout blow from the ground. Since the big aerial offensive started three weeks ago, Allied bombers have hit Germany with more than twice the tonnage of bombs dropped on England since the start of the war, causing ter rife devastation almost beyond comprehension. However, the re- lentless failing of every type of military objective, from the smallest crossroads to Berlin itself has un- occasionally made the way easier for the doughboys, General Eisen- hover declared.
 Final Phase Of War
 Allied Supreme Headquarters said Germany is approaching its final phase of the war Oil production is at it's lowest level since Hitler's forces set out on their disastrous road to conquest.
 As result of ceasless bombings. oil output has shrupk from 45,00o tons monthly, to only nine percent of the production rate at the time the air attacks on oil plants began in earnest last April.
 Air Blitz
 During the past ten days of this greatest air blitz in history, the industrial Ruhr Valley and the vast rolling Rhine plain have been sys- tematically isolated, from the rest of the Reich and deprived of rail end highway movement necessary to resist the full scale ground as- sault.
 When the Germans put 600 air. craft over London in one day back in 1940 it was regarded as a tre- mendous blitz, while today fleets of 1000 or 5000 Allied planes are aloft, and 500 aircraft hardly constitutes s good sized escort force.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23
SIxTY-D SESSION I5
 NOT ENDED
of S5,631,- 822, Largest Ever Made,
 Finally Agreed Upon

The Seventeenth Session of the Alaska Legislature, after turbulent wake of a night ses- sion in passing the biggest ap- propiiation bill in Alaska his tory, was all set to adjourn this afternoon when pressure was brought in the Senate for enact ment of labor legislation. That was some monkey wrench in adjournment.
 The Senate was immediately deadlocked at 3:15 o'clock ] to !, on adjournment with two ab- sent. Voting for adjournment were Senators Collins, Green, Rogge, Shattuck, Whaley, Coffey with Walker and Cochran ab- sent.
 At 3:38 o'clock this afternoon, President Coffey of the Senate, arose and walked away, saying: "I'll see you at 8 o'clock in the morning" and a recess was on.
 In the meantime, Whaley ask ed for an opinion from the At torney General as to the legality of measures passed. Attorney General Henry ROden said the session ended 60 days after it
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23

LONDON, March g Marshal Konev's new Silesian offensive rolled forward along an 80-mile front toward the inner mountain fortress of Germany, where Hitler's Elite Guard men are reported to be making preparations for final stand.
 With swift tank-led rushes. Ko- rev's army threatened the five large Silesian cities of Frankenstein Neisse, ziegenhals, .Leobschuetz and Ratibor in the Moravian Noun tains, and are already reported tc te fighting in one of them and the suburbs of another.
 On the Berlin Front the German Command announced Zhukov had attacked from the Hanks of his Oder bridgehead at Kuestrin, 3a miles east of Berlin with strong tank and infantry forces.
 The Germans declared the att tack was smothered in storm of German fire, which destroyed 55 Soviet tanks, but Stockholm re- ports and the American broadcast from Moscow declared a full-scale assault on Hitler's capital is im- mediately at hand.
 Moscow reports suggested Konev's victory in Upper Silesia is paving the way for Berlin attack, as the 15 mile breakthrough was celebrat- cd in Moscow last night by vic- tory salute, and hailed by Izvestia as most important in direction and dangerous to Germany"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23

 k0NEv ON
 BIG SWEEP
Advance Toward Inner Mountain Fortress of
 Germany from South

BULLETIN-LONDON, March 23 = A German frontline radio report tonight said ZhukOv's Russian armies have broken through Berlin's Oder defenses -and smashed to Golzow, six miles west of the River and only 31 miles from Berlin. The radio says the enemy is using wave after wave of tanks and the battle is swaying to and fro. The report also said Zhu- kov may have massed close to 100 Divisions along the Oder for the onslaught on Berlin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23
GUILTY PLEA IS MADE BY MRS. WILKINS
Sylvia Wilcox Given Unti| Tomorrow 10 Plea in
 Trunk Case

Whether the Sitka Trunk Case will ever get a complete airing in Fed eral District Court looks more doubtful than ever today as Jean (Cleo) Patricia Wilkins, who was the governments star witness in the re- cent trial of Lynn J. Gemmill, plead guilty to a charge of grand larceny.
 She is to be sentenced at later date as are the two former military policemen, Herbert w. Hayes and Eugene E. Twisdale, who plead guil- ty to a similar charge on Tuesday.
 The fourth member of the quartet, Sylvia Wilcox, originally charged with alleged stealing of trunk from Ruby Hazelwood, owner of Sitka house of prostitution, has been ar raigned and given until tomorrow at 10 o'clock in the morning to make a plea.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23
5F9CK QUOTATIONS

aAf XuRK, March 23 - Closing l4e9stiioH of Alaska Juneau Mine s'ek eciAy is 6Ss, American Can a naconda 31%, Beech Air .cfaat <, Bethlehem Steel 72as, Casf Wright 57s, International
 vest-r 77R, Kennecott 365s, Ncffa Aelerican Aviation 1Os, New folii 1ntral 23as, Northern Pacific e 5. Steel 6212.
 Jo ones averages today are as elloy Industrials, 15545; rails, as44 lities, 2760.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23
BRITISH pUSnIN6 MIpS50UTHWARD
 FROM MANDALAY
US. Marshal Orders Trans fer of Prisoners 10
 Other Places

CALCUTTA. March 23.-British Fourteenth Army troops swept south from the Mandalay area in Burma. steadily pinning the Japanese against other forces driving north from captured Meiktila.
 American and RAF bombers bat tered enemy communications and installations in Burma and Thailand, destroying 27 locomotives and col- lapsing six bridges in yesterdays op- erations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23
SPECTATORS SOAKED

cSDON-Hundreds of specta- suffered a thorough soaking a hose jerked itself from a hands during National Fire de Competitions at headquar- in Lambeth.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23
AfroeifY Of Nazis
 Reported
Fifty Italian Women and Children Burned Alive
 by Storm Troopers

NEW YORK, March 23-Count- ess Carlo Sforza said in a letter from Rome that German Storm Troopers, before they left Italy, had ctsd alive fifty women and chil- th flnme throwers.
 Tine Ger ans evidently take a
 disfic pieaure in revenging mili- afg osea on the Italians" the st g4M.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23

out rush call for speeding legis- lation last night that likely never before has been heard in Alaska Legislative halls when he declared, Let's get down to work and get this darn thing settled. I've got to sharpen my plowshares and get my crops in"
 Royal prerogative was to be given to Representative @ uee n" BesS Cross this afternoon in the ad- journment motion before the House of Representatives, the honor being handed over by the traditionally- entitled junior of the House, Stan ley McCutcheon.
 House Bill 30 the chiropractor bill, met death at the bitter end of the session this morning when the Senate rescinded its favorable vote. Also killed, by tabling vote, was Senate Bill Is, the Basic Heal irg bill The House refused to re- cede from amendments to the bill.
 Representative Taylor was voted Poet Laureate" of the Seventeenth House this morning on motion of Representative Maurice Johnson. Taylor read before the body comic poem that took in every member of the lower assembly. The Kodiak attorney drew big round of ap- plause.
 As House and Senate rifts over the Sa lmon pack tax measure ] widened in the midnight hours of last nights session, droll Repre- sentative Joe Diamond observed, This free conference committee business won't work What we need is a peace committee!"
 Passed yesterday by the House was Senate Substitute for House Bill 32, relative to recovery of stolen property as was Senate Substitute for House Bill 31 rela- tive to care of certain dependent children.
 Senate Bill IT was passed, a con- Ipanion measure to Walkers Senate Bill 24, raising liquor tax and re- Itn Cf to Nt,vN atnf merely plugs a loophole' in the law against transporting liquor in wholesale quantities to the Terri tory without paying tax.
 House Bill 85, the labor measure setting up an Industrial Accidnt Commission was laid on the table.
 Representative A. B. Cain Whiled away recess hours during the night by leading group singing in the boiler room.
 Mrs. Ernest Gruening was busy wi fey',oT and sandwiches dur in t4e rick session, setting u isone counter" in the HQl D0i oom'
 anGiul of the 40 mem t q M stature got any sleep l hic of those who were irot M inference committees vra 2Y ng to find out what aet gislators were doing. e rumors of an im-
 See al session heard in hs last night when the tax 9sh
 h 0le who have seen a great lore of each other dur ea sixty days than they 4 next sixty days are @Y ruening, boosting lib- sal .es a on with tax bills at the
 ead o ti list, Judge w. c. Ar l.Did uen industry counsel-at- ia1ee ist), who this session GEa ait5 lcl yht the ablest and most
 battle of his career ssans SC tax bills, and Labor s@01anis er Walter Sharpe, whose oat@s ish the Governor have
 s st-over- breakfast items
 M ation
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23
The W ashington Merry -Go Round
By DREW PEARSON tLt. Col. Robert S. Allen new on actfv' service with the Army

WASHINGTON = Governor Leh- mans UNRRA is doing its best to hush it up, but a very strange thing has happened in Greece. A British UNRRA worker was killed, and in his possession were found receipts for money paid by the British to Greek factions, to en- courage them to fight against each other.
 The incident was in no way the fault of Governor Lehman or his Washington staff, since the Near East UNRRA is under a British director.
 Here are the so far-suppressed facts as to what happened. The UNRAA worker who was killed was T.. F. T. Shepherd, chief of iNRRA's Greek Missions Intelli- -nce Division. On the rolls he as listed as Mister" Shepherd, out actually he was a colonel in
 Q British Army and had been in fA '-f dilu rOlCc loo.
 Col. Shepherd joined UNRRA right after the liberation of Athens, but during the while time up until his death he was acting for British Intelligence, though using the American flag on his car
 After he was killed, UNRRA of- ficials who took an inventory of property in the Colonen's hotel room found receipts for huge amounts of gold sovereigns. sThe receipts were dated October 22 to qop e-~ 29, four days before the aoa oke in Athens.
 T ,eipts said: T have re. ~ m MT L. F. R. Shepherd ed bag said to contain 100
 lt ereigns." These receipt
 led by Greek leaders e.
 royalist and right win
 ions. The accounts mer .4 u the receipts varied fro ia 'eigns to 2,000
 I 5. FLAG HAD INTRIGUE
 in Ter words, all during M rcgi9 when Greek political f. one ore trying to work out tn ean aoblems, a British Color dl lssd as an UNRRA worl ring Greek Royalist facti 10 lt the EAM-ELAS grf P wiAe had done most of the gl rsls fshting against the Germ aze the fighting started. Cgl I'd kept on stirring p ole. As an UNRRA officer, .aD l0sea on a mission of mercy h
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23
FROM DUNDAs BAY

MT. and Mrs. Horace H. Hach. of Dundas Bay, are guests at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23
GREAT PUSH
 OVER RHINE
 E TO START
Smoke Shrouds Movement of Big Armies Ready
 for Offensive

BULLETIN-LONDON,. March 23-The German radio tonight reported that American shock formations in amphibious tanks crossing the Rhine near Op- penheim, south of Mainz. were mostly wiped out" The broad cast also said elements of Pat tons Third Army made . cross- ing of the Rhine under strong artillery protection and artificial fog.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23

BULLETIN-LONDON, March 23-Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley told war correspondents tonight I've can cross the Rhine most any where and at anytime. He is Commander of the Twelfth Army group.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23
ALLIES SET FOR BIG CROSSING OF RHINE
Record Appropriation Passed By Legislature
IN THE HALLS

Representative Harry B a d CT, pioneer Fairbanks farmer, handed out rush call for speeding legis- lation last night that likely never before has been heard in Alaska Legislative halls when he declared, Let's get down to work and get this darn thing settled. I've got to sharpen my plowshares and get my crops in.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-03-23

tContinued on Page Thsee)
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Passed yesterday by the House was Senate Substitute for House Bill 32, relative to recovery of stolen property as was Senate Substitute for House Bill 31 rela- tive to care of certain dependent children.
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