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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
M0NCAY.IS TAKEN OVER
 BY CHINESE
Important Town Captured Following MutinY of
 PuDpet Troops

CHUNGKING, July 17.-Chinese forces have occupied Moncay, in the ncrtheasternmost corner of French Indc- China, the Chinese High Com mand announced today.
 Moncay is on the Chinese -Indo- Chinese border near the Gulf of Tonking Coast, 135 miles northeast of Hanoi, capital of Indochina, and SO miles southwest of Yunging (Nan- ning) in China.
 The High Command said that Chinese forces occupied the town after mutiny of puppet troops dir Iectly across the border in the Kwangtung province town of Tung Hing on July T. The puppet units surrendered to Chinese National forces with all their arms, the an- nouncement said.
 Meanwhile, some 500 miles to the northeast, Chinese vanguards have iinfiltrated into the outskirts of Kweilin, former American air base city 90 miles northeast of recently recaptured Liuchow, the Chinese an nounced.
 Other troops pushing up the Hun an-Kwansi railroad from Liu- chow have advanced to within 40la miles of Kweilin, an airfield base abandoned last October by the U. s 14th Air Force.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
Worlds 5 Largest AirpIane,
 The Hercules, Gefs Preview

CULVER CITY, Calf. July IT, The worlds largest airplane-a fly ing boat-of such tremendous size that it could cnly be exhibited in sections, has had it's first previcw and left the prcviwers astounded.
 The huge plane is being built at the Howard Hughes plant here and has been named the Hercules. Here are some statistics announced by the company.
 Cost: In excess of S2000o,000.
 Weight: 425,000 pounds.
 Wingspread: 320 feet.
 Hull: .22O feet. long, 30 feet high 25 feet wide.
 Engines: Eight in all, each of B. 900 horsepower capacity.
 Gasoline capacity: 14,000 gallons
 Sponsor; U. S.. Defense Plant Cor poration. s
 The Hercules, begun in l943, will not be ready for flight tests before next January. General Manager Charles w. Perelle, of the Hughes plant, says there are no. plans foi duplicating the monster ship.
 When the Hercules takes off il will be able to carry Cotton tank with full complement of armor ane men. Or, it can carry three ligh' tanks and equipment. It can become mobile hospital, with $50 patients and stretchers, surgery facilities ant plenty of doctors and nurses. And i could. engineers say, carry 75' soldiers equipped.
 The Hercules will have .tol speed, engineers say, of about 2l' miles an hour and cruising speed of about 157 miles per hour.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17

|pEACE-kEEpING
 POLICE POWERS
 UP TO TRUMAN
That Is Prediction of Sen- dfors on Proposed
 World Security

WASHINGTON, July IT. = Two Republican Senators predicted soday that Congress will authorize the President to exercise peace-keeping police powers at his discretion.
 This would settle the controversy over authority to be granted the American representative on the pro- posed World Security Council of the United Nations.
 Senators Vandenberg of Michigan and Millikin of Colorado said in sep arate interviews they believe the Foreign Relations Committee point cd the way toward solution of this issue in it's formal report recom- mending ratification of the United Nations Charter.
 The committee report declared that any attempt to require advance Congressional approval in each in- stance before American troops could be used at the direction of the Coun- cil would violate the spirit" of the charter
 Such a proposal may be made by Senator Bushfield tR.-S. D. and others when subsequent enabling legislation is considered.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
TRAINING IN
 PEACE TIME
 0(0NTINuE
Ban on Con- puIsory Military Service
 Not 10 Be Realized

LONDON, July IT. II Responsible British quarters said today they saw little hope for immediate reali- zation of worldwide ban on com- pulsory peacetime military service proposed in Washington by Rep Martin (R-Mass), House minority leader.
 An admirable suggestion one which, follows the point of view of the British Government after the last war said a Foreign Office co,nmentator, but added:
 Tt is unlikely that it will be ac- cepted /"
 The Foreign Office spokesman sad one obstacle was that "so niany~ continental countries regard compulsory military training as one of the normal duties of citizenship
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
FOUR U-B0AT5
 STILL MISSING

LONDON, July 17.-Four German submarines on the Admiralty's list of U-boats known to have been commissioned before VIE day still are not definitely accounted for, an Admiralty spokesman said to- day. But he expressed belief they probably are at the bottom of the sea.
 The submarine U-530, which sur rendered to Argentine authorities at Mar Del Plata recently was one of five known German submarines which were not surrendered but cannot positively be recorded as destrcyed, the spokesman said.
 He explained that records listed them as doubtful. sinkings."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
YOUNG SEAMAN I5 HELD, DEATH CASE;
 NUDE BODY FOUND

MIAMI, Fla. July TIA l9-year- old seaman was held today in the death of Mrs. Ella Mae Flames, 42, wife of a former Army Chaplain, whose nude body was found in a blind alley.
 It Condr. Richard Griffin, com- mandlng officer of the youth, Will liam Wells Parker, of Toledo, Ohio, quoted him as saying he hit the woman with a beer bottle in his hotel room and dumped her body into the alley.
 In Boston, Owen w. Flames, 43, former Springfield, Mass, pastor ard discharged Army chaplain, said he and his wife had been estranged for four years and he had seen her irifrequently.
 I'm terribly sorry she had to go this way he said What terrible way to go."
 He said there were three children.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
SH0RTAGE0F
 SOME FOODS
 IS CERTAIN
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson Makes
 Frank Report

WASHINGTON, July 17.-Positive steps are under way to increase food production but not much relief from shortages can be expected before next years production season.
 Secretary of Agriculture Ander- son gave this picture in frank report" in which he also said his department will try to obtain better distribution of available supplies.
 He said the department will seek supplementary production and sup plies in other parts of the world, es- pectially South America.
 Tn the fact of our great demands, we can expect that for many months to come there will be difficult short ages of important items of food, . Anderson said. Meats, food fats and vegetable oils, sugar, condensed and evaporated milk, and canned fruits and vegetables will continue short, he said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
NAVAL TASK :. FORCE HITf
 JAPAN HARD
Graft Stedm to Within &9 Miles of Tokyo fot:;s
 Bombardment
By HAMILTON AARON Associated Press War Cofrespsndcpt,

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 GUAM, July MA daring Amer ican Naval task force steamed to within 80 miles of Tokyo tonight Japan time, and bomharded induss trial targets around Hitachi on the heels of an eight hour raid by 1.5oc planes from, American and British carrier planes in the area of the Japanese capital
 Adm. Chester w. Nimitz anno,in- ced the bombardment while it was still underway only few hours af- ter he reported carrier planes had knocked out 374 Nipponese vessels and l29 locomotives in their week. end sweep over Northern Japan
 The new battleship Iowa with her blazing l6-inch guns led that born- bardment group in the closest ap- proach of any U. s. Naval task force to the Japanese capital.
 A curtain of steel from the Iowa and supporting cruisers and destroy CTS hammered at Hitachi's vital copper smelter and aircraft parts plants. previous target of Marianas- based Superforts which sent nearly 500 planes flashing at four other Nip ponese cities today.
 It was the third naval lombard ment of Japan's vulnerable coastal industries within four days. The Iowa presumably led the lombard ment ships in close to shore for the night attack against the industrial ------------------- ----- VI ~---- (COntfnued on Page Thyee1
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
CHIEFS OF
 2 NATIONS
 HAVE TALK
President, Premier, with Ranking Officials, To-
 qether in Potsddm

TSDAM, July 17.-Premler 5talin conferred with President Truman at the Little White House today in company with their rank :ng foreign affairs officials few hours before the world-shaping Big Three conference was scheduled to start
 The Generalissimo, attired as a marshal of the Soviet Union, was accompanied by Foreign Commissar Vvachleslav Molotov. They were guests at luncheon of the President and Secretary of State James F. Bvrnes The party talked for an hour.
 The atmosphere of secrecy sur rounding the delayed start of the conference with Prime Minister Churchill was heightened during the murky, cloudy morning by three mysterious explosions in the Rus sian zone of Berlin.
 The two Soviet leaders arrived
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
ADM. NIMITz
 TELLS ABOUT NEW ATTACKS
Current Fleet Bombdrd- ment of Jap Homeland
 Is Just Starter
By LIEF ERICKSON Associated Press C0rrespondent)

GUAM, July IT. - Current fleet bombardment of the Japanese homeland is the ''preinvasion stage" of the war, Fleet Adm. Chester w. Nimitz stated today while in Washington Vice Adm. Daniel Bar bey warned bluntly that invasion of either Japan or China may not wait until the end of the -typhoon season.
 Nimitz, hroadcas ing to the United States just AS minutes after flashing the announcement that the combined U. s. and British Pacific fleets were making the most powerful carrier plane at tacks of the war on the Tokyo area, said:
 The 16-inch guns of our battle ships. opening fire on industrial targets on Honshu and Hokkaido, tSsturday and Sunday also opened an era in which we dominate the Pacific approaches to Japan, and wlen necessary the air above Japan
 At this-the preinyasion stage we rely upon two principal strate- gies to further 1t: First, an ever- tightening blockade of Japan's home islands; second. destruction Ly smelling and bombing of every industry and resource which con- tributes to Japans ability to make war"
 Barbey, Comman of the Seventh Amphibious Force which landed Gen Douglas MacArthur's troops on many Southwest Pacific islands and the Philippines, in an NBC radio interview, said weather is an important invasion factor but 1t will take more than big wind to stop us."
 The typhoon season virtually ends in October, but rough weather may be expected throughout the winter in the Western Pacific.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
BIG THREE
 CONFERENCE
 IS STARTED
Pacific War Reported High on List of Topics for
 Discussion
By Daniel De Luce and Ernest B..
 VaccarO

By Daniel De Luce and Ernest E.
 VaccarO
 Associated Press CorrespOndents) POTSDAM, July IT, - The Big Three conference opened this after noon with a minimum of formali- ties amid indications that Presi- dent Truman, Premier Stain and Prime Minister Churchill had the Pacific war high on the list of topics
 (The Moscow radio said MT. Tru- man was to preside)
 The conference is expected to lay the framework of the German peace treaty and to seek settle- ment of many worldwide ques- tions that hold the answer to the future peace of Europe.
 MT. Truman's first objective as he began conversations with the leaders of Great Britain and Rus sia was reported to be the early defeat of Japan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
PREMIER l00NG E BACK IN CHINA

CHUNGKING. July 17.-Premier IT. V. Soong returned today from Moscow after visit of more than two weeks in the Russian Capital during which he conferred with Premier Stalin and other high Sov- jet officials.
 Soong was accompanied on his return to Chungking by Appollon Petrov, Soviet Ambassador to China.
 The Chinese Premier had been in Moscow since June 30 and had had four meetings with Stalin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
American, British FIattop Forces Hammer Tokyo
 and Other Areas 374 JApANESE SHIPS
 SENT DOWN, ! DAYS
Airdromes, Military InsidI- Idiions Are 1drgeis- !.
 Four Cities Fired
By HAMILTON ". FARON Associated Press War Corrcspondentj


 GUAM, July l7.-American carrier planes destroyed or damaged 374 Japanese vessels and 129 locomotives in a fantastically successful two-day sweep over northern Japan last week end, Adm. Chester w. Nimitz an- nounced today as i,500 U. g. and British sea-borne aircraft raked the Tokyo area. Today's Tokyo raid was the first combined American British opera ton in the pre- invasion attacks on Japan, and the heaviest sea-horne air attack ever made. l.,
 Havoc on Sea, Land
 Newly announced havoc to Japa- nese seaNand fas1d cothfnsinicaticrs in northern Japan was added to de- struction of three steel mills In Muroran and Wamaisiii in the first Naval bombardments of the enemy homeland by. Adm William T. tH1lf) Halseyis Thnd Fleet. zsfe,ss- st ft The revised toll Of carfier dam4ee last Saturday and Sunday included: Sunk--l40 ships and surface crefff totaling 71,o0O tons, and includitfg nine small warships.
 Damaged--234 vessels, totaling 38,-. 900 tons and including ten warcraft.
 Tokyo Hammered
 Retiring to the attack today, the same carrier airmen combined for the first time with British fiattop forces to hammer Tokyo and its
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
First American Troops
 From Europe Now in
 patifit Fighiing Zone

MANILA, July 17.-The first Am erican service troops shipped di- reclly into the Pacific war zone from Europe without trip home arrived here today to wet, sloshy welcome after a months journey from Italy.
 The 4,275 veterans of Africa, Sic fly and Italy landed on a muddy Manila dock in the damp dawn. Two bands played as the men moved from LCMS to freight cars which carried them to their new
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
SHOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, July IT. = Closing quotations Of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7ls, American Can 947s, Anaconda B, Curtiss- Wright 67s, International Harvester 84, Ken necott 37ls, New York Central 26h Northern Pacific 287s, U. s. Steel 67as, Pound $4033s.
 Sales today totalled l,560,000 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages, today are as follows: Industrials, 162.43; rails, 5763; utilities, 32.68.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
The w ashington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON It. Col. Robert & Allen nnw on active service with the Army.)

WASHINGTON = Senators prob ing the question of the extent to which American business helped Hitler. have unearthed very in- teresting document written by pr. H. F. Albert, Chairman of the Ford Auto Works in Germany be- fore the war, in which he urges upon the Nazi Government the im- portance of cooperation with Ameri- can business.
 This whole question of whether American business will continue to cooperate with Germany after this war, as after the last, is sure to turk in the background of Presi- dent Truman's Berlin talks. There is a definite school of thought in both Britain and the United States which advises building up Germany again as a buffer against Russia. Unfortunately the presence of rep resentatives of Standard Oil, the Mellon interests, J. P. Morgan, and other powerful business corpora tions now in American uniform in Germany does not allay these Rus sian suspicious.
 Senator Kilgore of West Virginia has been studying this whole prob- lem ard expects to make public the Ford document soon. It was written November 25, 1941--12 days before Pearl Harbor-in the form of a confidential memorandum by Dr. Albert, Chairman of the Board of Ford -Werke A. G. in Cologne Originally, Ford owned all of the German plant, but in 1928 he per- mitted the sale of 40 per cent of it's stock to German buyers, he re- taining 52 per cent.
 Just before Pearl Harbor, pr. AL bert urged in his confidential memorandum that this 52 per cent American stock majority should not be diminished but should be used "to bring the remaining European Ford companies under German in- fluence
 He argued that if the American ownership was eliminated. the Ger mans would lose the transmittal of the newest American models as well aG the insight into American production and sales methods. The maintenance of this connection was in the German interest" pr. Albert urged.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17

camp B miles south of here.
 They came from nearly every service branch of the Fifth Army, ranging from railway construction to bridge repair and ordnance.
 The first man ashore was Pvt. Joe Archilla of New York City. He ended one of the swiftest boom- erang trips on Army records. He left Newport News, Va, last April 5 for Italy, then turned around and headed for the Pacific.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
] BARGES LOST
 ON BERING SEA

NOME, Alasza, July l7.--Frank Williams of Seattle, owner and skipper of the motor tug Meteor, lost two barges enroute from Nome to Unalakleet on Sunday during a high wind.
 A Vein Airlines plane was scarching Boring Sea hoping to di- rect rescue before the barges were wrecked on the beach.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
WE'D HERE MONDAY

Jack w. Thompson and Alice Elaine Beck, both of Juneau. were wed her yesterday at ceremony performed by Pastor E. E. Jensen, of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Witnesses to the wedding were Lorraine Provansha and Jack Provansha.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
SITKA MEN HERE

Fred Easley, E. s. Carter, Fred McNutty and Argyll Dennard, of ssitka. are guests at the Bafanof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
MIR. MRS. THOMPSON HERE

MT. and Mrs. Jack w. Thomp- son, of Cincinnati, are guests al The Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
RoGNE HERE

N H. Rogne, of Hawk Inlet, i: a guest at the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
HOW FORD HELPED NAZIs

Dr. Albert told how the Ford plant at Cologne had been turned more and more into German company, even though the majority of stock was still held ill the United States. Tn detailing the benefits Ford had given to the Nazis. he said:
 "In connection with this. all
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-17
BULLE I ! N 5

ASTORIA, Ore.-Fishermen were still waiting for the main tuna strike today, as radio reports from sea indicated a few albacore now sight ed One boat reported catch of 150 albacore over the weekend, and several others hauled in 100 tuna. The industry anticipates million case pack this season.
 WASHINGTON-The Senate Fi- nance Committee has approved the nomination of Fred M. Vinson as Treasury Secretary and J. w. Snid- ar, as War Mobilization Director The action was taken without the formality of hearing.
 WASHINGTON-A bill has been introduced in Congress to liberalize compensation for war-injured vet erans. The measure was submitted today by Republican Representative Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachu- setts. It would increase payments of most classes of disability The rate would be determined by the degree of disability.
 1 MADRID -- Generalissimo Fran cisco Franco proclaimed tonight that l Spain was entering period of preparation for monarchy in which "the essentials of our movement are guaranteed"
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The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-13
beIImR Resumes
Key testimony
Goes Under
Heavy Cross Fire

PONTIAC, Mich, Dec. 13 -
R-After relating the story OF
his attempted suicide, Edward
Bellm was called to the witness
stal.d again today at his examin-
alton on q charge of numbering
Mrs. Alberta Rose Young.
Prosecutor Dona' c. Noggle
and his Chief Assistant, L. Har-
vey Lodge, said their cross
examination of the former De-
troit police lieutenant would be
full and complete"
In q packed courtroom, Bellm
read the blood-spattered notes
he wrote before slashing his
wrists in the Oakland county
Jail. The suicide attempt was
made while he was being held
for questioning in the Staying OF
Mrs. Young the night of Oct. 80
II thought Of my wife, my lit.
tie girl (the child Mr.. and Mrs
Bellm planned to adopt) and all
my friends - and everything
went black" he said, his voice
shaking with emotion. II was
being accused of q crime did
not commit and the whole thing
went black in my mind"
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-13
GM SEEKS CURB ON PICKET|NG
Pad Designed
10 End Friction
in mid-East
Powers Move to
Arrest Disorders in
Syrio, Lebanon

LONDON.-De 13 - @ -
Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin
told Commons today ~! Britain
and France have agreed to joint
withdrawal of their troops from
Syria and Lebanon. e.
Signed in London today, the
British French agreement pro-
cides for close alignment Of pol.
icy in the Near East with the
object of settling unrest mark
ed seven months ago by armed
clashes in a Syrian demand for
independence from France.
JOINT INTERESTS
"The two governments" said
an official announcement, "have
recognized that it was in their
joint interest to encourage, with
in the framework of information.
al collaboration, the economic
wen being and security of the
peoples of the Middle East"
Bevin told the House Of Com
mons that Britain and France
were equally desirous Of assur-
ing to Syria and Lebanon the
full exercise of the independence
proclaimed by France In 1912"
French and British military
men will meet at Beyrouth on
Dec. 21 to fix an early date for
the first measures of evacua-
tion, he added.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-13
Divorces Same
Woman Twice

Circuit Judge James e. Spier
today granted John Desmet, so,
of Mount Clemens, his second
divorce from wife, Helen, after
a one day marriage. Their first
venture lasted % years.
Desmet testified he remarked
in Detroit Aug, 4, l943, only
eight months after Judge Spier
ended the first marriage. He said
he gave his wife $40 fol. q hair
do the day after their second
marriage only to find her q few
hours later drinking in q Mount
Clemens tavern with another
man.
How many times do you ex-
rect me to divorce you from the
same woman" Judge Spier ask
ed? Desmet indicated he plans
neither q third marriage nor
divorce-at least not with Hell
en-.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-13
Illegal Tatfits
Cited in Plea
iofInjunffion
Company Charges
UAW-CIo Abuses
Strike Privileges


DETROIT, Dec. 13-(R)-Gen-
eral Motors Corp. sought an in
junction today against a striking
Cleveland Local of the CLOS
United Auto Workers Union, al
leging illegal Picketing" at the
Fisher Body plant in that city.
The corporations move, in
which it charged threats and
personal abuse" were used
against non-striking trying to
enter the Cleveland plant, was
made as negotiations over the
picketing issue were in progress.
VITAL POINT
General Motors, whose pro-
duction has been halted % days
by the UAW-CIO's strike over
a 80 per cent wage increase de-
mand, with 213,00O workers idle,
has insisted heretofore that the
picketins question be ironed out
before the wage discussions.
Subsequently, however, GM has
talked wages with the union.
The petition for an Injunction
was asked in Common Pleas
Court in Cleveland and, accord
ing to q General Motors an
nouncement here specifically
named an incident Of Tuesday
when 800 employees allegedly
were prevented from entering
the plant.
The pickets, General Motors
said. mot only physically barred
the way" of the employees but
by threats and personal abuse
intimidated them and kept them
rom entering. Driveway to park
ing lots were blocked, General
Motors said, and drivers seek
ing to enter were told they
would do 80 at-the risk Of per-
sonal injury and damage to their
cars"
General Motors asked the In
junction against Cleveland Lo-
cal As of the UAW-CIO and 80
s s. IKE-Page 10
The daily monitor leader., 1945-12-13
Piggery Writ
is Requested

Chesterfield Township Off
cials today asked Circuit Judge
James E. Spier to grant . per-
manent injunction restraining
Adalph Benoit from conducting
a piggery at his farm on New
Haven road near Salt Creek.
Supervisor Adolph Veryser,
Clerk Leo Blakeley and Town
ship Health Officer Marcellus
Meldrum testified in support OF
their claim q township ordinance
prevents the hauling of garbage
into the township. Benoit feeds
garbage to the hogs, they said.
Jean B. Damman, Matilda
Huck and Hubert Huck, neigh
bors, testified the piggery con-
stitutes no nuisance. George w.
John Is appearing for the town
ship and Samuel w. Barr for
Benoit.