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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-10
RESISTANCE WEST FRONT
 CRUkBLING
Time Nears when Allies Will Declare Organized
 Warfare al End
By YVES GALLAGHER
 ZAP War Cc-reSpondent

HAMELIN, Germany. April 10--A juncture between British, American and Russian forces may well be the time chosen for the three powers to declare all organized warfare in Germany at an end.
 Such declaration would give German soldiers one of two choices: they could either surrender and be treated as prisoners of war or con- tinue fighting and be hunted down as Franc Tireurs or guerrillas, hav- ing no legal military status.
 Judging by the morale of German troops captured in the past two weeks there is little doubt what the German soldiers choice would be, as those still willing to die for the Fuhrer are few and far between.
 The Western Front is now that in name only as no real German front is left. Resistance now being encountered by American forces, except in the Ruhr pocket. is un- organized and little more than strong guerrilla opposition.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-10
VIENNA FALL NOW
 IMMINENT
Red Storm Units Battle for Last Few Blocks of City
 -Koenigsberg Taken

LONDON, April 10.-Russian for ces beyond Vienna headed for Mu- nich and Prague. and linkup witt Allies in the west, as Soviet Storm Units within the Austrian capita battled the Germans for the last few blocks of the city. Moscow ra- dio said the fall of Vienna is i'm minent."
 Far to the north, other Russian troops along the Baltic Coast cap tured the East Prussian capital ot Kcenigsberg after a massive 33- hour barrage had softened the three lines of Qualifications surrounding the cradle of Prussian militarism.
 Seizure of Koenigsberg was hailed by the Russian press as one of the great victories of the war, compar- able with the preaching of the Sieg- fried Line on the west.
 A Moscow dispatch said Marshal Tolbukhin's army is making start ling progress in it's drive west oi Vienna toward Linz and Munich The Army's exact position was not given, however, since the Germans in many sectors are unaware of the scope of the Russian advance be- low Vienna.
 Another wing of Tolbukhin's $ army thrust to within 133 miles of Hitlers mountain retreat at Berch- tesgaden, Moscow dispatches report ed. Marshal Tolbukhin's forces crossed the Danube immediately north and west of Vienna near Nuzsdorf, and are believed to have gotten across some 12 miles farth- CT upstream in the vicinity of Tullin, in their thrust aimed at Prague, 139 miles away.
 German forces are reported to have fought to death behind street barricades in Vienna. Only 1700 Nazis surrendered during the night and-day-long fighting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-10

 vows ERIE
 NOT HAVEN
Says War Criminals Will Find No Sanctuary in
 Bril-. Commonwealth

LONDON. April 10.--Britain's Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. today implied that he will see to it that no war criminals will find san- ctuary in neutral Fire.
 The question arose in the House of Commons when Dr. James Little. Presbyterian minister in Belfasts, asked Churchill whether he would take steps to make sure no war criminals find sanctuary in any country embraced within the British Commonwealth of Nations In a written reply, Churchill ayowed. Yes, Sir"
 Fire, whose leaders have challeng- ed the contention that Southern Ireland is part of the British Com monwealth, has evaded giving the Allies flat assurances that Axis war criminals will be banned from that country.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-10
STRONGHOLD. OF HANN0vER IS ENTERED
Ninth Army Tanks, Infantry Make Crash Into Burn
 ing City Today

PARIS, April 10 = Ninth Army tanks and infantry crashed into the burning Prussian stronghold of Hanover late today, and reached a point to the east on the Super highway only 120 miles from Berlin.
 At the same time, First Army armored troops to the south, ad- vanced "A miles to the Hartz Noun tains, reaching a point 60 miles from the Elbe River, just south of the large supply base of Nord- hausen, 115 miles from Berlin.
 Gen Hodges First Army, in their new drive punching across the narrowing waist of Germany toward the Russian seige lines in the east, were at last reports no more than 150 miles from the Russians in some sectors, as Hodges tanks headed down a corridor by-passing the towering Hartz Mountains on their left.
 Attempt To Relieve Pocket
 Pilots have reported the Ger mans are sending air transports into the shrinking death pocket by night in attempts to salvage what they could of the 100000 or more Nazis sealed off between the First and Ninth Armies.
 Third Army columns have ad- vanced to within two and one-half miles of Erfurt, and 63 miles of Leipzig. Other troops of the Third Army are within three miles of Coburg and 50 miles from the Czechoslovakian frontier.
 German reports said the Ameri- cans who by-passed Hanover had
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-10
ARMY(0RpS IS HELD 10
 SMALL GAIN
Japanese D efenses De. seribed as "Siegfried
 Line" "-Bombarded
By MURLIN SPENCER
 ZAP War Correspondent

GUAM, April 10--The heaviest artillery duel of the Pacific, likened to major battles of the European theatre, blazed through the third successive day Monday, on Okinawa and held Twenty-Fourth Army Corps troops to small gains, while Marines to the north pushed rapidly ahead
 One artillery officer described the Japanese defenses around Naha as the "Okinawa Siegfried Line" Marine field pieces joined Army artillery, ships guns and bombers in increasingly heavy bombardment of the enemys well-fortified positions in the cave-pocked rugged hill country The combined lombard ment destroyed Japanese gun. em- placements, barracks and small craft, Admiral Chester w. Nimitz reported in his communique.
 Gain On Peninsula
 Meantime, Maj. Gen. Roy $. Geiger's Marine Third Anphibious Corps moved ahead 5000 to 4,000 yards to gain control of half Of Motobu Peninsula against resist ance described by Nimitz as scat tered and ineffective" and are now near the town of Kushibaru, about three miles north of the base of the peninsula.
 Held To Small Gains
 Maj. Gen. Hodges Twenty Fourth Arm Corps troops were held to small gains by Japanese ar tillery and increasingly heavy small arms and machine-gun fire, their positions remaining virtually un- changed Monday night they were still two miles north of Machinato Airdrome, while it is another two miles to Naha, capital city of Okinawa. On the east they re- mained more than a mile from the town of Yonabaru and it's still un- completed airfield, as the heaviest
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-10
WeIIna1 HoIbrook Will !. Leave Forest Service
 Al End of This Month

After 38 years and seven months with the U. s. Forest Service, We'll man Holbrook, Assistant Regional Forester for Alaska, is about to clean out his desk in the Forest Service Office here, making ready to go into retirement on April 30, I it was made known today.
 At present MT Holbrook is aboard a Forest Service vessel enroute back to Juneau from Sitka where he has been engaged on land re- classification work for the past week. He is expected back at his headquarters here by the end of this week.
 The first dozen years of MT Hol- brooks career was spent in the Montana Forests, following which he spent about one year away from the service. in 1917 Re-joining, he immediately came to Alaska and has remained with the Forest Ser vice here since then. Among his immediate plans following his re- tirement is the construction of a river boat in which he will make a long desired journey down the 1900 miles of the Yukon river next summer-"a foresters holidayl"
 When an additional Is months spent with the Post Office, at Great Falls, Montana, in 1904 and 1905 is added, MT. Holbrook's career as public servant lacks only two months of reaching a full two-score years.
 Started In 1905
 MT Holbrook started out with the Forest Service as a temporary as- sistant on April 18, 1905. He be- came interested in the work through contact on an elk hunt with Frank D., Haun, a forest ranger, who met MT Holbrook and his two hunting companions. MT. Holbrook was 19 years old at the time and was greatly impressed by
 
 the appearance and knowledge pos sessed by the ranger.
 MT Holbrook received his first permanent appointment as a forest guard on June l, 1905, at Neihart, Montana, the Supervisors head quarters for the Little Belt Forest Reserve, now known as the Lewis and Clark National Forest. He was required to furnish saddle horse and a pack animal, with feed and equipment; also a camp outfit all for a salary of S60 a month. An examination for Forest Ranger had been announced, but no date set Because MT. Holbrook was under 21 at the time, he could not take the examination and Major Fenn, then Superintendent of all Forest reserves of the Northwest. sug- gested that he be let go and some one else employed for training as a ranger. However, the supervisor kept him on and the examination was delayed for one reason and another until July 3l and on Aug ust 1, 1905, MT. Holbrook reached his majority and became eligible
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-10
Jeep Adds New Note To Wild West Rodeo

KARACHI, India The Indians went wild over their first wild vest rodeo, but it was the Tanks who really appreciated MiSgt Will liam Rhor's crowning exhibition.
 The Phoenix, Ariz., lad came out with new Army 'wrinkle-jeep bulldogging. He leaped from a jeep going 30 miles an hour, caught the steers horns in the finest form and had the animal grounded in IS sec onds.
 The rodeo was staged in front of the governor of Sind's palace.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-10
BA(KFIRE CAUSES
 FIRE OR GASB0AT

At 1:25 o'clock this afternoon, the fire alarm rang 5-3, when the Eliot, a small fishing craft owned by E A. McCullock, had caught fire from a back-fire coming into contact with gasoline dripping from the motor. It was immediately extin- guished, however, with both the Juneau Fire Department and the Coast Guard on the job. No dam age was reported except for smoke, which smudged the craft up bit. This, however, did not seem to worry the owner, as it needed painting anyway"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-10
Versatility

BATON ROUGE, La-Louisiana State Universitys sport oddity IS Jim Cason, freshman tailback with the Tigers last fall He passes with his right hand, but punts with his left foot.
 As first baseman, he throws and hits left handed, but in softball he pitches with his right arm and bats left-handed.
 In basketball he dribbles With his left hand, but loops most of his shots from the right-hand side.
 As a handy" m..n around the dinner table-he eats left-handed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-10
MINARn MILL BACK

Minard Mill, Jr, son of MT. and Mrs. Minard Mill, has returned to Juneau after month spent in the States. He has reentered Juneau High School.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-10
SEES BOARD HERE

I. M. 0. Anderson, Alaska Di- rector for the Farm Security Ad- ministration, conferred in Juneau today with members of the Alaska Development Board at their final meeting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-10
HEIDE IN JUNEAU

H. E. Heide, Representative for the Bureau of Mines, has arrived in Juneau from Glendale, Calif., and is a guest of the Gastineau Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-10
CLAIMS END OF WARFARE
 E IN SIGHT
Premier Fl Koury Says Ces- safion of HostiIities
 Is Imminent

LONDON, April 10.-Premier Fl Khoury told the Syrian National Assembly he has received informa- tion from High Allied sources of news that cessation of hoStilities is imminent
 Reuters makes this report in a dispatch from Damascus.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-10
FI.OE VISITS JUNEAU

Hans Floe, cannery superintend- ent, has arrived in Juneau and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-10
The w ashingto Merry -Go Round
By DREW PEARSON u&. Col. Robert g. Allen now on activ' service with the Army.S

WASHINGTON - Believe 1t or not, but Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace has been carefully studying the work of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, and has paid private tribute to him. One of Hoover's closest advisers, when he was Secretary of Com merce was Dr. Julius Klein, Di- rector of the Bureau. of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, later As sistant Secretary of Commerce.
 Twice, Wallace has called Klein in to ask his advice on the reor- ganization of the new Commerce Department
 Wallace also droLped signifi- cant remark to business callers the other day about Hooves, He said that Herbert Hoover unqucstion- ably was the best organizer and had the greatest vision of any Secretary of Commerce in recent history
 It is predicted by some of those around Wallace that he will go back to a lot of Hoover's ideas about running the Commerce De- partment. This probably will mean a clash with the State Department on the important point of foreign trade. Hoover had his own experts stationed abroad to report on foreign trade. But Harry Hopkins let this be taken over by the State Department. Many businessmen have urged that it be transferred back.
 #
 EX-SENATOR
 GILLETTE TESTIFIES
 One of the most tiresome things ahollt CongressiOnal hearings are
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-10
New Speed, Duration
 Records Will Be Sci
 When Conditions Ripe
Bv JAMES J. STREBIG AP Auation Editor

WASHINGTON, April 10-Avia- tion is ready to make new speed and duration records as soon as condi- tions permit.
 The National Aeronautics Asso- ciation Contest Board, which is the United States representative of the Federation Aeronautique Interna- tionale (FAD, the world organiza- tion, has entered but two new marks since Pearl Harbor.
 Both were established last May 12 by North American P-51Mustang fighters. One set nonstop Los Angeles to New York mark of hours, 39L2 minutes. The other made a one-stop trip in 6 hours, 311a minutes. The last previous record was duration flight of hour, 3213 minutes for helicopter, set by Igor I. Sikorsky on May 6, l94l.'
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A number of aircraft devoted sole
 ly to war service now are tugging for a chance at cross-continental and world speed marks. The C-97 which in private life will be the Bceing BIT Stratocruiser. and the Lockheed C-69, which will fly air. ways as the Constellation and which
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Those marks have been overshad- owed by subsequent performances The Boeing C-97, a transport yer sion of the B-29 superfortress weighing as least ten times as much as Mustang, flew almost casually aross the country in hours and minutes. It was not record attempt, had been scheduled a month in advance and there was no official timing. The helicopte1 mark has been exceeded considerab- ly, and the helicopter itself has been put to war work
 One of the early problems with new marks will be modernization of recording equipment for record at tempts. including paragraph geared to the tremendous attitudes at which planes now fly
 MA established a transport cate gory last fall This provides that the airplane involved be a licensed model, accepted by the Civil Aero nautics Administration, carry full load, and have no alterations from the standard model.
 Routes for competition may be between any two points the board finds reasonable, and Miami to New York already has been estab- lished as a course at the request of carrier eager to try for a record when conditions permit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-04-10
Ex-SENATOR
GILLETTE TESTIFIES

One of the most tiresome things about Congressional hearings are
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Evening star., 1945-08-11
Religious Cults Snake
Found MIXED Of Poison
Er The Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
7 RICHMOND, Va, Aug. 11.-Path-
ologists at the Medical College OF.
Virginia Hospital here reported yes--
terday that an examination OF the.
baby" copperhead moccasin, seized
Sunday by State troopers at faith
healers snake-handling demonstra-
ton at Stone Greek, had failed TO =
reveal any trace of poison in the
reptiles venom sacs.
The copperhead was turned over
to pathologists by Talmott E. Clarke.
executive director of the Commls-
sion of Game and Inland Fisheries
and an heptologist, after he had
dissected the small snake and made
minute examination of its fangs
and poison sacs He reiterated his
previous announcement that In his
opinion the reptile had been
"milked" of it's venom.
A demonstration is scheduled to-
morrow at Stone Creek by the sect
but Gov. Darden yesterday evaded
answering question as to whether
or not he would send State police
| there.
Evening star., 1945-08-11
Lufherans Break Ground
Tomorrow for Day School

The congregation Of Trinity
Evangelical Lutheran Church, Mount
Rainier. Md, tomorrow will lay the
cornerstone of a new Christian day
school at Thirty-seventh and Lega-
ton streets, Hyattsville.
The church had sought to build
the school in Mount Rainier, ad-
jacent to its church building, but
the Mount Rainier mayor and coun-
Gil refused to issue a building per-
init despite approval for construc-
ton by the Prince Georges County
Commissioners.
The new building, which will have
three class rooms and an auditor
ium, will accommodate ITO pupils.
Located on one-acre site, building
plans call for construction Of play
grounds adjoining the school.
The Rev. william Schiebel of the
Mount Olivet Congregation, WASH
ington, will deliver the main ad-
dress at cornerstone ceremonies.
Evening star., 1945-08-11

volume of crops ever produced II
this Nation are record yields o!
wheat, oats, peanuts, rice, peaches
pecans and commercial truck crops
near-record crops of hay, tobacco
soy beans, sugar cane and some
fruit crops and large yields of pota.
toes, sorghum grains and fiaxseed
Agriculture officials admittedly
had been concerned over prospect!
for corn production, needed badly
for livestock feed and for food anc
manufacturing plants.
Favorable weather in July in.
creased the prospects and on thu
basis of August conditions tht
board forecast a corn crop of 3.
844, ,478,000 bushels compared witt
it's July l prediction of 2,685 1923 ,00t
and last years production of 3,228,,
361 900.
Below Peak Years.
While below the three successive
three-billion bushel crops of 1912
l943 and 1914, the production woulo
exceed that of any year in the pre-
ceding two decades except 1923 ane
1882.
Much of the corn acreage still il
backward. however. and may have
to be Salvaged as fodder or sileage
1t will require good growing weather
Evening star., 1945-08-11
House Group Urges
u. 5. Pacific Bases
REGARDLESS Of Cost
Ry the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated PfeSS.
A House committee has recon-
mended unanimously that the
United States retain bases in all
areas of the Pacific irrespective of
cost" as "a comparatively inexpen-
sive form of national insurance
The recommendation was in a
report of House Merchant Marine
subcommittee, just returned from a
80 2.000-mile inspection trip to the
Pacific. The group Travelled as part
of House Naval Affairs Committee
studying postwar bases
The naval groups formal report
expected to be made public next
week. will offer a similar recon-.
mendatiop, it was reported, with
out specifying what islands should
be retained as bases.
While strategic military factor.
should control the selection of is
lands to be kept by this country
economic possibilities should not be
overlooked, the subcommittee sale
late yesterday in a report prepared
by Representative Bonner, Demo
crat, of North Carolina.
Thorough inspection of the eco
nomic possibilities is advisable ano
necessary, Mr.. Bonner said :.
The commercial possibilities oi
these island bases are sufficient tc
warrant the prediction that they car
be made to pay in large part the
cost of their maintenance for navaI
and military purposes, providing
they are subject to an administra-
ton that is alert to their economic
possibilities, he added
Mr.. Bonner said most of the Pa
clfic islands visited by his group
have commercial Importance as
stepping stones in trans-Pacific sea
and air commerce and tremendous
sources of fish and other marine
products as we'll as copra, fruit
minerals and medicinal plants.
Evening star., 1945-08-11
Woman Who Died on Street
Found Victim Of Stabbinq

A woman found dead Thursday
night on the sidewalk in the 1900
block OF Marion street NV was
stabbed to death, DR.. Christopher J.
Murphy, deputy coroner, said yes
terday after an autopsy.
Police identified the woman as
Mrs. Mary Estrada, 30, and said she
had lived in the 1900 block of Marion
street for the last seven years. She
was found by an unidentified person
and physicians at Casualty Hos
pital, to which she was taken, pro-
nounced her dead, apparently from
heart failure, police reported.
The autopsy, however, disclosed a
small hole in her chest, such as
would have been made by an ice
pick, penknife, hatpin or other
such instrument, DR.. Murphy said.
There were no obvious signs of blood
on the woman's clothing when she
was found, according to homicide
squad detectives, who are investi-
eating.
Police said Mrs. Estrada came
from Winchester, Va, and that her
parents live there She also was
said to have sister in the District.
Evening star., 1945-08-11

until late frost date for all corn
to reach maturity, the report said.
The largest wheat and oats crops
or record were forecaSt-each As
per cent above the 10-year average
With wheat prospects increasing
17,50O,000 bushels during July, the
board forecast crop of / Jas ,283, ,00C
bushels, compared with l,078, ,647, ,00C
in 1914.
Oats yield was indicated at 1886
032,000 bushels compared with the
1914 yield of 1,166 1892 900.
With the Nation in current sugar
shortage, bright note appeared in
the repart. 1t predicted sugar
cane crop of 6,976,000 tons compared
with last years production of 6,148,-
900 tons, and said sugar beet produc-
tion would be 1882 900 tons-32 per
cent above last year.
The August forecast for tobacco
was 1884 ,000. 900 pounds, about per
cent more than the July l estimate
and second only to the all-time rec
ord of $4,000, 600 pounds last year
Evening star., 1945-08-11
Food Crops for 1945
Seen as Third Largest
In Nation S History
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The third largest general food
and feed crop in this country'S
history is forecast for 1945 by
the Agriculture Department.
Corn prospects especially showed
marked improvement" during July.
Based on August l conditions, the
total crop output for this year now
promises to exceed the 1923-32 av-
erage by 21 per cent, but 1t would
be 25 per cent below record pro-
duction of 1912 and 1914 1t would
be 4 per cent. more than the l943
total, however, and 8 per cent above
the aggregate production of any
other year.
The better outlook on August
reflected generally favorable grow
ing conditions prevailing over most
of the country during July" the
Crop Reporting Board said late yes
terday.
Contributing to the third largest
Evening star., 1945-08-11
Gen. Suzuki's Body
Found in Philippines

Ey the Associated Press.
MANILA, Aug. 1.-THE body of
1t. Gen. Sosaka Suzuki, highest
ranking Japanese officer known to
have been casualty in the Philip
pines, has been found by American
troops, Gen. MacArthur's headquar-
tiers said today.
His body was found August z near
Mount Kumuray on Jolo Island,
southwest of Mindanao, by troops
of the 10th Corps.
Evening star., 1945-08-11
Woman Gives Red Points
To Church by Error
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HASTINGS, Nebr.-Church serv-
ices were over when woman diff
fidently approached the ushers with
a request that her contribution be
returned.
The little envelope she explained
contained her red ration points. The
church willingly swapped for her
customary tithe.
Evening star., 1945-08-11
Soldier Finds German
With Tennessee DrowI
By the Associated Press.

By lht AsSoclated Press.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Pvt
Walter F. Losey, Garfield, Kans.,
stationed at Hot Springs Army Re-
distribution Station, tells this one.
He was trudging down an icy road
In Germany as prisoner of war
with cold blasts of wind whipping
the snow in his face. Suddenly a
bicycle ridden by German civilian
skidded by and the rider called out
in perfect drawl, Bet it isn't this
cold in TENNESSEE"