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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
CHURCHILL ON CAMPAIGN TOUR
 B00ED, (HEERED
Praises Unified Sfafes- -Re- minds Crowd War Con-
 tinuing on Pacific

COVENTRY, June 26.-Prime Minister Churchill, tired-looking but still sharp tongued, continued his ,O0O-mile electioneering tour of the English countryside today after talk ing cheers and boos with equal un- concern in the first day of his in- tersive campaign on behalf of the Conservative party.
 Led by police escort and lowing and smiling from an open touring car, Churchill praised the United States, insisted upon friendly rela- tions with Russia and flung taunts at his political enemies in numer- GUS brief speeches yesterday.
 You haven't much chance against me with my microphone," he told Laborites at Coventry who sought to drown him out with their party son, Red Flag" Then, as they tried to tear down the simplifying system, Churchill joked:
 You look 50 angry. never get angry at politics.
 Police estimated that 10000 per- sons were crowded into the square of the bomb-damaged industrial town.
 The Prime Minister told rural crowds that he didn't like to re- fer to the enemy in 'the Pacific as "Japs" because that term was "too familiar He reminded his listen CTS that there was fight still ahead.
 "The United States stood by us in noble fashion, he declared. We must stand by them"
 He added that he hoped the time would come when it would be diffi- cut to tell Americans from the British, unless they take especial care to wear different uniforms"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26

Old Us. Pennsylvania Back in Action; Goes
 After Japs 0nte More

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26.-The time and war worn old battleship Pennsylvania was back in action in the Pacific today after three months overhaul at Hunters Point drydocks, guns of the Pearl Harbor victims Oklahoma and Nevada transferred to her turrets.
 It took 211,645 nine-hour man days to put the 29-year-old veteran of two wars back in condition to resume the battle against the Jap anese. During 13 Pacific amphib- ious operations she had hurled more than II million pounds of steel at the enemy. The 12 four teen-inch rifles of her main batter ies were badly worn.
 Five of the fourteen -inchers were replaced from the US. s. Okla homa, smashed and capsized in the Pearl Harbor attack. Six more were from the U. s. s. Nevada. The twelfth big rifle was one of the "Pennsy's" own. repaired since she, too, was damaged in the 1921 sneak attack.
 The guns taken off the Pennsyl- vania at Hunters Point will be re- lined and used again in other battleships of the same type. Twelfth Naval District Headquar- ters announced.
 Those guns, and the ones of smaller calibre with which the peace time flagship of the fleet is equipped, fired more than 75,00O rounds of ammunition against the Mikado's forces from Boring Sea to Southern Australia.
 On May II, l943, she blasted shore installations on Attu. After that she was at Kiska, Maxim, the Marshalls, Eniwetok, the Marianas, Guam, Anguar, Peleliu, Leyte and Suriago Straits. Then on January 5 of this year, in company with oeiiSi DdtoiCoiipo IcouIItCtcu lIOIIl Pearl Harbor, she began the she'll ing of Lingayen Gulf on Luzon in the Philippines.
 When the old battleship, com- missioned at Newport News, Va, in 1916, reached Hunters Point she was suffering from severe case of battle fatigue. AS many as 398O men worked on her at times dur ing the three months she was in drydock. Even then she went to sea again with lot of the work the Navy wanted still undone.
 But Captain w. M. Moses and acrew of l400 took her to sea again in high spirits. She's out there some place now, as the war clouds close to the Japanese home islands and the last hiding places of the Son of Heavens Imperial Navy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
ALASKA NOW TO HAVE SMALLER
 PLANTS OFFICE
SWPC Representa- atiyes Leaving Sunday for Ter
 ritory on 2Weeks' Trip

WASHINGTON, June 26 = The Smaller War Plants Corporation will open an office in Alaska, Delegate Bartlett said today.
 It's location has not been de- termined but party of SWPC rep resentatives will leave Sunday for a two-week survey of Alaskan cities They will visit Ketchikan, Wrangell Petersburg, Juneau, Cordova, Sew ard, Anchorage and Fairbanks.
 The corporation, Bartlett said in statement, will be in a position to assist veterans and others who want to establish businesses in Alaska.
 Alaska" he declared, lis due for substantial postwar development and SWPC will be of important as- sistance in this development. Its program will go into effect July 1.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
PREMIER TELLS
 JAPANESE GREAT
 INVASION NEAR
Pie dges Government to Grim Determination to
 Defend Islands

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26.-Pre- mier Kantaro Suzuki told the Japa- nese people today they faced an in vasion crisis unparalleled since the Mongol hordes swept over the islands more than 600 years ago.
 In a Cabinet message issued to the nation Ion the occasion of the Okin- ava battle," Suzuki pledged his gov ernment's grim determination" to defend the islands against the Am erican power gathering to the south.
 The 77-year-old Premier declared bluntly that the present crisis facing Japan lis the greatest one since the Mongolian invasion" of 1274 A. D. and added: NOW is the time to de- eide the destiny of the Japanese Empire"
 Radio Tokyo said that some 30- odd enemy surface units, including cruisers and destroyers, now are bombarding Balikpapan, ,"big refining center for eastern Borneo's oil fields.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
LAST STAND OF LAPS ON LUz0N
 BEING RIppED
Fiqhters and Bombers Ray. age Nips in Upper
 Cdgdydn Valley
By SPENCER DAVIS Associated Press War CorrespondenD

MANILA, June 26 = Fifty air 'orce fighter and attack bombers flying at least 300 sorties a day over Northern Luzon, ripped and ravaged Japanese making their last stand in the Upper Cagayan Valley ,oday as Americans and Filipinos closed in for the kill.
 Strafing roads and bombing con- ,entrations of enemy troops and supplies wherever found, the Light 1ings, Mustangs and Thunderbolts yave their most striking example )f effectiveness in Death Valley There the 33rd Divisions 130th h. 'antry Regiment, pushing cas- ilong the Balud River, northeast oi 3aguio, found Japanese bodies fragments of vehicles and shattered supply dumps littering the valley Hopes for eight miles between Bo. kod and Ambulcao.
 The carnage resulted from re- )eated aerial attacks and artillery bounding by 240 millimeter howit- zerS.
 Disintegration of Japanese forces elsewhere on Luzon was empha- sized by the First Cavalry Divisions report that more than 300 Formo- san and garrison troops had been conducted into American lines ir single week by one Formosar prisoner of war.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
Allies Move Nearer Nips
 Hint on Air
Conflicting Uneonfirmed Broddldsfs Report New
 RyukYus Landings
(By the Associated Press)

Contradictory Japanese broadcasts today hinted at new Allied invasions of islands closer to the Japanese homeland, but there was no Allied confirmation and the Japanese per- haps were only speculating on the next American move.
 The All-India radio, heard in Lon don, reported picking up one Japa- nese announcement that forces were attempting landing on an island halfway between conquered Okin- ava and the Japanese main islands.
 Such a broadcast was not heard elsewhere, however, and the British radio, as recorded by CBS in New York, reported another Tokyo broad cast as saying that an Allied in vasion fleet of 200 ships 'is expect ed to attempt landings on two islands about halfway between Okinawa and Japan.
 The EGG also recorded the broad cast of a Tokyo newspaper cor respondent who merely predicted that the Allies might attempt to strike at Amami or another island in the northern Ryukyus.
 Neither the broadcast heard in London nor the broadcast reported from India mentioned, the names of any islands.
 Amami Island is about 300 miles south of Kyukshu, southernmost of Japan's main islands.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
JAp(0NV0Y HIT BY U. 5.
 AIR FORCE
North Pacific Bonn b CTS Make Raid on Sea of !
 0khotsk Off Siberia
By OLEN CLEMENTS Associated Press War
 COrrespOndent)

HEADQUARTERS, U. s. NORTH PACIFIC FORCES, Aleutians, June 26. Eleventh Air Force bombers raiding the Siberia -bordered Sea of Okhotsk Sunday sank medium Japanese cargo ship and damaged two others and an open boat.
 That boosted the 11th AAF six day toll to five ships sunk, two probably sunk and seven damaged.
 The Japanese convoy hit Sunday was surprised in a strait west of Paramushiro which separates enemy territory from Russian Kamchatka The Liberators dived to 50 feet tc bomb and strafe. Three Japanese fighters, probably from the Kataoka Naval Base, tried to collide with the bombers. One Japanese fighter was shot down. One American plane was slightly damaged.
 Another force of American Lib- orators bombed Kataoka airfield on Shumushu Island. One grounded Japanese plane was destroyed and two, possibly three, others were damsgad by Augmentation bombs Buildings and storage tanks were left in flames.
 Enemy fighters also attacked Aleutian-based American planes in thic roi1 Ona Iananaca Ylana vo ( damaged and two American Lib orators were damaged slightly.
 Fleet Air Wing Four planes on the preceding day shot down one of four attacking Japanese planes in a raid over southeastern Shumushu Two other enemy planes were damaged by the fast Harpoons which brought the total of Aleutian airmen to three planes destroyed and six or seven damaged in the air or aground.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
GIRL SCOUT CAMP
 ARRANGEMENTS FOR
 NEXT GROUP LEAVING

Mrs. Edwin Johnson, Girl Scout Camp Committee Chairman, who spent the first week of the camp ing season with the girls at camp, has announced that sheets should be sewed in the sleeping bags which the girls take out to camp. It is also advisable, she said, to send an extra blanket, in case of cold, damp weather.
 It is no longer necessary for the girls to take mosquito netting or cheesecloth to camp, Mrs. Johnson reported, since the new dormitory with it's screened windows is mos quito-less, so the Scouts can sleep in comfort.
 The next group of Scouts will leave for camp next Sunday, July I, and definite announcement will be made Friday regarding transporta- tion and where bed-rolls are to be left.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26

 IN FROM SOUTH

A steamship arrived in Juneau this morning with the following passengers: Miss Thais Bayers, Ira F. Gottschalk, J. J. Henderson, Mrs. J. J. Henderson, B. J. Kinsey, Fred E. Nelson, Joseph Peloza, Ray Rossi, R. Schoonover, E. E. Somers, Mrs. E. E. Somers, E. A. .Collado F. A. Conception, R. Hatsfield, Ray Seward, Thomas Seward, Sam Baker, Mrs Edna Case, Ted Brick son, J. P. Eberhardt, D. H. Elem ing, Theron Kidd, Glen E. Melville Mrs. Elma Milotte and F. E. Walker.
 Leaving this evening are the fol- lowing: H. B. Largent, o. O. Fay Tor, H. Larcuzen, Mrs. w. H. Brown, Georgie Brown, w. H. Brown, De- loris Christensen, John Willis, Miss c. L. Boch, Louis Jacobin, T. P Callison, John w. Maloney, Ralph w. Hase, Caesar c. Zachacki, Ray T. Jap, Amos D. Wallace, Edith Lewis, J. G. Henderson, Mrs. J. H. Henderson, Judy Ann Henderson M. Houseman,. Eino R. Mack, Eric Seaburg, c. A. Hagen and R. Rossi
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
PRINCESS N0RAH IN FROM SOUTH TODAY

Canadian Pacific's Princess Norah arrived this afternoon from the South with 32 passengers, g of which were from Vancouver.
 Vancouver passengers to Juneau were: Elfriede A. Brohin, Donald Burford, Jack Burford, Glada Hen sey, Alexander Holden, Dale Aaron Holland, George Jorgeson, John R. Kinghorn, Bart Loomis, Linda Ny strom, Marguerite Karen Nystrom, Webster John Nystrom. John Dennis Prawl, Margarete Rigling, Barbara Roberts, Elizabeth Ann Roberts, Will liam J. Roberts, Frances B. Singer, Daisy Wilder, Bess A. Vim, Mar garet Abercrombie and Mary Ach- tertoff
 From Ketchikan: Gladys Coleman, Bernard. Halman. Mrs. Bernard Hal man, Henry Lillie. J. w. Lievers. Louis Lendway, Irene Lendway, Mary Roack and Bill Vernon.
 From Wrangell: Mrs. Frieda Scrumy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
The W ashington Merry -Go- Round
By DREW PEARSON It. Col. Robert s. Alien now on active service with the Army)

WASHINGTON When the final history of the war is told, one of its greatest chapters will describe that branch of the service totally new to war-the Air Transport command. Transporting prime ministers and presidents, wounded men, jeeps and Pat Hurley's Cad lilac over oceans and deserts has now become commonplace news to the American public. But behind that commonplace news is thrill ing story of painstaking, back breaking pioneering.
 Here are some things few people know about the Air Transport Command: Most used air route in the world is not between Washing ton and New York, not between New York and Chicago, but over "the Hump between China and India. Traffic over this worlds highest mountain range, the Him. alavas, is so heavy that planes travel at different attitudes so there will be no collisions. One plane will have orders to fly at 22.0OO feet, another at 23,000, and so on. Three or four different air routes are used across the Hump also to avoid collisions.
 Next most heavily used air route is across the North Atlantic. The ATC sends a plane across the At lantic every 58 seconds. That's about as fast as traffic moves on
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, June 26. -- Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is SIS, American Can 98%, Anaconda 3512, Curtiss-W Wright 6B, International Harvester 901s, Kennecott 395s, New York Central 31A, Northern Pacific 34%, U. S. Steel 71as. Sales today were 2,140,- 900 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 168.92; rails, 65.06; utilities, 33.35.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
FOURTH OF JULY
 PLANS TO BE MADE
 AT MEETING TONIGHT

The usual bang-up Fourth of July celebration under the auspices of the American Legion will be enjoyed in Juneau again this year, with Commander Les Sturm heading the planning of the big event.
 The heads of the various commit tees will meet this evening at the Legion Dugout at o'clock, and or ganizations which plan to have floats in the paHade, or to take part in other ways n the celebration, are asked to have representatives at the meeting.
 The complete program is to be worked out tonight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
ARMY SUPPLY BILL
 PASSED BY HOUSE

WASHINGTON, June 26.-Aftei rejecting an amendment to permit the discharge of Army fathers hav- ing four or more children, the House today passed $38, 8,500, ,285, ,951 Army supply bill for the fiscal year 1946.
 The funds voted include 21.376,- 383, 3,400 in new appropriations, con- tinued availability of $8.885, ,501 .05l from funds previously allotted and $8, ,238. .50l 800 in recoveries from contract cancellations and cut backs.
 Passage was by voice vote. The measure now goes to the Senate.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26.-With great issues of war and peace hang ing on their pen strokes, delegates o1 50 countries went to flag -draped conference auditorium today to sign the new United Nations Charter and then hear President Truman make his first major address or American foreign policy.
 A triumphant meeting of the United Nations conference-its last working sessionz-last night approved the final version of the charter The signatures go on today; next comes the slower process of ratification.
 Tapping last nights session to its close, Britain's tall delegation chief the Earl of Halifax, who presided solemnly told the conference: T think we all agree we have taken part in a historic moment in world history" All controversy had been cleared away days before this final action, and the vote of approval was a unanimous standing vote.
 President Truman, who received a thunderous welcome to the city yes- terday, is scheduled to make the closing address of the conference, beginning about p. m. His speech, approximately 30 minutes long, will follow brief talks by delegation chiefs of the Big Five and represen- tatives of five small nations, begin ming at 3:30 p. m.
 Officials estimated that the sign ing would require about eight hours. A last minute change in plans push ed Argentina out of alphabetical first place and put the conference sponsoring powers and France at the head of the order of the sign CTS. The one exception was that
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
GALES SWEEPING
 ATLANTIC OA5T

NEW YORK, June 26. High winds swept the Atlantic Coast northward from Virginia today on the edge of tropical storm that swirled 150 miles out to sea from Norfolk in mid-morning.
 Moving northeast at IS to 20 miles an hour, with gales up to 60 miles an hour within 75 miles of its center, the storm was to reach the southern New Jersey coast this afternoon and past southeast of Nantucket tonight
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
Delegate Bartlett
 Puts Forth 2 Bills

ASHINGT June 26. = Alaska's Delegate Bartlett has in- troduced bill to authorize Alaskan municipalities and public utility districts to issue revenue bonds for public works purposes.
 Another Bartlett measure would authorize the issuance of service medals to members of the armed forces who serve in the Aleutians or elsewhere in Alaska west of Sitka during the present war.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
MARSHALL RITES TOMORROW

Funeral services for Jack Mar shall, who died Sunday morning at his home in Douglas, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Chapel of Charles w. Carter Mortuary, with the Rev Walter Soboleff officiating.
 Pallbearers will be Joe Stevens Leo Jack, Steve Williams, David Hotch, Frank E. James, and Jake Cropley.
 Interment will be in the Douglas Catholic plot.
 He is survived by his wife, Mary, one daughter, Mrs. Sandy Stevens of Juneau, sister, Mrs. Suzy Short of Hawk Inlet, five grand children and three great-grand- children.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
House Legislation
 For Servi(enen Is
 Signed by Persidenf

WASHINGTON, June 26.-Presi- dent Truman signed today legisla- tion permitting servicemen, ex- servicemen and their families to occupy available war housing prev iously restricted to transient war workers. Such occupancy will be on a rental basis.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
MAJ. BEIsTLINE LEAVES

Major Earl Beistline, son of Mir. and Mrs Ralph Beistline. who has been visiting his parents and friends in Juneau the past two weeks. left yesterday enroute to Fairbanks, where he will spend the remainder of his furlough, return ing from there to Anchorage, where he has been stationed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
LARGE SUPER FORCE BOMBS NIP AREAS
Second Largest Number of Targets Ever Chosen
 Given Death Raps
By LEFT ERICKSON Associated Press War
 Correspondent

BULLETIN - WAEHIGTON, f
 June 26. - A medium force of [ American Superfortressc scs
 launched a new attack on in-
 dustrial targets on the main
 Japanese island of Honshu to-
 day.
 A goth Air Force announce
 ment said the attack was made
 by B-29s of the 21st Bomber
 Command shortly after, mid-
 night June 27. Japanese time).
 One target was Yokkaichai near
 Nag0ya. \,
 The raid followed by only IA
 hours smashing attack by 450
 to 500 Supcrfortresses on 10
 aircraft, gun and ammunition
 factories on Honshu.
 GUAM, June 26. - Ten aircraft, gun and ammunition factories on Japans main island of Honshu were smashed with more than 5000 tons of high-explosive bombs from 4S0 to 500 Superfortresses at noon today.
 Roaring in sternedtpm attitudes about noon tJapanees tin1e) with an escort of Mustang fighters from Two Jima, the Superfortresses dealt their most powerful blow to date in their new campaign to erase Japanese industry with precision demolition bombing
 Some targets were hit visually but others required the use of instru- ments through cloud cover.
 The targets were two airplape plants and three ammunition and ordnance works In the Nagoya area: two airplane plants at Kagamiga- hara, near Gifu. 20 miles north of Nagoya; the Japanese army's largest arsenal and the country's largest propeller factory, both at Osaka; and an aircraft plant at Akashi. ten miles west of Kobe
 All had been hit previously, either with high explosives or in the recent firebombing campaign which burn- ed out an estimated ll2 square miles of Japanese industrial areas.
 Tokyo broadcast Japanese com- munique claiming eight Superforts were shot down and IA crippled by ground fire. The unconfirmed broadcast added that the attack was the largst precision demolition strike ever made against Japanese war industry.
 The raid, second in five days, was against the second-largest number of targets ever chosen for any one B-29 mission. It was exceeded only by the II targets in neutralizing blows against Kyushu Island air bases April 26.,
 With the B-29s thus hastening to enforce Gen. H. H. Arnold's promise of bombs on Japan at rate of 2000, 900 tons year by July 1, other American planes were striking the enemy throughout the Pacific.
 Adm. Chester w, Nimitz announc- ed that Fleet Air Wing One had sunk 22.645 tons of Japsnese ship ping and damaged t28,s90 tons since beginning operations lover enemy waters" about ten weeks ago. They also destroyed 36 Japanese planes and damaged 24.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
MRS. ARCHIE CHASE DIES

Mrs. Archie Chase, of Gustavus, died early this morning in St. Ann's Hospital, following long period of illness.
 Funeral services will be an- nounced later. The body is at the Charles w. Carter Mortuary.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
FORMER JUNEANUITE TO WED

A marriage license was recently issued at Anchorage to Adolph C.. Lubcke, formerly with the Alaska Coastal Airlines in Juneau, and Mary Wentworth, blueprint oper- ator.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
BARBARA ROBERTS HERE

Mrs. Barbara Roberts and two children arrived on the Princess North for a visit in Juneau. The three were accompanied north by Mrs. Bess Vim.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
CHIEF EXECUTIVE PUTS IN BUSY DAY
 ATSAN FRANCISCO
Receives, Congra atulates Adm. Nimifz-Goes East
 After His Address

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26.- President Truman, setting a pace that has his aides gasping, started the final day of the United Nations Conference by:
 Receiving and congratulating Fleet Admiral Chester w. Nimitz.
 Conferring with Field Marshal Jan Christian Shuts, Prime Minister of South Africa.
 Shaking hands with a parade of miscellaneous well-wishers.
 Talking with Chairman Connally D-Texas) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, presumably about plans for submission of the Charter to the Senate.
 Nimitz would not discuss his visit with reporters, but member of the Presidents Staff said.
 Admiral Nimitz was in the city on another matter and the President sent for him to congratulate him.
 This official said he understood that Nimitz would return to his headquarters at Guam when he has completed his official business here. The reason for his trip to San Fran cisco was not disclosed.
 The President plans to leave San Francisco immediately after his speech closing the United Nations Security conference. He wifi arrive in Kansas City about 200 p. m. Central Wartime) tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
U. s. RAIDER SCORE

MANILA, June 26.--In the South west Pacific and East Indies, Am erican raiders rolled up this score: {:
 Wrecked three freighters and two sailing vessels southwest of Hong- kong; bombed oil storage facilities at Nanking; set fire to an alcohol plant and barracks on Formosa; ; again bombed Balikpapan on east ern Borneo. destroyed four coastal vessels west of Borneo. and raided Malang airdrome. eastern Java.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-06-26
CONFERENCE , AT FRISCO
 IS ENDING
Truman 10 Make His First Major Address on U.
 5. Foreign Policy
By John M. HightOwer

Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor)
 BULLETIN - SAN FRAN CISCO, June 26.-Delegates of 10 United Nations began signing at noon (Pacific War Time) to- day world charter designed to maintain peace and security.
 Dr. V. K. Wellington Roo, Chinese Ambassador to London, was the first delegate to affix a signature to the historic docu- mcnt hammered out here in nine weeks of deliberations.