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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
 LEADERS
 MUST DIE
Forfy-th Sentenced fo Death for Slaughter
 al Ardennes Bulge

DACHAU, Germany July 16.-An American Military Court sentenced 43 veteran German SS troops to death today for the slaughter of 900 Amerit an soldiers and Belgian civilians duiing the winter battle of the Ardennes bulge.
 The crimes were committed dur ing Germany's last offensive around the Christmas season of 1944.
 Prison sentences ranging up to life were Givcn the other 30 of the 72 officers and men convicted last Thursday.
 Col. Joachim Peiper, who gave the. fateful order that the SS troops were to take no prisoners, was one of those doomed. Testimony was that he ordered frozen, exhausted and disarmed American prisoners shot during the battle and that the Germans sana songs of massacre on the eve or the offensive.
 Col. Gen Josef Dietrich, vet eran of Ado,ph Hitler's abortive peer hall putsch in 1923 in nearby Munich ana Commander oi the German Sixth Panzer Army, was sentenced to life imprisonment. His troops spearheaded the December January battle.
 It. Gen. Hermann Priess, Con- mander of the First SS Panzer Corps, was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
 Brig. Gen. Fritz Kraemer, Chief of Staff to Dietrich. was given 1C years.
 Testimony at the trial showed that 750 American prisoners were slaughtered and 150 Belgian civil ians also were put to death.
 Peiper, the highest ranking off cer among those sentenced to die laughed when photographer flash bulb exploded in his face when seuteroe was pronounced Peiper was the daredevil Com mander of the Task Force Peiper, an armored formation which in cluded his own first SS Panzel Regiment. Il was his men who participated in the massacre o1 American prisoners of war at the Reloiap tOvJA If Molpnpdv a kav ir the decisive battle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
ROOSEVELT, HULL ARE RESOLVED IN PEARL HRB. ATTACK

WASHINGTON, July 16.-Eight of the ten Pearl Harbor commit tee members were reported today to have signed report absolving President Roosevelt and Cordell Hull of any direct responsibility for the surprise l94l attack.
 Republican Senators Brewster of Maine and Ferguson of Michigan declined to sign, however.
 However, their party colleagues representing the House on the joint Congressional committee Reps. Keefe of Wisconsin and Gearhart of California were said to have gone along with the six Democratic members.
 The 1l2,000 word majority report, due to be released formally later this week, reportedly places the blame for American failure to antic- ipate the attach on both Washing ton military officials and the com manders at Pearl Harbor These were Maj. Gen. Walter Short and Admiral Husband E. Kimmel.
 The committe was said to have 25 recommendation for administrative changes in Army and Navy proced- ure as result of disclosures in connection with the attack,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
Blood Transmission Is Given Hughes 10
 BoIsier Condition

LOS ANGELES, July 16.-Howard Hughes was somewhat improved to- day, nine days after his experiment tai photo reconnaissance plane crashed and burned in Beverly Hills on its maiden flight.
 His doctors. said Hughes average pulse beat now is 120, his average temperature 101 and his white blood count 16,000. They admins tered blood transmission late last night to give him a lift, since he had moderate anemia.
 The airplane builder-pilot has nine rib fractures, collapsed left lung, and severe burns.
 But for the first time, the physi- clans bulletin last night omitted reference to his condition as still critical"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
Electricians AtAnthorage
 On Holiday

Anchorage, Alaska, July 16.-The members of the Anchorage Electri- cal Workers Union this morning went into the second day of what they termed work holiday"
 Contractors say the unicn mem bers are asking for wage boost from s1.75 to $225 an hour and 40-hours of work a week instead of the present AS, plus time and a half for overtime.
 The contractors said they agreed wage increases should be given the electricians but that since new government regulations on wages appeared imminent they decided to make no changes at the pres ent.
 The union members agreed pre- viously to work under existing con- tracts until the wage adjustment board approved higher wages.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
The W ashinqton Merry Co., Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHING ION-If all the his tory of that fabulous character Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky and his family were compiled in one volume, it would make novel more unbelievable than fiction.
 The only other unbelievable thing is that grown men in the War Department with the respon- sibility of millions of lives on their shoulders should not have seen through the Congressman from Kentucky lorg ago. If they had read past references to May ln Washington Merry -Go-Round or kept the usual clipping morgue op- erated by any efficient newspaper they would lot today be so red faced when called before the Mead Committee.
 But they cid not even bother to consult FBI files or the court re- cords of tic Justice Department Instead, Secretary of War Patter- son humbly went up to Congress man Mays office when summoned So did Patterson's aide, the pre- sent Undersecretary of War, Brig Gen. Kenneth Royall In Washing ton, Cabinet members or sub -Cab- met members do not call on Con- gressmen; its the other way around Reascn by the War Depart
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
Soviet Journalist
 Gives Impressions
 Of U. S. as Nation

MOSCOW, July 16.-In the eyes of a Soviet journalist, the United States is nation of strange con- trasts. Ilya Ehrenburg, who has just returned from a tour of Amer ica. gives this description in an article in Izvestia.
 First, he writes of New York as an enormous city on little island. In all sections of the country, he continues, there are organizations to defend Negro rights. But in Mississippi he quotes a plantation owner as saying, quote "Blackskin- med people are not human beings"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
COAST WATERFRONT SHUTDOWN LOOMS
BUYERS STRIKES BEING ORGANIZED;
 CALL FOR RALLIES
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PREss)

Labor Veteran and Civic groups are allying across the nation for demonstrations and buyers strikes against the rising cost of living.
 The CIO United Auto Workers Union has called 8O0,0O0 members away from work for protest meet ings against the death of OPA.
 Most Detroit industrial plants face a shutdown with JAW officials estimating some 250000 CIO work CTS at today's protest meeting.
 In Cleveland. Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Chicago, similar rallies are scheduled.
 The Independent Citizens Com mittee at Rochester, New York, is sponsoring a buyers strike for July 19. Leaders of 5000 organized women in Utah are driving for a boycott of all goods over former ceiling prices.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
SHIP LOADING .HALTEDT0DAY
 ON PUGET SD.
Full Tie-up on August 1 Forecast as Walking
 Bosses Vote Strike

SEATTLE, July 16-Loading op- erations on Is freighters were halt ed today as POGO CIO longshore- men continued their work stoppage in protest against delays in pay ment of retroactive pay increases.
 The workers. who started their protest demonstration yesterday, met this morning to hear a request from M. L. Ringenberg. General Manager of the Washington Water front Employers Association, that they return to work. No action was taken. The longshoremen adjourn ed after a short session to meet again later today.
 Longshoremen in Olympia post poned two meetings yesterday be- cause of lack of adequate infor- nation They planned to meet late today. Bcllingham workers will meet tonight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
COAST SHUTDOWN WARNING

SAN FRANCISCO, July 16.-The Pacific Coast Waterfront Employ CTS Association warned today, in face of one strike vote and another in progress, that the entire coast seems to be moving toward a shutdown on the waterfront"
 The employers statement cited work stoppdges at Seattle, Portland, Coos Bay, Ore, and "a general showdown by the longshoremen' at Los Angeles.
 Ship. docl and walking bosses all along the coast have voted to strike Augusl 1 for a collective bargaining agreement defining wag- es, hours and working conditions on coastwise basis, the CIO Inter- n a ional Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union announced yesterday.
 The Union said about 1000 of the waterfront gang bosses were Involved and that 98 percent voted to walk out. All bosses. regardless of union aftlliation, were invited to vote, the ILWU reported.
 An employer spokesman said the National Labor Relations Board conducted hearings here last April on the ques tlon of whether the bosses had collective bargaining agency and that no decision has been received from the NLRB.
 Longshoremen and cargo checkers also are voting on whether to strike September 30, the date of expiration of the agreement reach- ed at the recent Washington mari- time conference on west coast long, shore wages
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
FIVE STATES HEADED INTO
 VOTE BATTLE
Monfdnans Decide Today on Veteran Senator
 Burt K. Wheeler
(By The Associated Press)

A ding-oong ballot was under
 way in Montana today with Sen
 ator Burton K. Wheelers campaign
 manager plCdicting he would win
 Democratic icnomination by close margin.
 Primary elections also were being settled today in Wyoming, Arizona and Arkanses. Georgians vote to- morrow in a boiling contest marked by white supremacy" cry.
 President Truman wrote Wheeler a letter which he said he hoped
 would stop the smear campaign against Burt Wheeler" The Sen-
 ator's opponent is Jeff Erickson, former Montana Supreme Court Justice, who drew the support of James Roosevelt, son of the late President.
 A moderately heavy vote of about 125,000 is forecast.
 Probe Expenditures
 A special Senate Committee is . Investigating campaial expendi- lures as a result of Wheeler's pro- test that unfair propaganda, fi-
 nanced by New York and Holly wood money" had been injected
 into the contest.
 Other iaaues revolved largely around international affairs and the railroad strike, with Erickson contending the four-term Senator I had tried ''to put sackles of slavery
 on labor"
 In. Wyoming, the principal con- , test was to choose a Republican nominee to oppose Gov Lester C. Hunt, who vas not challenged for i Democratic rcnomination. The Re- , publican cCntenders are former ! Gov Nel5 IT. Smith and State ] Treasurer Earl Wright. Senator ! O'Mahoney, Democrat, and Rep Frank Barrett, Republican, were ! unopposed
 i Arizonans climax an indifferent ! campaign by choosing between Senator Ernest w. Mcfarland and I Harry J. Valentine, Phoenix at- torney, for the Democratic Sena- ! torial nomination. The States two | Democratic representatives John
 R. Murdock and Richard F. liar | less, have orly one challenger , Albert H. Mackenzie, Prescott law yer
 Democrats in two Arkansas con- gressional districts decide the Dem- ocratic primary bids of war veter- an candidates for the seats helo | by Reps Brooks Hays and Orer
 Harris. Hays is opposed by Parker
 Parker and Homer F. Berry, anc ! Harris by Paul Geren and Bruce Bennett.
 i Georgia'c Democratic primary to-
 morrow is iour-way battle for the i governorship nomination, with for mer Gov. Eugene Talmadge raiS- ing the white supremacy" issue and warnng wise" negroes to stay
 away from the polls. He is opposed | by James V. Carmichael, former
 Gov. E. D. Rivers, and Hoke O'Kel- ley. Carmichael has the backing of
 Gov. Ellis hrnall
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
2 MISSING
 AMERICANS
 RELEASED
Officer, Wife Set Free by Russians-No Trace of
 Two Others

BERLIN, July 16.-The Russians warrant officer and his petite wife to U. s. Army authorities today, and soon atterward the Americans announced they were releasing three Russian espionage suspects to the Red army.
 The civiljali-clad Russians, two of whom claimed to be Red army officers, had been arrested in the U. $. zone two weeks ago, it was announced.
 The Americans, warrant officer and Mrs. Samuel L. Harrison of San Antonio, Tex, disappeared Is days ago when they ventured 800 yards into the Russian occupation zone to sec a pet shop dog kennel. Harrison said he was held two days in virtually a dungeon; his wife said sl:e was questioned re- peatedly ard at one time cried dur ing an inierrJ Jgation.
 Two Still Missing
 Two other Americans still were missing somewhere in the Russian zone. Gen. M Dratvin, Russian Deputy Military Governor, advised U. s. Army authorities the Red army still was collecting data" on the men in the neighborhood of Oranienburg, Russian army dis trict headquarters.
 The missing men are Capt. Har- cid Cobin of Newark, N J., and It. George Wyatt, of Oklahoma City, who were last seen July 1 boarding a train for Oranienburg 20 miles north of Berlin.
 Maj. Gen. James A. Heating American Commander in Berlin said strenuous efforts were being made to secure their release. liar rison and his wife, Helen, were released to Keating at 1:45 am. at Russian hcadouarters.
 No Trace
 American intelligence officers said they had no trace of Cobin and Wyatt since the driver of theil jeep left them at a northern Ber- lin railway station.
 Intelligence officers said it was rumored that Cobin was gathering material for book, and had made several previous trips to Oranien- burg, where the Russians are re- ported to nave internment camps The intelligence officers denied that the two were on an official mission.
 Brig. Gen. Edwin L. Sibert, Chief of the U. s. Headquarters Intelli- gence Division said in a statement the three Russians had been held on suspicion of espionage in the U. S. zone ot Berlin.
 No Agreement Violated
 '"The arrest of these civilian
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
Cl0 ULTIMATUM

SEATTLT, July 16.-The nort-- west branch Of the Maritime Unity Committee touay dropped bomb shell. This g cup asserted that un- less CIO workers win in the juris- dictional squabble at Coos Bay, Oregon, any American Pacific Steamship Company boat entering Puget Sound will be tied up.
 Also the threatened coastwide maritime strike August 1 has gain- ed support from walking bosses. so- called, of tne CIO longshore group, in Washington and Oregon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, July Is. = Closing quotation oi Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 79s, Alleghany Cor poration 5zs, American Can 95, Anaconda 46as, Curtiss- Wright 75s, International Harvester 92l5, Ken necott ST. New York Central 237s, Northern Pacific 29. United Cor poration 5a. U. s. Steel 901s, Pound $403i3.
 Sales today were 1,180,000 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 2007l, rails 62.78, utilities 1852.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
Warning Planned
 To War Veterans
 To Moi Buy Homes

PHILADELPHIA, Juy 16.--A con- certed drive to induce war vet erans not to buy homes at infla- tionary prices has been proposed by Joseph M Stack, commander in-chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
 Stack said he would issue the call for the housing purchase strike at the 27th annual encampment Of Pennsylvania members of his or ganization. He declared that a survey shows veterans are wasting their CT housing loan guarantees on homes costing twice their true value.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
Missing PiIof Is
 Given Up as Lost

EDMONTON, Alta, July 16.- Hopes for tine safety of Joe Bar Der, Jamestown, N. Y. civilian pilot missing in the northland for more than two weeks, faded today as a ground search party reported by radio they had combed an area within 10 miles of the grounded plane without finding a trace of the flier, He IS given up as lost.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
Typhoon Roaring
 Across North Tip,
 Philippine Islands

MANILA. July l6.-A typhoon roared across the northern tip of the Philippines today. The high winds were preceded by torrential rain which caused several land slides
 The landsiides cut off the former summer capital of Baguio from Manila. Plere service to Baguio was cancelled
 Manila also was hit by driving rain and te,sphone lines north of the capital were blown down.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
.Byrnes(a||s
 For Showdown Over Germany
Open Split with Russia Is Risked in Try for Infer
 Zone Occupation

WASHINGTON, July 16.- The United States risked an open split with Russia today in an attempt to force economic unification of Germany.
 Secretary of State Byrnes declar- ed last night that orders giving Russia a choice between cooperation or economic paralysis" in Ger many will go forward this week to Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, the American military commander at Frankfurt.
 The orders will be to cooperate with any or all of the other occupy ing powers-Britain, France and Russia-on finance, transportation, communication, trade and industry.
 In a radio report to the American people on successes and failures of the four power council of foreign ministers at Paris, Byrnes asserted
 "We will either secure economic cooperation between the zones or place the responsibility for the violation of the Potsdam agree ment"
 President Truman listened in and telcphoned congratulations to the Secretary immediately after the broadcast.
 Russia Had Declined Russia declined at the Paris meet ing to go along either on economic measures, guarantees for keeping Germany disarmed for quarter Of a century, or the writing of peace treaty for Austria.
 On those points, Byrnes observed, the conference made no progress at all" He pinned the blame squarely on Russia.
 T do not believe" he declared, that the Soviets realize the doubts and suspicious which they have raised in the minds of those in other countries who want to be their friends, by the aloofness, coolness and hostility with which they have received Americas offer to guarantee jointly the continued disarmament of Germany But on the success side of the ledger Byrnes listed the calling Of peace conference for July 29 to consider treaties, drafted in tenta- tive form at the Paris council for Italy and the former Axis satel- lites.
 Let LiUe and Breathe Prospects are bright, he said, for treaties that will let the people of five occupied states Tive and breathe as free people" He added: We are on the road back to peace
 But the four powers had a great struggle and tremendous difficult ties" in harmonizing their views as much as they did on peace treaties, the Secretary said. And he presented grim picture of the l tugging and hauling that went on over Germany and Austria Leading up to his disclosure Of the orders being drafted for Me- Narney, Byrnes said it was mo sec ret" that four-power control Of Germany on a zone basis is mot working we'll"
 Under the Potsdam pact, he said, Germany was to be administered as an economic unit. Instead, he added, she is being run in -four closed compartments" and the country is threatened with "infla- tion and economic paralysis" 1 Noting that the American zone is costing American taxpayers $200,- 0O0,000 a year, he declared this con- dition must not continue. Hence the instructions to the general.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
Alaska Salmon patk
 Is Running Behind

SAN FRANCISCO, July 16.-The Alaska salmon pack ran less than two-thirds tl4at of year ago up to July 6, industry reports showed to- day The pack was 472,878 cases against 735,l07 a year ago. Last years total pack, finished in Sep tember was 4,302 ,895 cases.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16

Vermont is New England's only inland state.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
RESURRECTION OF
 0pAMOvES TODAY
 FOR HOUSE ACTON
Funds Running Low for Bureau-Pdy Checks
 May Be HaIved
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PREssN

The fight to reSurrect OPA nov ed into the House today. Indica- tions are a conference committee may be given the job of working out a final compromise bill to suit both Congress and President Tru- man.
 Administration leaders are driv- ing for such a move in the hopes Iof strengthening a measure which President Truman has said could not be any worse" The Senate version would bar price controls on meat, dairy products, tobacco and other major items.
 Incidentally, while the controver- sy goes on, Democratic Represen- tative Jerry Voorhis of California has introduced a bill to guide con- sumers in strike against high prices. It would order the Bureau of Labor statistics to issue a week ly report on price changes.
 Funds Running Lou
 At the same time, OPA employees may soon find it difficult to obey orders from President Truman and Price Administrator Paul Porter to remain at their stations, even though their agency is officially dead. OPA funds are running out and Congress has taken no final action on an appropriation for the new fiscal year, which began July l.
 Nearly 50 percent of the 34,00o workers on OPA's payroll may get only half-pay this week. If con gress fails to provide funds by the end of the week, all other OPA employees may find that their pay checks due on July 24 are delayed.
 SENATE BILL REJECTED
 WASHINGTON, July 16-By a vote of 211 td GA, the House has rejected the Senate OPA bill and sent it to a House-Senate con- ference committee for new ef- fort to write a compromise price control measure that President Truman will sign
 The vote was victory for the President in this round of the week-long struggle over OPA, but administration leaders conceded that nobody could guess what OPA will look like, if indeed it survives at all, when it finally runs the gamut of the legislative processes
 A key House Republican, Rep Wolcott of Michigan, joined ad- ministration leaders in urging that the Senate version of OPA be re- written in Senate-House confer ence committee.
 "The bill at present is in worse condition than we have ever seen in the history of OPA legislation, Wolcott declared.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16

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Milford chronicle., 1946-05-17
FARM ADVISORY GROUP
MEETS IN SUSSEX co.

Sarah Porter Ellis. director of
Farm Home Service of the South
ern Cooperative. was the speaker
at the luncheon of the Farm Ad-
vlSOry Committee, of SUSSEX COun-
~, held in Grange Hall Wednesday
Miss Ellis stressed the advantages
of the Coop. and spoke at length
on the line of appliances which
the Southern Cooperative will han
die as soon as the articles are
available. The line Includes most
of the modern home electrical ap-
planes.
Mrs. Margaret Nelson. Sussex
County HON" Demonstration Ag-
ont. and Miss Adcline Hoffman.
Extension Clothing Specialist. of
the University of Delaware. were
also guests at the luncheon.
Members of the Farm Advisory
Committee from all parts of Sus-
sex County were in attendance.
The chairman of the Georgetown
Farm Advisory Committee is Mrs.
Helen Rogers. Other members OF
the Georgetown group are Mrs. c.
a. Pepper. Mrs. Otha Pepper. Mrs.
Shcp Scott. and Mrs Paul Short
Mr.. Paul Short and Charles Work.
man are the Georgetown represent
atives of Southern Cooperative and
were present at Wednesdays lun
cheOn. which was served hy ladies
of the Grange. headed Ivy Mrs
Olcta Smith
Milford chronicle., 1946-05-17
Navy Offers College
Aid To Graduates
High School Men Offered OppOr.
tunity Under Gil Bill

The United States Navy offers
high school graduates who are en-
listed for one three-year enlistment
a total of forty eight (4S) months OF
college or other numerous educa-
tional opportunities. The GoCern-
ment pays the institution of the
mans choice up to $500 a normal
college year of nine months, for
books, tuition. laboratory fees, etc.
In addition. the graduate is paid
sos for his monthly maintenance
if single. or $50 month if he has
dependents. The Navy offers
through the GI Bill of Rights. not
just full college course but actu-
ally about five and third college
Years. even making it possible to
obtain a masters degree with the
extra time. This offer expires OCtO-
Ter ;. 1916. so that any young man
interested in the program should
act now
In the window of the ACop0n,
Walnut Street. the local naval re-
Cruitine office has placed siX-foOt
model of light cruiser of the
cleveland class. as we'll as posters
and photographs, giving Milford
citizens glimpse of life in the
Navy.