The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 29, 1944, Page 6

PAGE SIX AMERICANS FIGHTING ON OLD GROUNDS Carving Way Across North- ern France to First World War Areas (Continued from Page One) \'A‘lll"\ The French, striking westward from Avignon on the Rhone, have reached Uzes and pounded through the big city of Nimes, 14 miles from the river, Germans Squeezed Other columns pressing northward squeezed the Germans in between Avignon and Montelimar. Forty miles farther north, the Americans fanned out, annihilating more Ger- mans. The Allies are driving toward the French-Spanish border and Ameri- cans have also reached within five miles of Nice or 20 miles from the Italian border. Marseille and Toulon pletely liberated. Two American columns have crossed the Marne and destroyed all German resistance. These | troops are within 16 miles of the Aisne in a second rcossing east of Meaux. are com- Allied Planes Out Allied planes drubbed the Ger- mans from the mouth of the Seine | to the German frontier. The ac- tion is rapidly carrying to a climax liquidation of the Germans in the area. Allied forces have crossed the lower Seine, heading for robot bomb installations at, Pas de Calais on the coast, the whole 83 mile Third Army thrust arc east of | Paris swinging north within 20 miles of Epernay and Vitry, mei back door of Verdun, and is now | within 35 miles from the Flrst} World War siege of the citadel Rheims in a mop-up sweeping the scale across the scarred battlefields | of 30 years ago. e ————— * MILDRED KENDLER, CORP. DALE STEEN TOWED SATURDAY The .lovely country home of Mr.| and M Joseph Kendler will be the sc for the marriage Satur-| day evening of their daughter Mild- | red, to Corporal Dale Steen, Signal Corps, U. S. Army, son of Mrs. Myrtle F. Steen of Seattle. = The| double ring ceremony will be per-| formed at 8 o'clock by the Rev.| W. G. LeVasseur of the Catholic| Church of the Natiyity. ! Wedding music will be played by Mrs. Mark Jensen, pianist, and Florence Jensen will provide the| violin obbligato. Before the read- ing of the vows, Mrs. Marian Meyer will sing two selections, “Because” and “I Love The.” Miss Kendler will be given in marriage by her father and her attendants will include Miss Peggy Johns as maid of honor, and Mrs.| Cleo Commers, bridesmaid. Little| Judy Trambitas will be the flower girl. - Corp. Steen will have Sergeant George Leadbetter as his best man. A reception at the Kendler home will follow the wedding service and all friends of the young couple are| invited to call between 9 and 11 o'clock. The bride-elect, a graduate of] the Juneau High School, attended | the University of Alaska at Fair-| banks and also took a business , course in Seattle. For the past year she has been a civilian em- ployee in the office of the U. S. Army Signal Corps here. Corp. Steen attended the Univer- sity of Washington and has been stationed locally with the Army Signal Corps for the last year. .- — Empire Want-ads bring results: | w The Yan e e 4 I PREPARATION. — The * works like an off-tackl says Howell Dodd, AP Featu Point of the break must OLDTIMEROF INTERIOR IS DEAD AT 73 \Fannie Quigley, of Gold Rush Fame, Dies in Sleep at Kantishna FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 29.— Funeral arrangements are being made for Fannie Quigley, widely known resident of Kantishna, near Mount McKinley National Park, since 1906. She was found dead in | her cabin Friday by Johnny Busia, neighboring prospector and close friend, who said she apparently died in sleep on the couch after his visit Tuesday. Fannie was born in Nebraska 73 years ago, joined the stampede to the Klondike in '98, followed the,‘ rush to Fairbanks by water ,and then to Kantishna where her house has | been visited by hundreds of sight- seers, scientists, explorers and hunt- ers who heard many stories of her feats as miner, hunter and gardener. | She learned to speak English after running away from her Bohemian home. *She married Angus Mac- Kenzie at Dawson in 1901, and later | married Joe Quigley ,of Kantishna, | whom she divorced seven years ago. Her will lists her sisters as Josie Criss | of Marcola, Oregon, and Mary Mc- Lain of Anacortes, Washington FISHING | | | EXTENSION IN TWO DISTRICTS ANNOUNCED TODAY Dr. Ira Gabrielson. Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, to-| day announces the reopening of Sumner Straits district for com- mercial fishing from 6 o'clock on| the morning of August 30, to 6| o'clock the night of August 31.| An extension has also been granted | in the southern district of Prince/ of Wales Island, where fishing will| be permitted until 6 o'clock on the| morning -of Sept. 1. The season| in this section was scheduled to close Aug. 29. Dr. Gabrielson, accompanied by Regional Director Frank Hynes, has just returned from a week’s sur- vey of the eastern district where| the salmon run is reported to be| satisfactory in the greater portions of the area, but is still extremely light in the mainland section. The Itwo men stated, however, that they had hopes of the run developing as fish were beginning to appear in this vicinity. The survey was made aboard the Fisheries vessel Brant, with short |side trips via the Fish and Wildlife Service plane. .- BUY WAR BONDS Home-Made SOU ALASKAN LUNCH NOW OPEN 10:30 A. M. TO MIDNIGHT If Yow’re Hungry... eee WeCan Help You (Our CLAM. CHOWDER is famous) Our Sandwiches Are the BEST in TOWN! HOME-MADE PIES and CAKES, T0O! ALASKANHOTELLOBBY MRS. C. A. CLARK—Manager PS Our Specialty SUPREMACY. MEDIUM AND LIGHT PLANES BOMB AND STRAFE, TO SUP- PORT ATTACK- ARTILLERY, MORTARS POUND ENEMY POSITIONS - ideal breakthrough | e play in foothall, res artist in France. be a sorprise. 2. SELECTIVE SERVICE | HEADS RETURN HERE John McCormick, Territorial Di- rector of the Selective Service and Col. Ben Howell, who is connected th Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey's | staff in Washington, D. C., have re- | turned from a two weeks’ trip to the Westward and Interior | Cal. Howell came North for the | purpose of making a complete chrck‘ of the Selective Service in the Ter- | ritory and to report back to Wash-“ ington on its operations. | | MucArthu;Pilot | ALLIED military leaders, like many other persons, prefer their own planes, cars, pilots and chauffeurs, Lt. Col. H. C, Godman (above), Palo Alto, Cal, is the Army pilot who usually flies Gen. Douglas MacArthur and other staff officers to battlefronts in the widespread South Pacific area. (International), SERVICE MEN FROM H| MOTORIZED mrfu‘#av 4 FOLLOWS , CONSOLIDATES. BREAK THROUGH, BREAKTHROUYGH. — Air force and artillery strike first to block as many potential tack- lers as possible. Infaritry and engineers make a hole in the line, and armor then plows through. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA MOP-UP. — While tanks and motorized in- * fantry speed to their objective, other. troops clean up enemy resistance behind the new line. DUMBARTON OAK MEET TELLS PLAN Inlemationfirganizafion of Big and Little Na- tions to Be Formed WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. — The Dumbarton Oaks Conference has announced a general agreement “to form an international security or- ganization, including a council com- posed of big powers plus a number of smaller nations.” The conferees declined to ampli- fy the announcement made or say specifically what authority should be given the small powers of the Council in relation with the big nations The statement said: “The Dele- gations are continuing to discuss the structure and jurisdiction of the various organs and methods of procedure.” | Under Secretary of State Stet- tinius, American Delegation Chief, replied to every request for amp- lification of the statement, that linformation sought was still under discussion. | Stettinius did agree with one | questioner that today’s statement | so closely paralleled the June 15 istatement of the American Peace Organization aims by Roosevelt as |to constitute in effect an endorse- | {ment of the Amcrican plan by !British .and Russian chiefs at the| | Delegation, Sir Alexander Cadogan | THREE LEAVE FOR T USITKA VIA PLANE A flight to Sitka today by an | Alaska Coastal plane carried Mrs. | Don McLean, Gil Rich, and Lefn- ard Taylor to that ecity, while a seocnd plane flew E. T. Gross to| Todd and Lonnie McIntosh, Frank Edward, and Jim Boye to Tenakee. | The Rev, F. B, Gallant and Charles Clark were passengers for Skagway today on the flight that carried M. Anderson to Haines. Wilbur Lindoff and Wallen Hend- | rick were flow to Hoonah this after- noon. ! 1.5 PLANES N ATTACKS LOW AREAS Make Sweep—Over France| Into Germany for Definite Purposes | LONDON, Aug. 29. — American | fighters today raced at tree-top level ! | over the low countries and France | into Germany for the third straight | | day, bombing and strafing transport | | targets and airfields in a ceaseless | ieffort to bring the enemy move-! | ment of troops and supplies between | | the west frontier and the German| ! frontler to a dead halt. | | The scope of operations is not k| announced immediately but prob- | ably did not approach those of the | past two days. | During the two-day period, the | | Ninth American Air Force fighters and bombers alone knocked out 726 | enemy motor ‘vehicles, 258 railroad | | cars, 23 tanks, 53 ammunition car- riers and 21 locomotives. British Mosquitoes bombed rail- road transports south of the Seine |to the German border all night 0 i |a continuation of the round-the- w DUSTY —pusty Anderson clock Allied air assault. [ — e ) 23l avove) emparked on 2 tim cx- | FILES COMP | | LAINT, TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1944 4 Objections Are Made fo Spending Government Money on Arid Lands (Continued from Page One) . .j 4 NAZITOLL AT FALAISE | ANNOUNCED on farm products?” i “Ironically,” says this House © member, “legislators have gone ‘Irom one conference, on securing BRITISH HEADQUARTERS new reclamation projects to mee:c h * ! be produced from such lands through raising of crops. 4 v ‘H NEAR THE SEINE, Aug. 29.—Allied !‘crmnsl food shortages, to attend troops killed or captured 122,000 another on how to keep prices up Germans in the great Falaise en- on overproduction already trapment, British Second Army achieved.” Headquarters disclosed today. | Still more thousands of Germans will be added to the toll from the retreat across Proponents of irrigation projects say, on the other hand, that land should be should is a natural resource, disorganized - enemy preserved and wealth i the Seine. One hundred and twenty-two thousand, including 30,000 killed and | 92,000 captured, a third of the latter wounded, represented the bag of American, British and Canadian armies through successive entrap- ments in the Falaise area up to RS PLACE They point ®ut that new duction is ‘new wealth and addit- jonal national income. pro- ’ . " Western congressmen already have proposed that returning war {veterans be given an opportunity to establish homesteads on western lands which would be irrigated. Federal loans could be made to pay the cost of irrigating and could be repaid over a period of years with- lout loss to the government, they | 52 VOIE ABSENTEE BALLOTS According to U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray, 52 Juneau voters have KL placed their absentee ballots for the COntend: LS Territorial elections on Sept. 12. | ReP: Miller (R-Neb), member of | {the House irrigation committee, Absentee balloting closes Sep- tember 9, and all qualified voters who do not expect to be in the city on election day are given an opportunity to cast their votes now at the office of the U. S. Com missioner in the Federal building. ; — - — i of the amous PT boats| scoffed at arguments that bringing new irrigated lands into production jwould increase the nation’s crop isurpluses. These have existed in the past, he said, because of under- consumption and faulty distribution. M Many are plywood. Those initials could W. D. Buchanan is in town and "M stand for “plywood terror.” . a.guest at the Juneau Hotel. Have You Tried the New Halliwell Cold Wave? —Experienced Operators— [ Lucilie’s Beauty Salon J PHONE 492 SR S R0 7, Large CANNING RASPBERRIES Make your PRESERVES and JELLY NOW at the PEAK of the SEASON at the @ o in her home city, Toledo, O. D FISH AND WILDLIFE PILOT IS SHOT IN ASSAULT-BATTERY | | | A complaint charging Beatrice | Murphy with assault and battery, | was filed at the U. S. Commis- Reas and Ambassador Andrei Gromko. JUNEAU RETURNING HEREON FURLOUG“S‘\ Mrs. Clarence Rhode and son | Jimmy, flew south today and will Four soldiers who arrived at Fort be gene several weeks. Upon her Lawton recently from the Asiatic- return she will bring another son, Pacific area under the War De-Jackie, with her. He has been visit- partment’s rotation policy have ing below for several weeks. been granted furloughs, which they | will spend in Juneau, and are scheduled to leave Seattle soon for ere. Tech. Sgt. George F. Cantillon, who has been overseas with the in- fantry for 29 months, will visit his wife. Pvt. e A e EIGHT FOR ANCHORAGE A flight to Anchorage today by Woodley Airways carried the fol- lowing passengers: Frank L. Petru, Delphina Morris, Ann Gillis, Hosea Sarber, Barbara Garrett, Sue Holly, E. W. Davis, and Joseph Garrett. — - DIVORCES FILED Ervin E. Hagerup, an over- veteran of 27 months with the Medical Corps, will spend his furlough with his wife and parents,| The following divorces have be:; Mr. and Mrs. T. Hagerup. filed in the office of the Clerk of Pfc. Leo M. Jones, anothre mem-| the U. 8. District Court: Daisy ber of the Medical Corps who has| Snook from Russell Snook and Carl been overseas for 10 months, will| Marvin from Frances Marvin, | visit his grandfather, Thomas H.| ——————— Ashby. ‘The Portugese man-of-war fish Pfc. Cleo J. Commers, overseas|is the only creature not affected 12 months with the infantry, will by the poisonus sting of the Por- visit his wife in Juneau. | tugese man-of-war jellyfish. Just Received a shipment of FRESH JORGENSEN'S ORIGINAL DANISH COOKIES .~ 0ld Fashioned Butier Ice Box Wafers and Butterscoich Ice Box Wafers Made from a famous Danish Formula Plcoly WIeeLy $2.00 Minimura Orders to be in before 1 P. M. In order to conserve manpower, gasoline, rubber and equipment, we have only one: delivery each day. | sioner’s office by Verna Anderson and the defendant is out on a $250 ACCIDENT AT (RAIG S m— bond pending further developments Del Freemouth, pilot of the Fish ;"o " ooco and Wildlife Service plane in| rne complaint states that Beatrice} Southeast Alaska, was accidentally Murphy on August 25, at Juneau, shot at Craig last night by the not peing armed with a dangerous discharge of a .38 automatic pistol | weapon, did strike, kick and scratch which he carries on an inside belt, | Verna Anderson about the- limbs, jaccording to advices recéived by’ heéad and face while in a state of the U. S. Marshal's office here anger. ‘llrom Deputy Sid Thompson. —————— The accident occurred at the‘HEDGES TH TO home of A. R. Pearmain, Supor-{ ATTEND MEETING intendent of the Libby, McNeill| To attend a state director’s meet- and Libby cannery at that place. ing, Arthur Hedges, Alaska Man- Freemouth, who last night was power Director, flew sduth today reported in serious condition, was via PAA enroute to San Francisco. flown to Ketchikan by Norman He is éxpected to be absent from 1Gearcle, Ellis Air Transport pilot. |Juneau for the next several days. | | CERTO Ha's Arrived Also Complete Stocks of FRUIT JARS JELLY GLASSES Boat Orders Delivered Anytime! Juneau Deliveries—10 A. M. and 2 P. M. Douglas Delivery—10 A. M. ORGE BROTHER Super Market PHONES 92-95—2 DELIVERIES Orders for Delivery Accepted Up to 2:30 P. M. Yes, We Have Plenty Cantaloupes, Peaches Pears, Plums Casabas, Honey Dews Gravensteins Danish Squash Zuchinni Squash Swiss Chard Turnips Bunch Carrots JAR FITTINGS DOUGLAS DELIVERY 10 A. M. TWO JUNEAU DELIVERIES 10:15 A. M. 2:15 P. M. 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