The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 26, 1944, Page 6

PAGE SIX NAZIS HAVE ONE MILLION CASUALTIES Some Germafii Are Holed Up Along Bay of Biscay and French Ports SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF iE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY PORCES, Sept. 26.—German casual- ties on the Western Front (killed, woundec, captured or troops hope- lessly cut off) are estimated today at close a million men since D-Day This is estimated to include at ast 100,000 killed, well over 200,000 ly wounded and more than 500,- 000 captured. The rest are sealed off, in the Channel islands, in the Jast holdout ports in France and in | pockets along the Bay of The million casualifes are well over twice the German force now believed lined up along the West Wall for the homeland stand REV. GALLANT GOES 10 KODIAK T0 LOOK OVER GEN. HOSPITAL Preliminary plans are now being made for an order of Catholic nuns as yet unnamed, to take over man- agement of the Kodiak General Hospital. | Bishop J. R. Crimont, S. J. D. D,, has been asked by a representative of the Kodiak townspeople if he could supply nuns to run the com- munity hospital. At the present time the Rev. G. Edgar Gallant of the Skagway parish is in Kodiak to look over the hospital situation. to various Biscay JONATHAN APPLES still in effect. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA ALASKA COASTAL CARRIES MANY FARES MONDAY| Alaska Coastal Airlines covered | Southeast Alaska yesterday with flights to Ketchikan, Wrangell, | Petersburg, Annex Creek, Haines,| Skagway and Sitka. Those flying | to Haines were Norma Anderson, Amy Knudsen, S. Sheldon, Jasper | Tyler. | Juneau to Skagway—Max Try- | mucha. | Haines to Juneau — Russell D.| | Lapham. | Juneau to Ketchikan — Virginia | Merrill. Juneau to Wrangell Bakke. Juneau Matterstad. Ketchikan to Juneau—Carl D.| Huer, J. H. Fletcher, Harold Al\-‘ dersorf. | Petersburg to Ketchikan—Vernon | iBurns, E. J. McElroy. { Wrangell to Ketchikan—Joe Her- |nandez, Mrs. Hernandez. Petersburg to Juneau Torris | Matterstad, Joe Romeros. : Juneau to Sitka—Charles Gar- | | Sharon | to Petersburg — Torris Sonia Marten, Theodore Heyder. Sitka to Juneau—Richard Shon-‘ George M. Morgan, Andy | | | |ridge, | Bertels. to Port Althorp—Erling for I | | | | | {E. Walters. "l,‘ Annex Creek to to| Seraphim. {Workers Conferenc ‘At Methodist Church Juneau—A. F.| be gave Ex e by Miss Madge Muchmore, left this | Juneau to Hoonah—Thomas An- | cident near Ketchikan last Sunday | GOP Nommee Says Presi- Germa n Radm (]a(ms son. Frank Johnson, Caryl Martin, accident it was said the funm-al] bbath” not Sunday, and i (hs[‘ll.ll’L’l; You can read that p]‘m in the Remiremont sector | | Declaring that Roosevelt tried “to |guard the mountain gap of south- President 16 years is indeed in-ianq speculation of future develop-| political jobholders. He s indispens-| cources in the “touch and g |Church were discussed last evening| PRINCESS DOES DISH ES—Pnnccss Elizabeth of England (rlgm [DEWEY SAYS SECRECY ON A"END LAST RITES FOR | morning Ketchikan to Ll([(‘n(‘]1 me“ Max Lindoff, William Sheak- a2 S dont Canno Laugh Off | Trapped Airborne Troops |ioerenee scnomm. would be Saturday, Adventists’ | reference to Ex. 16:26 and from now until doomsday and can- |France; apparently a prelude | laugh nf{ the problem of jobs after | western Germany. dispensable. He is indispensable t0|ments banned in a step designed | able to Sidney Hillman and his|p. i gescribed officialls as“fluid.”|at the regular monthly meeting of | ) helps wash the dishes after an outdoor meal which she helped cook dm-ln: a visit to a Glrl Guides camp in Juneau thc funeral services for Pastor ley. Saturday. | Port Althorp to Juneau — Irving Democratic. Record Surrender — Denial | “Sunday.” Mrs. Hildre Skeie and | 31:13, 17, and Matt. 5:17,19, | not find one word about speedy dis- [the offensive against Belfort, | the war,” Dewey said, “Let’s get this| In the Arnheim area, accounts Plans for the Rally Day Servi Harry - Hopkins, Madame Perkins, i, keep the Germans from obtain- e ey ieed Political Action Committee, to Earl Said To Be “Crl {the officers and teachers of the | |road jafter these | desire Juneau to Annex Creek—Mrs. C'il [H. William WHITE PASS IS STILL IN NEED OF NEW WORKERS Jack Carvel, manager of lm\‘ local United States Employment Service, returned this morning from a trip to Skagway in ronnunon‘ with hiring workers for the White| [ i i |Pass and Yukon Route. He said more workers were still needed and the employment Ser- | vice, 124 Marine Way, is acting| as the hiring agent for the com- pany. Needed now are 25 section men, four locomotive machinists and four coach carpenters. Carvel said he had transferred ! several men to jobs on the rail- from construction projects | men had expressed a| to work on the railroad.| The - Employment Service repre-| sentative said that transferring men {from one essential job to anothe if it better aided the war effort, was entirely within the policy of | |the USES. | He said the White Pass and| Yukon Route had notices for em- | ployment of men at every employ- ment office in the States. “Now is| land, Norman Demo, Frank Krusl, ‘lhe time to get into work that wnll‘noon hour today, Juneau Volunteer | Grant Logan for Yakutat. | still be there after the war lS‘Fuemen extinguished flames in the\ Anchorage—L. H. Johnstone, Jim over. ‘ WilliamKaarlos | Are Parents of Son in Honolulu Announcements have been re- ceived in Juneau of the birth of a William Kaarlo, to Mr. and Kaarlo Nasi at Honolulu, T. Kaarlo is the second son born to Mr. and Mrs. Nasi and weighed eight and two thirds | pounds at the time of his birth. Mr. Nasi was formerly director |of the Division of Public Health |Engineering with the Territorial Department of Health in Juneau and Mrs. Nasi was the former Cynthia Batson, teacher in the Ju- {neau Public School kindergarten. Mr. Nasi is now P. S. Sanitary En- |gineer with the Public Health Ser- vice, assigned to rodent control work in Honolulu. The Nasi's | he TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1944 \COAL OPERATORS - ATTACKINGLABOR BOARDS IN COURT WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 A group of southern coal operators went into Federal Court today to |attack the jurisdiction of the War Labor Board and National Labor | Relations Board over nine foremen and accuse the agencies of “sanc- tioning and encouraging” attempts of the foremen to make union con- tracts with eight companies. All of them are members of the Southern Coal Producers Associa- tion. They asked for injunctions to restrain the NLRB from taking any more strike votes for recogni- tion of the Foremen's Union, and to restrain the WLB from hearing the group of supervisory disputes now before it. WOODLEY TAKES EIGHT ON WESTWARD TRIP Passengers scheduled to leave on | the Woodley Airlines plane this | Answering a call at 2-5 during the | afternoon are: F. A, Grainger and Over-Opfimism About Ending of War Is Now Causing Genuine Alarm o Continued from Page One) | than we can negotiate peace with the Japanese. These are some of the questions | that military and other government o!flclsls ask whenever talk of the war’s early end pops up. If major capitulations come to- morrow, they say, it probably will take more than a dozen months to clean out the pockets of resistance |and brigandage in Europe, and far |longer than that to mop up the suicide-minded Japanese, wiko still uld be scattered over millions of square miles of the Pacific and China. A Marine colonel, back from the Pacific and now warming a chair for a couple of months on “paper work,” summed it up the other day when said: “I just hope that the United States won't get too far ahead of the optimistic headlines.” PR SR TAR POT ON FIRE ~ tar pot which had been placed across | Boyle, J. G. Warren, John Liv- |in an alley from the Juneau Motor. \mgamn and George Stinson. No damage was reported. Cordova—G. E. Hammarly. For Cookies, Cakes, Candies Walnuis — Pecans — Filberis Peanuts Glazed Fruit Ready Mixed for Fruit Cake pres- | ent address is 1848 Palolo Avenue,' Enlla.nd. - Mrs. H. L. Wn()d. uumn])dmv(l FD R IS BA D GREAT FIGHT { Helde. ' L. Wood, victim of an airplane ac- | Hoonah to Juneau—Minnie John- | In yesterday write-up of the Hildre. 5 (Continued from Page One) (Continued from Page One) sthel E. Short said today it shoula | (Continued / 4 (charges after the war.” |miles southeast. Belfort’s fortre straight. The man who wants to be |of troop dispositions were restricted | Harold Ickes and host of other| i, yeful information from Allied for next Sunday at the Methodist| Browder, pardoned ex-convict and | » | | The British press termed it as a| ChUrch: labor leader.” Dewey said this in reply to Roose- |Crisis, with the greatest intensity | | velt’s statement in his npe,,i,,g“ur the battle being diverted to the | campaign speech for the rmmh‘mn'mng and holding open of an adequate supply corridor through Sharp — (risp — Tasty 3 Ibs. - 55¢ FIG BARS Whele Wheat 2 Ibs. 7 8¢ . MANY OTHER VARIETIES OF DELICIOUS COOKIES See Them at DOUGLAS DELIVERY 10 A. M. TWO JUNEAU DELIVERIES 10:15 A. M. 2:15 P. M. MINIMUM—$2.50 FlBerts CASI'I GROCERY term Saturday night that it was a “malicious falsehood” that he had|Nijmegen to the south bank of the ever represented himself as being |Rhine. Germans were opposing that | indispensable to the nation. effort with the Elite Guard, Panzer | A {troops and more airplanes than |they have risked for a week. MAT"-DA FRENCH The Germans broke the supply |corridor between Eindhoven and | Nijmegen last night, keeping the five hours before the British hurled CONCERT TONIGHT e ou Northwest of Aniwerp, some of |the Second Army men shoved west Tonight and tomorrow evening,|of Eindhoven to Rousel, nine miles |Mrs. Matilda Holst French will be fron Turnhout. {heard in concert at the Northern| RIS Light Presbyterian Church under | {the sponsorship of the Order of Rainbow for Girls. Both musicals 12 pASSENGERS oul {will begin at 8 o'clock. st "who mave heara ws| FOR ANCHORAGE, AIR French previously are ‘looking for- A Sn Al ik | ward to hearing her again and it| An outgoing Alaska Airliner yes- |is expected that the church audi-|terday afternoon carried the fol- torium will be filled to capacity |lOWing persons to Anchorage: Pete both evenings. Carson, Mrs. J. C. Morris and in- Mrs. Carol Beery Davis will pro-|{ant, S. McCutcheon, C. Morgan vide both piano and organ accom- |Holmes, M. Graves, Willlam Willis, paniment for the singer. Alf Olsen, M Ritter, Harold Aks . ridge and Mrs. Dunham and in- FLETCHER IN TOWN fant. Eric Erickson was a passen- ger for Cordova, and Agnes Regan J. H. Fletcher has arrived here |for Fairbanks. — .. —— BUY WAR BONDS from Ketchikan and is staying at the Baranof. The LARGEST Cabinet Shop in Southeasiern ALASKA Now takingvorders for PAINTING Inside or Qutside Work ALL TYPES OF GLASS WORK PANES REPLACED—NEW FRAMES MADE Building — Repairing — Refiodeling FULTON & CO. (Formerly Fulton & Kruse) BUILDING CONTRACTOR Across from Jurfeau Motors l. G. 149 So. Main St. PHONE 433 Honelulu 31, T. H. i { The Rally Day service will in- | clude both the Sunday School and worship service hours with num- bers by the Junior and Senior | Choirs, and some participation by | |all the classes of the Sunday | | School. | Last part of the service will be [broadcast over KINY. e ——— PITCHFORK V GU | CAPE TOWN-Lt. Archie Turn- bull of the South African Sixth Di- vision recently captured an Italian position with a pitchfork. Wounded | | and without his pistol, he attacktd a German machine-gun nest in one of the buildings with a pnchfork until it surrendered. EORGE BROTHER SUPER MARKET Phones 92 -95 Orders for Delivery Acepted Up to 2:30 P. M Phone, Write or Wire Us Your Order Boat Orders Delivered Anytime! Juneau Deliveries—10 A. M. and 2 P. M. Douglas Delivery—10 A. M. | On my recent trip Outside I contacted one of the largest independent grocery companies with membership of over 130 stores in Washing- ton and five in Alaska. We have been appointed one of the members for Juneau and Douglas representation. This connection will give us quite an ad- vantage in our purchasing power as mark-up of this company is so low that it will enable us to cut prices that will make things quite inter- esting for the Housewife * Watch for Change in Prices | GEORGE BROTHERS [