The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 18, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —— VOL. XLIL, NO. 9784 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1944 MEMB ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AMERICANS SECURE NEW PACIFIC NAZIS CLAIM INVASION OF JUNKERLAND However, New Offensive | Has Nof, as Yet, Been Announced by Moscow BULLETIN—LONDON, Oct. 18 —The Russian Army has crossed | the Carpathians and has invaded | Czechoslovakia in force, Stalin announced in his order of the day. Stalin said that General Ivan Petrov’s Fourth Ukranian Army has broken through from southern Poland on a 170-mile front, capturing seven passes and advancing from 12 to 30 miles. . LONDON, Oct. 18—Germany to- day implied the Russians invaded East Prussia. The mighty new Red Army offensive from the Baltic | | (Continued on Page Thiee) The Washington Merry - Go- Round | By DREW PEARSON | (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) | |cessarily guarantee peace forever, (during our lives. |good health. ROOSEVELTTIRED | OF DISSENTION IN SECURITY PLANS WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 — Presi- | dent Roosevelt believes that the nation should focus its sights on the grand ' objectiv proposed by | the World Security Organization | and shouldn’t become involved in | [a discussion on minor details, as serting that a lot of people are| trying to foster dissension over relatively minor aspects of a news conference yesterday, that he is| getting awfully fed up with such| tactics by these people, and he| |also said that they will be fed‘ up too when he begins to discuss! the subject, indicating that this might be the speech before the | Foreign Policy Association in New York Saturday night. Of the Dumbarton ference, the President said that the! security agreements might not ne-| | | Oakes con-| but that he could guarantee peace In answer to a question, Roose-| velt said that he was in pretty | 915 JAP PLANES SHOT FROM SKY IN SEVEN DAYS | | 32 Nippon jor WASHINGTON—A little ruefully, PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 18.—Car- recently, FDR told Campaign Man- | rier-based planes swept Northern ager Hannegan that he could ex- Luzon Tuesday, sinking or setting pect no campaign speeches from |afire seven ships and destroying 19 three members of his Cabinet: | planes. Secretary of State.Hull, Secretary! A re-check of Japanese losses in | of War Stimson and Secretary of | the Formosa raid of October 11/ Navy Forrestal. Stimson, a Re_‘shuwed 37 additional ships, and | publican, will probably -yote - for | eight small cralt sunk.or damaged FDR, but make no speeches. For- | there. The communique from Ad- restal, a nominal Democrat, doesn’t miral Chester Nimitz announced the want the Navy to be in politics, | eassessment of Japanese Plane loss- and isn’t a very good speech- | €8 was based on still incomplete maker . anyway. He is touchmglrewns am.:l shgwed 515‘ SRamy some Wall Street friends for dough, | plancs destrgyed in, the Fiilippites, fowesar: ,Formoa, and 1Olmmaya areas from Ix} _1940, Secretary Hull did not!oi‘;?:.‘ei:zg :;’sos-announced the oc-! definitely come out for Roosevelt 'cypation, by United States ground until the last two days. He is in|gorces, of Ngulu Atoll in the Western the same boat today—if not more carolines, 80 miles south of Yap s0. land 210 miles east of Palau, on In telling Hannegan that Hull October 15. wouldn't speak in this campaign,| Nimitz said that on the October | FDR may have had in mind the 11 Formosa raid 21 more United fact that Hull has difficulty with States planes were lost with 31 pilots | his throat and doesn’t like to make and 31 crewmen. Additional Japa- speeches. Also the fact that Hull nese losses hitherto unreported, are has been keeping aloof from poli- |five cargo ships and 34 small craft tics. When the Dewey boys re-|sunk and two ships and 34 small | ported that Hull would be kept on| as a Dewey adviser, Presidential| aides had to do a bit of .prodding to make sure the Secretary of State issued a statement of loyalty to the White House. 1 INDIAN SUMMER—This is the| betwixt - and - bet ween period in Washington. Summer heat is gone.! Steaming radiators are not yet try- | ing to bring back summer. Leaves are falling Congress | is gone . . . Capitol Hill is belng“ scrubbed. Blackout curtains are being junked.:Millions of speeches are being franked out from the busiest room in Washington, the House mailing room, “shipped to| Congressmen for campaign mern-‘l ture Elsewhere around the capitol, elevator boys now concen- trate on the comics. THE WHITE HOUSE—But at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue things'! are tense. FDR has rolled up his; political sleeves, admits to close friends that he has a real fight on his hands . . . He is talking to more people than ever, writing more letters, beginning to direct his own campaign . Advisers agree that he needs to . . . Pri- vately, the President thinks he’ll carry New York State by about 100,000. If so, he thinks he’s in, but it's going to be close. REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS —The Dewey boys on Connecticut Avenue are hopping with activity. More than 40 employees keep phones, typewriters, mimeograph machines clicking . . . Every news- paper is watched. Democratic boners are picked up fast, imme- diately converted to campaign am- munition . . . Republicans have a teletype linking their New York, Albany, Chicago offices td Wash- ington, so each can tell the others simultaneously what is doing . No longer is a speech released be- fore the orator who is to deliver it has ok'd the ghost-writer’s pro- duct. (Continued on Page Four) ' - | stroyers craft probably sunk or damaged. BRITISH FORCES LAND ON ISLAND IN DODECANESE ROME, Oct. 18—Two British de- landed forces and took over the Island of Scarpanto at dawn yesterday after they discov- ered that an enemy garrison was “contained” among the Greek population. Allied Headquarters said the is- land was located in the Dodecan- ese group and is a mountainous is- land between Crete and Rhodes Islands. It is about 30 miles long with an extreme width of eight miles. About 8,000 people live there. Expectant Mother From Deering Takes | Gold Dust fo South, PORTLAND, Oct. 18 — Without funds except for an elkhide pouch| filled with gold dust which she had mined herself near Deering, Al- aska, an expectant mother arrived | in Portland, explaining there was| no doctor in Deering. Her husband, who died recently, was a gold miner. .- GREY SISTERS HERE ‘The Rev. J. Edgar Gallant and) Sisters John Bare Kivans, M. Leo, {M. Wade Cine, and M. Monica ar- rived in Juneau this morning on the Princess Louise. They will board a plane here for Kodiak where they will assume charge of the Griffin Memorial Hospital. |able to supply the ground troops SURPRISE RAID SMASHES JAPS ON MINDANAO ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NEW GUINEA, Oct. 18—The fir: big all-fighter raiding party to sweep the Philippines penetrated far | north into Mindanao on Monda surprising a Japanse convoy on a highway and destroying 62 trucks | and six staff cars. The Americans apparently caught | the Japanese by surprise in a bold | daylight raid for the fighters flew low and struck not only a convoy but also the important Cagayan and Matina airdromes, also at-| tacked a cavalry troop, inflicting | heavy casualties before the horse- men could scatter. - — Ships Sunk WASHINGTON, Oct. 18 — De- struction of 32 Jap vessels, includ- | ing seven warships, by American subs has been reported by Secre- tary of the Navy James V. Forres- tal. The Secretary also said that 905. enemy ships had been sunk damaged by the Third and| Fifth U. S. fleets during the past| four and one-half months. | Planes and anti-aircraft guns from the Third and Fifth fleets| since last June have destroyed | 3,080 Jap planes, including 1,827 shot out of the air, and 1,250 de- | stroyed on the ground. He told the press conference that the latest bag by American subs included three destroyers, three es- cort vessels and a mine layer in | addition to 25 merchant vessels of | various types. This raises to 956 the number of Jap ships of all| types to be sunk or damaged by | American subs since the war| started. Other craft destroyed in the new | bag include seven transports, a| tanker and a navy auxiliary and 16 cargo carrying craft. SECRET HARBORS MAKE POSSIBLE " EUROPE SUCCESS LONDON, Oct. 18—Two artificial harbors, built in secret and floated | across the English Channel, explain the riddle of how the Allies were which swept through northern France while the Germans held | every port but Cherbourg. Supreme Headquarters said they “made possible the liberation of western Europe.” One hundred and fifty concrete caissons or floating boxes and seven miles of prefabricated pier equip- | ment were divided into segments 480 | feet long and used to make harbors along the flotilla of old ships sent to the Channel bottom to provide" part of a breakwater system. | — .- CALIFORNIAN HERE Kenneth H. Keith is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel, having regis- tered last evening from Sonora, California. AR S b e MR RED CROSS PEOPLE HERE Mr. and Mrs. Roger Slocum, of the American Red Cross, have reg- istered at the Gastineau from Lovelock, Nevada. LT i ARRIVALS FROM FAIRBANKS Arriving here yesterday from Fairbanks and registering at the Baranof Hotel are Mrs. R. E. Myer, Mrs. Dorothy Wilson, Joyce Garner and Mr. and MNus. John Meyers. e — DR. HESTER HERE Dr. R. N. Hester, M. D., of Ket- chikan, has arrived in Juneau to conduct an eye clinic for school chil- dren. He will be at the Juneau Medical and Surgical Clinic. e DERMOTT O'TOOLE OUT Dermott O'Toole left today by plane for Seattle where he will| receive medical attention. e ISABELLE SING LEAVES Miss Isabelle Sing, Yeoman 3/c, WAUVE, left today by plane. for the ———— Mr. and Mrs. V. V. Trigley, of ‘Whitehorse, are registered at the Baranof. south after a visit with her father in Sitka. For the past several days |dent is John S. Knight, publisher FLORIDAIS LASHED BY HURRICANE {Terrific Wind Strikes Ha- | Half Million M vana then Sweeps Across Gulf BULLETIN—MIAMI, Oct. 18. —The vortex of the hurricane was located at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon about 40 miles south- west of Key West. The storm will probably strike the south- western Florida coast within a few hours. b At Havana at least six per- sons have been killed, twenty injured and a heavy casualty list is expected in isolated areas. Thousands of dollars worth of property damage has been done. All Havana is without power and the city is isolated. A 1,500-ton ship in Havana Harbor was driv- en aground by the storm. MIAMI, Oct. 18. — A hurricane wind, with up from 60 to 140 miles an hour gusts, lashed at Havana before the severe tropical storm moved out over the Gulf of Mexico and sent advance gales sweeping the Florida coast. The Weather Bureau advisory service said the full hurricane winds were probably felt along the entire string of exposed keys stretching southwestward from the Florida mainland. Within a very short time, “very high tides” were forecast for all of south Florida which was brac- ed for the gales expected. A radio report from the Pan Am- erican Airways office said that a number of houses had blown down | { Holland BORDER STATES VOTES CLAIMED BY BOTH PARTIES BIG BATTLES 1S EXPECTED IN Sections Appeared in . AT Winner's List (By ted Press) Republican and Democratic con- gressional leaders alike said the Lorder states of Oklahoma, Mis- |souri, Kentucky, Maryland and West Virginia were going their way. These contrary estimates were 33 miles from Duisburg, made by Rep. Drewry, Democrat, | while Berlin declared that half a|of Virginia, and by .Rep. Hallock, million men are facing each other |Republican, Indiana. in The Netherlands, ready for a| Two congressional “pattle that may flare up at any|committees came into the Presi-| moment.” | dential campaign calculations along | en Face Fach Other Ready fo Fight as | Allies Press Ahead LONDON, Oct. 18—British troops have captured Venray and formed a solid 10 mile front in eastern campaign | back a German the U. S. great supply port of Ant-|National Get-Out-the-Vote Club,| werp. ,|said “it can be said convincingly | Beating Aachen |that as go the five border states Aachen is still being beaten into|so goes the Presidential élection | submission, and U. S. heavy bomb-| Michelet did the figuring on the | ers again struck Cologne and 40 basis of the fact that in the past it sounds hackneyed to talk of the Manila is situated, tonight’s merely miles beyond it, sapping German four presidential elections, all of |privilege of giving; but in view of |specified “objectives in the Philip- ates were in the winner's|the vast good done by the National Pines.” asserted that the American First column; four out of five in the|War Fund agencies I sincerely be-| power to move up reserves. Berlin | these a new of-|1920 and 1 agreed. 1942. Another dis- [ Army is preparing for pair fensive aimed at Cologne. Hit Near Metz The front in France sprang into | Dewey Aims Blows Gov. Dewey aimed his next blows | troops made a mile gain and hit|will speak at 6:30 o'clock (PWT) | within four miles of the fortress! tonight on “This Must Be the Last | |m OVER $2,000 15 NOW RAISED IN NWF CAMPAIGN | scribed-Solicitors Announced | | Contributions, and small, to the National W. und are being received in steadily increasing | numbers, according to the encour- |aging report made today by Jack Fletcher, Chairman of the local drive. He stated that the total re- ported to him this morning by the various district Chairmen, was $2,- 041.80. “This figure represents a very satisfactory beginning,” he said, “in the city-wide campaign to raise | Canadians to the, west pressed |with this report. Simon Michelet,|Juneau's quota of a minimum of pocket blocking | Washington lawyer, who heads the$10,500. Our organization has just| been completed, so thus far only a very small minority of the towns- people have been given the oppor- tunity to make their gifts to this great humanitarian effort. I know lieve that no thoughtful person in the community will care to be issing from the list of contribut- or Within the next two weeks {action also as U. S. Third Army |at the foreign policy level. Dewey each one will be approached by a solicitor. “Every dollar raised will be used city of Metz. French forces, far- | War,” on the New York Herald-|by the Allied War Relief, the War| ther south, made progress, punch- ing within from three to five miles of the two Vosges passes leading into the Reich. mile front along the Venray- De- in Havana and a number of small buildings at the airport flattened.| There was no immediate word of | any casualties. The Isle of Pines, south of Cuba, was raked with full force yesterdny‘ and is still without communications. | - e 10 PASSENGERS LEAVE | TODAY VIA PAA LINES| | engers today, via World Airways, were as follows: Carol Fish, Pearl Goold, Trudy Palfeiner, Ralph Greenwood, Mr. and Mrs. V. Ting- ley, Sgt. Thuran Julian, and Capt. Royal Schorelemmer, to White- horse; and Norman Stines and W. Stuart to Fairbanks. DON HUNGERFORD IS HERE ON FURLOUGH Pvt. Don Hungerford, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Hungerford, arrived | in Juneau by plane today on a pre- overseas furlough after completing training in the Coastwise Piloting School of the Navigation Training Section at the Army Service Forces Training Center in Florida. INTERIOR DECORATOR FROM STATES IS HERE J. 8. McClellan, interior decorator, formerly of Wrangell and Kodiak has opened a shop in Douglas. Be- fore coming to Alaska Mr. McClellan did interior decorating in California and Nevada. In Reno he decorated some of the largest night clubs, many of these | clubs featuring local scenic attrac- tions in their decorative scheme. - eee— Chicago News Sold To Knigh_iSyndicalm CHICAGO, Oct. 18—Sale of the controlling interest of the Chicago Daily News to Knight Newspapers, Inc, for $2,150,000 is announced by the executors of the estate of the late Colonel Frank Knox. 1 The Knight Corporation’s presi- Outgoing pas Pan American | of the Akron Beacon-Journal, the Miami Herald and the Detroit Free Press. — e CARTER TO BROADCAST Ted Carter will talk at 6:15 o'clock this evening over KINY on Juneau’s response to utility in civic Miss Sing has been a guest a: the Juneau Hote!, affairs, Territorial affairs and post war development. urne road. Germans Fall Back The Germans below the Schelde | Estuary, barring the water lane to | proved to be shackles on the libe | Antwerp, fell back under Canadian ! ties of the people. That is why the pressure. A front dispatch said there are signs that this German siege might be ending. Demolitions were reported in the Breskens area, a stronghold enemy pocket, along with considerable transport movement. AMERICANS IN 'TALY ADVANCE to!Prisoners Aid, the United Seamens | speak Saturday night. | Service, or the USO, to help our | Other samples of political dis-|men and women of the Armed |agreement: Senator O'Mahoney services and to relieve the extreme Tribune Forum. Roosevelt is countries scattered over six conti- nents.” Solicitors Announced ‘The entire city has been divided linto districts for campaign pur- poses. There are 18 residential d | tricts with the following solicitors: INo. 1, Mrs. Mike Haas; No. 2, Mrs, Keith Wildes; Nos. 3 and 4, |The Rev. Walter Soboleff; No. 5, | Truman’s Views | | Mrs. George Hays; No. 6, Mrs, Hans | Senator Truman declared, in 8an|ga.o. No. 7, Mrs. B. D, Stewart. |Francisco, that Dewey distorted the | no' g My Jake Cropley; No. findings of the Truman Senate | ; dvkna: | War' mvestigation |Mrs, W. J. Leivers; No. 10, Mrs. Ike Committee,| . ST [thereby practicing “political chi- | no" g P;,,";\”'Ly“":" g:f:nfifm;:, | x:‘*lmwmhy man i “running| > Mis: J. DeGanahl; Nos. 14 and | s P o 8115, Mrs. Ed Sutton; No. 16, Mr: |for the highest office in the land,” | gelen Foss: No. 17, Mrs. Vera| Socialist Candidate Norman|cysord: and No. 18, Mrs. All | Thomas said in a New York broadJZH‘E‘T ’ A el | Gov. John W. Bricker, in a San |Diego speech, said the New Deal is not the peoples’ government. The power it exercises already h: | New Deal is reactionary and “ liberal.” not BASE YANKS SEIZE NEW ATOLL; | NETHERLANDSiIn LastFourE!eEfionsThese‘One-liflh of Quofa Sub-| SE(R[T MOVE 'Terrific Blastings Resumed | on' Philippines-Japs Run from Assault U. 8. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD- |QUARTERS, AT PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 17. (Delayed)—Giant American carrier task forc operating in |such strength that the Japanese naval force took one look and fled, are pouring a steady rain of bombs on the Philippines, while to the st a new naval base has been seized in the western Carolines, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz an- nounced. Whereas last night's com- munique said that the carrier plane attacks were sustained against Lu- zon, the Philippine Island on which New Naval Base The new naval base is at Ulithi jAwll, where Eighty First Division |Army troops landed September 20 and 21 without opposition. Nimita kept the secret so long because ;lhere was reason to believe that the Japanese didn't know about it. An earlier communique, taking into account the veritable deluge of claims by the Tokyo radio, sdid that since the carrier task force opened the current offensive on British Second Army forces cap- |Said not until October 6 did Dewey, |<uffering among the people of our | October 8, the Japanese Navy has |tured Venray, near the Maas River, |as Governor, start looking for post- |allies. It is expected that this fund a dispatch from headquarters said,| War expansion information from|Wwill serve humanity in 91 different fled upon ascertaining that the land Tommies linked up on a 10 |New York businessmen. been sighted only once. It then | American fleet strength was unim- | paired. | The communique also spiked Tokyo claims, saying, “In all that time, no American carriers or battleships received any damage of consequence.” . More Bombings Carrier plane attacks on the Philippines were meshed with land- based strikes by Gen. MacArthur, who reported a fighter sweep over Mindanao and the new landings, which were made last September, on . Ulithi Atoll in the - western Caroline group. Ulithi is 100 milés east of Yap and northeast of Palau, one of the best harbors in the Western Pa- cific. Four Islets Occupied Advance patrols landed on Fas- | cast. Roosevelt, % 5 " NEARLY 1 MILE i ave Sasing “the ol sempente Special Districts | Vgiitie - ot Fatokss kil i A districts and their so-|Saran and Mangejang Islands in — ot ¥ KpiRon |licitors are: Assembly Apartments, the Ulithi group, on both sides ot ROME, Oct. 18—American troops | |Harry Lucas; Alaska Juneau Mill, 'the main entrance to the Ulithi driving toward Bologna, have ad-| WHITE AGA'" MAKES | George Schmidt; Alaska Laundry,|lagoon, on September 20. The next vanced nearly a mile north of the| |Charles Naghel; Gastineau Hotel, day, troops occupied the four islets captured Livergnanon Highway 65, PREDICTION Pou’"(s Bruce Kendall; Juneau Hotel, Clar- |0f Mogmog, * Potangeras, Asor and Allied headquerters said. L {ence Wise; Baranof Hotel, Jack|Sorlan. In the Adriatic sector, the Bighth | 4 yoy00 o T 0 o | Fletcher; | Juneau Public Schools,| Ulithi Islands are also known as Army troops are continuing in al.otpon T R L o ‘1’”2 |A. B. Phillips; St. Ann's Hospital, | the MacKenzie Islands. They are painful advance in the Po Valley prediotes tilnt Gov. Dew(-y.woukl"uw Rev. LaVasseur; and 20th Cen- | half way between American occu- and have taken over a few more . To g oot ol YO e (tUry Apartments, Mrs. J. C. pied southern Palau and Guam. yards of the Rimini-Bologna high-| /"o 00 tne' Republicans would | TROMAS: | Radio Silenced carry Pennsylvania, Tllinofs, Cali.| URder the general chairmanship| The communique reference to' fornia, Towa, Nebraska, Massachus- |Of Major Carl Scheibner, the so- action against the Philippines was letts and Colorado, and ome year MCitation of certain buildings and | limited to a single sentence. Pau- later predicted the election of 2‘iomflniznuons will be as follows: City reports are believed due to Republican Governor in Kentucky, |Fedéral Building, A. Blackerby; hecessity for a long period of radio |makes the following prediction on Territorial Building, Miss Jane Sllence while the fleet is in action. the national election of today: Alexander and James Stone; U. S.|(The Tokyo radio specified that b A Y F e Army Transportation Corps, Sub.lau-neld.s around Manila are among following states: Colorado, Idaho, port, Capt. J. T. Bardsley and J,|the latest targets) h' I I o 1 s, T artl eer: W, s c n l 'n “'s A. M 30 . W.| Tonight's communique reported llinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, i, Bogitieers, J. po! Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis- | HOUSton: U. S. Coast Guard, Lt.|ralds on Okdoura, a town at Haha LONDON, Oct. 18—The Berlin |souri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio,| L*ice Hendrickson; U. §. Troops, |Jimi, In the Bonin Islands, 650 radio broadeasts a Tokyo dispatch|South Dakota, North Dakota, Ver- Airport, Lt. Hallmarks; U. §. miies south of Tokyo, and attacks Special - way and closed in on Cesena from the south. -+ Two japanese Vice Admirals Lose Lives reporting the deaths of three vice |Weather Bureau, Claude Brown;|on several small ships in the har- mont, Wisconsin and Wyoming for |ton, but it was a dud. The Third admirals of the Jap fleet. The broadcast lists them as Vice Admirals Miura, vho died from illness at the front,” and Murata and Mitsunobe” who died in battle. PATTON ESCAPES |a total electoral vote of 237. Neces- | sary to elect, 266. Those doubtful at this time are; California, Connecticut, Delaware, | Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, | | New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Rhode |Island, Washington, West Virginia, |Oregon, and Pennsylvania. The! total doubtful electoral votes as of today were 146. | The trend, with election only 20 days awgy, says White, seems lo} DEATH AS SHELL | FAILS T0 GO OFF & et o 5 12 WITH THE UNITED STATES|Of Maryland, Kentucky and Okla- | THIRD ARMY IN FRANCE, Oct.| homa. H 18—A 700-pound shell from one of v the new huge railway guns wheeled |[NEW YORKERS AT GASTINEAU up by the Germans, landed within| Guests at the Gastineau Hotel, eight feet of Gen. George S. Pat-|While awaiting transportation to Whitehorse, sare Pearl Goold, Carol | Fish, Trudy Palfinier and Margaret, McCox, all of New York City. Sl G i RIENDEAU ON FURLOUGH Master Sgt. Francis Riendeau flr-i - e Army Commander was uninjured.| The projectile was one of many tossed loosely over a wide area on| this front for some weeks, .- BOBBIE DOOLEY LEAVES Miss Bobbie Dooley has left for Anchorage where she will join the Odom staff in that cit:. g Riendeau. C. A. A, H. L. Price; and OPA, bor, Monday. Truk, in the Central Don O'Connor. ;Cnrollnes: Pagan n the North i ooy | Marianas, Wake island, and others CHARGED T00 MUCH RENT; IS FINED $300 Matt Lane, of Anchorage, pleaded guilty to a charge of collecting $25 in excess of his $50 rent ceiling during the months of March, July and August, according to an an- nouncement made today by Mr. Walsh, Enforcement Attorney for the OPA. Mr. Lane was fined $300 by the Anchorage District Court, where the criminal information was filed by Earl McCarron, Rent Director- Attorney for the OPA. e PETE PETERSON VACATIONS Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Peterson and two children left this morning on the Princess Louise for Seattle turning to Juneau. were raided. Airbase Attacked Tokyo said that latest hits in the Philippines centered on Clark Fleld, pre-war American airbase 40 miles from Manila, and Port Le- gaspl, in southern Luzon. The Japa~- nese said the raidérs were re- pulsed. The Japanese continued to claim a great sea victory over the Am- erican task force that had been sending heavy waves of planes against Formosa, but Nimitz de- clared that “on discovering our fighting strength was unimpaired, they (Japanese warships) avoided action and have withdrawn toward their bases.” 1 PR T TOM PETRICH OUT Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Petrich left |rived in town over the weekend to enroute to North Dakota. “Pete” for Seattle this morning. He Is on spend a 30-day furlough visiting and his family will visit relatives annual leave from the Customs his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur'for the next few weeks before re- Service and will be gone several weeks.