The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 19, 1944, Page 1

VOL. XLIL, NO. 9785 “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1944 ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE —— _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = YANKS BEGIN INVASION OF PHILIPPINES REDS PUSHING MANY ISSUES DEEPER INTO DISCUSSED AT MASS MEETING EAST PRUSSIA Soviet Attacks Now Ex- .o stendea « 175 Juneau mass meeting night. In in a ‘lengthy meeting, opinions from Icompx\rmg it to the way a icm‘])orullun is run. B} government. Tying the immmgvr form of government ir with improvements, he said there were 10 times as many solete buildings in Juneau as |his former home town, Petersburg i Close More Places Rude said one of the men |cated from the Roberts va- Antrim off the dock. He stated | should not have been criticized for his action, adding “they should close up a few more places.” stock He said he was not in favoy of too much change n city- that | ob- in Row was citi- | totally blind,and could have walked | !many people were heard on bmld-[ ™ — here was TIMING PLAN T0 END WAR | N | | | {Offensive med at Nazi Break Before Christ- WITH NAZIS /1000 BOMBERS IN ' RAID ON TARGETS IN SW GERMANY LONDON, Oct. 19—One thousand more American heavy bombers important military ob- in the Mainz, Ludwig- and Mannheim areas in Germany fighters flew with {the Fortresses and Liberators over |the three cities. Large rail yards or lattacked jectives {schafen southwest A hundred GRUENING PREDICTS Governo>r' géys Million People to Come to FOREIGN POLICY OF FDR RAPPED | ‘ ward Germany Pro- longing War l NEW. YORK, Oct. 19—Governor Thomas E. BY GOV. DEWEY : BIG BOOM Says President's Policy To- | Dewey declared Ameri- AMERICANS LANDING ON LEYTE ISLE Tokyo Declares Forces Are | Led by General Doug- las MacArthur H |CIO Union Hall last tended fo Suwalki Triangle Area [ing codes, closing hours for liquor | general agreement mas Now Opening ‘dl&n(‘naml public ownership of that the cocktail bars and liquor e LONDON, Oct. 19—Russian forces, | ytilities, city-manager form of civic | 50rS should L:]OS(’ at an ezu’lwrl LONDON, Oct. 19—British Tom- backed by 500 tanks, have pgneA}govermmm' and post-war plan-|hour. curtis Shattuck, who has|mies, with American armor, rocked trated well into East Prussia where | ping, "}mcn ”m\'(-sctlxgau:)xg th? lgéfmll]\:u |the m(‘yex;;mnsfbac:c - m\:ui:l Xe:io S e the German border town of Eydt- | 5 5 e or he hamber ol rce, jon e Maas front in Hollan - Srnes iruel g - | kuhnen has been evacuated. 7 | ghoHon: o havs & ey burllé‘,ng}bmd he had talked to most of the |day in what appeared to be Pre-|communications centers of C“k)mw[dh!tr'd here. | The nominee was address ng the | The Berlin radio said the “deep-|c0d¢ and see that it is enforced ., oyners and they offered nolliminaries to an offensive aimed |nng Kassel. “Thousands of service men who non-political but applauding gath- was passed with no objection bY |gpjection to an earlier closing. [at a break of organized German |have learned of the opportunities|ering at the New York Herald-| I cans are “paying in blood” on the | Alaska After War - battlefields of rmany for what communique | q A:‘T}\.ffi.. Oct. “lflf"l‘hl'l 0:';;!(:(;(-] he described s lt)n- Uun.\t" 1t A(]l—; said 10 heavy bombers and 23 tory 10' afkn Zx L:mm n‘ ."h. l)]lx\.l..\lh\llun. u.uu‘ to h .\‘ ready | fighters were lost yesterday in at- |Population immediately - after thejan intelligent program for dealing | tacks on the northwest German %3l GOV. with invaded Germany and numerous war industries were | | hit A United States BULLETIN — SAN FRAN- CISCO, Oct. 19.—A Tokyo radio broadeast picked up here by the Biue Network, shortly after 10 o’clock this morning, quoted the Jap communique reporting Am- erican attempts to land on Leyte i est Russian penetration” is in the| Eydtkuhnen area, 37 miles east of | 0% PTST Insterburg. The Red Army passed | this town, Berlin said, and the “Russians advanced further on |Midnight, v German soil.” utilities, and the formation of a The German commuyniaue »dmit- | POSt-war planning council passed ted the loss of the town, but ine |with little objt.‘ctiolh sisted a break-through was avened.! On “the: moton fo _h‘“'e B _my' Tremendous infantry and - tank |Manager form of government, some forces are being hurled against the |0f the audience preferred homeland of the Junker generals |COUnCil-mayor system. to “achieve a grand scale break- | Parsons Instigator through at any cost,” the enemy| At the opening of the meeting, said. |Ernie Parsons announced he was Front Is Widened |the one who was solely responsible The front was widened from 30 for it. He then asked for discus- to 45 miles overnight, with the|sion on the building code problem Russians extending their attacks |He started the discussion by saying to the area of the Suwalki center [that the old code was obsolete and triangle which Hitler annexed from |the new code that had been pro- Poland to East Prussia in 1939, posed was much better. Berlin said. 1 Jack Fletcher, Manager of The enemy admission came with- Baranof Hotel, suggested that in hours after the Russians an: ity and the property owner are nounced the invasion of Czecho-|liable to suit if an accident oc- slovakia in the south on a 171- currs because of building failure mile front, plunging through the due to non-availability of building main Carpathian passes for a inspection. junction with other Russian Army groups driving through Transyl- both bars and liquor stores at public ownership of the the loity Engineer, said that the code vania_&ud Hungary; |is only as good as the enforcement Asidinee: Ruse, Oletixive and that ‘the Qi oode’ entarced The Germans tonight reported youq e better than the proposed another Russian offensive along a |jeyw code without enforcement. 60 mile stretch of the Narew River | Hugh Antrim, recentiy-deposed ! Mrs. Smith put the motion be- Likewise, the proposition to close|fore the audience and it was fa-| | vorably voted upon. | Public Utilities | The most spirited discussion of |the evening took place when Hector | Plante asked for purchase by the city of the public utilities, saying |local fishing fleet to Ketchikan on ithe fact that a fish boat could tie up to a float there and plug in on city power at a very cheap rate. | Dr. Rude, on the floor again, |said the cost of electricy in Peters- 'burg to heat one water tank came to $3.50, whereas in Juneau, it |came to $6 or $7 a month. Mrs. Robert Simpson said she |was in favor of the city purchas- ling the electric power system and |Mrs. Mable Lybeck, who returned | Wednesday from Skagway, said that city was about to buy the electric power plant there and op- |erate it. Harold Smith urged caution in any move that might be taken to buy the electric system, wanting |to know what kind of financial |showing Ketchikan Public Utilities | were shown. The KPU report was |read, showing that in the nine |years the city has ewned and op- he blamed the loss of part of the | i Antrim lizzed rate s e ver above Warsaw, which is declared | ntrim Qui |erated the system more power has tance before Christmas. Canadian two miles at Breskens resis West of Antwerp, |forces are less than |from German guns to the port from the pocket north |of the Schelde River. | Smash Into Aachen In Aachen, U. S. First Army | troops again are smashing German tank and infantry counter-thrusts Inortheast of the Siegfried Line |city. They held about half of the wrecked city today and smashed into the northwestern quarter, jon which command the sea entrance | ENEMY BASE OUTFLANKED, UNITED SMASH RAID ‘Al'(uku ha |stationed in the north, are eager |to return and live there,” the |Governor said as he paused here jon a trip to Washington, D. C |for conferences on the Territor | postwar program. | “We must be 8 in Italy. | He declared: |ganda Minister ready to offer said the Governor. nor said Alaskans gen- the ultimate lington now, | The Gove |erally favored |reason for my hurrying to Wash- | to offer, found while Tribune’s annual forum on current to secret | France | ‘and the hunger and degradation attributed and in also “personal the chaos |events. He | Roosevelt's {diplomacy” (1)—Nazi Goebbels sistance.” (2)—President Roosevelt's refusal con- |to recognize the French De Gaulle | that United States forces had begun STATES PACIFIC |struction of a direct coastal high- [government “is contributing to in-| |where fighters and fighter bomb- | FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL way from the United States to the creasing chaos behind our lines at lers pin-pointed th !ahead of the Bazooka and grenade & smashing series, was made when and he personally would lend all| | squads. | The German radio declared that the British offensive in East Hol- |land is “in support of the American attack on Aachen, and has in- creased in violence.” The timing is |raising the possibility of a grand strategy plan to beat the Naazis, by the Russians smashing simul- taneously in East Prussia, while |the Americans and British wieek |the Rhine and Ruhr Valleys. Swift Sirikes Associated Press An correspon- dent with the British Second Army | are | said that Dempsey's {roops (striking swiftly after taking Venray |and have advanced about three and {American carrier aircraft struck the Philippines, and another atoll, |flanking the important Japanese |base at Yap, was taken. | Additional destruction to enemy |shipping around Formosa is ported by Admiral Chester Nimitz. Planes of Admiral William F. Halsey's mighty Third Fleet hit the Northern Luzon area Tuesday | (United States time), ' destroying 18 Japanese planes on the ground and knocking another from the skies, and sinking or setting afire seven enemy ships. Aerial Invasion This is the latest series in the aerial invasion strikes at the archi- possible aid to such a route. “We in Alaska favor the route |proposed by the joint United | States-Canadian Highway Commis- sion, as we believe such a road re- has great and unlimited possibili-| W. |ties, especially from a commercial |on behalf of the United States be- ;angh- 4 | | | | - NATIONAL WAR FUND GETS BIG ENDORSEMENTS | e strong points HARBOR, Oct. 19—A new raid, in | Territory via Prince George, B. C., a critical period of the war.” (3)—Mr. Roosevelt failed to win Russian recognition of “those we consider to be the true govern- ment of Poland,” despite personal talks with Stalin. (4)—Soviet emissaries signed last month's peace treaty with Rumania fore the State Department had a |chance to study it. CITY COUNCHL I SESSION FRIDAY City councilmen will meet in regular session tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the Council Chambers Propa- | % selzed gre invading the Philippines, the |these men and their families some- upon the absence of any official | Tokyo radio reported and are strik- :thmu concrete and that is one|Americany plan for Germany lo"lng at the very center of the vul- terrify Germans into fanatical re- nerable eastern flank of the archi- Island, Central Philippines. The broadcast said “Leyte is between Mindanao and Luzon islands.” (By Associated Press) American Expeditionary Forces | pelago. i Domei News Agency said flatly “reinvasion of the Philippines” and 'are supported by powerful units of Ithe Pacific Fleet and China-based aircraft. The sea forces, Domei 'said, included a “naval fleet under the command of General Douglas MacArthur.” Official Communique ‘The official Japanese communique said the “enemy’s fleet” accompan- ied the transports into spacious Leyete Gulf Tuesday (Manila time). In the past two days naval guns and carrier-based aircraft bombarded the ‘shore defenses and “part of the | enemy. forces seem to have landed on Suluan Island” at the entrance to the guif, Domei said. Domei asserted Admiral Mitscher's powerful task force number 58, a carrier arm of the Pacific Fleet, is not participating in the invasions because of asserted losses suffered Word has been received here that | off Formosa. Formosa Battle Reports These losses have been denied by Admiral Nimitz since the Formosa battle. Domei broadcast “the enemy has organized new large task forces, grouping together the Fifth Fleet under Admiral Spruance which didn’t participate in the air battle | off Formosa, and the Naval Fleet { under command of General Douglas | MacArthur as well as other naval (forces in the Pacific, but excluding | the Fifty-eighth Task Force. of City Hall to be aimed at the Balticeport of | When asked by a member of the been used and the rates have gone | R . ¢ p a half miles south toward the rail- Routine business will be discussed | i S o first audience, “What does the present down. Danzig, where some of the first #) hntel g thp in | 4 v | way town of Amerika. shots of the war were fired. The c0de lack?” Antrim sai e main| part of the rate given is: First| , “or o redd . Bl g} i i) |bad feature was the lack of flexi-| vatts— e Ll g n American armored column 1s} success of such a campaign will |P¥ 15 Kilowatts—6 cents; 100 KW—3 |, ,verging from a distance of five| cut off the entire province of East|Pility and practicality. The code, he|cents; over 150 KW—1 cent; over| .. ek hiastive inak said, s drawn up by the best| i = a imiles upon the same objective from Prussia. ol P {300 KW—one-half cent, |t T 3 A il < i ¥ lof local talent then available (by! : the east. The Germans are elimi- | The front is reported to be ex- % E | Benefits [avas) Beoras wilt ot e pevert] tending from Serock, north M‘Mmon Lagergren, nine years ago) | | t Ry wthi A rather lengthy discussion | square miles of territory west of | N 5 iles but does not cover everything it | a:ks‘aw.b Lof b:wugrad, 15 miles v |sprang up then over the benefits |Maas. southeast of the |should and what is covered is too| . Prussian Wl‘éer-ll.igi d—cannot be changed to suit|Of Public and private power. It| The Allies Serock, however, is 160 airline miles | |was pointed out that Anchorage of Duisburg. from Danzig. money in the bank g i A pelago, -now going into the second|gap Dwight D. Eisenhower, Su-| week of smacking the enemy. Tokyo | .omo o’ k ¢ 1 Badlo. ching to is Unicontirmed |0 tme | Commander, of the! Al |spg the resimation’ ot Counalimin 2 Expeditionary Forces in Western|p * " wwhitehead will probabl propaganda line of a great vic-|gyope, has sent to the United bl- l- 1' ead will probably 8 T h » acted upon tory in the Western Pacific and 'giares the following endorsement = 0o ¥ - of the withdrawing United States‘fli the National War Fund: fleet. 'A(vimfrul Nimitz denied all| A} Americans know 1t is a NAZI GARRISON such claims. | privilege to contribute to the Na- are within 33 miles changing conditions. | was putting — e JACOBSENS RETURN were adopted would it have to befsaved by owning its own power F. Davis asked if the new code for a post war fund with the money | | | slight resistance. The seizure com-jgunqs reach out to friends and pletes the outflanking of Yap. |yeighbors at home and abroad and | “Our army and navy forces in this Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Jacobsen have returned from a visit of two months | in Whitehorse and are again at| their home on Sixth Street. The Washington, Merry - Go- Round: By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTO! Underground | sector are confronting the enemy forces with undaunted resolution,” the Japanese said. MacArthur's Pledge These broadcasts, recorded by the | Federal Communications Commis- sion, are the only reports that Gen.. MacArthur has taken the most crucial step to fulfill the pledge he made two and a half years ago to adopted in full or could it bej system. altered to fit the needs of Juneau.| ™ i 3 Antrim again replied and said| Hugh Antrim pointed out that minor points would have to pe|Juneau City last year ak’“f p.aid‘ e Ovar, 0D S hiides the light company $8,400 for street | have | > already, some with changes and | lighting. | some without. } Dr. Rude wanted to know if the Hector Plante asked why the|l8ht company pays the city for city council did not bring out|Placing its poles along the city| clearly their reason for letting nhe;streets. According to the terms in| engineer go. No one in the audi- the A36-year-old franchise, the _cxty,‘ ence answered this question. receives 'only taxes on _Lhe hght{ Fred Paul then said the c“y\companys property, Antrim said. _Ngulu Atoll in the Western Caro- | tiona) and Community War Funds lines, 80 miles south of Yap, Was|j; this year of liberation. Comple- occupied by American ground|pmenting our military campaigns forces Sunday. There was only|ihe services which flow from these NimiL; announced last night the , (he oppressed peoples of the| ROME, Oct. 19—The Nazi garri- occupation of six islands of the|y,yq :sm‘ on Santonir Island, 70 miles Ulithi Atoll group without opposi-| At the same time, Winthrop W.|north of Crete in the Sea of Can- nae | Aldrich, President of the National dia, has surrendered to the British | | | | | 5. W.PACIFIC ISLES GIVEN BIGBLASTING ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NEW GUINEA, Oct. 19—A 150 Allied More Damage To Japs Wwar Fund, has pointed out that| A re-check of the October 11'if a cessation of fighting in Europe carrier-plane strike at Formosa and should soon occur, there would be the North Philippines to within 100 no immediate lessening of the | miles of the China coast gave ¢his needs of the fund's agencies, On additional damage to Japanese the contrary, in that event for' ships: five cargo vessels, and 34 many months to come the humani- small craft sunk; 13 vessels, in-|tarian services rendered by the cluding a minelayer, probably sunk,|Aliied War Relief, United Seaman’s| cruiser Ajax, announced. The naval communique said carrier planes sweeping in from/ the Aegean heavily attacked the, cnemy transport Vicinioy = VOgOY | return again to the Philippines. Ohiroy, five miles southeast of| wyhjle there is no confirmation Larissa on the Greek mainland. |the Philippine invasion is at last Bl et oS underway, the combined Pacific sea Allied headquarters ought to have a code, but that if we have one, the people in the city must back up the engineer. Code vs. Insurance Curtis Shattuck, when asked by Chairman Parsons to explain what effect a building code had on fire insurance rates, replied that the city is not given any credit for having a code. However, if the code was enforced and in a num- ber of years it was found that en- forcement cut down losses, insur- ance rates might be reduced. Parsons again told the fate of ithe new code which the Contract- or's Association had approved. It was laid on the table and nothing more was heard about it. On a motion by J. B. Burford, to go on record as favoring the |code, Chairman Parsons asked for a vote. After some more discus- sion, 'the majority offered no ob- jection. City Manager Plan The next question was whether Juneau should adopt the city- manager plan. Harold Foss ex- plained the plan briefly. Then Mrs. Harold Smith asked if the man- ager could be fired. Foss said he could. , In the subsequent discussion it was brought out that it is believed the manager could not be appoint- jed for a long term unless the Or- (ganic Act was changed. Parsons stated the city govern- observers coming out of Germany have reported that the Nazls al- ready have begun the systematic| elimination of the vast army of slave labor imported from Russia, France, Czechoslovakia and various| occupied countries to work for| Hitler. Details of the story are so ghastly that they hardly can be believed. Yet the accuracy of the observers| has stood up in the past; also the| wholesale slaughter methods of the Germans at Lublin is already a matter of official record. It is estimated that the imported slave labor inside Germany totals about 10,000,000. Either because Hitler fears their sabotage and re- bellion, or else because they are a drain on Germany's Tood resources, machinery has been devised to kill them off. The number killed so far is estimated at around 1,500,000, though this is a very rough esti- mate. Absolutely definite, however, is the fact that mass execution de- pots, such as that at Lublin, al-!| ready are set up in various parts of Germany. These have been wit- nessed. The Lublin execution depot con- sisted of large chambers for the administration of lethal gas to several hundred persons at a time. Afterward, the bodies were system- atically stripped, their jewelry, shoes, clothes sorted out and handled by a quartermaster store. ment, as now constituted, was not It was brought out by Jack Fletcher that the present electric try to the town. It was then ex- planned that Ketchikan was to build the Beaver Falls project with the aid of a $150,000 bond issue; the additional power used to take care of new customers. 7 ‘The utilities question was then put to a vote and there was no objection to the proposition that the City of Juneau own and oper- ate its own power utility. After War Plans It was decided that the City Council should be asked to create a post-war planning and develop- ment council to bring in people and give them employment. Arthur Hedges and Curtis Shat- tuck called attention to the six reports of the National Resources Planning Board that might be use- {ful as background for a planning commission. Mrs. Lybeck said some good advertising for Juneau and Alaska ought to be put out to counteract the bad advertising given the country by false prom- ises made to incoming workers from the States. In the final phase of the meeting, John Kennedy, former President of the Junetu Mine Workers Union, protested that the city council spent too much time bickering to give any attention to members in the audience. rates would hardly attract indus-l At the close of the meeting at 10 o'clock, the audience gave Ernie Parsons a vote of thanks for - Reason for this cold-blooded sys- s jso good, as the mayor had too tem of mass executions is explained oo ¢ g ‘term. Dr. J. O. Rude ex- (Continued on Page Four) pressed himself in favor of it, calling the meeting. plane raid smashed installations, shipping and airdromes on Ceram | and Borneo Islands, flank bases on the approaches to the Philip- pines. g Headquarters announced that the Monday raid was the second 150- |plane assault in recent days on |these bases. A total of 90 tons of bombs were unloaded in the Mon- day assault. Heavy bombers cra- tered airfields on Namlea, Ambon |and Ambonia Islands, while me- ‘dium bombers and fighter-bombers |smashed small shipping nearby. They swept the coastlines Ceram and Ambonia on Monday. P-38's damaged or sunk small shipping along the coasts of Hal- mahera northward to Cagyan Harbor on Mindanao for the sec- ond consecutive day, setting fire to| two freighters. Night patrols again started fires at Balikpapan, import- ant heavily-blasted Borneo oil center. of | B L MASON-RAINBOW NIGHT WILL BE ON SATURDAY Mason-Rainbow night, an, annual affair held by the Order of Rain- bow for Girls, at which time they have as their guests members of the Masonic Lodge, will be held Saturday. Initiatory work will be exempli- fied by the officers at 7:30 o'clock in the lodge room of the Scottish Rite Temple and a social will fol- low. and 18 ships and 34 small craft damaged. Sixteen enemy vessels had pre- viously been reported sunk in that action, the first of several carrier plane raids on Formosa, and 19 were damaged. American Losses Nimitz also reported the loss of 21 more United States planes, 31 pilots and crewmen in the October 11 raid, bringing American plane‘ losses to 43. On Tuesday, a strike was mnde‘ on the Philippines and Centereo, Camiguin, North Luzon, and Appari on the Northern Luzon coast, and Laoag in Northwestern Luzon were hit, Aerial strikes on the Philippines were continuing, Nimitz said, even as a Tokyo broadcast reported a raid by 80 carrier-planes in Manila area Tuesday night (United States Time). STOCK | QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 19. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 89%, Anaconda 27%, Beech Aircraft 9%, Bethlehem Steel 63%, Common- wealth and Southern 1, Curtiss- Wright 6, International Harvester 179, Kennecott 35%, North American Aviation 10%, New York Central 18%, Northern Pacific 16%, United States Steel 587%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 148.53; rails, 42.11; utilities, 25.99. the | Service, USO and War Prisones |Aid would be increased. | Announcement of these messages was made this morning by Jack Fletcher, Chairman of the Fund campaign in Juneau. He urged that |they be given wide publicity. Mr. Fletcher requested that all solicitors for the residential dis- has been divided, report to him by tomorrow afternoon, if practical. He wishes them to inspect the maps which show exactly the house jto house lines separating the 18 | different " districts. Funds collected |by these residential solicitors, he |pointed out, may be left at any time at the Baranof Hotel, or dur- 4ing business hours, in the Federal | Building at the office of B. D, | Stewart, Chairman of this group. | Many persons have been very helpful to the Campaign Commit- tee in getting the drive off to a successful start. Two who have been conspicuously cooperative to date are Dr. Robert Simpson, who donated the billboard at Second and Seward, and Ed Hoffman, who gratutiously posted there the strik- 7lng campaign advertisement. --- DWYERS IN | } TOWN | town | Gastineau fro and have registered at the m Portland, Oregon. R DURACHER AT BARANOF Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dwyer are in| ADMINISTRATOR OF RUSSIAN CHURCHES HAS EXTENDED TRIP visi- i \ { i | Back from a nine weeks’ tricts, into which the community | ,..,on of parishes to the westward | tand interior, the Rev. J. Zlobin, | Administrator of all Russian |Churches in Alaska, stopped in Juneau yesterday on his return |from Sitka. l While at Anchorage, Rev. Zlobin |organized a Russian - Orthodox lChurch. and at Fairbanks, held Holy Communion on October 1 at i'h(' Episcopal Church. He visited churches at Seward, |Cordova and Valdez and spent some time at the Indian villages |of Tatitlek and Chaniga, where |services were conducted. Baptisms were held at many of the churches and at Cantwell, a tiny village located along the Al- aska Railroad, Rev. Zlobin bap- |tized 51 individuals, ranging in ‘age from one year to 48. R FROM Wi ARRIVALS RANGELL Charles Early and Allan Ritchie, of Wrangell, have arrived here and registered at the Baranof. > ARRIVAL FROM NOME | | | | | forces of Admiral Nimitz and the | land-based air strength of General MacArthur have been paving the (Continued on Page Siz) | | 'British, Americans (aplureygre Towns ROME, Oct. 19 — Fifth Army troops captured several more peaks and villages along the southern 'approaches to Bologna and the Eighth Army forces put a bridge- head across the Pisciatello River, north of Bologna-Rimini Highway, in the Adriatic sector, Allied Head- quarters said. > Jap Base in Burma Falls fo Brifish KANDY, Ceylon, Oct. 19—British troops advancing in Western |Burma captured the Japanese base Jat Tiddim. Enemy forces launched |an abortive invasion of India early |this year, Allied Headquarters said. S e TRINITY CHOIR TONIGHT | | The choir of Holy Trinity Ca- |thedral will meet tonight at 8 Fred P. Duracher, of Council,| C. B. Smith b arrived here o'clock in the church hall. All in- Alaska, is a guest at the Baranof from Nome and is now staying at ' terested are invited to attend the Hotel. the Baranof. practice.