The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 26, 1944, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. XLIL, NO. 7991 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1944 . ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ———— MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — ‘CRUSHING DEFEAT IS GIVEN JAP FLEEI " INVASION ON NEAR ANTWERP Successful Es_naings Being Made to Open Great Supply Port LONDON, Oct. 26.—The German Command has announced that Allied forces are striking clear of the last Nazi guns blecking the Allied con- 61 Joes Are Giv | | 'WAR LABOR BOARD ATIORNEY TALKS T0 'BUSINESS MEN HERE en Low Down About Farming; If | Is Work and Plenfy Of It ALL FRONTS ’ By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. every GI Joe dreaming away in | some rain-soaked foxhole or on a | hospital cot about that perfect little |farm when he gets out of all this, the Department of Agriculture has just issued a pamphlet that is an absolute must. It has the simple title: “Shall T Be Farmer?” It recognizes the fact - For | RED ARMY IN - ADVANCE ON Nazis Stage Ferocious Bat- | tle in Prussia to Save ‘ Food Center MOSCOW, Oct. 26 — Russian |troops today drove deeper into ‘Ncl v, beyond captured Kirkenes, |through Arctic storms that sent Juneau Has No Building Code; Marfin Found Not Guilty of Any Violafion | MAY BE MADE |afternoon by Defense Counsel H. Paulkner, and may, although the | |L. F was not allowed to so state . TO WAR FUND g |why a verdict of not guilty was {in its verdict, have been the reason Gifts to the National War Fund | eturned absolving Ralph Martin, Juneau has not and never has thad a building code! This fact was presented to the of the Alaska | AIR, NAVAL 26 VESSELS BATTLENOW SENTDOWN CONTINUING ORDAMAGED Seventh and Third Heeis;Resuns of fl;ee Pronged Arrayed Against Whole | Battle at Sea Now An- Japanesg }rmada ' nounced by Admirals "GEN. MechRT'liUR‘S HEAD- | MAY SHORfi WAR QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP- i PINES, Oct. 26—A large Japan aircraft carrier, a battleship, sev- ON NIPPON EMPIRE Three Engagements Offic- ially Reported - Wreck- 'Roy Jackson Advises|a voys at Antwerp and are landing on | . . . the south shore of Bevelana 1siana | AQ@iNst Trying fo Hide ~ Violations of Law with “counter measures in progress,” “ | may be made by a contributor in| scting Manager the name of some serviceman O glectric Light & Power Coj of al- woman whom »he wishes to h_on()r. |leged violation of the building code. This answers in the affirmative & neronce Attorney Faulkner :l:l‘:-]:'l"’l‘l - *l“‘(’: ';:’)d‘“" ““g :“r‘:‘ct;ee‘:‘pom\od out in the early stages of ocal Campaign: Col |the trial and proved from the City | eral cruisers and destroyers have | already been sunk and at least two carriers and four battleships damaged, at the cost of one, small | American carrier sunk and other | warships damaged in continuing that thousands of GI Joes Who are | the temperature several degrees |fed up with war and muck andpelow zero blood are dreaming of the day when | o gypreme fight is being waged they can settle down in a nice little | (4 hihilate up to 130,000 Ger- house, with a loving wife, healthy | 3 g 3 4 Y mans n being herded befor kids, friendly neighbors, a big barn ow belng hierded beforg S the communique said, indicating that the amphibious forces have al- ready made a good bridgehead on | the north side of the Schelde Es- tuary. Earlier, Berlin broadcasts said Walcheren, another island north of the estuary, was invaded by Allied land and sea forces, but that was not borne out by the communique. Landed in Fog The landing was apparently made under protection of the dense fog ' which swept in from the North Sea and came as the Allied forces were fighting through the hip-deep water and forged slowly ahead to clear the sea approaches to Antwerp. Montgomery’s pincers tightened relentlessly on the Germans clinging to the waterlogged deltas of the islands southwest of Holland. The enemy is giving ground all the way from Bergen Op Zoom to Shertogen- bosch. 11,000 Nazis Trapped Driving in from the east on 11,000 Germans trapped at Walcheren, Canadians fought through thick fog | Alaskan employers who have vio- lated the Wage Stabilization Act by | paying unauthorized wage increases | since October, 1942, should take | steps to make the correct adjust- | ments now or they’ll be paying for a “dead horse” later, Roy Jackson, | attorney for the War Labor Board, | told members of the Juneau Cham- | his department are out to help make bers of Commerce today. those dreams come true. It's just Jackson, Chief Enforcement At- | that they don’t want the boys com- torney for the War Labor Board’s |ing back and jumping off the deep | Twelfth Regional Office of Alaska, ! end ‘with their heads full of dreams | washington and Oregon, while ad-|and nothing else. mitting that the stabilization act is | |one of the most drastic pieces of | legislation passed by Congress, | pointed out that it must be enforced | and there are means of enforcing it. | One Means | He said that when the Internal | and enough acres to raise whatever | they want. Make no mistake akout this. The Department of Agriculture isn't out to shatter any GI dreams. Secretary | Wickard, in a preface, states un- equivocally that the government and “Shall T Be a Farmer?” is about the most realistic and helpful of | T have seen. It's only 33 pages and | smaller than the pocket-size maga- zines by half. the small government publications | headquarters. | R ) A “Those in charge of this nation- | Clerk's record bogks, that the or- wide drive to raise this huge tund,”ld"‘““m' when it was proposed in said Jack Fletcher, Chairman ror'””fi. never had been passed; that| Juneau, “recognize the very natural |here was no proof coples were desire on the part of many donors |Posted as required by law in three to make gifts as memorials to those | Places for 30 days before it was} who already have given their lives Put in force, and that the ordi- 2 in the service, or as a tribute in nhance was never balloted on. This fleot honor of loved ones still living. I|was during I. Goldstein’s adminis-| TWO battles were fought In the lam glad that this is so, because I|tration as mayor of Juneau. | Philippines, _u'om which defeated believe that some of our towns-| Case Is Opened J“P-’\ll?fifly!lnlkfi were fleeing from people probably will wish to make, Hugh B, Antrim opened the case FhmE: Sale . RT | Wi - WRPRGS | sistance, which, was explained in | contributions in such manner. after the jurors were selected. He |50Uth of Formosa and off the Phil-| {part by the dependency of Berlin| “There is scarcely one of us who |stated that the case involved a|lPPInes, near where the MacAr- {and other Nazi cities on foods|does not know someone, somewhere, | flagrant violation of the building|thur invasion armies are operating | produced on East Prussian farms. |who is in a war prison. One of the |code, and that the defendant had! S. Fleet Split All northern Transylvania he-’prlncmnl purposes of the fund is!gried to break the ordinance while, MacArthur announced that Vice | hind the German lines in the Bal-|to aid American boys who are in|pe Antrim, was serving in the | Admiral Thomas Kinkaid had dar- }kans and in Rumania have hggu;Germnn or Japanese prison Camps. | capacity of building inspector. |ingly split the Seventh Fleet to cleared of hostile Germans. m{wsmou« that help in its various Antrim said ‘he had requcsu‘d‘mke on both Japanese fleet groups Red and Finnish forces. In local engagements, just north of ravaged Warsaw, the Kremlin, |at midnight, said a dozen satellite towns were captured on the east side of the Vistula River, which bends sharply to the west and then lto the northwest, just above the | ravaged city. | The pace of the Red Army of- |fensive in East Prussia slackened ‘before the ferocious German re- | air and naval battles off the Philippines and Formosa. The Seventh and Third Fleets are arrayed against what Admiral King described in Washington- a: “practically the entire Japanese | Revenue Department notices in in- come tax returns evidence of viola- | tions, the returns are disregarded by | the department and turned over to |the War Labor Board. The: War Labor Board also may secure evi- “Czechoslovakm the Russians vir- tually isolated the big highway }town of Mukacevo, pushing to within nine miles of the city. — 1t emphasizes that that GI dream farm can often be a nightmare; that farming is a darned hard way of making a living; that it takes capital—lots of it—and experience; that the cash returns are often pain- simultanecusly and defeated both {forms undoubtedly many of lhesch“m" to cooperate but to no despite being outnumbered in both !boys would die or become hopeless | He said. further that the I ental cases. In giving to the fund | 272U o ch of us 15 cing ¢ 3 ati e | INStances. felcti of us ts thinking of sich indf- | Violadon ot fhe law: endayigered | . 5 Ashore, the Doughboys thrust viduals; and many will naturally |PrOPerty and life. boind e w‘sn“l; n-:ake e :-xpress)y < Lhei}; Faulkner then stated that the DOFth of Tacloban, seizing domi- and traversed half of the length of |dence of violations. through com- the two-mile wide, ten-mile long | pany records and audits. | fully small. But through the whole little booklet there are implications neck to the connecting island of ' South Beveland, and captured Ril- | land on the way. | Progress was made along single roads, raised over the waste water left by flooding the islands. The rest of the Allied front from | the North Sea to the Swiss Alps is | relatively silent. Americans advanc- | Stabilization Act Since November 1, 1942, all em- ployers are responsible under the stabilization act. Before that time those who employed eight or fewer persons who did not belong to a union other than a small company union, were exempted, ing northeast of Epinal were slow- | Jackson urged all employers in ed down by stiffening resistance, |doubt as to their status to get in German counterattacks in the Vos- | touch with the War Labor Board ges Mountains, farther south, were |office in Room 204, Federal Build- of compensations that aren’t so dif- | ferent from those GI dreams if a man is willing to face the realities and hardships. The authors of the pamphlet think | about the avrost thing a future farm- ler could do would be to plunk his | | savings down for a farm if he has no knowledge of farming. To get this experience, they suggest hiring out for a couple of years on the type of farm in mind. For those who haven’t finished their educa- SMUGGLED GOODS " FROM ALASKA; SIX ARRESTED, FINED PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, Oct. 26 | —8ix crew members of the Van- |couver halibut boat Joan W. Num- ber One, were fined $50 each upon | pleas of guilty in Police Court to a charge of possession of goods ordinance was a long document|N8tng hills west of Palo. They honor. Our committee welcomes ¥ veported “enemy forces were dis- integrating in one sector” in that |area. {such donations, | Fletcher made it clear, however, |that of course no particular sum can be earmarked for a certain indi- vidual. Nevertheless, the larger the | individual gifts, the larger the total |of the entire fund, with increased | likelihood that all American boys |who are prisoners will personally | share in its benefits. iand ‘was Chicago or New York. He said it evidently copied from was full of high-sounding phra: land evidently had been the law| JaPanese shorc-based planes at- | since 1936, tacked the invasion forces and Am- | lerican carrier planes shot down 53 Ordinance Never Passed of them. | The lawyer for the defense depre- | i ciated the good the building code I\had done, saying it was too strict, STl | and then, switching his tactics, ZJAP WARSHIPS Faulkner stated the ordinance was, ES(APE I“ SEA | It was announced that since yes- | terday the solicitors have continued | {to turn in substantial additional | sums to the headquarters, in their never passed by the City Council. | Calling J. E. Kearney, City Clerk, | age Strewn on Waters UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR, Oct. 26—More than 26 | Japanese vessels were sunk or heavily damaged in the three- pronged battle of the Philippines. Incomplete reports on the most crushing defeat ever administered the modern Nipponese Navy dis- closed that the wreckage-strewn | waters marked the possible end of |the Imperial Fleet as a major ob- |stacle in the path to the coast of Japan and China and has prob- ably shortened the Pacific war by months. | Three Engagements Combined reports by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Gen. Doug- |las MacArthur on the three major engagements involving the bulk of fleet listed these | | the Japanese | known results: First engagement — Eight Jap |ships sunk; two carriers, one | battleship and five cruisers, prob- |ably sunk. Second engagement—Two battle- ships, one carrier and more than 15 others damaged. | Third engagement—Seven battle- | ships, four crulsers, four destroyers, and “several” more destroyers dam- aged. Both U. 8. Commanders made clear that their final reports will | show much heavier Jap losses, par- ticularly in ships sunk. thrown back. e SRICE I ing, of which Dr. Charles T. Battin is the director. imported from Alaska. efforts to reach and pass Juneau’s tion, there are agricultural schools, unlawfully to the stand, he had him read the r of the Council meeting | | Combined Total Penalties ! Penalties for violations involve | 3 the disallowance of deducting labor In preparation for their annual| c,s from income taxes. However, bazaar, scheduled for November 3,| gphen employers ask for voluntary | women of the Methodist Church met | qettjements a method of determining | yesterday at the home of Mrs. ¢po § i . | penalty has been worked out| Clifford Robard for an afternoon of | yhich may not hit as hard. | | sewing. Jackson said he came to Alaska on | METHODIST WOMEN SEW IN PREPARATION FOR BAZAAR For those who have, there's the de- partment’s extension service. After that, a potential farmer has to decide what kind of farming he wants to do, where he wants to do it, and how he’s going to pay his way getting started. The pamphlet lists by States the The W ashi;g ton Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert . Allen now on active service with the Army.) b i f WASHINGTON—Tom Dewey fin- | ally developed the FDR knack of relaxing while he campaigns. He travelled 8,000 miles to make six speeches, finds he can do a lot of quiet thinking on trains, prefers to make a speech, then get back to Albany for important strategy talks. Dewey's special car on the cam- paign train is named the “David Livingstone.” He sleeps soundly in a large compartment, Mrs. Dewey occupying a . room adjacent. En route to make his St. Louis speech, however, Dewey did not sleep so soundly. Feeling a piece of metal under his pillow, he turned on the lights, found some wag had pinned an FDR button under it. The Dewey routine on his specia train seldom varies. He rises at 8:30 a. m. eats exactly the same kind of breakfast — fruit juice, | approximate costs of family farms. | !an investigation trip after com- | plaints of alleged violations by Al- ;nskan employers had been received lin the Seattle office. Jackson has | | made investigations and settled cases in Fairbanks and Anchorage. Sev-| |eral Juneau firms are invoived at! | present. Drastic Regulation In pointing out how drastic the | stabilization act is, Jackson related | that the courts have held that the| | courts have no jurisdiction over the |War Labor Board regulations. In imher words, these regulations go be- | yond the power of the United States | | Supreme Court. l Jackson prefaced his remarks with | |a brief history of the stabilization | program and told of the standard| ;set by the “Little Steel formula” |in July of 1942 when the national board decided that a 15 percent | wage increase would be allowed be- | cause the cost of living had been | | increased by that much. H | Now, he said, the pressure is on {by the labor unions to crack that ceiling, but the Little Steel formula | wards. | Answering the question of whether | |we will have a War Labor Board | after the “war, Jackson said that toast and coffee, as at AIDANY. iy just as unlawful to decrease | Mrs. Dewey, garrulous, boyish-100k- | wages'as to increase them, and the | ing Paul Lockwood and Elliot Bell, neeq for such an agency probably | State Superintendent of Banks and | wi)] exist for some time after the | These range all the way from $3,500 in some Southern States to ten or| twelve thousand dollars in Texas, Towa, Illinois and some Western States. It also points out that investments in equipment and stock may range as high as the original farm cost tcontim;e;i z;;“ Page Siz ———e—— DEWEY CHARGES ROOSEVELT WITH PRIVILEGE SALE Hannegan and Arkansas Leaders Deny Accusa- fion of Candidate (By Associated Press) Chicago, Gov. Thomas In E. | apparently won't be junked until the Dewey last night charged, in his| 1| eve of election or possibly after-|speech at the Stadium Auditorium, that President Roosevelt had lent| his name to a plan to sell special privileges, at $1,000 a head, to “finance the fourth term drive.” Dewey quoted from a letter, signed by Arkansas state financial directors, that in order to aid the key ghost-writing aid to the Gpv- ernor, usually join him. Meals are prepared by a special chef in the private car, are served at a neat, teakwood table seating four persons, which can be enlarged to hold eight diners. Deweyls own waiter accompanies him. Dewey hates fish, eats red meat only once a week, enjoying fowl and vegetables the rest of the time. He is a good eater, licks his plate clean, does no drinking while out campaigning. Other times, he enjoys a highball or two before (Continued on Page Four) ‘President they thought it would war has ended. | ! {“be a good idea to have a list of | They also paid a; the value of the goods, plus court 'morrow when a new total is an- © | costs. { The | Johansen, skipper of the Joan; Joseph Evans, Ingvald Johansen, Oluf Peder Melo, Otto Briemo and Rolf Syvertson. All the articles were brought into court as evidence. They included 61 bottles of rum, five pairs of ladies’ stockings, eight boxes of shotgun ammunition, 83 packages of cigarettes, and five pounds of | butter. ————— .- CORRESPONDENT KILLED ON LEYTE | SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26— iAsahel (Ace) Bush, 31, Associated | Press war correspondent, was killed ‘Wednesday when Japanese planes bombed Tacloban on Leyte Island. | Bush, who reported the naval bat. tle off Leyte, had been in the Pa- cific theatre of war a year, and he in the Pacific war areas. 116 PASSENGERS FLY " ON COASTAL AIRLINES Alaska Coastal Airlines carried 16 passengers yesterday, taking the following to Lake Hasselborg: Lyle | Deckard, G. L. Shanton, Helene | Hildebrand. | Juneau to Ketchikan—Hal Gord- wyn, W. T. Stewart, Frank Rassi, Harry Lindegard, M. Barley. ley. | Petersburg to Ketchikan—H. O. [ }is the tenth civilian newsman killed | | ssments of $563, | goal of a minimum of $10,500. To- |Mminutes nounced it is expected to exceed | Just over $7,000. | — e | 206 ELKS SAY "HERE' ROLL CALL It was annual roll call of the Elks last night and when Secretary H. | L. McDonald had completed calling | the list of members of Juneau Lodge |No. 420, he had checked 206 as answering and also 11 visiting ElX It was a big night and the lodge room held one of the largest at- tendance in months. | When Exalted Ruler A. B. Hayes | closed the session, Tom Hutchings took over the entertainment feature, | | which was satisfying the inner man | with food and drink. ! | | There was | turkey, ham, weiners, salad, pickles, | etc, and beverage. Alsp on the, entertainment program, as a sur-| prise, was the Servicemen’s Orches- | tra which added to the general | conviviality prevailing by jazzy | music. Assisting Hutchings as the disher- | uppers were John Hermle, Billy | Franks, Bruce Holbrook, Buck Whit- more and K. G. Merritt. e f April 17, 1936, where it was iscovered that the ordinance had d Ireading. After that date there was no further record. Going back to page 119, Kear- ney read where the ordinance had passed the second reading. No record was discovered to show BATILE AT LEYTE By JOHN LEONARD men convicted were Paul|considerably yesterday’s figure of [come up for the third and final! (Reuters Naval Correspondent) ABOARD ADMIRAL BARBEY'S FLAGSHIP ON LEYTE GULF IN THE PHILIPPINES, Oct. 25.—(De- layed)—Two battleships, one cruiser and three destroyers were sunk by United States surface ships and air- craft when a Japanese force of eight |the ordinance had been posted as . whrships tried to reach Leyte Gulf Today’s combined total compared | with Nimitz' first report of the three-way action, listing ome car- rier sunk, two damaged and five or six battleships and cruisers tor- pedoed. All these, with the possible ex- ception of two battleships, were in- cluded in the combined total of the \crushing defeat which stripped Hirohito's navy of the greater part ° called for by Ordinance 49, Sec- tion 128, repealing Section 23, which provides that one copy Is to be posted at the City Hall and two additional copies in other |places within the city. such posting for 30 days a bill |may not become law, it was ex- plained. Witnesses Called Antrim, acting as lawyer for the prosecution, then continued his presentation of the case against - Martin, He called Mrs. Ruth Maurstad to the stand and she admitted that the A. E. L. & P. Co. had in- |stalled a new electric range in the| "Ew MEM Maurstad Rooms but said she knew little of the details, as her husband, John Maurstad, guided the electricians about. Faulkner then interrupted to say that he and his client admitted the installation. I. Goldstein, as owner of the building, was called and Antrim asked him of the wiring The defense counsel stein did not have to answer the question as it might incriminate ‘him. After some discussion, how- said Gold- Without | if he knew | lConl}nm on ;’&ve .;u) FILIPINOS AID FIGHTING YANKS Guerrillas lfit Out Japs' Stores, Concentrations of Troops on Leyfe By ELMONT WAITE (Associated Press Correspondent) WITH THE NINETY-SIXTH DI VISION ON LEYTE IN THE PHIL« IPPINES, Oct. 22. — (Delayed)— There are fireworks all night, mud CABBAGE FAMILY IS Gnow“ “En[ all day and always dozens of Fili- pino families trailing single file A new Alaskan vegetable has|through the lines toward the beach | been created! and safety. That is the 96th's story Walter Hellan, Deputy U. S.|of the invasion of Leyte, now two Marshal, is the proud inventor of |days old. the queer looking member of the| Long after dark on invasion night, cabbage family, #ithough he ad-| with shells hurtling overhead, and mits Mother Nature deserves some | the mushy bark of our own mortars of the credit. sounding rapidly as machinegun An ordinary fire, troops behind the defense peri- [from the south through the Sulu |- Sea and Surfago Strait, | Only one cruiser and a destroyer | escaped and both wefe damaged | heavily. The battle was joined in | the darkness at 4 a. m. this morning. | United States battleships, cruisers, | :destroyers and PT hoats were en- | gaged. One Japanese battleship went down in the night action and | when day came United States de- stroyers went in to finish the crip- | | pled enemy warships still afloat, | It is believed that most of the Japa- | nese vessels in this formation came | | from Singapore. -——— BER OF | | { | looking cabbage Juneau to Petersburg—Ben Barke- | lever, Goldstein said he knew of it ias he had paid part of the bill. Job Explained In an effort to find out when plant when it was placed in the ground last spring, the vegetable developed into an amazing speci- STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 26 — Closing| imstrument. | e, | | (1850 PLANESHIT | - GERMAN TARGETS 1 | { | LNDON, Oct. 26—An American | |air fleet of more than 1,200 bomb-| ‘ers and 650 fighters today attacked' ’industrinl rail objectives at Hnn-‘ !nover, Bielfefield, Munster, and, ’other parts of western Germany. 1 | a thousand persons banded together from all over the United States to act as liaison officers and see that the facts relating to the public in- terest were presented factually to the President and members of Congress.” In New York and in the South, Robert Hannegan, National Demo-' cratic Chairman, and Arkansas leaders denied that the President has been consulted on that plan or that special privileges have been ‘Wallingford, G. M. Murphy. Ketchikan to Juneau — Ruby Hoguluand, E. W. Benato. Ketchikan to Petersburg—Walter G. Lunden. Petersburg to Juneau—R. M. Liv- ingston. Ketchikan to Metlakatla—E. M Benato. T L R SEVEN DAYS. MAIL IS EXPECTED HERE TONIGHT Seven days mail should be landed |quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine |stock today is 6%, Anaconda 26%, Beech Aircraft 9'%, Bethlehem Steel |62%, Curtiss-Wright 6, Interna- |tional Harvester 77'%, Kennecott |34%, North American Aviation 11%, :New York Central 177%, Northern ;Pacific 15%, U. S. Steel 57 Dow, Jones averages today as follows: Industrials, 145.8 |41.11; utilities, 25.48. - - | | FILES FOR DIVORCE | | Mary Smith filed for a divorce | are | rails, | in Juneau this evening by steamer | from Donald Smith today at the tphe Heavy clouds forced bombing by attached to the men approached!from the south, according to thosel office of the Clerk of the U. S. Dis- | I for contributions, who watch the letter stamps triet Court, | the job was done and under what men resembling a bouquet of brus- sel sprouts, and weighing no les: land James Smith to the stand. conditions, Antrim then called Fred McDaniels, stock room em- ployee for the Light Company; James Barragar, bookkeeper, Her- man Porter, meter reader; Geoize Shaw, Allen Johnstone, Hal Winsor than 10 pounds. The edible monstrosity is now on display in the window of Bert's Cash Grocery. Smith and Winsor were (ound}RAlp" MllE mv“ to have been the ones who did| ON INSPECTION TRIP Ralph Mize, Ebgineer for the the wiring, while Smith turned on the powe /) v 10 the. nisker:: Fhay. i Alaskan Indian Affalrs, left yes- terday on a field trip to Eklutna not find any bullding permit on; to make a general survey as to the the premises, nor did they notify| need of repairs. He expects to be gone about a week. City Engineer when the job" (Continued on Page Sta) meter crouched or slept in muddy foxholes. Yet Filipino families came | marching proud and happily erect through the lines despite fhe con- stant rattle of small arms and the | continual thumping of artillery. | Every command post had a hand- ful of guerrillas, small bands of men who never stopped fighting the Japanese. Their eyes were eager as they pointed out Japanese gasoline dumps, stores and areas of troop concentration sites on United States | military maps. | Most were dressed in rags. They | had almost no food left after months |of Japanese rule. Even the Japa- nese were hungry most of the time, | presumably because of their tre- mendous shipping losses, the natives: said,