The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 11, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1945 VOL. LXIV., NO. 9933 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AMERICANS ARE 105 MILES FROM BERLIN Yanks Land On Strategic Isle Off Okinawa " ovraomy [ALEDAIR OFICEHEAIS JQLOISLE, [THREETOWNS PUBLCSGoL — VIENNA IS [NINTHARMY Tf:,{;'fomi MIGHT HITS "icveiowow AIRFIELDS | ITALY FRONT "4l Retecro| ENCIRCLED; | HAS TAKEN AIRDROMES ~ ARESEIZED ARE TAKEN s s v DOOMNAZIS| - BRUNSWICK ON TSUGEN Merit System Employees Phillips Continues as Sup- g e Campaign Under Way for Veteran U. 5. fnfantrymen Allied Offensive Breaches| ot i First Armv-l;—Within 120 and Teachers Are Ex- | erinfendent - Harmon ; ¢ * cluded Says Rivers Heads High School |Slave Laborers of Germans - MostFurious Artillery Duel "o\ have Now to Elim- Make Invasion-Crack | ' Defenses of Enemy Are Liberafed from | - Miles of Russian Lines of Pacific War inate Luftwatfe Jap Troops Trapped | Along River —Hannover Falls PRICE TEN CENTS act of the recent Legislature, must monthly meeting. wait until 90 days after approval| R. E. Robertson, after presenting By FRED HAMPSON his oath of office, was reelected Territorial officials, whose sal- The Juneau Sch({ol Board con- aries were increased to $5600 by vened last night Zor the usual c"y ce"ars Confinues : ¥ Br LONDON, April 11—Russlan for-| . BULLETIN—PARIS, April 11 LONDON, April 11.—Approximate- of the act, or June 23, 1945, before | ROME, April 11—British Eighth , Apr —Ru = , Ap By MURLIN SPENCER iflghtcrs in a massive sweep lcrms:pay, according to an opinion by | Southern Germany attacked a string Attorney-General Ralph J. Rivers, GUAM, April 11 — The Tenth 'of Nazi airfields, railroad yards, oil analyzing Chapter 44 of the Army troops landed on little Tsugen 'and ammunition depots in the Sessions Laws of Alaska, 1945, Island, off Okinawa’s east coast, Nuernberg, Regensburg and Mumchlwmch went through the L?vo houses yesterday, while on the main is- areas. of the Legislature as Substitute for land, the Twenty-Fourth Corps of\ In a pontinuatlon of the biggest Senate Bill 41. Doughboys battered at the “Little airfield wrecking campaign in his-| The only exception to the pro- Siegfried Line” on the south for tory, fighters flew low seeking Ger- visions regarding department heads the sixth straight day without ap- man planes and nearly 800 have js Labor Commissioner Walter preciable gains. {been destroyed in the past four days, Sharpe, whose salary increase to Some opposition was encountered and 63 German airdromes have §5600 a year was additionally set on Tsugen Island, only a mile and been heavily bombed, many beaten by law in a separate bill which a quarter long and about 10 miles UP and practically destroyed. carried an emergency clause, mak- off Makagusuku Harbor. The is-| Germany’s once feared Luftwaffe ing: it immediately effective. The land is important because in Am- @Ppears to be well on the road to pjll giving the Labor Commissioner erican hands it completes American Obliteration |his raise right away was Senate control of the one-time Japanese | !Substitute for House Bill 11, re- fleet anchorage. defining the powers, organization Casualties jand duties of the Department of Labor. Accordinng to the opinion by ithe newly-inaugurated Attorney- !General of Alaska, Territorial de- partment chiefs will still have ipawers of discretion with - regard to salaries of their subordinate em- ployees. The language of the bill stated the salaries of such subordi- nate employees “shall be fixed at 15 per cent over their respective salaries in force April 1, 1943." The (AP War Ccrrespondent) CLIPPER EXPRESS The Navy announced that 5,009 Japanese have been killed and 222/ RAIB 0" AMSKA H taken prisoner in the eight days’| battle for Okinawa. There are no| late estimates of American casual- | ties, but field reports said they| are running high in the bitterly! A 50 per cent reduction in the contested southern sector, where poundage rates on furs shipped by the most furious artilléry duel of Clipper express from Alaska to the Pacific war is underway. The Seattle has been made by Pan last official report of U., S. cas- American’s Alaska Sector, in keep- | RS REDUCE ly 2,150 U. S. heavy bombers and | they -begin collecting their boosted | (AP War Ccrrespondent) MANILA, April 11—Veteran In- fantrymen of the Forty-First Di- vision invaded Jolo Island on Mon- |day and quickly seized the Capital ICity and the airfields, taking “com- Gen. Dowglas MacArthur also an- Inounces that all organized resist- ance on southern Luzon has ceased land that the American invasion forces have liberated hundreds of | Filipino lepers in the Culion Colony by occupying Coron Bay. A fleet is at anchor between Busianga and Culion Islands. Thousands of crack Japanese troops are believed trapped on the long southeastern “tail” of Luzon as the Eleventh Airborne Division \reached Antimonan on the east coast in a swift drive of 20 miles from Lucena. ESTHER GEORGE NOW FULL-FLEDGED NURSE Esther George, daughter pf Tom George, is now a full-fledged nurse |and wears a cap and uniform. Miss plete control” of Sulu Archipelugo,' ‘imtny troops, paced by flame- |tanks, captured Lugo, Fusignano {and Cotignola in the opening phase of an offensive across the Senio River on the eastern flank of the {Italian front. Allied Headquarters said the fall jof these towns represented ad- vances on the front of at least Iseven miles in the eastern Po Val- ley, astride the highway running \from Ravenna to Bologna. Lugo lies a mile west of Senio, on the highway to Bologna, some 30 airline miles ahead. In western Italy, American troops of the Fifth Army cleared the |enemy from the road hub of Massa and pushed on in the di- rection of Laspezia, a major Italian naval base, a dozen miles away. |“Our troops - have breached. the |enemy defenses of the Senio River lon a broad front,” an Allied com- munique said. \ | IN the early hours of th®, new att8k, Eighth Army, infantry wae \moving up hehind heavy air -bom- ‘bardment and captured more than 11,200 Germans. Veteran New Zea- landers took a prominent part in the assault. Massa was captured by the 442nd President of the Board; Dr. J. O. |Rude was elected Clerk, and Mrs. |Ruth Popejoy was elected as ‘Treasurer. A. B. Phillips was reelected Su- {perintendent of Schools for the |school year 1945-46. All teachers in the Grade School were reelected as follows: Marian Lange, Kindergarten; |Dalma Hanson, Patricia Goodell and Mrs. M. Steuart, First Grade; Margaret Maland and Mrs. Lovgren, | Second Grade; Mabel Monson and | Pat Murphy, Third Grade; Mrs.| Williamson and Mrs. Arlowe, Fourth Grade; Helen Webster and |Margaret Case, Fifth Grade; Ruth | |Brooks and Elma Olson, Sixth | Grade; Ruth Holbrook and Ralph | Wright, Seventh Grade; Alice John- | son, Eighth Grade; T. F. Dryden, Eighth Grade and Principal. | In the High School, all teachers were reelected except Henry l-hr-{ mon and Miss Berg. Miss Berg| has -resigned and My, HMarmon was| elected the new High School Prin- | 'cipal. Mrs. Cook, a half-time | |teacher will return as a part-time | ileacher if necessary. Other unchersf jare: X C. L. Anderson, Coach; R. H.| \ ces completed the encirclement of Vienna, and compressed the doom- ed Nazi garrison into the eastern one-ten utehtof hvindaNYTenhJon one-tenth of the tottering Austrian capital, front dispatches of the Mos- cow press said. ‘These accounts also said the right wing of Marshal Malinovsky's Sec- ond Ukrainian Army invaded the central Czechoslovak province of| Moravia at points less than 35 miles from the great city of Bruenn. Farther to the north, German reports said other Soviet forces in an all out assault to reduce the Oder River fortress of Breslau, stormed into Richthofen Square in that city. There is no indication that Ger- mans have yet blown the four bridges over the Danube, one of; which is probably already in Rus- sian hands, the Mosow dispatch said. The Germans caught in Vienna could still fight their way eastward across the Danube on two ' main bridges; ‘but. once on the ;fl)_e:liflq the Nazis would face the gun muzzles of Malinovsky’s men who have al- ready closed on the only escape road to Bruenn. | Ukrainians, Russians, and White —Spearheading the U. 8. Ninth Army dash across the Ruhr, Gen. Simpson’s Hell-on-Wheels Division reached the Elbe River at Magdeburg, following the capture of Essen, Brunswick, and the towns of Wolfenbutiel, Wufferstedt and Slenstedt. Seventh Army troops in the South are inside Schweinfurt, While First Army forces con- tinued their advance eastward to the town of Koelleds, 48 miles from Leipzig. Elements of three armored divisions and at least six infantry divisions of the Third Army have accepted the surrender of Coburg, 49 miles from the Czechoslovak border. PARIS, April 11.—Ninth, Army troops have crashed into 105 miles from Berlin, . while . the First Army moved within 130 mijes of Russian lines, in a supreme ef- The Old Hickory, Divis: ion, fought into southern Bruhs- wick, as the Hell-on-Wheels Diyis- ion crossed the Qker River in f south of Brunswick, and the | Russians, brought to Vienna as slave' Armored Division crossed in strel ng! ualties covered only up to midnight ing with its policy of providing George was graduated April 4 from | |Byms and Emily Dean, Bnglish; {laborers by the Germans were liber- to the north. last Wednesday and at that time 175 Marines and Soldiers had been killed and 798 wounded. transportation fitted to the needs of the area it serves. Reductions of eight per cent in Attorney General’s opinion states: “Since no classification of jobs into particular ratings is involved, the Cadet Nurses’ Corps at Provi- dence Hospital in Seattle. She is also a graduate of Juneau High ‘mramry Regiment, composed of Japanese-American troops, and the 1473cd Regiment and the Ninety- {Second Infantry Division of Negro A. N. Eide, Science; Phyllis Grant, |Home Economics; Henry Harmon, Manual Arts and Principal. |ated from the city’s cellars as Rus- |sian troops took possession ‘of the (city. Maj. Gen. Leland Hobbs, Com- mander of the Thirtieth Division,'ls- sued an ultimatum of surrender to 4 In Slovakia, units of Malinovsky's, the city of Brunswick, then ordered | Mary Morris, History; EVelyn gy siashed ahead northeast and,the attack when the German com- ;Ohlson, Ct?mmeminl. Mrs. Phillips, ponh of Bratislava, captured Tren-|mander asked for 24 hours in which |Languages; Marjorie Tillotson, in on the east bank of the Vah to remove his troops. § valuation charges and 17 per cent Only individuals wha were person-|gonoo), Intense. Fighting in insurance premiums were an- ally employed by the Territory on | Intense fighting continues in the nounced by the airline last month. April 1, 1943, would be included.” southern sector along the entire; The history of Alaska from f#he! The Attorney-General also opines four and one-half mile line running coming of the Russians in the late that employees Who, since April from’ Uckiiomari on the west coast eighteenth century to the present 1, 1943, have received raises aggre- to Tsuwa on the east coast. day- has proved the important role 8ating 15 per cent or more will not The Japanese are attacking the that fur has played in the economy Suffer cuts, but also, will not be American tanks with Molotov cock- and romance of the Territory. raised further. Department heads tails and are using 500-pound bombs Mink, beaver, marten, otter and may still hire new help at starting | | | |PAN AMERICAN IN I o |troops. ! ———————— | | Under Se(re'a" | H'IlER KlllED | Mathematics; Mrs. Monagle, School | River, barely 80 miles from General Steel Town Taken | i | [] |Nurse; Mrs. F. N. Pitts, Vocal yeremenko's Fourth Ukrainians,| Five miles due th of Bruns- ! (ommer‘e Re“ ns Music and Art; G. E. Pancheau, who are driving down from the wick, the Second A: Division | g [o"Do" REPORI |Instrumental Music. I north. encountered heavy opposition in the | | A general discussion was held Recapitulating losses inflicted on Hermann Goering steel works, but WASHINGTON, April 11—Presi- | [relative to various changes about'the enemy in the capture of _the|captured the town of Salsgitter, as mines. While the Americans muskrat are among the rich Al- salaries of less than the maximum ldent Roosevelt accepted the resig-) LONDON, April 11 — A reportthe school building. | East Prussian capital of Koenigsberg, |Where the plant is located. have been temporarily checked in agka furs which are manufactured 8nd give their own raises as they ination of Wayne Taylor, Under-‘that Hitler had been assassinated | Moscow announced 42,000 Germans| The nearest approach to the Rus- their advance toward the capital into the finest quality fur coats see fit . Secretary of Commerce ,and nomi- Was circulated in Britain, but killed and 92,000 captured in the five sian lines is at an unspecified point city of Naha, the Japs have been worn by American women. | The provisions of Chapter 44, the nated Alfred Schindler, businessman Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden (Hun(“'ll WIll iday final assault. .|19 miles southeast of the supply base unable to shove the invaders back.| Yearly shipments of furs from OPinion states, are applicable to the of St. Louis, to succeed him. 'said he had heard nothing of it. | ! —— - — of Nordhausen, 115 miles from Ber- Admiral Chester W. NImits re-|Alaska average 100,000 to 200,000 Dersonnel of the offices of the| Taylor informed the President/ Capt. John McEwen raised the 'I'AlK OVER R“SS lin. ports that all Japanese counter- ‘pounds, depending upon the trap- Governor, the Attorney-General, he wanted to transfer to a govern- question of the rumor in the House | y CD A PL AN EVEN'I'S Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said attacks in both northern and ping and market conditions. Speed the Auditor, the Treasurer, the ment agency in which he could 0f Commons, declaring he heard | “German resistance in the west has southern sectors on the American in shipping undressed furs is of Commissioner of Education (ad- |concentrate his public service in the Foreign Office was directly| polE RElA‘Io“S} | collapsed.” i lines have been beaten off. Marines 'prime importance. Air-expressing Ministrative personnel only), the|“international economic and social “responsible” for it, and was asking ! 'N COMING MONTHSJ Now inside the city of Brunswick, of the Third Amphibious Corps are furs to Seattle by Clipper cuts to Commissioner of Mines, the Com- fields.” confirmation. | i |the Ninth A¥my is 46 miles from reported to have scored gains up 'less than a day the transit time Missioner of Labor, the Librarian | The British Press Association re-| LONDON, April 11—The Polish the Elbe River, last barrier before to 2,500 yards in the north, over-|from Nome, Bethel, Galena, Mc- and Curator, the Supervisor of Iported a grave split is developing|Exiled Government said Vincenty| The Catholic Daughtesr of Ameri-|Berlin ‘and the city of Magdeburg. running enemy submarine pens and 'Grath, Fairbanks and Juneau. 'Aeronautics and Communications, |among the Nazis, and said evidence| Witos, 70, former Premier, left his ca met last evening in the Parish The Ninth Army is also within 156 other installations. : ould 'had reached official quarters in home in Krakow Province with!Hall, with Mrs. Felix Toner presid- miles of Russian lines on the Oder The Washington Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service witn the Army.® ‘WASHINGTON—Here is how the Army will determine what men are to be discharged after the war in Europe is over. Special forms have been quietly sent to commanding officers in all theatres. They are to be distributed to the GI's who will fill them out, try to figure out the number of credits they have earned to give them a quick return home. The one thing still undecided by the Army is the number of credits necessary for immediate release. This columnist is able to reveal, however, that: 1—All credits will be determined' as of the date the war in Europe is over. 2.—Special credits will be given for overseas service, and overseas service will mean any service out- side the continental limits of the United States, Thousands of men who served in Alaska will receive overseas credit. Overseas service will be determined ' from the day a man leaves a port of embarkation. 3.—Combat credit will be given only for those receiving the Medal of Honor, Distinguished ' Service Cross, Legjon of Merit, Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, Soldiers’ Medal, Bronze Star, Air Medal, (Continued on Page Four), The new reduced rates should greatly increase the value of Pan America’s Clipper express service to | and the Adjutant General of the| Territorial Guard. School teachers, members of the shippers of undressed skins. The faculty of the University of Alaska, new rates are as follows: |the Department of Health, Depart- From— Juneau to Seattle . |Fairbanks to Juneau Bethel to Juneau ‘Whitehorse to Juneau . Nome to Juneau Bethel to Juneau Fairbanks to Juneau . |Bethel to Fairbanks ... {Nome to Fairbanks {Nome to Seattle ..... Whitehorse to Seattle R ED. McCORMICK DIES Edward McCormick passed away jearly this morning at St. Ann’s Hos- pital, following a three-month’s ill- ness. Born in Bangor, Maine, he 29 cents | Unemployment Compensation Com- 22 cents Mission, are not effected by the 38cents act, as their pay is determined 10 cents either by contracts or by the Al- 35cents aska Merit System. However, the 45 cents of the departments where the per- 21 cents sonnel is excluded from the benefits 17cents of the act, 57 cents System Supervisor, would be “justi- 33 cents fied in treating the act as applying |to them in an advisory way,” as would be the Trustees of the Pio- neers’ Home and the Road Com- missioners with regard to highway patrolmen. ————————— including the Merit| including Alaska. | was T8 years old at the time of his| death, gnd leaves no known surviv- | ors. Funeral arrangements are belngI made by the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. — e, CANNERYMAN HERE Dean Taylor, Petersburg cannery | operator, arrived in Juneau today on a brief business trip. ‘Among| |others, he visited in Juneau was| Lew M. Williams, Secretary of Alaska. Mr. Taylor is making plans for the coming canning season. ————— WRIGHT IN JUNEAU Howard H. Wright, registered | from Seattle, is a guest at the; Baranof Hotel. ———.———— Harry Bostow and Ben Ena(hhl,] both of Wrangell, are guests at the Gastineau Hotel. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 11 — Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine stock today is 6%, American Can 95%, Anaconda 32%, Bethlehem Steel 747%, Curtiss Wright 5%, In- ternational Harvester 78, Kennecott 38%, New York Central 23%, Nor- thern Pacific 22%, U. 8. Steel 64%. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials 158.05; rails, 52.91; utilities, 28.28. e ———— HAYS GOES EAST Dr. George Hays, Senior (R), Executive Officer of the Territorial Department of Health, has left for Washington, D. C., to attend the annual meeting of the State and Territorial Health Officers, to be held in Washington this week. WITH FARES TODAY A Pan American plane brought !the following passengers to Juneau | Leslie McConnell and Mrs. Florence Holton. Passengers from Seattle to Ju- neau were: Patricia Kirschbaum, Walter Kirschbaum, Allen Kirsch- 57 cents 'Attorney-General states that headstbaum, Ellen Calyiness, Leo Seiden- verg, Katie Lee Foster, Kara Lee Foster, George Sargent. Leaving for Fairbanks today were the following passengers: Wilbur Walter Fisher, Isaac Anderson. Juneau to Seattle—William Dar- lin, Victoria McGillis, John Mullen, Miss Zella Mae Miller, Dean Kay- ler, Mrs. Elizabeth LaBrash, Kath- erine Dunnigan, Mrs. H. V. Kittle- man. Natzi Fliers Revolf; Members Execufed By TOM YARBROUGH (AP War Correspondent) | | | QUARTERS, April 11.—Reliable in- formation reaching this headquart- ers said 102 members of the German Air Force were executed by the Ger- mans, March 31, in an effort to stop a revolt by officers. Named among fhose executed was Gen. Baber. — PETERSON IN TOWN D. A. Peterson, Portland, Oregon, has arrived in Juneau and is. a guest at the Baranof Hotel. TWELFTH 4RMY GROUP HEAD-| !London the Nazi Party was “throwing over” Hitler in favor of Himmler, but there was no con- !firmdtion by the British Foreign Perlb, ment of Public Welfare and the from Fairbanks Tuesday afternoon: Office of this report. { e s Senator Would Give Delegates Full Power ! WASHINGTON, April 11—Sen- 'ator +Tom Connally declared today that the U. S. representative to Wester, Antone Polet, Mary Polet, the proposed United Nations'| {Council should have authority to vote “without reference to Con- gress.” | “I absolutely think it essential |that our representative have the power to act in all cases of em- |ergency,” he Connally chairman of the Senate Foreign !Relnuons Committee and a dele- {gate to the San Francisco meet. i “We have learned that aggressor |powers cap and do, |Unless the council is able to act |promptly there would be little use 1in acting at all,” he said at a said. is ‘ tary Club. ' Admiral Scheer Sunk, RAF Atack | LONDON, April 11—Reconnais- sance shows the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer was sunk in the RAF attack on the Kiel naval base the night of April !9, the British Air Ministry said. |Soviet agents for an unannounced Ng. Plans were made for the social |destination 12 dags ago and has Meeting to be held Tuesday even- not been reported since. ing, April 23, and the committee in |River, northeast of Berlin, while ‘Genenl Bradley's armies are within 56 ‘miles of the great Saxony city act promptly. | luncheon of the International Ro-! The announcement raised specu- {lation that Russia might be plan- Ining’ to sponsor independently a {new Polish coalition’ government in | Warsaw. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden |that Prime Minister, Winston Chur- chill would deal with Russian-Po- lish relations. ' A three-power commission has |been set up in Moscow to create a new national unify government jin Poland. There is a speech ischeduled for the House of Com- mons tomorrow by Churchill. The fact that he intends to speak is lsuggested that the Allies may un- tangle the situati in time for Poland to be re] ted at San |Francisco, April 25, N | ——r IMMUNIZATION CLINIC AT | GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL | | Dr. James Smith will be at the Government School on Willoughby Avenue tomorrow afternoon, from 1 ito 3 o'clock, to administer innocu- |lations against whooping cough. Mothers with - infants and pre-| school children are invited to at-| tend. This is the first in a series of three innoculation clinics to be held at the Government B.choolA ——— .o - MRS. HERMANN GOES WEST Mrs. Mildred Hermann, Terri- torial OPA Director, left yesterday via Woodley Airways for Anchorage informed the House of Commons . Icharge of the meeting, composed of of Leipzig, which is also menaced 'Mesdames A. M. Geyer, A, J. Good-|by the Russians, man, A. V. Astone, Mary Giovanetti, Ruhr Trap Broken jand Miss Jane English, were ap-| A German communique said the | pointed. U. S. Ninth Army had brpken into | On May 7, the National Commun-| Boghum, coal, steel and rail center ion for Catholic Daughters is to beaa( the Ruhr trap. Enemy reports as- |held, with the following committee serted also the Seventh Army had {in charge, Mesdames Miles Godkins,'driven from Crailsheim to within T. J. Jacobsen, Arnot Hendrickson,'84 miles of Munich and 42 milés-'of George Gullufson, Mary Haydon, W.|the Danube. \ !G. Hennen, Henry Harmon and the! w TdinsFohewM (-0Hulerp 3 | Misses Eileen Hellan, and Kathleen| Meantime, the British ~Second (Johnson. Further plans for the Army, beating toward- Hamburg, is {day will be announced later. beseiging Bremen, 123 miles from | A beautiful cutwork linen table Berlin, from the outskirts of the cloth will be awarded at a card Aller River town of Celle. |party to be held May 22, in charge, Hannover, twelfth largest German Ior the following committee mem-|city, fell to the Ninth Army, while bers: Mesdames M, E. Monagle, Deventer, last Dutch strongpoint on the Issel River between Arnheim Olayv Lillegraven, A. V. Astone, George Simpkins and Zola Devlin. The Catholic Daughters Society i inlm assisting the Parochial School| in purchasing a scale to be used by the Public Health nurse in weighing the school students weekly. WILLIAMS IN TOWN Mr. and Mrs. Henry Williams, Skagway residents, arrived in Ju- neau from Tenakee where they have been enjoying their vacation. They are guests at the Gastineau during their stay here and will return to Skagway in the near fu- ture, where Mr. Willlams is em- ployed with the White Pass and| Yukon Route. - - SARGENT IN JUNEAU George H. Sargent, registered from Coalville, Utah, is in Juneau and is a guest at the Baranof. |and . Zwolle, toppled to the Canad- ian PFirst Army, Nazi Front Shattered The eenter of the German front has been shattered, and the north and south flanks laid open to annih- ilating attack. The Germans' plan of withdrawal to the mountains in Southern Germany has been im- perilled by the swift drive across the waist of Germany toward the Russian lines. The Canadians are within 10 miles of the North Sea, driving hard to spring a new trap on 200,000 Germans in Holland and northwest Germany. e —— WALTER FISHER HERE Walter Pisher, owner of a mine below Tanana, has arrived in Ju- neau from a vacation in Tenakee. He is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. ¢