The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 16, 1945, Page 2

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PAGE TWO Feature Sale GERMANS SHIPPED 10 USSR Large Groups Moved Out of Balkans to Rebuild declarations, calling for sportation. “of ' Germans to wip clean up and re- ent from diplomatic in- 1ing Washington to- iisclosed that about 70,- | women, out of a half- 'mans in Rumania, cught with and sup- i Armies, have been to the Soviet Union. Or- Moscow wanted to take the entire half-million, ut American and Allied interven- tion against such a wholesale trans- “fer caused Russia to reconsider. Also, an estimated 100,000 Ger- mans have been removed from Yugoslavia. Presumably they also were sent to Russia, but Marshal Tito handled the operation himself and refrained from reporting on it to his Western Allies. In addition, still another 40,000 persons who originally lived in Bessarabia, which is now Russian territory, have been sent back to that former Rumanian province, from Rumania. .- — STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 16 — Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine stock today is 67, American Can 98%, Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem Steel 76%, Curtiss-Wright 57, In- ternational Harvester 82%, Kenne- cott 38%, New York Central 24, Northern Pacific 23%, U. S. Steel 67. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 167.43; rails, 54.23; utilities, 29.18. TEXTBOOK COM. COMPLETES JOB Its work done for another four years, the Alaska Textbook Commis- sion broke up its meeting here late Saturday afternoon. The out-of- town member of the commission, Harold Roth, Superintendent of Schools at Seward, was to leave to- day to return to the Westward city. Commissioner of Education James C. Ryan, Chal of the Textbook Ccommission, reported that the group ected texts which would re- removed ecked cities of the Saturday, huve already been put parcle after paying fines potalling in Balkan areas. This $150 on three minor convictions. sl T I8B sult in a change of 25.2 per cent of the books now in use in Alaska's schools. The law permits change of a maximum of one-third of the text- bocks each four-year interval. A complete list of textbooks se- leted will be available at the office of the Commissioner of Education, to interested persons, in about ten days, it is stated. - - J. C. A. MEETS A1 DINNER The Juneau Contractors’ Associa- tion will meet this evening in the Iris Room of the Baranof Fetel, at . o'clock, {clowing i+iness s will be members are . urged to Jn attend. e Sl guialiag U SRIEN ke UEASED William O'Brien, given a 5-year uspended sentence in District Court has been released on He had been held in the Federal Jail here. R e JOINSON IN CUSTODY Walter A. Johnson, Indian youth, cenvicted of burglary and at- tempted yape in U. S. District Court here Saturday, has been taken into custody by the U. S. Marshal Johnson’s bond was cancelled,. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA o e e s ‘7“,"‘——_‘_I i SPORT CCATS n 1 | | port | Regularly 29.75 16.00 Sizes: 35 fo 44 ‘ Shorts, Regulars, Longs b.MBEHRENS),,; O, BULLEF PROOF Sunshine s stand in killing a m: would have made hunter damages from sfray shots. i % P : of Lordshurg, N. M., summed up hen he said: ture can ever pass 1t anyone from get- | liable for the majority “No Legis #n act to prey ting buck fever. - — WEIGHTY DEAL H SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Heaviest, consignment of 1 in the war 0 mp-#:n in the Illinois capi- he Boy Scouts of 4,500 nickals. | - Aates Trocp Se Mexico Cit from when the Aztecs settled on an dsland in Lake Texcuco. — | seeking a wife. liPaysio Advertisel Basil Tasker, 47, and his three children hold letters in Stoneham, Mass., sent in reply to a advertisement Tasker put in newspapers Tasker, who was divorced a year ago, sas he is too busy tending his children to go a-woeing in person. Replies have been received from grandmothers and a society divorcee who said she had «ind two cars and two country estates, but Tasker hasn’’ m:de up his mind vet. (AP Wirephoto) g | T S i | g ITLER SAYS ARCHFOEON EAST FRONT Orders Armies fo Walch Out for Treachery of Miseral{le Few LONDON, April 16—Adolf Hitler disclosed today in an order of the day to German soldiers along the Eastern Front, “For the last time the Jewish Bolshevist arch-enemy has launched his massed attack He is trying to destroy Germany wipe out our people and soldiers in the east. You yourselves know what fate threatens; particularly to the German women, girls and children. While old men and children ate teing murdered, women and girls re being reduced to the status of prostitutes. The remainder have been led away to Siberia. We ex- pected this offensive since January of this year and everything has been done in order to build up a strong front and tremendous artil- lery concentration is meeting the enemy. “This time Bolsheviks suffer. the old fate of Asia. They must and will perish in front of the German Capital. However, this moment doesn’t fulfill the duty of a traitor to our nation.” He warned soldiers to watch par- tict ly for a few treacherous of- ficers and soldiers who, “in order to secure their own miserable lives, will fight against us for Russian pay and perhaps even in Russian uniforms. Anyone who orders you to retreat and is unknown by you, must be arrested immediately and cessary, disposed of, whatever R - s e e 0 0 0 s 0 0 o ¢ WEATHER REPORT s (U.S. Weather Bureau) o ° o o o Temperatures for 24-Hour o Period Ending at 7:30 0'Clock This Morning: o o o In Juneau—Maximum, minimum, 31. Precipitation, 02 of an inch At Airport minimum, 29. Precipitation, .03 of an inch. ° . ° 43; ® . ® ° ° o0 00 0000 00 00 ° ° ° ° ° ° ° Maximum, 46 DAY TEMPERATURES In Juneau-—Maximum, 44; minimum, 36. Pre tation, .08 of an inch. At Airport—Maximum, Precipitation, minimum, 35. .05 of an inch. ~ s a2 e e 6 e e o TOMORROW'S FORECAST Increasing cloudiness to- night; rain late tonight or Tuesday. Showers and de- creasing cloudiness Tuesday night. Wind 20 to 25 miles per hour Tuesday. e o s 0 0 o o TEMPERATURES Lowest tonight Highest Tuesday e o o 0 0 00 0 o - e 36 46 ® 00000000000 s000000000000000000000CT Empire Classifieds Pay! LATEWAR BULLETINS LONDON—A German front-line re- porter said tonight that Allied forces have reached Havelberg, 45 miles northwest of Berlin, where they apparently forged. another bridgehead over the Elbe. PARIS—Franz von, Papen, former German Premier and Ambassador to Turkey, has been captured in a Ruhr pocket with his son and son- in-law. LONDON - The Transocean, German news ney, announced tonight the Russians have cap- tured Seelow Heights, 23 miles east of Berlinn. PARIS—One of the greatest de- feats any German Army ever suf- fered on German s announced tonight by U. S. Fi Army officers, who said 160,000 Germars have been taNen intact by the First and Ninth Armies in the Ruhr. INRE IS MARRIED HERE At a ceremony performed by U S. Commissioner Felix Gray Satur- day afterncon, Thomas W. Savora, of Juneau, was wed to Emily Hyck- enbottom, * of Juneau. Witnesses were. Roald C. Copstead and Mrs. Shirley Fleek, ——e——— GROVER, CLOSE HERE John L. Grever and Gifford Close, of Wrangell, are guests at the Hotel Juneau. MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1945 BUY WAR BONDS 0id Silver Amber Grape Wine Full Half Gallons $1.6S - 4 > Juneau Liquor CQ. | PHONE 498 Guess this kind of outs 1t up to you, Mrs. Jones-to-be! . It's up to you, honey. T'll do all I can—but they don’t pay pri- vates in the Army very much. So—it’s up to you. It’s your turn now, fo wear the pants, hold down a job, and take care of the Jones' future finances. You're smart enough to do it, too. To realize that if you'll take every cent that you don’t need to live on and tuck it away in those same War Bonds I've been buying —we’ll do all right. T'll be coming back someday. I know that. I don’t think anything could hap- pen to a fellow who's going to marry you. And when I do come back... With what I've saved in War Bonds, and what you're going to save in War Bonds, and with the extra money those Bonds are going to bring—well... We'll have a stake. A stake thatll help us to make up for 4ll the time I've been away. And we'll have something else, too— something that we wouldn’t want to be without. Between my fighting and your buying, we'll have the knowledge that we both toed the line and did our share. So buy those Bonds, honey. And hang onto them. Till the day when I get back —it’s up to you! Keep farth with our fighters - buy War Bonds for ke ops / San Juan Fishing and Packing Co. This is an official U, S. Treasury advertisement — prepared under the auspices of Treasury Department and War Advertising Cotnil 9 - = 2 .

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