The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 20, 1945, Page 2

PAGE TWO R 1 9 Size yourse/f up in your BARBIZON and see what perfect fit can be! @ N Makes no difference whether you're slim as a reed or pleasantly plump ... a wee bit of a person or tall and slender There’s a Barbizon “Body- Contour” slip that will fit you perfectly! That’s because these new Barbizons are designed on a revo- lutionary new principle which judges your slip size by Your CONTOURS IN RELATION TO YOUR HEIGHT. For body contours vary with various figure heights! Style sketched is the BRYN cHIC “Body-Contour” slip which comes in 3 different types and a correct size for your height and contours. B M Behrends Co QUALITY SINCE /887 WEST POINTS ADMIRAL ROYAL CADETS PARADE HAS PASSED ON IN IKE'S HONOR . ' WASHINGTON, June 20.—Secre- ry ¢f the Navy James Forrestal has announced the death of 52-year- old Rear Admiral Forrest Royal, who od an amphibious force in the Pac- ific. Admiral Royal died on Monday of natural causes. A native of New York City, Admiral Royal had been in ccmmand of the amphibious op- s at Brunei Bay on the north- west coast of Borneo on June 10th and 11th WEST POINT, N. Y., June 20.— Wave after wave of steel-helmeted, khaki-clad cadets passed smartly in review today for General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower on the sun-drenched parade ground of the United States Military Academy - The review was a high point of e Supreme Allied Commander’s dsit here and he watched with the me broad smile with which he icknowledged yesterday's frenzied reeting by 4,000,000 persons in New ork City. (CANADIANS WILL The General graduated from | e mm——mls' IRA'N FOR “IPS i ! b | | | 0D (ONDUCT MEDAL AWARDED JUNEAU BOY FORT BENNING, Georgia—Head- uarters of School Troops, The In- lantry School, has announced the ward of the Good Conduct Medal Pfc. Edward P. Madsen, of| uneau. A member of Company 2, Section , Motor Pool Detachment of School 'rcops, Pfc. Madsen received the ward at the recommendation of is company commander, Capt. oseph W. Smith, Jr. The Good Conduct Medal is award- to military personnel who have lemonstrated exemplary behaviour, nd fidelity through faithful and IN OL" KENTUCKY i i 20—A | WASHINGTON, June | | Canadian volunteer force destined for the Pacific War will arrive at Camp Breckinridge, Ky., early in September for training, Maj. Gen. B.| M. Hoffmeister said today. The 38-year-old officer, comman- | der of the 5th Canadian Armored | Division and veteran of more than! four years of fighting in Europe, will lead the battle-wise Canadian force against the Japanese. Hoffmeister told a news confer- encz at the War Department that approximately 28,000 Canadian vet- erans alreadly have volunteered for Pacific service and that the num- xact performance of duty. | ber is increasing daily. Reports 5y AL, A | from Canada have set the size of the Empire wanc acs get quick results }group at approximately 30,000. residential Plane Fitfed with E levator for FDR -Contor sl THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA JAPS REPORT ACTIVITY OF | YANIEOR(ES Hundred Transporfs As- sembled Is Claim-Sur- renders on Okinawa (Continued from Page One) Two regiments of Marines crack- »d through rapidly diminishing ene- my resistance on OKinawa yester-| MISS For the Average Slender day to reach the southern shore and cut Japanese survivors into three disconnected pockets. The Eighth Marine regiment, Tarnwa!’ veterans who entered the Okinawa ! oattle this week, were the first to reach the beaches. They made it standing up. | Marines and two Army divisions were closing in on Mabuni, where| the Japanese general is believed to | be directing the three remaining| cores of resistance from fir-burned | caves. His headquarters are sim- | ilar to the elaborate naval dug-outs | which this week gave up thel throat-slit bodies of Adm. Minoru Ota, naval commander, and his five top aides. Destroy Munitions Town 4A). LE LADY LADY LITT! i Superfort crews returning to their For the For the Marianas bases reported they had Tall Large Short Plump iburned out industrial targets in' one of the three Japanese cities| attacked yesterday and set large fires in the other two. “We won't have to go back to| Shizuoka anymore,” they said ox‘ the munitions town 85 miles south-, west of Tokyo. A highway of fire| two miles wide and ten miles long was reported burning through Fu- klioka, ordnance and aircraft city on Kyushu Tsland. Explosions were | noted at Toyohashi, armament and explosives manufacturing city. MY NEW YOR=s, June 20.—There's a new mystery story from Europe. Radio Moscow says that a myster- ious plane bearing Nagzi 'markings and carrying three men, believed to * The three towns, between' 212,000 be high-ranking Nazis, landed at an and 323,000 population, received airport in Barcelona, Spain, yester-|their first fire baths In this strike.' day. " American bombers struck heavily | According to the Russian broad-|at Balikpapan defenses in the only cast (heard by N-B-C), the three ajjjed acknowledgement of Japan- pussengers disembarked from the ege reports that Australians were plane and whilz one had his face inlpreparing to invade the southeasi' his ccat collar, ancther gave the Borneo city. Fril Hi‘ler” ~ainte. All three of the men are said to have entered a waiting Spanish government plane. NEW PLANE FOF STERY | R i e i ASKCOMMITAL ON WEST LINK, ALASKA ROAD | | PLANE FOR GEN. EISENHOWER SANTA MONICA, June 20.—From| now on, General Eisenhower will be | able to fly in the same style in which President Truman travels. H A'new plane for the five-star Gen- eral’s personal use was delivered to > the Army today by the Douglas’ Air- | cc“;fi;om:pfiu:: i::nl:ur?::n::: :’?:eei:s:vernments and appoint en- tails, the craft is identical to that of ~ne conferces could not select the the Presidential plane. | route, as it is an engineering prob- o se sy gy < v D 'lem, he said, but he will urge a CHRISTY McCASKILL HERE 'route extending north from Prince Christy Alice McCaskill arrived in Juneau on the North.Sea last night S:grg: tt:r V:':sl:e ::r;‘:ja :alcl:;:xg A from her home in Seattle to spend, Magnuson said he would also the summer months with Mr. and pying up his bill now before Con- Mrs. A. E. Karnes. fgress, which would prevent the De- e | partment of the Interior, headed by Jean Parker, formerly of GUS- gecretary Iekes, from allocating ad- | tavus, arrived on the North Sed gjtional rights to Alaska Indians.| from Bellingham accompanied by This, he sald, would end tie long he rmother, and will ‘spend the controversy between whites and In- | summer months at Excursion Inlet.| gjans. TWO CORPORATIONS. | FAE WITH AUDITOR (Continued from Page One) i | Two corporations, one non-profit {and one foreign, have filed here! with the Auditor of Alaska during, the past week to do business in the Territory. | ‘The Union Club of Fairbanks, a| non-profit organization formed to| maintain social ‘and recreational | centers in the Interior City for| members of labor groups, has been formed by Laura A. Johnson, Dolly Browne and Laddie R. Johnson. The corporation is not capitalized. A State of Washington firm, Bar- anof Canneries, Inc., having its home office at Pier 66, Seattle. Its prineipal . place ~of * business A_Lfika is at Port Coficlusion, Bar- | of Island. ‘R. E. Robertson, Juhéau attor- ney, reprégents the company legally in the Territory. 3 The Baranof Cgnneries, Inc, with capitalization of '$100,000 and listed assets of $76,008.98, is or- ganized for the purpose of process- ing and merchandising fish pro- ducts. Manager of the company = Max Jacobs; J. S. Jensen, sccre- tary; Victor H. Heller, director. e ————— MARTIN IN TOWN Warren F. Martin, of Anniston, Alabama, is at the Gastineau Hotel. YABLETS site in the Seatter Tract. in ! | 10 WESTWARD on scioo aFeams T ARINE CORPORAL ~ WINS_ HONOR IN OKINAWA BATILE | 00K Ncrman Cook, ‘on an official bus- iness trip fo rthe Office of the Commissicner of Education, left here yesterday heading Westward aboard a Woodley Airways plane. teresting sidelight on the Battle of Mr. Cook is to make stops at Okinawa which now is drawing to Cordova, Valdez, Ellmar, Latouche & close. and Anchorage and expects to return The very first' American fighting in about 10 days. S | man to reach the southern end of His principal business will be in the island was Marine Corporal cennection with the reopenig of a John Corbett of Milwaukee, Wis- new Territorial School at Latouche, consin. And because he was the and the re-opening of the school at | first; his comrades permitted him S Y FLYING GRANDMA CRACKS UP WiTH GRANDMAM MATE WASHINGTON, Penn, June 20. —Two ‘grandmothers are in serious i S shi { dition after a plane crash. One appropriate program, which should | ¢O™ ) prove of interest to members of | Of them is 65-year-old Mrs. W. Carl both Chambers, has been arranged RUfuS, widely known as the “fly- scheol bus route applications. | first American to reach the south- | Corporal Corbett is in a company 0. ON FOS§ RES'DEME‘szim This company has been led due for erection this summer on a Regimental Marines reached the by City Engineer J. L. McNamara ese forces. residence being built by Architect K veterans of some of the hardest The house will be located on an|{wa, Saipan and Tinian. Now ed cost is $10,000. | | ENTERTAIN DOUGLAS | | the past two years. | the Pacific off southern Okinawa. At Anchorage, he will investigate It had been pre-arranged that the A | ern end of the island should do just (ONSTRUCTION SOON | “'c. of the eighth regimental combat team of the Marine Second Di- One of Juneaw's largest private by Lieutenant David Carter of residential projects in some time is Kenmore, Pennsylvania. The Eighth | coast at 4:23 p.m. yesterday, thus A building permit was issued today driving a corridor between Japan- to James Larson, contractor, for the; One further word about the construction of a two-story frame|Eighth Regiment Marines. They're Harold B. Foss as his own iuture:figh!mg in the Pacific. They've home. | seen action on Guadalcanal, Tara- Evergreen avenue sloping site and|they're adding Okinawa to their will have a full basement. Estimat- list. | The Douglas Chamber of Com- merce will be guests of the' Juneau | Chamber of Commerce at the regu-| lar luncheon meeting tomorrow. An | by K. G. Merritt. !ing gran@ma,” She is the uuth(%r B 'of a book by that name, and is | the wife of a University of Michi- No (ROSS rnu"TRY | gan professor of astronomy. b e The other woman injured is 56- year-old Mrs. Louella Gillen, also a TRAI" IRAvEl FoR { grandmother. Both women are from Ann Arbor, Michigan. They (IvllIANs Soo made an emergency landing in a | field near Hickory, Penn., last night WASHINGTON, June 20—Train to refuel their small plane. The travel to and from the Pacific craft hit a tree branch during the Coast is going to be all but im- takeoff, and crashed. possible soon. . .- Col. J. M. Johnson, the Director of the Office of Defense Transpor- NEBRASKA VISHOR tation, says passenger reservations on west-bound trains will virtually ]‘o SPEND SUMMER be non-existent in the near future, Miss Helen © gaard, of Lin- and it will be very difficult to make ccln, Nebraska, arrived here last long train trips eastward from the nizht to spend the summer visiting West Coast. | her cousins, Jan and Min Fardal, at Col. Johnson terms the situation their hcme in Juneau. the tightest civilian transportation ————————— ¥ Empire Want-ags Tring resulis! . Custer would have cheered it It’s the kind of high-riding, hard-hitting raider an old-line cavalryman would love—the fleet Mustang, a great airplane that flies first on Chevron Aviation Gasoline. Rated the fastest aircraft behind a propellor, every P-51 that rolls off North American Aviation’s west coast assembly lines is test-flown, delivered on Chev- ron Aviation Gasoline. And take it from men who fly on Chevron Aviation Gasoline —they say: “After the war we're counting on you to give us a Chevron gasoline for the highway that will put skyway performance in our cars.” And we will! The MUSTANG.. o great plane S\ hat flies first on N GUAM, June 20.—There’s an in-, Ellamar, which has been closed for| to pick up a rock and throw it into: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1945 FLOATING CANNERY } 'FOR ALASKA (RABS BEING BUILT NOW SEATTLE, June 20.—The Pacific Exploration Co., today announced that the Bellingham Iron Works had ccntracted to convert the, 8,700-ton freighter, Mormaccay, into a float- ing cannery. It will be owned by the Defense Plants Corporation and operated by the Pacific Exploration Co., a new Seattle firm, as mother- ship to five steel trawlers. It will can Giant Alaska crabs in the' summer and tuna off California and Mexzico in the winter. ' Contracts for the trawl boats will be l2t soon. IGHER WAGES_ 'FOR TEXTILES/iS NOW PROPOSED WASHINGTORN, June 20.—Wil- liam H. Davis today proposed® a general wage minimum of 50 cents hourly, with the pay flocor ranging up to 65 cents in textiles and other industries needing production in- centives. : Davis, Director of the Office of Economic Stabilization, suggested that the Federal Fair Labor Stand- ards Act, which now provides a 40- cent : haurly minimum. wage, be amended to bring workers back into industries having manpower prob- 1e nd to provide a foundation for a reconversion stabilization pro- :sults, gram. Empire want ads gec qulek r D R Cer e e e S e e S o we do a little better grade of PAINTING and PAPERING Many people have asked if we did Residence t ! work and T wish to say we do and are taking care of these jobs as fast as we can possibly get to them. JAMES S. MeCLELLAN Phone Douglas 374 P. 0. Box 1216 i = NES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU T0 KETCHIKAN via Petershurg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Kiawock, Hydaburg and steamers for Prince Rupert, Vancouver, and Seattle FOR RESERVATIONS PHONE 612 R ELLIS AIR L | e Now in Stock Some of the 40 and 60 Watt LUMILINE LAMPS Come and Gei Them! Alaska Electric Light and Power Company Phone 616 5 - BYPERACID The Presidential plane (top), which flew President Recsevelt to Yalta and mcre recently brought Mrs. 5 "..Ac's Martha Truman to Washington for Mother's Day is a Douglas Skymaster of special design. ' The plane carries 15 passengers and sleeps six. Flags painted on it indicate the 44 countries over which it has flown. ECONOMY [ Below T/Sgt. R. W. Robitaille of Greenville, Me., a crew member, demenstrates the battery-operated ele- size e’ Butler, Mauro Drug Co. *'*The Rexall Store” vator President Rovsevelt used to enter and leave the plane without moving from his wheelchair. At left the elevator is down; center, elevator rises into plane, and at right glevator is at top of shaft and Rob- itaille dreps a ramp for passage from elevator to plane’s interior deck. President Truman is now to use the plane in his travels. - T e et - X