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

. THE DAILY A “4LL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXV., NO. 10,010 NIPPONS WARNED | TRUMAN IS | WORKINGON MEET DATA President lgla—ns Program} for Conference with | Churchill, Stalin ‘ By ERNEST B. VACCARO | ABOARD CRUISER AUGUSTA WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN, July | President Truman began whip- ‘ ¢ into final form today a mass ita he will present to the’ Big; Three meeting at Potsdam nexti week. | He called Secretary of State James “ F. Byrnes and Admiral William D. | hy into the Augusta’s Admiral’s where former President Roos- and Prime Minister Churchill held most of their Atlantic Charter conferenc2s in the ominous days of 1941. There, for several hours, the three | assisted by diplomatic and military | experts, worked over an accumula- ticn of documents. ‘While plans for a visit to London after the meeting with Premier | Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill | still are tentative, the President has no plans at all for visiting France. He is going into the conference without prior consultation with] Churchill, apparently with a view | to assuring the Russians he has no | intention of making any independ- ent agreements, even on a tentative nature. Correspondents aboard the Aug- | usta still are not permitted to dis-' close thé“Plesiasnt’s dlsembarkation | port or the time of his likely ar- rival there. ARRIVAL IS NEARING LONDON, July 11.—The Madrid radio today quoted reports from Hendaye, where Prime Minister Churchill is- vacationing near the Spanish border, as saying President i Truman may arrive “at any mo- | ment.” i The broadcast, recorded by the Ministry of Information, said “A | number of magnificent American automobiles” had recently made their appearance at Hendaye. FOOD PROBLEM T0 BE PLACED BEFORE PUBLIC AgriculiurewS;(rdarv An- derson Appeals for Understanding NEW YORK, July 11.—Secretary LABOR DISPUTE TIES UP DELIVERY | OF DETROIT MILK Scores of mr Troubles Keeps Thousands of Workers Off Jobs (By the Associated Press) A labor dispute in Detroit, one of a scor» across the country which kept some 000 men and women off their jobs, prevented an esti- mated half million persons from |frcm the failure of nature or “of- getting their regular supply of milk ficial negligence or stupidity.” teday. | In a speech prepared for delivery For the third strafght day, de- | before the Advertising Federation of America, the new Secretary said the liveries of 30 per cent of the motor | city’s milk supply were tied up by a | nation and the world must realize | that the demand for food exceeds walkout of 1,000 creamery company | employees. | the supply. Other labor disputes, some of long “America can't feed the world,” duration, affected the fuel and arms | he said. “We've got to make that today for public understanding of | the food problem and promised to report whether shortages resulted of Agriculture Anderson appealed | JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1945 FEDERAL PAY PICTURE GETS DARKER DAILY iBartIeIt Discloses Further ALASKA PASSES | 4 MILLION TTH Channel Beats Its Overall Quota - Ketchikan Is Top City : All the fotebodings concerning the | progress of the Seventh War Loan | Discrimination Pend- ! ing for Alaska [In Alaska were found unfounded | - | when the final returns were totalled | A constantly darkening pay pie- | —Alaska again had gona over the! ture is being shown Alaska vesi-| top, hitting 118.6 percent of its $4,- |dents on the Federal payroll as 000,000 overall quota. more information is received from, Not only did the Territory sell $4,- Washington, D. C., concerning the | 476,546.05 worth of all types of executive order proposed to strike, curities, but, according to final fig- | | wage differentials for all exeépt, Ures released here today by the War | those hired in the 48 States or the | Finance Committee, “Series E" bond | District of Columbia. | sales also passed the two and one- | ! Alva W. Blackerby, local p.—,{.}half million dollar mark set for| dent of the National Federation of | them. “E" Bonds were sold through- industries. In Detroit alone con- | troversies curtailed or halted opera- [ or we are inviting an awful lot of tions in six separate plans involving ' misunderstanding, trouble and ill more than 8,000 workers. | .. But we must do what we There were disputes involving CIO % oil and gas workers in the United j —_———— Fuel Gas Company serving six East- | ern States; United Min> Workers at | BUII.DING HERE five mines in Pennsylvania and Ohio; shipbuilding employees in New 1ST HAI.F YEAR Jersey; and workers on B-29 bomb- - ers in Chicago. ‘ The country’s largest single strike Tops s‘m m was the 11-day walkout by 16,500 ' 1} CIO United Rubber Workars at thei Firestone Tire and Rubber Company | in Akron ,Ohio. \ed the half-million dollar mark dur- ling the first half of this year, ac- ccrding to building permit totals pASSE“GER (AR | ccmpiled by City Engineer J. L. Mc- !Namara. The half-yearly total pe: u‘m MAY mits issued so far this year is $433 575. For the first three months, - {January 1 1o April 1, permits to- : BE OFFm "A“'mneu $77,525; for:the. period’ trom ® April 1 to July 1, $356,050. Raremets: Most of the figure is accounted for WASHINGTON, July 11. — The hy the Goldstein building, the largest War Production Board, predicting|singls job yet contracted for here the end of passenger car rationingithis year. in January, today considered an’ Ppormits were issued during the automobile industry request iorlpnst week to: permission to undertake full-scale| W. J. Stutte, contractor, for re- plant expansion immediately. | pairs to the exterior of the Govern- O s T IR |cr's Mansion, $3,000; Angelo An- |stium, for remodeling store building FOREST FIRES oul for new lccation of S8ewing Basket, 2 |cn Franklin Street, $1,000, W. J. CONIROl. HIGH Stutte, contractor. oF " George Hansen, to erect Quonset Hut at 824 West Ninth Street to Iserev as garage and utility building, 18500; Jack R. Clark, contractor, to clear and positive from the outset | WINDS AID FLAMES ————————— lous linstall shower in Catholic Parish STO(K 0“0"‘ VANCOUVER, B. C. July 11— Hall, $100; William Jaegel, repair High winds sent.the Adams River shingle roof at 417 Harris Street, NEW YORK, July 11. — Closing | fire roaring out of control last night, |$125, F. C. Edward, contractor. quotation of Alaska Juneau nine | Forestry Branch officials reported stock today is American Can |teday, and flames now cover 400 to| 1 2 , Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright 500 acres of standing scrub timber, 35 pASSE"GERS International Harvester 86%, ' on rocky side hills. | I" FRoM sour“ | Kennecott 38%, New York Central} This blaze on Vancouver Island A steamship arrived in Juneau at 8 o'clock this morning from the 287, Northen Pacific 33%, U. S. about 175 airmiles northwest of Van- Steel 6975, Pound $4.04, couver had been under control and! Sales today were 810,000 shares. |confined to 60 acres before the winds| Dow, Jones averages today are spread the blaze late yesterday. 1 as follows: Industrials, 166.57; rails, ———— i 65.44; utilities, 33.45. INJUNCTION ISSUED Alice Beck, Mrs. Amelia Berger, In the case of Bowles vs. Charles Mrs. R. J. Berry, Richard Berry, Mrs. G. Warner Company, Judge George E, Chandler, Mrs. Ruth Creager, South with the following passengers: | Federal Employees today cited Out the Territory to the amount of !from a letter received from mm“zv“',s“& or 1064 percent of the Delegate E. L. Bartlett, dated July | 808l |7, which contradicts the previous! Though missing its “E” Bond | impression that the pending order' Mark by a narrow margin with sales would maintain pay differentials| ©f $214.315.75 against its $225,000 'for those already employed in the'duota. the Juneau-Douglas area ex- Federal Service. *| ceeded its overall goal by one-fourth. | Mr. Bartlett said, in part: wg¢! The Channel district had been asked | | (the proposed executive order) cart| t0 buy $425,000 worth of all types! iries a provision relating to Alas-|0f bonds during the Seventh War kans already hired and receiving LORD. Tt did buy $532,586.75 worth. | the differential, to the effect thay, F€IPing to swell the local returns [the differential for them shall be' Were purchases by individuals of decreased by the amount their ba- ' Other than “E" Bonds. Those larger individual purchases more than! «doubled their $50,000 mark, totaling | $119,224. Local corporations, with a goal of $150,000, bested their quota | mlso, purchasing securities to the | additiohal meoney they would re- |ceive under the new pay bill (Downey Bill recently enacted by | Congress) would not represent v tune of $199,027. clear gain because the differential & | would dodibired' In corvessibdil An all-Alaska mark of one-half| " illion dollars was set for individual | ing amount. R | rchases “other than “E” Bonds. Delegate Bartlett expressed. his PU'C | intention to do all he can to pre- Aiav mark was almost doubled, with vens. appioval of the order which sales of $970,306. Corporations also | would cut between $360,000 and PRSSed their Territory-wide goal by! $400,000 yearly from Federal | 114 percent. They bought a total of | g s PRY- ' $1,11459150 worth of securities| ichecks in Juneau alone. Alaska's where they had been asked to pur- | DPlegnt_e is working on the matter ch;se an even million dollars’ worth. { {in - conjunction with the Delegate ~ garonikan topped all Alaska cities | | to Congress from Hawaii, Joseph in overall support of the Seventh | R. Farrington, | War Loan, selling 202.1 per cent of | Mr. Bartlett also stated that Sec- ! the quota asked from Pirst Cit Iretary of the Interior Harold Ickes yegiqents, Flat almost doubled it [too feels the measure is discrim- : ! : uota. rt Yuk . i inatory to Alaskans and has direct- oor. e Dnen s 993 per) cent: Platium 1813; Petersbury jed top officials of the Division of 1443; palmer 135.2; Craig 1349 :m: | Territories and Island Possessions / . Wrangell 127.9 per cent. actively to oppose Presidential ap- gecres made by communities equal- proval of the pending order. DIFFERENTIAL | Wrangell 517,580.00 45,000 ! Juneau- Douglas 532,586.75 425,000 Skagway ... 28,181.25 23,000 Yakutat 4,256.25 3,500 Anchorage-Whit- | tier 910,562.75 810,000 | Valdez ... 21,833.75 20,000, Sitka .. 80,753 50 77,000 ling or bettering their overall quotas, listed by percentages sold, are: Town Sales Quota | Ketchikan $667,151.75 $330,000 Flat .. 38,369.75 20,000/ | Fort Yukon 1,575.00 4,000 Platinum 7252500 40,000 Petersburg 122,687.75 85,000, Palmer 2028125 15,000 Craig BEING FOUGHT | WASHINGTON, July 11.—Terri- torlal Drlegates in Congress are 'ARMED FORCES OF 'LOYAL, OLD REGIME |1y formed provisional government of | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VASION IS IMI WARLOANGOAL - Adaplable fo Virtually | All Forms Transporfation ' POLAND TO REMAIN LONDON, July 11-~—Headquarters of the Polish Armed Forces Abroad announced today «that Gen. Kelens Rudnicki, Commanger of the First| Polish Armored Division, has issued an order of the day to his tmopexI declaring his comtinued allegiance to the Polish Exila regime in Lon-| don. V | “We shall always remain faithful to cur soldier’s oath and continue cbedience to the hest command | of our armed forces, President Wiadyslaw Raczkfewicz,” Rudnicki ! was quoted as saying. He added: | “We shall returp to Poland—but | only with arms in hand.” Raczkiewicz is Head of the exiled administration fiem which Britain and the Unjted \pza’es wnhdrcw' recognition last week after plnclnn’ their stamp of approval on the new- | National Unity in Warsaw, created | in accordance with the Crimea| charter. | The First Armored Division now is | serving with the British Forces ol; Occupation in Germany, and it part' of the 250,000 Polish troops abroad; whose disposition has been a matter | ‘erators and doubtless even the auto- 'OPPONENTS i IMMINENT LOS ANGELES, July 11.—Jet pro-! pulsion in the future will be adap- table to virtually all forms of trans-| portation, it was declared today by Hall L. Bibbard, Vice President and Chief Engineer of Lockheed Alrcraft| Corp., which is making the P-80| Shooting Star jet fighter plane. “Jet propulsion is really much closer to our daily lives than talk of speeds of 100,000 miles an hour | (in the air) would indicate,” said! Hibbard in an address prepared for a Junior Chamber of Commerce meeting. v “Gas turbine ' engines will be adaptable as power units for railway trains, buses, electric power gen- mobiles of the future,” added the| engincer. “The smooth operation, easy maintenance and high effi- ciency of the gas turbine will be a direct benefit to all of us.” B e AIRDROMES 10KY0 AREA AREBOMBED U.S. Third Fleet Withdraws from Japan's Coast After Big Attack NEW COMMAND 1S GIVEN MacARTHUR Four Different Air Forces fo Continue Hammering Nip Islands By Leonard Milliman (Assoclated Press War Editor) Enemy broadcasts said tods: mighty U. S, Thitd Fleet wil from Japanese home waters after sending 1,200 carrief’ planes, swarm- ing over Tokyo airdromes for 12 hours yesterday, but wamed that the raiders ‘might retum at any OF CHARTER AIRVIEWS WD | | | WASHINGTON, July .10, Oppori- ents of the United Nations Charter of some speculation since withdraw- | 4l of recognition from . the exiled government, o a { While voicing allegiance to Rac-| zkicwicz, Rubnicki declared that he, Strictive amendments would be beat- | substantfal ground. guins “of war oceu and his troops would continue to carry out the task assigned to them| in Germany. | ! Relations = Committee trooped: hefore the Senate Foreign today as Chairman Connally (D.-Tex.) ex- presséd ““confidence - that any re-| en down. . The first opposition witness, Mrs. ! Agnes Waters of Washington, D. C., moment and, also wi that Am- erican invasion /is L Tokyo said. “abaut 150" Okinawas based fighters cairied on the unie- mitting” afr attack toddy, m-ps d of solithern, Japan. " ‘The | tirme in nter Air Fo “Aslu. Chinese trodps making the chieyg, former l4th 58 ly 200 miles 8i USAAF | north- of ton drove toward | was escorted from the committee by | Kannhsien,’ snother former Ameri- ! policemen when she attempted w;c.n air boss, Five | sirdromes have gt LY T continue after her allotted time had v now bee TRAHS“"RT sexpired ‘Chlnue‘n‘" s flu mmm‘ heater -3 ) DICKERSON UNDERFIRE Strange Balloonls Sighlggl_ !n Mexico. QUERETARO, Mexico, July 11.--' ;Smle government officials said to- {day ttey had been advised that a| WASHINGTON, July 11. — The Strange cigar-shaped balloon ex-: Navy today told how three Japan- Ploded late yesterday shortly after| ese fighter-bombers damaged the Passing over Cadereyta De Montes,! transport Dickerson so badly 4off 55 miles northeast of here, at a con- Okinawa Apri} 2 she had to be Siderable height. | sunk the next day. | Queretaro military authorities Loss of the 25-year-old Dicker- Dave -ordered an investigation son, with 51 killed or missing and determine if possible whether the 15 wounded, had beei announced |Palloon was of Japanese origin. previously. The eraft, a high upeed! converted destroyer, carried a crew of approximately 150. | Among the men lost were the' Dickerson’s captain, Lt. Cmdr.' (OPSTEADS PURCHASE * | HANFORD RESIDENCE! J feuding with the War and Navy de- partments over a pay differential Metlakatla 8,360.00 $00| Rulph: B Toyaabiny of Seatile. /| The anncuncement has been made, St ‘While was silent o t Task Foreg 36, Tgkyo reports, Amerlmne"'nnh]n._ _withdrew 'mdr some distdhge ter the south’ But the Japaneso adnilited the “fask force is still in the seas in the vi- cinity of dir homeland” and de- fenders ‘were “op the alert agalnst a possible followsup Faid.” E Nipponess': agandists - clalmed 26 carrial alréraft weré shot down by inte: 18 yesterday and ag- serted no damages” were inflict re than 70 ‘afr- dromes “strafed. ¢ Preliminary reports from: the task force sald the attack account- ed for at least 164-planes, including 72 definitely destroyed. This cov- ered only the fiyst six hours of the attack. | . . ed on_ the 64 Shipa Damiaged Other. American air units hit 41 Fairbanks-Col- ! The trio of two-engine Japancse! lege ... 633,260.75 630,000 Planes attacked at 6:30 p.m. and A N, within 2 1 ‘hours the Dickerson TIHWAR lOA" is | was a charred, useless hull. of the purchase of the Brooks Han- T/ ,mmw 2ihen sning yee- ford residence on Telephone Hill by, ::::r "c"r':'n":"“;'" Java, and 33 Mr. and Mrs. Roald Copstead, of | these 64 i u"" T:: MS o the 20th Century Meat Market. They | e 64 vessels were damaged. :pect to take possession of their mital Nimita promised |F. Alexander of the U. 8. Dismct;qene Creager, Carcl Creatger, Mrs. A | plan put into effect July 1. {Court has issued a permanent in-|H. Kassuer, L. D. Field, Mrs. L. D.| Under the plan, which Delegatc - v - The Washington §junction against the firm on July Field, Harry Gunderson. }Bartlett (D.-Alaska) says has peen MerrY _GO 'Roundi“" The order restrains the firm| R, L. Hackern, Katie Hanks, Del-|turned down by other departments jfrom charging prices in excess of bert Hanks, Jr, Karen Hanks, Nance | and agenciss, a classified civil work- Tihe ship wax supmred Iy save | ral places, the bridge was destroy- “strong United States air forces,™ By DREW PEARSCN ! It. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Army.) { WASHINGTON—The District of Columbia looks more like a peace- lime capital this summer than in| many years . . . for the first time since the war. The House is now planning a long recess . . . this! reflects increased congressional | confidence in the new White House set-up, also the fact that many a Legislator yearns for home . . .The dollar-a-year men and brass hats who planned to check out after Germany’s defeat haven't started fheir exodus. Ingtead they've been! joined by hundreds of business men | who've ‘moved in to get their re-; conversion headaches unsnarled . . .| Thousands of returning officers| and enlisted men from Europe have | added to the housing angd feedingl problem. Parking spaces along the | Potomac are crowded on hot nights | with G. I. Joes and G. I. Janes| and government workers searching for a cool breeze. Washington is more peaceful, but still jammed. Adding to the crush are the Tru—‘ man boys who have descended on' Washington., . .They fall into, three categories: (1) the Missouri boys, friends of Truman and Bob Hannegan looking for jobs, patron- age, and juicy political plums . . .| (2) The Pauley boys from South-t ern Californiat-friends of former, (Continued on Page Four) in Juneau. jmaximum prices permitted for the| Hanks, Barbara Hermann, Wilma J. sale of material or services. Hines, Mrs. Harold Hoffman, L. A. The firm also made settlement of Johnson, Dean R. Johnson, Jas. Kay, a Treble Damage Claim with the Kcdee Paff, R. H. Smith, Lewis H. 'Office of Price Administration by Thomas, G. Tobasco, R. E. Wilhite, making a payment in the sum of | william Alazi, Telis Bover, Pierre $1,050 in full settlement. Foumirau, Mrs. Victor Edelbreck, PR P R T Stella Field, Mildred R. Hermann DIVORCE FILED land Sundi Sherman. i A divorce action, asking perman-l Leaving this afternoon were the ent custody of the couple’s minm"l following: Olaf Marking, Frank girl now in thg care of the plaintiff | Kelly, Edythe Long, Dorothy May here, was filed with the Clerk of | Long, Mrs. C. E. Albrecht, G. E. the U. S. District Court’ here this; Knight, Ora Dee Clark, Raechel morning by Ruth Howard against Edwards, John Burrington, Eufgene Peter Howard. Incompatibility isl 5. Smith, Joe Repik, Mrs. Dolly cited as cause. The complaint nlsuf Soule, Ed Jewell, R. H. McKeen, asks $125 for attorney fees and re-| Robert Martin, Roy C. Brown, Perry turn of costs. | E. Hilliary, Mrs. E, P. Hilliary, Henry —_——————— Lillie and Dick Gordon. FROM TENAKEE " — Mrs. P. T. Carmichael, of the! DECREES GRANTED Superior Packing Co., at Tenakee,| Three divorce decrees were grant- is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. |ed here yesterday in Federal Dis- D g o now od trict Court by Judge George F. Al- MRS. ASP HERE exander to: - Agnes Josephine Mrs. S. Asp, of Tenakee, is a'Greenrod from William F. Green- guest at the Baranof Hotel while|rod; Maybelle Wallace from Amos visiting in Juneau.. — e — TEBB FAMILY HERE Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Tebb, and assume her former name of Masie their sons, Tom and Paul, of Sum-'Lozell Turnbull. ner, Wash., are guests at the Bar- o anof Hotel. JENNE PROMOTED ———— The Public Relations Office of SKAGWAY MEN HERE Camp Howze, Texas, announces the ‘Walter Gillis, Eugene Smith and promotion of Charles J: Jenne, of Dean Story, all of Skagway, are'Juneau, of the Infantry Replace- guests at the Juneau Hotel while ment Training Center, from Private ito Private-first-class, from Henry Clay Scudder. Mrs, e N i S R S P S RIS i AN« Wallace and Maisie Lozell Scudder' Scudder was given permission to| er recruited from outside the Ter- | ritories receives 25 per cent more {pay than a worker in the same grade recruited locally, | Delegate Parrington (R.-Hawaii) {has joined Bartlett in an effort to jhxve the order set aside. Bartlett idescribed the order as “fantastic, ‘ ridiculous and discriminatory.” All departments, Bartlett explain- !ed, have been paying a 25 per cent | differential to all civil etployees in | the Territories since the start of the war. The Army and Navy now | exclude employees whose homes are in the Territories. { “It's silly,” Bartlett told a re- 1 porter, “that two persons doing identical work shall have their pay | established by residential qualifica- He said the order was put into effect without consultation with any of the agencies or individuals really conversant with the facts. Total sales were $26,313,000,000,| Bartlett said Senatdr Magnuson the quota $14,000,000,000. The pre-, (D. - Wash,) is aiding the fight vious record was $21,621,000,000 in against 'the differential plan. the 6th War Loan. { VM S R R b ———————— l TERRITORIAL GUARD MEET LICENSES APPROVED | FINANCED: BIGGEST OFKINDINHISTORY WASHINGTON, -~ *July ll.—Thel $26,313,000,000 Seventh War Loan| bas gone down in history as the biggest financing operation of thm! or any other war, | There will be another bond drlvei this year, starting perhaps in No- vember. But future drives are not likely to equal the one just ended.| Final figures were announced last| night by Secretary of the ’l‘rcnsuryfi Morgenthau. | Although sales of E-bonds fell| $24,000,000 short of making the, $4,000,000,000 quota, the Amm'lcan‘ people reached 99.4 percent of their goal in those low-cost securities. | The regular weekly Meeting of Three liquor license applications the Juneau unit of the Territorial were approved here yesterday in Guard will be held at the Menden- Pederal District Court by Judge| {hall Rifle Range Thursday even-; George F. Alexander. Approved |ing at 7 o'clock. | were: Change of retail license lo-| All members should report dress- cation for G. B. Brown, Juneau; ed in coveralls and be equipped retail license at Ketchikan for with rifle and ammunition belts.' Loyd Ward; general wholesale li- Transportation will be arranged cense for J and J Dunbar and Co.,, as usual, Seattle, P R —— ed and series of fires spread,” the Navy said. “Gas and flames quick- ly swept the bridge and well deck,| causing explosions from the ready | ammunition boxes.” ! The Dickerson was towed to Kerama where an inspection show- ed she was beyond salvage, the Ndvy said. The following moming, | guns of others ships sent her to the | bottom. | i Frenchlord Haw Haw Given Death | Senience by Jury " | PARIS, July 11¢—A four-man jury | of the Paris Court of Justice tonight convicted Paul onnet of treason and sentenced death for hav- | ing broadcast propaganda over the Stuttgart radio. Defense counsel filed an appeal. If that is rejected Ferdonnet's only recourse would be to ask clemency from Gen. De Gaulle. ! Ferdonnet, alleged “French Lord Haw Haw,” Whs condemried to death in absentia before the fall of France in 1940. He was arrested after Ger- many’s defeat. | Mr. and Mys. Willlam Forbes, of new home about the first of next month, ¥ Mr. and Mrs. Hanford . plan to leave for Seattle, where they will weu Ul Lunguered slands “witha in. effective striking distancs ‘ot vupan,” will continue to hammer make their future home, late this /€N¢™Y ShiDping and defenses “pre- . | month; Thousands of Sick, Wounded Fly Home LONDON, July 11.—More than 41,009 sick and wounded American ccldiers have becn flown home from Europe in the past 19 months, Brig. Gen. Earl S. Hoag, head of the United States Air Transport Com- mand her?, announced today. Hoag said the record mionth was last May, when 6,984 evacuees were flown to the United States from bases in Scotland, France and Italy. S E - — DOLINGERS FLY SOUTH | Mr. and Mrs. John Dolinger who have been visiting here for several wecks, flew south yesterday via Pan American. Mrs. Dolinger is the daughter of Mr., and Mrs. Charles Goldstein. | e — | GOES TO ANCHORAGE Mrs. G. E. Freeburger, who has / been rvisiting in Juneau for several “completing our control i days, flew to Anchorage yesterday, Balikpapan Bay shore area.” via Woodley Airways where she/ paratory. to further amphibious as- Simull Geir. Doug lorces based on Okinawa, incident- al to regrouping ‘American air pow- er in the Western Pacific “for greaer ‘operating efficioncy.” Pour different air commands are nbw hammering at’ Japan. Tokyo conceded. .American air forces held supremacy over the homeland, but . commented ‘“mas- tery of the alr is not an absolite factor” in deciding ,the result of an invasion, et New Landing, Borneo ' | A current rumer in the: pines has it that o lone Japanese plane rescued Ggn, Tomoyuki Yam- ashita, supreme.. Ni com- mander in the jslands who onte boasted he id make MacArthur surrender, MacArthur - reported - Austeadisn trcops under his command made |two new langings in the Balikpa- pan area of southeastern 30(“«0. the Oth- er Aussies advanced a mile toward Wrangell, are guests at the Bar- Will visit her daushter, Mrs. Dean| flaming oil flelds and beat off two anof Hotel. ) Paiker. . night inflltration attacks!