The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 31, 1945, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT ROOSEVELT T0 RETIRE AUGUST 15 Brigadier General Is fo Be| Released by Army | WACS MAKING SIGHTSEEING TOUR OF BERLIN | Air For(es : W/\SHXN(.TO h 1\11\ 31 Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt will return to! private life August 15 | His ase fom the Army Air Forces was arrang however, the Army insists, before the recent head- line flurry that led to a congress- fonal inquiry into reported loans | made to the late President’s second son | It follows Roosevelt’s own request | for retirement, completion of two as- signments growing out of his Europ-| ean war experiences and the fact the Army said, that “there was no i B RUSSIAN SOLDIERS GREET and pose for a picture at the Chancellory with a party of Waes who were looking | over the sights in the batteged German capital. Stationed in Berlin, the girls are members of the First Air- a The youthful General became new storm center early in June with published reports that he had bor- rowed $200,000 to finance a Texas radio enterprise in 1930 and that the loan later was settled for $4,000. | FAMOUS HOLLYWOOD | COMEDIAN A. JENKINS | IN JUNEAU BRIEFLY. The famous Hollywood comedian, Allan Jenking, flew into the Juneau Airport with Woodley Airways this afternoon and immediately boarded a Pan American Clipper for the South. | Mr. Jenkins has spent the past few weeks in the interior, at Anchorage and out on the chain on a USO camp show, where he has entertained many thousands of boys stationed m Western Alaska. When asked how he had enjoyed bis trip, Mr. Jenkins replied: “I think the trip from Anchorage to Juneau was the highlight and the most pleasant of all.” JANE ALEXANDER | ASST. FIELD DIR. AMER. RED CROSS | Judge and Mrs. George F. Alex- ander have received a most enthus- fastic letter from their daughter, Jane, who is now in Washington, D. C., with the American Red Cross Fleld Service. Miss Alexander, who entered the Red Cross Service last spring, has been appointed as an Assistant Field Director, and has entered a class for two weeks training along that line. On completion of this training, she expects to be assigned to duty in the States before going overseas. The training and experience with the Red Cross Field Service which Miss Alexander has had up to this time have made her very enthusias- | tic about the work, and she wrote that she is greatly enjoying every minute of it. | — - COASTAL AIRLINES § ON MONDAY FI.IGHTS | Alaska Coastal Airlines flew the! following people to Hoonah yester- | day afternoon: Andrew Jackson, Eve- lyn Ongman, Ed Ramsey and A. O.| Peterson. To Hawk Inlet: Frank Willey 'md Hans Floe. } To Pelican: George Hintner, S. J. Simpson, Steve Casey, Sylvia Wll-l cox, Rose Chittick and Fred Kin- nerson. Incoming passengers from Excur- sion Inlet were: Ray Dubois and| George M. Ewing. From Hoonah: Chester Zinn From Pelican City ‘Theasas, Cameron Terry, nell, Blanche Williams, B.F,| Thompson, R. C. Thomas and| Catherine DeCorte. | Leaving early this morning for| Hawk Inlet were: R. W. Wilson,| Howard Stabler, George C. Heikes| and Fred Jacobsen. To Sitka: Mrs. W. O. Jones, T. M. Yenney, Russ Clithero and Oliver Mansfield. | To Ketchikan: Logan C. Harding, | V. M. Blackwell and Anna Boie | To Petersburg: R. B. Clifton and Mrs. R. B. Clifton. Leaving early this afternoon for| Hoonah were the following: Ray Forrestberg, E. G. Whitehead, Mar- guerite Shepherd, Mrs. R. B. Shep- herd and Mr. Shepherd To Hawk Inlet: Gurheart Haas. To Excursion Inlet: O. P. Sprad- ling and A. R. Holup. To Pelican City: B. F. ’Yhumpsun Ben Darnell and Harold Labreck. JIncoming passengers from Tena- Kee were: Sam Asp. From Sitka: Ira Polley Bates. Margie Zinn and Harold Ben Dar- and H.| | - | MATTOX IN TOWN | Wwilliam M. Mattox flew to Ju-| neau yesterday from Anchorage on an Alaska Airlines transport plane end is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. He is employed by the CAA —————— Empire Want-ads bring results L.f YANK SUB SAVES PBY CREWMEN | | | 4 \ By Russell Brines 5 | {ef the heaviest a | assaults | laun | were within six miles of YAMASHITA 1S TRAPPED BY VANKEES = Escape of Cruel Japanese General from Luzon Hideout Cut Off (Associated Press War Correspondent) WITH U. S. SIXTH DIVISION, NORTHERN LUZON, July 31 Cruel, wily Japanese Gen. Tomo- yuki Yamashita escaped two weeks tillery and aerial this Infantry Division ever but the Yanks today hed, known hideout. Yamashita’s headquarters are known to have been at Hungduan ecently. Yesterday, elements of his division captured bloody Ifugao | Ridge after two weeks in which | they ulted the hill with 6,000 | galions of jellied gasoline; 5,000,000 s | Tounds of .50 caliber air strafing; 4,000 rounds from aerial canncn, TAKING TO A LIFE RAFT when their Navy PBY was forced down off the coast of Japan (top), crewmen of the doomed aircraft paddle to a U. S. submarine which has come to the rescue. In center two of the plane's crew are hauled to safety as (bottom) the crippled PBY is set afire by guns of the rescuing sub. U. S. Navy photo. (International) G GETAWAY GIVEN AWAY nearby Angel Island, an Army base. The desperate attempt at freedom {rom “The Rock” was made by John K. Giles, 50, serving 20 ye Im post office robbery in Salt L B i U | FRESH! SAN FRANCISCO, July 31.—A SIOUX FALLS, 2 attempted to telcphoned police a prowler was from Fortress-like Alcatraz Island surveying her house with consider-i P n today by stealing an Army able attention. A detail responded’ uniform from the prison laundry to the call. and boarding an Army launc He It was the landlord sizing up the was caught as the boat docked at house for a paint job. AIR-WICK Kills Kitchen Odors Quickly » this simple method of ridding your Just place an open bottle IT DOES THE REST! ne of odors. the Contains Activiated CHLOROPHYLL It's Harmless! room Juneau Deliveries— i0A.M.and 2 P. M Douglas Delivery—10 A. M, D-—A woman | and 11,000 rounds of mortar shells. | Hungduan is only about six mijes | from the ridge and about seven {nnlu:, northwest of Iangan. It:is | accessible only by a narrow, wind- | ing trail along which elementsof Maj. Gen. Charles E. Hurdis' divi- sion are 1g slow progress. Yamashita is surrounded by sev- eral well-fed suicide garrisons of Japanese troops he has detailed to protect him and other hunted gen- eral officers. Yamashita and his trapped, but yet feated in an area from where there is no possibility of air evacuation and little if any chance of land retreat. garrisons are e to be de- .- — — Six Thousand Japs THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA requirement for his services in "“" borne Army. They are Marjorie De Forest, Schenectady, N. Y.; Dorothy Fleming, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Kathleen Pacific which could not be filled! gjckey, Bradford, Pa.; and Margie Myers, Miami, Fla. Signal Corps Radiophoto. (International) | by another available and qualified ! officer.” | stated, when he makes another tour reports had been investigated and |of Alaskan cities, in the near future,’that all were “without foundation.” his last 'WLB SETTING OF TABLE OF GUIDE rates on waces|NOT BUILDING Processmg of Stabilization Cases Expected fo Be Much Speeded Alaska Director of Wage Stabiliza- tion D. E. Davis today disclosed that his War Labor Boatd office here is now nearing completion of a streamlined procedure for processing | rate cases. According to the plan, a complete |surey is being made of all wage cases already decided and from them tentative guide rates are to be es- teblished for certain key occupations, in respect to job classifications and |labor market areas. A separate survey is to be made MUCH BUTTER BETTER SOAP WFA Official Denies Spoil- age Charges Before Congress Group WASHINGTON, July 3l.vEm- phatic denial that large quantinn of Government-stored butter had recome rancid and then sold to soap companies was made today before the Senate Small Business Commit- tee. Dr. D. A. Fitzgerald of the War Food Administration said, that out of 3,000,000 pounds in 'storage in | Thukov Orders | Organizafion of German Youths BERLIN, July 31 — Marshal Georgi Zhukov, Supreme Chief of | the Soviet Military Administration of Germany, ordered the creation lof “anti-Fascist youth commit- | tees” today in cities in the Russian | zone. All other youth organizations, trade and sports unions, social and kindred organizations were for- | bidden. i — \TWO DIVORCES ENTERED HERE Dirvorce actions have been filed with the Clerk of the U. S. District Court here on behalf of Lillian | for each principal Alaska city. That,Illinois under WFA jurisdiction only’uck of Pelican. for Anchorage has already been completed and submitted to the Re- i gional War Labor Board for approv-| Completion of the surveys for all other communities is expected within a week. All, guide rates are to have the pounds had been sold to Proctor and gejly, about 3,000 pounds had spoiled and |that it “might go to soap companies.” Fitzgerald's answer was given in ,response to questions by Acting/ Chairman Wherry (R-Nebr) who de- clared he had reports that 90,000 Mrs. Chittick seeks a divorce from C. R. Chittick on grounds of in- compatibility. Neither children nor property are concerned in the case. Mrs. Kelly also alleges incompati- | bility, in her action against Phillip She asks for restoration of Kelly, of Wrangell, and Rose E. Chn-] rapproval of the regional board be-|Gamble and 80,000 pounds to Lexervher former name, Lillian Stokes. The | fora being put into action, Mr. Davis' Brothers, both large soap manufa(‘-;couple has no children and a prop- TUESDAY, JULY 31,1945 ‘AT( Observes 3rd Birthday WASHINGTON, July 31.—The Army Transportation Corps, observ ing its third anniversary today, es: timates that by tonight 1,250,000 troops will have moved by rall in the United States in a single month. The Corps added in a review of its work made public last night that the load will rise until some 1,500,000 men travel in groups of 40 or more in November and during the follow- ing three months. | Maj. Gen. C. P. Gross, Army Chief of Transportation, said a million U.S. troops will leave Europe for the United States in the remainder of 1945 and another 900,000 in the first four months of 1946. By tonight 800,000 will have left since May 12, either for this country or for the Pacific. > Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Sharnbroich with their three children, returnec to their home in Wrangell this morning on the Princess Norah. Mrs. Sharnbroich and children have been visiting at the home of Ler sister, Mrs. Willlam Whitehead, for several weeks, and Mr, Sharn- broich arrived for a short visit here before accompanying his |said. He explained, that for the, | purpose of saving time in getting tre procedure working, public hear-] ings on the guide rates are being by-passed for now. However, he he will hold unofficial hearings on the guide rates that have been estab- liched, to iron out any difficulties. Mr. Davis stressed that the rate structure now being compiled is only tentative, that as new cases come in for processing, the set-up will be al- tored to reflect changing condi- purpose of the procedure— which is new to Alaska, is, he said, to save considerable time in handling cases submitted to the Alaska WLB. H~> hopes, with the aid of the es- tablished guide rates, to be able to - process wage cases within a week in the Alaska office. — eee | BOUGAINVILLE STILL CENTER OF HARD FIGHTING By Jamcs llnwheson (Associated Press War Lorrespondent) MANILA, July 31—The Japanese have reinforced their hopeless gar- 11son on half-conquered Bougain- " ville—parts of which have been in Allied hands 21 months with troops from Shortland Island, a spokesman for Gen. MacArthur's headquarters said today. | Bougainville continues the scene of bitter fighting, since the by- passed and isolated Japanese have had access to large supplies of food. Now, however, Australian troops have seized half the well-developed enemy garden areas in the south- ' west sector of the big island. The spokesman estimated there are 85,000 Japanese in by-passed Solomons Islands, Bougainville, New Britain and New Guinea. | Australia’s Seventh ' IDlvislon has routed the enemy from On Borneo, lhe Balikpapan area, said Maj. 'Gen. E. J. Milford, Division Com- | | mander; he termed it “an out- standing achievement of this war.’ Australian radio reports mean- A'e Kllled Burma while said half the Tarakan Island | toil wells, off Borneo's east coast,! CA!,CU'I'I‘A, July 31.—An addi- are rendy for immediate opcmtlonJ tional 2,000 Japanese troops have been reported killed by British Lmops lin the lower Sittang River bend area' of Burma, Southeast Asia Command CARLSON IN JUNEAU C. B. Carlson, of Seattle, has ar- Headquarters said today, bringing rived in Juneau via Pan American to total enemy dead in nine days of and is a guest fighting to more than 6,000. at the Baranof | Hotel. IS 0.8 The Magic Cleaner SMALL LARGE 20¢ 39| b.jard9c HOME STYLE—HUNT'S SUPREME PEACHES 10:15 A. M. DOUGLAS DELIVERY 10 A. M. MINIMUM—$2.50 BB er CASH GRO TWO JUNEAU DELIVERIES I'IIIII|III|II|IlIIlIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII] ? Hill Bros. COFFEE 2 Pound Jar 75¢ STRAWBERRY JAM Real—Valamont LIMIT (ase 58'9..5,, 2:15 P. M. S CERY turers Before Fltzgernld supplied hls answer, Henry G. Van Veenk of the! OPA General Counsel's Staff, dc~= clared that “many’ previous similar, family home. orty settlement has been agreed to. | —et——— Girl Scout "Camp Reunion” Thursday| At Governor’s House| Mrs. Ernest Gruening will be hos- tess Thursday afternoon at the Gov- ernor’s House, from 3 o'clock to 5 o'clock, at a Girl Scout “camp re- union,” with Mrs, Dorothea Amos, | Camp Director, as the honored guest. A cordial invitation has been ex- | tended tq all the Councillors; Junlorl | Councillors and the nurses, who fhtlp«’d make the camping season a success, as wzll as to all Brownies m(l Girl Scouts who attended camp | this summer. | The Brownies and Girl Scouts who plan to attend have been asked to call their troop leaders, without fail, ‘and if unable to contact their lead- |ers, they are to call Mrs. Lisle He-' bert, at 257, and notify her of thelr acceptance. The troop leaders are also asked to call Mrs. Hebert and report the number of girls who have accepted. Memters of the American Legion Auxiliary Troop 3 are to call Mrs. 1". E. Moore, telephune 439. 1 FORGE BROTHER Super Market Orders for Delivery Accepted Up to 2:30 P. M. Phones 92-95—2 Free Deliveries Daily 3 FEATHERS PRE-WAR WHISKEY Special---Fifth $3.95 EORGE BROTHER Super Market Phones 92-95—2 Free Deliveries Daily Phone—Write or Wire George Brothers PELICAN Cl'l'Y MEN HERE B. F. Thompson and B. A. Dar- nell flew to Juneau yesterday on an Alaska Coastal plane from Pelican City and are guests at the Baranof Hotel 'I FAIRBANKS ==NEW LOW FARES-- $7000 . - 120.00 JUNEAU 1o ANCHORAGE JUNEAU to NOME JUNEAU to BETHEL 120.00 JUNEAU to McGRATH 100.00 Corresponding Reductions to All Intermediate Points ALSO REDUCED EXPRESS RATES BETWEEN ALL, POINTS Federal Transnortation Tax Not Included DC-3 EQUIPMENT ALASKA AIRLINES PHONE 667 BARANOF HOTEL - STEWARDESS SERVICE e, Eaehim ¢ “d Ll 1y