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/' Admiral Nomura aysU. S, PAGE TWO THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1945 MARINE WEATHER BULLETIN S —— e . MR., MRS. BARNETT ARRIVE D MANY IN, OUT BY Ay 1 1 of Portland; arrived yestepday from | pA“ AMERI(A" ‘ Anchorage and are registered at Banmor Hotel. Ak i REPORT BY ADVANCEON USEOFMEN i % % 1 Y Pan- Amcrican Airunes brouaht MRSélSh“AsRh"E:'; HEXRELQ Su]tc m IPG V"‘ OY]d L he following 3 assengers 'MrsA B - ‘u:" o of kng. sl * sl 5 Juneau from Seattle Satmday Mfl- view, Wash, arriv s weekend ENT n McCermick, Roger Lueck, Leon- BURMA FRONT ;abusrd a Pan American Clipper rd Jenkins, Virginia Shattuck, ! from Seattle, and is a guest at the Katherine Verdon, Nellie Williams, | | Hotel Juneau. % Clara Dilg, John Milson, Plarilla b B i - 0 | Yamiw 1 Wilsen, Duncan McDougal, Percy| S 3\ ) ARE THOSE FROM THE HANDS HuQe Weapon Has For(eo Watkinson, Marie Walker, Georgm“'ap 28"' Army 'S A!mosj Red Ho, Dlspu'e 'Vef Fred w}.] Yenne:'s, CAA impzloi:c | g Hcl S, ron, Audry Esary, i from Anchorage, a guest al e OF THE DEAN OF TAILORS. 20,000 Tons of TNT, cxcimes Eacver aneiee vy ", Completely Destroy- | Number Needed Awaits | o5, i |ter Hellan, Alexander Fowlie, Arnold' H irmi | — - IS Repor' | Serwold, Sdward Payette, William ed In Sklrm'Sh } Truman s Retur“ SODESSTROM HERE » Smith, Norma Smith, Otto Thomp-‘ ‘y | O. A, Sodesstrom, representative Ty | (Continued from Page One) on, Ralph Mortensen, Ruth Claud-| * CALCUTTA, Aug. 6 — British] WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 — A red | ¢;r Union Oil Company of Seattle, Ml" Plllllp Mangone i ina, John Steinberg, Ed Herold,| Empire troop patrols have crossed|hot dispute over whether the Amy|is s guest at the Gastineau Hotel, . |the same sources as the sun, had muh Claudina, John Steinberg, Ed the old Sittang River cmnnel m‘necds 7,000,000 men to whip Japan | AN+ S 2 more power than 20,000 tons of TNT, Herold, Ruth Herold, Frank Yost, the advance toward Thailand, Ad- awaits President Truman on his; BMEA ARRIVES itself a tremendously powerful ex- Donald Cawley, Grace Stephens and miral Lord TLouis Mountbatten’s| return from Europe | Eugene R. Rhea, General Motors plosive. James McDonald. | Headquarters announced today. | A row over the situation has de- | <., Revresentative from Detroit, S In evaluating the enormous nower| Outgoing passengers included the| The crossing was made south of| yeloped on Capitol Hill with Sen-'grrived in Juneau yesterday from < [ involved in this weapon, the Presi- (ollowing 21 for Seattle: Phyllis Abya, 22 miles northeast of Pegulciors Johnson (D-Celo), and Taft| ancnorage and is & Buest at the {dent had to reach beyond the'limpts Fculin, Willlam Patterson, C. A.lon the Pegu-Martaoan Railway,| [ (R-Ohio), contending there can-| Gastineau Hotel. : lof the earth for comparison, Clark Cunningham, Harold Which curves around the s““‘“g’not be more than 3,000,000 on the | ORI RIS % { New Power Nordberg, Alfred St. Germain, Viv- Estuary. | Pacific front by next year, due to| . “It is a harnessing of the basic “" Keith, Judy Keith, Laura Mil-| An announcement yesterday sald: transportation and supply diffi-| TENAKEE WOMEN HERE power of the universe,” he said. “The 1,,n‘. Frederick Alexander, Lucille more than 10,000 Japanese who had | cylties. | Edna Bemis and Mrs. Ida Irby, | force from which the sun draws fts |Reinke, Elizabeth McCloskey, Rich-jalready been seeking to b“’“i Meanwhile, they said, men mill- Of Tenakee, are guests at the Gac- power has been loosed against thase ‘mi, Mc‘Closkey,F'Charles Wing, Bev- through the British cordon on f,he,mg around in this country in uni- | tineau Hotel. 4 who brought war to the Far East,” cI'Y Wink, Jestie F:iedman. Clm Rangoon-Mandalay road and es-ig,m are discontented, reconversion | ey e T PR | This line app=ared to hold dram- H"%{"“‘ Esthevx‘ Ogoké, Thelma cape t(_)ward FEMined, soea been‘ls stymied, and manpower urgently| Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wiedel, of v atic possibilities for propaganda C:_‘.“ge' et k}lled in the fighting in recent|! .ogeq iy transportation and vital Skagway, are guests at the Gas- | against the Japanese. They regard Reicker. !“°°k5 and the Twenty-Elghth|; i ceries. prem Mg LRy {8t Emperor Hirohito a8 o ‘dffect | LAWENce CAlvery was: an. outgo-|Army jwas, ;vitiually §sstroyed.” o7, & ¢ b descendant of the Sun Goddess, |8 Passenger to Ketchikan, and Al- ——— — i ¢ 3 | Now they can be told that the very mer Rydeen and Dorothy Green| ‘ U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU v ° \were passengers for Fairbanks. JUNEAU, ALASKA An early collection for a [} power of the sun itself is bein: DEESERG HVE DEAD |N ‘ e . Stilot turned to their destruction. | umeee flights of the PAA brought WEATHER BULLETIN fortunate few, to start }{, B ot i hs Y 7;1 !xu‘l; Se_s:ttl; Ll"{unlf‘al;f, aJs fol- | }DE"'RO"‘ HRE | DATA FOR 24 HOURS ENDED AT 4:30 A. M., 12TH MERIDIAN TIME Fall 1945 and wear on || ing American shores on the cruiser ity * King Lawronce Betorson. Max. temp. | TODAY 3 and on and on Un- Augusta, homeward bound from the jum; Cx'awro}d Hefexl BEI‘gstrom‘ 3 last | Lowest 4:30a.m. 24 hrs, ‘Weather at x e o s et Potsdam Conference, and Secretary | ctopnen Stanworth. . Antfe - Sian. DETROIT, Aug. 6—Five persons,| Station 24 hrs* | femp. temp. Precip. 4:30 am. questionably Mangone in Stimson werked together to tell all \worth Edith Pharrett, Robert Thom- | \R¢luding two seven-year-old twin| Anchorage . y o T ey 32 18 Cloudy ol H that can be told at this time of the g Oléa Stai Richard Jexks, Syl brothers, lost their lives and ' an- | Barrow 37 | 30 32 Snowing technique, well manner- | eiontionary new weapon. Asp, James Hickey Adells’ Easley,| Other inmate was in critical con-|Bethel 87 O 4 Clear ed, well poised, in prec- Still thick secrecy shrouds much |Cena Stanley, Beth Lind, Lula Mac- | Gition after a Sunday night explo- | Cordova b ® oo A Bataing ious precious. woolens of the atomic bomb despite the | Kcchnie, Anna G. Nelson, Elizabeth S0 and fire at a Detroit orphan- | Dawson b 51 Raining LR S % intense excitement in the usually 'Moffett, Frank Cox, Josephine Lynn, 28¢ and old people’s home. ’Elmnmun K4 b 55 = Pt. Cloudy which gives you Amer- |} staid government offices, which at- | Ernest Wechanfelder and Florence More than 120 other persons were Eairhanks 6 50 ;fl 02 Pt. Cloudy tended today’s startling announce- Weschenfelder. 1"" or carried to safety by orphan- | Haines 58 48 52 10 Raining ica’s most distinguished Siinit Tta dine Bés not bedts TR | 4 : 2 lage employees and firemen Juneau e 53 21 Cloudy A Incoming from Fairbanks Sunday 1 ciector George W. Smith of Juneau Airport 56 49 51 .33 Raining suits:, . & ed, beyond the statement that the gera Joseph Garrett, Barbara Gar-‘ P ge mith o | Bétontxar i i & ib 5 Elotd size of the explosive charge is eX- yett and John Prawl #nd m’mwthe Detroit Fire Department arson chikan 9 g ¢ oucy i . - o i 4o ' squad quoted one of t McGrath 63 50 46 ' Pt. Cloudy P ceedingly small. Nor was it told \whitehorse were Cpl. Dudley S. -9 q he boys at| | Y . A\ how the atoms are stored for the|james, Lt. Ralph M d Fr the orphanage as saying that sev- |Nome 58 35 36 0 Pt. Cloudy mement of explosion. (.;g Mutitos: il Pl St gL an- | eral had been playing with matches | Northway 67 52 52 Raining All that is known is that uranium, | lin the vicinity of a barrel of in-|Eetersburg 68 47 49 T. Pt. Cloudy il hRAtaBle radin-active clemiiten- eattle-bound Sunday were the fj3;maple liquid. | Portland 100 60 68 Pt. Cloudy ters into the manufatture of the ‘CHOWINZ 13: Perry Ashcraft, VI. B 7 . A EleoGeaime e = b Gjcar explosive. Uranium is found chiefly | Si0ie Asheraft, Dorothy Stragiel | Prince Rupert 63 49 50 Foggy t Odnade and he Balgiam Ciibiso. Marie Stragier, Kirsten Hancock, Au- (HUR(H VA(HT | San Francisco 69 H ’ There Is little in the United States, ' F- Barthold, Roy Cole, Helen, | Seattle 8 | a bit also in Germany. Malt, Jewme Math, ks - Fawler, [Sitka 5 | 52 53 Raining e developmant mies Canada | EStY Mickelson, Margaret Mickelson HERE ON TREP Whitehorse = uge ool Sl I e Cloudy 4 and the Belgium Congo two of the |and Norman Stines. }Yakutat 55 49 52 3.08 Raining more important areas in the world Other out-bound passengers werc | ; . i “—(4:30 am. yesterday to 4:30 a.m. today) = {otis=-comparabis 64 tis st Lallas Zeiger, Bilton Brunings and| Camvbell Church, operator of a | QUALITY SINCE /88T fi . Rehrends Co 'I JAPS SCOFF HoumsTARI pUSHBACK ATPOTSDAM "0t sarmow JAPANESE ULTIMATUM The North Star, Arctic supply vessel of the Alaska Native Service, _docked here this forenoon for a gk -hour stopover. Minor engine re- MANILA, Aug. pairs are the cause of the vessel's counterattacking Japanese prolenged stay in Juneau. ‘tnaten back as they thrust vamly 6.—Desperately were Nonplussed by The ship is bound out, from against the tightenifg Filipino-Am- | Seattle to Nome and Barrow, with erican noose around Gen. Tomoyuki | Huge Losses Capt. Charles Salenjus on the Yaniashita's last hideout on Luzon, g bridge for her first Arctic seafar- Gene¢ral MacArthur reported today. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 6.—Adm since being returned to the The Thirty-second Division mean- Kichisaburo, Nomura ch: tarized | £ by the Navy. Herman San- Wwhile offered a premium — a 45-day the Allied Potsdam ultimatum to Vick, for many Chief En- ! furlough in the United States — for Japan as “the height of imper of the Star, is again in|the capture of “any live Japanese cnee” in an interview broadeast to- of her engines. Sigfred general” Yamashita, whose title | day by the Japanese Domei News! & is Chief Stewart has faded from “Tiger of Malaya” to Agency. ned to the staff of the| “the Gopher of Luzon,” is still alnve‘ its medical and leading his troops’ last-ditch Nomura, who was the Nipponese to serve Ambassador to Wathington before|needs and o treat villagers in the‘“gm in the rugged mountains the war and was conducting “peace” | Temote sections to be visited, is/north of Baguio, some Filipinos in-| talks with the American govern-|{Mildred Keaton, famed Arctic ' Sist. ment at the time of the Pearl Har- nurse, for whom the present trip| MacArthur's communique report- 11 refresh m Northern Ala bor sneak attack American Navy memories of the . coasts and thejr|2nd 444 prisoners captured in the charged that the had ambitiously dreamed of East ¢ hegemony | peoples frem days in the pas A passer for Barrow aboard ! the Philippines campaign to 443,- The Americans, “although non-|the vessel is Nurse Carrle Vinson, 012 _American losses for the week plussed at their irreplaceable bloody DL B jwere 27 dead, 61 wounded. lcsses at Iwo Jima and the broadcast continued derestimating Japanes still refusing Okinawa,” B W un- st i FOWLIEWAIVES — ARMY VESSEL e HEARING;BOND = BURNS ONWAY conboversays ST AT SLOW 10 ANNETE Germans '0 Have : £ 3 ‘of officers, crew and passengers 3 £ ler Fowlie, former New|from the blazing Army Transport, Very Hard Winter te State Patrolman and prison pg-29 July 22 off Green Island, brought back to Juneau |B. C, was told here today by e to face two felony| capt. Martin B. Dahl, master of BERLIN, A 6 — Gen. Eisen- under the laws of Alaska,!the Motorship Robert Eugene, hower told Germans in the U afternoon arraigned here which hurried through heavy seas occupation zone today that they J. 8. Commissioner Felix| to aid the stricken vessel. may form local unions and eng in political activities with the of helping prepare for the cc winter, which hard | Capt. Dahl said the small Army hear- yessel was enroute to Annette Is- put under $1,000 bond Jand and Adak, when flames of the two charges: Poly-| undetermined cause raced through gamy and perjury |her and the 22 persons aboard Fowlie arrived back here Satur-|were forced to flee in two life- day afternoon in custody of U. S.|poats. Deputy Marshal Walter G. Hellan, ! “We could not go on the lee side waived preliminary ning predicted will be on each of - o BABY BOY BORN who was dispatched to New York Vi TO J. VERTREES City ‘o' make the arrest. Powiie! and smase: wu e io0k the tme A baby boy, weighing 8 pounds, Was held by Federal Court in New|lifeboats in tow,” he said, “The| 8 ounces, was born vesterday in. Y after pleading guilty to, survivors were landed at Prince the Tacoma Hospi and aring the uniform of a|Rupert, but the ship was aban- Mrs. Jack Vertre He named Jack Sinclair Vert Mrs. Vertrees, the Sinclair of Juneau, general in the U. S been doned as a total loss.” ‘The Robert ‘Eugene, operated on default of bond, Fowlie is|the Seattle-Southeast Alaska route, being retained in the Federal Jail contains the hull of the former rees former been Lila It ha mak- ing her home in Puyallup, Wash., here | city fireboat, Snoqualmie, which while her husband is pres -, | had a colorful career on the Seattle stationed in the Aleutians Empire Want-ads bring resul[s."(waterfrmw L] ‘ o~ ONLUZON ed 4,740 Japanese dead were counted | Ilast week, raising total enemy losses| importance of lands which produce Tom Bartlett, to Ketchikan; John fleet of yachts in charter service to Reports trom Marine Stations at 10:30 A. M. Today : < Keating to Whitehorse, and Alaska, arrived with guests at the qll, exeept that many areas BINPOC | s e Hgmcamp to Fairbanks. |Junsau Cold Storage Dock this | WIND Height of Waves gl Rl Low: 908 Boyn 19 Y oo { morning aboard one of his ships, the | Station Weather Temp. Dir.and Vel. (Sea Condition) e i | Whimsey. Mr. Church and his guests, | Cape Spencer Cloudy-Rain51 ENE 25 3 feet ‘‘‘‘‘ i bl $ ® © 0 00 0 0 0 9 ¢ oijohnHarvey, who is connected with | Eldred Rock Cloudy 53 °~ NE 6 1 foot - ® | the Elliott Lumber Company in Se- | Five Finger Light Cloudy 55 Calm Zero V|(TORY DANCE !' TIDES TOMORROW ® attle, his wife, Laura and young son | Guard Island Cloudy 57T SSW 4 Zero ] 3 ® | John, have just returned from a 10- | Lincoln Rock Pt. Cloudy 57 Calm Zero [ o e August 7, 1945 e o o | day cruise of Southeast Alaskan | Point Retreat Cloudy 55 NE 4 Zero IS STAGED BY {® High 1:08a.m, 17.4ft. o waters. | MARINE FORECAST FOR SOUTHEAST ALASKA: Along coast, |® Low 7:39a.m. -23ft. ®| Upon arrival Mr. Church and the northern portion Southeast Alaska and Icy Strait, easterly or southeast- Sloux !NDIANS- High 14:06p.m., 159t. © Harvey family left on a Pan Am- | erly winds 15 to 20 miles per hour. Rain. Remainder of Southeast Alaska, | \‘o Low 19:48p.m. 23ft. e 'crican Clipper for a hurried trip | winds light to variable, intermittent rain, northern portion, increasing . ® to Seattle, Mr. Church will return | cloudiness, southern portion, with patches of fog in channels becoming ! PINE R!DCE S D., Aug. 6~,’ . e to his yacht in a few days. southeasterly to southerly winds with rain over entire area by Lonlght Clad only in'buckskin breechcloths and brown war paint, Sioux braves lof the Pine Ridge Reservation | began today the measured tread of !the tribe’s historic sun dance as an Indian prayer for victory over Japan and lasting peace. More than 100 braves who must forego food during the first 48 hours of the ritual, began the dance, traditionally a call to rally m ANNOUNCEMENT! tribesmen against their enemies. 1 Shorn of the self-torture of the early days, the dance serves also 'as a plea to the Great Spirit of the Sioux for the safe return Indians in the armed forces. D HEATON AND ZEIGER HERE H. G. Heaton and L. H. Zeiger, representatives of Libby, McNeill and Libby Company of Seattle, are ot arrived in Juneau Saturday. - WHITE HERE .T. C. White, of Whitzhorse, ar- rived in Juneau Saturday and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. —— e FOX HERE F. W. Fox, of Akron, Ohio, arrived in Juneau from Cordova Saturday and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. — e I MRS. VERDON ARRIVES Mrs. Katherine Verdon, of Seat- tle, arrived in Juneau Saturday and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. ———— MR., MRS. WILLIAMS IN JUNEAU Mr. and Mrs. Kermit L. Williams, of Seattle, are guests at the Baranof Hotel. - .. LAURA CARR HERE Laura D. Carr, of San Francisco, arrived Saturday, via Woodley Air- ways, from Anchorage and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. il BRI KELLY VISITS RELATIVE Carl H. Kelly, ATS, has been enjoying a brief shore leave over the weekend with his relative, Jimmy Primavera, while he is en- route to his home in Seattle from the Aleutians. D e - BREMERTON WOMEN ARRIVE Mrs. Jorgen Nelson and Mrs, Elizabeth Moffett, of Bremerton, ar- rived yesterday, via Pan American, and are guests at the Baranof Hotel. it . MR., MRS. CLAIR HERE Mr. and Mrs. B. Sinclair, of Port- land, flew to Juneau yesterday on an Alaska Airlines plane from Anchor- age and are guests at the Baranof Hotel, guests at the Baranof Hotel, huving‘ We Are Pleased to Announce that over the operation of the HARRI MACHINE SHOP, bringing t Juneau a knowledge of plumbing and heating gained from 35 y with one of the largest concerns in the United States. your plumbing and heating probems. PHONE 319 HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES PLUMBING formerly of the Crane Company in Portland, Spokane and Seaflle, has taken Mr. MacLeod has had ample opportunity to know Alaska's plumbing and heating problems intimately, having made annual trip through the Terri- tory for the last 15 years as head of the Crane Company's heating department in : Seattle. He will he pleased to serve you personally at any time and to talk over Raalt . ] o the people of ears of service HEATING

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