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PAGE EIGHT * COLE PROTEST IS DELAYING MARINE WAYS FOR JUNEAU Council Mbves fo Seek Solution to Present Deadlock (Continued from Page One) w connect with the At his pro- sweeping arc, present Sub Port fill. posal, the Engineer was cominis- sioned with the task of preparing plans for such a development; provide for streets and sewer con- nections for all the filled land area included within the proposed sweep of extended Harbor*Way. Once a comprehensive development is planned, the city will be in a po- sition to apply to the War De- partment for fulfillment, it was claimed 1944 Tax Echo Heard | of representing to! i G 'IHE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA sPohvc Cnmmmee the councfl lu“wlshcs to do the work. The council of the re-| night approved transfer tail liquor license formerly held by Wilbur the Irving's Market properties, Roald Copstead and Harold Bates. Liquor Hours Meeting The Police Committee suggested further study on the petition of local liquor store and bar oper- ators for later closing hours; re- sulting in declaration that a meet- ing of the council will be held next week to confer with interested per- sons on the petition. M. E. Monagle, the liquor operators, pointed out that present closing hours had been established to con- form as closely as possible with re- strictions on armed forces per: nnel—restrictions now lifted. Jack Fletcher, Baranof Hotel manager, stressed that present early closing hou have the result of sending to Douglas passengers of ships in port at late hours. With Councilmen Stanley Grum- mett and John Young absent from last evening's meeting, an unani- mous vote of the other four council members approved calling for bids for general civic liability insurance, Irving to the new owners expressed interest in the proposi- tion, but not with another sug- gestion from the meagre audience —that the council and mayor would |make a handy crew to operate the driver for the city. A letter from the local OPA| again brought up the matter of a| street magnet, to protect precious | tires from nails. Mayor Parsons stated that to the best of his in-i formation a suitable magnet outfit would cost about. $1,500. It’s not in our budget, he added, suggesting that the Chamber of Commerce or service clubs might want to look into the matter. Henretta Aid??? NOTE SENT OUTLINING TRIP PLAN To Fly Two White Trans- ports Marked with Green Crosses Included within the city's cor-| 9 | respondence was a proposal from | (Continued jrom Page One) |the Ketchikan City Clerk for an association of Alaska cities to |auarters continued to decline to re- { veal whers MacArthur would meet adopt uniform tax ordinances and | | the unjform procedures on other mat- | emissaries or give any other ters of general concern. He. sug- | advance details. gested that Evaluator Howard S.| From all indications the Japanese { Henretta might be of aid in draft- | Will be moved as quietly as possible ing tax procedures. No action wfls‘on their necessary journeys through taken Manila, whose residents still remem- | Pressing business disposed of, the | Der vividly brutalities of the Japa- council resolved itself back into a |D€Se occupation.’ It is understood Board of ualization and | the visitors will be housed in special | went | an item provided for in the budget approved Monday. Bids are to be Added to the task of over- coming objections to this year’s property assessments, to which the returned by next Friday. council is now devoting days and| On Streets Commitiee approval, nights of equalization sessions, the/installation of a permanent side- City Administration last night | walk before heard an echo from the 1944 as- John C. Clement was voted. It was sessment | brought out by Committee Chair- Attorney William L. Paul, Jr, man Don Skuse that the city has notified the city of contemplated a large backlog of such sidewalk prosecution for refund of 1944 work already approved, but that it is impossible to get it done at this time. s on behalf of his client, J. J. Klein, purchaser of the former Krafft Building at Second and Franklin Streets to No Piling Bids In Another apparent Attorney Paul submitted that the |confronting the city is repair of 1044 assessment of $27,500 was out the Boat Harbor. City Engineer of line with neighboring struc- McNamara reported that again no tures: for example, the JOOF Hall bids had been received on installa- had been assessed last year at tion of piling at the Boat Harbor only $14,000. Mr. Klein contends 'md City Dock. The Boat Harbor is that since his building was not|in sad shape, he emphasized. So complete at the time of the lgu;m:my piling are rotted away that assessment, he should be called some floats almost are handing upon to pay taxes on not more |loose. than 75 per cent of $14,000, and Pile Driverman Cole stated his stated his intention to attempt m’pmmnn that he is unable now to recover the difference in taxes paid. bid because he has available The council turned the matter neither his own time nor that of over to the City Attorney for m.«;;his men. If it is felt that the work handling, with the comment that cannot wait until winter, he of- Mr. Klein is kicking not on his|fered to rent his driver to the city own valuation, but on his neigh-|for $20 a day, without fuel or bor’s. !crew. He said he has a good driver Following (uvcrable report by the (n.)exatux available to the city, if it Warner’s LE GANT —it weighs ounces in the hand— —but it puts the pounds in their place with its persuasive con- trol! And “Two Way-One Way” smoothes back hips and keeps the garment always snugly-in place! To achizve that long look from bustline to hips let us help you select the right Warner’'s Le Gant. ;LU“M 5 ™ Women's Aveaner “It's the Nicest Store in Town” Baranof Hotel Buflding OPEN MONDAY EVENINGS the residence of Dr.! back to the battle of the tax rolls; | after the shortest regular busine: session of the present administrs tion. - - RACE CLASH IN LONDON INJURES . THREE SOLDIERS impossibility ' LONDON, Aug. 18—Two white American soldiers and one Negro! soldier were reported injured in street fighting between whites and | blacks in downtown London early today. U. S. Army public relations of- ficers said the two white soldiers were slightly injured. A police geant said the Negro soldier re- ceived a serious head wound and “police beat off his attackers in the nick of time.” The melee started, an eye-wit- ness said, with an argument be- tween a white soldier and a Negro civilian at the entrance of a club frequented by Negroes. .- Empire Want-ads erq results! The New Look calls for Long Silhouette ~ |day for { nesc First Army, I 2 iln Alaska have been instructed to | | | residences ! guard. | Tokyo apparently had waited all MacArthur's answer to its| |urgent request, made yesterday, | that he immediately order cessation | of the so-called Russian offensive in | i Manchuria. The Russians earlier ihad told the Japanese to cease hrr- and they would do likewise. | ! MacArthur made no reply and it | |is ))osflhl( he \U]l makc- none. 10 SURRENDER 50. CHINA NIP FORCESUNDAY Canton Ceremony Will Lib- erate All Southern Sec- tor-Hongkong Too By SPENCER MOOSA (Associated Press Correspondent) CHUNGKING, Aug. 18.—The Chi- veterans of the Burma campaign, entered Canton today and will accept formal sur- render of Japanese forces in South China tomorrow, and plans were un- with a Military Police der way for overall surrender of Japanese troops in China. Tentative arrangements have been made for Gen. Ho Ying-Chin, com- mander of China’s field forces, to leave Monday for Chihkiang, U. S. air base in western Hunan, to ac- cept overall render from envoys of Gen. Yosuji Okamura, Japanese commander in China. Plans for surrender in North China have not been announced. The National Government now is in control of the radio at Peiping, held by the Japanese since 1937, and will broadcast programs from the government station in Chungking. The American-trained, American equipped Chinese First Army, ac- cepting the enemy surrender at Car ton, will liberate the cradle city of the Chinese revolution. With them | will be one-legged Vice Adm. Ch.m" Chak, newly appointed mayor of the ancient Kwantung Province port,| which has been in Japanese hands| since October, 1938. | Chan was the hero of the’C]msl-i mas day escape from Hong Kong in| 1941, having led a party of British ! officers into Free China. The surrender also will free from, the invader all occupied areas in| South China, including Hainan| Island and the [Luichow peninsula | jutting from the mainland directly | to the north of Hainan. 1 | .Hong Kong, lost to the British shortly after the beginning of the] Japanes2 war on the Western Alhes‘ also will be hberated DRAFT CALLS STOPPED FOR | ALL OVER 25 John L. McCormick, Territorial Director of Selective Service, an- nounced today that all local boards immediately postpone all orders to report for induction and preinduc- tion examination for all regi: who have reached the ag= of 26 and that no such order will be issued hereafter to a registrant who reaches the age of 26, except a voluntaer, Mr. McCormick further stated that registrants 18 through 25 will continue to be inducted until ad- vised otherwise from General Her- shey, National Director. For registrants 26 through 37 em- ployers, including the Federal Gov- ernment, no longer need file re- quests for deferment in classes 24, 2B, or 2C. Local boards will con- tinue to register alli persons liable for registration under the Selective Training and Servica Act. - b i DARDEN IN JUNEAU W. L. Darden, of Anchorage, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. ——.———— Michael Faraday, an English| chemist, discovered the principles of i 1 i | NO SIGN OF QUITTING BY BURMA JAPS Forces Facing British 12th Army Still Trying tative A rusigenl aruman smiles broadly as he holds the Japanese surrender message in his hands at his White House office after announcing the war's end. The long-awaited reply reached him at 6:17 p. m. oa August 14. RANGOON, Aug forces facing Twelfth Tt Army on the Burma front were reported today by an authori- source as showing no dispo- sition to surrend was mands would be stayed until Gen. MacArthur obtained the Tmnmst Japanese signatures to the | surrender of Japan. The front actually is quiescent, with little or no firing on either side. But Japanese forces still are trying to escape across the Sittang River, where they have lost more than 12,000 killed or captured re- cently. | forceful de PORTLAND WOMEN HERE Barbara Mackenzie and Patricia Fitzpatrick, of Portland, Ore., have arrived in Juneau and are guests at the Baranof Hotel e e— to Escape LONDON * Dozens of men are walking around London wearing wo- men’s “‘panties A men's shop couldn't get any men’s shorts with 32-inch waist and bought a supply of women’s panties made of a util- ity material. They went like hot cakes—and the elastic tops the most popular featuure. 18 — Japanese the British Imperial believed probable that Truman Hold; Jap Messag_g glATESI JAP | Pittsfield missionary who spent 14 | years in Nagoya believes that the {new Premier | Naruhiko Hagashi-Kuni, boiled and beer-drinking customer” \wnll be able to handle the Japanese Magnetic. >e the Perhaps you, too, have come under the spell of the world’s “most wanted” pen, the precision-made Parker “51.” Comfortably it rests in your fingers, You touch that pro-‘ “tected point to paper; it starts eagerly, instantly. That satin-smooth Osmiridium tip floats over the page . . . And your words dry as they take form! For the “51” alone can use the world’s fastest drying ink—Parker *51” Ink. This, you agree, is no ordinary mass-production instrument. Regrettably, this pen is scarce. But perhaps your dealer is now supplied. See him soon. 4 GUARANTEED BY LIFE CONTRACT. 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