The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 21, 1945, Page 1

. » e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —— VOL. LXIV., NO. 10,148 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRID MBER ASSOCIATED PR PRICE TEN CENTS AY, DECEMBER 21, 1945 GENERAL GEO RGE PATTON PASSES AWAY tonight is not taken there must be plenty of fire where all the smoke CHIEF MONAGLE - o o= RES'GNS. G'VES | Chief Monagle's statement follows, r honestly performed my duties to the best of my ability. At times my | benefit of the whole community. It is true that during the war per- In a statement to the public of icd it Juneau, made shortly after turning tain a full force of ‘police officers in full | “During the past five years while vIEws IN (ASE [I have been connected with the Ju- H HYH {ed, but any actions taken by me Interference in Activi- |1 erionat. bt 1o the bes in his requested resignation as Chief that had adequate police exper- of Police today, John Monagle ex-!ience. Most of the Juneau police pressed his feeling that no apologies | officers were underpaid and exper- neau Police Force I have alwa H jof my honest belief were for the ties of Department ; are necessary for the conduct of the jenced men could get much larger Police Department under his di- wages elsewhere. However, I be- rection. The former Chief's state-|lieve that the Juneau Police Force ment does, however, mildly indicate [during the past year has been as that the “hands off’ policy pro-|efficient as possible under the cir- claimed yesterday by Mayor Ernest| cumstances. Parsons as having been mnim:\in-‘ “I have been charged with fail- ed by the City Administration tow-'ure to enforce various City ordi- ard Police activities has been more nances strictly enough. It is true a pose than an actuality. that with a large force of trained Meanwhile, reports were current men the ordinance could have been, in town today that causes behind and can be more rigidly enforced this week’s Police house-cleaning However, in addition to myself, there réach much higher than events to have never been ngore than six men date have shown. No ousted Police on the force. This is a large town officers have definitely stated a de- to police and when we have only tions of our community need as much police protection as the down town district termination to appear before the two men on a shift it is not fair City Council at its regular meeting |to the town to have the men spend tonight for open airing of the case, all of their time down town putting but the feeling is general among the tickets on cars, enforcing the dog fownsfolk that if the opportunity and other ordinances. I have al- - 1 s required each shift to spend Th W h' i part of their time patrolling the € WaSNINQION taous residential sections of the ltown. T have always believed, and Merry - Go = Bound istill believe that the residential sec- By DRFW PEARSON LA “The enforcing of local ordinances WASHINGTON—The other day is cnly about one-half the problem in New York a man known to|of our police force. The other half almost every newspaper editor in|bas been dealing with transients. the country, vet almost unknown !Many of these transients are hard- to the general public, quietly de- ened criminals who must be watch- parted the “Merry-Go-Round” and ed from the time they arrive in until they leave. While the “My Days” he had helped to de- toWn . velop and went on to a more defense jobs were going strong in peaceful world. (this vicinity we had hundres of o |transients each week. However, guidin He was George Carlin, meld genius of the United Feature dicate, who cracked the whip over the greatest conglomeration of star syndicated columnists the world has ever seen and who, for better or for worse, served as midwife, patron saint and god-' father to this column when it first started, 13 years ago today, When I indicate George Carlin was a whip-cracke perhaps I give the wrong impression. George could and sometimes did crack the whip. But on the whole he was the mildest-mannered man I ever uring these days the Juneau Police “orce kept Juneau fairly clean compared with other towns. We had no crime wave, no rape cases, no murder cases and no other major crimes. There are of the size of Juneau, in the Terri- tory of Alaska, with as many tran- = been as free of crime. ‘I feel that I have done my job well, and believe that practically every man on the force has been a conscientious police officer, and s done his duty to the best of his ability. has been difficult to main-| few other towns sients as we have, that are or have | Knew. Perhaps that was the secret of his ability to get along with such a motley assortment of per- formers as Westbrook Pegler, Pear: son and Allen, Mrs. Roosevelt, Hey- However, in view of the attitude of the present City: Administration, and its lack of co-| operation and continual interfer- ence, I feel as though it would be impossible to properly carry out my | ;B u l l E 'I‘ I N S;War Explosives | ;Washed Ashore, | wasminGToN congress s | YaNCOUVer Island | adjourned for a Christmas holiday. | | The House quit at 2:11 P. M. (EST) | VICTORIA, B. C. Dec. 21—Van- | and the Senate at 3:47 P. M. (EST) |couver islanders have been warned Both will reconvene on January 14 [to use caution if they find explo- for the second session of the 79th|sive war material which have been | Congress {reported washed up on the island jshores. WASHINGTON The United| Commissioner T. W.S. Pa ns of States and Canada have agreed to | the British Columbia police report |set up a joint committee to .\(udy,('d an aluminum canister contain- simplication of customs arrange- [INg a hand grenade, a flare with ments along the Canadian-American [& detonator on the end water borders, the State Department an- |bottle from Tarawa and a life raft nounced today {from a U. S. ship were among a iticles found on a beach 100 mi WASHINGTON The govern- |West of here voe ment's program to spur home con- struction will go into effect January 15, John D. Small announced today | Administration ordered that dwell- ings costing $10,000 or less be offered | first to veterans and told a new conference that the top rent on these dwellings will be $80 a month Two game law violation cases in- | = jve lving Hoonah residents have kept NANKING- Gen. George C. Mar- :lh{‘ U. S. Commissioner’'s Court all, President Truman's S‘,{.”ulJu:mmum yesterday afternoon and oy to China. arrived here by |this morning. In both cases, com- plane today and was met at the air- |Plaints were sworn to by Widlife | field by Generalissimo Chiang Kai- |Agent J. H. Likins, who has just shek and Madame Chiang. The |completed a patrol aboard the Fish [two men saluted and clapsed hands |“nd Wildlife vessel Grizzley Bear {on the dusty, windswept Nanking | Harold T. Rowe yesterday plead- ed guilty to four charges: Shooting airfield. Then with Madame Chiang they drove off for tea and their initial history making talks looking | | toward unity and peace for China a deer after close of season, shoot- ing doe deer, removing evidence of sex from a killed deer and hunt- ing without a license. Rowe asked the Court’s clemency because of enuating circumstances, declar- | SAN FRANC "0 -~ The Armj transport Imperial and LST 224, | both crippled in heavy seas after e ing he nseded the meat of the kill- leaving San Francisco yesterday, art 1'“ deer to feed lh’f family. Judg- | | being towsd back to port today.|Ment has been deferred. : | Dan White, apprehended with ! Coast Gt said | neither vesse ard headquarters ?]s was in danger charged ession of Rowe by Agent Likins, wa ‘with transporting and p LONDON—China, Australia nnd (2 deer out of season Ecuador began |slain animal was evidence ainst ampaign woday 10| 2 g i 900 4 make San Francisco the home of [Pt Rowe and White. White ieatl the United Nations, citing climate 0. fhe sHapsporLng 8 and wine as points in-its favor, after against him and his a British delogate had opposed the 0 was deferred. Both Golden Gate City led guilty [of tra charge ! judgement are in custody here | This morning, Peter Austin, Rob- WASHINGTON-—Col. J. Monroe |ert Carteeti and James Grant, na- Johnson, Director of Defense Trans- ' tive trappers, pleaded guilty to a portation, predicted today that a bot- ' charge of trapping fur bearing ani- | tleneck in moving returning service- | mals within the limits of a Nation- men homeward from the West Coast |al Monument. They were fined $50 would be broken by January 1. each — The LONDON—The British military |trap lines set in Gla | decisions at Singapore to use ad- 'had not taken any | ditional armed forces in Java are arrested. being reviewed by Prime Minister | " BUSY PLACE AS TOY (ENTER HEADQUARTERS Volunteer workers from the Ju- in the Federal three were discovered with er Bay, but nimals when > source said toda MITCHELL FIELD, New York— Major Alphonse J. Fabbricatore was | convicted at a general court martial today of having improperly brought | about the transfer and discharge of | soldiers. The court sentenced the IN COURT HERE The same jail! wood Broun, Ernie Pyle, Raymond | Clapper, Marquis Childs and Tom | Stokes. duties as Chief of Police, and I have therefore resigned.” d et {neau Woman’s Club, the Business major to three years in prison and i broreccional Women's Club, the | dismiss m service. A : i \d“ml“ed B Tom T e f American Legion Auxiliary and oth- - e | B 3 7 Outsiders marveled at how one H - . ers, will t tonight at 7 o'clock 5 E— 1s Sun- 4 man could keep this circus ““"Ew polI(E FOR(E ;wh:":l‘;&:‘(eh‘no:)f’lft‘s;‘:)ll'd:;:‘flxl‘_v_zmd‘ again at 1 o'clock tomorrow trained seals performing in one| 1% 3 afternoon in the American Legion 1 ! d 4 b mad cannibalism. Yet he did. He even % ' pi- | gifts assembled through the Com- kept™ Mrs. Roosevelt happy, while! Juneau's coterie new City Pegler, in an adjoining column, police were on duty in full force was holding her feet up to the hot today, while uniforms and equip- coals almost every other day. Iniment had been turned in by ousted fact, George was the only man I|officers. ever knew who could censor and; The Department, as it now lines edit the First Lady, yet be invited |up under Acting Chief Leonard to the White House continually. Williamson is: And on these annual occasions| Patrolman Milo Clouse, former when the publishers gathered in|Juneau policeman who resigned New York, Pegler and Mrs. Roose- |from the force last summer to enter velt and the rest of us would stand |the taxi business under the firm side by side in the receiving line name Glacier Cab Company. Clouse no matter what one had written |has now sold out his taxi interest about the other, to play host to|to his partner. the publishers—all because we loved | Patrolman Max Rogers, is settled George Carlin. For no one else|in Juneau with his family, has would we have done it. \'heen employed here by the U. S. A lot of people wondered not|Engineers. . only how George kept the peace Patrolman Eager (Red) Holloway, among his performers, but also how | recently honorably discharged from he stood the daily grind of run-|the Coast Guard, was in charge of ning his far-flung syndicate. For|Shore Patrol unit of Coast Guard he handled comic strips and all|detachment in Juneau with rank sorts of other features. The secret |of Specialist 1-c. Married; lives was that George lived for his wm-k,lvuth his family in Juneau. The columnists were his children. | Patrolman Sinn, also recently dis- They might be problem children, |charged from the Ceast Guard here. but they were his, and he lovediw- stationed. at Point Retreat them. {whil on duty with the Juneau CG Came the day when his children office, also a member of Coast went off to other things and;Guard patrol craft CG 62008. Mar- George, like many perents, wilted. |ried, lives in Juneau. Two of his greatest writers, Ernie| Patrolman Franklin Pyle and Ray Clapper, were war'}Nsvy_ \'elel‘m\_of World War II; casualties. That gestful tilter of lmarried, lives in Juneau. Was ap- Jances, Westbrook Pegler, had Roy |pointed dog catcher first of this Howard trouble (Roy was George | Week—named to Police Force tem- Carlin’s over-all boss on United | porarily. : Features.) So did the Merry-Go- Patrolman Solon Dore, appointed Round. We went off to other|!o force this fall. Suspended for 30 booking agencies, as had Heywood days. : Broun before us. | All appointments are subject to Gradually, through no fault m‘Cuuncil confirmation tonight. his own, George Carlin’s perform- | - w ing circus disintegrated. He took | FROM EXCURSION INLET % I Beulah E. Pearson and Hazel performers—top perform- A kol ———— Highland, from Excursion Inlet, are guests at the Baranof oHtel. of (Continued on Page Four) T. Allen,; burning for three days. munity Toy Center. Getting the many gifts packed !ar:'!"‘g::::fi;’r:‘fi i‘;’:‘:sloiysi“,fi;‘rur delivery to the homes and hos- i c;vxc leaders: €5 Jhe1p mnkv:p"m* is a really big job, and the L r- ihelp given by anyone who wishes Christmas as happy as possible for | ¥ & . to take part will be greatly appre- i thousands of war veterans who will ciated by the committée members be stranded in the Pacific North- |y o A 4 ¥ | Mrs. Perry Ashcraft and Miss Isa- WAL bel, Hartung, who have the respon- out. COASTAL AIRLINES MAKES TWO FLIGHTS Ai NASHAU, New Hampshire — general alarm fire in the busin | district of Nashua in New Hamp- shire has been brought under con- trol. It is unofficially estimated ihat | damage amounting to $100,000 was caused in two blocks in the business | district. flew the following flights: To Sitka—John Cushing, Walter Moy, Hillman Ken, DeWayne Le Flette, Karl Sietch, Lt. Comdr. New- lauer, Lt. Comdr. F. Fletcher, Wal- lace Westfall, Jim Williams and Dan Moller. To Ketchikan—Hal Fairhurst, Tyronne, James A. Jacobsen, John L. Tosney, Lt. Melvin Munson, and ! OSLO, Norway One United | States Army man and four Can- adians hav> lost their lives in a crash of a C-47 transport plane. The American was identified as First ELieutenant A. Neilsen. The ship, | "uperaled by the RAF Transport! Command, crashed near Oslo on | Tuesday. ‘Chur!u 0. Zantow. i | FATHER OF ANDERSON DIES; HE GOES SOUTH | sibility of seeing the project cxrrn-dl Alaska Coastal Airlines }'estt‘!‘(lu)" first | Rate Hearing Set for | Juneau Is Called Off | WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 | Gov 1SAYS GOI.D MINING Ermest Gruening of Alaska an- i nounced today the Maritime Com- | mission has cancelled its hearing | the question of raising steamship BY (I-OSING ORDER rates to the Territory Gruening said opposition of Al- laskans to requests of steamship ’ WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—A War | lines to increase rates nearly 100 Production Board order closing gold | Per cent was one of the reasons s! mines during the war “very nearly | the hearing was called off. Whether [ wrecked” the gold mining industry, the hearing will be held ultimately ja House War Claims Sub-commit- | is to be decided later, Gruening | tee was told today said. | Julian D. Conover, secret of p——— | the American Mining Cong Acting Governor of Alaska Lew M. Willlams today released the fol- s the “only indust lowing statement from his offic2 ontinue operations by | gold minir forced to di W | Rep. Patterson (D-Calif), is con- ©of hearing will be set at some future {sidering a bill by Rep. Engle (D- time. “Gov. Ernest Gruening, in a wire | Calif) to reimburse the gold mine | operators for capital losses and 0 his office here today, sald: | maintenance costs. |‘Glad to report that we have suc Conover said the Mining Con-|¢ceded in cancelling Juneau he gress, representing all branches of |iN8 January 8. - Date of hearing {the mining Industry, favored the Will be set in future so that we may legislation to “rectify this serious'have more time to prepare, ade- quately. 1 have retained David injustice.” ’ who handled the Alaska rate | David P. Strickler of Colorado' SOl Springs, Colo. an officer of the inVestigation in 1940, as general gold mining companies fn the counsel and I belleve case will be }C:'\m)lv Creek, Colo., mining dis- effecti handled as possible. trict, testified the government per- 1 feel we have at least won the { mitted limited production of gold,first skirmish” in the Cripple Creek district to g compensate for the conversion of & mill to treat lead and znc ore. | The mill was operated by the a( Golden Cycle Corporation and the company “lost $150,000 last year performing that service for the government,” Strickler asserted K~ said he knew of “several gold mining operations in Colorado that wre “put to the wall” by the gov- ernment order. | - DENIES ANY BIG SPLIT General lssues Statement ' ORIENT IS AGAIN Regarding Sovief Oc- cupation of Isles ! WASHINGTON, Dec. 21-Twenty- Arthur today denfed a broadcast re- one western Congressmen- have port that his headquarters had be- given their support to Western Ajr COme embroiled in arguments with | Lines' application ti extengd ite the Russians over assignment of bl Soviet occupation troops to Japan e from Great Falls, Mont., B Edmonton, Canada that MacArthur had threat- Rep. Manstield (D-Mont) sajd ©n°d to resign. 4 M |today he had forwarded to the ‘1 ‘f’“_" D Ja JpYw agd Xot to | Civil Aeronautics Board a petition hinder or obstruct American govern- by the westerners asking approval ")“""' 1”“\ PURISPR °°‘?""“‘"“,“"(‘j‘ of the company’s application for the Allled Power A8ld In a - state- the extension. ment issued by his press r(-hnnn.s‘ In a statement inserted in el o AR record, the Montasan declared ' is my: il PURRCHS 4o son | “Favorable consideration of the thing through. The question of Rus- i applieation will be in the-bbst ifi~ sihn participation in the occupation s is a matter for other decision than 'AIR ROUTING TO ! to and | the [ terests of the western and mid- @ SO0 estern parts of the United States ™ e | western parts of the United States "y U0 oot sald that the and Alaska. This route—the Sun- .,.q00ct veport, “purported to have !shine International Air Route readeast report, “purported o been made by Larry Tighe of the American Broadeasting Corporation, has absolutely no basis in fact.” 1t concluded “If Tighe made the statement, {has proved itselfl to be the most | successful from weather, terrain {and the general flying point of | view. Its merit has been indicated by the use made of it by the Al cpaope must have ‘been feeding Transport v(mnm'm‘d during the him a funny type of ‘Hooch' being (war and even after the cessalion poggjeq around Tokyo on the black of actual hostilities. murket.” G "3;“;' o (""‘_ (Teking to the air after issuance examiners' recommendations for e ype Garement, Tighe sald: “I [lhe rouvtc “will provide the shortest, reaffirm the story which I previous- most direct connection to Alaska ly broadcast that the express de- and the Orient for 13,000,000 peoble gire of the commander of this area {of the inter-mountain region Com- o yhat the Russian troops not be prising 41 per cent of the area of gyoyeq to take over the Japanese {the United States,” Mansfield said. jqjang of Hokkaido." “The people of this area should — (righe's reply, monitored in San {not be compelled to go either 10 mprancisco by WBC, added | the East or West when their most («pyrther, the Supreme Comman- direct route lies along the inland gers claim that if I made such route already established and DUt gravements I must have been full |into operation by the Army” he of Tokyo black market hooch is in- added. accurate in the first place but—and > this is more important—hardly fit- | S'I’o(K ouol’fl‘i’lous ting any solution of a subject that | concerns the very life of the United NEW YORK, Dec. 21. — Closing Nations organization,” Tighe said quotation of Alaska Juneau mine he received his information “from i | | | stock today is 8%, American Can 4 reliable and honest source and 1104'2, Anaconda 43%, Curtiss- 1 still consider it both reliable Wright 77, International Harvester and honest | 94, Kennecott 48'i, New York Cen- - tral 33%, Northern-Pacific 36%, | 5. Steel 80%, Pound $4.03': Sales today were 940,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today |as follows: Industrials, 189.07; r 162.66; utilities, 37.70. | " Seven Elfe Guards Swinq on Gallows g MOSCOW, Dec. 21—Seven Ger- TO WRAN L man $.8. (Elite Guard) members | direct government order. No pro- here { vision was made, he said, to reim- “Juneau freight rate hearings ori«| { burse for losses. ginally scheduled for January 8, The sub-committee, headed by 1946, have been postponed and dates i . 'Heroic Mother Dies | 4 | Barney Anderson, Juneau High F,om Bu"‘s al Flre‘cuflch. has been notified of his father's death in Lewiston, Idaho, H —_— and left this morning by plane ! PINOLE, Calif., Dec. 21.—A 21-|for the south. He is expected to | year-old mother, heroine of a nrei return some time after the lin a makeshift apartment house, of the year lin which four children. perished | B S, ;llere last Sunday, died last night| MISS HELLER RETURNS of burns suffered in rescuing her| . Miss Christine Heller, Nutrition | daughter and small brother. | consultant, Territorial Health De-| Secretary of Alaska Lew M. Wil- were hanged yesterday at Smolensk Sho was Mrs. Bernice Plant of!| partment, returned today from an | liams plans to enjoy Christmas at following their conviction as war Pinole, formerly of Chickasha, Okla. ' official trip to Ketchikan. While in home in Wrangell, away from his criminals. ki | who dashed into the flaming frame | that city, Miss Heller spoke on!chores here as Acting Governor.! Thre others received prison | building and saved her 2-year-old dietary subjects before the Health'The secretary plans to fly to terms ranging from 12 to 20 year: daughter, Janet, and her little Council and a number of mothers’ Wrangell tomorrow for the long for atrocities committed against brother, Waype Bishop, also 2. and teachers’ groups. federal holiday weekend. résidents of Smolensk. Ssh! Shortest Day 0f "45 Tomorrow; Also, Winter (omes Tomorrow is the shortest day of FAMOUSWAR LEADER DIES 1945 and also the beginning of win- ter Just to show u how short the day is, the sun does not show | up, if it does, until 9:45 o'clock’ a m Then it sets at 4:07 o'clock in —— the afternoon. There is not ng . Pl o be much change i the asynent| 008 Down Fighting; Jusi period however, for several days i ol duin as He Had Lived- RA'"ON'NG ‘ Million§ rMourn | (By The Associated Press) Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., died 0 F I I R E S |today as he hud lived—he died { fighting. This is the deseription of Patton’s |death given by Gen. dJoseph i OFF JAN I‘)1<Nzxrl|l'}', Commander of U. 8. u Forces in the European Theater. Sald McNarney, “Patton’s injuries | were grave, but his fight to over- 21-~Tire ¥- | come them was gallant. He went tioning ends, January 1 after four|down fighting. Patton could have jlong years of thin treads, butl it died in no other way. And now, for will be months before pent-up de-lyus over here and all who applaud WASHINGTON, Dec ‘mand_is met in full his bravery, there is a sudden | The decision of OPA and Civilian | empty feeling.” Production Administration to 1ft| That just about sums up how cntrols s based on_their “consid-| American fighting men the world ered opinion” that there no 10nger|over and millions of Americans at Is any danger of a “‘A‘”QI""'“‘”“";lmmt' feel about the death of this breakdown. gallant wartime leader. Both agencies emphasized, how-| " The Go-year-old commander, who ever, that despite a big increase injeq the Third Army to victory on tire production, all motorists Will| {ho Western Front, died at 11:50 "“'";‘:1 “r!:lxul;;n?l:]tl;):" and buy DeW 5 ;. (EST) today in an Army ”‘I:“"I”m’;’f,,‘\m‘“\"“] "‘f’"”"" pe;’ 4P| was fractured in an auto crash ‘v.‘ ‘1") S[:-;n““d Opa Administra-| .0 Mannheim. . G LRI AP . | Was Paralyzed | Although paralyzed from the FEI-O“Y (ou"l IS | shoulders down, he at first made amazing progress toward recovery BRO“G“I AGAI"SI but in recent hours, a lung conges- tion entered into the picture. And wllluM DoHER"‘lu(iny his brave old fighting heart pave out. His death was officially William Doherty, last week turn- :;‘,"l‘f";:fe:; ';_“:'”:?r:";:;‘ H";td:;‘: ed over to Federal authorities by ,.qcide City Police and who has been held The news of Pattoh's death came in the Federal jail here awaiting as a shock today to his friends and deferred sentence after pleading neighbors at his home town, Ham- guilty to drunk and disorderly con-| : & duct, now faces a new and more ‘]""" Massachtisetis. Fiags on taws s D R DY) was issued stating that Gen. Pat- charged with attempted mbbm'v‘lm” condition had taken a turn He s Allagsd to Have tried - toi0r W8 WSS GuEing Ahs RISHE S8 force his way into the MeNutt|™® oytlook Jy CRERYS: bome at 430 ‘Willoughby Avenue,| . - JHs Jab Was Wae and to take Mrs, McNutt's purse af- G George 8 Fatton's. Job. e tor she hAl answersd the. doorito| 7ar: He.did his JoB in World Weks his ring I and II with a skill that often ok amazed his colleagues and generally Doherty, this morning, had : 7 . yet been arraigned ocn the m,w‘wnu-d his cuunn:ys enemies. count, which is a felony The story of George Smith Pat- 1 AL ton, Jr., in World War II is the story of a lightning series of Al- lied victories from Africa through France and Germany to Austria and Czechoslovakia, GLADYS MULVIHILL lthan 1750000 Nazi soldiers, and TWAY e 34 ooRAGWAY, i, D i g | Killed or wounded at least half AR MUV, Wi Qe | million others, For a time he was Mulvihill, pagsed away at 5 o'clock s ) - Thuredsy’ sfternaon. 1 the Whits under a cloud for slapping &« P ital after an illness of six | “0ldier, but his brilliant leadership il ;i sl 3 85 OF 8% cvercame the handicap of the slap- She waa born hers. in July, 1608, | P8 insldenk Previous to her marraige she was, o “”:‘:;: -:':sl‘;‘lll:h:;li:‘c':"lumr'un\ \ nurse at th» White Pass Hospital.| ~" ! .y " who became a legend before he led Funeral services will be held here ™™ 2 : 0 and interment will be in the Skag- | his beloved Third Army across the way cemetery. | Seine, Lofre, Rhine and a dozen Besides her husband and son Car), | 1esser rivers. He was a legend be- survivors are her mother, two sisters | ’L?"‘_ hia mlfl" cracked the Siegfried in Chehalls, Wash., and one sister Line at will. in Californla. One sister, Naomi| In the conquest of Tunisia, he | Krater, from Chehalls, has been here | S @ roaring, sussing tankman for the past week who went into battle with a pair | Mulvihill is the arl-handled revolyers strapped | of Skagway s sides. Once when questioned | 3 The doceased was active in the the Nazl Luftwaffe Chief, | Bastern Star, club work and school affairs and leaves a host of friends. - 'BIG EVENING SEEN AHEAD FOR COUNCIL While Councilmanic ears tonight will be tuned mainly to ghe audience in anticipation of repercussions from his week’s Police Department shake- up, three main items of business are on the formal docket of City busi- son of pioneers | about Hermann Goering, Patton sa “I'd shoot him like I'd shoot a snake.” And a few in his command doubted that the General would have liked nothing better than to make good his boast. In Trouble After V-E Day, Patton statement and got into made a trouble (Continued on Page Two) 1WISH THIS PICTURE WAS FINISHED~! ONLY HAVE ness for the second regular De- cember Council meeting this eve- SHOPPING DAYS LEFT ning; opening at the City Hall at 8 UNTIL CHRISTMAS ! o'clock P 7 Heading the list of matters is ap- | proval of a long list of liquor licenses submitted by the Clerk of the U. 8. strict Court as up for renewal Openings of bids on repair work at the City Dock is also scheduled for this evening and discussion is |due on Juneau as a proposed site for a Southeast Alaske extension of the University of Alaska The three items, along with ex- pected remarks from ousted Police | offlcers, also routine business, should provide a full evening for the City's administartion, a