The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 26, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME’ VOL. LXIV., NO. 9946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1945 = REDS ARE FIGHTING IN HEART OF BERLI erious PRESIDENT ADDRESSES — | Statesmen of 46 Nations | Plainly Told About Tasks Facing Them By Douglas B. Cornell SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 26| —President. Harry S. Truman opened | the conference of statesmen of 46 Nations and solemnly dedicated | them to the task of forging a per-| manent peace and becoming "archx-\ tects of a better world." | In a single succinet sentence, the! President brought sharply into the! focus the challenge of the oppor-| tunity confronting them: i “We still have the choice between | continuation of International chaos| —or establishment of a world organ- jzation for enforcement of peace.” | Into the impressive stone build-' ing, whose flag still flew at half-| staff in honor of the last President; Roosevelt, the voice of his successor | was brought from Washington, D.| C., launching one of history's great- | est International meetings. \ Other voices were raised in ex-| pressions of confidence and hope—, hope of a world scourged for years) by bursting steel—that delegates| from many lands will weld their, polygot tongues into one mighty volce for enduring tranquility among | Nations. i The delegates themselves appear- | ed grimly determined to succeed and | prospécts for success seemed bright —save for the serious Anglo-Ameri- | can differences with Russia over the| Polish Government and giving it representation here in the United Natlons Councils—and there were, the early arriving delegates when| they reached the Opera House after | the Aprfi sun was lost behind the rain- clouds. { “We represent the overwhelming| majority of all mankind,” Prasident.} Truman said. “We speak for the people who have endured the most | savage devastating war ever inflict-i ed upon innocent men, women and, children. We hold a powerful man- | date from our people. They believe we will fulfill this obligation. We| must prevemv—if human mind, heart! and hope can prevent it—a repeti- | tion of the disaster from which the! entire world will suffer for years to| come.” ' The délegates listened in silent/ awareness to the enormous duty, resting upon them and listened too,! to the brief address of Secretary of State;, Bdward R. Stettinius, Tem-| porary Chairman, to the welcomingl words of Gov. Ear] Warren of Cali-| fornia and Mayor Lapham of Sanj| Franciseo, but in pre-conference | consultations, the smaller Nations| continued up to the opening hour to jockey for positions of greater impertance. I The Big Three failed to break the: gdeadlock on creating a Polish Gov-! ermnment acceptable to all. THREE VOTES FOR SOVIETS | APPEAR SURE Four American NationsAre ; Named on Conference Executive Council ! | SAN FRANCISCO, April 26—The | United Nations held their first| businéss conference here today, with the prospect that Russia will| seek quick acceptance of her bidE for three votes in the proposed World Assembly. | Chief delegates of the 46 Nations, | which would = become 48 if the Soviet proposal wins -approval as expected, gathered today in the conference room, on the second floor of the War Veterans' Me- morial Building. Russia's Molotov ot B8 SR e T (Continued on Page Five) |enforce peace. . i Stassenat Frisco COMMANDER HAROLD E. STASSEN, USNR—Former Governor of Minnesota and Republican luminary, is pictured with Mrs. Stassen as they arrived in San Francisco for the United Nations Conference. Commander Stassen is a member of the United States delegation. They are pictured as they emerged from the portals of the Ferry building. (International) SENATORTO YANKS NEAR FIXPOWERS GREAT PASS, OF COUNCIL Connally Named to Group | Which Will Passon | Use of Force ‘ to Various Secfors as Germans Flee ' ROME, April 26—The U. S, Fifth !Army erupted onto Lembard Plain, 2 overwhelming ‘Parma and Reggio, SAN FRANCISCO, April 26— ang threatening to bottle up Nazi Senator Tom Connally, Texas D?m',troaps fleeing the - industrial “area ocrat, who believes in force against ¢ porthwest Italy, where *cities outlaws, emerged as America’s 5p. yeported falling tb a general spokesman in shaping the DOWETS nqitisan uprising. \ of the proposed World Secwrity| ear the east coast, the British Council. {Eighth Army poured across the Po The veleran Democrat, Who i5 River to strike at the Adige River Chairman of the Senate Foreign line, 30 miles from Venice, where Relations Committee, was chosen'the Germans are digging in for a as the American representative inljast-ditch stand before the Dolo- the group which will pass on the/mijte Alps. powers of the 11° member Council‘l The last reported positions of the under the Dumbarton Qaks Plan, be"American forces, which burst from fore this Conference Council will de-|{peo Apennine Mountains, were 25 side whether to use force against an mjjes from Vienna, in . the foothill AaggTessor. |approaches to the Brenner Pass. No American delegate may serve| as chairman of any work commis-'yearq in London, said Verona had sions in the United Nations CON- fanen into Partisan hands, as well ference, since Secretary of Statel,s tne jnqustrial citigs of Turin Edward R. Stettinius is chairman of |, 4 piacenza. the world works. | “Free Genoa” radio station an- Commander Harold Stassen Was|, .nceq «a]l resistance ceased by put on the committee to study both g ejoey this morning” in the great the peaceful settlement of mlemu-\mgmi&“ port, from which Mussolini tional disputes and arrangements miis declared to have fled to Milan. " re.! The Nazis are estimated to have Ceisvi'&afi:e ‘};;:“g, l:;:::i:?:‘g :;‘e‘}lus'. at’ least one-third .of their United States in a group to study ellectvwes in prisoners, as the total T o surh ‘tflv prt;son.ers passed the 40,000 mark problems as the maintenance of the| “’?h cxidi .Bgoi, . Monroe Doctrine, under the general | g omusrll ng Anjerian calunns framework of the international or- At Parma pse quily. 388 ‘miles ‘from {the American Third Army's ar- Lir g mored spearheads, stabbing south- !ward in Germany toward Mem- mingen. Ronald E. Mounce has pleaded| The British force below the Adige guilty to a charge of assault and |River is about 250 miles from ad- battery in the U. S. Commissioner’s | vanced Russian positions in Aus- Court here. Commissioner Gray sentenced him to six months|the northern end of the Adriatic in jail, which sentence was sus-|from Marshal Tito's Yugoslavian pended with the proviso - that|forces, reported at Sysak on the Mounce leave ‘immediately for work |Italian-Yugoslav. - frontier ~outside at Galena. Fiume. il A SENTENCE SUSPENDED I'Al*Y“I\REAE 'Allied Forces Stampeding| Radio reports from Switzerland, | PFelix | tria, and about 180 by land around | TO START ;‘ - GOLDSTEIN | BUILDING Alaska Construction Com- | pany Gets Confract for Rebuilding A new Goldstein Building, w0 re- |place the one destroyed by fire in' soon become a reality, after many months of planning by the owner, Charles Goldstein, and will be a dis-/ tinct asset to the city of Juneau. Mr. Goldstein announced this morning the awarding of the con-| tract yesterday in Seattle, to the Alaska Construction Co., of Seattle,' | which company is also the general « contractors for the Hoonah Housing' Project, under the Federal Public Housing Authority, and which has' offices in Juneau. Theirs was one of three competitive bids submitted ' for the Goldstein Building. Completely modern in every re-' |spect, the Goldstein Building will be | rebuilt entirely, though utilizing thep existing walls so far as possible, of reinforced concrete construction throughout. Five Story Building It is to be a five-story building, | with a full basement. The entire |first floor will be reserved for stores, | while the other four flooxs will be devoted entirely to offices. The in a hurry-up se “ticnal Soundphote) ] Anthony Eden, and American Secretary St:ctthm Start Made By Nation’s Con » ’ basement will be used for general| |storage purposes. The cornice and trim on the ex- {isting walls will be femoved and the exterior completely refinished and modernized, with new marquees over both Seward and Second Streets. The main entrance will be on Seward Street. New sidewalks will also be laid on Seward and Second Streets. Elevators One feature of which Mr. Gold- | stein is very proud are the eleva- tors, which will be installed by the Otis Elevator Co., and are the most {modern type of office elevators, | with manual control during the day | and automatic operation at night. | | Fluorescent lighting is being con- | | sidered, to be installed throughout | the building, and many of the offi- | ices will be supplied with an inter-| office communication system. There ! will also be a new light court con- | structed for additional light to ' the | ;innor offices. ! The Goldstein Fui Company will | | oceupy approximately the same store | |space in the new building as was| |used in the past in the old building, {but will have a much ‘larger and| |more modern cold-storage vault for| |furs. B T am Office Space Taken Most of the office space in the new | building is already taken, but there | are still a few offices available on the second and third floors. ! Actual construction will begin about May 15, and Mr. Goldstein is confident the work will be completed by December 1. H. B. Foss Co., are the architects for the project, and under the gen- eral contract, many local firms will participate. Fred Wendt, of the| Ideal Paint Store, will do the paint- ing and decorating; tile work will be | done by Dave Burnett and the elec- | |trical work will be done by Parsons | Electric Co. ( This project has been given the| approval of the War Production ‘Board and all necessary materials 1are available. i S. F. Arab Guards (arly_ Scimifars: SAN FRANCISCO, April 26— 5 | Whipping winds disclosed that Lhe} (First of two articles on sireamining guards of Arabian princes here for| i conadaoid the United Nations Conference are| well-heeled. | By Jack Stinnett Outside their flowing robes they| waSHINGTON, April 26 — The |carry scimitars. Strapped inside yo o1 of the La Follette-Monroney {around the waist of each is a 45 committee investigating the possi- caliber automatic pistol. bilities for reorganization of Con- =% gress now is on file. What some | DIVORCE DECREE |committee members think ought to ' » 'be done makes fascinating reading. A divorce decree was granted be " ¥ . |here in Federal District Court to! Perhaps the most drastic pro- |Golden Waltman from Ira C. Walt- posal was made by Senator J. Wil- {No property settlement or minor a freshman Senator who also has the reluctance of members to give Y up committee seniorities, is a re-: children were involved. done his stint in the House of Piilurésque Group lrbmS Start Is Now Made Over Streamlining 0f Congress of U. 5. 2 SR T S L audi Arabia ENROUTE TO SAN FRANCISCO—Soviet Foreign Commisar Vladimir M. Molotov, representing Premier Stalin of Russia, is pictured on his arrival at Washington National Airport Sunday, April 22, right: Molotov (glasses, hat in hand); Secretary of State Edward R: Stettinius; W. Averill Hargiman, U. 8. Ambassador to Russia and Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Ambassador to the United States. >s of important conferences with President-Harry S, Trumén, British Foreign Secretary before flying to the San Fra‘ans‘cc cfinclav“. Left to ‘They participated, (Intetha- g The delegation from Saudi Arabia to the United Nations Conference is shewn as it arrived in San Fran- cisco. Left to right, they are: H. E. Shaikh Ibrahim Sulaiman, Secretary of the Delegation; H. E. Shaikh Hafiz Wahba, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary; H. R. H. Amir Nawaf Ibn Abdul Aziz, son of the King of Saudi Arabia, with whom President Roosevelt visited on the Yalta trip;. H. R. H. Ami Abdullah El-Faisal, eldest son of Faisal; H. R. H. Amir Fahad Ibn Abdul Aziz, son of the King, and H. R. H. Amir Faisal Ibn Abdul Azz, Minister of Foreign Alfairs and also son of the King of Saudi Arabia. (International) {Representatives. | Senator Fulbright suggests an ex- | ecutive-legislative cabinet, composed of the members of the President’s !Cabinet and the chairmen of the 'Senate and House standing com- \mittees. He considers, of course, that these latter would be far |fewer than the 80 standing com- mittees of the two chambers today. | Most frequently suggested stream- lining of Congress but the one {many observers think the least {duction in the number of com- |mittees. The Senator from Arkansas agrees wholeheartedly. s e The idea of cooperation of the executive and legislative branches isn't any great novelty in itself. Leaders at both ends of ‘Pennsyl- vania Avenue have been struggling for it for years. The novelty arises in the pro- posal of Senator Fulbright that the executive-legislative cabinet have the power to dissolve Congress, the Presidency and Vice-Presidency at lany time there is a complete im- passe, This smacks of the British sys-| tem and others on the continent, under which a new election is called whenever the existing gov- lernment fails to receive a vote of confidence—but it weuldn't be the same. | In the first place, only twice in the last 30-odd years has an ap- man. Both are Ketchikan residents. liam Pulbright, Democrat, Arkansas, likely to be enacted, because of payently complete impasse occurred q { ference RUSSIANS IN DRIVES, ALL SIDES Encirclement of Capital City Completed-Take Hitler Alive Order LONDON, April 26-The victorious Red Army troops, driving from all sides, today battled the Germans in the center of flaming Berlin, Soviet front line dispatches said. “Men of the Red Army are fight- ing in the heart of the German Capital City,” says Tass, in a story datelined “Berlin.” The stories gave no details, but probably referred to fighting in the vicinity of Alexanderplatz, center of the capital’s business district. Earlier, Nagi broadcasts said the Russians are storming the Alex- anderplatz and also Police and Gestapo headquarters, about half a mile away on the eastern end of the Unter Den Linden, , Two mighty Soviet Armies have completed encirclement of Berlin and Russian elements are closing in from the west in the rear of the hard-pressed defenders, to whom continuing promise of rein- forcements is being given by Nazi propagandists, who still will not Admit to Ber thetr is Completely’ Hged ase Ehé Blesn are pressing closer to the inner defenses. Some German civilians have crawled toward the Russian ljnes believing they are safer there than in their cauldren of encircled area. Russian storm unmits are making the conquest of the Capital City |the world’s greatest manhunt. Moscow dispatches gaid the fight- ing is over and under the streets. The Russiafs have' been ordered |to take Hitler .alive, if he is still in the Capital® City, as the Nazi propagandists declare. Possibly half a million Germans have been t in Berlin, The Hamburg: radio asserts Goebbels is stfll in Berlin, and that Field Marshal Keitel is also in or near the city, "\ While the noose i§ being tight- ened around Berlin, other Soviet | forces surged across the Elbe River toward the imminent junction with the Americans. i BREMEN IS CAPTURED BY SECOND ARMY Patton Is E_n—cfidinq Great Pocket-Russians, Amer- icans Nearing Contact - . PARIS, April 26—The British' Second Army has captured Bremen, clearing all of the great port exeept - the dock area and Burger. Park, north of the center of tpe city, while |far to the south, the American Third Army is within 11 miles at Austria and 41 miles of. e THe British' Lowland and Iron Third Divisions caplured 5000 Ger- mans since entering Bremen yes- |terday, where rigid opposition gave | way suddenly and almost disappear- ed by midafternoon. The worst ob- |stacles encountered in the debris of ,Bremen were swarms of freed for- |€ign laborers who ran pell mell |through the streets, many of them |fortified by the city’s plentiful li- {quor supply. General Patton’'s Third Army tanks are now within a hundred {ndiles of a junetion with the Ri west of Vienna, a union which encircle Czechoslovakia and create a ;pocket. larger than the Rubr. | .Elements of the Third Army were last reported 72 miles from Berchtes- gaden, but' are encountering {opposition on the fringe of the ‘wpino ‘redoubt. They are (lein;ted 7onw}/’n‘gve ifl;} I (Continued on Page Stz)