The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 5, 1945, Page 1

+ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1945 > MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'RESISTANCE ON WESTERN FRONT HALTED " ide Attacks On Okinawa Beaten Off N “‘ ;‘ VOL. LXV., NO. 9954 - v L] ¥ Jap Suic . NIP FORCES | RUSSIANS "IN ASSAULT LIBERATE THREE WAYS Complete Anniilation- in’ Amphibious Moves- | 154 Planes Downed } 1 By Leonard Milliman (Associated Press War Correspondent) Japanese came out of their cav and suicide bases to launch a weird but coordinated land, sea,! air attack on American forces in | terday. It was a nightmare for the Yanks, suicide for the Japanese. ; Five light U. S. Naval units were sunk, others damaged. A tank-led Japanese counter-assault and four | amphibious operations behind Am-} erican lines were routed with the| killing of many of the 4,000 at-| tackers, 15 Nipponese suicide were exploded, 154 planes and a piloted flying bomb shot down. : It was the first major pounter-‘ action of the Okinawa campaign involving ground forces, a sign the | Japanese command knows the campaign is lost, as they have lost the Philippines and Burma. i Mop-up In Rangoon Indian troops mopped up in Ran-| goon and Yanks cleared up stao,‘ major Japanese-pre-war colony in | the Philippines, as incipient cam- | paigns in China and Borneo de-| (Contimfedn on Page six) The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSCN (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.> i SLOVAKIA! New Drive En?hed Spear-| ing Toward Junction | with Americans i BULLETIN—LONDON, May 5 —Marshal Stalin announced to- night that Russian trcops had captured Swinemuende, German Baltic port and Naval Base, near Stettin. An Order of the Day said that Swinemuende—situated on Pom- | Czechoslovakia. WAR AT A GLANCE | PICNED MEN (By Assoclated Press) e WESTERN FRONT—German for- ces in the Netherlands, Northwest- | ern Germany and Denmark cease firing after unconditional surren- der; Patriots clash with Germans in Copenhagen; Negotiations reported | in progress for the surrender of the Germans in Norway and the Czech- oslovakia-Austria sector. ‘; f EASTERN FRONT—Russians lib-|Army plans to discharge 2,000,000} erate all of Slovakia and by enemy | |accounts launch a new drive west of | Germany and to send 6,000,000 | vienna toward a junction with| which would cut| Redoubt from | | American forces off the Austria SIXMILLION BIGPOWERS TO HIT JAPS ‘Army Also Announces Dis- WORLD PLANS charge Plans After | Fall of Germany WASHINGTON, May 5 — The| Oaks Charter Await Stalin’s Okeh BULLETIN — SAN FRAN- CISCO, May 5—The Polish is- of | sue exploded anew between the | Western Allies and Soviet Rus- sia today at the very moment of broad “Big Four” agreement on the pattern of a new world order. men beginning with the fall picked troops against Japan. This wag disclosed today by House Military Committee members after a closed-door session withi high Army officials. AGREEING ON Key ChangégmfiDumbartonT PARSONS GIVES PUSH TO DRIVE FOR UTILITIES| Mayor Casi;fiéciding Vole| onAppointment of Stuart as Engineer Mayor Ernest Parsons last night |put his full weight behind his drive |for municipal ownership of public| utilities, breaking up a showdown| jon immediate action by casting the | deciding vote in favor of ,appoint- |ing Walter F. Stuart, former Ketch- |ikan Public Utilities manager, to the newly-created $400-a-month post of Special Utilities Engineer. | The Juneau City Council had split, | {three to three, on the question, with Councilmen Harry Lea, Don Skuse COPENHAGEN FIRED UPON BY GERMANS Warship Crews Resist Dis- armament-Danes Cele- brafe Liberation COPENHAGEN, May 5—German warships in Copenhagen’'s harbor opened fire with machine-guns, anti-aircraft guns and cannon on several sectors of the city today and sporadic clashes broke out when Danish Patriots disarm the Nazis. The German cruisers, - Prinz sought to| and around Okinawa Island _ves-" cranian Bay above Stettin La- lin powerful gom—fell to Russian troops | pressing the final mop-up of Baitic shores LONDON, May 5 —Red Army forces liberated all of Slovakia yes- terday and the Nazi High Command boats Said Soviet Armor had launched a new drive west of Vienna, spearing toward a junction with American troops which would cut off the Austrian redoubt from Czechoslo- vakia. ‘ Russian troops smashed forward 10-mile gains against | bitter German resistance in the Nazi Czechslovakian redoubt and staged a big tank battle near Olmuetz (Olomouc), Moravian war produc-' tion center. The entire province of Slovakia was freed of German troops by Mar- {shal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second and Gen. Andrei I. Fourth Ukrainian |rolled into Eastern Moravia in prep- | |aration for a drive toward Prague, | Czechoslovak Capital. | Yeremenko's Armies, which The combined armies were smash- PACIFIC FRONT — Australians| The men to be discharged, they | score minor gains on Tarakan Island |said, will be those with the muost| off Borneo; an American column in|dependents and the longest and the Southern Philippines smashes most active service records. The through the city of Davao on Mind-| Aymy’s point system, they reported, anao Island; Japanese land 600 troops behind the American lines on | Okinawa. | .o | i (LEO WILKINS SUICIDE TRY IS REPORTED | | | Marshal States No Evi- dence of Poison Found Following "Faint’ ing toward Olmuetz along an 85-mile front east of the Morava River Val-| Brayado w! carried .Cleo Pa- ley in a push to throw back the Ger- tricia Wilkins through the ordeal mans’ last big salient on the Eastern ' of receiving sentence in Federal Dis- | gives the top weighting to depen- | dency, followed by actual combat service, overseas duty, and overall! length of service. Heretofore, the weight to be| given each of the factors in de-| termining priority for discharges has been a closely-guarded secret. Of the approximately 8,300,000 men now in the Army, from 300,- 000 to 400,000 comprising the re-| cently-created Fifteenth Army will be left abroad to occupy Germany.i Some 2,000,000 others will be dis- charged within a year after V-E| Day, the speed of mustering out to depend largely on available ship-| ping. i The actual reduction in- the| Army’s total strength, the commit- tee was told, will be about 1,400,000 men, due to an estimated 600,000 in ! new inductions. Many of those to be discharged now are on duty in the Pacific. The Army's Air Transport Com- mand told the committee it ex- | Front. H Northeast of Olmuetz, troops of A the Fourth Ukrainian Army captur- in her jail cell she finally came ! SAN FRANCISCO-A hot behind-|eq 1000 Germans and Y the road trict Court here yesterday, appar-| ently gave way last evening, when face-to-face with full realization of | pected 'to be ready to move 50,000 men monthly within two months after Germany surrenders. This will include men being brought to Secretary of State Stettinius announced that the Russias had arrested Polish Democratic leaders—the Moscow radio said they numbered 16—and that he and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had demanded an explanation. Until a satisfactory reply is received, both Stettinius and Eden made clear, further dis- cussions looking toward broad- ening the Soviet - sponsored Warsaw Government in accord- ance with the Yalta agreement, must wait. By John M. Hightower (Associated Press Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO, May 5—For- cign Commissar Molotov was be- lieved seeking instructions from Premier Stalin today on two key changes in ‘the Dumbarton Oaks World Security Plan, With these two exceptions — on provisions for reviewing interna- tional relations and fitting regional defense arrangements into the pro- |posed World Security Council—the | United States, Russia, China and | | Britain were reported in full ac- lcord on 15 or 20 amendments to| the Dumbarton Plan. This plan was worked out in jand Edward Nielsen casting their |votes against the appointment. | Mayor Parsons had placed Stuart's |name in nomination as a first step toward getting an immediate ap- |Eugen and Nuernberg, resisted the Patriots’ efforts to disarm sailors| {aboard the ships, and many persons | were killed or wounded. At least 20 more persons were | praisal of local utilities. After the Mayor had demonstrat- ed that he held the balance of power, the full Council went along |with him on his request for author- ization to commence negotiations with at least two appraisal firms— | with their bids to be referred back to the Council before any agree- ments are made. According to best present estimates, appraisal of the | Alaska Electric Light and Power | Company and the two water com= lpanles will cost the City between $10,000 and $15,000, Previous to presentation of the utility question, the Mayor had se- cured the Council's authorization to obtain loans to total not more than| 1$50,000 to meet current city expen-| |ses into June. Among bills to be |met is one of $21,500 due to be paid the School Board before June 1. An- |other $3,000 item is to pay for the! Scoopmobile, the purchase of which killed in the night throughout the city when the Patriots entered German barracks to disarm the Nazis, and in clashes with Danish | Nazis in the streets. German officials in the telephone | and telegraph offices threatened to blow up the building this morn- | ing. But the idea was abandoned when Danish personnel walked out, disrupting service for a few hours. On the whole, the German troops | appeared to have withdrawn to their barracks in accordance with the terms of capitulation yesterday ! to Marshal Montgomery, but the; arrival of Allied troops was eagerly | awaited as a quieting factor. i Werner Best, German Minister in Denmark, placed himself in the | custody of the Danish Freedom | Council. Members of the Japanese diplo-| matic staff who from Berlin, |the Council approved at the special | meeting last week. reached Copenhagen several days!' |ago, were arrested by the Pa-| tri | Mere. Bbtrawing riots and interned. Mayor Parsons stated that he ex-| |pected he would have to ask the| | Countil's permission for further bor- rowing when payrolls come due in| Six thousand members of the Danish police brigade, trained be- forehand for the day of liberation' in Sweden, arrived from Malmo,! this country from Europe and the ‘Big Four” meetings at Washington Swedish port, early this morning. 3 ARMIES OF GERMANY IN SURRENDER Nazi For(esflorway Re- ported Preparing fo Give Up Today BULLETIN—PARIS, May 5— All organized resistance to Western Allies forces com- manded by Gen. Eisenhower halted in Europe today when three German Armies, compris- ing Marshal Kesselring's group in Germany, Czechoslovakia surrendered un- conditionally to Gen. Jacob L. Dever, Sixth Army Group Com- mander. Capitulation is ef- fective at noon tomorrow. and Austria, The German High Command broadcast that “War against the Western Powers has become senseless,” but Admiral Doenitz’ proclamation called on all Ger- mans to continue resistance against the Russians, BULLETIN — STOCKHOLM, May 5—The German-controlled Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau reported, from Oslo that the Capitulation of German troops in Norway would be announced today. — BULLETIN — COPENHAGEN, May 5—British troops crossed the Danish border at Krusaa today and the British Com- mander has reached Copen- hagen after formal surrender of the last half million enemy troops oppoesing Canadians and British in northwest Germany, Denmark and Holland. —_— Resistance Ends PARIS, May 5—Virtually all re- sistance to Gen. Eisenhower's forces ended today and Gen. Pat- the-scenes fight has developed mijuncmn of Vitkow, 24 miles from the three-year prison term she faces Pacific and those being sent from | last year as the basis for a world|July and August. The $50,000 loan “|ton’s Third Army smashed into They were greeted by great‘ . . w > the Surplus Property Board WhiFhlolmuetz. | effects the industry of the entire| Eighteen miles to the south, where nation, especially on the Coast. contractors. How these machine| tools are sold is going to spell the | difference between concentration | and diversification of industry for, years to come. i For instance, Henry Kaiser, the! big West Coast boat builder, has | ideas about going into the automo- bile business. He figures that if the | West Coast can operate some of | the biggest airplane " factories in| the nation, it can also build auto- | mobiles. The West Coast is dotted | with airplane factories all the wayi from Seattle to San Diego and has skilled mechanics who will be out | of jobs after the war. Therefore, Kaiser figures on taking up the slack by making automobiles. However, the first requirement of the automobile industry, or for that matter any other large-scale manu- facturing, is machine tools. Billions in machine tools soon will be dis- posed of as surplus war property, and the companies that get them will control the general peacetime production of the U. S. A. during | the immediate years after the war. | If Henry Kaiser could lay his hands on a reasonable quota of the machine tools, for instance, he| would have made an important step toward starting the auto in-| dustry on the West Coast. If mnot,| it would take him two or three years to get other machine tools. Meanwhile, Detroit would have a | head start which would be difficult | for him to overtake. e BACKSTAGE ROW This is where the row inside the | Surplus Property Board comes in. Ex-Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa, Chairman of the Board, believes that independent businessmen, such as Kaised, should have a chance to | bid on these Government-owned machine tools. But Col. Edward Heller and ex- Governor Robert A. Hurley of Con- necticut, the two other board mem- P i o R SN iy (Continued on Page Four) West, |the German-controlled Prague radio | y . :smd that a big tank battle was rag- night and this morning that the | It involves the disposition of sev-ing, troops of the Second Ukrain- ! publicity-laden former belle of the eral billion dollars’ worth of ma-jjan Army lost and then regained Sjtka red light “line” had committed | chine tools owned by the U. S.Krenovice against violent German'suicide, by taking poison. Government and loaned to big war|opposition | — .- - | NORTHSEA GOES SOUTH The North Sea arrived in Juneau this morning at 10:30 o'clock from Sitka with the following passngers: John Herman, Mrs. R. Pierce, Sharon Rowley, Shirley Rowley, John R. Nymon, Mrs. William Kunz, Ben Bellamy, Mrs. Ben Bellamy, Mrs. Gertrude Buchanan, Mary J. Buchanan, Myrtle Foster, Ellen Rowley, Mrs. George Stragier, Abner’ Johnson, Al Richter, Henry Moy, O. W. Franklin, Capt. F. J. Klick, Pfc. R. L. Weletz and Alfred C. Kuehl, Leaving this afternoon, south- bound, for Seattle were the follow- lowing: Samuel J. Sprattling, Mrs. S. J.| Sprattling, Nellie Atkinson, B. R. Glass, Ernest E. Lincoln, Mrs. E. E. Lincoln, Ruby Miller, Linda Miller; Louis Dahl, Chan Hendrickson, Miss Maureen Johnson. Charles H. Workman, Agnes Adsit, Mrs. Emelia Ulmer, R. A. Hagerup, Mrs. R. A. Hagerup, Harry K. Cash- en, Francis P Cashen, Herman Syv- erson and Robert.swenson, For Ketchikan: Miss Marjorie: :Northrnp. James Heinski, Mrs. Vera Clifford, Mrs. Norma Wilson, Lowell for the crime of grand larceny, to which she had confessed. Rumors were rife in Juneau last | The reports followed hurry calls sent out last evening for Dr. W. M. Whitehead and a stomach pump. Tt | later became known, however, that | her attempt to take her own life, ! rather than serve out her debt to society, had been thwarted by the | alertness of jailers. This morning, Mrs. Wilkins was | reported out of danger by informed sources. Marshal William T. Mahoney he;; littled the whole occurrence, stating | that his fair “roomer” had suffered a nervous reaction which caused her to lose consciousness for a time. The physician and stomach pump, he said, were called for as a “precau- tionary measure” only. No evidence of a toxic was found in Mrs. Wilkins' | stomach, the Marshal stated. Dr. Whitehead checked on Mrs. Wilkins' condition again this morn- ing. GIOVANETTI GETS SUSPENDED TERM Edward Giovanetti, former Juneau Post Office employee who confessed to two counts of Postal Law viola- tion, was shown the lenience of the court here this morning, being sen- tenced by Federal Judge George F. | Alexander to three years imprison- ment on each offense, the terms | were ordered to run concurrently and were suspended. Giovanetti was paroled to the U. S. Marshal, on good conduct. It Colby, W. A. Redding, W. A. Lippert, | was disclosed that he has made here. against Japan. | o i | ACSIS 45 old this month, has been awarded a meritorius service unit plaque, its | commanding officer, Col. Fred P. Andrews, announced today. | The ACS is the first unit under | the Chief Signal Officer of thni Army to be singled out for such distinction, the Colonel said. All its | officers and men, numbering more | than 2,000, will wear a gold laurel wreath insignia on the right sleeve as an emblem of the award. OWN MEDICINE HAYWARD, Calif.—City Attorney | C. W. White was up before the Jjudge, charged with overtime park- | ing. The penalty was a good laugh at his expense. White’s the guy who drew up the | over-time parking ordinance. PHONEY LOS ANGELES—Mrs. Vera Cou- sino has won a divorce from her husband, Elwin. “He came home smelling of per- fume and with lipstick on his handkerchief,” she told the court “He said he guessed he got the lipstick of‘f a telephone.” —————— WHAT'S INA NAME! INDIANAPOLIS—V. E. Day, who | by which it would be put into the| lives on the North Side, says he's | bring about a war. peace-keeping organization. The “Big Four” agreement on so many points appeared to eliminate mapy sources of possible contro- versy from the remaining weeks of the United Nations Conference. | However, it remains to be seen how | SEATTLE, May 5—The Alaska|aggressively small nations will push | Communication System, 45 years?mnendmenw on which the “Big]| Four” have not taken a position. Veto Powers Assailed |approved last night is in addition |to $10,000 voted by the Council two| | weeks ago. ‘The question of renewing the lease [to the City Dock held by the North- | tland Transportation Company wasl |pushed into the background by thel utility issue at last evening'’s lengthy | session, which was also featured by'; a reading of the franchise of the |Juneau Water Company. Attorney :R, E. Robertson, representing the 4 | Czechoslovakia in a knockout of- crowds of Danes. | fensive against the last German News of the surrender of Ger-| man forces in Denmark to Marshal | Montgomery was greeted with ju-, bilation last night after five years under the German yoke. | King Christian X, the 74-year-old Monarch who stiffly insisted upon Danish independence throughout the occupation, was reported to have designated former Premier Several delegations already have |Northland Company, was, however, | Orla Buhl to organize a new gov- assailed the veto powers over |present at the meeting to present,ernment to lead Denmark into the peaceable or forceful settlement (,;:Lhe Steamship firm’s answer to the | United Nations family. | disputes which the big nations would have in the Security Council. To compose their joint amend- | ments, the “Big Four” Foreign Ministers—Molotov, Stettinius, Eden |and Soong—worked intensively for | two days in the penthouse apart- ment which Stettinius occupies atop a Nob Hill hotel. Their final sesslon broke up just before last midnight — deadline for filing amendments with the conference secretariat. Here is what this penthouse di- plomacy is reported by one au- thority to have accomplished: Accomplishments United States, Britain and agreed on an amendment would give the proposed organization authority to any situation arising any- in the world which might This is broader than the original proposal by Sen- ator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan, member of the United States delegation, who asked only for power to review treaties. Molotov agreed in principle with this proposition but was unable to go along with the other three immediately on the exact formula The China which world review where Dumbarton Oaks Charter. |City’s demand for a monthly rental ! |increase from $300 to $500. | Mr. Robertson stated that his| |crease over the former rental rate,) after which the Council voted to| put the issue to arbitration, as pro-| |vided in the original lease agree-| iment. City Attorney Howard D.| |Stabler was named to represent the | |City on the Board of Arbitration, with Mr. Robertson acting for the| Northland company. The third ar- biter is to be selected mutually by Mr. Robertson and Mr. Stabler. The agreement provides that thc] ‘Nmal rate arrived at by the arbit- | iers will be binding on both the City |and the steamship company over the‘ |next five-year period, from April 21, ! | | Hospital For Insane During a lull in the utilities; | battle, Harold B. Foss brought be-| | fore the City Fathers a proposal for| |action on H.R. 1412, & bill introduced |in Congress by Rep. Homer D. An- \gell, of Oregon, for a new $2,500,000 | hospital to care for Alaska insane, to be located at Portland, Oregon. The bill, providing for erection and op- eration of the institution under the U. S. Department of the Interior,| was introduced in the House or{ Representatives on January 15, 1945, and referred to the Committee | |April 9, 1940, and booksellers dis-| Buhl's new government may take office some time today. | When London broadcasts last mark was free, crowds swarmed into the streets happily. | Singing groups marched toward the Palace Square and would not' disperse until a King's representa- tive had come out and given them a word from the Monarch, Danish newspapers prepared to issue their first free editions since played Allied literature. —— MLEDARR BATTERING NAZI RANKS ik | [ ROME, May 5.—Fliers of the Al‘I lied Balkan Air Command continued | yesterday to harass battered Nazi columns fleeing northern Yugo- slavia, but otherwise there were no on Territories. |reports of any hostilities in the Knox Marshall, Frank A. Barry, Donald M. Held, Mrs. P. E. Oswald, Irl Thatcher, E. A. Fosse, Mrs. E. A, Fosse, Clifford E. Fosse, M. C. Pet- | erson; Miss Elizabeth Hansen, Frank Clarck, Lt Warren Caro, Mrs. Keith ‘Wildes. For Wrangell: Mrs. Ray G. Day, Francis Hanford. For Petersburg: Mrs. Ingrid Ask, Robert Andrew Sadler. full restitution. e —— CAB HEADS HERE R. J. Bartoo and Raymond W. Stough of the CAB in Anchorage, have returned from Ketchikan via Ellis Air Transport, and are reg- istered at the Baranof Hotel while awaiting return transportation to Anchorage. getting a lot of telephone calls! The United States, Britain and these days. China also reached an accord on The most recent came from a such regional arrangements as whimsical lady who said: Russia’s mutual assistance pact “Is this V. E. Day? If so, yowve With France and the Inter-Ameri- made a lot of people happy.” |can defense system set up at o — — | Mexico City early this year. MR,, MRS. HAMLIN HERE Again Molotov accepted the Mr. and-Mrs. Stanley W. Hamlin, Principle but again asked for time of Seattle, are registered at the to consider the specific amend-| Baranof Hotel. | ment, It was immediately decided t)\at‘ the Mayor should address a com- | munication to Alaska Delegate E. L.| Bartlett, expressing the opinion of the City administration that the! hospital would be better located in| the vicinity of Juneau, perhaps at| a site near Auk Bay previously pro- | posed by the Juneau Chamber of| (Continued o;l Page Two) Mediterranean theatre, Royal Air Force Beaufighters pumped rockets into enemy am- munition dumps near Ljubljana and Celje, in addition to smashing troop transport within 15 miles of the Aus- trian porder. Spitfires shot up trains between Kranj and Beld and Maurauders bombed the railway southeast of Zagreb, troops still fighting the Western Allies 4in the- south. Patton struck out, capturing Linz in Austria, after the First and Nineteenth German -Armies sur- rendered unconditionally to Gen. Jacob L. Devers' Sixth Army Group. The Eleventh Panzer Division, Germany’s last full-rate armored force in the west, was among those quitting the battle. Supreme Headquarters said all resistance to Eisenhower on active fronts in which his forces were engaged had ended, save for a ccmpany would not agre: to any in- | night announced that at last Den- single German Army, the Seventh, s in Patton’s territory. It was first announced that the surrender to Devers included the German Seventh Army, but Eisen- hower himself issued a statement an hour later correcting this. Field | dispatches announcing the Patton offensive followed within another hour, The German Seventh Army has been opposing units of the U. S. First and Third Armies from Chemnitz south to Linz. The Seventh Army was thus pic- tured in the headquarters an- nouncement as the only organized, active resistance to Eisenhower's forces. Norway and small pockets in France remained to be cleared, and the status of Norway is in imme- diate doubt. Norway Entered Norwegian and Russian troops have entered the northern section of Norway, and the German-con- trolled Scandinavian Telegraph Bu- reau predicted the Germans’ ca- pitulation there today. However, the Swedish Foreign Office said it re- garded this report as premature, and Puppet Premier Vidkun Quis- ling called on his countrymen for obedience. Today's was a battlefield surren- der, like that which yesterday took the Germans in Holland, Denmark and northwest Germany, out of the war, The German-controlled Scandi- navian Telegraph Bureau said the Germans in Norway also were pre- paring to give up today.