The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 9, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXV., NO. 9957 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PLANSFOR INVADING JAPAN BEING MADE Hermann Goering Captured By Yank Troops FORMERNAZI MARSHAL IS IN CUSTODY Field Marshal Kesselring Also Seized by Am- | erican Doughboys | NEW YORK, May 9—American soldiers are said to have captured Hermann Goering, the first really big fish among the Nazi hierurchy] to be seized by the Allies. A broadcast (NBC) from Allied Supreme Headquarters in Paris says that Goering, the discredited Reichs Marshal and leader of the| Luftwaffe, was seized by troops{‘ of the United States Seventh Army. Along with Goering, accotding to| the American broadcast, the Yanks captured Field Marshal Albert Kesselring—the man who succeeded Field Marshal von Rundstedt as| commander in the west, and who in | his time stopped the Allies in North | Italy. Goering told the Americans that he had been sentenced to death by | Adolf Hitler, but that he had| escaped from Berlin and that he| had been hiding out since last March in the general area where he was seized by the United States Seventh Army forces. There was| no’immediate indication just where and under what. - circumstances Goering was captured. ‘When the Nazis began the war with theit march into Poland, Hitler proclaimed Goering as his sticcessor. But as the Luftwaffe fell | on ‘evil days, Goering’s pcwer waned and Heinrich Himmler re- A XN NSRRI (Continued on Page Two) | i The Washington Merry-gg-Round By DREW PEARSON @4, Col. Robert 8. Allen now on sctive service witn the Army.® SAN FRANCISCO—By all odds the most skillful diplomacy game at this conference has been played by dapper, dignified Anthony Eden of Great Britain. He has managed to come out as the friend of all sides, and most important of all, the mediator between Russia and | the United States. | In other words, Eden has com- pletely reversed the previous role of President Roosevelt, who up until his death had acted as the| mediator between Churchill and| Stalin. 3 T The Churchill-Stalin rivalry was not, merely personal. It was his- toric. It was based not enly on the fact that Churchill just after the last war, urged the sending of | Allied troops into Russia to help the White Russian Generals over- throw . the 'embryo Bolshevik re- gime, but that he flirted with the | Cliveden Set which'in 1939 advo- cated war between Russia and Germany while England‘sat on the side lines. o This was the basis for the per- sonhl ‘suspicion between him and Stalin. But historically, Churchill was carrying out a century-old British - policy of isolating Russia. For 100 years, the country with the greatest land mass in ghe ‘world, ! Russia, had been kept without a warme-water seaport by Brithin, the country with the greatest navy in the world. That rivalry was the reason for the Anglo-Japanese alliance, where- | by the British, working throught Japan, helped to stop Russia trom} getting Manchuria and a warm- water port on the Pacific. That rivalry was behind Britain’s | sphere of influence in Persia (now | Iran) to prevent Russian use of! the Gulf of Persia. That rivalry was also the cause of the Crimean War in which the British Fleet and British troops actually landed on the same spot where Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt later held their Yalta Conference and waged a bloody battle to prevent the Czar from coming down to the Darde- nelles and getting an outlet through the Mediterraneap. s eI b il U R (Continued on Page Four) DRAFTBILL 1S SIGNED BY TRUMAN Extension, Selective Serv-| ice Adt, Is for An- other Year | WASHINGTON, May 9.— Presi- Russians Are Told | War Ends. Announcement Made Early in Morning - Great Celebration By Eddy Gilmore TRUSTEESHIP | ISSUE STILL NOT SETTLED Final Ad of Surrender Is Given, Berlin Ceremony aes Place in|Pan-American Security Is| Cold, Barren Hall in ‘Other Big Unsolved Suburb of City Point at Meet | BERLIN, May 9—The final act{ By John M. Hightower (Associated Press Correspondent) MOSCOW, May 9—Thousands of dent Truman today signed legisla- of surrender by the German armedi Air Forces | Are fo Hit Ja__ps Hard Complete Units Used in Europe to Be Trans- | ferred fo Pacific By Al Dopking GUAM, May 9—Plans already :\rc; DOUGHBOYS |NEXT MOVE . WILL LEAD | ONNIPPONS INVASION IN MAKING His Rifle, Bayonet to Carry | Admiral Nim_iiz and Other Burden-Flame-Throw- | Commanders Talk Op- ers Are fo Be Used | ening Arrangements By Tom Reedy By Leonard Milliman (Associated Press War Correspondent) Russians swarmed through Red tion extending the Selective Service Square shouting “Long Live Stalin” Act as a “compelling necessity in the and “Hurrah for Victory” as the continuance of military operations Soviet capital turned out- to the against Japan." last man, woman and child t,oday' The President said he signed the pean war. In the center of the cheering, Was ended on all fronts) with reluc- singing throng, a group of Ameri- tance because he did not wish his can G.I’s attached to the U. S. action to be interpreted as express- i . T Military Mission in Moscow, danced ing concurrence with a section o across the cobblestones with girls the legislation placing “added re-| from the factories, which had shut Strictions on the War and Navy De- down for the celebration. partments in their management of Are Told News ithe fighting forces.” to celebrate the end of the Euro- bill extending the military draft a yyear from May 15 (or until the war| forces took place this morning at 12:16 a. m., Central European Time, (6:16 p. m. Eastern War Time), Harold King, representing the com- | bined Allied press, writes from Berlin that with this surrender the Nazi military leaders acknowledged !!hat their forces had been benun{ |to their knees. King adds that it| !will be difficult for postwar Ger- many to recreate a legend of the so-called invincible army being stabbed in the back. The ceremony took place in a gray house in Karlshorst, a suburb | “Big Five” powers. It is one of the |tieth Air Force, succeeds Maj. Gen. | flanking movements, big pincers op- i Uri Levitan, a small, dark man with a big voice, gave to, 190,000,000 .The meastrse, as passed by COD-{o¢ ‘Berlin, It was there that the gress, prohibits the use of 18-year-{gq, . onder document was signed by SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 — The | underway to transfer U. S. Euro-| United States is seeking an agree- |pean air forces to the Pacific for| ment on control of lands seized ! use against Japan, Lt. Gen. Barney in both world wars which will allow | Giles, new commander of the Army the Army and Navy to set up bases:Ah' Forces in the Pacific, disclosed at.any point in the world con- |today. | sidered vital to United States se-i Predicting a steadily increased eurity {tempo against Nippon, Giles said | The question involved — labeled | the time is not too distant when | here one of trusteeship of territory | more bombs will be showered on ' seized from the enemy, mandated Japan than were used in attacks! |after the first World War or in- on Germany capable of self-government—is still| Giles, who also will serve as| ia point of controversy between the Deputy Commander of the Twen- two most critical issues remaining | Willis H. Hale, acting commander | before the United Nations Cunl-{slxlce March 3, when Lt. Gen. Mfl-} (Assoclated Press War Correspondent) | WASHINGTON, May 9.—The tank carried the load in the European war; in the Pacific, it will be the Doughboy and his bayonet. That is the Army's yiew of the task ahead. > War Department authorities, turn- ing immediately from the jubilance of V-E Day to the Grim business of eliminating the Japanese, informally | sized up the problem this way: Ranking U. 8. Commanders talk- ed openly today of the forthcoming invasion of Japan as returning American pilots reported the crip- |pled enemy air force failed to send |a single interceptor against their raids on Nipponese airdromes and transportation lines from the home |islands to the Indo-China border. | Plans are in the making “for us to invade Jepan,” said Fleet Adm. clds in combat unless they have had | at least six months of training. ; NAGS, POOCHES Russians today the momentous news that the war against Germany had ended in a crushing victory for the Soviet Union and her Allies. The immediate reaction to the stirring event was typically Slavic. It was 1:10 a. m. when' Levitan— |star announcer for the Moscow n | ' TO RUN AGAIN; | o g men mo e, PLUS NEW CARS of the day—came on the air with' e Yl S 'Moderate Reconversion| Most Igfw!\zos‘t’:?;z ?eg;;zts werei P'ans Revealed Today by Mobilizer Vinson | asleep, but the announcement acted like an alarm clock. Thous- | ands poured into the streets—, | some still clad in pajamas and' 1 nightgowns. Many wept openly,' WASHINGTON, May 9—Wartime | some fell on their knees in prayer. controls over production, rationing he le were shaking 2hd Ppricing will be continued until i gl 2 the Administra- | hands, embracing and Kissing one Japan is defeated, e another on tear-wet cheeks. |tion said today, but “some recon- “It's over, thank God, it's over” Version will start immediately.” was a cry so recurrent among thgl Highlights of the program, asj women that it sounded like a choral Outlined at a White House news| chant. |conference by War Mobilizer Fred | Dawn Of Peace {M. Vinson, were: : For Russia—the only one of the{ 1—Immediate suspgnsion of the; three great powers not at war with 'ban on horse and dog racing, and Japan—the news really meant the lifting of the midnight entertain- dawn of peace. {ment curfew, effective tonight. Up to the moment of Levitan's 2—Release of enough materials broadcast announcement, the Rus-|8hd manpower, no Jonger needed sian people had no word—not even for the Pacific war, to produce a | an official hint—that Germany had }few automobiles within six to nlne“ surrendered. No dispatches on the months. i earlier surrender celebrations in| 3—Some prospect of an early Xn-[ Britain and the United States had | crease in gasoline allowances for| been published. | civilian motorists. | 4—Vinson said hel saw no indi- | STALIN'S ANNOUNCEMENT cations of any early general im-| LONDON, May 9—Premier-Mar- : provement in the civillan food | shal Stalin tonight issued his final | SUpply situation. p | oOrder of the Day to the Red Army| 5—No general rediftion in taxes| and Navy, announcing the uncon-'until final victory is won. | ditional surrender of Germany, and As to the armed forces, Vinson| ordered a triumph salute of 30 said: salvoes from 1,000 Moscow guns. “Prosecution of the“war against {the plane taking off from an Army t; stand by its agreements already three top-ranking officers of Ger- |ference upon the departure today many's defeated land, sea and air|Of Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. | forces. Molotov. | The room—a large, plainly fur-| The other issue is how to dove-‘ nished hall—was decorated with the | tail the Pan-American Security | national flags of the three vic-|System, recently worked, out at| torious powers. | Mexico City, into the ' Security On the stroke of midnight, Soviet | Council of the proposed world or-| Marshal Zhukov entered the hall | g@nization. with British Air Chief Marshal Sir| The American delegation is| Arthur Tedder. The two sat down [sharply divided on this question at | at a long table with the other|the moment. President Truman may | Allied officials, who included ch,}lmvc to make the final decision. | Commander of the American Stra- | tegic Air Forces in Europe, Gen.| Mbietan Rehvin | Molotov, whose two weeks' stay| Carl Spaatz. | At 10 minutes past 12, the Ger- here has been marked by several stormy, sessions over Poland, White | mans were led in on orders of| Marshal Zhukov. There was abso- | Russia and the Ukraine, and Ar- gentina, leaves the conference in lute silence. Zhukov asked the: Germans if they were ready to AN atmosphere of big-power har-‘ sign. Flash bulbs exploded and|™monY that few would have been movie cameras clicked, as Field willing to forecast within a few| Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Admiral| 48Y8 8go. The Soviet Ambassador | Gen. von Friedeburg and Col. Gen.| !0 Washington, Andrel Gromyko,| Stumpf signed for the beaten takes over chairmanship of the enemy‘.’ 5 | Russian delegation. i At 12:45 a. m. it was'all over.| The presence of the Soviet For-| Thus, Germany’s unconditional | ¢80 Minister for the first two surrender was ratified, in a z:old,:week‘u iR; (credited _With, having Batben hall 5 siinsd Basn, !speeded the conference through the | PRI i R | first phase of big-power agreement. | A brief session of the “Big Five”| |last night marked his last official | B u l l EI I N S | participation. ! U. 8. Takes Stand | It was there that Stettinius re- . portedly said that despite the re- SAN FRANCISCO—Soviet Com- turn of Molotov, and possibly of missar Molotov left the United Na- other Foreign Ministers to their tions Conference today for MOSCOW, ! capitals, the United States intends Airfield north of here. | made on basic changes in the Dum- | barton Oaks plan and intends also SAN FRANCISCO—The Tokyo!(, consult fully on other issues as broadcast says the Japanese C‘O""mey arise. | tion hel V-E the slightest change” in Japan's de ' B WA V- Dey IR0 ] |speech in which he said the United | termination to fight to the finish. | Nations must “consolidate their vic- | | tory” over Germany “for thé sake | lard F. Harmon disappeared during | a Pacific flight. Hale is to be given | an undisclosed important air as- signment. Attacks From Air Air attacks against Japan will be | increased - sharply with re-deploy- | ment of European theatre crews and airplanes, he said, The 52-year-old Giles formerly was deputy commander of U. S.! Army Airforces under Gen. Arnold. ! The new Pacific Air Chief, who observed first-hand what happened | to Germany under sustained bomb-[ ing, predicted Japan would lend!: itself to destruction faster. | “We don’t plan on the Japanese | capitulating until they are thor- oughly licked,” he explained. “We | are preparing for a full war out here.” Complete Transfer H Giles said many wir wings from Europe would be transferred as complete units, although some would be re-equipped with super- ! range B-29's. He added that B-29's and B-1T's both would figure prom- ! inently in future air poundings of Japan. | The biggest need in the Pacific! now, Giles said, is the development of bases for new units. Enlargement of existing bases also is planned. “We will use all Jand masses close to Japan,” he asserted. Among new types of planes which may be em- | | broad plains of China, do. |rain is overcome by the yard in- Europe was a tank country, for|Chester W. Nimitz, who added that such end-run Generals as Patton,{Navy planes would be flying contin- Hodges and Simpson, with wide 'ually over Japan today if he had three times his present force of carriers. Japanese ground forces, only po- erations and lightning stabs. The Pacific is totally different. {The home islands of Japan do not|tent stumbling block to conquest of lend themselves to tank warfare. It|Japan, made their first successful is questionable whether even the counter-attack in the Southern | Philippines; held U. S. lines on To Use riame-tnrowers irain-soaked Okinawa; retreated on The principal tank weapon against Tarakan off Borneo and lost. 3,000 the Japanese will be—in fact, al- of & force of 4,000 in fighting out ready is—the deadly flame-thrower Of & trap in China. on wheels. It has turned out to be' The Mikado's Alr Force has been the best disintegrator of pill boxes Wasted away trying to stem after anti-tank guns are knocked invasion of Okinawa Island, out. rung on the island ladder to Japan. But in a campaign where the ter- Many Nip Planes Lost More than 3,000 planes have been stead of by the mile, it is the foot- lost in these abortive attempts, slogging Doughboy with his rifle and leading Adm. Teijiro Toyoda, Nip- bayonet who must carry the burden. Pon's Munitions Minister, to call on the Japanese aircraft industry to use Different Warfare | materials “lavishly and liberally— The wide difference in the type of to turn out defense planes quickly.” warfare ahead also brings up the| Nipponese attacks on the U. 8. question of what jobs await those! Third Fleet, broken off Tuesday for tank generals who fought them-|the first time in more than a 3 selves out of a job*in Europe. There have sunk 26 small ships. ' In to- {has been no sign yet of future as- day's communiques alone, American signments for Supreme Allied Com-|Commanders announced 22 Japanese mander Eisenhower, General Omar ships were sunk or damaged, most- Bradley, or the Patton-Hodges-|ly off the coasts of Japan and Hon- Simpson trio. |shu, ; There has been speculation that, The U. S. Fourteenth Air Force in the Pacific team would be a three-|China got the rest. way affair at the top with General; With the aid of Philippine-based Joseph W. Stilwell — now Army, bombers they also destroyed 13 loco- Ground Forces Commander—driv- motives in continuing bombardment ing into China; Gen. Douglas Mac_]or China, Formosa and Indo-China Arthur into Japan, and Admiral rail lines: Chester W. Nimitz providing the No Opposition Navy Transport and Air Cover. Most striking of all the reports of There may be places directly be- lack of opposition came from Super- neath them for the successful Eu- fortress crews who gaid they didn't ropean Generals, including per- even see anti-aircraft fire in yes- ployed in the Pacific are A-26 strafing and hombing craft, the| B-30, which carries a bomb load | comparable to the B-29, and the swift P-80 jet propelled bomber. | TOURIST PANTO | BE ACTION FROM The order followed shortly after Stalin himself broadcast to the Russian people, and declared Ger- many’s final act of surrender in Berlin “is not only a piece of paper” LONDON—The Germans have| surrendered the three French Atlan-| |tic ports and U-boat bases at Lorient, | St. Nazaire and LaRochelle. They! Japan must take precedence over all considerations, but men and women who can be spared from the Army will be demobilized.” The Navy does not plan to demobilize have been occupied. of the welfare of nations and of | the cultural development of man- kind.” (HAMBER MEETING A survey leading toward a plan- | ned tourist development Polish Issue His leaving removes from the fe in haps Britain's Field Marshal Ber-,terday’s raids on Kyushu, southe nard Montgomery, whose dogged mest island of Japan which has been line-bucking tactics might be just'sending suicide planes'against Okin- the prescription for the land opera.!awa. " ' tions. \ Tokyo claimed suicide planes were B lat it again yesterday, sinking a i:;'ul;ersmnnd d:’maglng two other OFF'(ERS ‘ 4Th.e>rir§::.h Jnese Counter-attack NOMINATED AT NFFE MEETING {In the Northern Philippines, the | Thirty-seventh Divisign joined the until Japan has been defeated, he added. He said the Army expects to re- duce its strength by 1,300,000 in the next 12 months, but this will have to be done slowly at first. but a “true capitulation of Ger- many” forced “to her knees by the Red Army and by the troops of our Allies.” . Still earlier, he announced the liberation of Prague at 4 a. m. today, and for that ordered a sa. lute of 24 salvoes from 324 guns. (FCC monitors in New York said Stalin declared the end of the war would bring a long period of peace for Europe.) Stalin’s speech, lasting five and one-half minutes, made no refer- ence to Germany's only remaining ally, Japan, or to the conflict en- gaging the United States and Great Britain in the Pacific. —————— DR. SCOREBRAND HERE /GIRL SCOUTS 6O O AIR, CAMPAIGN DRIVE The Girl Scouts last Sunday even- ing presented a talent show over participating were as follows: piano solo, by Josephine Hared; vo- cal duet, Charlotte Mason and Roberta Messerschmidt; piano duets, Virginia and Paige tehead; har- monica solo, Elizabeth Wyller; tap Dr. G. V. Scorebrand, District KINY, and the program and those' PARIS—The only Germans re- immediate conference scene efforts | to. resolve the Anglo-American-| | maining unsurrendered on French| {50l are some 12,000 at Dunkerque, SCViet dispute over Poland. The United States and Britaish Am- the channel through which the Brit-| |ish force escaped in 1940. bassadors to Moscow, W. Averill | |Harriman and Sir Archibald Clark | | BOSTON—A German U-boat aL_bKerr. also fixed today for their de- | tack in the closing hours of the Eu- Pature. | |ropean war sank the 5,553-ton! Assuming some Russian response | | American collier Black Point, off| ' British and United States re- | Point Judith, R. I., Saturday nixht,‘““““ for information on 16 ar-| {May 5. Twelve crew members were rested Polish Underground leaders, | reported missing. |it is expected that the two am-| ! |bassadors and Molotov will try to| LONDON—The Germans:had be- | renéw in Moscow their efforts to tween 200 and 300 submarines to sur- ‘ have Poland’s Warsaw Government irender to the Allies, according to the rcorganized. ibest estimates here, and some of them likely will,be in use against| Japan before long. STOCK QUOTATIONS | |ceived from the Alaska Develop- |in Southeast Alaska area is to come before the Executive Board of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce this | evening, it is disclosed. Expecta- | tions are that the program will hei laid before the Chamber as a| whole at its weekly luncheon meet- | ing tomorrow in the Baranof Hotel Gold Room. The survey request has been re- | ment Board, and action is asked unison with other Alaska Chambers of Commerce. One feature of the luncheon will' be the showing of movies depicting | the making of lenses, binoculars | and similar related articles. The! picture was made by Bausch & Lomb Co., one of the world's largest | manufacturers of that type of goods. 1 Health Commissioner, Territorial Department of Health, arrived yes- terday from Anchorage on Depart- dance, Sylvia Davig and Donna Lee Gould, accompanied by Lane Roff; vocal solos by Dofna Olds, Lois Hared and Charlotte Mason, and a | ROME—War Correspondent Sid | Feder says Mussolini’s widow and two of her children were taken into custoday five days ago somewhere in COLLIS DRULEY HERE NEW YORK, May 9. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 67, American Can 98, | mental matters. He intends to stay here for several days and is a sueul at the Baranof Hotel. I clarinet solo by Dale Roff, A question and' ‘answer program by eight Boy and Girl Scouts will —— WELL BABY CONFERENCE ing at 7:30 oclock. During the ‘The weekly Well Baby Con-|week all Scouts are asked to be tun- ference will be held tomorrow in|ed to KINY at 7-'clock, a8 various the Juneau Health Center, Room speakers will talk, on the Scout 108, from 1 to 4 o'clock, finance drive, be given over KINY' tomorrow even- | . Anaconda 34'%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, | International Harvester 88, Ken- necott 37%, New York Central 25%, Masa g oN sovTH Northern Pacific 26%, U. S. Steel Miss Florence Holton, Supervisor | 67%, Pound $4.04. Sales today were | of Education in the Alaska Native 1,480,000, Service, left today for Seattle where, Dow, Jones averages today are she will be under medical treat- as follows: industrials, 165.24; rails, ment for some time, ,95.51; utilities, 30.73. Northern Italy. Collis Druley, for years on the staff of the Alaska-Juneau, now manager of a chrome mine on Cook | Inlet, is in Juneau bound wests ward. He is accompanied by Mrs. Druley and two children. They are stopping at the Baranof during their stay here. jon Mindanao* in the Southern Blackerby, Emel fo Hold | Philippines smashed through a thin | American line near Davao, islolat- Jobs Again-Pay Raise Is Discussed |ing a battalion f the 24th Division. The regular monthly meeting of the National Federation of Federal Employee in Juneau was held today noon in the Baranof Gold Room with President Alva Blackerby pre- siding. The nomination of officers was given today with President Alva Blackerby re-elected and Secretary- Treasurer Rollin L. Emel re-elected. Those nominated for Vice-President were: Ernest E. Lincoln, Ruth Rose and N. Floyd Fagerson and Chris Wyller was nominated Trustee. A short discussion was held on Senate Bill 807 which will, if made a law by legislation, increase Fed- eral employee sawages 15 per cent. Guests included Ralph Weeks, Edith Kellogg and Eleanor Derby. New local members are Helen K. McShan and Crystal Jenne, and out- lying members are Willlam E. Thomas, Rhoda Thomas and Clara Hayes Gaddie. new transfer member. [twenty-fifth and Thirty-second in the protracted ntain battle for Balete Pass, key to fertile Cagayan Valley. i i | Chinese trying to break up a |threat to a U. 8. airfield 250 miles southeast- of Chungking told of killing 3,000 WNipponege in a pocket and infiltrating to within six miles ' (of the enemy base. L4 ot WAGE TRIAL TU GET TO JURORS THURSDAY Arguments by opposing counsel this forenoon ‘terminated hearing in U. S. District Court here of evi- dence and testimony in the civil action for wages brought by Walter Rolfe against Edwin A. Kraft, owner of Radio Station KINY. The court has adjourned until 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, at which time Judge George F. Alex- ander will instruet the trial jury before it retires for consideration of a verdict. S N D. W, Herron has veen in Wash- ington for several days conferring with Treasury officials and re- cently called on Delegate Bartlett. MY. Herron is disbursing officer, Don C. Foster is a|with headquarters at Juneau, for the Treasury Department.