The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 12, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 9960 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1945 e e e e — MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ‘JAP BASES IN NORTH PACI - Army’s Redeployment " ORGANIZING No Combairoops Serving| in Europe, Africato | Go to Japan | By Robert Eunson PARIS, May 12—The U. S| Army's vast redeployment plan toj shift fighting men from Europe to| the Pacific began operation v.oday.i following an announcement by Gen.; Eisenhower that combat troops whol| served both in North Africa and| Europe would not have to fight in| the Japanese theatre. | “We must be sure,” Gen. Eisen- | hower wrote to Generals of his com- mand, “that no soldier is sent to, the Pacific who has fought in both | North Africa and Europe. “ “I may be that some soldiers in! this catagory will not have sufficient points to be eligible for discharge | However, these men should be re-| tained in the Furopean theatre for| occupation, as they should not be re- | quired to fight another campaign.” Uppermost factor in the operation | of the redeployment plan, said Lt.‘ Gen. Lucius D. Clay, Deputy Mili!ary: Governor of the U, 8. Group Control/ Council, was “The problem of ap-| plying overwhelming force to bring the war against Japan to a quick énd.” | Troops which hayé amassed suffi- cient points based qn service, depen- : dents and decorations, will be dis- charged. When the'scores are tabu- ! Jated they will be sent to the War, Department, which will determine what score will be low enough to permit the release of 2,000,000 men, whilg retaining the 6,968,000 neces- saryito fight Japan and occupy Ger- many: Among the foremost factors invol- ved dre the immediate training of troops now in Germany and France in' Japanese tactics, and the matter 6f Jeave and accommodations for the As GermanySurrendered Unconditionally This was the scene at Reims, France, SHAEF headquarters May 7 as Germany signed terms of ungondi- tional surrender with the Allies. From left are: Front, with backs to camera: Gen. Adm. Hans G. von Friedburg, cammander in chief of the Germany Navy; Col. Gen. Gustaf Jodl, German Chief of Stagg; Maj. Gen. Wilhelm Oxenius, personal aide to General Jod! ar, seated at table and facing camera: Lieut. Gen. Sir F. Morgan, staff deputy; Gen. Francois Sevez of France; Adm. H. M. Burrough, commanding general of the Allied Expeditionary Ferces; Lieut. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, chief of staff to Gen. Eisen- hower; Licut. Gen. Ivan Chermia%l Russia; Gen. Ivan Suslopareff of Russia; Lieut. Gen. C. A. Spaatz of the United States; Air Marshal J. M. Rebb (or Maj. Gen. H, R. Bull—one shown, but not indefinite which); Lieut. Col.-Ivan Zenkovitch, interpreter (at end of tablews (AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps radiophoto) HIMMLER URGE THAT HIGH NAZI CAPTURED, ~ GOLDMINES ~ OFFICIALS ISREPORT BE OPENED ARESEIZED { ° 1 of FIC BOMBED Plan 'BATTLE ON Deadlock On | Lone Hurdle = OKINAWA Said Broken| IS FIERCE Conference Finds Tentative | Close Quarter Comba, Fix- Solution fo Regional ed Bayonet Charging Security Poser on Battleline By John M. Hightower | By Al Dopking (Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) | (asociated Press War Correspondent) !u:‘"‘l'; ng‘:‘[ic‘:e‘fgm’;’(‘)‘;y \:,";s ":’: GUAM, May 12—Four attacking Biod todey 1o’ Dask ’ Beokil dts American divisions and bitterly re- weck-old d(":ld]()ck over how to fit| isihe - Japanse weie . loaked. o :reglun'\l wc‘urxty A L it n‘cloac-qum'lm‘ combat today along b ‘))(’m“c sl cingon solu-‘u‘e entire _Okinawa Island front, { tion, although tentative, is seen Where both sides frgquently charged o e with fixed bayonets. }_mxu as another long step in speed- | Perhaps 50,000 to 100,000 Japa- (’;‘:)Rrjf‘f’ United Nations Security o ang americans were involved cl\"\‘n‘u‘\(“u. toward a successful con- | iy, fignting over yidges and ravines B {along the four-mile battle-line. It is based on Flame throwers, tanks and blaz- United Nations Charter the rlgh!"mp, gasoline seared inter-locking all countries to make treaties|cave defenses as the first Yank for their own defense. Under such |two-corps offensive hammered to ities nations could give each 4 within a mile of the two major emergency assistance against | objectives—Shuri, a medieval-type an aggressor but then the pm-l g {fortress in the center, and Naha, . Jected world security council would |shottered west coast port and capi- ‘I::w «'rsr;:)‘:rqw;;d to take control Ofila] of the southern Ryukyus. | a . Tough Fighting i+ Officials said this plan should “You won't see spectacular ad- jallay the fears of small nations |vances, because this isn't that kind | that the council might not givelof fighting,” said Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr,, as his*army |opened its greatest assault yester- day, while Japanese suicide planes jattacked shipping. off-shore. “But !you will see many Japs killed and ;you will see them gradually rolled back.” And that is the way it was, ! i { recognizing in a them quick enough protection in an | emergency. And, they felt it would (not weaken the overall authority tof ihe world agency to handle sit- uations endangering peace. Secretary of State Stettinius dis- cussed the compromise American plan with British Foreign Secre- tary Eden last night in an effort|Associated Press Correspondent to begin .obtaining a big power |Vern Haugland reported from the agreement along the same line.|front—bitter fighting all across the | Stettinius reports back to a delega- | jsland. tion meeting today, at which final| Naval, land and aerial artillery {U. 8. accord on the formula is supported the attack by the First slated and Sixth Marine Divisions and ‘The reaction of Latin Amencan‘me Army's Seventy-Seventh and | leaders battling here for an inde- | Ninety-Sixth Infantry Divisions. pendent security system in this| Testifying to the toughness of NEW YORK, May 12 — CBS| WASHINGTON, May 12—Thirty-| WITH THE U. S. SEVENTH hemisphere remains to be deter- | reported from Paris today that one western Congressmen yesterday | ARMY, May 12—Dr. Walther Funk, Mined, but United States leaders | Heinrich Himmler “is now reported urged War Production Board Chair- | President of the Reichsbank and Weré hopeful the self-defense |to be in our hands.” [man J. A. Krug to allow the ria- | German Minister of Economics, €Ty would meet their approval troops awaiting reassignment or dis- charge. B The Washington Merry - Go -Roundiarresl, and Doenitz is now believed | flicted with ' By DREW PEARSCN ‘ (Lt. Col.” Robert S. Allen now on active service witn the Army,) SAN FRANCISCO—Secretary of | State Ed Stettinius has just re- ceived an interesting document | from his undersecretary, Joe Grew, listing a variegated group of or- ganizations trying to undermine the San Francisco Conference. The report was prepared by Louis M. Birkenhead of the Friends of De-| mocracy, who spent two hours with | Grew, giving him a bill -of particu- | lars regarding the anti-peace agi- tators whom he described as having | all the strength of the pre-Pearl Harbor isolationists with no Pearl | Harbor ahead to shock us into| unity. | ‘The people who are now scream- | ing, “Poor Poland,” and “Poor Rumania,” the report warns, are the same ones who once insisted that ‘Poland, Czechoslovakia and the - rights of small nations were nene- of our business. When the| Atlantic Charter was first pro-| claimed they called it a fraud, but today they shed tears over its “de- | { Hére are the chief agitators | agdlbst the San Francisco Con- férénce and Bretton Woods, ac-! cording to the Birkenhead report: | Gerald L. K. Smith, one-time! Huey Long lieutenant, leader of | the America First Party — just| arrived in San Francisco only to be barred by most hotels. | Elizabeth Dilling, long under in- dictment for sedition and even more active an isolationist than | the Chicago Tribune. Ex-Senator Bob Reynolds of | North ‘Carolina, son-in-law of Mrs.| Evalyn “Hope Diamond” McLean, and who once edited a weekly | magazine with reputed Fascist leaders. Also Senator Pappy” O'Daniel (Continued on Page Four) “Pass-the-Biscuits of Texas; ex- | said. “Himmler is understood to have tion’s gold mines ta reopen. been held by Admiral Karl Doenitz Their joint letter, declaring that | in the Flensburg area under house no other industry has been in-|ing Nazis, has been seized by such hardships, was | troops of the American Seventh to have turned him over to British made public by Representative ' Army. st ' Engle, (Democrat, California). The same troops also took into with 200 German ministerial pe forces in that area,” the broadc: jerat, Alaska), Stockman and Ells- nese Ambassador to Germany, and !worth, (Republicans, Oregon). 1130 Japanese diplomatic personnel, z R lA“DI“G | % 2 |the Army announcement said. [ | Taken with Funk were Dr. Hans o“ MI"DANAO | Heinrich Lammers, Chief of the | | | | Reichs Chancellery, and Dr. Wil- | ‘lif.:am Ohnesorge, Postmaster { _MANIL?.’: :{?: l‘;i".l_ll;;:':lese gar‘-} i EEXTRA pAY FOR ot Trom cacn oinr ana e Liberafed Americans, Now CONGRESSMEN IS off from outside aid, Gen. glas | a' Fo” I_ewis, Saved 1 from Transfer | H By Howard Flieger MacArthur reported today, as a| result of a new American landing | on that island, second-largest in! the Philippines. l FORT LEWIS, wash,, May 12—A! WASHINGTON, May 12—Some group of soldiers who have reached members said it seemed like a sneaky here enroute home after being lib- | Way to get a raise. ] erated from a German Prisoner of Others argued the public has no B, AT Battle-seasoned Yanks of the Fértieth Division swarmed ashore unopposed Thursday at Macajalnr] Bay, on the island’s north coast, to ! surp»'<e a.nd chegkmale the ?xiemx's :War Camp told yesterday how idea what an expensive thing it is to garrison in Bukidnon Province, miAmeric:m officers tricked ot.hel"he a Cohgressman. the interior. Rear Admiral A. D.i oo cint, quarantining the Amer-| The upshot—a shouting House Struble commanded the amphibious {.on"eamp instead of transfering the majority voted yesterday to give force. men further into Germany when‘tnch member $2,500 a year, tax free, The Bukidnon Japanese had been |jyeration forces - drew near. {as expense moifey to top off his backing northward, trying to get| .ryice when orders came to move, $10,000 salary. away from the Yank Thirty-First|ype officers told the Germans that' The House wrote the expense al- Division, coming at them from the ' joaths among us were due to spinal | lowance and some employee pay in- south. The Fortieth Division opera- | meningitis,” said Pvt. John 1.!creases into a $50,000,000 appropri: tion constituted a landing in the |Ronco, of Selah, Washington. ition to pay the costs of Congr rear of this enemy unit. MacArthur | ncluded among the group, which;The bill goes to the Senate where said it left the enemy “incapable left last night for 60-day furlough members can knock out the House of serious opposition.” |and leaves was First Lt. Dale R. The Japanese at Davao con- gandvik of Palmer, Alaska. HUGHE! iexpense money, whichever seems the tinued fierce resistance. Neverthe- NO TRACE OF JOHNS' BODY Beseiged Japanese on Tarakan, 4 Search is continuing in an effort Borneo, also fought with tigerish | wounded In AdIOII Dutch assault units from captur-! | Sheep Creek Thursday evening, ing Djoeata oil field, in the central| wWASHINGTQN, May 12-Pvt. Mil- | but no trace of the victim has | y | S IN JUNEAU | Bakeries, Fairbanks, Alaska, has| > ' been wounded in action in the Eu-l ELEANOR KINCH HERE |best idea to them. less, the Yank Twenty-Fourth Divi- | . | ———————— sion gained against them. {Fairbanks ManIs | | | |to recover the body of Mike Rich- fury and prevented Australian and. ard Johns, fisherman drowned off part of the island. \ |liam D. Guthrie, Jr., s6n of Mrs. La-|yet been uncovered, it was reported e |vona Fisher, care of North Pole here this afternoon. G. L. Hughes, of Anchorage, is a ropean theatre, the War Department| Eleanor D. Kinch, of Whitehorse, guest at the Gastineau Hotel. Jannounced today. is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. PUT IN MEASURE One of the still-unsolved prob- tional supervision for trusteeship | | governments of lands taken from |countries in the two world wars. | Britain and the United States are | States’ contention that areas suit- able for military base developments should be given into exclusive con- I trol of the governments which op- |erate the bases. | On the same problem, Russia in | trusteeship committee of the con- ference, sided entirely with the| | United States. Russia also went | along with an American proposal that a special council should be es- | tablished in the proposed new peace | league to head up the trusteeship | isystem. Russia said the council |should include the “Big Five”| powers as permanent members. A more powerful position seemed to be in prospect for the league's | 1 proposed economic and social coun- ;cil. A conference committee study- | ing plans for that agency vated' unanimously last night that it| (would rank next to the powerful | security council. | | D 'Monigomery On | Trip, Copenhagen COPENHAGEN, May 12. — Field | - Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgom- |ery came to Copenhagen by plane | 1today for a few hours visit in the | n X, | R - | MRS. CHASE REGISTERED | Mrs. Archie M. Chase, who has| been here for some time undergo-‘ ing medical care, has been released | from the hospital and Is a guest| at the Gastineau until she is able | to return to her home at Gus-| tavus, King Christial i | { e - } FLORENCE JUNEAU | A. L. Florence, of Ketchikan, has arrived in Juneau and is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. / | island, kyus campaign, March 18 through sonnell, including many top-rank-|lems is that of providing interna- | wednesday, were 6,853—1283 of-' ficers and men killed; wounded and 2,072 missing. Great Offensive hurling back infiltration 5,498 After 41-day-old campaign to crack the main Japanese defense of the vital 325 miles from Japan's homeland, Thirty-nine thousand, four hun- G(-n-"‘" amendment submitted to the | qreq and sixty-two Japanese have been counted in the Okinawa cam- paign — approaching double the figure of tough Iwo Jima. Along the west coast, the Sixth Marine Division, which audaciously bridged the Asa River, Thursday, advanced a, half-mile and is now! | within 1,000 yards of Okinawa's capital city, Naha. The city which once sheltered 66,000 is a shambles | jectives include eventual elimina- | today from terrific gaily naval and tion of price and rent ceilings usj artillery bombardment. Three U. S. vessels were dam- aged by suicide planes in an at- tack linked with the ground as- sault. The enemy lost 40 planes, Nimitz announced. - Volunieers of Canadians fo Be In Pacific War OTTAWA, May 12-The Canadian Government announced that the increases or vote themselves some|Danish capital and a reception by |first Canadian troops to be brought home from Europe will be those who volunteered for service in the Pacific. These Canadian veterans will be given 30-day furloughs and then will be assigned to training areas to prepare for -duty in the Pacific. The Canadian Far East Forces will be made up entirely of volun- teers, and will be composed mostly of men under 35. g WIESE IN JUNEAU John Wiese, of Cordova, guest at the Baranof Hotel. Starts Operating DOUGLAS YOUTH || IBERATORS "um amrier MAKE RAID Harry Worobec Overcome. ON KATAOKA While Striving fo Reach | Cannery Dock Harry Worobec, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Worobec, long-time Douglas residents, was | reported to have met death by acci- | |dental drowning off the Douglas! City dock this forenoon at ap-/ QUARTERS, Aleutians, May 10.— I proximately 11:15 o'clock. | (Delayed) — Liberators peppered | The accident occurred while the Japanese shipping Thursday at Ka- youth and a play companion were |tacka Naval Base in Shumushu attempting to swim back from|Jima, 30 riiles south of Russian Mayflower Island to the cannery Kamchatka with 250-pound general dock or to the Douglas Island|Purpose bombs, Headquarters re- shore. The other lad succeeded in |Ported. Results were unobserved. reaching safety, but young Worobec! The bombing was made from high was seen to go under by other altitude by instruments through children still on the small island heavy overcast. In Douglas Harbor, who immediate- Anti-aircraft fire was meager and ly sent out cries for help. |inaccurate. & Two fishermen, Joe Stevens and| The presence of Japanese shipping Ray McCormick, working on their \in Kataoka indicated the enemy boats nearby, answered the cries Mi8ht be reinforcing the Northern and started a search of the spot Xurile bases since Russia's denun- where the youth was last sighted,|Clation of the neutrality pact with but he did not again appear on | J%Pan early last month. the surface, according to reports,| More American bombs were drop- ped on the Japanese staging area at ‘The U. S. Coast Guard was called Kashiwabi to the scene and joined the search ( - oniWwabara on w?rthtrn Para- : mushito, with two boats and two planes. { Their efforts, however, had been |, Fesults were unobserved due to without results up to 12:30 o'clock | ¢ Overeast. — - this afternoon. | I It is assumed that the group of children crossed over to the| smaller island at-low tide. i i The lad’s parents were in .Juneau ' at the time of the accident. They | THA'[A"D IS ,wete notified and, grief-stricken, | ‘returned to witness and assist in| the search. The drowned lad has a surviving sister, Marla, seven years old, and CALCUTTA, May 12. — British forces, operating from newly-won Rangoon, launched air and land attacks yesterday to clear the way {for an invasion of Thailand and ‘Area on Northern Para- mushiro Also Peppered by American Craft ELEVENTH AIRFORCE HEAD- a half-brother, Roger Connors, now ' !serving with the U. S. Navy. His father recently returned to Douglas | from defense work in the Aleutions. D e PEAK PRODUCTION OPA FORMULA T0 the naval campaign, Admiral Ches- | ter W. Nimitz announced the past | week's naval casualties were 1,302.! ‘Total naval casualties for the Rqu | Malaya. Other forces continued to |advance south from Prome in the | face of some enemy opposition. CURB INFLATION | WASHINGTON, May 12—Record | production at low prices and high wages is OPA's formula for smoth- | They ‘included Bartlett, (Demo-|custody Gen. Hiroshi Oshima, Japa- | N€8r agreement on the U"“edianacks during the night, Buckner 'ering the “fires of inflation.” |loosed the greatest offensive of the | Price Administrator Chester Bowles told a news conference that a flood of consumer goods best prevent a run-away economy |in the reconversion period. | Pledging that prices of most com- modities returning to the clvilian market will stand at 1942 levels, Bowles said OPA promptly will grant increases above those levels where proved necessary to compen- sate for higher wage or material costs. Besides preventing inflation and promoting full production and em- | ployment, OPA’s reconversion ob- soon as inflation dangers Bowles said. end, - Nelson-Quits WASHINGTON, May 11.—Donald M. Nelson’s long connection with the government will end May 15, the | White House having accepted his resignation as a special represen- Itnuve to other governments. Edwin A. Locke, Jr., long-time as- sistant to Nelson, was named by President Truman to take over the job in China. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 12, — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7%, American Can 97, Anaconda 34'¢, Curtiss-Wright 5%, International Harvester 87, Kenne- cott 37'%, New York Central 25%, Northern Pacific 27'i, U. S. Steel 65%, sales 560,000, Dow, Jones averages today are is a'as follows: industrials, 163.96; rails,|of Fairbanks, 55.84; utilities, 30.73. A 34-year-old. Harvard graduate, i Fourth British Corps headquart- ers announced that British troops |had counted 16,730 slain Japanese !in their drive through Burma. | e \Casualties of 8th | Air Force Listed | LONDON, May 12—The U. 8. |Eighth Air Force today listed 43,742 | Fighter pilots and Bomber crewmen as killed or missing in action in the war in Europe. | The seriously injured were num- ’bered at 1,923, Bombers lost in action totaled Quick Lifting 0f War Censorship | WASHINGTON, May 12 — Sen- | ator McFarland (D.-Ariz.) called to- , day for lifting of censorship controls | in Europe “as quickly and cofplete- | ly as possible, | “The best proof that this most | important story of the past decade | was badly mishanded by censorship | offieials lles in the fact that the | Germans themselves knew most of the facts long before we in Ameriea were permitted to know the official ! story,” McFarland said. B 0 Yo S A - GOODMAN HERE | Thor S. Goodman, Superintend- :ent of the Whiz Cannery in Peli- jcan, has arrived from Seattle and |is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. | 4 ———l AIKEN ARRIVES Claude Aiken, Collector for the Treasury Department, from Ketchi- kan, is at the Gastineau. P . DG LR SEATTLE WOMEN HERE Mabel Padgett and Myrtle Brook- ens, registered from Seattle, are |guests at the Baranof Hotel. — e Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Hansmann, are guests at the | 14,456, | Asks Baranof Hotel,