The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 14, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXV., NO. 9961 “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS == ————————————— | “JAP CONVOY BOMBED IN NORTH PACIFIC trial Center Of Japan Steffinius Bu v Y} ‘. " Indus 500 Superfmr—esses Make Atfack-Planes Also Hit Jap lsles By James Lindsey (Associated Press War Correspondent) BOMBRAID GUAM, May 14—Industrial Na-| goya, Japan's third largest city, was | plastered with 3500 tons of fire| bombs today by a record fleet of 500 Suptrfortresses and returning crew- | men reported “sweeping devasta- | tion” of the metropolis. ‘While there was no immedate re- port of American losses, plane com- | manders agreed they must have been | very light, and said opposition was surprisingly small. N Anti-aireraft fire was described ! as weak and inaccurate, and while many Japanese fighter piléts took to the air few showed any disposition to-fight. Incendiary Raid l It was the most concentrated in-| cendiary raid of the Pacific war. | The giant air fleet, winging 3,500 | miles round trip, struck while Radio Tokyo was reporting a continuing| two-day’ offensive by 900 carrier- based - planes on' its home islands.: The -carrier planes-came from two| Task Forces, said the unconfirmed' Since Nerway was liberated from Nazi domination by the terms cf the unconditional surrender, this was the first picture to be flashed to the United States, and is one cf the very few photographs to come out of Norway since the war began more than five years ago. Johan Street in Oslo, the capital of Norway: (IInternational Radiosoundphoto) Rejoicing crewds are shown gathered on' Karl en€rhy broadcast. The glant B-29 air parade was mote than 1,800 miles long. The' first Superfort had flown to the Honshu Island city, dropped it fire| bombs and was 90 minutes on its; TRUMANLEADS INPRAYERFOR may home while the last plane was taking off from its Marianas base. New Type Of Bomb A new-type, six-pound fire bomb /was carried today for almost every one of teeming Nagoya's 1,500,000 inhabitants. Altogether, 1,165,000 of the jelly gasoline bombs were drop- ped. They explode seconds after hit- ting the target and spew flaming gasoline over a sizeable area. A Japanese communique admitted fires wers started in various sec- tions of the city but claimed most of them were extinguished five hours after the rair began. A broadcast version of the enémy communique said “approximately 400 B-29s" were over the city for an hour and a half, starting at 7 a. m., “and indiscrim- inately bombed the streets, chiefly using incendiary bombs.” Japanese headquarters claimed (Cnutinued on‘Pnpz Fw;) The Washington Merry - Go-Roun By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on seiive service witn the Army. WASHINGTON—Back in 1937-38, Admiral William Leahy, now Chief of, Staff to the White' House, de- vised a 'strategy against Japan, which, df put into effect, might Have prevented Pearl Harbor and even World War II Today, the old Leahy strategy is being dusted off, especid.y on Capitol Hill, as the best means of finishing the war with Japan. It would save thousands of American lives, its proponents claim, and would serve as an example of how wars can be won—or prevented— by naval blockade. The proposals made by Admiral Leahy constitute one of the most important unwritten chapters in the history of what happened be- fore the war began. Leahy, then Chief of Naval Operations and one of the best strategists the Navy has seen in years, saw all too clearly that war was coming both in Europe and Asia. At that time, 1937, Japan had just begun her full-scale invasion of China, and it was Leahy’s idea to make an example of Nippon which would show Hitler and Mussolini—then feeling their oats—that the United States meant business and would stand four-square behind the peace machinery of the world. Therefore, he proposed to Roose- velt a naval blockade of Japan in (Continued on Page Four) .~ PACIFIC PEA(Ej President’s Mother Unable | | fo Attend Service Com- memorating Viclory | WASHINGTC:, mMay 14—Led by | President Truman, Americans gave thanks on Mother's Day for victory | and beseeched an early end to the Pacific conflict. | Mr. Truman prayed in the chapel | lof the National Naval Medical| |Center at nearby Bethesda, Mary-‘ !land. Although he had emphasized | that Mother’s Day, was a specially- fitting occasion for the National! |Day of Prayer he had proclaimed, | { the President’s own 92-year-old, ,mother was unable to accompany |him to the services after flying| {here last week from Missouri. | | “Mama didn't feel up to the trip,” | | Mr. Truman said as he set out from | | the White House with other mem- | |bers of the Presidential family for {the 1l-mile drive to Bethesda. | The interdenominational services | there were conducted by Chaplains | 1J. Jack Sharkey and John Weise. | With the congregation, Mr. Tru- | {man recited these words: “In Thy gracious love and provi- dence bless our sons and” daughters in the armed forces of the Pacifi |May peace speedily come there {also.” i | > Nation's Mourning Is Ending Tonight 1 WASHINGTON, May 14 — The ! nation’s month of mourning for Franklin D. Roosevelt ends at sun- down today. | Tomorrow, flags again will fly at | full staff, Mr. Roosevelt died April 12, The mourning period was proclaimed by | President Truman. - e . OKATLAS WILSON, N. C.—The ration board was puzzled when a gasoline ap- plication endorsed by them, “sign in place checked with red pencil,” | was returned with no signature. | | But, when it came back the sec- | ond time signed in red, the appli- cant’s explanation cleared the con- fusion. he wrote: “I can't find a red pencil in Elm City. I borrowea this one from the bank.” TREAT'EMROUGH | {Nothing Frfidly fo Be Eden Visits President at HALIFAX NOW British For;;n MinisieriEden Leaves Conference- Has No Idea WhenBig ' Soviet Credited with There Are fo Meet Major Gains fo Date WASHINGTON, May l4—An- By John M. Hightower thony Eden told reporters after a 1t White House call today he had “no| idea” when President Truman, Prime Minister Churchill and Pre- mier Stalin would megt. ‘The British Foreign Secretary and Anglo-American-Russian maneuvers for postwar world leadership are \developing at top speed behind the Deputy Prime Minister Clement At- | Scenes of the United Nations Con- les, who are enroute to London from | ference. So far, Russia is credited San Francisco, called at the White|PY her Western Allies with some House this afterndon and talked ™Malor gains. with President Truman for 35 The Soviet Union, moving firmly minutes. (into a situation once dominateda by Their visit coincided with Lon_lAnglu-Amencan policies, is re- don reports of a possible “peace” 8arded by Anglo-American officials meeting of the Big Three Chiefs of s seeking at least three main ob- State. 7 I jectives in her foreign policy: . When Eden emerged from Mr.| l—Arrangements for her own se- Truman's office he told reporters surity—first by lining her strategic that the San Francisco World Con- borders with governments Moscow ference which, he said “seems to us! considers friendly (in Poland, for to be getting along Wwell,” was not example) and by laying down pro- discussed. ! tective treaties, as with France and - D |and support the world security or- ganization being planned here. Soviet As “Moral” Leader 1 2—Building up a case which will SAYS EISENHowERmnable Moscow to bid for what it | might call “moral leadership” | the world. This follows the line of ishowmg Russia as a champion of | democratic rights and freedoms |and the Western Powers as defend- Shown Captured Nazi 120 i< severs 2o High Germans | 3—Prepare a firm basis for | Russia’s maximum influence in the s 2 power politics of the future. Rus- PARIS, May 14—Gen. Dwight D. gigs proposal that the “Big Five” | Eisenhower sald today he regrets|git in as permanent members of a instances in which senior folce""‘trusteesmp council is seen as a treated captured Nazl ‘and high|pove iy this direction German officials on a “friendly| 1 5 in the balancing of big enemy” basis In direct violation of| power rivalries without disrupting hl(s‘ oxder_.& ; __junity on peace organization that Drastic measures have been set|ihe conference has had its greatest in motion to assure termination of g,ccess to date. these errors forthwith. Moreover, | Eden London-Bound any past instances of this nature | Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden are by no means indicative of the|jer¢ for ILondon yesterday. The attitude of this Army,” Eisenhower| pritish delegation is now captained | said. b ch r y the Earl of Halifax, Ambassador The Supreme Commander’s state- |t Washington. It issued a state- ment was made following Wide- ment that Eden leaves San Fran- spread criticism appearing’ in the|cisco “with the knowledge that British and American press on|mych progress has been made on treatment of Reichs Marshal Her-|tne yital policies and in the con- mann Goering by the Seventh|, Army. i (Continued on Page Five) WARLOAN | DRIVE IS ON TODAY Task of Borrowing Seven| Billion Dollars from | | Individuals Starts e o o o BOYS WANT GOOD NEWS Is Set Ablaze ys War Bond TWO NIPPON g VESSELS ARE - SENT DOWN Four Other;i%s of Locat- | ed Convoy Reported as Damaged ELEVENTH AIR FORCE HEAD- | QUARTERS, ALEUTIANS, May 12 (Approved Statement by W. Halsey, Admiral, U. S. Navy, mander Third Fleet) F. Com- Your fighting men are looking for good news from home—that the Seventh War Loan has been subscribed. They know how to trans- late good news from home into bad news for the Jap. Let the good news come! | | | . . . . . . o . . . . e o o 0 0 o | | I BIG TASK STARTS | WASHINGTON, May 14—America | | began today the task of borrowing | | $7,000,000,000 from its individual| citizens — $649,000,000 more than | they have loaned in any bond drive | to date. | The Seventh War Loan lasts* {fiom now through June 30, the, {longest of all the drives. It will be | | the largest bond-selling operation; in history, in terms of public par- ticipation, } Treasury Secretary Morgenthau | |officially set the seven-week drive | |in motion last night when he said | |in .a four-network broadcast: Pausing in the midst of deep affairs of state, American Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinous Jr. signs up for the first “Eisenhower bond” of the Seventh War Bond Drive. He is shown here about to sign, after accepting a pen from San Francisco's 20-year-old Patricia Mulpeters, AWVS girl assigned to the bond drive. DEFEAT OF JAPAN IS PLEDGED Churchill imdress Out- YANKSENTER NAHA AFTER . HARD EFFORT Suicidal Jafiut Up Terri- fic Resistance-Amphi- ~(Delayed)—After locating a 15- | ship convoy in the fog-girt Kuriles | waters, northernmost Japan, in the | North Pacific, Eleventh Air Force pilots succeeded in sinking two (cargo ships and damaging four, | probably five, returning pilots fe- ported today. | Capt. Donald Hofferth, Jackson, | Michigan, was credited with sink- |ing a 2500-ton freighter. He said the “scene was very calm as we flew in but it changed rapidly, ! with anti-aircraft fire from ship and shore guns plus fighter attacks |from all sides.” | One Mitchell exploded and crash- ed during the fight, Sunk were the 2,500-ton freighter (and a small freighter. Damaged |and left burning were a frigate, two | medium cargo ships and a freighter. | Two near misses may. have dam- | aged a 7,000-ton transport, pilots ! reported. Meanwhile, to the south of Ka- taoka, navy search planes in two | flights strafed and fired rockets |into Japanese radar installations at |Minami Cape on eastern Paramu- | shiro. |8 | Mitchell medium bombers and Liberators in heavy force surprised BRITISH HEAD Whife House AT . F. MEET (Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) | | SAN FRANCISCO, May 14—/ | Britain; second, by helping develop | ot | lines Twin Tasks o | Be Accomplished | LONDON, May 14—The efforts of | |the British Empire were pledged | by Prime Minister Churchill to the | [ twin tasks of perfecting the peace organization of the United Nations Okinawa.” and to joining with the United| | The Treasury has laid emphasisStates in inflicting total deleaLi |on the Pacific war from the start | upen Japan. |of its preparations for this drive.| The wartime leader, in a world- {War Finance officials repeatedly | wide broadcast address last night have stressed the high cost of imade it plain that with those tasks ! i fighting the Japanese across the ahead he does not intend to re- world’s widest ocean. |linquish voluntarily the reins of | The goal for “E” bond sales is!'government. 1$4,000,000,000. Series “E” is called| He assailed the Irish Government the “People’s Bond.” It is the war of Premier Eamon De Valera tor‘ bond nearly everybody buys. ‘ru;nammg neutral while Britain’ ——— - | was under attack by Germany, as- | serting “if it had not been for the pOR'I' OF Foocuow |loyalty and friendship of Northern ! Ireland, we should have been forced | : |to come to close quarters with Mr. “The fruits of peace are not | yet ripe for us to pluck. For | a while longer—for whatever | | length of time may be required | | we must continue to do with- | out things we want but do not | meed. . . . There is no truce in this war for the men on the earth.” | | s g Churchill disclosed that the Nazls | had been planning to use multiple | 1[ t h h“n Re oned—- long-range artillery against London, | ‘S ee_ _g g p in addition to rockets and flying| Airfield fo South Is ' bombs. j ! “Only just in time did the Allied Also Capfured | Armies blast the viper i his nest,” | | Churchill said. “Otherwise, the . May 14—For the | autumn of 1944—to say nothing of %gfigNfifiéNgnw yFoochow was | 1945—might well have seen London occupied by the Japahese in April, |85 shattered as Berlin/ 1939, Chinese troops have entered | ‘Iu perfecting a peace organiza- | that East China port facing For-]"“’" “we must make sure that | mosa, striking in the very secwr\m"se causes which we fought for A oS | find recognition at the peace table | r rs American land- b i lin fact as well as word,” Churchill The Chinese high command an- | . £ 5 [bniticed. last Dight ' fhkt several]: “Abovaisilyoibyyst labor that columns of Chinese troops had the world organization which the entered the old treaty port on | United Nations are creating at San Thursday and had captured an air- | Francisco does not become a shield field to the south. Street hghung;{;"rl “}:;{”’"g and a mockery for was reported in Foochow, although | ‘¢ WERK, : the ease with which the Chinese He declared that Britain must entered lent some credence to ru- never forget “that beyond all lurks mors that the Japanese had c“a_‘Jul)un. harassed and failing, cuated the city, which they Hem,d}sml a people of a hundred millions, last" October for the -announced|for Whose warviors death has tew v oan (terrors. I cannot tell you how T p:::s? 013"’,::52:?; My Ansiican | much time or what exertions will be B s 8. required to compel the Japanese |to make amends for their odious D“k D h ' |treachery and cruelty. | “We—like China so long un- e' “( ess o daunted—have received horrible in- w' v' “N Y | juries from them ourselves, and we In so’ 's s B8 !are bound by the ties of honor and | {fraternal loyalty to the United NEW YORK CITY, May 14— States to fight this great war at The Duke and Duchess of Windsor |the other end of the world, at are in New York City for a month’s | their side without flagging or fail- visit. They arrived yesterday by |ing.” train from Florida. The Duke re- signed March 15 as Governor of the Bahama Islands. - The cacao tree was first known Jin Latin America. | nese but | |an enemy convoy, which sneaked into Kataoka, presumably under 1cover of fog. The medium bombers (Associated Press War Correspondent) | ;‘jw“f;zu:; fl;e:‘:::lhe::r belgne ml:: GUAM, May 14—Japanese threw in freah resscves today mbd.aid| 1o, LIRSTRIOIE GHIRPPQ: ) SNSRI bious Force Sunk By Robin Coons down thunderous artillery burrages‘mo.puund general pwryp bombs O o oWCriy| The fog lifted as the American R 1 A Lol 4| planes arrived over the target to rbiasgl?na:d praniV. et caplml‘pruximately 15 ships, including war- ) TR ship escorts, stretched over a two- skirts of Naha's business district S e _ ' |south to Kashiwabara, troop stag- and foot-soldiers under command ing area on northern Paramushiro stflg.ed a fierce assault on a hllli Five Japanese fighters made half- position near the center of the|, .. ..q aitacks on one flight of enemy was directing artillery fire. them off. Desperate Defense | s oL T desperate every hour, and in addi-| tion to anti-tank guns and mmes.‘lASl Gkoup oF carrying satchel-charges of explosives were increasing. Japanese artillery fire roars con- stantly during daylight, and sim-| ARRIVE I" UI S. night a$ the enemy defends a clty; i reduced largely to rubble. i H plicInea | Youth, Aged in Lot-Major- The mined and booby-trapped city of 66,000 population was a mere ! by 0k skeleton, reported Associated Press | Deny Pafly A"ma"on Correspondent Vern Haugland, wno} Naha yesterday NEW YORK, May 14.—A contin- _ PR “A . (gent of 3,265 captured German sol- Marines of Maj. Gen. Lemuel LA.d‘ers mak¢ag up the last group to be m,g l?u‘um of 'Nulufuufvlr.‘ lo;lght day aboard four Liberty ships and a fiercely to the northern bank o majority of the prisoners said: Here the fanatical Japanese Were| ppey jncluded two 14-year-old throwing artille mortars a"d‘boys who were telephone operators the tank-led American column if|year od veteran of two world wars. an effort to keep it from crossing heir uniforms were battle-worn Slug Way'In | Army interpreters quoted some Brig. Gen. William T. Clement|prisoners as saying they knew Ger- I mander of the Sixth Marine Divi-|invasion. Some said they thought sion, watched his men slug their Hitler was dead, while others show- He told Haugland he felt the!'his name. None would admist affilia- Leathernecks would cross the Asato tion with the Nazi party. center of the capital |ficer in the group, said: “We were Behind the Marine lines a Japa-|outnumbered. When there are too make a counter-landing near the will be caught. We were.” Machinato Airfield, but failed dis-| The contingent was at sea when ashore broke up the amphibious e — force and sank every landing boat. HOTEL MAN IN JUNEAU Inland, the First Marine Divl-i Dewey Metzdorf, hotel man of sion, under Maj. Gen. Pedro A. Del|Anchorage and Palm Springs, Cali- in an effort to halt a { from. macin gt reached the outskirts of Naha, shelli“nd the convoy, made up of ap- Marines adyanced into the out-| oo o0 'from Kataoka Harbor of Maj. Gen. James L. Bmdley;lslnndA Okinawa line, from which the Mitchells, but the Americans drove Enemy defense was growing more savage one-man sorties by Japa- - CAPTURED NAZIS mers down to harassing fire at City Mere Skeleton “y Glad war Is 0ver_ |entered the northern section of | Shepherd, Jr.'s Sixth' Division, mov- | o " " america arrived here yester- Asato, which runs through the city. “We're glad the war is over.” | considerable small-arms fire IntO i\, "the Nazi signal corps and a 65- | the last water-barrier before Naha.|and ill-fitting. of Richmond, Va. assistant com- many had lost after the Normany way into burned and ruined Naha. ed only disgust at the mention of today and swarm through the A 55-year-old Colonel, ranking of- nese force attempted yesterday m[many dogs on a fox hunt, the fox astrously. Guns from ships and Germany slfmnderedA Move On Shuri | e (Continued on Page Six) fornia, is a guest at the Baranof.