The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 17, 1945, Page 1

VOL. LXV., NO. 9964 SDAY, MAY 17, 1945 SHURI FORTRESS Big Jap Eden Calls on Truman MANY NEW FIRES RAGE INNAGOYA | Great Blazes Are Started| by Second Raid on Center by 500 Forts By James Lindsley (Associated Press War Correspondent) GUAM, May 17—A great fleet of more than 500 Superfortresses | kindled huge new conflagrations to- | day in Nagoya, war-vital Japanese, aircraft and arsenal center still in flames from Monday's incendiary raid. | The B-29's struck shortly after| midnight, dropping more than a million fire bombs from medium altitude by the light of flares and | fires started in Monday's 500- plane strike. Japanese broadcasts reported that 12 hours later, 40 fighters from | Iwo Jima strafed the Fujisawa | district on the southern outskirts | of Metropolitan Tokyo. Today’s B-29's dropped more than 3500 tons of fire bombs on a| 16-square-mile target area cenwred' on the section adjoining Nagoya’s inner harbor and estuary docks, the | only portion of the city not pre-y‘ viously hit by incendiaries. | Fires Left. g i Heavy. fires were left roaring along the waterfront, reported Lt.| George Walker, Superfort navigator. | “I don't believe there’s much left of the city,” third largest in Japan, | added Sgt. Ray Karpowicz, radio- | man from Madison, Illinois, who‘ has been on 14 Nagoya raids. (Continued on Page Five) The Washingion? Merry - Go- Roundi By DREW P’EARS(‘N i @s. col. nohm 8 Alien now on sctive service witn the Army. | WASHINGTON—A quiet move is| underway to get France’s ex-Pre- mier Edouard Herriot invited un-| officially to the U. S. A, perhaps| by Harvard, to cement relations | with France, sagging as a resum of de Gaulle-State Department‘ bungling, Before France fell, Roose- velt proposed that 100 French | leaders come to England or the United States to lead France from the outside, but Herriot refused.| He said the leaders of France should stay and suffer with their people; also that the men who would lead France after the war would be those who suffered pri-| vation in France during the war. ‘wmch men and material will flow here. A lot of people are not at all happy about having French col- laborationist Premier Laval brought | to trial. He has a strong box in a Madrid ‘bank containing corre- spondence with various people, in- cluding the British, which won't look good if made public in court. . Marshal Petain is in the same boat. He even has'a signed treaty with Churchill. . . . Some day the real reason why Mussolini was shot instead of being brought to trial will leak out. He also had some papers. . . . If Hermann Goering | really goes to trial, the true story of the mysterious Rudolph Hess flight to Scotland finally will be told. Some people are not too (Continued on Page Four) ————————— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 17 — Closing! quotation of Alaska-Juneau mine stock today is 7%, American Can' 967, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright 6, International Harvester 86%,| Kennecott 38%, New York Central 26, Northern Pacitic 28%, U. S. Steel 66%. Pound, $4.04. Sales today | were 1,370,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 165.19; rails, 56.13; utilities, 31.05. e The Mobile Health Umt vessel Hy Gene left yesterday for the southern district. | against Japan. BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTER ANTHONY EDEN is pictured after his 40-minute conference May 14 with President Harry S. Truman in the White House, Washington, D. C. Eden “dropped off” in Wash- ington en route from the San Francisco United Nations Conference to London. He declined to state what he and the President discussed, but said that at a conference earlier in the day with Acting Secretary of State Grew they had discussed the Polish situation. (International Soundphoto) +£hmese Are Forced from Foochow Port CHUNGKING, May 17.—The Chi- nese Command said tonight that its troops were forced to withdraw from he East China port of Foochow uesday night whep the Japanese “threw large numbers of reinforce- ! ments into the five-day battle. PARIS, May 17—German man- FRoochow, an old treaty port, is on ! power and technical skill alread |a section of the China Coast on]| have been put to work by the which American expeditionary fm— Allies helping to win the War | cesmay land some sad. The Chinese| said they fought into the city last Friday and mxhcted 400 casuames HOPPE'S 51 UP ALLIES IN WAR AGAINST JAPS Prisoners Wil Help Rede- | ployment of American | Forces, Equipment By James M. Long (Associated Press War Correspondent) This is one of the top priority jobs for the millions of pnsoners in Allied hands. As fast as they can be screened they are being used in every possible way to speed | the gigantic task of re- deplovnu, American forces and equipment for | the cleanup in the Pacific. Skilled German prisoners are be- | ing used to recondition equipment! SEATTLE, May 17—Willie Hoppe |to be shipped to the Far East. and Welker Cocaran headed south Others by the thousands are mllmg‘today to close out their cross- under the eyes of Doughboy guards country three- cushion billiards lon every kind of job from .crating !marathon with Hoppe leading by supplies to repairing roads over 51 points after six blocks of play ‘back to the Atlantic ports. | The total count was 4,283 for 1 Next to facilitating the American Hoppe and 4,232 for Cochran as | Army’s re-deployment, the most they left Seattle for San Fran- ‘lmponnm job to which German cisco, where they are to play 10 prisoners will be turned probably ‘blocks to wind up the tour. will be farming—trying to raise | e - enough food to win what obviously | wnlNG'NG WEI will be a close race with starva-| |tion in middle Europe next winter.' There is still another job await-| ing them—the task of rebmldmm CHICAGO, May 17-—The weather- ruined Europe. {man has just about washed out the | Russia and Britain already ale‘chncap,o Public High School | using war prisoners for recon- League's bapeball schedule—rain struction. France has put in her ;has caused thepostponement of 77! purpose. ‘ln name the two teams to repre- It seems likely the Germans may |sent the city in the state finals, have to work out much of their/May 31 and June 1. reparations in sheer sweat, perhaps - — | for years to come. Lt. Gen. Lucius MARKS IHE SPOT !D. Clay, Gen. Eisenhower's deputy | for the occupation of Germany, has |said that when the Reich is combed {for this labor job the most active | { Nazis will be placed on top of the poy told police he had seen a| list. man dump “a body in a white! .sack" into a manhole then sneak - —— jawa, SIRAYED | In the sack pollce found a pay i {telephone which had been stolen ! from a hotel. | EUGENE, Ore. — The policeman | e assumed it was another drunk, STONE GOES TO SITKA when a voice said over the tele-| | phone, “come and help that man| J. H. Stone, Senior Sanitarian, |in my front yard move his two Territorial Department of Health, ‘water buffaloes.” 1wi11 leave today for Sitka to con- He was very surprised to find an duct a School for Food Handlers, animal trainer had lost his way]whlch will be the fifth in the gack to a circus train. jseries of food instruction. WITH 1070 6C: Dr Robert ley, Master of | GermanLaboring Mass- ’f Is Captured ' | PARIS, May 17.—Dr. Robert Ley, |one of Hitler's most powerful lieuts |- enants and erstwhile master of the |laboring masses in Germany, was in | American hands today, and the hunt | continued relentlessly for the ree maining members of the Fuehrers {inner ring still at large. | Ley's capture by the 101st Airborne | Division climaxed these develop= |ments: | ‘ 1. A dispatch from the U. S Tmrd Army in Southern Germany 1sald an Anti-Russian movement may have been nipped in the bud with [the arrest in Austria of Ernst Kal- ! tenbrunner, right-hand man to | Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler. | 2. It was announced that the 1101st Airborne Division, which cap- tured Ley, also had taken Fritz ;Suu(-keL Ley's manpower coording- |tor, and Gauleiter for Berchtes- | gaden; and Capt. Bernard Stredele, 'K:elsleltex (area leader) for Berch-| Legaden 3. The United Nations War| Crn,nes Commission announced that mv.rrnanonal conference on German i* wwur crimes would begin in London {May 31. ¢ If it is accepted that Hitler is| |dead, and with him his deputy, Mar- mn Bormann, and Propaganda Min- Nex Paul Josepr Goebbels, the principal arch Nazis still at large are | Himmler, Nazi Foreign Minister Joa- 'chlm von Ribbentrop and the no-| |torious anti-Semite, Dr. .Julnm {Streicher. However, there is still a jgreab deal of uncertainity concern- ing the fate of Hitler, Bormann and i Goebbels. | American Airborne troops captur- ed Ley last night at Berchtesgaden.' |Nazi leaders, also American prison- jers, Idenmled .the former Rekh< CONSCRIPTION 3.5 & fumom BUDGET Up INCANADA i Armies with * more than 5,500,000 | tons of supplies on the continent. f FOR RUSSIA TOLD 'Rolein WarAgamst Japan| pachllnj;,]da:éD:ilei?pi?z ';E%?;g?:i BY IOKYO RADIO May Be(ome Issue in terial, which includes ons May 14. ships in two a half years. (Lower) Search party boat alongside sub which mm. tower. Army Faces Glganllc Task fo Ship Europe Supplles fo Pacific \ | | PARIS, May 17—The gigantic task of preparing millions of tons of war material for quick shipment from Europe to the Pacific Theatre fell today to the U. S. Army. ! Brig. Gen. Moris W. Gilland,| Deputy Chief of Staff for Supply in| the European theatre, ose organ- | ization must supervise the job, said that V-E Day found the American TWO PHOTOS FROM NAVY as German submarine U-858 surréndered to U. S. forces off Cape May, N. J., (Top) German crew members are searched by a bearding party from an American naval vessel. Her torpedo tubes were empty and torpedoes aboard had been made ineffective. ~ IPRESSURE PUT KEY POSITION UNDERATTACK OI(INAVM ISLE Mam Parf of Rubble- strewn Capital City Is Entered by Yanks By Leif Erickson (Associated Press War Correspondent) GUAM, May 17—A total of 46,505 Japanese have been killed on Oki- | nawa by Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr.s, Tenth Army, which today pierced the heart of Naha and was fighting on the blood- | soaked approaches to Shuri and | Yonabaru, Naha, Shuri and Yonabaru are strong-points of the four-mile “Little Siegfried Line” across southern . Okinawa. American casualties through |Monday were 20,950: - Killed—2,771 Soldiers; 1,010 Ma- :rlnea—totll, 3,781. | Wounded—11,675 Soldiers; | Marines—total, 17,004. Missing—120 Soldiers; | rines—total, 165, Y Tl?e Yanks captured 1,038 Japa- | nese. 5329 36. Ma- The U-858 sank 16 Allied now flies U. S. flag from its con- (International mundphoml of ammunition and more than al June Election | million separate items ranging from| | locomotives to watch repair tools. The troops going directly to the A Domei broadeast from Tokyo' Pacific will take all their equipment | |said today the recently adopted] VANCOUVER, B. C, Ma§ 17— with them. Those going to the| |Russian national budget of 307,714,- Canada’s Tole in the war against ypited States will carry only essen- {754,000 rubles for 1945-46 indicated JaRan appeared likely today to be-!tia] equipment, leaving the rest be- | {that Soviet authorities, “contrary come a major issue in the June 11 hing to be serviced and sent dir-| (By Associated Press) ito enemy wishful thinking,” were Federal election, with Prime Min- H aiming at economic rehabilitation ister W. L. Mackenzie King's Gu\-‘ ‘bnd for tens of thousands for this|games. Officials probably will have | oeTNE, | KANSAS CITY — A 16-year-old {and not preparing for a war against| ernment tangled' in a new type of [\ material no longer needed i | Japan. | conscription controversy. Europe will be done as quickly as) | The broadcast quoted an article| Opening his campaign for reelec- ;.o with the major portion go-| (from the Japanese economic journal {tion here last night, the Prime ing by direct route. But these Nippon Sangyo Keizai, as saying the Minister, speaking in a Pacific port | figures disclosed by Gilland indi- {budget was a tremendous increase more interested in the war against | cate the immensity of the job: |over original estimates, but at- Japan than any other large city | The Quartermaster Corps must re- |tributing the increase to postwar in the Dominion, declared “Can-/ pair 94,000,000 pieces of clothing; | planning. ada’s war effort will be directed the Ordance Department must re- i “It is natural that the Soviet Un- with unremitting energy” u““]‘vnmp 160,000 motor vehicles; the ion will have to spend much for re- Japan is defeated, but he cau-; Slgnal Corps must work over 255,000 i habilitation of territories which she tioned against over-emphasizing it | radios; the Engineer Corps 21,000 recaptured,” the article said. as an issue. | pieces of construction equipment; ! B This apparently was in reply to the Chemical Warfare Division opposition attacks against his an-{2,000,000 gas masks and the Medical| BRIIISH loSE nounced policy of sending only(Corps 23,000 pieces of electro-medi- volunteers into the Japanese war,|cal equipment. | i and of making the Far Eastern| ! DBIROYER' IS war effort more civilian than mili- | tary, { "lppo" REPOR Th: Prime Mmmtex declared that | labor Making plea i | “no greater mistake could be mnde‘ 1 — than to decide the election on any S “ R | Snge ‘o - Swift Reconversion | SAN FRANCISCO, May 17—Do- i | (mei Japanses News Agency, reported | o' Au" Indus'ry |today that Japanese surface units lERo HouR BABY |engaged a British task force in Mal- G e i A R e |acca Strait at dawn yesterda ashington, May 17.—Labor took | One British de.sv.roye};‘ was Zunk LA JUNTA, Colo—Master Sgt |up the plea today for swift reconver- !said the Japanese language broad-| JOSePh Watt was sweating it out|gion of the auto industry as the Gov- |cast beamed to occupied Asia. It at La Junta Army Air Pield 74 ernment indicated 200000 cars will| !said the British force was composed POINts toward a discharge and the pe turned out this year. iof two cruisers and three destroy- Stork due any minute. | The industry's Labor Advisory ers. At three minutes to midnight | committee went before War Pro- The Strait lies between Malaya Saturday it arrived with his third |duction Board executives to empha- jand Sumatra. There was no Allied Chud—zlvmg him one more thansize, as manufacturers did yesterday, confirmation. he 8 points needed for a discharge. | that serious unemployment may de- ! If true, this would be the first Hnd the baby been born after mid- | velop if the go-ahead is long delayed.’ British penetration so close to Might Saturday the Burbank, Calif,,| WPB told the producers it agrees |Singapore since the port fell to the soldier couldn't have claimed lzland pxomx.sed a green light “as soon jJapanese early in 1942. more points, Jas possible,” but not before July 1.' | sia | slowly Savage Battling ! Fortheibq‘p‘ fluvmhm . 8. ~lost- an -average of 84 men killed daily, while Japa- nese have lost an average of 1,011 |daily—a ratio of one American to 12 Japanese. ON FOR SPEED Assoclated Press Correspondent ]Al Dopking’s front-line dispatch | Wednesday indicated U. S. casual- ATS F (ONFAB | ties continued heavy. In a Japanese counter-attack Tuesday in the Naha sl m | sector, one company of 240 Marines had two men left, while another !had eight. | An estimated 36,000 Japanese re- AmendmentsYo Oaks Plan main on the tsiana. = . ! Naha Entered Go Out Wlndow—May Patrols of Maj. Gen. Lemuel C. . . Shepherd Jr’s Sixth Marine Divi- Move Without Russia |sion crossed the muday Asato Ea- |tuary and entéred the main part By John M. Hightower lof Naha, rubble-strewn Okinawa (Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) | CBPItal on the west coast. | Meanwhile, elements of three SAN FRANCISCO, May 17—Com- | divisions—the Seventy-Seventh and pletion of a new peace-league char- 'Ninety-Sixth Army and First Ma- ter now appears probable in aboucwrlne—lpproached Shuri, a heavy- three weeks, but in the background 'walled fortress. of the United Nations Conrerence‘ After a heavy morning of fight- critical ~big-power problems are ing, the 383nd Regiment of the for the months ahead. | Ninety-8Sixta Division gained the The heat is being turned on to top of a nearby hill and worked get the job here finished. Con- down the southwest slope slowly ference committees, raking over to within a few hundred yards of proposed changes in the basic Dum- | Shuri’s moated northeast corner. barton Oaks Security Plan, are Wana Village Entered eliminating many amendments. { Tanks of Maj. Gen. Pedro A. Assembly Advice Only Del Valle’s First Marine Division ectly to the active war theatre. » | Their work to date strongly in- | entered Wapa Village, 500 yards Gilland said the transter of all, dicates that the plan for an all- west of Shuri’s northern end. | powerful 11-member security coun-, Shuri, regarded as the key to ‘cil and a general assembly limited 'the whole ‘Okinawa campaign, was jto debating peace problems and given a terrific plastering by Army advising on their solution will go|and Marine artillery and Naval through. | gunfire, This was borne out late last; Twelve Japanese planes aps night by the action of the con- proached shipping off Okinawa ference committee studying assem- |Tuesday evening. Nine were shot bly duties in voting down a whole ' down and the others were forced series of small nation proposals to retire without inflicting damage. for giving the assembly some con- A few others bombed American- trol over council actions. |held Yontan and Katena Airfields, One result of the pressure for Okinawa, Wednesday morning, speed may be for the other big, causing slight damage. One plane nations to move ahead on settle- was destroyed. {ment of urgent issues without wmt-| Escort carrier plnhes. attacking ing for full agreement with Rus- the Sakishima group, southern whenever Moscow responds Ryukyus, destroyed five Japanese to Soviet delegation re- ' planes. quests for instructions. . No Kremlin Reply ' Uar, coming to a head over the United States proposal that the new char-| She Ob’e‘ ter shauld allow for regional de- | fense systems to protect nations Bom pa’ o" LU l which the world security system | may fail to protect against attack.| City Mnumu wuuun A. Holz- Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, ! heimer stepped into a family affair chief Soviet delegate, wired the pro.lm Police Court here and came out posal to Moscow for instructions,of it with his hide still intact—plus | Saturday. Yesterday he told Sem-p dual contribution to the OCity | tary Stettinius and other “Big | Treasury. Five"” colleagues he had not yev,1 Raymond A. Shanlis and Mrs. received instructions. Josephine Shanlis, parties of the >oo | first and secand parts, respectively, JOHN IN JUNEAU, | each paid off to the tune of $25. Julian 8. Johnson, Pan American[ Shanlis was charged with being World Airways employee from drunk. Seattle, is a guest at the Baranof{ Mrs. Shanlis’ conduct was de- Hotel, clared disorderly.