The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 9969 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS L CHURCHILL RESIGNS AS PRIME MINISTER Yanks STRATEGIC im._boenih, ge On Okinawa BIG CHIEF Make Spectacular Lun 550 Superforiresses FINALRITES |World Chaos |3 CABINET SECTOR IS CAPTURED Yonabaru Taken - Line on| Southern Isle Doubled | in Length Now ] } By James Lindsley (Assaciated Press War Correspondent) GUAM, May 23—A spectacular lunge by the U. 8. Seventh In- fantty Division through and be- yond strategic Yonabaru virtually doubled the length of the southern Okinawa Line today and imperiled Japanese defenses safeguarding Naha and the fortress city of Shuri. The flashing drive, aimed at supply roads vital to the enemy, added nearly 4,000 yards to the front which had been so narrow American troops had little room to maneuver to advantage, Maj. Gen. Archibald V. Arnold, Bronxville, N. Y., commander of the Seventh, said. The Seventh, refreshed by 8 two weeks' rest, followed the Ninety- Sixth Infantry Division into ruined, rain - spatteted, muddy Yomnabaru yesterday, then moved on into the hills 1,000 yards beyond in a sur- prise pre-dawn attack that caught the enemy by surprise. ¢ Height Oceppied ‘The Doughboys seized the nor- thern end of a strategic line of ridges along the east coast be- tween Riol and Intarashiku and occupied heights from which their " (Continued on Page Thiee) ' | The Washington, Merry-Go- Roundi Other Nazis Under Arrest All Members of Flensburg Government Taken Into Custody FLENSBURG, Germany, May 23. —British Tankmen and Tommies, acting on instructions from Allied Supreme Headquarters, arrested all the members of the Germans’ Flens- burg government, including Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, and disband- ed the German High Command to- day. About 300 officers and many other | ranks and civilians were taken into| captivity. All German General Staff officers probably will be sentenced to from ten to fifteen years imprisonment, a high ranking SHAEF officer said. The action was taken in concert with‘ the Russian Command. Col. Gen. Gustav Jodl and Ad- miral von Friedeberg, both signers of the capitulation at Reims, also were pladed under arrest and were to be taken away by Allied Military guards. They followed Doenitz up the gangplank of the ship in Flensburg Harbor, which bas served as the Al- lied Supreme Cemmand Headqunrt-’ ers Post here since the German cap-| itulation. As Doenitz was marching up the gangplank of the ship Patrua to captivity, British tanks from the 11th Armored Division clanked into the Nazi compound here and took over the remnants of German Army Headquarters schattered throughout | Flensburg. { Doenitz had been head of the Ger- | man State just 23 days. ADMIRAL SUICIDES NEW YORK, May 23.—The British FOR CRIMONT TOMORROW Catholic CI;Fg—ymen from All Parts of Alaska to Conduct Services After Jying in state in the church parlors of St. Ann’s Hospital since Wednesday morning, the body of the mont, S. J.,, D. D.,, Catholic Bishop of Alaska, will be carried in proces- sion to the Church of the Nativity this evening at 8 o'clock, to await final rites Thursday morning. Catholic clergymen from all parts for the solemn occasion, will partic- ipate in the funeral services, which will be held in the church at 10 o'clock Thursday morning. Most_Reverend Joseph Raphael Cri- | Great Threat, Present Time Sumner Welles Says Unit-| ed States, Soviet Union Must Cooperate WASHINGTON, May 23.—Sumner Welles said last night that unless the | United States and Soviet Russia can find the means of a cooperative re- ‘lationship world chaos may become linevitable. | The former Undersecrtary of State in a radio address declared there is| little use in concentrating upon the progress of the World Security Con- of the Territory who have gathered!ference at San Francisco so long as|will be succeeded Juns 30 by Tom | |“the present tension between the, | Soviet Union and ourselves becomes constantly more serious.” Welles said that one of the great- OFFICERS ARE OUT Secrefaries of Agriculture, | I.abor, Also A"Ofney | GuAM, THURSDAY. May Genefal ReS|gn | More than 550 American Superfort- resses dropped three-quarters of a |million psunds of fire bombs on in- WASHINGTON, May 23.—Presi- dustrial targets in Tokyo during the | dent Truman today announced the | hours of darkness early this morn- resignations of the Secretaries of ing. Agriculture and Labor and the At- In the greatest raid yet staged torney General. | by the B-29s from their Marianas War Food Administrator Marvin — CAPTURED BY ‘Hil Tokyo i | By Leif Erickson (Associated Press War Correspondent) Mr. Truman told his news confer- | ence that Attorney General Biddle Clark of Texas, now an assistant At-; torney General. i Agriculture Secretary Claude | Wickard is resigning immediately to| become Administrator of the Rural Cenfers Early Today OFBRITONS STEPS OUT Wartime Coalition Gov- ernment Breaks-Signal for General Election Industrial bases, the giant bombers struck the highly congested industrially vital| Shinagawa sector of the Japanese capital, exactly six months after 111 Superforts made the first raid on Japan, last November 24. One key target of this morning's “fire bomb blitz"” was the Shinagawa railroad marshalling yards on the Tokyo Bay waterfront, through which passes an estimated one-third of Japan’s rail traffic. BULLETIN — LONDON, May 23.—King George VI in aceept- ing the resignation of Prime Minister Churchill and asking him to form a new Cabinet, also announced tonight that en Churchill’s request, Parliament would be dissolved by Royal pro- clamation on June 15, VETO ISSUE MAYBRING By ALEX H. SINGLETON LONDON, May 23.—Prime Min- | ister Winston Churchill resigned to- | day, breaking up Great Britain's wartime coalition goverrment and At 9 a. m. the Oftice of the Dead est contributions which President g will be chanted by the assembled|Roosevelt made to the future in-|Flcctrification Administration and | clergy, followed at 10 o'clock by the|terest of this country was his effort; Will be succeeded by Rep. Clinton Pontifical High Mass sung by Hm' | Anderson (D-NM), now chairman; to establish “a working agreement, i Excellency, the Most Reverend Wal-!between our Government und Mos-|0f the House Food Committee, as| ter Fitzgerald, S. J. Secretary of Agriculture. | Federal Judge Lewis B. Schwellen- | YANK FORCES cow.’ Two “immediate remegics” for bet- Taking part in the ceremony wilk bethe Most Reverend Fitzgerald, as | Celebrant of the Mass; the Reverend ter understanding were suggested by Welles; First, to have President Truman, |eced Secretary of Labor Frances Per- bach, former United States Senator| ‘from Washington State, will suc: However, at Wawa Dam, Manila Edgar Gallant, Deacon of the Mass; | the Rev. Patrick O'Reilly, Subdcacon | Prime Minister Churchill and Pre- ! kins, also on June 30. The President said Anderson Fierce Fighting Underway, | BIG-5 SPLIT British Urging Conference i giving the signal for the nation’s first general election in a decade, Churchill was expected, on request of King George VI, to form a tem- porary government immediately to serve as “cartakers” Until after the to Modifly Blocking | €dction. probably July 5. Three . weeks will elapse before the King ! formally dissolves the heavily Con- Power, Major Nations | servative Parliament. Labor ministers, who have served of the Mass; the Reverend Baker, Assistant Priest; the Reverend Louls B, Fink, 8. I, icon_of Honor; the Reverend Anable, 8. J., Subdeacon of Honor; the Reverend Dermot R. mier Stalin meet to discuss solu~ tions and to set up intergovernment- | 1 By James Hutcheson | (Associated Press War Correspondent) would become War Food Adminis- trator as well as Secretary of Agri- jal peace machinery capable of work- ing out precise agreements. Second, to have Americans e O'Flanagan, Master of Ceremonies;fuse to be stampeded into that blind the Reverend Willlam G. LeVasseur, popular hostility toward the Soviet S. J., Mitre Bearer; the Reverend Union into which many powerful Edward Budde, S. J., Censor Bear-|and sinister forces in this*country er; and George and Albert Shaw,l. .. are endeavoring to drive us” Acolytes. | JERERSISEN R O Active pallbearers will be Lee H. Smith, Albert Forrest, Evan Wruck,| Neil Moore, J. W. McNaughton, John Nlp IRAIN F. Mullen, Joseph A. Thibodeau, and | Knights of Columbus will be honor- By DREW PEARSCN (Lt. ‘Col. Robert 8. Alien now on active service witn the Army. ‘radio said in a broadcast recvrded! }by NBC here that Admiral Friede-| i berg, a signer of the German uncon- | WASHINGTON—Senator George of Georgia certainly got his col- league, Congressman “Muley Bob” Doughton, blazing mad by popping ' off about lowering taxes before the Pacific war is over. Congressman Doughton, who rides a white mule through his farm in! western North Carolina and can be as stubborn as the animal from ! whence he derives his nickname, is Chairman of the Ways and| Means Committee which initiates | tax ' legislation. George’s Finance| Committee in the Senate can only ! amend taxes after Doughton’s com= mittee has written the first draft! of the tax law. Doughton is definitely opposed to lowering taxes until the entire war is over. But what really makes him mad was that he and Senator George plus other members of the two tax committees were scheduled to meet at 7 p. m. one day.last week to decide what the Congressional tax policy should be. And on his way to this meeting, without - waiting to see what the others thought, Senator George announced to the press that taxes should be lowered. You can write it down now that they won't be lowered at this session if Muley Bob Doughton has anything to do with it. Note — President Truman dldn'v,‘l hesitate a minute about opposing tax reduction until the entire war is over. When the question was put to him, he made his decision im- mediately, came out with an em- phatic statement next day against tax reduction. . CAPITAL CHAFF Assistant Secretary of State Will Clayton, the big cotton brokér, has become one of the most hard- hitting advocates of a tough peace for Germany. (He was a little shaky about it before). . . One of Steve Early’s last acts as White House Press Aide was to sto pub-| lication of President Truman's di- rective for a tough peace for Ger- many. The State Department wanted it published, so did other Government agencies, and Truman himself gave orders that it be given to the press one week ago. But s % (Continued on Page Four) | ditional surrender for the Doenitz| Government, committed suicide to-| day to avoid arrest. 87,500 Will Be Refurned During Month Over 255,000 Will Come| Back from European Fields in June PARIS, May 23.—Army and Navy| personnel being returned to America | will total 87,500 by the end of this| month, to be followed by 255500 others in June, according to official figures. The totals include troops who will be redeployed to the Pacific, plus sick ad wounded and liberated. pris- oners. In addition other men are being sent directly to the Pacific. ‘The 86th, 97th, 95th and 104th In- fantry Divisions, late comers in the European theatre, will leave in June in the order named for the Pacific via the United States, minus person- nel with discharge credits, an offi-| cial announcement said yesterday. WOODLEY AIRWAYS BRINGS IN EIGHT: Woodley Airways flew the fol-| lowing passengers from Anchorage to Juneau yesterday: H. J. Anderson, Geraldine Ring-| stad, and Ma jor Scheibner, Dick Johnson, Jerry Harper, Howard the Rev. O'Flanagan. From Juneau to Anchorage pas- sengers were: A. B. Hicks, Howard Henretta, Carl Reis, Kenneth Simpson, Goldie Kvas, Thomas Ryan, Walter Estby, E. J. Schuck, W. J. Suryan and Parry Brennan. |Shrine of St. Terese, ary pallbearers. Following the Mass, the body of Alaska’s beloved bishop will be taken to Shrine Island, where interment will be in the church crypt of the The funeral cortege will leave the church at 1 p.m. BOMBED SAYS SAN FRANCISCO, May 23.— KURILES ARE !area into Manchuria, United States TOKYO RADIO Etr |loaded with troops, heavy artillery - AREBOMBED | | CHUNGKING, May 23.—Tending to confirm recent Chinese state- ments that the Japaese were trans- ferring forces from the Shanghai | 14th Air Force planes attacked heav ily loaded northbound enemy troop trains yesterday. ¥ A communique from Lt. Gen. Al- bert C..Wedemeyer's headquarters | told of the action today. North of Pengpu, in North Cen- al Anhwei Province, a 30-car train |and motorized vehicles was bombed. A | MANILA, May 23 ~Opposition was ‘tulture when Marvin Jones S”p"!repuncd wilting today on North-! out on June 30. Jones will return/ i |central Mindanao, where Yanks of 1o the Gourt of Claims from Which|iue 31st Division captured the city! r > N of Malaybalay, but fierce |still was under way on Luzon Island SR 5 Wl ) in the important watershed area | northeast of Manila. | Maj. Gen. William C. Chase's 38th | Division, closing in on the Wawa MAKE TRIP |dam, one source of Manila’s water, ifought off a Banzai charge in com- {pany strength Sunday night, killing |30 Japanese. Later the enemy tried | two unsuccessful infiltrativn maneu- lvers by dark. | Immediately north al captured Ipo IDam, Yanks of Maj. Gen. Leonard F. Wing’s 43rd Division counted 300 Wi” Address Final Plenary icncmy dead in the past two days as . 4 |they pressed the steady annihilation Sesslon Of Unlfed Na- |of a large encircled Nipponese force. tions Conference |So far 1,964 of the trapped enemy {have been killed. On Mindanao the 31st Division un- WASHINGTON, May 23.—Presi- der Maj. Gen. Clarence Mertin lib- gt erated the Buikidnon Provincial dent Truman will go to San Fran-| E i ! capital of Malaybalay, an agricultur-| cisco to address the final plenary, 1 and governriental canter. of 18,000 session of the United Nations Or';:u;:!u'f‘xgn o L i ganization conference. | ‘ ¢ . ! 2y | To .the south, Maj. Gen. Roscos Secretary of State Stettinius made Woodruff's 24th Division, finding this announcement today after con- .4 £ |only moderate resistance, advanced y sonfer- {Kfrg wish the Freslacol on oanieBsl g milgs to within two miles of Li- ::c: T::;:ri;fi ‘{‘,’;‘Z‘“;Ec‘::,?“;‘:’;‘f canan An‘dyumes, the only airfield ing with world affairs. |remaining in Japanese hands in Stettinius said no date had been coutheastern Mindanao. The 24th occupied Ilang Town' on the north- By John M. Hightower in the coalition cabinet since 1940, (Associnted Press Diplomatfe News Editor) ¢ were given a mandate by their party SAN FRANCISCO, May 23 — A earlier this week to resign if an lagt-minute division appeared glection was forced at this time. among the “Big Five” at the United 'pLapor is the second most numerous’ fighting ! Nations Conference today over the veto power they should wield in a werld organization intended to keep peace. British diplomats are urging the other powers to renounce their' claim to the right of veto, but only in so far asit applies to the investi- | gation of international disputes. A single no vote still could block any steps toward peaceably settling a dispute. Heretofore the top countries have insisted upon keeping intact their | individual veto control over peace- party. “Cartaker” Government Churchill i expected to lead a new ‘“caretaker’ government into Commons when it reassembles Tues- day. | The British Press Association pre- dicted that ghe new government would include such men as Sir John Anderson, Sir James Grigs, Sir Andrew Duncan and Lord Leath- ers, who were prewar business men without politjeal backgrounds. All were called | the government to do special jobs. 3 keeping decisions. Some within the | The full list is not expected to be United States delegation are re- ready before sundly or Monday, as ported leaning toward the new Churchill will, need the intervening British stand but there is no idi- time to fill yacancigs left by the cation thus far that it would be ac- fdepm’ture of Labor and Liberal ceptable to the Russians. | ministers. v ¢ ; ! Resignation Submitted Veto Issue To Head | Churehill, who led:Britain from its .The whole veto issue is rapidly |, ,q¢ desperate days of the war to coming to a head. There is the|ihe unconditiogal suprender of Ger- possibility that on a shuwflown:,m,my.g},ve King George his resigna- small tiations might out-vote thejon at napn,as Brime Minister, “Big Five” in conference L‘Dmm“-;pu-st Lord of the Treasury and tees and force changes which one ! pinister of Defense. & or more of the major nations His action will bring about Great would find unacceptable. | Britain’s first general election in Most speculation in this connec- ten years early in'July. He had tion centers on Russia. Also, some | held the office since May 10, 1940, American authorities doubt that when he succeeded Neville Chamber- American Naval bombardments of Ten trucks and two artillery pieces the Kurile Islands, north of Japan,!were smashed and troop cars were and Okinawa Island to the south, it the bulletin said. were reported today by Tokyo rsdlo.: In addition American planes at- set, but he expects the President will | go o San Francisco early in June. - | The Secretary of State predicted |the Conference would “successfully west shore of Davao Gulf. On the ecast coast of Luzon the First Cavalry Division under Maj. Gen. Verne D. Mudge gained two conclude” early next month. A broadcast recorded by the Fed-| 1Ackeg SaRYRIEn W tue | Huschow Stettinius made his announcemen eral Communications Commission rgj] junction in Kiangsi Province highway south of Infanta said “Small warships and five sur-| Ghinese troops moving eastward 'O EPOItes at the usual morning | M4 ; face craft” entered Suribachi Bay on|along the main Shaoyang (Payoang) | Lo conference with Charles G. Paramushiro, northernmost Kurile, shinkiang railroad in a rom,_mm,flos& ‘White House Press Secretary. | Island, Sund: and shelled the v """| Asked whether the Yugoslav situa- ang, Sundey. advance reached a point 19-miles shore for 20 minutes. from Shaoyang. |tion was discussed, Stettinius said, (1 miles to take Port Real, on the coast Soundproof Room “Small Islands” off Nakagushuku| Bay in Southern Okinawa were; |the President would have to speak| on any specific items. So Sensitive Heart i The Fish and Wildlife Service vessel Scoter is due to leave Ju- neau tomorrow bound for her summer station on Bristol Bay, it was announced here today. Master of the Scoter is Capt. Pete Peter- son. Aboard, bound for Bristol Bay duty will be Fisheries Patrol Agent Don McGregor, recently released from the Army Air Corps. ————i———— TRAIL CREW OUT Bob Henning, Executive Secretary of the Alaska Development Board, }will be the principal speaker at the Chamber of Commerce tomorrow e e SEATTLE MEN HERE W. E. Spencer, M. J. Rogers and H. D. Farrow, of Seattle, are guests at the Baranof Hotel Ross told reporters that the Pres-! down the shores of the bay. 'l' AlK | pendence, Mo., where his family will go early in June. | NEW YORK, May 23—The Brook- i L S !within its walls a person can hear noon. He will explain the part the quotation of Alaska-Junau Mine!lined with spun glass and other different sections. 7%, International Harvester 35"’1:41 Laboratory Electrical Division Steel 65%. Sales today were 1,- ment. follows: Industrials, 164.50; rails, bombarded today, Tokyo said, as the, U. S. Seventh Division advanced HE““ING To ident plans to make occasional trips, Bea's A'e Heard | | this summer to his old home at Inde- | - et SCOTER OUT | !lyn Navy Yard has disclosed the ex- ' SIO(K ouo"“ous jistence of a room so soundproof that {bis own heartbeat. The room is NEW YORK, May 23 — Closing /mounted on columns of rubber and | sound-absorbing material, Chief En- board will play in the development stock today is 7', American Can‘soun al g 5 of Alaska ';n ygmeml and tg the|98%, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright |gineer Uharles Fraser of the Mater- | Kénnecott 38%, New York Central said the room is ideal for testing F ,I (h h I 26%, Northern Pacific 29', U. S,|sensitive communications equip- aml y u" S 1310,000 shares. | Again Ba‘k in Ranks' Dow, Jones averages today are as 55.49; utilities, 30.90. — e One of the first Foreést Service trail crews of this season is to be | disclosed today. The party will be {made up of eight youths who have been attending Juneau High School. The group will first work in the ‘area in the immediate vicinity of Juneau, and will later be sent to Lake Hasselborg. s dispatched tomorrow by Division| C. Luther, Jr., James Jackson and |Supervisor John Brillhart, it was|When the Rev. F. E. Schumann goes next | SALT .LAKE CITY, May 23— |to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, week, to become pastor of a church there, he will bring the first Trinity Lutheran Church back into his fam- ily. His grandfather, three uncles and a cousin were ministers at the Pittsburgh Church before him. i DOUG Harry Douglas Marlene. arrived yesterday LAS, DAUGHTER HERE and daughter, LAVERNE AGREN HERE from & guest at the Baranof Hotel. -~ Laverne C. Seagren, of Sitka, is the United States Senate would | ratify a world league charter which | did not reserve to this country au- therity to prevent other nations lain during some of the darkest days of the war. 5 Churchill’s resignation was pre- cipitated by the Labor Party’s re- from taking a hand in Western Hemisphere affairs without Ameri- can consent. An argument along this line also is being made tothe Latin Am- erican states as a practical reason why they should support the veto. fusal to continue in the coalition government, now that Germany Is defeated Old-Fashioned Campaign An old-fashioned political cam- paign already was underway, with the opposition press lampooning the | Prime Minister. Walt On fitostiniue Churchill's resignation was pre- Answers to the questions will not be agreed upon finally before Sec- retary of State Stettinius returns | from his conference on uruenv.‘ diplomatic problems with President Truman in Washington. He len.wK | (Conunum‘un ;'age Two) LA B 0 O Deaths, Damage fo Property Follows | Ihuqflgrslorm QUEBEC, May 23.—A violent thunderstorm accompanied by high winds has caused deaths and proper- ty damage in western Quebec. Two men were drowned. in Three Rivers section when ‘owboat capsized. A pedestrian was killed by a fall- n live wire in Montreal the their sented to King George VI at Buck- ingham Palace. (Continued on Page Two) — i 3 Hitler Died In Mercy 'Killing, Report FLENSBURG, Germany, May 23. —Russian intelligence reports to Su- preme Headquarters said today that Hitled died in a mercy kiiling. Hitler was paralyzed and insane with pain the last five days of his life, a high Supreme Headquarters official quoted a Russian General as reporting. The Russians said a physician gave Hitler an injection “of some sort that put him to sleep forever,” the | official declared, The Supreme Headquarters offic- ial said he had learned from an- Hoonah to be with Mrs. Douglas,| o % who underwent an appendectomy MRS. GREEN IN JUNEAU last night. They aré guests at the| Mrs. M. A. Green, of Sequim, is Gastineau Hotel. |a guest at the Baranof Hotel. I other doctor that Hitler had been taking several types of injections the last few years. Property damage resulting from hte storm is estimated at more than »ne million dollars.