The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 25, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 9971 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS KURILES MILITARY AREA LAID IN WASTE IN ATTACK, NEW AREA Business, mo Imperial Government Genter Hit by 4000 Tons, Bombs GUAM, Saturday, May 26.—A force of about 500 Superforts drop- ped more than 4,000 tons of bombs on Tokyo's Marunouchi business dis- trict and Imperial Government cen- ter this morning in the second big fire bomb raid on that city in less than 48 hours. ‘The Nipponese capital still was burning from the record 550-plane fire raid early Thursday in which, preliminary reconnassiance photo- graphs showed at least 3.2 square miles of the Chinagawa industrial FRENCH BREAK WITH SPAIN IS DEMANDED NOW | Also Proposed Means Be | Taken fo Force Re- signation of Franco | PARIS, May 25 — The French Foreign Affairs Committee recom- | mended today that Gen. Charles de | Gaulle’s Government break rela- |tions with Spain and that France propose to other Allied Govern- ments that means be taken to force the resignation of General- ssimo Francisco Franco. | Second Big Fire Bomb 500 SUPERS LITTLE LAFFEY TOOK ALL JAPS COULD GIVEHER U. S. Destroyer Survives After Suicide Attack by Nippon Planes | — | ABOARD VICE ADMIRAL| RICHMOND K. TURNER'S FLAG- SHIP, OFF OKINAWA, April 18— (Delayed by Navy Censorship)-The | By John M. Hightower gallant little Destroyer Laffey took (Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) |everything the Japanese could | SAN FRANCISCO, May 25—The|throw at her from the air for two: ibig powers are reported today lo!hours and survived. | {have lined up enough votes in the| Six suicide planes hit her—the BIG FIVE SET T0 PUT OVER VETO POWERS | British Comfimise Is Not Expected to Gain Rus- sian Agreement |amphibious JAP SUICIDE Terrific Indi TROOPS MAKE NEW ATTACK 1‘ BERCHTESGADEN, May 25— | Stencgraphic notes that the Nazis tried unsuccessfully to destroy have |revealed a secret, self-indicting ac- (count by Adolf Hitler, saying he |planned the “crushing” of Czecho- |~-ovakia and Poland as ‘“essential {preliminari |ture” against the Allies. Japaese counter landings by air-| Hitler said Germany was “super- borne suicide troops on Okinawa and"““i“‘xy prepared” for war and that units on the central Psychologically she “could not afford Airborne R;Ees Land on Okinawa-Amphibious Landing in China By Leonard Milliman #(Associated Press War Correspondent) Of Nazi War Build Is Revealed, Secref Nofes for the war of the fu-| The recommendation of the com- | United Nations Conference to block | engines of three were recovered On China cpast were reported today as 0 Waste” Nazi-schooled fanaticism, Raid Made on Tokyo SURIBACHL POUNDED BY - DESTROYERS {Direct Hits Scored by Fasl Squadron-in Daylight Bombardment NITION, DUMP I BLOWN UP, 15T SALVO c¢iment i a terrific indictment of Nazi war build. German stenographers, who them- selves took down many of these statements the Nazis never dreamed would cdme to light, were transcrib- ing the notes, brought here from! Berlin, when a partial text of Hn-‘Mu | ler's report was found, made just be- | fore the German Ardennes offensive | of December 16. Hitler's statements |to his officers openly belied the Nazis' excuse that they had started | | | | mittee, composed of members of any change in their absolute con-| |the French Assembly, termed thaftrol of world machinery designed Spanish regime a menace to worldim preserve peace. democracy. Among points of dif-| This issue—the veto power of any ference between Paris and Madrid of the “Big Five” over settling has been Spain's delay in turning|international over to France Pierre Laval, former | disputes or using force to smash an aggressor—is the | most critical remaining for this her fantail. Two bombs hit hfl"Allivd infantrymen swept through| and two more scored damaging five more towns and turned to mop- | near misses. iping up in three widely separated Thirty one members of the Laf- sectors fey's crew were killed and 60 others | gy, fagt little Mustang fighters wounded. 4 !from Iwa Jima and a few superforts, With her guns going until the ggeni over the Tokyo area, still| the war because of alleged Polish provocations. Hitler outlined his plans made in peacetime for war preparation in this order: which he feared might die down. Hitler's private report, made to Division Commanders last December 12, s the most spectacular find to date by American officers study- ing thousands of pages of partly charred notes which are shaping up, universal military service. (Continued on Page Five) | “First, immediate introduction of (Buildings, Installations, { Runways Crumble Under Attack By Olen Clements | last enemy plane disappeared, the . smouldering from yesterday's 550/ (Associated Press War Correspondent) Chief of the Vichy Government. I oy |assembly of 49 nations. The deci- | ABOARD A U. S. DESTROYER Laffey shot down at least eight plane B-29 fire raid, in a daylight| center was damaged by fire. | Japanese planes and saw one |sion hour comes as the conference The target area for today's task force that struck shortly after mid- night, Japanese time, (about 8 a. m. Friday, PWT) was south Central Tokyo, bordered on the north by the Imperial Palace and on the south by the Shinagawa area bombed Thurs- day. Meatime 20th Airforce Headquar- ters anounced the loss of 12 B-20s in Wednesday’s record attack. It was the heaviest loss yet suffer-, ed on a mission.... . . A “heavy concentration aircraft fire” was primarily respon- sible, Headquarters reported. The new arep to fall under the B-29s bomb sights today probably has the best built and most modern buildings in Japan. These include the nation’s largest, so-called fire-| proof and earthquake proof office structures. The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSCN of anti-, enters its second month and Secre- |tary of State Stettinius returns {from talks in Washington with NIPPONS NOW ::::=:" Many committees are striving to (wind up their work by this week- iend in order to allow public dis- cussion of their reports to begin in {the four big conference commis- |sions early next week. Among their - latest ‘accomplish- ments are agreement on provisions |designed to strengthen the eco- |nomic and social work of the new ileague, and to outlaw secret | treaties, once the world organiza- SCALE ATTACK All Ships at Sea Have Been Ordered fo Refurn at On(e 10 Bases ‘H,ios is functioning. In the veto dispute many small NEW YORK, May 25—The Bern|hations are demanding that the radio said today: “It is repol‘ted‘au‘h°"i"y of the big powers in a | that all Japanese ships at sea have Projected world organization be receivel the order to return to|lestricted sharply so that an 11- Japanese bases as soon as possible, | ation security council could try i | istrong Allied forces are approach-|between nations even over big- |ing thie Japanese mainland.” | power objections. | CBS recorded the Swiss broad- | Soviet Stands Pat |cast, which gave no source for| The British delégation has pro- | this information, but added: “This|Posed a compromise to meet that This leads to the conclusion ma“by peaceful means to settle troubles ' {friendly plane crash nearby after chasing another Japanese craft .into the sea. (In Seattle, where the Laffey was brought for repairs, the vessel's skipper, Comdr. Frederick Julian !Becton of Hot Springs, Ark., said |eight Japanese planes struck the i ship, seven with suicidal intent. | Another accidentally clipped _the &dut.royer'q mast. Nine planes were :shot down by the Laffey’s gunners, {the Commander said.) “I'll never abandon ship as long as a gun will fire,” the Laffey’s skipper declared. He kept his ‘pramise, R 'HIMMLER'S BODY . STILL ON FLOOR {Question of Funeral in ' 'Presence of German strike today. Tokyo radio which also told of a Superfort miné-laying expedition in |Toyama Bay, across Honshu Island| { !from Iwo Jima and a few Superforts | entrance to the inland sea. Suicide Attacks An unconfirmed Japanese com- munique said airborne Nipponese troops landed on two American air-| military authorities on the greatest figlds on Okinawa, 325 miles south Mass reparation program in history, | of ;Japan, where they blew up air-|involving the movement of 2,500,000 craft, ammunition dumps and in- stallations. It claimed the suicidal raid was coordinated with air strikes on nearby U. S. shipping.|directly across the lines between | Adm. Chester W. Nimitz previous- ly announced one more light U. S. ship was damaged in air raids Wed- A is was reporied o Mas$ Reparation Plan Announced; Greatest in History | PARIS, May 25 — The Western |Allies have agreed with Soviet | persons, Supreme Headquarters an- nounced. | The prisoners will be exchanged the British, Americans and the Russians. Prior to the agreement, the Rus- |OFF PARAMUSHIRO, May 20— lvDelnyedl~Under a bright sun to- |day, a fast destroyer squadron laid | waste to Suribachi, Japan's largest {seafood cannery and second largest n:\mwry area in the Northern Kur- |iles. | Direct hits touched off a latge ‘iammunuion dump or powder maga- jzine in the first salvo. The con- jcussion of explosions all around the |beach were felt at sea. jsrief Ftbd m case 0' Zo‘zm:zyx'u'nwan of sfi’rlbnchi’a air- Mel'l, ]1 Wome" con_ dome were hit many times by the victed in Utah {surface craft. SALT LAKE CITY, May POLYGAMY NO CRIME IS CLAIM | The flames spread so fast after the Hfirst salvoes that doubtless many fananese perished in the blaze, ri- 25—At- valling in fury grumbling Shiriyajiri | | nesday and Thursday nights. He|sians insisted upon repatriating | torneys for 20 men and 11 women Dake, active volcano forming the admitted the raids were continuing.' prisoners through Odessa, a process convicted of conspiring to teach packdrop to Suribachi. American ground troops, deprived of tank support by deepening mud, slogged ahead all along the Okinawa front. The 7th Infantry seized new hill positions more than a mile south of Yonabaru on the east coast against stiff opposition, while Japanese troop movements to the south indicated the enemy was pre- paring to set up a new defensive which took many weeks. DAVIES IS " INLONDON | demand. Some United States dele- ' line. | and practice polygamy contended! The destroyers came In from the today that “the very progress of sea, bucking a'stiff cold wind. ‘It civilization would be stopped if one was the first full daylight surface could not express belief in some-!bcmbardment earried out in the thing unauthorized.” | Kuriles. | They asserted there is no legal| Cmdr. Ernest B. Ellsworth, of | barrier to the advocacy of “a Hartford, Conn, and San Diego, change of law to harmonize with Calif., captain of this destroyer, said the belief” expressed. |apparently the first salvo hit a fuel The contentions were made in a'dump and the flames spread to an brief filed in the appeal to thejnmmunmon dump recently set up on '@t. Col. Robert 8. Alien now on active '4SSUMDtion was confirmed by Radio the Army.) service with (Note—In his earlier columns on Russia, Drew Pearson told how whenever negotiations with the Russians failed, they block- ed on all fronts, from the top diplomat to his chauffeur who slammed the door in one’s face. Today, .Mr. Pearson - diognoses the reason why monkey- wrenches suddenly are being thrown 'into our Soviet-Ameri- can relations.) WASHINGTON—Ii s always dif- ficult to diagnose what goes on inside = the inscrutable Russian mind. But it is not difficult to know what goes'on in Stalin’s mind regarding one man who has played a large part in our Russian i Tokyo, which declared that an| 8 2 | Allied large-scale attack against the |52y that in view of commitments | Japanese islands is feared.” |already made to Russia at Yalta - OFFICIALS AWAY v | Bigwigs Undecided gates like the compromise idea, but ek | BRITISH SECOND ARMY HEADQUARTERS, May 25—Second Army officials still are undecided today whether to hold a funeral 1 for Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himm- jler in the presence of German ‘military and ecivilian big wigs who are in Allied hands. Pour Into Naha | On the west coast, Sixth Division Marines poured in strength into Naha, the island capital, on bridges built under continuous artillery fire, In the center of the line the 77th Division captured two small villages near Shuri Fortress and the 96th re- pulsed two counter attacks. | LONDON, May 25.—Joseph E. |Davies, former U. 8. Ambassador to ! Russia, arrived here today on a spe- |cial mission for President Truman. He was expected to see Prime Min- lister Churchill and Foreign Secre- |tary Anthony Eden soon to discuss fproblcms of liberated Europe. SRS {State Supreme Court of 31 “Fun- the beach. damentalist” cult members who as-| As a terrific explosion occurred, | sert their belief in plural marriage the Quartermaster, Alfred Walker, is a religious principle. ‘Ior Denver, danced and shouted: “If to declare one's bellef be aj “Lookee what we did.” jcrime,” the brief said, “here is an! The officer of the deck, Lt. Frank | ugly precedent substantiating that F. Davenport, Harrisburg, Pa., said: un-American philosophy reminis- “Looks like the Japs are going to cent of the dismal ages of the eat rice without fishheads this year {formula which provides that any Studies for land use and recrea- one of the big powers can “veto” |a council decision to take action. Last night a committee of United |tional development planning called {two U. S. Forest Service officials jaway from Juneau today. Adminis- |trative Assistant Harold E. Smith /left for the Kenai Division on a {month’s detail. Linn Forrest, land- scape architect, flew to Ketchikan for about 10 days. He will confer ithere with the Southern Division staff and on his return to Juneau will stop off at Petersburg. A. E. Glover, Regional Engineer | States, Russian, British and Chi- The 27th-was pulled out of this past.” {for there goes. their cannery.” i R Thirty-six hours after the sui- nese officials drafted a statement! .iqo geath by poison of the SS in reply to small nation questions Chief, his bod: g " » his ly still lay on the about this formula. This statement ... f100r of a Lueneburg villa. It promises that any nation, great or will be placed in a coffin today. small, may bring a dispute before| "y Goo oenerally suspected that the security council and that the yo former Nazi Foreign Minister, jcouncil may discuss it, without| j,ocnim yon Ribbentrop, the only ;t.akmg a vote. Thus the veto could piop Nazi not yet captured or re- not be used.to prevent the airing ported dead, was somewhere in the of charges and counter-charges. British sector in northwest Ger- | | throughout the countryside, con- sector to begin the biggest mop-up job of the Pacific. The full Divis- | GEN KARl OBERG . ion started out shoulder to shoulder in a steady downpour to search over | 500 square miles for an estimated Former Chief of German §. S. Troops in France Is Captured 1,000 Japanese soldiers and to round up perhaps 150,000 Okinawa civilians, | Mopping-Up Stage | Gen Douglas MacArthur announ- ced the “mopping up stage” was also | reached on Mindanao Island in the| Southern Philippines after Yanks completed two junctions. On the The brief contended “no proof| As the ships pulled away after lof living in polygamy, or in un- |their guns had swept the beach from lawful .cohabitation” was presented Maru-Hana _ Point to Tatagami iduring the three-weeks trial last Point, tremendous explosions were | September. |followed by ragged masses of flames Defendants, sentenced to a year Bnawing at buildings. in jail, are free under bond with| This destroyer's cook, Philip Or- the exception of 13 who were,landc, of St. Louis, commented that among 15 men convicted of gin- the whole island of Paramushiro ap- lawful cohabitation and who re- Peared to be going up in smoke. cently entered the Utah State. AD hour after the bombardment, I prison on that charge. |Japanese planes appeared, appar- ently from northern fields. Capt. H. D. Rozendal, Task Force relytlpoliinsan - ORpoRtlt ifor the Forest Service, hopped off From the days imicediately after| yesterday afternoon for Cordova the last war, when: Churchill spur- |54 Anchorage, on general engin- red the sending of Allied troops t0|eering business. He expects to be Archangel and, Siberia to block the |ayay from Juneau for two to three Bolsheviks, they have always dis- weeks and will look over roads and liked him. Wendel Willkie dined in the Kremlin, Stalin rose and | trails, and will also examine exist-] {ing power plants. B ! many. However, considering the 5 B A'l oUT | numbers of refugees on the move GUAM, May 25—Five men of a ' siderable time could elapse before | his capture. RS LS PLENTY OF GOOD central plateau the 31st joined the! 40th and Americal Divisions at Im-l palutao, former headquarters of the' Japanese 35th Army. In the Davao! sector, the 24th advanced eight miles | KITZBUHEL, Germany, May 24| —(Delayed) — Gen. Karl Oberg, | former chief of all German SS and Police activities in occupied France, was arrested today through the | | Commander, ordered the ships to fire when the raiders came in range. Barrage ack-ack and five inchers drove off the planes. The enemy jaircraft made several runs in the SHOOTING IN | | ‘ |to join guerrilla troops. I Yanks began cleaning up dusor.l ganized but bitterly resisting Japan- | combined efforts of the 101st Air- | borne and the Forty-Second Divi-| sions. TRIESTE, BUT gathering dusk, but failed to damage {any warships. 3 launched a violent attack against| |B-29 crew bailed out over Tokyo ese in the Ipo Dam area of the! Oberg was captured at a hide- Churchill for taking Lend-Lease planes off ships destined for Russia when ! those ships stopped in Scot- land. Knowing, how - Churchill encour- | aged Czarist Admirals and Gen- erals to fight against them in the early struggling days of the Soviet, and how even recently Churchill remarked, “What will stand as protection between the white cliffs of Dover and the white snows of Russia?”, it is easy to understand why Stalin is sometimes almost savage in the notes he sends to Churchill. With Franklin Roosevelt alive, the Russians had a friendly third party whom they liked and trusted, to act as mediator between Stalin and Churchill. Once or twice, es- pecially at Teheran, the two men were literally at each other’s throat before Roosevelt stepped in. But today, with Roosevelt dead, Stalin suddenly finds himself face to face with the man he distrusts fcanunud on Page Four) 23 BOY SCOUTS - HEAD FOR CAMP - AT EAGLE RIVER Boy Scout Camp at Eagle River {officially opened today with 23 local {lads signed up to take part in the camp’s activities. Four of the 23 {went out to the camp yesterday, the ! remainder departing today. Leaving for camp today were: Bill man, George Barril, George Gilli- |gan, Gerald Shaw, Donald Winger- |son, Bill Forward, Frederick Wyller, |James Maurstad, William Johnson, Bob Carter, Dale Roff, Norris, Bobby Rhodes, Kenneth |Kinnon and Jim Jahoda. ‘Wingerson, Robert Summers, - Irv- ing Butts. when the plane went out of control,| wASHINGTON, — The {but the pilot righted the huge Sh‘pjsuuation is ]ookm):ay“:b for the |and flew it safely to Iwo Jima, tpjrgty. {725 miles away. Distillers have been released from | Anti-aircraft fire knocked out yming out industrial alcohol dur-| one engine, damaged the left Wing jng july. This will mean more than | jand destroyed part of the navi- |50 000,000-proof gallons of beverage ! gating equipment. The plane Went spirits for warehousing, thus re-! out of control. {leasing existing goods for retail One member of the 11-man c“""shelvez_ S o —not the commander—yelled, “let’s G RO | Manila watershed on Luzon Island,%ou'. atop a mountain which took | three hours to climb, but was not identified until some time - later when he was picked out of a batch of Germans in a prison pen. Chinese Offensive The three-pronged Chinese offen-! sive sweeping toward the enemy's corridor to Indo-China engulfed Hwaiyuanchen, 50 miles from the crossroads city of Liuchow. Due| north, other Chinese were within 19 miles of Paoching (Shaoyang), the springboard of a recent Japanese of- fensive. | LEARNED FISHERMEN ON TRIP THURSDAY 'PAN AMERICAN OUT - NOT BATILE "™ o | Trieste, May 25.—Sudden bursts’ Pan American World Airways {of machinegun fire and rockets sent Clippers flew the following to jcivilians in this surbulent city geattle yesterday: Velma Lovegren, |scampering for shelter last night, Howard Luther, Merle Brown, Betty |but Yugoslav troops explained it Was jones, William Harris, Dorothy Fox, |just the beginning of a celebration james Jackson, Art Conley and Mar- of Marshal Tito’s 53rd birthday to- tha Miller, ;Sperlmg, Thomas Horn, Carl Weid-| L I get out of here.” Five did STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW 'YORK, May 25 — Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine stock today is 7%, American Can 983z, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright Ceighton | 6, International Harvester 86, Ken- necott 38%, New York Central 28, | Bowling, Charles Smith, Don Mac-| Northern Pacific 31, U. 8. Steel 66%. Sales today were 1,300,000 Preceding the main group to camp.i shares. yesterday, were: Albert Shaw, Dick Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 185.12; rails, 57.02; utilities, " 30,74, In a belated effort to halt the| {Chinese counteroffensive in the Foo- \chow area, Japanese landed rein- | forcements from warships north of, | that recently freed Eas' China port. R, ] . Tax Evasionists To Be (M(ked u | Japanese broadcasters foresaw a| gt ipossible Allied landing* on Amami WASHINGTON, May 25 — The sland in the Northern Ryukyus, 200 Treasury is finding so many mijles south of Japan, and admitted “shocking, revolting and disgust- Nipponese suicide tactics couldn't| ing” cases of tax evasion, Secretary halt the American advance. Morgenthau said, that it will ask!| { agents to deal with them. Russia’s position in the Pacific said | There were indications that the|“If Japan should desire peace it requést would have President Tru-|Would be possible that Japan would J man’s support. make proposals through Russia.” All the men teachers of the Juneau‘dny, schools and Bill Tatterton of the, One small hotel lobby was crowd- Subport enjoyed a fishing trip yes-:ed with civilians who ducked inside terday aboard the Doughboy, withifor shelter, inquiring excitedly if Dr. J. O. Rude as host. i fighting had started between Yugo- Assisted by Coach Anderson and [slav and Eighth Army troops quart- all the rest except Hank Harmon, ered in Trieste. Ronald Livingston, Clyde Tins- Jdey and Sybil Tinsley were passen- gers to Fairbanks. Mrs. Mabel Nunamaker was an in- coming passenger from Pairbanks. | | énothin;;. for at least 5000 more treasury| Another broadest discussing Soviet| Dr. Rude landed a 17-pound salmon,! The tension in this disputed cnyi he reported, while A. B. Phillips appeared today to have relaxed as caught a half-pound tomcod all by discussions toward a settlement of | himself, and Hank Harmon caught cccupation problems continued on a are a bit dubious about /high level, but there was no indica- shortage. —————r ‘tion whether the Allies would look' Twice within three hours they MR., MRS. EVANS HERE kindly upon a three-point proposal were called to - residences where Mr. and Mrs. Holly Evans, of said to have been handed their rep- smoke billowed from windows. In Skagway, are guests at the Gas- resentatives in Belgrade two days each case they traced the smoke to tineau Hotel. ago by Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, neglected meat roasts. SKEPTICS DENVER, Colo. — Denver firemen a meat