The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 1, 1945, Page 1

“Truman Tells Congress of THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 9977 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE I, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RAIDERS START ROARING FIRES IN 05AKA PACIFIC FRAY WILL REQUIRE BIGGEST ARMY Problems Involved- Big 3 Meet Near | WASHINGTON, June 1 — In a| | [ ceview of the war, President Tru- man told Congress today the Am- erican Army in the Pacific ulti- mately will be bigger than our| army was in Europe at its height. He outlined the problems con- fronting the nation before the, Japanese war can be ended and steps being taken to meet them, discussed re-deplowment and de- mobilization problems with empha- sis on the transportation problem involved, and reiterated the na- | tion’s determination to fight the| Pacific war to a complete finish. He called for workers for ship re- pair yards. | On the internuuonal situation, | President Truman told reporters at | a press conference: —The “Big Three” Conference is | getting closer and he thought he | could say it would take place in the not far distant future. It will not be enlarged to include France ol China. 2—He is giving his full support to the British in their interventiol in the Levantine situation and i in constant communication with | Prime Minister Churchill on the| subject. He thought this govern-! ment would be interested in a tri-| partite meeting to discuss the sit- | uation but- there- has been . no agreement for such a meeting. 3—He hopes the San Francisco Conference can be completed with- | in 10 days, but any delay in its| conclusion would not effect plans for the “Big Three” meeting. On. the domestic front, Mr. Tru- man said that: 1—Claude Wickard’s tenure as Secretary of Agriculture will end | June 30 regardless of Senate action on Wickerd’s nomination as Rural Electrification Administrator. | 2—He could not be more em-| phatic than he was last week when | he said that he did not propose any further Cabinet changes. This ! was in apswer to a question ap- parently prompted by published | speculation that Secretary of State | Stettinius might be replaced by | Former War Mobilizer James F.| Byrnes. 3—He has persuaded Judge Sam- | uel I. Rosenman of New York to| remain at the White House another | year as special counsel to the| President. The White House earlier had made public Rosenman’s prof- | erred resignation. | 4—Guy M. Gillette’s resignation | as Chairman of the Surplus Prop- erty Board will become effective not later than July 15. 5—He hopes Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau can get the 10,000 additional investigators he | has requested to break up what | Mr. Truman called a shocking evasion of income taxes. | | | (Continued on Page Five) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON | Col.” Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) (Lt WASHINGTON—In picking Tom Clark as his new Attorney Gen- eral, President Truman followed | his old yen for exposing war frauds. Clark, astute, crusading| former head of the Justice De-‘. partment’s War Frauds Unit, has; a notable record—had prosecuted some of the cases which the Tru- man Committee first exposed . Also he originated many cases ot his own. Clark prosecuted the Ana- ; conda Copper Company three | times for manufacturing faulty | also | | wire for the armed forces; moved against the Durham Manu-| facturing Company of Fort Wnyne.| Ind., for covering up cracked shell cases made for the Navy; also' convictéd one company in Tru- man’s home town, Kansas City, the - - Baker and Lockwood Company, for | war frauds’ against the air forces. Clark has served as ' Assistant| Attorney General - in’ charge 011 il i S (Continued on Page Four) | our homes are completely safe from aggression. "Soff Generation” Myth BIasIed On Ballleheld AVING proved that the “soft generation” is a false label, Capt. Thomas A. Hackett turns to the home front and urges that all generations must buckle down to the real job of winning a war. Complaints are not in order, he says. Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, Calif. To the readers of The Daily Alaska Empire: Years ago our fathers and grandfathers used to say we were “soft,” that if an emergency arose, we would never be able to cope with it. From Pearl Harbor through the Philippines attack and the present, the boys have proven they could “take it.” went right on proving it—and they still are—despite all the efforts of our enemies to make us break faith. The people on the home front are asked to co-operate in such ways as buying war bonds, donating blood, geing without luxuries, carrying ration books—but this is the least they can do to support the generation hat was told over and over again that it was “soft” and would not be able to “take it” when an emergency arose. We cannot strike or quit our jobs until our enemies are defeated and We cannot complain when because of transportation difficulties to the very front lines, we cannot get full rations. Therefore—those who are only asked to live in the security of their homes, working in the most modern of factories and still enjoying many of the benefits of a democratic way of life must not | complain, either; until our job is done. Sincgrely yours, CAPTAIN THOMAS A, HACKETT, Hummgmu Lcng Island, N. Y. Japanese-Amemans Face Violence When Seekmg Relocation | WASHINGTON, June 1.—Threat- Nmed violence against Japanese- | Americans was described today as a! “major problem” facing the War| | Relocation Authority (WRA) in its |effort to restore them to normal life, Dillon S. Myer, WRA Director, told 'a House Appropriations sub-commit- l"c in testimony made public today that the agency expects to close its| {eight remaining relocation centers! ‘fox Japanese-Americans by the end ‘o! the year. This will require moving about ‘53 000 persons to communities they iselect and aiding them to re-estab-| flish themselves, Myer said. “Our major problem,” Myer told the subcommittee, concerns the re- Is Doing in Viola- {]uctance, particularly on the part of tion of Pacls itthe old people in the Centers, to be NEW YORK, June 1—The New relocated because of a feeling of York Times said today in a dls-qmecurny patch from its Buenos Aires cor-' “In certain areas, particularly on respondent, Arnaldo Cortesi, that|the (west) coast, during the last “the Argentine Government had no thre" months, we have had some sooner declared war on Germany occurrences such as shooting into and Japan and signed the final dwellings, boycotts and other atro- acts of the Mexico City Conference | cities on the part of misguided un- than it deprived the Argentine!American patriots and a small group people of what small remains oftot people who have an economic in- freedom they still possessed.” jterest in opposing the returne of The delayed dispatch, filed Wed- |cvacuses.” nesday from Buenos Aires, said, Secretary ‘of Interior Ickes has that “since experience has shownreported that 20 shootings have oc-| there is no hope of getting Lhe‘C“”ed at the homes of Japanese- truth past the Argentine censors, Americans in California since Jan- this dispatch is being sent by chan- ‘“'f“‘Y 2. nels other than the normal ones.” | Cortesi said the time had come | !to say that “things have happened in Buenos Aires recently that ex-| STOCK QUOTATIONS ceed anything that this correspond-: ent can remember in his 17 years| u’;vi‘:’o YO‘;‘K'AIJH: ; Jl 4 cfimg experience in Fascist Italy.” /e g A e “He (this correspond&m hns’smck boay) s s VATEG A DAty seen whole sections of the city W"ng’g'm 5'?“‘00““ i, Curtiey jcupied by the army in full war|gn .~ gennecott 38%, New York kit; he has seen peaceful cmze"s'cex;nal 284, Northern Pacific 31% searched for arms in the streets;|(; g gieel 677. Sales today were he has seen policemen directin 430,000 sharesh 5. P traffic with revolvers in | hands,” Cortesi wrote. thet | Dow, Jones averages today are as REIGN OF TERROR IN ARGENTINA Correspondent Tells Wha e, e dage R e SYORC W0 m"fol,lo?ls: Industrials, 168.08; rails, nocent man was machine-gunned, o°0 e, 3“5; while entering a subway station.: He knows that reputable citizens| FOSING 30 VARELE 7 have (Dt Arreatad’ ko Don C. Foster, Director of the jothers . . . have been spirited away; i'tllaska Nauvs ‘Sayvios. ine dvised | that suu Sthase o % sava. had to} his headquarters here, from Fair- banks, that he will leave tomorrow for Circle to observe effects of the recent high water reported from that upper-Yukon River area, | choose between exile and imprison- ment. 2 (CImleP(I on Page ch) In the Jap prison camps they | International Harvester | CONFERENCE OF NATIONS SPEEDS UP Improved Conditions on Two Fronts Give Hope Early Adjournment By John M. Hightower (Associated Press Dipiomatic News Editor) SAN FRANCISCO, June 1—Pros- Syrian dispute combined with, re- | ports of improved American-Soviet relations today to brighten flele- zates’ hopes for an early, successtul windup of the United Nations Con- ference. Forceful sponsoring powers is regarded among United States delegates as the means for shaking the confer~ ence out of its lagging committee work and whipping the charter for a new league into final shape. Many delegates are saying pri= vately that the time for action to um end is at hand and the plnce to begin is among the “Big Five.” The United States sought agree- ment with British, Russian, Chinese | dozen early meeting of Secretary Stet-| | tinius with the other four dele-| gation chiefs is expected. Moscow Reaction Due Moscow reaction to a proposed “Big Five” statement on the veto voting issue is due in a day or so. | The statement is intended to re- assure small nations that the big- Ipower veto could not be used to prevent their getting at least a | preliminary hearing before | prospective world security council. {At the moment a Moscow answer is the key log in the work jam. On the bright side are world po- litical developments to ahich the ! conference sensitively reacts. It is reported that President Truman’s special envoy to Mobscow, Harry Hopkins, has had successful con- | ferences with Marshal Stalin and |other Soviet leaders, paving the way for much better relations be- tween Moscow and Washington. ! One Bright Spot ! One result may be to hasten the (time of joint Allied occupation of Berlin and Austria in accordance with agreements made months ago but inexplicably held up after German defeat. On the Levant crisis news that 1pcace was being restored to the ,deam-rxdden streets of Damascus coupled with Anglo-American in- sistence on a free settlement of Franco-Syrian differences, rather !than one made at gun-point, }cheered small nation delegates. They have been worried over the future security of their own coun- | tries under a league controlled in the main by the hig powers. 10,000 MORE [FREED YANKS 'HOMEBOUND WASHINGTON. Secretary of War Patterson said that ian additional 10000 American sol- diers freed from German prison camps will reach the United States {by Sunday night. He told a news conference that these arrivals will boost to 37571 }the umber of liberated prisoners brought back to this country y chips and airplanes. - The number represents, he said, more than one- third of the 90,000 former prisoners of war in Europe, who have been returned to American lines, who are in the hands of Allied forces, or in the process of being returned to American control. Exiled Government 0f Norway Refurns OSLO, June 1-—The Norwegian Government has returned to Nor- way after five years in exile. In Oslo, the Norwegian Premier has announced that the Cabinet will resign immediately after King Haakon joins the Ministers in order { leadership by the big | pects for settlement of the anco- | and French spokesmen on half a/ pending guestions, and an! H : 1 [ the = June 1—Under to set up a government including ! the resistance leaders, I i i Truman Awards Medal Before Congress - President Harry Truman places the Congressional Medal of Honor en Technical Sergeant Jake W. Lindsey, 24, of Lucedale, Miss., befere a joint .svx.\iml of Congress May 21. Staff, is at right; Colonel Harry Vaughan, the President’s aide, lower left. r Kenneth McKellar of Tenn. (left) and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn of Texas. The ram- tiff infantry sergeant was the 100th infantryman to receive the coveted award, highest in his country’s He bowed his head to receive the trophy from the President. Lindsey engaged eight Germans in hand gift. {o hand cembat near Hamich, Germany, and bested them all “with Great American courage.” parents and sister were present for the colorful ceremony. G Bill of Rights Is FARMERS OF MATANUSKA SERVE FEED cued Served fo 500 An- chorage Residents ANCHORAGL Al'hk'i Four hundred pounds Matanuska Valley steer bequed here yesterday to feature free dinner served by Federal Farm Project farmers to 500 An- chorage residents It was the tenth annual project dinner “in return” for free dinners served colonists in May, 1935, when !they arrived in Anchorage enroute to new homes in the Valley During the program, the colonists displayed what they termed their “biggest crop,” parading more than 100 children under banners indi- cating birth years. The Matanuska Valley Farmers’ Cooperative Association also dis- closed farm products grossed $1.- 5,000 during 1944—the project’s biggest year. An example of the velopment are the 115 priv: owned tractors. Only five govern- ment owned tractors were in the Valley 10 years ago. EVERGREEN BOWL OPENS Evergreen Bowl opened today with hours from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Barney Anderson is in charge of June 1— of fresh were bar- the recreation center this summer, and his assistants are Colleen Bucy and Robert Sanford. The . Friday field days will prob- ably start one week from today. For the present, the swimming pool will not be open, as repairs are to be made. - FLORI‘.'\I( E LILAN HERE Florence Lilan, of Anchorage, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. - Given Scoring; Vels Dlscouraged Reporl, WASHINGTON, June 1-—Veter- ans seeking to go into business are | encountering, in the opinion of | Plants Corporation head, | cratic detours and blind alleys. | Appropriations Committee ‘(m establishing b Fresh VaIIey Steer Barbe-‘ project’s de- | Smaller “bureau- Maury Maverick, Maverick suggested to the House in tes- timony made public today that his agency should be authorized to handle business loans for these | veterans, and also furnish advice inesses. A $250, could be \\lll such a pro- he said, developing 000 fund, spent in gram. Maverick told the committeemen there are many flaws in the GI Bill of Rights, adding: “Not a day goes by but that men in uniform come to us for some assistance. Frequently they come to us as a last resort after running the gantlet of a dozen bureaus in Washington or over the country. “They go away discouraged, sick at heart—they have lost their first battle of ‘civilian independence’ both because of the inadequacy of the GI Bill and because of the cades and obstruc- numerous barr tions of rules, regulations and bu- reaucratic detours and blind alleys.” e Anchorage Mother Learns About Son Through AP News ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 1- Mrs. Martha Jean Buresh learned for the first time the whereabouts of her 12-year-old soxn, Robert, yes- terday when shown an Associated Press story that he was without funds in Seattle after running away from home to see his father in Los Angeles. The boy spent his last cent for train fare between Anchorage and Seward, then stowed away on a ship to Seattle. The mother, ammw said she would send for "him, since his father was unable to care for him. “Robert has always been discon-' tented here,” Mrs. Buresh said. “He’s small for his age and unable to find a job for the summer. “We came north on the same steamer he stowed away on and he knew every likely spot for stowing away,” she added The boy had been the object of but officials. Juneau City Council is to be held {They will a police search here were able to trace his move- ments as far as Seward before | losing the trail War * who works at a local | General George C. Marshall, Army Chief Behind the President are Lindsey's CEASE FIRING ON SYRIANS ORDERGIVEN Near Solution of Crisis in Levant Looms - Con- ference Scheduled (By Associated Press) The French agreed officially to- day to cease firing on the Syrians, and a British Foreign Office spokesman said that France had been invited to participate with Britain and the United States in a conference looking toward a solu- tion of the crisis in the Levant. The French cease fire agreement came after a talk between the commanders in chief of the British and French forces in the Levant. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told Commons that the French commander in Syria had been or- dered by Paris not to oppose British efforts to restore order in Syria and Lebanon. He added: “We have confidence that we can now rely on all concerned to co- operate in the complete restoration of law and order which is indeed an essential step to a solution of this complex problem.” A Paris dispatch pictured Gen, de Gaulle as surprised by Prime Minister Churchill’s stern note yes- terday notifying the French leader that British troops in the Middle East were intervening in the Le- vant crisis to prevent further blood- shed. = Damascus, the Syrian capital, was quiet but tense last night. Dr. Ahmet Kadry, Director General of Public Health there, said that during brief truces his ambulances had picked up 400 dead and 500 wounded. The British Foreign Office spokesman said that Syria would not be invited to take part in the initial discussions between France, Britain and the United States, but was expected to participate in the later talks The French the dispute with solely their own | Soviet commentators maintained silence on the situation, the Rus- sian press and radio carried lengthy news accounts of developments in have “insisted that the Syrians is affair. While COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT first June meeting of the The this evening in the City Hall at 8 o'clock, with several important |civic matters due for discussion. BOMBERSIN. - BIG ATTACK INDAYLIGHT |Greatest Industrial Center of Japan Hit Second , Time in 3 Days JAPANESE TROOPS ARE | PUSHED BACK, FRONTS Ameritans]?e Throwing Double Ring About Shuri on Okinawa By Leonard Milliman (Associated Press War €divs Roaring fires lighted in « day- ilight raid by 600 Superforts and ' escorting fighters swept Osaka, | sreatest industrial city in Japan, | today while ground forces pushed | back Japanese troops on every | front. | Five American divisons closed a double ring -around Shuri, last remnant of the enemy's defense /line on Okinawa, where 61,000 | Japanese have been killed in the two-month-old campaign. Between 20,000 to 25,000 surviving Japanese " ewere pressed so hard through rein |and lightning storms they were uh- able to establish a second defense line, Attacks Beaten Back Small but vicious Japanese coun- terattacks were beaten back by ady vancing Filipino Guerrillas, Amert- can Infantrymen and Australians in the Philippines and on New Guinea. Today's raild on Osaka started great fires which sent smoke bil-* lowing four miles ‘into the sky. It was the second daylight incendiary: strike within three days by more than 450 Superforts under Mustang fighter escort on major enemy port cities. Waves Of Supers Waves of B-20'§ bombed for two hours thrqugh a light haze after 150 fighters from Iwo Jima swept over the city, Clusters of fire bombs were concentrated’ in war indus-! tries, shipyards and the port area of the city, where more than eight square miles were burned out in a previous fire raid two months ago. Jap broadcasts conceded fires were so great they were only grad- ually being brought under control. The enemy claimed 24 B-29's were shot down and 30 others damaged, but returning pilots described Japa- nese interception as meager. Greater Air Blows Greater air blows against Japan were promised, particularly from Superforts which have rained 60,- 000 tons of bombs on its industrial cities in three months. The War Department announced that B-29's would be added to Lt. Gen. James Doolittle’s Eighth Air Force which is being transferred from England, and that American air forces were moving out of the India-Burma theatre to get a crack at Japan. Japanese propagandists conceded B-29 fire raids were burning up $100,000,00 Oworth of property over- night but claimed their own suicide forces have sunk 20 U. S. warships, and transports and damaged 44' others in attacks on the Okinawa area. Lightning And Rain Lightning and rain kept them away from Okinawa yesterday as U. S. ground forces made break- | throughs ranging up to 200 yards "which Adm. Nimitz said threatened the “enemy’s whole central island position.” The double American ring was drawn around Shuri town, into which strong forces of the First Marine Division poured from cap- tured Shuri Castle. The Seventy- Seventh Infantry reached the northeastern boundaries of the town after a half mile advance. - MR., MRS. DRYDEN OUT | Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Dryden left for the States on the Princess. ! Louise. They intend to spend the | Summer in Idsho, on the ranch owned by Mr. Drydeén's parents. return to Juneau In August, when Mr. Dryden will re- assume his duties as principal of the Juneau Grammar School.