The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 2, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LXV., NO. 9978 “ALL, THE NEWS ALIL THE TIME” THE LiBRagy of S SERIAL ReCoRp JUL 18 1945 oory, ~"—’—._, JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CARRIER RAIDERS AGAIN SMASH JAPAN New Power Thrusts Are Planned On Nippons { | { | { ADM. HALSEY T0 GET BACK INTO ACTION Third Fleeffieparing to Strike-Closing Phase Okinawa Fighting POPE PIUS LASHES OUT AT NAZIISM VATICAN CITY, June 2 — Pope |Pius XII today declared “the war |in Europe is over. It is said that | those who take the sword will perish by the sword. The entire world today is stupified by ruins. We had foreseen By Leonard Milliman ruins.” (Associated Press War Editor) Then the Pope lashed out at New sea-borne power thrusts| Naziism in Germany, calling it a against the shrinking Japanese inisatanic influence. He said the the near future were foreshadowed |church did ‘what it could to keep today in the announced return to|the Nazi regime on the right path action of Adm. William F. (Bull) | when it was still uncertain what Halsey and his Third Fleet. evil course the Nazis would take. “We can go where we want t0—{And he said that the concordat from' the North Pole to the South!with Germany never indicated that Pole,” Halsey said as he and his| the church in any way approved staff took over from Adm. Ray—“me ways of the Hitler Government, mond A. Spruance and his Fifth; The Pontiff added that the Nazis Fleet. |had fought against the church, The change in fleets, always a oppressed the conscience of citizens harbinger of daring blows againstiand had otherwise indulged in per- the Mikado's forces, was announced | secution. the | these | by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz today | The Pope expressed his views to- as the Okinawa campaign on the'day in an address before the Col- southern doorstep to Japan entered | lege of Cardinals. He declared that its closing phase. small and big nations want their Four Yank Divisions made ad-|liberty—that after their share in vances fram 400 yards up to a mile| the victory, they do not want a and a half yesterday as the Twenty- | new system of oppression. Fourth Infantry Division mopped | A up the stench-filled ruins of Shuri,| shattered keystone of the enemy’s| defense line, Death Stand | Thrusts down the center and| either flank threatened to isolate a west coast*peninsula “alive with' Japanese troops” apparently ready to make a death stand in defense| (Continued on Page Two) | | FOOD RATIONING MAY CONTINUE FOR FIVE YEARS WASHINGTON, June 2-Food ra- tioning until 1950 was forecast today | by Senator Wagner (D-NY). ! The chairman of the Senate |Banking Committee told the re- !porters (hat controls on prices and volumes of edibles would be neces- |sary until that time, = ! The chairman reasoned that per- By DREW PEARSON |haps another year or so would be (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active required to defeat Japan; then, to safvice: Wit eRIDIE) |avoid a distuption of the nation’s £ i ¢-|economy, the Government would WABHINGTON:SI5 vubaigip ot have to keep a clamp on food con- side the White House know it, but | * 3 President Truman detailed to Sec-‘:)cls for another three years or retary Steve Early the embarrass-;™ ing job of requesting the resigna- 3] Longshoremen of The Washington Merry - Go- Round tion of Francis Biddle as Attorney Apparently not wanting to see} Coas‘ p"' Bridges called the Attorney General on the| phone, abruptly broke the news. doing business. He promptly called|nternational Longshoremen’s and the White House, said he wanted warehousemen's Union (CIO) an- General. Biddle face to face, Truman asked | Biddle, however, did not appre-| U to see the President. |nounced last night that Michael P. Early to handle the matter. Eagly| ciate this second-hand method of SAN FRANCISCO, June 2—The Going to the White House; Biddle | johnson of San Francisco was told Truman that his resignation elected Second Vice President in a| had been submitted immediatelybiennial referendum among 60,000 after President Roosevelt died, and members which returned Harry that he quite appreciated the fact|Bridges to the Presidency without that a new President would want | contest. to have his own personal friends in | his Cabinet. . v i “But,” he added, “the relation between the President and his! Cabinet is such that if you want to accept my resignation, it seems to me you should tell me so your- self, not detail it to a secretary.” Embarrassed, : President Truman agreed. ¥ % Noté—On big ‘problems, President Truman has shown himself to be broad-gauged and far-sighted. But, like some. of his predecessors, on little things he is not. A lot of political irritants, most of them involving political patronage, ap- parently stuck in Truman's craw regarding Biddle. The Attorney General long held out against ap- pointing Truman’s old sergeant in World War I, Fred Canfield, as U. S. Marshal in Kansas City. He also held out against the appoint- ment of ex-Congressman Dick Duncan of St. Joseph to be a U. S. Judge in Missouri. Biddle also had refused to parole Truman’s political godfather, Tom Pender- gast, and insisted on re-appoint- ing as District Attorney, Maurice Milligan, the man who sent Pen- | | In the only contest for places on the International Executive Board, Charles Clark of Seattle and Frank Andrews were elected from the | Washington-Alaska region. WELCOME SERVICE " HERE SUNDAY FOR " NEW S, A. LEADERS Capt. and Mrs. John Hoogstad, formerly at Fort Collins, Colorado, have arrived in Juneau to take | command of Salvation Army work | here. * Their official Welcoming Service is 'to be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the | Salvation Army' Hallson Willoughby Avenue, it is announced. The new commandants here have | held several previous appointments in. California and Colorado. They are replacing Capt. Gwen Carruthers land Capt. Margaret Morris, who were recently appointed to Hayward, California. ———— FORGET HERE Mrs. H. D. Forget, of Sitka, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. ———.—————— dergast to jail. L. M. Tyvall, of Cordova, is a guest -at the Baranof Hotel. ———————— H. C. Hardesty, of Skagway, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. SAN FRANCISCO STORM The French-Syrian problem has been like a shower of cold water - (Continued on Page Four) ((RACKING ~ DOWN ON GERMANS (Fifty Formflazis fo Be Shot for Every Attempt on Red Army Man | LONDON, June 2.—Indicating the | appearance of anti-Russian activity in the area of the shattered Ger- | man capital, Arthur Werner, the | ‘Soviet-appoimed Mayor of Berlin, ;has warned Germans that 50 former | | Nazis would be shot for every at-| |tempt on the life of a Red Army | | soldier or Russian official. | | Meanwhile, an Associated Press' dispatch from Geneva quoted Emil | | E. Boesch, International Red Cross | epresentative just returned from | |Berlin, as saying some 500,000 dis-i placed persons and 100,000 Allied Iprisoners of war still were milling | about in the central area of Berlin land needed prompt inter-Allied aid | | to avoid starvation and epidemics. | The Russians are attempting en- | |ergetically to restore order in Ber- |lin, Boesch was quoted in the Gen- | |eva dispatch. He added that the, | Russians were swamped by the mag- " | nitude of the relief problem, and | |that the Russians lacked sufficient | food, medicines and transpanauunl to handle the job. Boesch suggested that relief could | | be facilitated if relief.agezicies could | be permitted to pass freely back | and forth across the line of de- | | marcation between the Russian and | | British-American occupation zones. | | | 'Medals for Service - In Asiatic, Pacific | . Areas Is Proposal | WASHINGTON, June 2—Issuance | | of medals for service in the Asiatic | and Pacific areas is proposed by | Senator Chavez, (D., N. M.). | He introduced a bill to authorize |the war Department to provide | such medals for all persons who! have served in the western areas; since December 7, 1941, or to their next of kin. { > STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 2. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7', American Can | 100, Anaconda 35%, Curtiss-Wright | 6, Kennecott 377%, New York Central | 29, Northern Pacific 31%, U. S. Steel | | 67%. Sales today were. 980,000 shares. | Dow, Jones averages today are | as follows: Industrials, 167.08; rails, | 158.90; utilities, 31.82. HEINTZLEMAN BACK FROM P-W STUDIES IN PAC. NORTHWEST After two weeks of intense study all over the Pacific. Northwest, de- voted to detexmining possibilities for immediate post-war development of wood-using industries in Alaska, Re- gional Forester B. Frank Heintzle- man returned north to his head- | quarters here by plane yesterday. Mr. Heintzleman examined poten- | tialities of everything from cedar shingles and poles, including timber | preservation and furniture manu- facture from yellow cedar, up | through plywood and pulp and | paper manufacture. He reported ( that no doubt establishment here of some of them will be evenmally‘ consummated, but not until general | | conditions have more nearly Tetum: | ed to normal. The Forester stated that he ex-| pects some groups of men inter- ested in setting up in Alaska will | ! visit the Territory this summer, to look into its possibilities. | — e MRS. SCHOONOVER HERE ¥ 1 | | H | Mrs. Hilda Schoonover and chil- jdren, of Hoonah, are guests at the Hotel Juneau. ) jstand, were maintaining order | | [Rigid Russi;n-;itlilude May| (OLD WAVE OVER WIDE U. S. AREA ! (By Associated Press) | A mass of cold air moving down { from the Hudson Bay region spread over a wide section of the Nation today, putting a chill on the tra- ditional June-moon business and a SOVIET HOLDS FIRM ON FULL VETO CONTROL Impede Quick Conclusion of San Francisco Meet While the cold weather rushed (down over the Great Lakes region and extended eastward to the At- lantic seaboard and up into New England, another day of oppressive heat was forecast for the southeast- ern section of the country. Snow fell in Duluth, at the head of the Great Lakes, this morning as | the mercury dropped to 32. Tem- last night to Secretary of State Peratures in the 30s were reported Stettinius and the chiefs of the In other parts of Minnesota, Wis- British, French and Chinese dele- | consin and North Dakota. gations at the United Nations Con- g SAYS WAR CRIMES By John M. Hightower (Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) SAN FRANCISCO, June 2-Russia is standing firm on a rigid inter- pretation of “Big Five” veto con- trols over United Nations machin- ery designed to keep world peace. Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, Soviet delegation chief, handed a new note on the Russian attitude | wet blanket over many a June bride. | THIS NEW POSTER is being distributed by the War Department as part of its program to shift the attention of all Americans on the home front to the big job ahead in the Pacific. The Army chiefs are emphasizing the fact that there must be no let down in civilian effort as a resuit of the . 8. Armv ohoto. " end of the war in Europe. Official U | except when there Five” It was learned today ma” when Gromyko rapidly summarized | its contents others present gathered | a complaint by the security councu'Hodgson. U. S. representative on of the projected world organization |the War Crimes Commission, said is unanimous today that certain types of war Contents of the note were not that Moscow firmly opposes any agreement among the big powers.lcrimes apparently were dictated by (International) DAMASCUS STRIFEIS OVERNOW Fighting Ended Late Yes- terday—Buildings Bear Gunfire Marks DAMASCUS, June 2 Every building jn the center of the city from the French delegation edifice today bore the marks of gunfire from the French-Syrian fighting which ended late yesterday. One entire block between the French barracks and the Serail (Government House) was totally gutted and scarred by continuous fire from French 75's which poured in mortar shells Wednesday and Thursday night. Telephone, telegrapn and over- head trolley lines are down ever) where. There is no electricity and food is scarce. British and Syrian patrols, latter almost too battle-weary the to in i the streets, where crowds publicly {burned two French cars yesterday The dead still were lying on the streets in some places and the number of casualties will not be known for some time. The city, however, was in excited good spirits as the result of the | cessation of hostilities yesterday iand President Shukri Quyatli de- I scribed the inhabitants as “the immediately made known outside | | the top official circle of the “Big | relaxation of the veto power and| ___ may be objecting even to receipt of | LONDON, June 2—Lt. Col. J. V. S The veto power stands as an the Axis Governments as a matter DE GAullE IS "o' over-riding right of any of the TO TAKE PART IN ANY CONFERENCES decisive step it may disapprove. ‘While this appeared to intensify differences among the “Big Five” over how the ‘veto should be ap- plied—Britain pressed for a less- \“Big " Five” nations to forbid any! lof policy. | He made the assertion in a sueech |to a closed. session of the 16-member commission, ‘and it was viewed as !supporung a general belief that the | victorious powers would try to pin {war guilt on Axis Governments as ! troops had been ordered Leaves Seftlement of Dis- pute with Lebanon and Syria Up fo Others LONDON, June 2—There were indications today that Gen. Charles De Gaulle was unwilling to take part at the present time in an inter- national conference to settle France'’s dispute with Lebanon and battle-scarred Syria, as Moscow told other members of the Big Five “the conflict which has arisen must be settled in a peaceful manner.” An Associated Press dispatch from Damascus reported French forces there retired to their barracks late yesterday under the noses of Brit- ish tanks. An official Paris state- ment had said merely that the “to cease fire and hold their positions.” The broadcast Soviet statement by the Peopel's Commissariat for For- eight Affairs, disclosing the Russian notes to Paris, Washington, Lon- don and Chungking, asked for of his command that the first an- rigid interpretation—Stettinius went (Such on a blanket basis. speedy measures to stop militdry operations in Syria.” thet the Soviet government was at | happiest people ever seen in the jeast jnformed” of proposed confer- long history of this city.” >-oo JAPANESE-HELD MARCUS ISLAND SHELLED BY SUB SAN FRANCISCO, June 2 — An American submarine shelled tiny, Japanese-held Marcus Island, about 1,100 miles northeast of Guam, Thursday night (Japanese time), Radio Tokyo said today in a broad- cast heard by the Federal Com- munications Commission. —— e ADVANCEMENT Elmo Bittle, USCG, on duty here with the crganization of the Cap- tain of the Port, has been mi—‘; vanced in rating from Signalman 3/c to Signalman 2/c. - D e SEATTLE ME berg, of Seattle, are guests at the Baranof Hotel. B BETTY FITZGERALD HERE END CLUB WILL Betty Fitzgerald, of Skagway, has TAKE SUMMER RECESS |arrived in Juneau and is a guest at | the Gastineau Hotel. ,e — | > trying to speed up the conference |'eléased through the Ministry of In- to conclusion early this month, |{ormation, urged the establishment G of a National Recording Office in AII' d F w'l |findings of the member Nation's le o rtes I in their investigations of war crimes. -Day as Holiday —— | PARIS, June 2—Gen. Eisenhower| NEW YORK—Four rusty Liberty has sent a message to all members | Ships arrived here today with an- niversary of the Normandy landings | €rans, many of them members of last June 6 will be observed as a | the 45th “Thunderbird” Division of holiday for Allied forces. Eisenhow- | the Seventh Army. to—as he put it—pledge anew our | MANILA--Col. Philip F. LaFol- full energies to the tasks before us. | lette, former three-time Governor of e i b | Wisconsin, has been awarded the DELEGA]‘E BAR'".E" itorious service during the Philip- | pine campaign. | OSLO — Siegfried Fehmer, whom | Norwegians say was responsible for LONDON, June 2.—The U. S.{captured, according to advices re- House Military Subcommittee has ' ceived here. arrived here for a four-week in-| b # i | during which it will study the ques- | President of the Canadian Restau- Mpsrow's sm?me.""' ox;‘ ";‘e Sca/‘rt' | tion of disposal of surplus Army |rant Association, declares the east- notes did not specify whether they | equipment. {ern part of Canada is confronted any machinery for solving the dis- | pelegate E. L. Bartlett of Alaska.|one in the United States. pute. | e ' o Moscow’s announcement followed | I TEACHERS LEAVE day that “it would have been proper Aw- AlASKA ls local school teachers, left on the | Princess Louise for their homes in | Minnesota, via California and New ences among Franee, Britain and the | Orleans. They will return next fall At Damascus, President Shukri, WASHINGTON, June 2, & The | Quawalti of Syria was reported to | House has authorized its Committee | 2 5 * KRENZKE IN TOWN have sent messages of thanksgiving | on Territories to make a first-hand | 2 3 to Churchill and President Truman | study of conditions in Alaska and Glipert F. -Krenzke, -'‘Anchoragh CAA man, is a guest at the Hotel ¥ - The investigation will include a | check up on homesteads and small | F Ad ko“' | business opportunities in the Ter- ormer a I(e' i ritories, together with a general sur- | industry. Named 11 Rec. Head - ki i SAN DIEGO, June 2—Lt. Comdr. i TOWNSI versity of Pennsylvania and Temple § University athlete, has been named, Final regular meeting of the‘ - 11th Naval District recreation of- Juneau Townsend Club before the| JORDAN IN TOWN ficer, succeeding Et. Comdr. Leo!summer recess period was held last| Kenneth W. Jordan, of Yakutat, ahead nevertheless with plans for! His address, part of which was |London to coordinate the separate Osherve Anniversary ‘uther batch of European war vet- er called for a brief pause June 6! | Legion of Merit for extremely mer- B Nazi tortures of patriots, has been spection of the Eurcpean theatre | TORONTO -~ Vincent Gregory, had called for a parley or proposed | 'with them are Congressional with a meat shortage just like the an official French statement yester- | Mabel Monson and Phyllis Grant, United States. |to resume their teaching duties. for the cessatiol\ of fighting there. | Hawaii. Juneau, | vey of local laws, commerce and Charles B. Cranford, former Uni-| B. Callarfid, former San Diego State| Tuesday, terminating the business is a guest at the Hotel Juneau. Robert M. Enge and Ray Fors-| College football coach who is going to. the inactive list. Earlier in the war, Cranford was welfare and recreation officer at | Adak, Alaska. sessions until September. In Lhe‘ e e meantime, informal gatherings will| KETCHIKAN MEN HERE be held in the homes of the mem-| Hal Fairhurst and Frank Kack- bers about every two weeks, it was ley, of Ketchikan, are guests at the announced today. Baranof Hotel. AIRDROMES - ON KYUSHU HARD HIT Trains Reported Strafed in New Atfack - Tokyo Residents Dig In By Leif Erickson (Associate War Qerrespondent) GUAM, June 2—Carrier raids on Japan were renewed today, Tokyo radio reported, in the wake of B-29 | fire raids which have inflicted “shockingly great” daniage on Nip- | pon’s major industrial cities. Tokyo reported “approximately | 200" sea-borne fighter planes and |an unannounced number of flying | boats from bases in the Kerama Islands bombed and strafed air- dromes on Kyushu Island for two hours this morning. Some raiders also straffed trains in their attack on, the most south- erly island of Nippon, Tokyo said, The report followed other enemy broadcasts saying Superfort fire raids on Tokyo had forced the capital's residents to dig subter- ranean homes and predicting mar- tial law might be declared to meet devastation inflicted by B-20's. Airmen returning to the Mari- anas Islands bases from the latest second largest city by more than 450 Superforts yesterday, reported it was so effective that the “heart of Osaka seemed to be burning out.” All agreed results were excellent. Some veteran fire raiders placed it among the most successful B-20 raids on Japan. ‘The entire city was covered by a cloud of smoke so hugey that the iast waves had trouble finding their targets. Ten Superforts failed to return. | About 36 Tinian - based B-29's landed on Iwo Jima because they were short of gas. They burned up all their fuel climbing to get out of bad weather on the way to Osaka. Losses were attributed largely to intense anti-aircraft fire. Japanese interceptors that weren’t routed by 150 escorting American Mustang { | tighters were timid. Japanese airmen did try a new crude chain and bucket weapon in an attempt ' to bring down the big bombers. One commander of a Saipan- based plane, said a Japanese fighter dropped a device made of two cyi- inders about the size of paint buckets linked together by a nine- foot chain. The Nipponese released the device about 700 feet above Pearson’s plane. “The pilot's aim ¥%as bad,” Pear- son said, “and the thing dropped several hundred feet behind us.” LAVAL TAKES HIS LIFE IS REPORT MADE LONDON, June 2.—The Exchange Telegraph quoted the Luxembourg radio today as saying that Pierre Laval had committed suicide. The Associated Press monitor who listened to the Luxembourg broad- cast, said, however, he had heard nothing in the report indicating that the French chief of government under the Vichy regime had taken his own life. ! The Associated Press monitor said the only reference to Laval he had heard was that he had decided to surrender to French authorities, and that in such an event he prob- ably would be taken from Barcelona to Paris by plane. - DRUNKS FINED Charged with being drunk and disorderly, Carl B. Jones, Leo Dennis and Samuel A. Knight have each been fined $25 in City Police Court. Adam Perrin, on a drunk charge also, was fined $25.