The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 4, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 9979 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1945 SRR JUL 18 1949 [ T — T MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS YANKS ADVANCE 2 MILES ON OKINAWA Japs Pr Alaska Leads All Nafion In Clothing Colledtions For Overseas War Relie BOMBS WILL BE CARRIED THROUGH AIR Propagandasw Get Busy on New Stunt by Death Defying Pilots SAN FRANCISCO, June 4—Japa- nese propagandists predicted today the United States would be at- tacked in “the near future, by bombearrying stratosphere balloons manned by déath defying Japanese pilots.” The broadcast, by Japanese Domei News Agency and recorded by the Federal Communications Commission, said Lt. Col. Nakajima, propaganda spokesman of the Nip- ponese Army Air Forces, made the FIGHTING HEAVY ON MINDANAO Week's Casualties Show | Ration of 1 Yank Dead fo i 29 Japs, Says MacArthur EUROPEAN WAR HERO GENERALS ARE BACK HOME| Bradley, Spaatz Welcom-| ¥ i edin New York-Thou- sands of Vets Refurn NEW YORK, June 4—Incomplete reports from seven of the nine Al- askan communities organized in ALASKA'S SMALL | BUSINESS NEEDS | ARE EMPHASIZED Small Plants Head Chides Nation for Overlook- | ing Opportunities rvfl'o VO'"NG : 105,375 Squar From En Alaska Land Withdrawn e Miles of fry by Miners | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 4-— | Withdrawal of 105375 square miles |of Alaska from entry by prospectors the United National Clothing Col- | NEW YORK, June 4-Two famous| WASHINGTON, June 4—“Alaska | flection for overseas war relief show | American heroes arrived home yes- 'should be conservatively developed’ { | | shoes and bedding for war victims| in per that Alaska leads the nation the average clothing gift | person, Henry J. Kaiser, National“ Chairman, said today. The Alaskan communities whose collections were tabulated at na- tional headquarters June 1 had gathered 100,460 pounds of clothes, overseas. Since the communities re- porting have a combined popula tion of 19,800, the average individ- ual gift is 5.7 pounds. Reports are yet to be received from Sitka and Skagway. MANILA, June 4—Heavy fighting Maryland, averaging 3.8 pounds.‘l terday. from an economic vlewpoml,”‘ Gen. Omar N. Bradley, who com- {thinks Maury Maverick, Chalrman{ manded the Twelfth Army Groupjof the Smaller War Plants Cor-| {in Europe, arrived at New York | City's LaGuardia Field. Gen. Brad= poration. ot “It simply is not smart for the) ley came in direct from Paris on nl’lanon to overloek the opportuni- C-54 transport, shortly after Gen.ities which Alaska affords,” Maver-! Carl Spaatz, whose Strategic Aff[ick told the House Appropriations Force bombers blasted Germany|Sub-Committee studying his 1946 |into submission, arrived in a Fly-|budget requests. | ing Fortress. “Alaska is no huge land of Also aboard Bradley’'s plane was|promise and has its limitations,” | | Maj. Gen. Leland Hobbs, Thlrt.y-[he added. “I feel we have been| Ninth Division Commander. After derelict in neglecting the small| | being greeted by their wives, Mrs.|business interests in Alaska, Hawaii Mary Bradley of Moberly, Mis-jand Puerto Rico; we should make souri, and Mrs. Lucy Hobbs of jhnm self-supporting and develop |and miners, under an order of In- | terior Secretary Ickes published in February, 1043, became generally known here only this week when | | Bill Hammersley, of the Illamna | country, came to town for the first | time in three years and found the {order stymied his mining claim de- | velopment. The Anchorage Times said the | withdrawal also makes uncertain | the status of copper claims recently purchased by Canadian Ventures, | Ltd. | The order, invoked as a war | measure, affects three great tracts of public lands—one comprising | I nearly all the Alaska Peninsula; | another eliminating the Chugach | ISSUE HITS BIG SESSION Conference of United Na- tions Is Stalemated on Troublesome Subject By John M. Hightower {was under way yesterday northwest ranks second in the nation in the prediction. Nakajima said the pilotless bal-)of Davao on Mindanao Island. Maj. average clothing gift per person,| Gen. Roscoe B. Woodruff’s Twenty- | with Arizona and California third | Fourth Infantry Division pursued |and fourth. loon attacks, recently disclosed by the U. S. Army, were launched against America last March 10, Japanese Army Day, and that hun- dreds of them had been released from Japan every day since. “The spokésman pointed out,” Domei added, “that thus far these attacks have been on an experi- mental scale and he predicted tha}t‘camp north of the city. Prisoners'gift of 9.77 pounds. when actual results of the experi-!who were sick and ill were left to! Kodiak’s average clothing gift per ment have been obtained, large scale attacks with death defying airmen manning the balloons Will dell Fertig captured Bayabas Vil-|Kodlak’s population of 900 con- | not going into the movies.” {lage Saturday after a brief but tributed 5998 peunds. be launched.” “The balloon bomb is one of Japan’s unique originations and it is especially significant in that by the use of this method of bombing we can attack the enemy mainland directly from Japan — something| |in his communique today that 6,550 | Fairbanks, counted | Ernest land 503 prisoners taken in the|pounds; Mrs. Augusta Enge, Peters- whistles and sirens. week, | burg, 1,734 that the enemy cannot boast of.” Nakajima complained that United States officials in releasing infor- mation about the balloons “did not divulge the extent of damage caused by the bombs.” “But we can surmise,” he added “That they are creating great havoc in the enemy country.” —————— i OPA Order Closes Alaska Coal Mine ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 4— Dal Bowen of the Buffalo Mine Co., today announced closure of the coal mine as a result of an OPA order cutting the ceiling price $1.75 a ton. 5 The Washingtion Merry ',GE' Round By DREW PEARSON (Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on acive service with the Army.) WA‘ HINGTON—It has now been a littl4 over one month since the American Ninth Army paused on the outskirts of Berlin to let the Red Army. hammer its way into Hitler's capital. Since then, no Al- lied mission has gone into Berlin, despite the Yalta Agreement pro- viding for a token force of Ameri- can troops in Berlin and the gov- erning of Germany by an Allied Mission of British, American, Rus- sian, and later, French Generals. Failure to set up this Allied Mission inside Berlin generally has beenblaimed on the Russians. How- ever, ‘this column is now able to throw impertant light on all the facts. Though Stalin did object to Am- erican troops entering Berlin ahead of the Red Army (Russian capture of Berlin was agreed on at Yalta), actually U. S. officials have been largely responsible for the delay in sending a subsequent token force into Berlin and setting up Allied; headquarters to govern Germany. If you ask the War Department about this, you will get evasive, sawdust-in-the-eye ~answers. But actually three reasons have de- veloped Tor U. S. hesitation over enteritig’ Berlin. They are: 1—If an Allied’ Commission is set up in Berlin it would be necessary A T G0 SRR R S (Continued on Page Four) | the olisted Davao garrison into the ! volcano, Mt. Apo. Correspondent | | mountains around the lo,om-imtjchikun, for the highest average From that sector, Associated Press Hoeglund, Richard Bergholz man, | reported the discovery of about 150 population of 5,000 contributed 64,- | wife, 'Washingmn, D. C, the two generals were taken from the airport in an tarmy car to a New York hotel. The plane bringing Gen. Bradley to America arrived at the airport clothing gift per person. Harold A.|39 minutes after the arrival of the collection chair- | Fortress bringing Gen. Spaatz. that Ketchikan's | ~Gen. Spaatz was greeted by his Mrs. Ruth Spaatz of Wash- Top honors in Alaska go to Ket-| local reports | skeletons in an old Davao penal!017 pounds—an average individual[inston. D. C., and army officials. idie by the fleeing Japanese. The Flying General faced a group person is 6.6 pounds. Stanley F.|graphers for about 10 minutes. | Guerrilla forces under .Col. Wen- | Nelson, local chairman, reports that | Then he snriled and remarked, “I'm bloody hand-to-hand battle. | simultaneously, units under Col.|communities | { |of newsreel and newspaper phom~! More troopships have arrived in| Local chairmen in other Alaskan|New York Harbor with more than condugting clothing | 9,000 veterans of the European | William Herbeck of Brooklyn, N.|drives, and the poundage they re- | fighting aboard. The first of three | Mulig and. Ula. | Japanese dead had been | Philippines in the past against American casualties of 225 {killed and 657 wounded for |same period. given at 385480 for the entire cam- paign, which began last October. American casualties are around 50,000. ! ————————— HOME BOUND LONDON, June 4—King Haakon |left London for Norway tonight, ending five years of rule-in-exile -after German occupation of his kingdom. The Monarch will arrive in Oslo :aboard a British warship June 7, | anniversary of Norway's complete break from Sweden. daughter-in-law, the Crown Prin- cess Martha, and her children, the Princesses Ragnhild and Astrid, and Prince Harald. Haakon, born Prince Carl of Den- mark and chosen in 1905 by the Norwegian people in a plebiscite to | be their Monarch, escaped to Eng- { tempts to kill him by bombing. e, STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 4 — Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine ) stock today is 7, American Can 101, Anaconda 35'%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, International Harvester 87%, Ken- necott 38, New York Central 28%, Northern Pacific 30%, U. S. Steel 68%. Sales today were 1,540,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 168.08; rails, 58.50; utilities, 31.86. — .- MR., MRS. ARNOLD HERE Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Arnold, teachers for the United States In- dian Office, at Angoon, have ar- rived in Juneau en route to the States for a vacation. KING HAAKON AFTER EXILE which is the fifth anniversary of his! departure for Britain and the mth‘ Accompanying Haakon are )ns; land after constant German at-! Y., took the villages of Alhambm,:ported as collected, are as follow: Gen. Douglas MacArthur repm‘ted[age, 4,000 pounds; Harry Champlin, | Fighting First . Army. the | Qverall Japanese casualties were | (HUR(H“.I. WII-I- | | | i i | | | i {for an international conference to | ;i vessels docking Sunday afternoon Mrs. William Mulcahy, Anchor- | brought the General Staff of the The three | 10,000 pounds; Mrs. | vessels steamed up New York Har- Juneau, Gruening, 5928 bor to a noisy welcome from | ounds. | Earlier Sunday, four other ships {had arrived with a few hundred ;troops. after an exciting and dan- i gerous voyage through fog and ice- i bergs in the North Atlantic. ! By the time the afternoon con- | tingent docked, New York Harbor {was in an uproar. Whistles tooted {for more than one hour. A WAC {band from Fort Hamilton supplied | m — ,,——— TELL OF BRITISH TERMS ON SYRI Affairs in Levant Still i : A oud yells and cheers. (ritical State—-Aftacks | Today in Philadelphia, the two i Generals, Bradley and Spaatz, led | Are Feared la triumphant victory parade | through downtown streets and will | LONDON, June 4 — The Daily Mail said today that Prime Min-| | be honor guests at a rally at Inde- ister Churchill would make a state- pendence Hall. | Bradley is due at West Point to- ment in the House of Commons; this week “defining in clearest) morrow, and Gen. Spaatz is sched- uled to make an appearance later | terms” the attitude of the British|this week. Government on the situation in| R 9 S RS more than 8,000 veterans on the three vessels did their part with! Syria. & Damascus dispatches indicated [p ' I Na d that affairs in the Levant still were s em s me in a critical state, and British troops were kept constantly on the alert protecting the French in their barracks. Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s proposnl| Direclor of FPHA | Including Alaska ' tribute Sunday to the fact that the (Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) SAN FRANCISCO, June 4—The 11 businesses in those places.” The corporation, he said, has' been planning a small field office| ynited States is seeking some way in Alaska, with about 10 Personsiout of the confevence stalemate on Who would develop a table of small|tne veto voting issue, but without usiness needs for ‘the territory. |the slightest yielding on its own He declared that small business yngistence that there must be no in Alaska is “in a bad shape” with|yeto on the right of discussion in “two heavy monopolies, the fish-|, world security council. eries and the mining monopolies”| 1f American leadership fails to ——————— e {break the deadlock—in which Rus- isia is at odds with this country, N ' Britain, China .and France on this B u l l F I I N S’me point—the United Nations Con- ad {floor fight in its closing days. B And even though the charter is PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. — The | approved as it now stands, it may Most Rev. Emil Marie Bunoz, 82,|be accepted by some countries only Rupert and veteran missionary in| Ambassador Andrei Gromyko has northern Brifish Columbia and the | reported to Moscow that the other Yukon, died yesterday. | big powers would not accept his | ference may produce a wide-open Roman Catholic Bishop of Prince|With reservations. government’s rigid interpretation of LONDON—The Lublin radio is|the veto—that it should apply even quoted as saying that plans are|to preliminary discussion in the underway for the re-settlement of i council. This puts the next move seven million poles in former Ger- lup to Moscow as to whether its man territory. This would indicate | interpretation may be softened. that the Germans are being evacu- | Another “Big PFive” meeting was ated from that area, | called for today, following one last night and two Saturday. Except for their differences of opinion over LONDON - Marshal Tito in a speech broadcast by the Belgmde!thls one question the powers were radio insisted today that Carinthia ; reported making rapid progress to- | usic from a welcome boat and iy Austria belonged to Yugoslavia|ward resolving all other conference| issues on which they are acting jointly. Questions other than the veto on which no agreement has been reached yet are final points in’a plan for international trusteeships, changes in wording which the French are asking in provisions for and “we shall fight for her.” Thc" Yugoslav leader did not elaborate. | NEW YORK—The British radio quoted a Copenhagen dispatch as| saying that almost 190,000 Nazi soldiers have been removed so far from Denmark. LONDON—Foreign Secretary An- thony, Eden has been ordered by his physician to take a complete rest lasting two weeks as he is suffering from a digestive ailment. enemy states of this war, whether the proposed assembly of all United Nations should have the right to | discuss any international situation | rather than just peace and security questions, and whether the veto should apply to charter VATICAN CITY—Pope Pius paid i | vote | amendments. Allies liberated Rome exactly one . year ago today. The Pontiff, who| made the comment during an aud- | ience with visiting United States Senators, added that the Allies also | had spared the art treasures of | Rome. | .~ Great Fleels special defense treaties against the| Mountain area east of Cordova to Canada, and the third including the Arctic rim north of the Brooks Range and all the way across the territory. BEN THORON GIVES ICKES. RESIGNATION By DREW PEARSON | WASHINGTON, June 4—Ben Thoron, for many years head of the Interior Department’s Division of! | Territories and Island Possessions,| has submitted his resignation to Se retary Ickes, effective shortly. Be-| {hind this is the growing importance jof the insular possessions of the United States and the fact that Sec- retary Ickes has felt the impor- tance of strengthening the Divis- | ion which admijnisters them. H With the end of the war, the| | United States will take over active |control of several thousand lslnnds} in the mid-Pacific, including thei Carolines, the Marshalls, and islands | imuch closer to Japan, such as Ok- |inawa and Iwo Jima. Prior to. |the war, the Territories and Island| iPoy.ssluns Division had only to do| {with the Philippines, Puerto Rico, |the Virgin Islands, Hawali, Alaska! |and Samoa; but, with the end of the | |war, it will become one of the most ;important divisions in the Govern-~ ment, | Many complicated problems con- front the Government in the hand-| :liug of these island possessions. ! Same of them are now being discuss- | ed at San Francisco; namely whether | island natives will be able to de- velop their ambitions for mdepen-l jdence, and to what extent the United | States will keep military and naval (bases on them. Equally important, especlnl_ly from the Interior Depart-; ment’s point of view, is the econ- omic outlook. Most of these islands {chorused, protest Gaulle charge that British agents; settle all Arab problems appeared to have done little to ease British- French tension. The London press over the ; de fomented agitation against France's Levantine interests. 5 French troops and families under WASHINGTON, June 4 — The| Federal Public Housing Authority today appointed Jesse Epstein as| Director of Region 7, with head-| quarters at Seattle. The region in- cludes Idaho, Montana, Washing- | ton, Oregon, Wyoming and Alaska. Epstein, who has been Executive BOSTON — Mrs. Myrtle Holm| Smith of Waban was elected Presi- | dent of The Mother Church at the annual meeting of the First Church | of Christ Scientist, today, succeeded Paul Stark Seeley. The Board of Di- | recters reported that membership are not economically self-support- ol Supers 'o ’Xng. And, like the Virgin Islands, |they will probably have to be sub-| AII k J sidized unless native industries can ack Japan be developed. | Secretary Ickes has discussed with | Laurence Duggan, former* Political | | Adviser on Latin American Affairs |to Secretary Hull, the possibility of | WASHINGTON, June 4 — B-29 British protection in Syrian towns|Director of the Seattle Housing were being evacuated, a Damascus|Authority since 1939, succeeds | dispatch said last night. in The Mother Church is now four | times greater than it was 35 years | Superfortresses, which made their ago. | first strike against the Japanese —_———-e——— | one year ago today, soon may be his assuming Thoron's post as Dir-| jector of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions. i Frank M. Crutsinger, who has been | In Kuneitra, south of Damascus, 4,000 Bedouins of the Fadel Tribe wanted to attack French barracks, at Hama other Bedouins kept thé British alert. At Derra and Soueida the French were taken out under armored guard. - e — LORRAINE ENGLISH RETURNS Lorraine English, daughter of Mrs. W. A. English, returned to her Juneau home on the North Sea following completion of her fresh- man year at the Academy of Holy| Names in Seattle. She expects to return south to continue her studies again next fall. . sl DAL VA PETERSBURG PEOPLE HERE Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Wood and Mrs. Helen J. Brown, of Peters- burg, are guests at the Gastineau Hotel. named Director of the Foreign Smelter Division in the ‘Washing- ton office. SIS AL N e | MRS. GEORGE RETURNS | Mrs. Wallis George and daughter returned from the south on the North Sea. While outside, Mrs.| George had the pleasure of meet- | {ing her brother, home on furlough from India, whom she had not seen for three years. G Ce it i L WALKER IN JUNEAU John M. Walker, of Seattle, has arrived in Juneau and is a guest ai the Baranof Hotel. >oo—— | Gastineau Hotel. . MRS. PETERSON HERE s e i PR J Mrs. Jewél ' Peterson, of Fair-| KING IN JUNEAU 1 barks, is 'a guest at the Baranof B. King, of Seattle, is a guest Hotel. at the Gastineau Hotel. ‘ CHAMBEREAIN HERE Harry Chamberlain, Representa-; tive for the Seattle Plumbing Con-| | tractors, arrived in Juneau on the Albert L. Warner, chief of the War North Sea to supervise the plumb-; ing installations in the new Gold-| stein Building. He is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. ——————————— HOONAH MEN IN JUNEAU Haorld Stjern, John Cushing and E. B. Fisher, of Hoonah, are guests| at the Baranof Hotel. | e —,— — ! MRS. CLIFFORD HERE . Mrs. R. C. Clifford, of Sedro- Wooley, Wash., is a guest at the | year ago, a B-29 attack has grown|the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower,| and fleets (Copyright, 1945, by Bell $yndicate, Ine.) ! massed in 1,000-plane bt larger. That prediction comes from Col. 'Gen. Eisenhower Is | DueinU.S. June 18, Intelligence Division of the Army's Bureau of Public Relations. Speaking on the Army Hour radio program yesterday, Warner said: “From a handful of planes a| WASHINGTON, June 4—Gen. of | to over 500 planes. It will be no ! Supreme Commander of the- Allied surprise when that number is' Expeditionary Force,is coming back doubled. |to the United States for a visit, “The gigantic shadow of the the War Department has an-| nounced. I B-29's will hover continuously over: the waste of the enemy’s war iu-] He is expected to arrive in Wash- dustry.” ‘lngwn on June 18. A tentative et ! schedule of visits to other cities The first mass air evacuation in!includes New York on June 19, American military planes occun'ed'KBlIS:ui City on June 21, and Abi- in Burma and Java in 1042, |lene, Kansas, on June 21. edict U. S. Be Attacked By Balloons AMERICANS SEAL OFF BIGHARBOR Splash Through Drenching Rains fo Southeastern Shore of Island GUAM, June 4—In the greatest one-day advance in the Okinawa campaign, American infantrymen splashed two miles through drench- ing rains yesterday to the south- eastern shore of the island, sealing off Chinen Peninsula which forms the southern arm of the finest fleet anchorage in the southern ap- proaches to Japan, Tokyo broadcasts quoted “uncon- firmed reports” that U. S. amphibi- ous assault units landed near the | eastern tip of the peninsula to catch isolated Nipponese troops in t two-way trap while a fleet of more than 40 vessels moved into the anchorage—Nakagusuku Bay. Japanese propagandists told of suicide plane attacks on a heavily escorted convoy of “about 40 trans- ports” moving past Oroku Penin- sula on the west coast, where other Yanks were arrayed today for a smashing drive on Naha Airfield, the best in the Ryukyu Islands, In a two-hour ‘“ramming assault,” a two:wsy trap ‘While a fleet-of was set afire, The two-mile push through oozing red mud to the southern shores of Okinawa was made on the sixty-fourth day of the cam- paign by Maj. Gen. Archibald V. Arnold's Seventh Infantty Division.' Other elements of the division, drove ‘into Chinen Peninsula itself where Japanese soldiers complicat- ed the American assault by milling around, among thousands of civill- ans. Assoclated Press War Correspond- ent Al Dopking reported that some front line officers predicted the next 48 hours would tell whether disorganized Japanese remnantst could be reformed into effective fighting forces. On the north shore of Chinen Peninsula Nipponese with mortars and machine guns put up such o fight U. 8. Infantrymen called on & rocket boat to break up the enemy concentration. Surprisingly rapid advances were reported through the quagmires in the central area by both the air- supplied First Marine and Ninety- Sixth Infantry Divisions. Some Japanese were knocked out in a bayonet charge but others killed themselves with grenades. HALSEY HITS ENEMY BASES AT WEEKEND |Declares Kamikaze Planes Nuisance - To Knock Hell Out of Jap Navy GUAM, June 4—American carrier planes and Japanese land-based aireraft swapped punches over Okinawa and Nippon's mainland Island of Kyushu during the week- end, with the enemy apparently getting the worst of the trade. Adm. Willlam P, Halsey, Jr., who snorts at Japanese Kamikaze (sui~ cide) planes as “just a damned nuisance,” signalized his return to sea duty as head of the powerful U. S. Third Fleet by sending car- rier planes against Kyushu air- tields — Kamikaze bases — Saturday and Sunday. Japan, meantime, unleashed its first strong air attack on Okinawa in five days yesterday. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz' communique to- day made no mention of possible damage inflicted, but said 26 enemy planes were shot down. 4 (Continued oun Page Two) 3 i"\