The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 5, 1945, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD [ JUL 181945 COPY, -— QFY VOL. LXV., NO. 9980 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e e e ] KOBE AREA BLASTED INTO FLAMING MASS Smashin YANKS FIGHT FOR CAPTURE BIG AIRDROME Advances o-f—5~,000 Yards Reported-New Bridges Are Constructed GUAM, June 5.—American Dough- boys and Marines, moving so swift-| ly their supplies had to be para-| chuted from planes, fought today, for complete possession of the big, Naha Airdrome, a major prize of the| bitter Okinawa campaign. They swept over much of southern Okinawa in efforts to split the re-| maining Japanese troops into small groups and forestall any renewed major resistance. Smashing gains in all sections of the front, reported today by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, were scored de- spite new heavy rains and deep mud. Advances ranged up to 5,0!)0i yards—greatest of the entire in-| vasion. ! Little opposition was encountered,' even by Mnj. Gen. Lemuel C. Shep-| herd, Jr’s Sixth Marine Division, which in a surprise amphibious op- eration yesterday crossed Naha Har- bor to the Oroku Peninsula and quickly engulfed half of Naha Air- drome, best in the Ryukyu chain. In American hands; the airfield— it has at least three long run- ways—will serve as a potent base Neglec cf Wounded | ByEnemyTeachesOne Lesson on War Bonds SGT. McDONALD To be in a hospital, wounded, is:get those men home again. sad business at best, but to be in a! I was in Hospital No. 2 on Bataan Japanese hospital—Sgt. Rommie G.|when we were captured. I'd been McDonald suggests it is the men‘hu early, January 15. After the who have not been freed we should | fall of Corregidor, they moved us to think about when we buy war Bilibid prison camp. It was pretty bonds. He says: rough. You never knew what you Letterman General Hospital, | were going to get t0 eat—or if you g Gains STRIPPED 1M SIZE Various Zones Allotted o Four Nations-"Greater Berlin" Area WASHINGTON, June 5. — Ger- many w stripped down to pre- Anschlus Made (GERMANY size today for the purpose | of an indefinite Allied occupation.” | Zones of supreme authority were | 'allotted to Russia, Great Britain, | France and the United States, andia | | “Greater Berlin” area was set asidé | ! for occupation by forces of each 6{; the four powers. b Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, U. &, | representative on the Allied Control | tered Reich capital to sign the joint declaration. Great Britain was rep- Commission, flew to the bamb-shafl-]. resented by Field Marshal Sir Bern- |, ard L. Montgomery, Russia by Mar-| shal Gregory Zhukov, and France by i ¥ n Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny. i 3 Duration of the occupatien ar- rangements was specified in a joint | Allied statement as being “for period | when Germany is carrying out the | basic requirements of unconditional | surrender.” “Arrangements for the subsequent | period will be the subject of a sep- arate agreement,” the - statement ON THEIR WAY OUT OF THE ARMY and heading straight for Mom’s cooking and the old routine of home are these combat veterans at Fort Dix, N. J., first-to be discharged there under the point demobilization systein. Points of another sort—the red aid the blue ones of civilian'food rationing moment the only thing that matters is the shortest way home to a nice, long, overtime sleep. (International) NN A o NO MORE REVEILLE FOR THESE WAR VETERANS S On Okinawa Front 450 SUPERS MAKE RAID ONJAPPORT Largest Port City Smashed for One Hour - 3,000 Tons, Bombs Dropped BULLETIN—Washington, June San Francisco, Calif. were going to eat at all. i The statement, setting up occupa- To the readers of the Daily Alaska Empire: We are the liberated prisoners of | war. We are the ones who are back | ——————— ;in our home cuntry—but the fel- ‘lows we must remember are those | iwho are still in prison camps,those | |who were taken to Japan to form | |work battalions. [ * NEW YORK, June 5.—Albert E\ That's where the home front| Langford, wealthy 63-year-old tex- ' comes in—to do everything in its| for bomber strikes against Japan (Continued on Page Five) | That's one of the things those tion zones for the United States, fellows still in Jap prigon camps are Great Britain, France and Russia, up against—that's one of the things recreates the German nation as it the people on the home front have was before Hitler’s annexation of to remember. Let's hurry up and Austria and Czechoslovakia. get those men home through Four occupational zones were set buying war bonds, helping the Red up and alloted to the victorious Al- Cross, donating biood, or doing any- lied powers as follows: thing else we can. An Eastern Zone to the Sincerely, Union. Sgt. Rommie G. McDonald,'! A Northwestern Zone to the Unit- Pine Bluff, Arkansas. ed Kingdom. BSoviet st night in the hallway of his| ark Avenue apartment. | Langford’s wife told police two | men had appeared at the apartment | i door and that she had heard a| | scuffle and a thud before she found | | her husband’s body on the floor. The door was open and the outside | corridor empty, she said. RECOVERED —_— | Two Thirds of Those Cap- fured in Europe Are §le manufacturer, was shot to death power to back the war effort and | i o | The Washingioni Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON Col.” Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) e ot & — A Southwestern Zone to the Unit- ed States. jApS F l E E I N G A Western Zone to France, In addition, an area of “Greater Berlin” was created, to be administ- ered by an Inter-Allied Governing u | Authority with representatives of each of the four powers. None of the zones was further defined in the statement. —— .- —— EISENHOWER ON HIS WAY, CHUNGKING, June 5—A semi-) official Chinese dispatch said today | that Chinese forces had occupied Saipu, 75 miles northeast of Foo- said without further elaboration. ' WASHINGTON-Major job facing ongressman Clinton Anderson of gew Mexico as he takes over the ‘War Food Administration (he will also be Secretary of Agriculture) is to weed out the key men who kept food production down to minimum levels. Some of these men wanted to aid the big food firms, others couldn’t forget the days when Fed- | Homebound ‘chow. and added that Japanese FS S i forces were fleeing northward along PARIS, June 5.—The Provost Mar- | the highway leading to Wenchow, shal’s office of the Eunopean thea- 220 miles south of Shanghal. tre announced today that virtually| Siapu was originally captured by | all American prisoners of war, in- 2 small enemy relief force which the cluding those in Russian-occupied |Japanese landed on the Fukien areas, have been recovered and that coast in support of enemy troops more than two-thirds have departed Withdrawing northward from the for the United States. | Foochow region along the highway | - BERLIN MEET SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, PARIS, June 5—Gen. Eisen- hower left his Frankfurt-on-Main Headquarters in Germany today for Berlin, where he will meet | The announcement said 89,776 re- to Wenchow. An official Chinese announcement {with Allied Occupation Com- eral policy was to kill off “me‘covered American prisoners were pigs. either en route home or awaiting, said Chinese forces in Kwan; si'manders representing Great Britain, Province had reached a point gfl:!iussia and the Provisional French | CANADA'S THIR | " PARTY LOSES IN . IN BREMEN NOI SO'.VED Socialist Ozg—an ization, | Takes Nose Dive-Looks | Good for Premier | Timely Warning However TORONTOQ, June 5.—Canada’s Gets Attention of O¢c- | .rocked today under its greatest de-| BREMEN, Germany, June 5—The feat, administered by _old-linc Pro-| two mysterious explosions which gressive Conservatives yesterday in rocked an American police head-|{an Ontraio provincial election, pre-| quarters here yesterday should be cading by one week Dominion wide considered a timely warning to the voting for a new parliament. occupying authorities in Germany. xe?a nlzéwouldde..cedz Whatever the origin of the blas The fortunes of the C. C. F., which whether the bombs were planted re- scared a year ago with winning of cently to sabotage Awerican rule or the government of Saskatchewan whether they were part of a reserve' province, took a spectacular dive stock and happened to blow up ac-'as the Ontario electorate reduced its cidentally—the Allies must be memkership in the legislature from to the idea that Nazi fanatics will 34 to 6. | stop at nothing to maintain their The heavy swing of Ontario’s voters grip over the German people. |from the C. C. F. to the Conserva- | No doubt, Allied authorities will tives is being studied closely for its explain this latest mishap to the implications in next Monday's gen- satisfaction of any sonably- eral election, in which the Liberal ded person. It may ly have government of Prime Minister W, L. been one of those things. Despite Mackenzie King will be fighting to |the most meticulous checking, acci- remain in power. dental explosions do occur and the King, interviewed briefly last night blasts in Bremen may have been of on his campaign train at Sherbrooke, | |that nature. But the Germans will Quebec, was quick to say that “Pro- not believe that. No amount of testi-|vincial politics is one thing and mony will persuade the Germans Federal politics is another.” ONTARIO ELECTION ing to President Truman for a de- half square mil ! cision on whether the United States Osaka was 5—The 20th Air Force reported | to the War Department here to- day that eight Superforiresses | are missing after the big raid en Kobe. By Robin Coons (Associatea Fress war Correspondent) GUAM, June 5.—Approximately 1450 Superfortresses battled through snow, fog, thunderheads, accurate |antiaircraft fire and fairly strong fighter opposition today to trans- | form the industrial and transpor- | tation center of Kobe into a’mass | of smoke and flame. | The B-29s, flying through weather !so bad they had to make the trip without fighter escort, found perfect | weather over Japan's largest port |city and spent an hour setting it |afire with 3,000 tons of incendiary | bombs in a blazing first anniversary celebration of the initial Superfort qraid. ¥ Returing pilots described the re- |sults as excellent. They guéssed damage would exieed the nearly |seven square miles burned out of | Yokohama in the Miy 29 strike at | Nippon's second largest port. | About forty Japa fighters— some of them [fairly aggressive— —lurk in wait for them, but at the CONFERENCE DECISION UP T0PRESIDENT |bomker formation and a few flew above the B-20s and dropped phos- | phorous bombs but souldn't keep the | daylight attack from coming in |dead on their qu in the third Showdown Wlfh RUSSifl on |tire strike gt Japan’s sixth largest city. | Describing the. fires, Second Lt. Troublesome lssue Is |, Decriotng the, tire, Second Lt Swikhed ’0 Truman | Gainesville, Texas, said: “It looked like the smoke was sd high it was ——n ipushlng the clouds up.; By John M. Hightowe | While the B-28s Were enroute back (Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) |from Kobe, Maj. Gen. Curtis E. SAN FRA!‘CISCO, June 5—Sec- | Lemay's 21st Bomber Command retary of State Stettinius is look- "reported that negrly three and one- of ' industralized should force a showdown with incendiary Russia on the right of free dis- itreased to 11% square miles the ex- cussion in a world security council, tent of B-29 wrough destruction in Stettinius is caught in a sharp|that city. difference of American opinion| The Imperial Government railway here. |shops, the main Sannomiya railroad The outcome depends on what |Station and the Bast Nada railroad {were sent up t@ intercept the tight " destroyed by a 450-plane vl Phicey, This in. happens overnight in Moscow. Premier Stalin has been asked to| reconsider his government's recent statement to the “Big Five” at the| United Nations Conference that | any big power in the council should) be able to veto discussion of any| problem. ! It is the conflict between this, and an American-sponsored state- | ment accepted by Britain, France yards were among the communica- tions centers attacked today. LEND-LEASE PROGRAM and China, which has deadlocked | the conference on the whole veto| Last year, for instance, War Food g, ohortation. Administration concentrated on that these bombs were not planted| One of his aides, however, Sena- by the Nazi underground and the tcr A. W. Roebuck, who is chairman Liberal Roughly, 64,000 have been shipped | miles southwest of Liuchow, site of | G‘;’;:::‘:;; e trying to clear off all surplus fats pome it was said, and all except|a former U. S. air base which was| I issue, despite rapid progress on other questions, including approval | INCREASED i 2 " Germans will behave accordingly. of the Federal campaign ! 08 —even permitting the use of edible : captured by the Japanese last No- |8S “Commander of the Forces of G 4 : of much peace-enforcement ma- fat for soap and paint. This year SO0 AR L theemaitaes heve vefilber T};fls re re;s’enud a seven. | Occupation,” a SHAEF announce- They will pay lip service to whatever committee fos Ontraio, seized on the (0 | B | been processed for shipment. : A Fment aaln the Allies tell them, but down deep result as a good omen for the Prime = 1 WASHINGTON, June 5—Presi- there is a shortage. Last year WFA | : | mile advance in 24 hours. But the ent sald. d ’ ' American officials hope that & dent Truman added a $4,375,000,000 in their hearts they will continue Minister’s party. to fear a return of the Nazis. — -—-- - ‘ This is his first official task in | that post and the first time he Moscow decision will be coming promptly. It could speed the reported standing forth- | held out to the bitter end against/ bringing all meats back under ra- | Japanese were firm near Ishan, 43 miles west of Lend-Lease request today to a de- veloping program for Pacific vic- e ; x i | has served in any capacity other Rescue parties searched for adii- _ - A tioning; it actually discouraged hog ( 'ilen Armv Liuchow. j { y capacity o o} bt it (work of the conference commit-|tory and postwar economic collab- production and = permitted meat ky | An American communique an-|than that of Supreme Commander i;’l;‘a‘:rc‘:;'?lg““s"“izfll:‘_;h‘a‘:’:“ i SEEKS (HA"GES l" |tees on remaining problems and|oration, | possibly permit a windup by June canning facilities to work at less than capacity. Everyone knows the result this year. Last year, when the War Produc- tion Board proposed facilities to provide an additional 300,000-400,000 tons of cattle feed from the mash left over from distilleries, WFA killed the project and permitted | thousands of tons of potential feed to go to waste. Only last month WFA reversed itself and okayed the program. A Last year Tom Stitts and Dewey Termohlen, heads of the Dairy and Poultry Branch of WFA, were worried about too many chickens and eggs. Termohlen wanted the national goal for 1945 set 25 per cent below 1944; but the figure was finally set at .16 per cent less— Jater raised toronly 8 per cent less. Early in April; the ‘masterminds suddenly awakened: to the fact thht —— (Continued on Page Four) | nounced that planes of the U. §.|of the Allled Armies in the West | 14th Air Force continued attacks on ienemy positions in the Liuchow area. | Reliable Chinese reports chroni-! ' Advocated by - Gen. Bradley | nese lines in Kwangtung and declar- | | ed that among points abandoned by ithe enemy during thisiprocess, said ito have been going on quietly for! WEST POINT, June 5.—General govera] weeks, were Hoiping, Szep- Omay Bradley told members of g sunwai, and Toishan, all lying | West Point’s graduating class that i, the area between Canton and with the inevitable defeat of Japan, | the South China Sea. Many Chin- | the American people will be faced | ggeg living in the United States | with the need of re-defining the come from these four towns. ( role of our military forces in the NS life of our nation and in the con-| EMERSON HERE ‘duct of its relationship with other A, ! nations. | Fred Emerson, of Sitka, is a] Bradley told the graduates that guest at the Gasineau Hotel. we can establish the foundation of E— national and international security GOES TO HOSPITAL \'by retaining the core of a proles-‘ Master Eli Sheeper has been ad- jslonal army—around which we can mitted to St. Anne’s Hospital for mobilize a great citizen army, {surgery. X since his forces stormed the Nor- mandy beaches a year ago to- MOITOW. Among the matters to be decided |cled a steady contraction of Japa-iin Berlin, the announcement said, will be details of control authority and the location of the seat of the Allied Control Council. e Screen Star Gels Divorce from Mate EL PASO, Tex., June 5—Screen star Merle Oberon was granted a divorce in Juarez yesterday from her producer husband, Sis. Alex- ander Korda. The decree was sign- ed by Judge Xavier Rosas Ceballos of First Juarez Civil Court. Miss Oberon’s petition charged in- compatability, ment Police Headquarters. The bodies of three Americans and 12 Germans had been recovered. Two Americans are missing. Four Ameri- cans and 18 Germans were hospital- ized with serious injur , srdixi_fig'mnous NEW YORK, June 5. — Closing’ from June 30. quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| The changes, they contended, stock today is 7', American Can would “bring assurance to our econ- 100, Anaconda 34, Curtiss-Wright omy and a protection in law upon 6'4, International Harvester 88%, which we can rely.” Kennecott 38's, New York Central, One amendment sponsored by . 28%, Northern Pacific 30%, U. 8. Chairman Thomas (D-Okla) of the Steel 69%, Pound $4.04. Agriculture Committee would apply Dow, Jones averages today are to livestock and farm products. It as follows: Industrials, 168.15; rails,' would bar establishment of any ceil- 58.48; utilities, 31.85. |ing against processors which did not R equal all costs “plus a reasonable OLSON HERE | profit, not less than the profit earn- P. G. Olson, of Chatham, is.a ed thercon by such processor during j puest at the Baranof Hotel, a representative period.” PRICE CONTROL ACT WASHINGTON, June 5.—Senator | Tatt (R-Ohio) and fiye colleagues | prepared tday to press for changes in the price control agt when the | Senate tomorrew calls up'legislation |extending the measure another year 15. \Continued on Page Five) Exlrabuarding of Truman Be Taken | At Frisco Session’ SAN FRANCISCO, June 5.—Secret | Servicemen and Military Police are ! making careful preparations for President Truman’s appearance at the final session of the United Na- tions Conference. Although the exact date still is undetermined, the War Memorial Opera House where the President will speak already is being minutely examined, from the top to its base- ment Passageways, He asked Congress to appropriate $1,975,000,000 in new Lend - Lease funds plus $5,400,000,000 in unused balances from the current .fiscal year ending June 30. Describing this as a step necessary to speed victory over the Japanese, Mr. Truman said much of the money would be used “where the redeploy- ment of our troops from Europe or our control over enemy areas require aid from other nations.” The President said recent Lend- Lease agreements with France, Bel- gium and The Netherlands would be financed with Lend-Lease funds, to the extent “consistent with changed war conditions,” but no reference was made to the status of Russia under the program. - e SEATTLE WOMEN HERE Anne Johnson and Mae Me- Cracken, of Seattle, -are guests at the Gastineau Hotel. ang