The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 6, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 9981 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1945 ) THE LIBRARY 0f CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD ; JUL 181945 — MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NEW WARFARE THREATENED BY JAPAN Eleven Americans Are Beheaded By Ni ATROCTY | REVEALED | INREPORT Sword Falls on Necks of | Victims-Others Put fo Death by anonets By RICHARD BERGHOLZ | ILOILO, Panay, June 5.—(Delay- | ed)—Mrs. Charma Covell, her hands tied behind her, pleaded with the Japanese captain, Kunoyi Watan- abe, as he prepared to wield his| Samurai sword. “Why will you kill us all?” she | asked. | “We are Christian missionaries.” | The imperturable officer, sur-| rounded by Japanese soldiers, said nothing. f Eleven times that day at that spot | Watanabe’s sworn fell. Eleven Am- ichief United States delegate to the army soldiers finally cleared out the |inaccurate ‘and a flight of enemy ericans were beheaded. In another |United Nations' onference, is hold- underground Command Post where fighters sighted by the Liberators house, the same fate befell fivc‘ others. Three small American boys | were killed by Japanees bayonets. Then fires were set in an effort | to blot out the crime. Six of the victims were women.|from Stalin, by this week-end, at they believe almost certainly is that N8 in at 250 feet altitude, the Mit- Eleven of those killed were Baptist | missionaries. CONFERENCE LOOKING TO STALINNOW |CLAIMS HITLER'S FOUND IN BERLIN Former Fuehrer Dies| \ Undergound at Hands of BURNED BODY IS | | RESENT ALASKA ALEUTIAN o shoves BOMBERS | Miumary NeeDs MAKE RAID Opposition_ib_ Proposed New Route Made by Of- ;Kataoka N;\EI Base At- tacked, Also Installa- fions at Masugawa AN ALEUTIAN BASE, ALASKA, (Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) | with fair = certainty as that June 4—(Deleyed) —Army and Navy SAN FRANCISCO, June 6.—Ur- Adolf Hitler. bombers from the Aleutians today gent talks seeking to avoid a per-| The body, smoke-blackened and |attacked the Japanese Kataoka Na- manent Big-Five split over the veto-|charred, was one of four discovered | val base at Shimushu Jima in the vote issue are reported underway|in the ruins of the great under- | Kurile Islands, bombing by instru= tody in both Moscow and San Fran- ground fortress beneath the new |ment through heavy overcast with cisco. Premier Stalin is said to be Reichs Chancellory after the fall of |unobserved results. reviewing Soviet insistence on the Berlin. These four bodies, any m;e" A raid on Kataoka last month by right to veto even discussion in a'of which answered pretty well to Army planes accounted for six en- world security council. Hitler's description, were removed emy ships sunk or damaged. Today's President Truman’s personal emis- and carefully examined by Russian|strike was by Eleventh Air Force | Allied Flamethrowers Word from Moscow May Prevent Blg Spll' Over -| sy soserrt w.arIGG, Jr. | | (Rep. Combined American Press) | Veto Vote Issue BERLIN, June 6.—A high Russian | —_— ’mflitary source said today a body ifound in Berlin had been identified | of By John M. Hightower ficial of War Dept. TACOMA, June 6.—The present Alaska Highway serves military needs better than the proposed route from Puget Sound, the Ta- |coma Chamber of Commerce was informed yesterday by John W. Martin, administrative assistant in the War Department. He repled to a query from the Chamber, which asked Secretary of War Stimson' to what extent mili- tary needs would be served by the proposed route and to what extent the War Department would support a permanent Puget Sound-Alaska road. MICHIGAN SCENE OF NEW LANDING BY JAP BALLOON | First Disclosure of Nip Craft Penefrating So Far East in Nation DETROIT, June 6. -~ The Army disclosed today that a Japanese bal- loon has fallen in Michigan within | the past few weeks. The information, released by the | Sixth Service Command, was re- | stricted to that statement only. Neither the date nor the place | where the balloon' referred to or | any other balloons, might have fall- jen, were disclosed. The announcement was the first official disclosure that a Jap bal- loon had fallen so far East on the continent of North America. i YEA NORMANDY WAS HIT RAGO |BLACKOUT ON. FRONT NEWS UNEXPLAINED sary, Harry Hopkins, is handling the Army physicians. | Liberators and Fleet Air Wing Four negotiations in the Russian capital.| A} were badly burned from the Secretary of State Stettinius, as the flamethrowers with which the Red| ing conferences on the subject here gitier and his leading Nazis made with Soviet Ambassador Andrei thejy Jast ditch stand. ; Gromyko. aty After careful examination of the American officials hope for an teeth and other characteristics the answer, which must come initially' Ryssians singled out one body which ! the very latest. They consider the of the Nazi Fuehrer. Americans, British Crossed{Campaign oh Okinawa to Beaches-D-Day Is | Probably Nears End- Army Holiday . Liuchow Captured LONDON, June —Just one year| By LEONARD MILLIMAN ago today American and British (Associated Press War Editor) troops under Gen. Eienhower hit the' A new kind of underground war- beaches of Normany and launched fare was promised today by in- the great assult that was to bring vasion jittery Japan as an unex- Germany to her knees within eleven‘ plained American news blackout months, thinted at the possible end of the To mark the anniversary, Gen. campaign on Okinafva, potential Eisenhower proclaimed today an staging base for the assault on Army holiday, although no official Nippon, ceremonies were scheduled. | Four American divisions drove to- Red Cross Clubs held “D-Day Wward the climactic battles of the Night” last night and provided free Philippines, and semi-official re- Harpoons. .. Istand, t: f the coast Antiaircraft fire was meager and o JOPOnan’s . 0 oo {route now must determine whether its construction will be practical as |a tourist attraction and whether the area to be served is worth de- veloping, Chamber officials said. Martin said in his letter: “The purposes of the |Highway from the military stand- did not attack. Thirty miles south of Kataoka, Eleventh Airforcee Mitchells bomb- ed installations at Masugawa on the east coast of Parmushiru. Go- In view of the War Department’s | MISSI"G plANE Alaska | HAS FIRST WACS LOST QVERSEAS { WASHINGTON, June 6. — An meals for soldiers who could prove they were in on history’s greatest invasion. The London News Chronicle picked out Gen. Eisenhower as the Allfed military leader deserving the great- est tribute on the anniversary. ¥ — e - ports from China said Chinese troops this morning captured Liu- chow, one-time important U. S; air base. | Fighing Flerce Only reports on Okinawa fighting, 325 miles south of Japan, came to- day from Japan. The government- controlled Domei News Agency sald point were two-fold: (1) to pro-|Army Transport plane carrying 18 {chells made numerous direct hns.‘m? a supply road connecting the | WACs and three crew members is “fierce fighting” was underway, with Japanese entrenched in new posi- iissue of such importance that they {leaving several buildings hurning. Asked why no official announce-| established military air bases at|reported missing on a 766-mile flight ‘ B-29 and a The story of the tragedy, which are declining to fix any deadline. ment of the discovery has been made | occurred at Hopevalle—“The Val- Their expressed view is that if the yet by Moscow, this Russian source| (Continued on Page Six) present split aligning Russia against said that as long as any element of | ithe United States, France, China ypcertainity exists the Russians do| X and Britain continues; small nations not wish to state definitély that Hit- The Washington Merry - Go-Round {will demand that opposing view be jer's body has been found. The| put to the test of a conference source added, however, that there! vote. !seemed little doubt that this actu- In that event the odds are about g)jy s the corpse of Hitler, By DREW PEARSON Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) ‘100 to 1 that the Russian view would gxamination of the body shnwed‘ {be batted down hard and the posi- that the man almost certainly died | tion of the other four powers up- of poisoning. (held. Virtually all the small nations The hodies of Goebbels and his ,except those directly in Russia’s family also were badly burned, but WASHINGTON—The inside story sphere of influence favor limiting were identified by the Russians! of how the Army and Navy are the veto power. without too much difficulty. ! burning up Japan's main cities, The Soviet position is that in the The Russians have given no hint block by block, may now be re- ll-member security council, in a5 to how the bodies of Hitler,| vealed at least in part. {which the Big Five would have per- Gobkels and other Nazis found in| The two greatest contributions manent seats, all the Big Five would Berlin have been disposed of. to the burning of Japan are the have to agree before the council new, still somewhat could take up a dispute and begin to mysterious fire-bomb known as the discuss it—except that if one of the “Goop Bomb.” Just how the “Goop Big Five was a party to the dispute (Lt | Wash,, rehabilitation hospital, under All planes returned safely. RAGS NEEDED IN Fort St. Johns, Fort Nelson, Wat- son Lake and Whitehorse, on the airway between the United States |#nd Alaska: and (2) to provide an * (auxiliary supply route to Alaska to | supplement the sea and air routes. “The construction of a new con- necting road from the state of Washington -though the western REHABILITATION, WAR wou"DED part of British Columbia to con- |nect with the existing highway, Clean cotton rags of all kinds would not serve the first purpose as are being gathered here for use of well as the existing highway, be- returned war veterans now receiving treatiiant st th i Lake, | c2use it would not follow the pres- s St " ent well established military air route. As for the second purpose, local sponsorship of the American| o Legion Auxiliary, it was announced |he Present highway is believed to here today. |be fully as adequate as a new Rug weaving, spinning and other | nighway such as mentioned in your | letter. handcraft arts play an important - part in therapfle‘; lyww beln:ouscd “You will appreciate that the successfully to restore full use of considerations I have just mention- injured limbs, and to aid in mental €d are military in character. There in Africa, the War Department an- nounced today! The plane left Accra, British West Africa, on a flight to Peru Field, in Liberfa, on May 30, The WACs, members of a group assigned to the Army Transport | Command base at Accra were being transferred to a new asssignment. Although some WACs were wound- ed by bombing in England and at | least one lost her life in a crash in this country, these are the first WACs reported lost overseas during the war. | The WACs and their next of kin, who have been notified, include: | Pfc. Mary M. Gollinger; Helmut W. | Gollinger, brother, Tacoma, Wash. 'BUILDING PERMITS | TOTAL ONLY THREE BULLETINS WASHINGTON—The House has turned down a move to eliminate a multi-million dollar world currenecy stabilization fund for the Bretton Woods agreement. The vote to retain the fund was 122 to 18. . s LOS ANGELES—Charlie Chaplin was denied a new trial today in the bitter paternity suit in which he was recently adjudged to be the father of Joan Berry’s baby, Carol Ann. LONDON — Responsible sources said today that the United Nations War Crimes Commission would weigh the question of whether Japa- nese responsible for sending balloon bombs over the United States should be classified as war criminals. LOS ANGELES — Mrs, Dorothy tlons facing overwhelming superior Yanks. P | However, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz' silence recalled previous officthl Am- erican news _ blackouts _preceding major developpents-such as the end of organized resistance. Recent sweeping' U. 8. advances tended to support the possibility of final col- lapse of the shattered and dismem- bered enemy garrison known to have been reduced from 85,000 to less than 20,000 soldiers, ¥ Direct Invasion Feared The American advance which re- duced Okinawa to a “strategically isolated island,” and air attacks such as yesterday’s 450 plane Super- fort raid on Kcbe were interpreted by the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Hochi as “unquestionably significant of a direct invasion attempt aganist ! the Japanese mainand” in the near future. - | As Yomiuri warned that “the mo- Bomb” got its name isn’t known. it could not vote. However, it's the most terrible fire Allied Confrol | The United States, with the sup- adjustment of the maladjusted to MaYy be other considerations of ui civilian life, it has been explamed‘non-mmmry character which would | by medical authorities. | justify the construction of a new/ DURING PAST WEEK Arnold Di Maggio today obtained ; ment of a battle of decision on our her final decree of divorce from Joe 0Wn soil is rapldly approaching,” the Di Magglo, former New York Yankee , newspaper Mainichi published a secret is an oily mush developed 21 adamant position that no one by petroleum chemists. This makes POWer must be able to prevent a the contents of the bomb stick in dispute frem coming before the coun- | gluelike gobs to anything it hits, cil t'or discussion. The World Char- making it almost impossible for ter itself would guarantee any state Japanese fire-fighters to scrape it the right to call the council’s at- spreader in the world. Part of its POrt of the other powers, has taken (oun(il (omes | Because of the number of men}hlahway. These matters, however, receiving the constructive therapies,| lie outside the jurisdiction of the all available rag supplies are ex-| War Department.” hausted rapidly, and many hands, must lie idle, the appeal states. lEGIo“ Aux“.l‘kv Rags may be left at the Juneau loose. However, what realy made the bomb the most terrible in the world was experiments carried out by some of Henry Kaiser's West Coast scientists. They found Kaiser had a surplus of fast burning, white-hot magnesium production on his hands, and they also knew one’ of the greatest difficulties in mak- | ing magnesium is its high explosive content. So they experlmented; with mixing magnesium dust in the oil of the bomb. | This magnesium dust lights up. in a searing blaze as soon as it! comes in contact with air. Result' is the hottest fire ever known. Most important effect of the “Goop Bomb” is that no known| fire-fighting equipment can douse its flames. Water only adds tol the blaze; as do any of the other| specialized fire-fighting chemicals. All the Japs do noy against thelI “Ggpp Bomb” is to try to confine | the area in which it burns, not put it out. This is one reason for increasing optimism about an early end ol{ the Jap war. | NO SUEZ LEND-LEASE \ British insistence that the United% States pay tolls on troops and war supplies shipped through the Suez Canal continues to rankle in high| circles. London’s explanation is that Suez is not British-Government-owned, but controlled by an international company. (The British own about 44 per cent of the stock, the French 52 per cent and the Dutch the bal-; ance) However, U. S. officials don't accept the idea that the Brit- | ish stock is privately controlled. Actually, Britain's share of the stock is tightly controlled by the British Government, and one of i s s it v S R (Continued on Page Four) tention to a “dispute or situation”' To Abrupt End Florists, it was stated here, and During the past week three build- |ing permits have been issued by City (Engineer James L. McNamara, to- |talling an estimated $800 of con- ‘strucuon, Permits were issued to: R. Williams, builder-in-charge, for repairing porch floors and rail- outfielder and Army Air Forces sergeant. RIO DE JANEIRO—Brazil declar- ed war on Japan today. Brazil broke diplomatic relations with Germany, Italy and Japan on January 28, poem calling, Japanese children to “follow in' the'wake"of the chil- dren of Aka-Jima” who is reported charged American tanks on Okin- !awa with hand grenades. Underground Forts Tokyo radio boasted of claborate threatening peace. The Russian in-! terpretation is regarded by the other four to mean that any one power should have the right to force the council to ignore the dispute even after receiving such a vote. ! On this anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normany, Denmark be-! came the 50th member of the con-, ference as committees plodded along on various issues. About 11 remain —mostly of a technical nature, REPUBLICANS Anxiety Caused Over Short| Session - Big Three Meet Site Is Set LONDON, June 6.—A hint that the site of the next “Big Three” parley| |already had been set was given {Commons today, as one report that the fiyst meeing of the delegatés to| {the Allied Contral Council in Berlin had ‘“ended abruptly” created new ianxiety here. | Without elaboration, Chancellor of ithe Exchequer Sir John Anderson| {told Commons there was “no chance” | NAMES MRS. BODDING | quick shipment is guaranteed. | |ings at the Seaview Apartments, es- o A - AS PRESIDENT OF UNIT underground fortifications of a type never seen before which “will mark a new epoch in military history.” It described them as bomb-proof and 1942, and declared war on Germany and Italy August 22 of the same year. |timated cost $100; H. J. Plant, re- STOCK QUOTATIONS Mrs. Anna Bodding was named |model kitchen at 831 Basin Road, NEW YORK, June 6. — Closing President of the Ameti'can Legion quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |AuXiliary at last night's business stock today is 7%, American Can mebing in the Dugout, while Mrs. 99%, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright | Elsie Sofoulis became first vice- 6%, International Harvester 87, President and :’grs.t Ida Carnegie, New York Central 23%, Northern Sécond vice-president. Pacific 30%, U, S. Steel 68%, Sales| AlSo elected to office for the 1945- today were 1,520,000 shares. |46 term were Mrs. Silva Zenger, Dow, Jones averages today are a5 | S€cretary-treasurer; Mrs. Flora Ful- follows: ind % f *{ton, historian; Mrs. Virginia Ashcraft uss?lsumme:s L;:B;; i A o |chaplain, and Mrs. Edwina Moore, v e R sergeant-at-arms. Members of the Mrs. Mable BATTIN BACK | Executive Committee are 1$200; John Klein, owner and builder- in-charge, stucco exterior and change partitions of Klein Buildings at Second and Franklin Streets, $500. | - e RIVERS AWAY | Ralph J. Rivers, Alaska’s Attor- Iney General, took off from Juneau | west-bound yesterday afternoon on an official business trip for the ‘Territory. He is to stop .at An- chorage, Kodiak and Fairbanks and plans to return here in about two | weeks. ————— NEW YORK — The American Broadcasting Company monitors | said today they heard the Bern radio broadcast that “reports continue to persist in Moscow that the U. 8. 8. R. has been asked to transmit peace offers” from Japan. WASHINGTON—The Senate has passed the $140,000,000 Interior De- partment appropriation bill for the next fiscal year. The biil goes back to the House for dction on Senate amendments adding $39,106,304. | they probably are. Eight American Superforts were {lost in the successful fire raid on | Kobe, at least one of them to a piloted “Baka” rocket bomb. Para- chuting American airmen were strafed by Japanese pilots. : Tokyo reported southern Japsn was ralded again today. : Patrol Sinks Ships | American planes sank seven Japa- nese ships and damaged five in their daily patrols along the shores of Japan and Korea. Troop-laden Lybeck, Mrs. Agnes Kiefer and Mu.i | barges were caught by others in the ‘a site had been selected. i | | Meanwhile, fresh concern arose| lover the situation in Austria. leans thrust an opening wedge into |ington last January 14 of Rep. James! although Allied military missions ar- |P. O'Connor, Livingston Democrat. | rived in Viéenna last Sunday for pre- IN MONTANA Ithat the Big Three would meet in | London, leaving the suggestion that‘l ( Gen. Eisenhower and Fleld Mar- i{shal Montgomery left soon after the , June 6—Re, ubli- | Berlin meeting without attending a| HELENA, Mont., Jul P! | Soerii baanat) seTt AR s wl Montana’s traditionally Democrancl;emm to their headquarters yester- | Second Congressional district today,; ay evening. and party members throughout the;UTg “Bl‘s?":ll?e;ul:r:lnfl n‘::egrem c: looked to the 1946 elections U. S. British, nc gt |delegates left unsettled details con- vit] hope. | mwhe:;?; ‘"Ae‘dD-OE;",,ean‘ State sgmw,lcerning the organization of the Al- and rancher of Wilsall, defeated lied conggl council and how it will| Democratic Rep. Leo C. Graybill,|govern Tmany. Great,_ Falls attorney, to fill the Richard K. Law, speaking for the vacancy left by the death in Wash-|Foreign Office, told Commons that| Graybill conceded defeat on the!liminary discussions, “It might be face of unofficial Associated Press'Some time before a control commis-| tabulations in 380 of the district's 754 precincts which gave D'Ewart 20,351; Graybill 17,253, i It was the first balloting for a! national position since the Novem- ber general elections, and the first since President Truman assumed office. It was viewed as of national|age. sion for Austria is set e up.” PETERSON IN TOWN W. R. Peterson arrived in Ju- neau yesterday, via Woodley Air- ways, from his home in Anchor- He is a guest at the Baranof Dr. Charles E. Battin, Alaska Di-’ rector for the War Labor Board, returned to his Juneau headquar- ters yesterday by plane after spend- Dorothy Manthey, retiring Auxiliary| WASHINGTON, June 6.—Presi- | president. Members voted to purchase a $500 war bond during the business meet- dent Truman has ordered the Gov- | \ernment seizure of the Humble Oil }and Refining Company plants at | Ingleside, Texas. The Chief Executive has directed | Secretary of the Interior Ickes to| |take over and operate the plants which have been tied up because of | ing a week in Seattle conferring ing and it was decided to hold a with the Regional Chairman and|Geodie Sale June 16, with Mrs. | Regional Attorney for the Board.|papel Lybeck and Mrs. Elsie So- He reports that Regional Attorney foulis in charge, assisted by Mrs. Roy Jackson expects to visit Alaska Hattie Peterman. again sometime in July. | The Tuesday evening meeting!labor disturbances. T 0 A AT 28 ‘|closes formal activities until Sep-| The President’s order sald the LISLE HEBERT RETURNS tember, when regular meetings wmlwmpanys facilities are needed for Lisle Hebert has returned to Ju- be resumed, it was announced. | the production of crude oil and other neau after a trip to the Westward RN | war vital products. and Interior. | USO OFFICIAL FRO! WASHINGTON—Clvilians will be allotted about the same amount of meat for the July-September period as for the current quarter although total supplies are expected to be nine per cent smaller. CHICAGO — Former President Hoover told a ‘press conference he was taking no active part in Presi- dent Truman’s Democratic Admin- istration but that Truman is moving in the right direction in food handling abroad. : e War Bond Sales Are lioqlnllng Up WASHINGTON, June 6.—Hur- chases of E bonds total one billion, 992 million dollars. That's 49 and eight-tenths per cent of the four billion dollar quota. Total individual purchases amount to four billion, 139 million dollars, or 59 per cent of the over-all quota significance by party leaders, Hotel. LA | o PRINCE RUPERT HERE L s e o VEATHRRLSEEORT 2 Mrs. J. DeGanahl left for the| peger ¢, Wamback, Assistant Dir-\o 4 =50 AL B south last evening accompanied by |o ‘emperatures for 24-Hour Per] ® D Y \ector of the USO in Prince Rupert,| & o .. 240 sioteck This Morning @ | :'" d‘“fh"‘" ';:gm‘:}l ’3: ll’:""(‘l,nmved in Juneau yesterday, via| : g reesL e SO attend | Ajagka Coastal Airlines,. to renew 3 school. Mrs. DeGanahl expects 10/old acquaintances and to visit the, ® In Juneau—Maximum 68; o return to Juneau later. | Juneau Uso. | ® minimum 45, W H - — Mr. Wamback has been an Assis-| . At Airport—Maximum, 67; -‘ MR, MRS. SIMMONS IN TOWN tant Director of USO's for four ® minimum, 42. 't Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Simmons,|years, going to Prince Rupert from' ® Tomorrow’s Forecast .‘ of Sitka, are guests at the Gastin- | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. |® Cloudy with occasional e eau Hotel. He is the author of the Prince ® Very light showers tonight. e ——————— Rupert USO musical comedy, “Music|® Cloudy with slowly decreust . Mrs. Mabel Hutchinson, of Sitka,|and Muskeg” which stars 35 GIs and|® ing cloudiness Thursday; e has arrived in Juneau and is a|which will be taken to Ketchikan ® mild temperature. . © 0 0 00 0 0.0 0 00 guest at the Gastineau Hotel, and produced, of seven billion dollars. The cam- paign has 25 more days to go. Hongkong-Canton area, where Chi- I nese reported Japanese were stead- ily shortening their lines. Private Chinese advices said the Nipponese | were also preparing to abandon the ; important river port of Wuchow, 120 miles west of Canton. Wuchow would be threatened by the fall of Liuchow, 155 miles to the northwest, announced unofficlally by a Chinese general. The battle for Foochow, at the northern end of the enemy’s broken Indo-China cor- ridor, has been the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in China. Showdown battles approached in the Philippines on northern Luzon and western Mindanao. — e — — RENTON FAMILY HERE Mrs. Erling Strom and children, Karen and Stanley, have arrived in Juneau from their home in Ren- ton, Washington, and are guests at the Gastineau Hotel. ———e———— THANEM IN TOWN Oswald Thanem, representing the Continental Can Company from Seattle, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. ‘