The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 7, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e — THE LIBRAR CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD JUL 15 1942 -+ o FE————— VOL. LXV., NO. 9982 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS =i} 450 SUPERFORTS AGAIN SMASH OSAKA Japanese Army Exharis Nali,d;flara Kiri Asked in HomeDefense a2 | Demand. Made that 100, Milliof Nips Become | Suicidal Attackers SAN FRANCISCO, June 7.— The Japanese army has called on the Japanese people to commit national hari kari in defense of the Empire against American invaders, Radio Tokyo reported today. | In g 20-page “People’s Handbook for Resistance Combat,” the Army exhorted the 100,000,000 people” of the home islands “become special suicide) attacke! n the event of American landings, “thus defending the Empire to the last,” a broadcast quoting Doemi News Agency said. A week ago, Vice Adm. Daniel E. Barbey, Commander of the Seventh U. S. Amphibious forces and Acting Commander of the Seventh Fleet, a veteran of 52 amphibious landings against the Japanese, asserted at his Headquarters at Luzon, Philippine Islands, Japan would commit “na-| tional hari kari” if her leaders per- sist in the Pacific war. e e BALLOON SCARE - IN L, A. SUBURB CAUSED BY BOYS, MONTEREY PARK, Calif.,, June 7. Residents -of this Los Angeles | suburb were relaxing today after realistic Japanese balloon scare. Chief of Police Herman Conaway | said there were balloens floating over the city, all right. They meas- ured about 16 by 10 feet. But they ! didn't come from Japan. He said three high school boys admitted constructing the balloons and | launching them by filling them with | hot air over a barbecue pit. | The balloons landed -after short flights yesterday. Reprimanded, the | boys promised not to repeat the! prank; Conaway reported . | NOLAND HERE i Paul F. Noland, of Seattle, is a| guest at the Gastineau Hotel. ! The Washingion Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON Col.” Robert 5. Allen now on active | service with the Army.) Lt. WASHINGTON—Washington ob- servers have commented on the political demise of the man once closest to the White House throne —“Tommy the Cork” Corcoran. Yet 1ast week that same Tommy the Cork, . accomplished almost single-handed the amazing feat of changing the.Government of China. He got Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek out as Premier of China and put his friend T. V. Soong in —despite; the fact that the two brothers-in-la% hate each other. Morepvef, heé did this largely by a phatograph, For many years, Corcoran has been a close friend of T. V. Soong, brother of Madame Chiang Kai- Shek. Corcoran was one of the most arderit battlers for opening the Burma Road and getting sup- plies to China.” So, when Soong came to Washington last month, Corcoran put his famous brain to work to get some token, significant to the Chinese, which would sig- nify Soong’s influence with the Truman Administration. He figured that a photograph of‘ Soong with the new President of the United States, plus the Secre- tary of War, plus the Secretary of the Navy, plus the Secretary of State, would do the trick. So Corcoran got his close ftiend, Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, to arrange for the photo in the rear garden of the White House. Next day, there, was featured on the front pages,of many newspapers a (Continued on Page Four) CAN'T AGREE | ONAREA FOR FRENCHZONE Muddle Over France’s Sec- | tion Delays Germany's | Occupation Machinery | LONDON, June 7.—Further meet- ings of the Allied Control Council for Germany were being held up tcday by a lack of agreement on the French zone of Occupation and a| Moscow commentator blamed the' Western Allies for the “muddle” in getting the administrative machin- ery in operation. A responsible informant close to the British Foreign Office said there had been no definition, as yet, of the zone which will be under French control and that failure to reach such an agreement was the reason why the British and United States zones of occupation had not been defined. The French zone will have _ WARSECRETS Gen. Omar Bradley Is Named Adminisirafor, to be subtracted from their terri- tory. Correspondents representing the combined press, who covered the meeting of the Control Council on Tuesday, said the Russians were un- willing to hold further meetings, which are necessary before the coun- cil can begin operating, until the Amerieans “and ‘British have with-! drawn from the Russian zone. The Americans' and British, on the other hand, wished to know their exact zone before beginning troop movements. Bl ST 2 BATTLE OF ATLANTIC ALL OVER More than?)O German Subs Sunk During Conflict WASHINGTON, ogune 7. — More than 700 German submarines were sunk during the course of the European war, a joint Anglo- American statement disclosed to- day. In a final joint monthly report on Atlantic U-boat wdrfare, Presi- dent Truman and Prime Minister Churchill said also that many other undersea craft had been destroyed by the Germans themselves in the last stages of the war. “With the surrender of Ger- ARE STOLEN; SIX ARRESTED Navy Officer, 2 Stafe Dept. \ Officials, 3 New York- | ersNow in Custody | WASHINGTON, June 7.—The; Government today accused a Navy officer, two State Department offi- cials and three New York workers of prying into wartime secrets. Taken into custody by FBI agents in New York and Washington late yesterday, the six were charged with conspiring to vivlate a section of the espionage statute covering un- authorized possession or transmittal of national defense data. | The FBT said documents, ranging from “restricted” to ‘“top secrets” were stolen from the State, War and Navy Departments, the highly secret Office of Strategic Services, the Of- | fice of War Information and the Federal Communications Commis- sion. Part of FCC’s wartime work has been recording enemy broad- casts. Under arrest here are: Lt. Andrew Roth, 26, of Arlington, Va., former Columbia University honor student, who served for'a time in the Office of Navy Intelli-| gence. { Emmanuel Sigurd Larsen, 47, of ‘Washington, specialist in the China imany. the batgle of the Atlantic Divisicn of the State Department's 1has ended,” the report stated. “Ger- Office of Far Eastern Affairs. 1 | John Stewart Service, 35, Wash- | | | man U-boats have ceased to oper- ate and are now proceeding under ington, a Foreign Service officer Allied orders.” lof the State Department who until| recently had an assignment with| . . i American military forces in China. | Soviel Prisoners | Held in New York are: | | Philip Jacob Jaffe, 48, Russian-| H Id H E I d {born editor of the magazine “Amer- | : e In ng an y |asia,” president of a printing firm iand active in organizations interest- Are Turned over‘ed in Far Eastern affairs, | Kate Louise Milchg)l. 36, a grad- luate of Bryn Mawr college, a co- LONDON, June 7—A U. S. Army 'editor of “Amerasia.” | spokesman said today that all but| Mark Julius Gayn, born Mark Jul-| a handful of Russians who had been jus Ginsbourg, 37, a fiee-lance mag- | held in England — many of them |azine writer. | captured while armed and wearing, Each was released ‘under $10,000 German uniforms in the European bail each, and their case adjourred | campaign—had been turned over to |until June 20. i Soviet repatriation officials and sent | - — home. The few remaining, he said, | | were under the charge of Russian' STOCK 0“0““0"5 ! repatriated officers. NEW YORK, June 7. — Closing] The statement was in reply to a | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ! charge yesterday by Col. Gen. F. .| stock today is 7%, American Can Golikov, Soviet Commissioner for'991., Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright | Repatriation, that three camps had | 6%, International rvester 87‘;,1 been found in England where Soviet | Kennecott 331, New York Central| citizens were “confined under in-'28%, Northern Pacific 31%, U. 8. tolerable conditions.” ; Steel 687%, Pound $4.04. Sales today ———eo—— were 1,300,000 shareg.™ DR. WELLMAN HERE i Dow, Jones averages today are, as follows: industrials, 167.17; rails, | 58.89; utilities, 31.90. | RS s FRANCES ROUNDTREE HERE Dr. B. J. Wellman, of Sitka, is a guest at the Hotel Juneau. - James Madison was a graduate of | Frances Roundtree, of Petersburg,! Princeton. is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel.' EXCURSION IN THE MOONLIGHT — Coast Guard-manned LSTs, VetsBureau: Hines Qut NAVY ROOSEVELT CHECKS IN FROM OKINAWA ESCORT FDR, Jr., Répiorts at Guam for Transfer fo Navy War College By EDWARD H. HIGGS WASHINGTON, June 7—The im- pending conquest of Okinawa winds up, military observers believe, the long, arduous “island hopping” that started with the invasion of Guadal- canal in 1942. The next American move in the Pacific, in the opinion of these ex- perts, will be the payoff, With the Philippines, the Mari- anas, Okinawa and Iwo Jima, they say, American forces now have ample bases from which they can mount a major thrust against either China or the Japanese home islands Some minor islands still may be seized to provide air stri; but the big job of winning the land masses necessary as staging areas for the invasion air fleets and ground troops is over. Just which way the next blow may fall is up to the enemy to guess. And the jittery Japanese appear to be laying their money on both sides of the line. On one hand, they talk of an imminent invasion of the home islands and of their own prepara- tions of , underground defenses to meet the invaders: On the other, they appear to be shifting part of their forces from South China to mainland areas closer to Japan, ap- parently getting braced for a show- down in the north. Sizeable forces however, still hold the important ports of Hong Kong and Swatow and Haiphong in French Indo-China At the present time, experts esti- mate, the air campaign against Japan is about as far along as the areial war against Germany was in February, 1944, just before the Luftwaffe was effectively paralyzed Japan, however, is considered more culnerable than Germany at the same stage. > GRACE BURLEY HERE Grace V. Burley arrived in Ju- neau yesterday from Nome and i a guest at the Baranof Hotel. e o GLADYS WHITMORE HERE Gladys Whitmore, a teacher at the Sheldon Jackson,K School in Sitka, is a guest at the Hotel Ju- neau. PAYOFFIN | “ PACIFICIS | NEXTMOVE “Island Hofibiping" About; | Concluded - Major | | Thrust Looms j GUAM, June 7~—Lt. Cmdr, Frank- | {1in D. Roosevelt, Jr., arrived at Guam | {today after 78 days at sea in the| Okinawa campaign aboard a des- |troyer escort he skippers. ; “It was a long time,” sald Roose- | | velt, who is returning to the Stawsl for assignment at the Navy War| College. | He said the Okinawa campaign | | was rugged for his small type ship,| |cperating 78 days without stopping |its engines, or twice as long a per- iod as the ship was designed to op- | erate at sea. | | Roosevelt's ship was in an escort| | force covering carriers whose fliers | | “are the unsung heros of Naval avia- Lo . ——— | tion.” | "“Those boys are really fighting the | ,war out there,” declared Roosevelt. | OPEN FIGHT !“All we do is pick them up when they | |80 in the drink.” | Roosevelt has been in the forward | | Pacific area since last October, par-| luctpav.mg in the Luzon, Iwo Jima jand Okinawa invasions. MAFRIS(O&B uT[Efi N Sj X bound for a beachhead somewhere in the Pacific, move in a mighty armada across moonlit waters of the South China Sea for a new blow against Japan, WASHINGTON, June T7.—Presi- dent Truman announced the ap- pointment today of General Omar Bradley as Administrator of Vet- erans Affairs succeeding General American, Russian Differ-j PO e Jr.,, Commander o inving e en(es _No' S_e“|ed (_)n Third Arrrnnya. cal;:'m hrunllke]etoflriuac:ibrllq‘ Free Discussion Topic | welcome today as he landed at the Bedford Army Air facility after a| By John M. Hightower (Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) | Frank T. Hines, resigned. The President also told his news conference that he was appointing s flight from Pari WASHINGTON — President Tru- | ' man said today he expected a meel-' ing of the Big Three would take ! place within the next 40 days. He added, in response to news confer- | ence questions, that he believed the | Syrian question can be worked eut} | without a Big Five meeting such as has been suggested by France. | Navy Lieut. Paul M. Herzog Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board succeeding H. A. Miplis, and John B. Hutson as Undersecretary of Agriculture, suc-| ceeding Grover B. Hill. | The President also announced the appointment of W. Stuart Sy- mington of St. Louis as Chairman of the Surplus Property Board to, succeed former Senator Guy Gil- lette of Iowa, whose resignation is cffective July 25. B g BULLETIN — SAN FRAN- CISCO, June 7.—Russia called today for the second Big Five huddle in as many days but there ‘was no official intima- tion of any Soviet-sponsored break in the deadlock issue over the veto issue. PR, OSLO—King Haakon VII return- SAN FRANCISCO, June 7. — ed to his native soil at noon today, American-Soviet differences over the | five years to the day after he left vight of free discussion in a world | Norway to lead from London his| security council headed today to-, country’s fight against the German | ward an open .fight in the United invaders. The day also was Norway's | No YAI.IA SE(RETS :Nuuuns conference, with the pros- independence day and the date when | ASSERTS CHURCHILL pect that Russia would be defeated.| King Haakon officially became mon- | Fhe Soviet delegation is reported | arch in 1905, | expecting no word from Moscow to change its decision that the Yalta PORTLAND, Ore.—The Methodist LONUUN, June 7.—Prime Min- voting formula gives each of the Church will undertake a mission ister Churchill said today there Big Five powers the right to veto Program in rural areas by using were no secret agreements entered discussion of an international dis-|“dirt farmer ministers,” Dr. Clar- into at Yalta. pute in the council. jence W. Likey, New York, told Churchill's statement in Com- If this is borne aut in official |churchmen here. He is enroute to| mons was made against a back- dispatches from Moscow, the offi-| Alaska. He said lay ministers train-| ground of anxiety here that the cial silence on the controversy which!ed to conduct mission farms now has kzen nursed along by the other being purchased would divide time| powers in the hop2 of preserving between ministerial duties and work- | Big Five unity, may .be broken ing the land. | abruptly in formal statements. | e ; el | That would have the effect of —All metals control re-| speeding up conference work. The | strictions on the mining of gold and | veto issue has jammed important Other metals or minerals have been progress for almost two weeks. | removed, it was announced today The Big Five met late yeslerdgy‘ by the Office of Munitions Minister | but the subject was not discussed.| Howe. [ |Instead the Russian, American, Brn-i i ish, French and Chinese delegation | EDMONTON, Alta—Capt. H. L. |chiefs dealt with relatively minor|Jones of the United States Army | icsues, getting final agreement on a, Postal Service, Northwest Servlcel French amendment designed merely Command, said in an address to me! | big three” leaders had left their last conference in the Crimea with varying interpretations of decisions reached there. { Moscow has insisted repeatedly | that Russia was abiding by the Yalta decisions both as to broad- ening the Polish government at, Warsaw and on every stand taken at - San Francisco. H Aaska Il;(fi;fis Are Granted More Time For Filing Claims to strengthen protection already|Alberta branch of the Canadian proposed under the world charter for | Postmasters Association annual con- treaties against enemy states of.this | vention here todhy tentative plans | W | are being made by the U. 8. Gov-| Assuming that the Russians re-| ernment for the voluntary coloniza- | ject any modification on the veto!tion of portions of Alaska by war issue, the decision which the United, veterans. He said the Alaskan High- | Staies must make already has been Wway must be kept open when it re- | checked to President Truman. It is verts to Candian ownership. | this: Should the, United States/ : | launch a major fight for the prin-| WASHINGTON—The War Pro- ciple of “free discussion” or should duction Board has authorized the !it seek to minimize the disagreement | manufacture of 350,00 washing ma- AR SRR | with Russia, in the interest of keep-, chines during the next three months. | F E B N ‘mg the Big-Power front as united i | GOES TO JOIN as possible. | SAN FRANCISCO—According to - | Japanese broadcasts picked up here from Tokyo, there are indications of a new shake-up in the Japanese WASHINGTON, June 7—Sales of | Mrs. Eileen Frutiger, Government may be in the offing. “E” bonds in the Seventh War Loan | clerk-stenographer in the Sanitary ———————— totaled $2,070,000,000 today or 52| Division of the Territorial Depart-| VERNA CARRIGAN SOUTH per cent of the $4,000,000,000 quota, | ment of Health, left this morning, AT Total individual purchases amount | via Pan American World Airways,| Mrs. Verna Carrigan is a pas- to $4.398,000,000 or 62 per cent of the | for Seattle where she will join her |senger south on the North Sea for $7,000,000,000 quota. husband who has been overseas on‘Se_B"le to spend sometime visiting The drive ends June 30. lan aireraft carrier, |friends and relatives. WASHINGTON, June 7.—Presi- dent Truman has signed a bill per- mitting Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska to file claims in the Court| of Claims. Authority to file such claims under a former act expired yesterday. HUSBAND | former 1 People To Suicide FIREBOMBS, EXPLOSIVES HIT 0SAKA Yanks Capfil‘r; Naha Air- fields-Will Be Used in Next Move on Japs BULLETIN—GUAM, June 7. —End of the Okinawa campaign against 15,000 narcotic-stimu- lated Japanese in less than one week is foreseen today by Maj. Gen. Roy Geiger, Commander of the Third Marine Amphibious Corps. It is disclosed that noth- ing but depe has been found in the caves from which the Japs have been killed or routed. (Associated Press War Editor) Bv Leonard Milliman Some 450 Superforts hit the great Osaka military production centers today with a combined incendlary and high explosive attack as Ameri- can engineers put newly taken Na- ha Airfield on Okinawa in shape for a heightened air offensive to pre- pare the way for the anticipated in- vasion of Japan. % Closing stages of the conquest of Okinawa were neared as four U. 8. Divisions hammered at the Jg nese last ditch battle line, ma: by roughly 15,000 Soldiers surviving out of an original force of 85,00 and now compressed into slightly more than 25 square miles. . Chinese Press On ¥ Chinese , forces 450 miles west of Okipawa engaged retreating Japa- nes2 in the coastal town of Put- ing, 105 miles north of the Chinese- held port city of Foochow and 55 miles from Wenchow, enemy-held port. < British and Indian troops battered down increasing Japanese resistance in their mop-up of Burma, while Yanks made two new amphibious landings in the southern Philippines to speed up the end of the Minda- nao Island campaign. Filipino willingness to support per- manent American armed strength in the Pacific was indieated In a bill placing Philippines manpower and military bases at U. S. disposal, which was prepared for the first wartime session of the Insular Legis- lature opening Saturday. 3-Hour Raid Teday’s three-hour raid on Osaka was the tenth such pawerful strike at major Japanese industrial cities within a month and the second on Osaka, that nation’s most important industrial producer, within a month. High explosive bombs centered on the Osaka arsenal sent Japanese scurrying to air raid shelters before other fire-bombing B-29s startew new blazes burning in the industrial section where more than 11 square miles were blackened in previous strikes. A Japanese communique said that blazes started in the day- light attack were being “steadily brought under eontrol.” Alrdrome Captured Osaka is only 75 miles northeast (Continued on Page Eight) "ON T0 TOYKO" CONFERENCE IS HELD IN MANILA Generals anhur, Stil- well Have Important Meet on Next Move MANILA, June 7.—Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of Army ground forces, has been in Manila conferring with General Douglas MacArthur, commander of all “on to Tokyo” ground forces, MacAr- thur’s headquarters disclosed today. No details were given. ‘There was little doubt that the primary subjects of the conference between the two generals were the next major American amphibious operation in the Pacific and the disposition of the 7,000,000 U. S. ground forces President Truman said will be used to crush Japan.