The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 8, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 9983 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD JUL 181945 —— po— PRICE TEN CENTS JAP BASES STRAFED BY CARRIER PLANES Conference Deadlock Is Broken By Russia SOVIETS REVERSE "~ POSITION Stalin Acts in Interest of Unanimity-Cheering News Applauded (Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) | By John M. Hightower | SAN FRANCISCO, June 8—Small, naticn acceptance of a Big Five veto| voting formula for a world security; council today appeared certain. A successful end of the United Na-| tions conference is in sight. | Russia’s dramatic acceptance of a statement that the Big-Power veto‘ could not be used to block dis-! cussion of any case presented to the council broke a- week-old deadlock| late yesterday and put the confer-| ence over the hill. Ten days to two weeks more of committee work and speech-making remain to get the United Nations| charter in final shape for signing,| but no more major issues are on the horizon. | | | | | GET OUT OR FIGHT, ARABS TELL FRANCE Blame for ”A_-ssassinaiion,‘ Destruction” Put on French Aggression CAIRO, June 8—The Council of the Arab League has informed France in blunt terms that the Arab States will meet force with| force in the Levant, and has told the French to get their troops out of Syria and Lebanon immediately. | A communique of the council, which has been considering the Lev- | antine crisis, announced last night that measur were being put into effect “to resist French aggl‘essinn."‘ and laid the blame for sina- tion, destruction and other losses which occurred in both countries”| directly on France, whose troops, it| said, attacked Syria. Supporting the demand of Syria| and Lebanon for “immediate evac- uation of French troops,” the com- munique said retention of French| PATION WANTS | 0 FIGHT NIPS BUT DOUBTFUL Gun-foting Tank Leader Heads for Pacific Coast fo See His Sister BOSTON, June 8.—Stirred by the | cheers of a million people, colorful, gun-toting General George S. Pat- 1,584 NIPPON PLANES ARE KNOCKED OUT Fifth Bomber Command. Also Sinks 518,000 Tons of Shipping WASHINGTON, June 8. — The the Pacific Coast. The swashbuck- War Department announced today ling head of the invincible Third that the Fifth Bomber Command Army told newsmen last night that of the Far East Air Forces destroy- “I sincerely hope I fight the Jap-' or damaged 1584 Japanese anese.” planes and more than 518,000 tons “My ambition,” he said in an in- of shipping during 1944. The Fifth terview, “is to get to the Pacific, Bomber Command lost 358 planes. but it may not be fulfilled.” It is explained that the Com- The four-star general talked mand’s heavy, medium and light briefly with newsmen after one of| bombers smashed at Japan’s island the most tumultuous receptions in defenses and hammered supply the city’s history. Patton said he lines between Tokyo and the Dutch hoped to get a week or ten day| East Indies. leave which he would like to spend {ton, Jr., planned today to fly to} BRADLEYT) - TAKE OVER VETS WORK OiherAppoi_m_n_ientsWhichi Recognize West An- By RALPH MORTON | The hidden valley was discovered | noun(ed by Truman { HOLLANDIA, Dutch New Guinea, | gccidentally in the spring of 1044/ June: 5.—(Delayed) —A wartime air| whjle an aerial survey was being tragedy has unlocked in dramatic’ ;maqe of shorter routes by which to fashion the mysterious “Hidden Val-| pring supplies from Australia to ley of Shangri-la.” ‘Hollandm. Pax'atrpopers—the first men from| 1, an unexplored sector, the vicin- the outside world to invade the ‘SU';xty of the valley was approached| lated bome of six-foot, spear wield- ' gsome years ago by a ground expedl-{ ing tribesmen—are building a ghder‘ tion but never entered. 2 |field in the valley, 150 miles south-| The native homes in the walled tration. General Bradley, 52 year west of Hollandia, to rescue & 30- communities appear from the air as 0ld commander of the mammoth year-old WAC and two Army air- mushrooms. They have thatched 12th Army Group in Europe, is from men. roofs set upon poles. Moberly, Mo. ; (A dispatech today, June 8, from! The farmlands are neatly laid out' He will succeed Brig. Gen. Frank Manila by Associated Press Corres- for many square miles, There Is| T. Hines, retired, who is resigning pondent Dean Schedler, said the yow upon row of water-filled ditches. "Hidden Valley of Shangri-La" Found As Result of Air Tragedy; 21 Killed WASHINGTON, June 8—President | Truman has called on a Four-Star General of World War II—Omar N.| Bradley—to look after the affairs of | veterans of all wars. And by so doing, he accented once more his inclination to pick West-| erners for key jobs in his adminis- FINAL DRIVE ONOKINAWA BEING MADE Surviving Japanese Split Into Two Units-Many Ships Sent Down By LEONARD MILLIMAN (Associated Press War Editor) Japan appeared today to be on the verge of abandoning all semblance of parliamentary rule in a drastic effort to cope with intensitying American air raids, expected to reach a new crescendo with the impending fall of Okinawa where 66324 of the Emperor's soldiers have been killed. The Stars and Stripes, it is expected, will soon be flying over all of Okinawa. The Fifth is commanded by Brig- adier-General J. V. Crabb under General George Kenney, command- ing general of the Far East Air Forces. with his sister in Los Angeles. “There is a little church out there where I was baptized and confirmed,” he said. “God has} been very good to me and I'd like take another but undisclosed rescue still had not been effected, post offered him by the President. but the survivors were “safe and Other Appointments {living comfortably.") { The West and Midwest retained, The trio age the only survivors itheir share of other Presidential ap- among 24 Army personnel in n,: The natives practice crop rotation. Pilots report having seen “boars as big as donkeys.” The only gorge which could have formed an entrance to the valley | to go there to give thanks to Him.” pointments made public yesterday transport plane which crashed into j5 cut off by a mountain wall run-| i | Avpproximately 200 carrier planes | strafed and bombed suicide air bases on southern Japan, Tokyo reported, in quick followup of raids from Okinawa Wednesady and Thursday. Smoke Billows High Y {at another of the new Chief Execu- the four-by-25-mile jungle-sur-| | Crowds lined the parade route {tive's “hot copy” news conferences. rounded valley's Aranje mountain Smcke billowed five miles above. ning at direct cross angles. | Superfort-blasted Osaka as U, S. Deadlock Broken |soldiers in the two countries “is con- | 1t took the combined efforts oftradictory to the rights, sovereignty | !from Bedford Airport to Boston |and a vast multitude heard him |speak briefly from the Hatch Shell CASUALTIES | Women Are They included: - wall 24 days ago during a sight- John B. Hutson, of Kentucky, to seeing trip. | communiques announced air strikes | sank 15 more Nipponese ships from Premier Stalin, Harry Hopkins, who | was then in Moscow, and Secretary! of State Stettinius, who ‘acted with| President Truman’s. approval, to' break the deadlock. Hopkins, on in-| structions from Stettinius, asked| Stalin to reconsider Soviet insis-| tence that any of the Big Five could| veto even discussion in the peace- enforcement council of an interna- tional dispute. The other four ma-| jor powers did not want a single veto to block round-table talk. | Stalin reversed the Soviet position, | acting, according to his spokeman | here, in the interest of unammityf and to speed the conference to suc-i cess. | = | (Continued on Page Two) B The Washington Merry - Go- Boundi | By DREW PEARSON | Col.” Robert S. Allen now on active | service with the Army.) Lt. WASHINGTON—Despite all the‘[ ballyhoo about gradiose plans for; the trial of war criminals, the real: fact is that as of this writing not! and independence which have been | acknowledged in both countries,” | and would cause “permenent tension in the relations of France and the Arab Republics.” This tension, it added, “extends to the rest of the Arab country, thus embarrassing the | war effort against Japan.” (The communique was issued al short time after the French govern- ment, in a diplomatic counter-move | seen as embarrassing to Britain, | formally invited the governments of |} 419 o490 today, an increase of 9,162 Were born. the United States, Russia and China to participate with France in a five- | \be Undersecretary of Agriculture, and W. Siuart Symington, of St. | Louis, to be Chairman of the Surplus | Froperty Bodrd. lon the Charles River Esplanade before he attended a state dinner. | IN (o M B AI | At the dinner the General praised | - _‘:‘:03‘;2:::;5 ;?;erm}?inelnufi?fdsgzzz Hutson, now an assistant to War ANNOUN(ED 3 7 Mobilizer Fred M. Vinson, was nam- 'of the men who, regardless of mud, RAL Lt Sia s tas " ed to succced Grover B. Hill, of regardless of ice, egardless of snow, Texas, Who resigned, WASHINGTON, June 8—Army and Navy combat casualties reached !went on and on,” he said. “These > 3 A Another appointment announced men were heroic Amerlcal)s‘nlnd vesterday was that of an Eastern- by God, they are herolc. r, Paul M. Herzog, of New York We should thank God such men it he a member of the Nation- . X al Labor Relations Board to suc- in the past week. | “I can’t say any more,” he added, ccoq H. A. Millis, resigned. The Army total of 895,834 repre- WipIng tears from his eyes. To Write Army Finis To Make Rescue l Eight Filipino Paratroopers and a medical assistant have been para- chuted to effect the rescue. The plan is tobuild the landing site, send in the glider, then jerk it into| the air with a low-flying C-47 by 'means of a grab-line. | ! The trio are in constant contact| with circling planes, using a para-| chuted walkie-talkie. They are in| |good spirits and ask about world | news. | Food and medical supplies are, ¢ |Jn£am n Bur.;::o. LA urviying Japanees on Okinawa Fom w“h were split into two disconnected | strongly entrencl a Jap Soldiers it dve o ke —_— {by the Pifth Marine Division. Even WITH THE TENTH ARMY ON Tokyo admitted the battle was hope- OKINAWA, June 7.—(Delayed)— less and the fall of Okinawa “will Two women were with a group of have a great effect on the entire Japanese killed during an attempt war” to infiltrate Marine lines south of Invasion Feared Naha last night. Their bodies were Japanese have repeatedly express- found with those of seven Nipponese ed fear that an invasion of the - soldiers in front of the Leather- home islands would fdllow conquest neck position. They were armed of Okinawa. power discussion of the middle-easb;semed names reported here through B 2 R SR dropped to them. The natives, while| with hand grenades but did not Bradley will take over the Veter- g,y 4, make friends, have not been carry rifles. Japanese remnants are broken iinto two disconnected forces which question.) i | Rev. Klerkoperof | Barrow Is Outbound POINT BARROW, Alaska, June| 8—Rev. Fred Klerkoper, Arctic missionary, left Point Barrow yes- terday after eight years' service as representative of the Presbyterian | Board of Home Missions. | He was accompanied by his wife and daughter, who was born at Fairbanks last summer. | Klerekoper has made repeated; May 30 and reflected actual fighting thirough the early part of May— presumably up to about the time the war against Germany ended. The Navy casualties amounted to ans' Administration within 30 to 60 |days, after his work as head of the |12th Army Group has been wound jup. He visited the White House |after the appointment was announ- hostile. | Funeral Services | An odd funeral service, with Catholic and Protestant rites observ- BULLETINS ifighting in the Pacific. MOSCOW — Harry S. Hopkins representative of President Truman, and Mrs. Hopkins left Moscow today | by plane. 116,215, a rise of 3,347 in the last week, indicating the more intense |ced yesterday and said he would re- turn to his home in Missouri before going back to Germany to write finis to a gailant record of combat ... |leadership. WASHINGTON—naval and mili- e — | l‘ Al DRAFT | As head of the 12th Army Group, | tary academies for women would be | pragley had the biggest field com- established under legislation intro- yang in American history — three duced by Rep. Fulton (R.-Pa). !armies comprising a million men. T i o STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 8 — Closing ! ROME — Prime Minister Ivanoe ! Bonomi, whose resignation has been | expected, acceded today to a request |of the Council of Ministers, and agreed to remain in office until the BOARD LISTS ed 11,000 feet above the wreckage in a circling aircraft, has been held rur' the dead. Twenty crosses and a; star of David for a Jewish victim/ were dropped. | | The surviving trio: | WAC Cpl. Margaret Hastings, Os-| wego, New York. 1 Lt. John B. McCollom, Trenton,| Missouri. | Sgt. Kenneth W. Becker, Kelso,! Washington. | 21 Killed in Crash ! | 'The C-47, in which 21 others were | 'killed, crashed about 3 p. m. May 13, Officers of the Third Amphibious Marine commanders said may be of Marine Corps said, however, this about equal strength — both well is one of the few instances where armed with automatic weapons and women were found with Japanese determined to hang onto the hills soldiers. they still hold until they are killed. TR 106 3 N TN | The First Marine Division slash- }mg 900 yards to the west, came | within 300 yards of the coast below SALARY HIKE Naha airfield, Above this point | Sixth Division Marines were driving | into the northern pocket over rough ;ground in the face of heavy fire, | including antiaircraft guns. 1 Hammering Process BY ( ON GRE S S} The 96th Infantry Division, led by tanks, and the Seventh Army Division on the east, both hammered at the other group of survivors driv- en into the southern coffin corner one Nazi has been listed for trial|trips by sled, snowmobile and plane | by the American section of the War | from Barrow to Canadian territory | Crimu‘(;ommission. for church work. Roh Ahmoagak, The Bj;msh have proposed names, | local Eskimo trained by Klerekoper, The Russians have gone ahead with |is in charge of the Barrow Church an undetermined number. And the|until a replacement arrives. U. S. Army has tried and punished | | KUEHL BACK AGAIN | various Nazis who committed crimes against American soldiers. But not U( Committee of Liberation can choose Of 31 registrants reclassified by a successor. The committee still is| Local Selective Service Board No. 3 deadlocked on a choice. at its meeting this week, nine have | been made available for induction in SEATTLE~-The United States and class 1-A, according to the list re- Canadian flests brought in more leased today. Classifications as an- than 29 million pounds of halibut nounced are: i during May-—the first month of the quotation of Alaska Juneau mine|Against a mountain which rises up ¥ otk today 15 71, American Can 99,|t0 17000 teet. The mountain neips' Senafors Hasfen fo Action on Truman’s Suggestion Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright B’i.im"“ the wall around the fabulous International Harvester 87%, Ken- | valley where an estimated 50,000 to; necott 38, New York Central 23%,‘100,000 natives live in walled com-| g Northern Pacific 31%, U. S. Steel munities, completely shut off from that Raise Needed 68%. Sales today totalled 1,710,000 the world outside by jungle and ‘WASHINGTON, S| | mountain areas largely unexplored.’ shares. & a8 e P June 8—Re- one name so far has been listed by ! the U. S. section of the War| Crimes Commission under U, s.| Supreme Court Justice Robert | Jackson. Furthermore, at a secret meeting| held in Washington a few days ago, Justice Jackson would not be pin- ned down to convietion of any large group of Nazis, such as the gestapo or S8, Elite Guard, before Christmas. He even said he wasn't| sure they were guilty under inter- national law: Heaw ' peculiar’ the whole run- arodnd iregarding the trial of Nagi war criminals is, has just been em-! phasized “in%a confidential report| to #he White House by Herbert! Pell,” former -Minister to Portugal and Hungary and until recently U. S. Chairman of the War Crimes Commission. Mr. Pell reyeals in his report that some State Department officials Bunoz, OMI, who died there re-| did not agree with him that Hit- lerites who beat up and killed in-| nocent victims because of their re- ! ligion should be considered guilty of war crimes. Pell took a vigorous| stand on this, and eventually hi: differences with the State Depart-. ment caused him to be euchred! out of the War Crimes Commission. | His confidential White House re- | port dated May 23, 1945, rollows:“is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. |Magnusson, new Chief Biologist PELL . “Late in June, 1943, I was ap- pointed American member of the War Crimes Commission by Presi- (Continued on Page Four) S, SECRET REPORT i FROM GLACIER BAY Alfred Kuehl, landscape architect|A. Haugen, sStanwood P. Whiteley, pounds. 1-A—Martin J. Feist, Clarence W, flshi_ng season. The International Dow, Jones averages today are Stevenson, Merle F. Rhodes, John H. Fisheries Commission says United as follows: Industrials, 166.83; rails, Williams, Marcelo A. Quinto, Einar States boats caught over 12 million 59.46; utilities, 31.86. Apparently warring on each other, ! the walled communities keep sentin- els atop tall posts. They till the for the National Park Service, was|Norvin M. Gillispie, Frank E. Olson. | tertile valley intensively, terrace the ;moumaln slopes and raise enormous | {sponding immediately to President :is underpaid, two Senators hastened today to introduce legislation hiking the lawmakers’ compensation from {Truman’s suggestion that Congress |tend the funeral of Bishop Emill | back in Juneau today after com- pleting another development survey | of the Glacier Bay region to de-| termine its post-war potentialities. Mr. Kuehl returned to Juneau| aboard the Coast Guard vessel| CG50047, which served as his base of operation while in Glacier Bay. Mr. Kuehl reported that many i uncharted waters were traversed and more prospects for development | were uncovered—some - of them uite spectacular. | ———————— BISHOP FITZGERALD DUE Catholic Bishop of Alaska Walter J. Fitzgerald, who flew to Prince Rupert, B. C. last Monday to at- cently, is expected back in Juneau| soon. | ———————— MRS. RINGSTAD IN TOWN Mrs. George Ringstad, of Peters- urg, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. - ee— ANDERSEN HERE Howard P. Andersen, of Skagway, | i el Ralph L{ Upright,.of Tacoma, is| WASHINGTON—The House voted To opE“ SHlp ! tentatively today to cut off all funds | (HA lERv FOR 1-C (Ind)—Donald E. McLane, Richard H. Kirschner, Irwin G. ‘Wakefield, Joseph J. Renggli. from the Office of Economic Stab- 2-B—Lynes H. Seevers, Arthur G. ! lunge northward in the Philippines | carried the U. S. 37th Division | {Jahoda, Adolph P. Peterson. Jensen, Joseph M. Molloy, Ludwig, C. Baggen, Francisco C. Manliguis, | into Baycmbong, Japanese supply | Frank Chinella, Robert W. Mitchell,' base in Luzoh Island's fertile Ca-| Stephen M. Bella. | Bayan Valley. The first Nipponese | 4-A—Henry S. Sully, Edward J. flame-throw§ng tanks encountered | in the Southwest Pacific were knock- | 4-F—Alvin P. Noren, James Mc-|ed out on the way. Donald, Peter C. Warner. | CHUNGKING—Chinese extended | HE““I“G Rnu“s their grasp today on Souih China’s| FROM §. E. A. TRIP Deceased—Elmer Jackson. ilization. . 2-A—Carson A. Lawrence, Wayne | ¢ E L. Thompson, Ralph L. Potter. MANILA — A sudden seven-mile ju“uu IR ADE 1hogs. | Wreckage Spotted May 16 the wreckage was spotted Ihigh on the mountain wall and the |two men and the woman could be 1scen alive near the burned fuselage. They were suffering from slight! {burns and shock. . Lieut. McCollom said the explosion $10,000 to $20,000 a year. ‘The bill, sponsored by Senators |Overton (D-La.) and Bridges (R- |NH), also would boost the Vice- | President from $15,000 to $25,000, | of Okinawa. | “The Okinawa fighting was never !intended to decide the fate of our {nation,” Tokyo. broadcast. Simul- | taneously, it claimed 60,000 Amer- |icans have been killed and 566 U. !S. vessels sunk in the campaign. American figures list 26,677 ground casualties, 25 vessels sunk and 58 damaged. Two B-20s were lost in the heav- ily escorted attack yesterday on Osaka and dts important arsenal. { Superforts have been busy recon- noitering new targets, Tokyo said, and last night laid mines along the | Inland Sea.’ to $20,000. The Speaker of the { House and the President pro tempore — e and the cabinet officers from $15,000! New Juneau residents are Mr. and Mrs. M. N. Paredes, formerly of ‘ and bright glare of the burning plane Seattle, who arrived here recently|attracted natives from the valley. t to establish a home and, a ship! Most of the natives, once thought chandlery and boat repair head-|possibly to be head-hunters, remain quarters. aloof but officers believe they will Veteran of 27 years in the United! not attempt to harm the Americans. States Navy, Paredes has just retired| “I am fine and enjoying it all” from service. He was a warrant said WAC Hastings in a clear firm officer in charge of ship repairs and | voice over the walkie-talkie. damage control. i lof the Senate, now drawing $15,000,| would make $25,000 of the bill be- came a law. The Legislators have a verbal guarantee from Mr. Truman, too, that he would sign such a bill. He told his news conference yesterday that he knew from his 10 years ex- | perience as a Senator that it was fu-| tile to try to get along on $10,000 in Washington. The 100-pound Corporal wore reg- He has built boats and in past Indo-China corridor which an Army : spokesman said had isolated about| 200,000 Japanees in Burma, Thai-| land, Indo-China and Malaya. | years competed in coastwide out- Robert A. Henning, Acting Secre- |board competition. His firm will tary of the Alaska Development | OAKLAND, Calif. — A six-alarm |represent Joe's Reverse and reduc- Board, has returned from a brief fire in an Army warehouse sent ton gears and sell and service Na- trip to Petersburg, Wrangell and!smoke towering hundreds of feet into tional Loadmaster engines, many- Ketchikan, on which he accompan- | the air today and destroyed consid- | factured by Pacific Marine Engine ied Walter Donovan, marketing ex- | erable military food supplies, omcvrxico-. of Seattle. pert from the Fish and Wildlife Ser- vice who is werking this summer with the Development Board. Mr. Henning reported that Charles said, before it was extinguished., | Three or four men were reported | home either in Juneau or on the injured. ‘Ohcler- Highway and also for a | ’blulness site. They are temporarily CHUNGKING—The U. S. 14th|at the Baranof Hotel. —— . , RASMUSSEN VISITS from the F&WL officé, has arrived|Air Force, breaking up the enemy’s | at Ketchikan to take over direction, communication lines through China, | a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. e, —— /M. G. Sucrow, of Ketchikan, .is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. of the Experimental Fisheries Lab- | wrecked eight locomotives, 60 rail- | oratory there from Lyle Anderson, cars, five bridges and 60 rive who recently announced his resigna- craft in addition to supporting the tion. A ground offensive, J. R. Rasmussen, of Seattle, has arrived in Juneau and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. The Paredes are looking for a! | Rites Over Site | On May 26, the funeral service | plane took off from Hollandia and arrived over the crash site just as the setting sun slanted its rays | against the perpengdicular mountain walls. unto Thee, oh Lord," intoned Col. August Geardard, Catholic priest, of Milwaukee, Wis. | Lt. Col. Carl Ohio, conducted Protestant service. One of the fliers over Shangri-la describe it as a richer farming aréea than any part of the United States or Canada. Mellberg, the Dayton, 19-minute | ulation WAC slacks. § CONVICTED IN RAPE SLAYING SEATTLE, June 8.—Deliberating ' The salaries of member of Con-|less than four hours, a jury of six gress stood at $5,000 a year unullwomen and six men yesterday found 1907, when they were boosted. to Joe Bill, 33, Alaska.Eskimo, guilty $7500. The increase from $7,500 of first degree murder in the sex- “Out of the depth have I cried to $10,000 came in 1925. AR i SR ADVANCEMENT Ronald A. Jydstrup, USCG, a member of the personnel of the Captain of the Port orgnnmtion‘ here, has been advanced in rating from Pharmacists mate 2/c to first class. e BURLOVICH HERE Rudy R. Burlovich, of Los An- geles, Calif., is o guest at the Bar-|Mich,, is & , fnof Hotel. claying of five-year-old Irma Irene McCough April 22. The jury recommended the death penalty. Under Washington State law, Superior Judge Clay Allen must follow the recommendation. Bill, who has remained impassive llhrou(houz the trial, showed no Icmoucn at the verdict. — e - — BEATRICE HOFGAARD HERE Beatrice C. Hofgaard, of Pontlac, guest at the Gastineau Hotel. A [-1 S——