The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 9, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e YHE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD JUL 18 1945 o VOL. LXV., NO. 9984 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1945 MLMBFR ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SUPERS MAKE NEW RAIDS ON JAP AREAS CHARTER FOR NEW WORLD ABOUT READY United NaiioTsConference Moving to End-Fru- | man fo Make Talk By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER (Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) " SAN FRANCISCO, June 9.—The | United Nations Conference moved a long step nearer completion of a new world charter today with plans‘ for international trusteeships vir»i tually complete and the veto voting ! formula under apparently final de- bate. | With more certainty than they have shown previously most dele- | gates are talking about June 20 as| the windup date on which Presi- dent Truman may address the con- | ference, though some few still held hope for June 15 or 16. Night Session The pressure for gpeed is so grm( | that weary delegates were called ©o | meet tonight in a committee session dealing with the voting formula. Under this formula, the great powers would retain a veto contrel over all major decisions of the proposed World Security Council. 1 Since Russia agreed with the United States, Btitain, China and France Thursday that the veto could | not be used to prevent free discus- sion in the council, it only remains now for the small nations to-express their views on the formula. Al signs indicate they will accept it. Break Ironed Out The break on international trus- teeships came in a three and one- half hour session last night. Russian objections on two pointe involving independence for trusted people and the status of present mandated territories were ironed out before hand. That enabled the conference com- mittee to complete approval of the trusteeship plan except for three or four points held over for further consideration. Most important of | these is the demand of Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippine | delegation that independence should be set up as a possible goal for an‘ colonial peoples as well as for those | governed under trusteeships. Self-Government Britain and France as colonial em- | pires, oppose this, preferring the goal of self-government instead. The United States supports their posi- | tion and Russia and China have accepted it. The trusteeship plan, to cover both old League of Nations man-| dates and territories which may be put under international control after this war—such as islands captured from Japan—is purely voluntary. No territories would come under trus- teeship supervision until the nations i holding them agreed to put them | there. There would be two kinds of trus- teeships — strategic and non-stra- | tegic. This would allow the United | States to develop, under its own un- supervised control, militdry bases on Pacific islands it considers essential to keeping peace in that part of the world. Major Meat Source 0f Inferior Alaska May Close Down FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 9.— ‘Waechter’ Bjrothers, major meat source in interior Alaska, must soon close stores unless exempted from a regulation setting aside 55 per cent of the meat for military use. Henry Waechter explained his firm is not a packing business and cost of, proqucuyz beef at the Yak-' ima ral ‘apd paging packers pro- ; hibits semng over half of his meat at the Government’s ceiling price. - AL S SKY'S THE LIMIT SALT LAKE CITY — Hugh L. Thomas, Price Specialist for the OPA here, was stumped when a woman asked by telephone: “What's the ceiling price on dig- ging up my husband?” She wanted her husband’s body moved to another cemetery and complained $35 was too much “ar\dl I know it shouldn’t cost more than | $15.” ‘Thomas said such service lacked OPA regulation. { wingmen for the battle-wise Amer- CHARGE THROUGH ‘DEATH VALLEY' RIGHT INTO THE HOT LEAD of Jap machine-gun fire on Okinawa, a U. S. Marine races across a draw called “Death Valley.” The =pot earned its name when the Marines sustained 125 casualties there in eight hours of #ighting. Marine Corps photo. (International Soundphoto) RULING IN MAILORDER HOUSE CASE Montgomery, Ward Will Take Issue fo Highest Court in Land CHICAGO, June 9.—The Govern- ment’s court battle with Montgom- ery Ward and Company over seizure nf the mail erder house properties, 'decmed legal by the U, 8. Circuit | Court of Appeals, appeared headed | today to the U. S. Supreme Court for final decision. It was the company’s next move !in the controversy following yester- Merry - Go - ROund day’s ruling by the Court of Appeals { upholding the late President Roose- SRR | velt's December 28 seizure order af- By DREW PEARSON | fecting company properties in seven L. Col. Robert o thch,fow on active | cities. e 2 to 1 decision reversed ‘Fedmal Judge Philip L, Sullivan’s WASHINGTON — President Tru- ' decision which held the seizure un- man had a significant talk recently : constitutional. with labor’s undiplomatic diplomat,! Board Chairman Sewell L. Avery, R. J. Thomas, President of the CIO | brincipal figure in the labor dispute, Auto Workers Union, during which |said the company will carry on its the latter opened up on Truman’ s‘fizht to the high court. AIRMEN OF MEXICO ON FRONT LINE WITH FIFTH U. S. AIR FORCE, Philippines, June 3.—(Delayed)— Mexican airmen received combat baptism against the Japanees today in a sharp assault on the Aratao sector of Luzon Island’s Cagayan | Valley. Twenty fighters of the 201st Mexi- | can Fightre Squadron bombed and | strafed tanks and trucks against antiaireraft opposition in supporting ground operations. They all flew as ican 58th Fighter Grouu The Washlngton appointment of Judge Lewis' Avery, who%.as maintained that Schwellenbach as - Secretary of | the government’s taking over of the | Labor. | properties was illegal, asserted that that, Mr,| the Appeals Court decision “means President,” Thomas said. “I under- | the closed shop. Certainly Congress stand Schwellenbach is. Dave has passed no law mfe“ded to im- Beck’s man.” (Beck is head of | Pose the closed shop. i the Teamsters Union in Seattle| Yesterday’s majority opinion by and a powerful AFL leader.) ;Supenor Judge Eva A. Evans and “Don’t you worry about Schwel- qu:rg;s ?s"gnggzm;ns::”:m;:?f lenbach’s representing anybodyd but‘mm Th oPPORMAR: (il aalenre’ e g P t. | ":n Dnshntw]‘:‘x\;ck in(h?n l::;‘bfr?et company said it was not engaged 3;{ ior Sne. IL b dgesn‘t hent | in Wal' production and was not sub- Fpease 53 - “ | ject to regulations of the War Labor go out on his ear. “Well,” replied Thomas, “I just| Disputes Act AC‘ wanted to make sure that the A.| F. of L. isn’t running the country.” “No one, from either the A. F. of L. or the CIO or the National Association of Manufacturers — or| even the Auto Workers Union— going to tell me how to run thn coumr\. was Truman’s quick re- - OF RESERVES sioned appeal to the President for swift action on the reconversion! wwWASHINGTON, June 9.—The front. He pointed out that tens of Aymy plans a postwar reserve officer thousands of auto and aircraft force of 400,000, four times the pre- workers are being fired daily. |war number and sufficient to staff| “My boys aren’t going to stand an army of 4,000,000 men. for much of that, Mr. President,”| Brig. Gen. E. A. Evans, Secrefary said Thomas. “They're going to of the Reserve Officers Association, “I'm worried about RECONVERSION MESS Thomas then made an impas- blame you and the Administration disclosed the plan in an interview.| ‘undess something’s done in a|He revealed that an army poll show- hurry.” |ed that at least 450,000 officers now “I realize that,” Truman replied. iin the army are willing to accept “But you've got to remember that ! reserve commissions after the war. no man ever came to the White | --a> NEITZERT IN JUNEAU House at a more unfortunate time, | Glen H Neitzert, of Gustavus, is guest at the Gasineau Hotel. (Continued on Page Four) 1;1 GERMANYTO BE STRIPPED, WARPLANTS Industries Making Muni- tions, Etc., Are fo Be Destroyed SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY/ FORCE, PARIS, June 9.—Germany will be stripped of various indus- tries to destroy her future war po= tential, through one of the prin- | cipal functions of the reparations program, Ambassador Edwin W.! Pauley, President Truman's per- sonal representative on the Allied Repartions Commission, announced today. | Pauley said it was the view of | { the United States that any German industries of a war nature which | I could not be removed should bel . destroyed. “We do not want another war to take place,” Pauley said, and we ' ar® anxious to see that type of| equipment taken out of Germany,, even though we don't want it our- | selves.” Pauley heads the American dele- gation enroute to the initial rep-! arations conference to be held in| Moscow under plans laid down nl the Yalta Conference. GLIDER TO RESCUE 3 INJUNGLE Plans Mada Bring Sur- -vivors of Wrecked Plane from‘ Shangri-La HOLLANDIA, Dutch New Guinea, June 9. — A glider expert who knows the jungle and its strange tribesmen acted as aerial advisor today while paratroopers in the “hidden valley of Shangri-la” pre- pared a dramatic rescue. The expert, Michael J. Leahy, a Royal Australian Air Force squad- ron leader, probably will land the glider and remove the WAC and two Army airmen who survived a transport crash 28 days ago which killed a score of other Army sight- seers. Watched by giant, spear-armed natives, the paratroopers labored on the swampy strip in the fantas- tic valley 150 miles southwest of Hollandia. The paratroopers had brought the natives their first con- tact with the world outside. Nearby are the red and white pyramidal Army tents which house the surviving trio, two medical technicians, eight paratroopers and Capt. Cecil A. Walters, a native of Oregon, who has spent most of his Qf] ve'erans Ald Pfo- life in the Philippines. Walters . | is the ground director. gfam BefO[e HOIlday i The men parachuted to attend Bk | the survivors and build the field WASHINGTON, June 9. — Rpp‘I where the glider will be sent in, pankin (D.-Miss.) put a crimp in ' then jerked into the air by a grab- | gouse plans for a summer vacation | hook of a low-flying C-47. today by declaring he will fight a | The trio of survivors—WAC Cpl. recess until Congress acts on a Margaret Hastings, Oswego, N. Y., yeterans’ aid program. | Lt. John B. McCollum, Trenton, Informal recesses frequently are | Mo.; and Sgt. Kenneth W. Decker, taken by unanimous consent. Ob- | Kelso, Wash.—are being treated for jection by the Missis: ppian, Chair- DEAD, BELIEF - OF MARSHAL Zhukov Stil Thinks Former | ' Fuehrer Hiding Some- | where in Europe | LONDON, June 9.—Marshal Zhu- | . an NBC broadcast from Moscow | 1d today, believes that Adolf Hitler | s hiding in Europe, possibly in! Spain, and it is up to American and | British troops to find him. The Russian war leader also said | Hitler had married Eva Braun two days before Berlin fell. Correspondent - Robert Magidoff quoted Zhukov as telling correspon-| dents in Berlin: | Marshal Zhukov said that his troops found a number of corpses which might have been Hitler’s, but he doubts it. Hitler probably wait- ed until the last moment and then took off in a plane that was osten-| sibly held in constant readiness. “And I think,” said the Marshal, that Hitler is hiding somewhere in Europe, possibly with Gen. Franco.! And now it’s up to you British and ' Americans to Hnd hxm WILL OPPOSE ANY RECESS OF CONGRESS Rankin fo Insist on Action' | injuries by parachuted medical sup- ' man of the Veterans' Committee, | plies and are in good condition. could block them indefinitely. 1 recess plan with a care-for-vet- SHAVE“ HEADED erans mgument, This would put = members in the uncomfortable posi- | “Ippo“ woMEN erans’ benefits if they vote for a | recess. | DIVORCED BUT | | NEAR DAVAOQ, June 9—Shaven- ; headed Japanese women armed with | spears and other makeshift weapons LOS ANGELES , June 9.—Judy perate enemy resistance in this area, Garland, who obtained a final di- | two Filipino guerrillas reported to- >~ ree decree yesterday from Musi- Their report, being evaluated by Will marry Film Director Vincente division officers, bears out growing |Minelli in the fall. evidence that Japancse civilians! The film actress and singer mar-| N o, o ety Rankin emphasized he will block tion of appearing to oppose vcl,-; | WITH THE 24TH DIVISION TO WED AGAIN, are fighting alongside men in des- day. | cian David Rose, announced that she evacuated from Davao City are|'ied Rose in Las Vegas, Nev., in 1941 willingly or unwillingly. | Raye. ANTI-SNIPER DR IVE — Members of a Marine tank crew watch smoke rise from a thate).ed hul on Oklnswn as flame-throwers turn lhelr weapons azainst Japanese snipers, ‘im the Borneo area. fH ".ER NOT +Sweeps’ Mermaid DRAFT PlAN VIVACIOUS Betty Schisler has been chosen by crews of U. S. mine- sweepers as their favorite mermaid —the girl they’d most like to sween off her feet. She’s a war worker in Peoria, I11. (International) BUllETINS WASHINGTON—In the Senate backers of the Administration are hard at work trying to round up absent Senators for a showdown votc Monday on Price Controi extension KANSAS CITY—To celebrate the 45th anniversary of his ordination | to the priesthood, Msgr. John W. Keyes has set up a $30,000 fund to encourage young married couples to have families. GUAM—On Okinawa, Tenth Army troops have opened a flame-thrower |attack on southern Jap defenses. | Naval and artillery shells paved the | way for the assault on the last- ditch enemy defense line. LONDON—The British Treasury ‘announced today it would pay four | shillings and three pence more bl ounce for gold in the sterling area, explaining that shipping risk had been “substantially reduced.” LONDON — The Yugoslav News | Agency announced today that a military agpeement on the provis- ional administration of Trieste had beén signed in_ Belgrade by Amer-| British and Yugoslav repre- | ican, sentatives, CHU VGKIV(}—-ThE Ministry dollars per ounce today. This is the second increase within 10 weeks. NEW YORK — Tokyo has an- nounced n...t all German diplomatic | organizations in Japan and East | | Asia have been dissolved. A British | "broadcast relays the Tokyo an-| nouncement which states that all) German property in the Jap-con- trolled Orient now will be under Japanese custody. — et MR., MRS. BONAT HERE Mr. and Mss. Charles Bonat, of! actively aiding enemy forces—either | [01loWing his divorce from Mariha Gustavus, are guests af the Hotel | eve! | Juneau. of | Finance inereased m; official price | | of gold from 35,000 to 40,000 Chincse NIPS GIVEN - NEW TOUCH OF ATTACK Small War Planls Bombed | -New Invasion Repori- ed-Suicide Charges ! By LEONARD MILLIMAN (Associated Press War Editor) Japan's Parliament met in an un- heralded emergency wartime session today amid reports of new Allled | invasions, breakthroughs and Super- | fort devastation. | The dismal picture confronting Nippons’ legislators included: 1. A division of Allied troops, ! probably Australian, was reported by | Tokyo radio to be landing on iua- buan Islands in the second invasion 2. Chinese broke through to the | Indo-China border, threatening o drive into the formerly French-gov- em?d country which was one of Japan's easiest conquests. ' 3. Between 100 and 150 Super- forts unloaded explosives on aireraft plants in three Japanese towng as broadcasts admitted 1,780,000 have been left homeless by fire raids on Tokyo. Yokohama and Nagoya. § Signs of demoralization and sslhle mutiny were sgen among the Emperor’s troops in the louth- ern Philippines. 5. U. 8. Marines and infantry- men, supported by intense air, ar tillery and naval bombardmerits, . 1S PROPOSED - T0 CONGRESS *: ‘Compulsory P‘eatehme Program for Tria Period _ of Five Years GIVen Giinawa sarrison airesdy sompress. 0 e Years uive giuw dgmnmmm v WASHINGTON, June 9.~A com- square mile areas. pulsory peacetime draft program Claim Warships Sunk for a trial period of five years was The only cheering report for the recommended to Congress today Mikado's rubber-stamping parlia- by Edward C. Elliott, President of mentarians came from Okinawa Purdue University. where Tokyo claimed three U. 8. One of the few educators to sup- first line warships were sunk and port universal military training five damaged in Kamikaze (suicide) proposals during an entire week of Air attacks Wednesday and Thurs- public hearings, Elliott told the day. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an- House Post-War Military Policy hounced 67 raiders were shot down. Committee. He said they damagéd two small “The happenings of the present, U- S. vessels, making 25 ships sunk day by day, afford little encour- and 60 damaged in the entire Olun- agement for the removal of the 3Wa operation. stresses and strains of war con- Tokyo said assault troops benn tditions during the years immediate- !8nding Friday on Labuan Island, 15, ahead. 100 miles across Borneo from Tara- “For the moment,” he said, “I kan, which Australian and Dutch have the conviction that this na- troops invaded May 1. The uncon- iion must face the grim and real- firmed broadcasts said the invaders istic fact that conditions approxi- Came from 50 ships supported by an mating an enduring peace in the unspecified number of cruisers and world are beyond early attainment destroyers which began shelling La- . buan Thursday. —human nature being what it is; the governments and the moralities TApnAn N RH. aptiiwest Sormu) of nations being what they are, and at the él;'!lrnnce“t: Brunel Bay. are likely to remain for years to§ In th nes kedC-pture & Reade’ | In their southward thrust down Tk s (e SRR the Indo-China corridor, Chinese troops captured the important high- dreaming and doing for peace. "‘wny tow nof Szelo and pressed on the same time,” he cautioned, “we Chungchingfu on the border. have the solemn and continuing —moqay's unescorted B-29 raids ful- | obligation of being fully prepared ' ineq Tokyo's expectations that the to protect all that which is ours 10 g4tq0ks would be extended to small | protect.” towns. Targets include a major X = T naval fighter plane plant at Naruo, a town of less than 5,000; the Kawa- saki aircraft plant at shi which was 38 per cept knogked out last ; Tokyo radio’s report’ that 1,790, 000 persons have been burned out of nearly 500,000 hups in Tokyo, Yo- l ikohnmn and Nagoya represented a January; and a former watch fac- tory at Nagoya which was converted to making aircraft engine plants. All three cities gre on the south- west coast of Honshu, main island of Japan. 4 : LONDON, June 9—Britain moved | slight reduction from jgrevious fig- | virtually her entire gold supply | Ures. from this island in the greatest| Premier Kap gamble in financial history when a | the Diet (Par] a' People were rebuilding underground ro Suzuki informed ment) that these |German invasion threatened, | Bank of England spokesman said | and that his government planned to today. fight the war ouf to the last. Every type of ship, from tramps - |to luxury liners, some running n | through U-boat infested waters| H.I.Is l'"E ' s | unescorted, carried the gold to SIX HERE ON FRIDAY Ellis Airlines brought six incom- |ing passengers yesterday to Juneau from Ketchikan and Petersburg. From Ketchikan: Joseph Alexan- der, Bob Fenning, Norman Stines, Fred Geeslin and J. R. Evers. secret hiding places in the - far | parts of the earth. | Movements during the entire war |from England and South Africa amounted roughly to $4,000,000,000 | worth of gold, with losses totaling 'hardly more than $20,000,000. Some of the lost gold was later | recovered after treasure-laden ships| From Petersburg: V. G. Samson. sank, Outgoing passengers’ Wwere: John Stores of gold were concentrated |Berion and Roy Anderson were flown An naval bases and other strategic to Ketchikan and Marjorie Stewart | spots throughout the world—a tes-|to Wrangell. “umonml that Prime Minister —————— Churchill meant what he said when MEACOCK IN TOWN he asserted Britain would fight on —— n though the home islands fell] George Meacock, of Haines, is a jto the Nazis. guest at the Hotel Juneau.