The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 11, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SERIAL RECORD JUL 181945 S0P, - WY VOL. LXV., NO. 9985 PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1945 U.S. RAIDERS HIT JAPAN MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS —_ | FOR FIFTH DAY Big Sum Asked For Army TRUMAN PUTS HIS REQUEST 10 CONGRESS Military BuEg—a Presented; -To Accelerate Atfack - | on Nippon Empire | WASHINGTON, June 11.—Presi- dent Truman asked Congress today to provide the Army with $39,019,- 790,474 to finance the accelerated at- tack on Japan. He transmitted the military bud- get for the fiscal year, beginning July 1, calling for new appropria- tions of $21,963,093,400, the reappro- priation of unobligated balances from prior appropriations totaling $8,818,195,574, and estimated re-| | | coveries from contract cutbacks and | terminations totaling $8,238,501,500. The total program, a White House statement said, represents a reduc- tien from a preliminary estimate of $45,500,000,000 which was included in the regular budget submitted by former President Roosevelt last Jan- | uary, contemplating continuance of the war on the European front. The White House noted that 2,182,000 men will be discharged from the Army during the coming iiscal year and approximately 1,000,000 will enter it for the first time. “The budget not only contem- plates financing the war against‘ Japan throughout the fiscal year,” i was stated, “but it provides funds | ior munitions and equipment to be delivered through December 31, 1945. Heavier types of aircraft are financed through June, 1947. In-| cluded is approximately one billion | dollars for international air require- | ments (military lend-lease) and for| relief of civilians in areas occupied | > — | The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) Lt (Note—Today, Drew Pearson awards the Brass Ring—good for one free ride on the Wash- ington Merry-Go-Round — to Tom Clark, new Attorney Gen- eral of the United States.) WASHINGTON When Tom Clark was called to the White House and told by President Tru- man that he was to be the next Attorney General, he was so sur- prised that he started to walk out one of the big French windows in the Executive Office. “I guess you're a little flustered,” | laughed Truman, “the door's over there.” Only 46 years old, Clark had been planning to step out of the Justice Department for more than a year and go back to Dallas, his home town, to practice law. His elder pbrother was killed in an airplane crash and the family wanted Tom to come home to carry on the family law firm. But, through some whim of fate, he stayed on in the Justice De- partment. However, he was plann- ing to retire this summer, had even picked a new law associate to | handle a branch office in Washing- | ton, when suddenly he got the sur-| prise call from the White House. g % ® LONG LINE OF LAWYERS; Of-, the four Cabinet appoint- ments * Truman® has made, public attention ' Unquestionably has fo- cused more on this than any other.; The new Attorney General happens to come from a long line of law- yers beginning with his great grandfather, William H. Clark, Solicitor of the British Government of Ireland, who came to this (Continued on Page Four) ————————— BAKER AND WIFE HERE L. W. Baker, Vice-President and General ~Manager of the Alaska Steamship’ Company, and Mrs. Baker have arrived from Seattle NEWS ABOUT POLISH ISSUE 5 They're Stork Club Orchid Ten shapely beauties were named to the Stork Club Orchids to enact screen roles in a Hollywood movie about the New York night club. Left to right, frem rew: Joan Martin, Pheoenix, Ariz.; Vivian Mason, Seattle; Renee Randall, Portland, Ore.; Georgia McCready, Los Angeles; Center: Marie Icide, Carterville, Ill.; Audrey Westphall, Buffale, N. Y. Rear: Alvena Tomin, Washington, D. C.; Miriam Vance, Los Angeles; Audrey Korn, Chicago and Beverly Thomson, Des Moines, Ia. (AP Wirephoto) Advance of Nine Miles (OMING SOON Made, Luzon | American - Russian Rela-| Highway JMon o} Bag- bag Captured-Jap (asualties Mount MANILA, June 11—The U, S. tions Better Following Hopkins Visit MOSCOW, June 11—Foreign dip-| lomats said today they understood that news onh the Polish question which would be welcomed in all Allied capitals weuld be forth- coming soon. Foreign observers here said they had noted a “considerable improve- Thirty-Seventh lr\xfantry Division, in a swift nine-mile advance, cap- tured the highway junction town of | | Bagabag in northerh Luzon and| {punched five miles beyond it to-| ward the Cagayan Valley, isolating a large body of Japanese in the| rugged mountains east of the; sian-American relations growing ' valley. | out of Harry Hopkins' visit. | As the clean-up drives in the! | Philippines generally moved at a| faster pace, Gen. Douglas MacAr-{ thur's communique tottay listed | Japanese casualties for the past week at 5911 dead and 725 cap-| tured, bringing enemy casualties for the entire campaign to 392,116. | American casualties for the week | | were placed at 172 dead, four miss- | ing and 855 wounded. e ‘GEN, SPAATE GOES ment” in the atmosphere of Rus- (Hopkins left Paris by plane today to report to President Tru- man. It was speculated in the, French capital that he was taking, back'plans for a “Big Three” meet- ing. He appeared in high spirits.) | Yardstick for (ompatriof I | WASHINGTON, June 11 — An| HOME Io MOTHER American who fought for three, years as a guerrilla in the Phflip-; BOYERTOWN, Pa, June 11 — pines told yesterday of the yard- K Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, commander of | stick for measuring how long a U. S. strategic air forces in Europe, ' compatriot had been in the island',-ushed up the steps of the little bush warfare. hite cottage where his 78-year- Capt. Truman Heminway, Jr, of old mother waited for him yester- | Sherburne, Vt., in an account of | day. | his experiences released by the} “My baby boy is back,” the hero’s Army, said the measure of an|mother, Mrs. Anna A. Spaatz, said| American’s stay in the jungle was! tearfully. this: Gen. Spaatz said he wanted ! plenty of %¥good old Berks County o l‘ms{suusngc” while he visited the town “The first six months, | shown To Smash Japan EISENHOWER DECORATED BY RUSSIANS Declares We Are Going fo | Have Peace If We Have to Fight for It BULLETIN—LONDON, June 11. — Gen. Eisenhower arrived teday te win the freedom eof the city, highest civic honor London can bestow. At ceremonies tcmorrow he will speak and receive, tempor- arily, the sword the Duke of Wellington carried in all his memorable battles. A museum lent it for the occasion because the presentation sword to be given Eisenhower is not fin- ished. Eisenhower is due in Wash- ington next Monday. | FRANKFURT ON MAIN, June | 11—Soviet Russia and the Allies are united in a desire for a lasting, | firmly-based peace which will af- {ford the common man of all na- | tions the “opportunities that we ‘;fnught to preserve for them,” Gen. ! Eisenhower asserted yesterday be- {fore high ranking leaders of : Britain, Russia and the United 1scaus. { 'The Supreme Allied Commander and Field Marshal Sir Bernard Li | Montgomery both received from | Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov the jeweled Order of Victory. It was the first time that Soviet Russia's highest award had been presented ito any but Russians. { | Eisenhower, addressing a lunch- eon at his headquarters which { honored Marshal Zhukov, conqueror jof Berlin, declared: | “Speaking for the Allied forces, |T say we are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. “On two occasions now I have had the great honor of meeting high officials of the Soviet Gov- rernment. It is my feeling that in the basic desires of all of us they |are one with us.” STILWELL IS ON OKINAWA; GIVES VIEWS | Declares War with Japan Could Last a Least Two Years Longer OKINAWA, June 7—(Delayed by | Censor)—Gen .Joseph W. Stilwell, making a front-line inspection of the stubborn Okinawa battle, de- clared today that the war with Japan easily could last at least two years longer. | “It is quite possible that we will have to fight in Manchuria,” he said, even after the Japanese home islands are conquered. “Vinegar Joe,” who already had watched the U. S. Sixth Army in action on Luzon in the Philippiges. has been here several days, living at the front and watching the hard struggle of the troops whose train- ing is his respongibility. Commenting on the Japanese tenacity, he said that while the Okinawa battle-field reminded him | of France in the First World War the Germans in either war had not the stubbornness of the Japanese. | “The Okinawa campaign is a of the area where the landing fight- | helluva tough fight; you can tell, that by looking at the ground over which it has been fought.” .- FOOD SALE TO BE HELD i get in the food the American | throws the food away. The second |he knew as a youfgster. | B and are guests at the Baranof Hotel. six months he picks out the ants' but eats the food. The third six| months he eats the food, ants and | all. The fourth six months, if any| Mr. and Mrs. H. Harris, James ants try to escape he recaptures: O'Brien and D. D. Hill have ar- them and puts them back in the|rived in Juneau from Seattle and SEATTLE PEOPLE HERE food where they belong.” are guests at the Baranof Hotel. SATURDAY BY AUXILIARY A food sale featuring cakes, pies, salads, baked beans and other| edibles will be held next Saturday morning from 11 a. m. on, at the| sponsors of the sale, Germans Clean UpB % German civilians Betlin gefs mderway. - " - Shortly after their wedd Hero, Bride on Honeymoon 5, Sgt. T T a0 sey, Mississippi’s No. 1 Jake Lind: war hero and wearer of the Congressional Medal of Honor and his bride, the former Beverly Hargreave cf Lexington, Mass., look through a cook-book wedding gift that was used as a guest register. (AP Wirephoto) BRITISH TROOPS IN HOT PURSUIT, RETREATING JAPS CALCUTTA, June 11. — Indian troops of the British Army are push- ing forward slowly in their pursuit of a Japanese force retreating o- ward the Thailand border. The Al- lied troops are advancing along the rcad between Toungoo and Mawch In the air over Burma, Liberator: VETOVOTING PROBLEM IS STILL ISSUE Small Nations Are Bucking Proposal as Big Pow- of the Eastern Air Command, have | bombed an enemy ferry crossing of the Salween River. The ferry cross- ing is one hundred amiles southeast ing is in progress. — e, — MR., MRS. BUSKIN HERE ' signs By John M. Hightower (Ascociated Press Diplomatic News Editor) | SAN FRANCISCO, June 11-Fresh that the big powers can | compromise even sharp differences lin the interest of peaceful coopera- Mr. and Mrs. Stanley D. Buskin, | tjon sent the United Nations Con- of Fairbanks, are guests at the ference into the home stretch today erlin War Damage Vs -l ncluding women, man shovels as work of cleaning up widespread damage in the city of Bomb damaged vehicles still line the strects. of the capital. (AP Wirephcto from Signal Corps) This is Unter der Linden in the heart PARIS—Marshal Petain said to- day he had asked an armistice as “the only way to preserve peace.” He told a commission, questioning him in prelude to his trial, that the action “prevented France from be- .| coming another Poland.” JAMESTOWN, N. Y. — Repair crews worked today to restore elec- tric power and clear streets piled high with wreckage left by a savage | windstorm last night which injured eight persons and caused damage mated at $1,500,000. NEWARK, Del.—Seven Army men | ( were killed yesterday when a C-45| | transport plane crashed on a farm | ! near here. WASHINGTON—Individuals have | bought $5,022,000,000 worth of bonds | toward their $7,000,000,000 quota in !the Seventh War Loan. These fig- | ures, revealed by the Treasury Sat- | urday, include sales of $2,284,000,000 worth of E bonds, or 57 per cent of | BULLETINS AIR ATTACKS CONTINUEON JAPAN BASES | Surprise La_ngngs Made on Borneo - Okino Daito Bombarded By Leonard Milliman (Associated Press War Editor) Australian veterans, making « three-way invasion of northwestern Borneo, have seized the entrances to strategic Brunei Bay, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced to- day as American air raiders carried their most sustained raid on Japan into the fifth consecutive day without letup. Aussies of the Ninth Division en- countered little opposition in their surprise landings on Labuan and Maura Islands, on either -side of Brunei Bay, and at Brooketon, on the Borneo mainland less than v miles from Brunei. Labuan Air- tield and town ,were ‘quickly over- run as Aussie, troops for the first time on the nel mainland drove nearly three miles toward Brunei. Alr raids become =a secondary {worry of Nippon's war leaders as the Japanese Diet balked at rubber stamping an emergeney war powers bill. This measure, ' signing the Diet’s legisiative’ powers over to | Premier Kantarg Suzuki’s Cabinet, jwould be a virtual death warrant |for Japan’s Parliament. Warning By Stilwell Gen. Joseph. W. Stilwell warned that the war could easily last an- other two years. In #&ddition to in- vading Japan, which would require at least 500,000 men; he said Am- erican grou forces may have to conquer Mafichusia, #stronghold of the Japanese Army. ‘This despite sweeping gains by widely separated Chinese offensives which regained another port city, a town near the Indo-China border and threatened to engulf two former U. S. air bases in South | China—Liuchow and Kweilin. Casualties Mounting Mounting Japanese casualties reached 392,116 in the Philippines, where a 17-mile advance in two days carried the U. S. Thirty- Seventh Division close to the ex- pected major tank battles of the campaign, and 67,703 on Okinawa, where the U. 8. Tenth Army launched frontal assaults in the face of point-blank artillery fire against ll’BpDed enemy remnants. The newest phase of the Bormeo campaign was launched by the Australian Ninth Division, veter- ans of American desert fighting. A brief announcement by J. B. Chief- ley, Acting Australian Prime Min- | ister, said merely they had invaded the $4,000,000,000 goal for “small ‘muney" participation, | BERLIN — Berlin's war-scarred | churches are being reopened for Protestant, Catholic and Jewish worship with Soviet approval, Arthur | Werner, 68-year-old German edu- “ cator and Russian-appointed Burgo- . meister of the city, says. | PORTLAND, Oregon — Eighteen | persons were injured Sunday when !a freight and passenger train col- | lided at Wilbridge. An investigation | is being made as to the cause. NEW YORK — The Prague radio said today that Hitler's personal | adjutant Martin Bormann, had ' been captured in Czechoslovkia. The | announcement was credited to Czech President Benes. It said that Hit- | ler's deputy in charge of Nazi Party affairs will be tried, > WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today reversed the convictions of 24 top officials of the German | American . Bund. Convicted on | charges of conspiracy to advise eva- | sion and resistance to the draft law, ! the Bund qfficials included Gerhard Kunze, former national leader of the Bund. C. G. FLIERS HERE Two flying officers of the U. S. Coast Guard, from Ketchikan, are here in connection with the Coast Guard plane which is undergoing repairs in a Juneau shop. They are North Borneo. Important Base MacArthur's special communique | today placed the locale at the en- ltrnnces to spacious Brunei Bay. It lis an outlet for North Borneo's petroleum wealth, a former Japa- nese fleet anchorage and poten- tially capable of being developed into a base for Allied amphibious forces destined to storm the South Asia coast or valuable islands of the Dutch Indies. ‘Tokyo said intensifying air raids on Japan intended to “disrupt the (Continued on Page Three) pisriodai St 2U. 5. ARMIES ARETOOCCUPY GERMAN ZONES PARIS, June 11 — The Army newspaper Stars and Stripes said today the U. 8. Third and Seventh {Armies would occupy American Imne.s in Germany, making Lt. Gen. | Leoriard Gerow’s Pifteenth Army “available for a possible shift to the Pacific.” ‘The newspaper, in a dispatch Baranof Hotel. » - SITKA MEN IN TOWN with brightened hopes for the world’s future. There remains the problem of John Osbakkan and Ray Race winping small nation acceptance, Juneau Florists, it was announced have arrived in Juneau from Sitka of the by the American Legion Auxiliary, and are guests at the Gastineau - veto voting formula by Hotel. AL"L'HIH;;A(II on Puhz 'Tlxree) Lt. Harvey R. W. Lyford and En-|from Wiesbaden, Germany, said sign J. C. Walker. this did not mean that troops now | -ee serving in the Third dnd Seventh LARSEN IN TOWN were not necessarily destined for Ernest Larsen, of Vancouver,|occupation. It pointed out that re- +B. C., has arrived in Juneau and is|deployment will bring almost com- |4 guest at the Gastineau Hotel. plete revampment of personnel.