The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 13, 1945, Page 1

THE LIBRARY OF THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 9987 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1945 MEETING OF BIGTHR Yanks Scale Okinawa BOLD MOVE IS MADE BY AMERICANS Heighis Gained in Night Action-Flames Spit on Japanese By RICHARD O’'MALLEY (Associatea rress war Correspondent) GUAM, June 13. — Cliff-scaling Americans, backed by tanks spit- ting flames from a 500-foot-long hose hauled up the slopes, held grimly today to newly-won heights outflanking the Yaeju escarpment defenses of the Japanese on South- ern Okinawa. As this new peril was posed against the 10,000 to 15,000 no-sur- render Nipponese, Tokyo turned its back on these defenders of soil within 325 miles of Japan. The enemy radio, instead, switch- ed its theme to the menace of a homeland invasion. It quoted the Nippon Times'as saying “Japan will defend herself unflinchingly and unshakably . . . as long as her very existence and her sacred ideals are threatened.” The brilliant maneuver of the U. S. 10th Army marines and sol- diers on Okinawa, entailing a night (Continued on Page Siz) The Washingtion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Col.” Robert S. Allen now on-active service with the Army.) Lt. BULLETINS VICTORIA, B. C.—Capt. George Thornton Emmons, 93, retired Unit- | ed States Naval officer and a mem- | ber of that commission that settled : the boundary between Canada and Alaska, died here Monday. | LOS ANGELES — Movie Actress | Shirley Temple graduates from high school today at the Westlake School She 17's. | | for Girls. | NEW YORK—At a dinner here" { last night War Manpower Commis- | isioner Paul V. McNutt said that | America’s greatest need is what he 'calls a “planned and orderly re- | conversion”—a reconversion achiev- ed through the unity of manage- | ment, labor and government. i LONDON—Joachim von Ribben- trop, former German Foreign Min- | ister, is believed still at large and | the British government has no in- | formation as to his whereabouts, an official announcement said today. CALCUTTA — The British 14th Army is driving ahead in Burma. | It’s pushing eastward from Toungoo | as the Japanese withdraw towa(l; ' the border of Thailand. The enemy | has offered fairly stiff opposition in ! some sectors. { S { WASHINGTON—The War Pro- | duction Board may lift the ban on | | gold mining in the next few days. | . It has been learned that the agency |is now considering what changes | and operating supplies of gold and other mining projects. ’ LOS ANGELES—A divorce was ’granled in Superior Court today to | i Actress Connie Bennett from her | fourth husband, Actor Gilbert Ro- !land. She charged that he was in- sanely jealous of her, that he in- ! sulted her friends, and that he never supported her or contributed to the [] ith One-Man Massacre (Associated Press War Correspondent) Calif., in a one-man massacre, killed 30 Japanese and drove a wedge that, | helped snap the Japanese Shuri de- | fense line. | Fellow doughboys, who had a ring- side seat to “a fighting perform- Japanese pocket in 10 to 15 minutes. . Craft, married and the father of a Gallons Fired to Keep N iassa\\xl'. on a 450-foot hill May 31 from AUSSIGS when elements of the Ninty-sixth Associated Press War | For 10 days, Japanese from this s s hill had held up two battalions. Two rich Seria oil field storage tanks| ©OR May 31, a company and two last night—even as Allied forces did | Platoons assaulted the hill again. in the war. | began tossing grenades into trenches Hundreds of thousands of gallons | a0d foxholes as men from his pla- 'Determined Damn Fool’ By AL DOPKING OKINAWA, June 12.—(Delayed) SET AB[AZE [hls regimental commander said, lance” told today how Craft almost | four-year-old son, made his one-man | Infantry Division were pinned down By JAMES HUTCHESON BRUNEI BAY, Borneo, June 13.|flanks of two divisions couldn’t before the Nipponese captured this ! _Then Craft went into action. must have been destroyed last night toon passed them up to him. He Blasts Wedge Info Nips —Pfc. Clarence C. Craft, Santa Ana, single-handed wiped out a strong Hundreds of Thousands of | | by intense machine gun fire. —The Japanese fired West Borneo's Move until it was seized. island with its vast stores of oil early | When he reached the hilltop, he alone. I counted 18 tank infernos |Straddled a trench, pouring fire . i . - i dvantage of opponents of should be made in a corollary order | from a P-T boat which went within | [rom his garand down into it. Then | to the & | which controls maintenance, ¥epai¥'| 5* mile of the shore-in the Seria | 1€ jumped in, mowing down an.,..l‘Am-Mn participation by giving | nese as they got to him. He knock- ed out a heavy machine gun and its crew as he Itrench. He drove the Japanese he | didn’t kill into a hillside cave, then sealed it with a demolition charge. Fifty-eight Japanese bodies, three “knee” mortars, three machine ;;uns, about 80 rifles and ammunition lit- tered the hill when the fight was vicinity. Seria is 60 miles south of the point where Australian troops land- ed three days ago on the Borneo mainland at Brunei Bay. The Aussies sped their southward push in the general direction of Seria by making a small scale am- phibious landing on the Brunei strode through the | | River, The landing, 15 miles from | the original invasion point, cut be- WASHINGTON—Some time ago, | support of their two children. this column told how the Nazis had | | the push toward Brunei towp. sent out a propaganda broadcast| MANILA — General MacArthur | mne main force was nine miles to the European war theatre claim- ' has completed his second inspection { from Brunei where the amphibious ing that Colonel John Hay “Jock” | tour of Borneo’s invasion front, "“‘l‘operauon was made to close the Whitney, husband of the ex-Mrs. he apparently is satisfied with the | pincer. Jimmy Roosevelt and a close friend way things are going. | On Labuan Island in Brunei Bay, of Harry Hopkins, had been critical ! ’ | where the largest Australian force of President Roosevelt while in a! BOGOTA—A government decree | is involved, a drive pushed two miles |hind Japanese who were opposing German prison camp. The Nazi radio, as described in' the column, told how Jock Whitney ; first refused to talk, later. was placed with a German posing as a British officer, at which time he | loosened up and, according to the | Nazis, was critical of the Presi- dent. The Nazis used this to try to show how politics permeated the ' U. S. Army. A | Colonel Whitney later managed to escape from the German prisoni camp, when the box car in which he was riding was bombed and yesterday declared a state of siege in Bogota, Colombian capital, be- cause the “public order has been disturbed.” Censorship has been put into effect. . | SEATTLE—Miss Helen Ullberg, a | law firm employee, was awarded a week’s vacation trip to Juneau by | an airline (Pan American) at a the- | atre bond premiere last night. She may take a guest with her and will be entertained while there. WASHINGTON — An unsmiling | wrecked. He has since written this, Gen. George S. Patton arrived here columnist a letter denying that he 'foday.after an overnight flight from | ever criticized the President, and has also set forth the interesting, circumstances surrounding, his cap- ture. ¢ In fairness to Colonel Whitney, whom this columnist holds in the highest esteem, the pertinent por- tions of his uery interegting letter are published. below, together with a transoript of the Nazi broadcast. WHITNEY KEPT HIS NAME SECRET Colonel Whitney writes: “I' have your reference of March 4th to the effect that I*fed anti-/| Roosevelt propaganda to the Naai machine while I was their prisoner. | You got' the wrong dope from ! somewhere and I'll tell you why. “1. Since my one chance of es- Los Angeles. ‘®Damn it, I'm no poli- tician. I don’t smile,” the General | said when a photographer asked him to smile for a picture. Gen. Patton later was invited to visit President | Truman at the White House this| afternoon. | WASHINGTON — President Tru- man’s signature made law today as| $50,994,481 legislative appropriation !bill carrying a $2,500 expense allot- ment for each member of the House. | The expense allowance is not. ap- plicable to member's of the Senate, which declined to vote a similar| allotment for its members. b ety " SAN FRANCISCO—-Japan’s truck and other small freight transporta- tion was put under Army control today by the Suzuki government in | | | | | cape depended on the enemy'ss nor.‘“s first swift move after assuming | beyond the captured airstrip. | | e TAKES SWAT AT AUTHORITY OF INTERIOR DEPT. ‘ e ; {Would Abolish Esfablish-' ment of Indian Reser- vations in Alaska WASHINGTON, June 13. — Au- thority of the Interior Department | to establish Indian reservations in | Alaska would be abolished by a bill introduced by Senator Magnu- son (D-Wash.) Magnuson told a reporter that he did not intend to press for action on the bill but expected it to be the basis for a hearing by the Sen- ! ate Indian Affairs Qommittee in Seattle, Wash., where all matters' ‘concerning the Alaska Natives could ' be discussed. } The bill, he said, resulted from efforts of “some person” to have additional reservations established in the Territory. PG SRR STEAMER CHIEF | knowing that I was of any value to them, I remained anonymous even to my fellow prisoners. I was very careful not to talk familiarly about any ‘name’ in order to avoid the slightest association with im- portance, “2. Even if T had shot my mouth off to them, my conversation could not have been recorded since we| were never in a prepared camp, but always on the move, and mostly always under fire. “3. The only British-uniformed soldier I saw was well known to me. almost dictatorial powers over the | wartime life of the Empire. The! Domei News Agency reported this | development and the formal disso- lution of the out-moded Imperial Rule Assistance Association. | | PORTLAND, Oregon—Two fire- imen were injured in a $30,000 fire, today which damaged a three-story | downtown building. HOLLYWOOD—Donald M. Nel-| son, former War Production Board Chairman, will become President of { TOBESPEAKER | AT (C MEETING L. W. Baker, Vice-President and over. Craft himself fired five clips of rifle ammunition and threw 48 | grenades. He estimated he killed 25 Japanees with rifle fire; the re- mainder with grenades. Grenades thrown by his buddies, two of whom were wounded, ac- counted for the other Japanese. At one time, Japanese and Americans were dueling with grenades which sailed over Craft’s head. Craft freely credited covering fire from his buddies with making his fight possible. He said he was lucky to come out unscratched: “A lot of them (fellow doughboys) didn't come back,” he added. Lt. Roy L. Barnes, Winchester, Ind., Executive Officer of G-Company of the 382nd Regiment, said that while he saw the whole action he could think only: “That damn fool is de- termined to get out of the army, either via medal of honor—or dead.” Craft, a' former truck driver and replacement, joined the Ninty- |sixth Division here late in April. He had not killed a Japanese until a | the hill action. MOTHER, WIFE TALK SANTA ANA, Calif., June 13.— The mother of Pfc. Clarence B. Craft, killer of 30 Japancse in a daring foray with grenades and rifle fire on , Okinawa, says, “He's_ the most accurate thrower I ever saw.” “Why, I've seen that boy kill fish in a stram throwing rocks at them, home in Missouri,” said Mrs. Pearl Craft after she received the news . Craft’s wife, Betty, 21, said: “I'm not surprised, exactly, but I don't see how he could. have done it so scon. You see, this was his first batt}e." 'SEASONAL PATROL . OPERATORS NAMED BY FEWL SERVICE Four seasonal appointments have MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS E CHIEFS SCHEDULED TRUMAN ASKS SENATE TO KEEP GOING Wants San Francisco Con- ference Charter Ratified Before Recess Taken BULLETIN —WASHINGTON, June 13.—President Truman is understood to have decided to submit the San Francisco treaty to the Senate by Monday, June 25, and ask for ratification not later than July 15. He wants this nation to be the first to give ratification. WASHINGTON, June 13.—Presi- dent - Truman wants the United 'N‘:‘ion.s charter for a peace or- ganization ratified by the Senate before Congress takes a recess. Officials in a position to know tsald the Chief Executive has told Congressional leaders he feels ac- !'tion should be taken as quickly as possible after the San Francisco | conference drafts a document for | submission to the 50 participating | | nations. | ( Mr. Truman was described as of the opinion that delay would work Action B | | | | TOTALVETO . (ONTROL IS GIVEN OKEH [Australian ~A;endment Is | Defeated as Big Confer- | ence Moves fo Close By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER (Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) SAN FRANCISCO, June 13.—De- ifeat of an Australian amendment cleared the way today for approval in a United Nations conference | committee of the Big Five demand |for total veto control of proposed machinery for world security. The amendment, which would have removed the veto from steps to settls international disputes | peacefullp and limited it to use of {force, was voted down 20 to 10. |them time to build up sentiment | against it. ! This White House attitude vir-, (tually ruled out the possibility of a summer holiday for the legis- lators. —————— were absent. New Issue peared to be gaining headway. The small hations, whose split over the veto issue assured the big-power & | victory, were beginning to rally be- BURDICK HEAD'“G |hind a proposal that they should | be promised another crack at the |veto about 10 years hence. | In other words, they are calling for the right to amend the charter in future without any of the big | powers being able to exercise a Called south by the death of Mrs. | veto over amendments. The Big Burdick’s mother at Dillon, Mon-|pjve are dead set against this. tana, Assistant Regional Forester| Action on the Australian amend- Charles Burdick was to leave Juneau | yant came last midnight after by plane today to attend the funeral | three and a half hours of debate, services in the Montana town. | during which were Mrs. Burdick has been with her .40 84-year-old mother, Mrs. Wilhemina | X Buhrer, for several months during | (Continued on Page Sir) the latter's illness. She expects to | aick about the tnst of suty. | BROWNIE EQUIPMENT Other surviving children of Mrs.| SHO“[D BE AT SMAI.[ BOAT HARBOR TONIGH FOR MONTANA 10 ATTEND FUNERAL, 17 speeches Buhrer are: A daughter, Louise| Buhrer of Dillon, and a son, Carl| Buhrer of Olympia, Washington, | Before returning north, Mr. Bur- | dick will devote about two weeks out to summer camp Sunday should to finally winding up the affairs of‘have their sea bags, clothes and the Alaska Spruce Logging Progrflm,\othcr equipment on the dock at the | Small Boat Harbor by 7 p. m. today, —— ————— Mrs. Henry Seaberg announced. SMILEY IN JUNEAU Mcesquito netting has been obtain- Elvin J. Smiley, of Palmer, has ed and will be available through arrived in Juneau and is a guest at|Special arrangement, Mrs. Seaberg the Baranof Hotel. |wished to inform parents, stating RN S I {that she has personally taken charge MRS. MANTHEY RETURNS of its disposal. Mrs. Dorothy Manthey of the| Eckeduled to attend camp at the Empire staff returned yesterday [Same time as the Brownies, Girl from a visit with her family in|Scouts of Intermediate troop No. the States. She flew both ways|2 Who have signed up for camp are by Pan American. |asked to have their duffle on the 4 {dock at the same hour this evening, | for transportation by the U. S. Coast Guard. Each girl attending camp is asked to include a dishtowel with other required equipment. Departure to the camp will take £ ¢ |place Sunday at 1 p. m. from the “Bz :;':SMf:D‘:o: l(; d:g?r:“ bus station, it was announced, and Pelican City, are in Juneau and!“” should be on hand promptly at 5 ts ot the Ciasthey Hotel.'thflt hour. They should take a sack e e z f1onch, and soft drinks will be furn» HICKOX HERE in Pacific Northwest cities. Ed Ramsey, of Hoonah, has ar- rived in Juneau and is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. —————— |1shed at the camp. ToDanceasPlanned | Fifteen nations abstained and five | Simultaneously a new issue ap-| uf Sister MACON, Ga., June 13.—Eighteen- year-old Frances Newman will get her birthday dance, the beautiful orchid and the lovely evening dress tonight even if the older brother who promised them to her won't be on hand. The brother, Sgt. James R. New- man of Lumpkin, Ga., was killed by a Jap shell in Iwo’s front lihes while acting as a naval gunfire spotter for the Fourth Marine Division. ‘The party in her honor will be put on by her fellow employees at Warner Robins Field here and she'll dance in an evening gown and an orchid corsage sent her by the Gen- eral who commanded Sgt. Newman's outfit and his Marine buddies. It all came about because of a letter she wrote to Major Gen. Clif- ton B. Gates, Commander of her brother’s division, saying she was going to keep her chin up because she knew that if her brother had to idie, he would have wanted to die a Marine. “He told me when my eighteenth birthday came around,” she wrote the General, “that he would be home on furlough (he never did get one) and he would buy me a beau- | tiful orchid, a lovely evening dress |and take me dancing just as if T were his best girl.” General Gates wrote that her let- ter was the most beautiful he had received in over 28 years in the Marine Corps. “You are a very brave young lady,” he said. Slopes In Face Of Fire Brother Is Killed in TRUMAN 10 MEET WITH BIG _EHIEFS Announcement Made by President at Newsmen Conference Today WASHINGTON, June 13.—Presi- dent Truman announced today that a Big Three meeting has been set, but he said he could not announce the time or place until his arrival there. The President also told a news conference that he expected the meeting at Moscow this Friday to work out a unified Polish Govern- ment on a broad base to produce results, i In obvious good humor following an earlier conference with Harty Hopkins and Joseph E. Davies, his representatives to Moscow and Lon- don, the President told the report- ers the results they had obtpined have been completely satisfactory and gratifying. t He said he would gn Secretal of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jt., James F. Byrnes, former War Mob- ilizer, Hopkins and Davies to the Big Three meeting with him, fhe latter two if their health permits. The President said the all-im- portant thing was that London, Washington and Moscow. continue the unity, confidence and respect which brought results in the mili- tary picture to make sure a lasting peace. \ He, Marshal Stalin and 'Prime (Coniir{tl;fi; Pnp—e- Two) 'DOOLITTLE HAS Brownie Girl Scouts who will go TURN AS PILOT ~ ON SUPERFORT ' Tokyo Raider Lauds Re- . sponse of Ship-Wants Longer Japan Stay SEATTLE, June 13—Lt. Gen. iJumes Doolittle flew a B-29 Super- (fortress for the first time today and !declared “It's a marvelous airplane.” ! The former Eighth Air Force lead- er climbed into the co-pilot's seat 'of a B-20 at Boeing Fleld. He °t Maj. Bert Eckstein, chief test pilot of the Army’s Air Technical £ervice Command here, take the big ship off the ground. Then Doo- .little took over the controls as the| plane banked and climbed. “It certainly handled nicely,” Doo- little told reporters after the half-| hour flight that ended shortly after | noon. At a dinner last night climaxing a full afternoon’s program here, Gen. Doolittie discussed the “Quick inspection trip I made over Tokyo more than three years ago.” . “I am going back there and this time I hope to make a longer stay,” | he said. Tok?dffii?ns Kuriles Island | | POLISH ISSUE T0. BE TAKEN UP AT MOSCOW SESSION Big Three Representafives fo Meet with Poles at Friday Meefing LONDON, June 13,—Poles and Big Three representatives will discuss reorganization of the Polish Provis- ional Government in Moscow Friday, it was announced today. The British Foreign Office com- mentator said, “A very serious dead- lock has been broken,” but cautioned that “It is contrary to all our ex- perience to say that it is going to be clear sailing from now on.” A simultaneous announcement in London, Washington and Moscow sald reorganization of the Warsaw regime on a broad democratic basis as “provided for in the Crimea agreement on Poland” would be dis- cussed in the Soviet capital by rep- resentatives of Britain, Soviet Russia and the United States, spokesmen for the Provisional Government in Warsaw and Polish Democratic léad- ers, Members of the Polish Govern- men in exile in London, still recognized by Britain and the United States, were conspiciously - absent from the list of Poles who will take part in the discussion. Big Three representatives to the conference will be Russian Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov, U. S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and British Ambassador Sir John Paul E. Hickox, F.P.H. A, repre- sentative from Hoonah, has arrived in Juneau and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. . |bé maintained, but each girl's daily purchase will be limited to' 5 cents, lit is explained. | Still needed are large baking pans, |large ketfles with handles, and large - Bombarded At summer camp a snack bar will, ° General Manager of the Alaska jes givision of the Fish and Wild- Steamship Company, a current Ju- | jife Service. Named to serve as op- neau visitor, is to be the principal | erators of the Fishery Vessel No. 6, guest speaker at the luncheon to- (o act in the West Coast district morrow noon in the Gold Room of under Agent John Cashen, with the Baranof Hotel of the Juneau base at Craig, are D. Gilbert Monroe | Chamber of Commerce, it was re- and Franklin J. Smith, vealed today by the program com-| Al Lundstrom is to be operator of been announced here by the fisher- | SEATTLE, June 13. — Comdr. gyjjlets, Council members stated. Kenneth B. Haugen, former North- PRRRNRG 0 4 K west Airlines pilot and pioneer of Navy flights in the Alnska—Aleu-‘ S'O(‘ 0“0“"0"; tians area early in the war, suc-) NEW YORK, June 13. — Closing ceeded Comdr. Henry C. Hollenbeck | quotation of Alaska Juneau® mine as commanding officer of Naval, stock today is 7!., American Can right 86%, | Air Transport squadron VR-5 today. |97%, Anaconda 34'%, Curtiss W , He took the squadron’s first|7, International Harvester SAN FRANCISCO, June 13. —| Ri adio Tokyo reported today an| ‘enemy” naval force had bombard- ed an island of the Northern Kur- |iles chain, which lies northeast of ! the Japanese home islands, Monday ,evening. The broadcast was heard by the Federal Communications Commission. | . IN CITY COURT Four fines of $25 each were as- “4, 1 escaped without the Ger-|the Society of Independent Motion mans having a clue as to my iden- | Picture Producers on June 29. His tity. “5. If 'T had talked about the President, which 1 didn’t, it would 2y (Continued on Page Four) salary will be about $50,000 a year. | i dast L A | Mr.'and ‘Mrs. ‘Arnold Hartvigsen,! of Seattle, are guests at the Bar- anof Hotel, mittee, Mr. Baker is expectedsto revea); some of the post-war plans being formulated ‘by his company for ser- | vice 'to Alaska—a ‘subject of great interest to all businessmen in'par- ticular, Patrol Vessels No. 10, in the Ju- neau district. He will be assisted by a 'Juneau youth, Bob Smith. —— - CARRIGAN HERE R. D. Carrigan, of Seattle, is a guest ‘at the Gastineau Hotel. | flight from Adak to Amchitka May !'11, 1943, the day the Attu invasion began. He piloted one of the big New York Central 28', Kennecott Sessed today by Acting Magistrate Iaa, New York Central 28'%, North- Ernest Parsons in City Police Court lem Pacific 317, U. S. Steel 68%. here. Fined were: Elizabeth Rusk, R5D's' on its maiden flight from Sales today were 1,500,000 shares. Seattle to Kodiak, landed the first| Dow Jones averages today are as one at Adak and,Attu and was first follows: industrials 166.75, ralls | to fly non-stop from ‘Adak here. 159.17, utilities 32.19. |drunk; Elmer E. ‘Webber, drunk; Phillip James, drunk and disorderly, and Marquis Bryson, drunk, disor- Archibald Clark Kerr. Principal Polish leaders selected | to attend were Boleslaw Beirut, the President of the Warsaw Provision- al Government Wincenty Witos, former Premier and leader of the Lemocratic group inside Poland not affiliated with the Warsaw Govern- ment; and Stanislaw Mikolajszyk, Peasant party leader who resigned as Premier and withdrew from the Exiled Government in London last year, Optimism reflected in Moscow dis- patches was accepted as strong evi- dence to support firmed re- ports that some or all of the 16 missing Poles who helped direct un- derground activities for the London Polish Government had been releas- ,derly and resisting arrest. ed by the Russians.