The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 14, 1945, Page 1

JUL 18 1945 GIFY THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” jUNEAU ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1945 VOL. LXV., NO. 9988 JAPS PLAN BIG ARMY MASKA LINE INP-W DAYS IS OUTLINED Baker Tells C of Abouthnnary Authorities Cnh-]WnII Resume Command of 1 Anticipated Twice- | Weekly Sailings Four-day s£eamex~ service, twice- | a-week, on the route Seattle and Westward Alaska, ;Grafl Hints Flung Today In Congress cized for High Rentals on Alcan Job WASHINGTON, June 14.—Sena- between [tor Robertson (R-Wyo) said tcday‘t‘ml George S. Patton, Jr., will re-| is |that Alcan Highway contracts ca]l-‘tum to his command in Europe and GEN. PATTON ISTORETURN | TOEUROPE | i Third Army, Occupation- . al Force in Germany | | | WASHINGTON, June 14—Gen- anticipated by the Alaska Steam-|ed for higher rents for equipment his U. S. Third Army will be onc‘ ship Company for as soon as pos- sible after the final cessation of hostilities, according to L. W. Baker, Vice-President and General Man- ager of the steamship line, who addressed the Juneau Chamber of | Commerce at its weekly luncheon | meeting today. | |Senate, {contracts they than the machinery rented was worth, Robertson in a speech to the was sharply critical of the authorities and the type of have let on some “notably Alcan. Ferguson (R-Mich) join- milita projects, Senator Ger- | 'of the occupation forces for many This was announced today at a| news conference by Secretary of | War Stimson who said that the| Seventh Army, now commanded by | |Lt. Gen. Wade H. Haislip, also would be one of the American oc- Mr. Baker stated that the com- €d in the criticism and said bluntly cupying forces. pany plans to acquire three new, fast ships which will sail from! Seattle on Wednesdays and Satur- | days, according, to present plans.| Four days later they will arrive at either Seward or Whittier, wher~| ever they with the Alaska Railroad. Cargo Limited | The vessels will have first class! accommodations for at least 400, passengers. All rooms will be equip- | ped with toilet and shower or tub,| or both. The vessel will have a maximum speed of 19 knots and a | sea speed of 17 knots, which, w-‘ gether with the fact that it ls; planned for them to carry as cargo | only meats, perishables and semi- | perishables as well as mail, express and baggage, will make possible their turn-around time of 10.or u| days. It is also anticipated, Mr. Baker |that “no military security should' pnmn graft and corruption.” “Senator Brewster and I called! |such things to the attention of the War Investigating Committee,” |said Ferguson, |seat, publicly commented that the on\y action of the military services was the promotion of the men ac- cused.” Ferguson asserted that “Witnesses frem the Army and Navy have been intimidated” by their superiors *‘or ithey would have exposnd them,” JAP AREAS IN KURILES - ‘and President Tru-| can make connections ™Man when he sat right here in this j5th Army would remain in Ger-| Stimson, in answer to a quesuon |said the Third and Seventh, “rather | than the 15th” would be the Ameri- | can Armies of occupation. Supreme I Headquarters today, however, said authoritative sources reported the | many until Decembex POLES PLAN AN APPEAL TO WORLD B 1y L LETINS NEW CHARTER i Government-in-Exile Op- | said, that the company will obtain | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ‘ Flag Ralsmg Round the World s a big holiday, | | stores are closed and a big welcome PARIS—Today IWO JIMA I ica and to the Republic for oy “"*»m : PLEDGE allegiance to the Flag of the United States of Amer- which it stands, one Nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. NIPS WRITE - OFF FORCES ONOKINAWA Island IrooEsTiiven Up as Lost-Efforts Made fo Defend Homeland ALLIED PLANES MAKE RAIDS,. WIDE AREA Aussies Reconquenng Borneo Make Extensive Gains-Secure Airfields By Leonard Milliman (Associated Press War Correspondent) Japan's cave-dwelling troops on | Okinawa, squeezed into one shrink- ing 13-square-mile pocket, were written off as lost today by Premier Kantaro Suzuki, who indicated mfl- itary rulers of Nippon are concen- trating on amassing an army of 2,500,000 to 5,000,000 to repel an in- vasion “several months” hence. | A banzai charge by 300 screaming Nipponese was annihilated by U. 8. Seventh Infantrymen, crumbling the eastern anchor of the enemy’s suicide line, as Marines of the Sixth Marine Division completed the job | | { e e e Of WipING OUl the Japanese Naha Doolmle Made Member of Alaska neers pocket Borneo Campaign Ausl.nllnna racorg&fljna Borneo captured a ,wcond nnd drove town.rd a third. Two other columns pressed toward CONFERENCE 'WORLD PEACE Ykon Po ~ GETTING T0 Bl unen Tow:: capital of the invad- several new and faster freighters,| | SEATTLE, June 14—Back in the which will serve the Bering Sea, | Bristol Bay and Kotzebue Sound areas, as well as all the regularr ports of call. The company's pres- ent roster of freighters has been | trimmed to three ships which may | be assigned to shuttle service. Aleutian Service H The steamship line’s present group of passenger vessels will aug- | ment the service of the new liners, | with a possi lllty that service may | be extended to principal points in the Aleutians. The company is | (Conlinu’gd on Page Twu)_ ISR S o Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON i Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) Lt. WASHINGTON—The black mar-| ket in eggs and poultry is so bad that the War Food Administration is seriously considering the freezingl of all eggs in storage. Meanwhile ! J. Edgar Hoover's G-Men had been | quietly probing the poultry black markeh in the Deleware-Maryland | with startling results. Their rm ings will reach high into Dela- | ware state politics and perhaps into the Washington headquarters ! of the War Food Administration and OPA. Already Clifford Shedd, Delaware | WFA official, has lost the authority to release poultry for civilian con- sumptioni from the Army's set- | aside, but his chief in Washington, |day struck installations at Inchin- | Yalta agreement for a broader-based Gordon' Sprague, says he is taking | full authority for anything that might be found wrong with Shedd’s | administration. Sprague has taken over direct c}iarge of all poultry releases- but’ elaims that he knows. of no n;eguhr action by Shedd, Meanwhile, black market opsra-k tions along both the west and the east.igonst &ré so serious that legit- | imate poultry and egg dealers are being forced out of business. The situation in New England, New Jer- sey and Nonh Carolina is especially bad. Last week Tim Stitts of the War | Food Administration told Congress- man Anderson’s food committee that OPA should suspend all price ceilings on eggs in an effort to channel eggs back into the legit-| imate market. This immediately caused dealers to hold on to their; eggs for a price rise. But what they did not know is| that Stitts has not requested OPA to suspend or even raise the price cefling’ on eggs. OPA, under: the Price Control Act, cannot .raise (Continued on Page Four) |Okhotsk where {Japanese patrol boats which were! ARERAIDED Cargo Vessel Is Bombed, Left Burning—Aleutian Plans Do Sirafing By OLEN CLEMENTS (Associated Press War Correspondent) AN ALEUTIAN BASE, ALASKA, !June 12.—(Delayed)—One small Japanese cargo ship was left burn-| |ing fiercely and at least one patrol " Iboat was damaged by Army and | clinging to the hope that the Mos- {Navy bombers from the Western | cow conference, opening Friday, \Aleuflans in an attack on shipping | would bog down over the w h loff the Kuriles' Islands northeast problems which lie ghead of the | The Washington | - of Japan yesterday. The crew of | the cargo ship was abandoning it as the airmen turned away. Harpoon planes from Fleet Air ng Four located the cargo vessel | {two miles off Eastern Paramushiro | \and after bombing expended 4,000 | ish debts at present on the book: |rounds of .50 caliber ammunition in of the London group. strafing their target in the face of |fierce antiaircraft fire. One Har-| poon was damaged but returned to its base without casualties. Eleventh Airforce Liberators cross- | ed Paramushiro to the Sea of | they located two bombed and strafed. One patrol| boat was heavily damaged. One Liberator was hit by anti- jaircraft fire, but it also returned to its base without injuries. On the previous day, Navy Har- | poons located four armed trawlers off Eastern Paramushiro and after bombing and strafing, left at least lone burning. Eleventh Airforce Liberators and Mitchells the same owatari on Araido Island in the| Okhotsk Sea, the Asahigawa and Kurabu Airfields on Paramushiro, | and Otimari Cove on Onekotan Island in the Central Kuriles. ——————— — STARLINER JUNEAU T0 BE CHRISTENED AT FIELD TOMORROW The Alaska Airlings’ new Douglas Transport plane will arrive at the ,Juneau Airport at 12 o'clock tomor- row and will be christened by Mrs. Ernest Gruening, the “Starliner Juneau” shortly after lahding. Citizens of Juneau are extended an invitation to be present at this christening. e TOTING SUPPLIES TO GIRL SCOUT CAMP Two Coast Guard vessels, the CG-50041 and CG-50071, attached to the organization of the Captain of the Port, Juneau, Were occupied today with' transporting supplies from Juneau to the Girl . Scout camp site at Eagle River. poses Big Three Regard- ing Many Issues ! LONDON, June 14. — Indh,nam‘ over Big Three plans for the future | of Poland, members of the Polish | Government-in-Evile were reported | vlanning today to place their case | before the world, even as Moscow | ‘announced the arrival of Warsaw delegates for the conference whose | aim will be to form a Polish govern- | ment of national unity. ! The London Poles apparently were | difficult | | delegates. Among these problems { the matter of the Polish Arm: ' many of whose leaders profess loyal- ty to the exiled government. The | conference must consider also the disposition of Polish assets and. Pol- s| Emergency Cabinet An emergency cabinet session of | the London Polish Government was 'expected today. y One spokesman fdr the London group suggested that his exiled gov- fernmenf. had been deserted outright | by Britain and the Uiited States in | | return for Russia’s relaxation of her | veto demands at San Francisco. The London exiles steadfastly re- | fused to recognize the ‘authority oi‘ the Big Three powers to supervise |the formation of a new provisional | government. One spokesman said that “never will our people recognize | a so-called govenment formed in this | {manner,” and added that the Lon- don group never had acceded to the | | provisional administration. Delegation on Scene Moscow said the Warsaw delega- tion to the conference, headed by i President Boleslaw Bierut, had ar- last night. Britain will be represented at the talks by their ambassadors to Mos- cow—W. Averill Harriman and Sir i Archibald John Clark-Kert. The United States and | WANT MIKOLAJCZYK MOSCOW, June 14. — American and British officials were expected | today to exert all thelr influence | in an effort to have Stanislaw Miko- | 1ajczyk, former Premier of the Polish | Governgent-in-Exile in London, in- | cluded in the new Polish provisional | governmgnt. ! BOY SCOUTS STUDY “ART OF DEFENSE”! Boxing lcswns were taken last night by Boy Scouts of America Legion Troop No. 613, at their reg- ular meeting in the American Le- gion Dugout. Scoutmaster Der Vaughn Hershaw was in charge. rived in the Sowiet capital by plane | ,Wlll be extended to Gen. Eisenhower on his visit. INDEPENDENCE, Mo.—President Truman has put a crimp in to his homecoming the latter part of this month by asking no parade be held | The city planned a big celebration. PARIS — Gen. De Gaulle is ex- pected to_ fly to Washington next week for a conference with Pres |dent Truman about Syria and Le- banon. ment resumed session today for the first time in five years. Parliament may make formal declaration of war against Japan. DUBLIN — Erie is going to the | polls today to choose a new Presi- dent to succeed Dr. Douglas Hyde who has declined to run again be- | cause of his age, which is 85. Prime | Min, ister De Valera is supporting his deputy, Sean O'Kelly, for the Pres dency. HOLLYWOOD — Singing Star: Judy Garland will enter her second marriage tomorrow. Her husband- to-be is film director Vincente Min- elli. HOLLYWOOD—Film Singer De- anna Durbin and film producer | Felix Jackson have been quietly married at Las Vegas, Nevada. CASABLANCA—AN Army Trans- port Command crew has flown the first non-stop flight from Natal, Brazil, to Casablanca, North Africa The 4,330-mile flight challenges rec- ords for the longest over-water flight. LONDON—The Moscow radio said today that the 16 Polish political ders accused of “terroristic acts” behind Red Army lines would be | tried “within the next few days.” WASHINGTON—The Senate Ag- ricultural Committee voted 11 to 6 on approval of the nomination of Claude Wickard to become Rural | Electrification Administrator. CHAMP GREAT FALLS Mont, — Two Montanahs, aged 51 and 53, who fought in a street fight a few days ago to determine “the toughest man in Cascade county,” were agreed to- day on his identity. Tne Judge that tried their case won the title. He fined them $20 apiece. —— e - — MRS. McGRATH IN TOWN Mrs. I. H. McGrath, of Sitka, a guest at the Baranof Hotel. is UP TO SENATE Truman Wats Ratification Before Big Session—Hint on Cabinet Change WASHINGTON, dent Truman wants to take with 0SLO — The Norwegian Parlia- | iim to,an early Big Three meeting the Senate’s signed and sealed ap- proval of the San Francisco con- ference. This Presidential hope was re- vealed today by Senator George (D- Ga.), who said it “undoubtedly” was the primary factor in Mr. Truman's quest for speedy ratification of the projected peace-keeping chart- er. George, ranking member of Foreign Relations Committee, added, however, that he isn't too_optimis- | tic that approval can be obtained by the administration’s July 15 goal Date of the goal was disclosed by | Senate authorities yesterday, a| strong hint that the promised Big Three conference would be held shortly thereafter. Mr. Truman earlier in the day said he had a definite date to meet with Prime Minister Churchill and|tary of State for India, L. 8. Amery,' which nations judged guilty of grave Marshal Stalin but that word of the time and place would have to|to parlidment, Lord Wavell announ- expelled from the organization. await his arrival. The White House remained snent\Delm that orders had been given problems for the closing days of the on a British broadcast reporting an!for the release of members of the conference. from cOpen.‘Worklng Committee of the Indian them appears to be one of the chief unconfirmed report , hagen that the would be the locale. Meanwhile, the Chief ExeLuuves disclosure that James F. Byrnes; will accompany him to the meet- ing revived speculation over '.he desh capiml possibility of the former War Mo-! bilizer’s ultimate as Secretary of State. This speculation is founded bolh upon Mr. Truman's long-standing friendship for the South Carolinian | and upon the belief that he has an- appointment other important diplomatic assign- ister Churchill announced in Com- | ter June 14.—Presi- the | early 1900s, Richard Sundquist and ! James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle were boys and schoolmates at Nome. In wrestling matches, Jimmy as a “hard one to drop,” Sundquist re- calls. It was Sundquist’s duty at the | banquet Tuesday night honoring Lt. | | Gen. Doolittle to award him a life* umo honorary membership in the | Alaska Yukon Pioneers. Doolittle | qualifies as an “Oldtime Alaskan”, Sundquist said NEW DEAL FOR INDIA LONDON, June 14.—The British |Government, in a sweeping “New| |Deal” for India, proposed today a |new Executive Council which would be almost entirely Indian and, in the words of Viceroy Lord Wavell, “Represent a definite advance on the road to self-government.” At the same time that the Secre- 'unfolded the statement of policy ced in a radio broadcast from New' All-Congress pany still in detention. CHURCHILL T0 TAKE ATTLEE T0 BIG CONFERENCE LONDON, June 14.—Prime Min- | PROPOSED ln omer principal ground engage- ments Chinese reached the outskirts of Liuchow, former U. 8. air base in Southeast China, and U. 8. 37th Division Infantrymen in the Philip- pines recaptured American tanks which fell into Japanese hands at Bataan. Between 750000 and 1,750,000 Japanese were estimated to have been killed in Superfort raids on Tokyo and Yokohamd alone, under- |scoring Japanes: worries over in- ucasing U. 8. air power. l Mines Are Planted (Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) , Thirteen Japanese vessels were SAN FRANCISCO, June 14.—The wrecked by Allied planes ranging struggle of small nations to protect from Malaya to' Japan. Tokyo re- |themselves against the Big Power Ported that 40 Superforts planted |control of a world league finally mines in waters of Western Nippon boiled down today to one demand— at midnight. Destroyers of the {the right to withdraw from the or- British East Indles fleet sank two ganization whenever they wish. Nipponese vessels off SBumatra. ‘Tokyo Radio again reported Yanks | Indications are that this demand were preparing for a new invasion, will ke granted, although with some phut Tokyo couldn't make up its mind Istrings attached. The Big Powers, whether it. would be Japan or the | having triumphed on the veto issues, China coast. There appeared to be are agreeable provided they now:get no doubt in the mind of Premier |two other things they want: Admiral Suzuki who said it would ! 1. A restriction that the charter take several months for the Allies ikeing drawn up at the United Na- to prepare an invasien force of 300,- tions conferenee cannot be amended 000 and by that time Japan would be except on the complete agreement ready to meet them with five to ten of the United States, Britain, Rus- times as many men. (sia, France and China. Military Rule He indicated Japan is already un- der practical military rule. Thir week his cabinet Teceived’ powers to rule by imperial decree, and he dis~ closed today that the Supreme M tary Council, composed of Army al Navy heads, “functions virtually as a war cabinet.” His own career as Premier, and member of the Su- I preme Military Couneil, will not end with the fall of Okinawa, Suzikl said. American forces cut a little deeper (Continued on Page Three) ALASKA AIRLINES BRING 22 HERE - FINAL STAGE lifile Nations Present De- mand-Big Powers Pre- ! sent Two Mor® Issues / By John M. Hightower 2. A pumshmem clause under violaticns of the charter would be These are the main, closely related Prolonged discussion of reasons why the conference leader- ship has once more delayed the ad- | journment goal, this time lrom June ‘20 to June 23. | i'o make this time schedule the |Big Five agreed yesterday that the weckend ahead should be a “work-| /ing weekend” with Sunday meetings as necessary, possibly including even a full dress session of the conference. 1 Alger Hiss of the United States,! Conference Secretary General, perted that final texts of the cHa in five hlnguazes——nuaskm, re-| ment in mind for Secretary Ed-)mons today that Maj. Clement R Spanish, Chinese, French and Eng. ward R. Stettinius, Jr. This could | Attlee, leader of the minority Labor lish—are being kept up to date as he either as an ambassador or as a | Party, would agcompany him to the ' committees finish their work, copies .FROM ANCHORAGE Alaska Airlines flew the following key figure in the projected United Big Three conference. Nations organization. Mr. Truman reiterated at Churchill said the conference with news conference yesterday that no man would take place before the change was contemplated in the | resuits of Britain's July 5 election |proval of the veto voting formula Cole, Joseph Kaniowsky, W. C. Arn- State Department though, humorously, portfolio, reporter who put the question to keep on asking it. N O P I CAA MEN HERE B. Putpam and C. E. Darlington, have | arrived in Juneau and are guests arrived in Juneau and is a guestc CAA . men from . Anchorage, at the Baranof Hotel. he told the. uled to be announced July 26. Churchill said the place of the | meeting must remain secret for the | time being. | ———————— ! MARY SASSONE IN TOWN ;at the Baranof Hotel. !in these languages must be ready, 22 passengers to Juneau from An- for signing at the final session at chorage yesterday: Mary Mominee, hiql Premier Stalin and President Tru- i which President Truman will speak. William Manley, Mrs. J. M. Paul- Yesterday's 30-to-2 committee ny-IE?n Mrs. B, H. Mayfield, Minard al- 1were known. The results ase sched- | (with 15 nations abstaining and old, Lt. Peterson, Sgt, Brennin, Fred three absent) put the conference a Jones, D. A, Highet, Gordon Tryg- |long step ahead. The action as- stad,John Raft, Joe Fulgencil, Leon sures the Big Powers control of the 'Gongalis, Lucille Edward, Andrew | Security Council of the world organ- Brotcher, Dorothy Tyner, Flaviano {ization in trying to settle disputes Muring, Cpl. Fred Morgan, Mary }rlmer by peaceful means or by force. Sassone and M. Atwood. !The only restriction is thdat when| From Juneau to Anchorage: Q. Mary Sassone, of Anchorage, has one of the powers is party to a Jackson, E. J. Smiley, B. A. Gillian, dispyte it cannot participate in a'J. C. Hill, Paul Haylelett, Imogene decision on, that particular dispute. Johnson and Charles Bailey.