The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 15, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 9989 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1945 NAVY POUNDS NIP Supers Set Osak Carrier Saratoga, Badly | Damaged af Iwo Jima, Is Repaired, Back in Action INDUSTRIAL JAP CENTER 1S POUNDED Okinawa Campaign Near- ing End-Thousands of Japs Surrender By LEONARD MILLIMAN (Associated Press War Editor) Superforts set fire to Osaka in up to a rate of 2,000,000 tons a NEW FIGHT DEVELOPS AT FRISCO ‘l By POPE HALEY | WASHINGTON, June 15—The Navy disclosed today that the fa- mous old aircraft carrier Saratoga had sustained tremendous damage| in the early stages of the battle of yTwa Jima. % But, it was stated triumphantly,: she has now been fully repaired, and' is back in there, pitching again. The casualties included 123 Kkilled,' MEMBI YWE LIBRARY OF SERIAL RECORD i JUL 181945 ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = e —— ASTION IN KURILES GOPY e e a Afire In Incendiary Raid MUSTHAVE . AIRCRAFT, I HAS PRAISE ISENHOWER WAIL NIPS| ALL FORCES Jap Propag_aaiists Admit Commander_G—ives High Low Plane Production Is Beating Them SAN FRANCISCO, June 15. Japanese today they were being beaten by lack of aircraft production, which called to a conference on “enforce- Points in Hour-long Talk to Correspondents f SUPREME HEADQUARTERS AL- propagandists admntediLIF.D EXPEDITIONARY F‘ORCE,‘ June 15.—Gen. Eisenhower told a press conference today that the Al- unified force. BULLETINS | | PARIS—Gen. Eisenhower express- ‘ ed the belief today that even should Adolf Hitler be alive, his punishment is worse than death—ghat of “being | | hunted in disguise and under-| ground.” The Supreme Commander | Von Ribbentrop Taken Alive;ManhuntforNazi Official Comesto End TIMES, 1 DAY MONTG OMERY'S HEAD- QUARTERS, Germany, June 15. ~—Joachim von Ribbentrop shar- ed a Hamburg apartmept with a pretty 35-year-old brunette divorcee and claimed to his cap- MATSUWAIS SMASHED 2 ?U. S. Cruisers, Destroyers | Dump Thousands of tors he was on a “mission from the dead Fuehrer” when cap- tured, it was disclosed officially tonight after the former Ger- man Foreign Minister was cap- ‘ Poundfl Shells By OLEN CLEMENTS (Associated Press War Correspondent) | ABOARD A UNITED STATES iDES’I’ROYER IN THE NORTH a 3,000-ton incendiary raid today Several difsct bomb hits, includ L ’ ¥ | as & comibed | 5 8, -'has been wrecked by American Med invasion of Europe last June|told correspondents that the Rus- tured naked. af gent @ D g e ing some by sulcide-planes, struck 'bombing raids, as the home islands’ {Succeeded only because the air. 5ea | sians informed him “we have grave | s ripsin i Mt e InDing ‘aEEKAL WA B BITH o . lthe carrier, causing 315 casualties.'eight regional Superintendents weré and ground forces fought as a single | doubts” that Hitler is dead. | By DANIEL DE LUCE 'Nsrth P:ci?lc BV:“M\:; J: t _u Small Nations Want Revis- - » pan year, making Japan “a terrible place to live in.” Japanese ground forces began to crack up on Okinawa, fled on Bor- neo, and withdrew on two vital China fronts, but still fought stub- born delaying actions in the Philip- | ion of Projected Se- curity Charter By John M. Hightower (Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) missing or dead of wounds, and 192' wounded. | The fleet's oldest surviving carrier, the “Sara,” previously had twice suffered serious damage from tor-! pedo attacks but the Iwo Jima ac- ment of war measures.” Radio Tokyo, broadcasting from a war analysis in the Tokyo news- jous threat posed by increased American air, supply and repair bases on Okinawa and asserted “his Speaking with great frankness, the Supreme Commander said that many jAllied Officers actually doubted affectionately known to all hands as paper Mainchi, emphasized the ser~'that an invasion. of Europe was| i possible. The cooperation of all arms which imudo the feat possible, he added, WASHINGTON—The Army has| | suspended its rotation plan in all theatres of operations *“now that Germany has surrendered. The War | | Department, however, has provided | that military personnel stationed in | active theatres may be returned to | (Associated Press Correspondent) FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOM- ERY'S HEADQUARTERS, Ger- many, June 15—Nazi Foreign Min- | ister Joachim von Ribbentrop was | captured yesterday as he slept nude in a Hamburg boarding house,| bringing to a close the most in- | principal central Kuriles Island bas- | tion—Matsuwa—twice in the last 24 hours in long distance daylight raids far from friendly air cover. Thousands of pounds of shells wer2 dumped on the sambrero-shap- ed island, 480 miles northeast of the Japanese home islands, during the pines, o5 tion marked the first time she ever i . was carried on through V-E Day. ' ' | nuwerican military. leaders were| SAN FRANCISCO, June 15—SeV-|paq received crippling damage rrom‘:'“:m:c;m rpl;et;;m:}ations e e Wit e m;, points my the :hi c:;::';gl on temporary duty for | oo manhunt in Europe since afternoons of yesterday and today. quoted in Washington as expecting | €ral small nations resentful of big|he gy, i 0,__; e ey Aty {$1our-long conference during which i : V-E Day. | Rear Adm. J. H. Brown, Jr, of power leadership may rally enough | i FOEEN.. I AER ‘ ST Von Ribbentrop, understood to be | Washington, D. C., took the task that “either Japan will surrender United Nations Conference votes .0- The attack came in February 21, planes are superior,” the broadcastl {Eisenhower invited the correspcen- SEATTLE—The motorship North wanted by the governments of at| force of cruisers and destroyers within the next 90 days or the war| 2 0 will be of long duration—a matter |day to force revision of the proj- of attrition.” The words are those|ected World Security charter in 5 of Rep. Cannon (D-Mo.) Chairman | 0 10 years. of the House Appropriations Com-| A late afternoon showdown mittee. this issue, which stems from dents to ask about anything which ihnd been bothering them during his | threc-year stay in Europe: Star has been returned to the Office of Indian®Affairs as a supply ship. The craft was taken over by the Coast Guard for East Coast duty. Capt. Charles H. Salenjus will be in command. two days after Iwo Jima D-Day, a5 pogsted, even as it bewailed the she was cruising with a fast carrier 1o of airforce, and added: cask group northeast of the island. | .. i 5 | “In order to smash the enemy. The Nevy' desuibsd ' the action seeking to invade our homeland, against “Sara” as “one of the most| i toncentrated attacks in which a car-| o oily et 1h 5o LR ot. through heavy seas to close inshore in a pea soup fog. Destroyer decks were awash and gun crews drenched by the eold seas as they fired by instrument at least 10 nations to stand trial for war crimes, was the last top-ranking ! Nazi known to be alive who had| eluded capture. A metal can of poison was found strapped to his | on the 1--The continued application of the non-fraternization rule in the General Arnold, chief of Army air forces, on a tour of Superfort bases in the Marianas, said ‘“we are just starting with the B-29s” which will wreak “utter destruc- tion” on Japan. To Step Up Attacks In about two weeks, he promised, power of their attacks will be step- ped up to 2,000,000 tons a year. This means that every two weeks the Superforts will let loose a bomb tonnage equalling the entire weight of explosives they have thus far rained on Japan. Already, said B-29 Commander Maj. Gen. Curtis LeMay, Super- forts have heavily damaged the five cities that Arnold said must be destroyed — Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kobe and Osaka. “It is just a matter of time” LeMay said, “until we get everything of value in Japan.” Plants Are Bombed Today they got machine tool, chemical, propeller plants and other war industries in Osaka and neigh- boring Amagasaki. The strike on Japan’s greatest industrial city was made by 520 Superforts on the first anniversary of their initial raid on (Continued on Page Thiee) The Washingion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—The State De- partment isn't announcing it, but Italian Ambassador Tarchiani has made an unusual move by propos- ing that Italy declare war against Japan and help supply troops for the Pacific war. The State Department took the matter under advisement, and after some deliberation with the British, poth governments agreed to ap- prove an Italian declaration of war against Mussolini’s old Axis. part- ner, Japan. However, here is the catch. Both the British and American Govern- ments refuse to make any commit- ments to supply shipping or to per- mit Italian troops to participate in the fighting. What the Italian Government will decide to do under the circum- stances remains’to be seen. MARITIME SCANDALS Senator George Aiken, liberal Vermont Republican, is preparing a hot blast against one of the weak spots in the old Roosevelt Adrain- istration—the Maritime Commission. The blast isn't going to help Chair- man Emory Land’s ambition to be/ a full admiral. Senator Aiken will point out that four separate reports by Comp- troller-General ~Lindsay ~ Warren, describing Maritime Commission’s misuse of public funds, have been —_— (Continued on Page Four) ‘now-cnded fight over the veto, ap- pears certain, with preliminary signs indicating a close battle. Behind the scenes the small na- tions are saying they are not sure the veto voting formula will work. { It would give the Big-Five full con- trol of Security Council action, and action it did not like. If five years or more of experience show it unworkable, they contend they want to change it. If they can | possibly arrange it they do not want any one of the big nations to be fable to veto the change. The Big Five admit that possibly the charter may have to be amend- ed some day. But they argue that {no time limit should be fixed. A ilimit, they contend, might compel | calling a conference on charter re- :vismn Jjust when the league is meet- ing its severest test. The conference leadership is shooting for a settlement of these Eand related issues this week, A full i schedule of both open committee 'meetmgs and closed committee ses- | sions has been set up for the next Hecale Straif ls: Swept by Gale; Lives Are Lost VANCOUVER, B. C., June 15— | (Canadian Press)—Two Vancouver | {fish boats are wrecked, and several others damaged, following a fierce four-day coastal gale which swept through Hecate Straits, 450 miles northwest of Vancouver. Two Vancouver men are known| {to have died after their 43-foot! vessel, Eight Bells, was shipwrecked{ in the gale. Two others aboard the | Eight Bells are recovering in a hos- |pital. The vessel was fishing for| the B. C, Packers Limited. Com- pany officlals said the Regal I,; another of their vessels, suffered' | undetermined damage when she| was beached. However, all mem- bers of her crew escaped. i 1 dogfishr for the Canadian Fishing | Company, were lost in the storm. (Al members of the crews were! |safe. Company officials estimated | fishermen working for them in the | | Hecate Straits area lost between ! $10,000 and $20,000 in fishing gear | |during the storm. They said they | believed several other vessels were ! damaged. Officials of both companies said | they understood planes were search- | ling the area for missing craft. i g MRS. BJORGE VISITS Mrs. H. Bjorge is here from her] |home in Wrangell and is registered Jat the Baranof Hotel. any one of them could block an| rier has survived, which might have sunk any other ship.” A record-' breaking repair job at the Puget‘ Sound Navy Yard, however, has al-| ready returned the huge flattop to the fighting line. | “The Saratoga,” said the yard’s | hull superintendent, “was the most extensively damaged vessel the Puget | | Sound Navy Yard had received. She | | received more varied types of dam- | |{age all at once than any ship we've| seen since Pearl Harbor.” The carrier was launching her| planes in Iwo Jima action when an | estimated nine or ten Japanese bombers, all believed to be on sui- cide missions, closed in. Four were | shot down by the ship's anti-aircraft {guns and pilots in the air, but four| others managed to crash and bomb| ithe ship. A fifth, after it was| {knocked down alongside the vessel, caromed off the water and exploded, | these superior aircraft.” The eight area Superintendents were called to conference next Tuesday with members of the Jap- an reported. Means of continuing de- fense regionally, if areas are iso lated by invasion, will be the theme of the meeting. Supply of Butfer for Alaska Cut SEATTLE, June 15—Release of tearing a large hole in the carrier's{Putter to civilian outlets in west- Iside. A bomb from another plane|€'n Washington, particularly in blew & hole in the ship's side below |Seattle and Tacoma, must be the waterline, rupturing many fuel| “halved” starting today'to supply {cil lines. Water rushed in, and the |Alaska needs, R. S. Waltz, General ship took a-six degree list. Manager of the United Dairymen's few days. “Fires broke out and burning Association, told a House committec ! TR e T, | planes and fuel scattered over great|investigating the nation's food ereas of the ship,” the Navy re-|shortages. Waltz testified the Gov- Reich depends upon the attitude of the German people themselves and upon how soon Nazi elements are wiped out., .2—The German nation as a whole has “no sense of war guilt” and, while many Germans closed their eyes to atrocities, many others did not.” 3—Field Marshal von Rundstedt was the greatest general the Allies faced; the late Field Marshall Rom- mel was bold but unskilled; German military men did not respect Hitler's strategic planning but in 1943, par- ticularly, Hitler ran his campaigns almost alone. 4—The Allied armies were the best equipped in the world, but German Tiger and Panther tanks were super- ior in head-on slugging matches un- til the Pershings came into the field, and German rocket projectors, all- purpose 88-MM guns and jet planes were outstanding weapens. 5—The German general staff knew the war was over the third day of the Ardennes offensive last December, when it failed to take primary objec- tives, and that Germany lost the ability to contifue the fight when Gen. Patton’s sweep south through Saar to meet Lt. Gen, Alexander M. “Two 30-foot gillnetters, fishing | port said. “The forward part of the | flight deck was battered beyond use. One enemy suicider penetrated the side of the ship into the hangar deck where he exploded to cause a great' fire.” In spite of her damage, however, the carrier was able to proceed. Many heroic acts prevented even greater casualties and damage. In one instance, an officer and two en- listed men were lowered over the ship's side to fight flames, and with the vessel under way at 25 knots fishermen are dead, at least three|they managed to bring the fire un- der control. e 16 DEAD IN TRAINCRASH ‘WILLTAMSPORT, Pa., June 15.— Two crewmen and at least 14 pas- sengers were killed early today when an engine and six cars of a Penn- sylvania Railroad westbound Wash- ington-Buffalo passenger train were derailed at nearby Milton, Pa., a spokesman for the railroad here said. An undetermined number of per- sons were injured. The accident occurred at 1:08 a. m., officials said, when the pas- senger train strueck an eastbound freight train car which had buckled and fallen across the westbound tracks. Two welding units from Milton were used to cut open cars to rescue passengers. - e, ———— LEONE JOHNSON ARRIVES Leone Johnson, of Winton, Min- nesota, has arrived in Juneau and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. . ernment has ruled that Alaska must be supplied out of local civil- ian “free butter” quotas and not, las formerly, out of the Govern- ment “set-out” quota. He also asserted Federal authori- |ties have earmarked - 40,800,000 pounds of butter for shipment to Russia in the next 12 months. “It means the public in Seattle and Tacoma and adjacent territory will receive approximately 25 per cent of the butter they have the ability to purchase, ration stamps locally considered.” He said that 3,700,000 pounds of butter has been allocated to civilian needs of Hawaii out of “set-aside stocks” whereas Alaska butter must be drawn from already meager western Washington civilian stocks, and Alaska will ~ “receive very meager supplies.” SUPPLY TO'BE CUT WASHINGTON, June 15—A skimpier butter supply for Alaska after June 30 was foreseen today. Effective then, the War Food Administration will order that Alaska butter supplies no longer be drawn from the Government's set-aside quota, the office of Sen. Mitchell (D-Wash.) said. The ef- fect will be that Alaska buyers will then have to compete in the open Washington state commercial mar- ket with other buyers. Alaskans eat about pounds of butter annually. e - LT. CARO RETURNS Lt. Warren M. Caro, USCG, Captain of the Port, Juneau, has returned to his Juneau office- fol- lowing a week on special duty at the Coast Guard District Head- quarters, Ketchikan, e — [ MR., MRS. REIFF HERE Mr. and Mrs. Reiff, of Sifka, are guests at the Baranof Hotel. 2,000,000 Patch’s Seventh Army wiped out a large body of German troops. 6—The Supreme Commander’s most anxious night was Nov. 7, 1942, when the Allies invaded North Africa. 2 e — CANADA FALLING DOWNIN WAR ON PACIFIC FRONT OTTAWA, June 15—Cangda’s system of voluntary enlistment for the war against Japan “is failing to meet the need promptly,” the conservative, pro-conscriptionist Montreal Gazette declared in its leading editorial today. Pointing out that the Canadian ob- | jective of raising 30,000 army troops for the Pacific was still 2,500 short, the Gazette declared that “it would appear that even before we enter the new phase of the war, we have encountered our old difficulties.” In last year’s crisis, the Govern- ment adopted partial conscription to meet the *problem, drafting 16,000 troops from the Home Defense Army which had declined to volunteer for service abroad. S " STOCK QUOTATIONS | | NEW YORK, June 15. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 7., American Can | 99%, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright | 6%, International Harvester 88, ! Kennecott. 38%, New York Central | 29%, Northern Pacific 32%, U. 8. | Steel 69%. Sales today totalled 1,- 900,000 shares. Pow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials;/167.64; rails, 160,60; (utilities, 32.52, MOSCOW — Japanese scientists were not invited to the jubilee cele- bration of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, which opened today with 1,000 from Russia and the rest of the world attending. Some 16 Am- erican scientists were among the guests. | ! WASHINGTON — The War De- partment promised today to allow families and fiancees of servicemen in occupied Europe to join them | “when conditions permit.” WASHINGTON-—American troops in Germany will be withdrawn from | the Russian zone of occupation by June 21 and set up in the Ameriean or British zones. WASHINGTON — The Army is' ready in the event of a sudden Japa- nese surrender to cut back 90 per | |cent of its contracts within 48 hours, Director of Materiel Howard Bruce said today. | WASHINGTON — War Secretary Henry Stimson was on Capitol Hill | today to put his department square- ly behind the plan for peacetime military training. A message from General Eisenhower was read to the | Postwar Military Committee—urging that the country set up a military | training program. | . NEW YORK — The first Purple | Heart parade of the war was held today when thousands turned out to honor 600 wounded vets of both the European and Pacific campaigns. TOKYO—A broadcast says Allled | aircraft have pounded oil refineries at. Balikpagan, Borneo. GUAM—Fire bombs were tossed on Hongkong today by American planes. 2 VET HOSPITALS FOR ALASKA ARE PROPOSED INBILL WASHINGTON, June 15.—Estab- lishment of two 400-bed veterans'| hospitals, one at Seward and one some place in Southeast Alaska, were proposed yesterday in a bill| introduced by Chairman Rankin (D-Miss.) of the House Vetemns‘i Committee. Medalfi}oposed— i For Army, Navy Persons in Alaska WASHINGTON, June 15. — Sen, Magnuson (D-Wash.) has intro- duced a bill which would authorize issuance of medals to all persons who served with the Army or Navy in the Aleutians or west of Sitka. body, but he surrendered this vol- untarily. | The dandified former chlmpagne} salesman who became the engineer | of Hitler's arrogant foreign policy, had béen hiding in Hamburg since April 30. The man who had im- posed his diplomatic will on Europe | had not a friend in all of Germany's | second largest city who would assist | him actively in obtaining a place of | refuge. | Shunned by Friends Von Ribbentrop volunteered the information that he had intended to | hide until British feeling about him | died down, and then attempt to save his life in a trial. He went to | a wine merchant friend, he said—a | man who had known him 25 years. | The merchant shunned him. Von | Ribbentrop, msing the name of| “Riese,” got lodging with an unsus-! pecting landlady. The same wine merchant was brought to British Intelligence Headquarters late yesterday and| there pointed out his erstwhile friend. But identification was made | even more certain. Identified by Sister By keeping the arrest secret over night, British sleuths who had trail- {ed von Ribbentrop across much of western Germany managed to arrest his sister. Today in a tearful and hysterical scene she identified the Foreign Minister. Found on Ribbentrop were three letters. addressed respectively to Field Marshal Montgomery, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and to Prime Minister “Wincent Churchill.” Ribbentrop was aroused from his sieep and admitted his identity. Voluntarily he produced the con- tainer of suicide poison which had been strapped to his body. He was described by his captors as “extremely passive and not a bit truculent.” He was expected to be taken to Lueneberg airfield today on the first leg of a journey to an English prison. BIGTHREE WILL MEET IN BERLIN the island they could not see. Sey- eral thousand shells were expended in the first 20-minufe bombardment. The next afternoon the task force was back and as it formed the column for the bombardment run the fog lifted around the towering Fuyo Yama volcano and exposed the entire island. This destroyer’'s target was an air- strip which was blanketed by shells to keep down any Japanese planes. Many direct hits were scored on the airfield, T il Not a shot was fired from the shore in elther of the attacks and there was no sign of enemy air- planes. These were the fourth and fifth bcmbardments of the voleanie island, which is used by the enemy for a staging ground for the north- arn Kuriles and which is an impor- tant air route stop between Para- mushiro and the home islands. Free Ride o Anchoragefo Be Awarded Woodley A_k;ays Offers Ticket at Bond Premiere at Capifol Theatre | The Wocdley Airways, through dis. ‘rict manager, Charlés Whyte, an- wounces arrangement have been nade with the management of the Japitol theatre to award a free tic- tet to some fortunate person at- ending the bond next Tuesday night, June 19, for an air- slane trip to Anchorage. The ticket will have no cash value, s not transferable but may be used )y the fortunate individual anytime n the future for a plane trip to Anchorage as there is no expiration date. Homer @arvin, manager of the Japitol theatre, said today all special »ond premieve tickets will be num- sered and a duplicate will be placed n a container. Just previous to the howing of the bond premiere fea- ure, “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo,” 1 number will be taken from the ‘ontainer and the holder will be warded the special ticket for the WASHINGTON, June 15. — The | Voodley Airways plane trip to An- White House confirmed today that the forthcoming “Big Three” meet- ing will take place in the vicinity of Berlin. White House Press Secretary Charlets G. Ross made the an- nouncement following a disclosure by Maj. Clement Attlee, British La- bor Party leader, in London, thal Prime Minister Churchill, Marsha ned to get together in the heart o conquered Germany. horage. Mr. Garvin expressed appreciation or the offer of the plane ticket as a ;00d boost in the Juneau drive in he Tth War Bond campaign in this ity. e SITKA MEN HERE Sam James and Ray S. Nillsen, who are with the Selective Service |smnn and President Truman plan.| 't Sitka, have arrived in Juneau and are guests at the Baramof Totel. 0