The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 16, 1945, Page 1

TWE LIBRARY 0OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD JUL 181945 [ S — THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 9990 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1945 ME.MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT S ALLIED FLEETS MAKE NEW MOVEMENTS TRUMAN T0 COME WEST NEXT WEEK Will Visit bl—ympia, Then Go fo San Francisco- Trip to Big 3 Meet WASHINGTON, dent Truman plans to travel ap- proximately 16,500 miles within the | next 30 to 40 days. June 16.—Presi- | | Here’s how he vn]l build up that mileage: From Washington Wash.,, to Ol_vmpia,! then to San Francisco and back to Washington; then to Kan-| sas City and back to Washington; then across the Atlantic to meet Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Church- ill in the vicinity of Berlin. The White House disclosed llnt Mr. Truman plans to address the closing session of the United Na-| tions Conference at San Francisco Saturday, June 23. Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross announced the Big Three meeting will be held near the German cap- ital at a date yet to be disclosed. Ross said the President would fly to Olympia Tuesday or Wednes- day, probably Tuesday, to be the guest of Gov. Mon C. Wallgren, who was in the Senate with Mr. Truman. From Olympia Mr. Tru- man will fly to San Francisco the day before his address, After returning to Washington, probably June 24, the President will make another flying trip to Kan- sas City June 26 to attend home- coming. celebrations at nearby In- dependence that afternoon and at Kansas City the next day. Before leaving for the Middle ‘West Mr. Truman will confer with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York at the White House on June 25. 4 et et STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 16. — Closing quetation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is T4, American Can 973, Anaconda 34%, Curgiss-Wright 6%, International Harvester 88'%, Kennecott 38%, New York#Central 297%, Northern Pacific 327%, U. S. Steel 69':. Sales today were 1,100,- 000 shares. » Dow, Jones avelages today alo as follows: Industrials, 167.55; rails, 61.13; utiities, 32.52. The Washington Merry - Go-Roun By DREW PEARSON | Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON.—There is a lot| more than meets the eye behind | the aryest of two State Department.| officials and one naval officer on a charge of passing out secret docu- ments to magazine writers. Chief factor behind it is the in- tense, cut-throat rivalry between two Chinese factions—Chiang Kai- Shek’s war lords in the south of China and the so-called Chinese Communists (actually an agrarian arty) in the north. Mixed up in all this is the ac- tion of the Chinese Secret Service operating under cover in the USA| rgainst anyone opposed to Chiang Kai-Shek. Also involved is thej prima donna temperament of a very temperamental U. S. ambas- sador; and finally the issue of whether the United States will get, itself caught between Chinese po- litical factions the same way it has| between Polish factions. It so happens that all three of the young Far Eastern experts ar- rested in the Navy and State De- partment believe ardently that the USA is backing the wrong horse in China. They feel that the North- ern | Chinese - Government is much moré representative of the Chinese people, has done more fighting against Japan, and that Chiang Kai-Shek is chiefly an impotent| prisoner of his oyn southern war| lords. Moreover, these three are not alone in this belief. General Stil- well emphatically believed it and was ousted from China as a re- sult. John R. Davies, Secretary of the American Embassy, also be- lieved it and was ousted by Ambas- (Continued on Page Four) !New York Tuesday. 'YANKS MAKE |valley where the climactic battles of and Independence, Mo, ! | i The bodi COLET.MAY IS KILLED ON OKINAWA FRONT GUAM, June 16—Col. Edwin T. | May, whose 383rd Regiment of the 96th Army Division, provided ihe “break through” that opened the Japanese Shuri Line on Okinawa, was killed by machinegun fire June 5, it is disclosed, May was Killed from his command post mear village. Cemmand was assumed by Lt. Col. Dewitt Ballard of Rawlins, Wyo. Colonel May, a native of Cleve- land, Ohio, joined the Massachu- setts Naticnal Guard in the First | World War and served overseas for ‘two years. He was awarded the | Silver Star for gallantry in the Leyte | campaign in the Philippines earlier this year. EISENHOWER HOMEBOUND PARIS, June 16.—Gen. Eisenhower | | took off today for the United States where a hero’s acclaim awaits him in Washington, New York and his |Kansas home town, Abilene. | Eisenhower planned to stop off m; Bermuda for several hour’s rest. He is due in Washington Monday and as he* watched Iwa ADVANCE ON LUZON JSLE MANILA, June 16.—After months | or tortuous campaigning through Northern Philippine mountains, the | U. S. 37th Infantry broke out onto! the broad plains of Cagayan valley in a 22 mile advance in 24 hours. Two towns were liberated in the Luzon Island are expected. Al other Yank divisions in the Philip- “pine made small advances, i BLUE DIVISION UNDER ATTACK OF FRENCHMEN PARIS, June 16. — Reports re- ceived here today said 12 persons were killed and nearly 100 wounded in a riot at Chambery, 52 miles east of Lyon, when angry French- men attacked a train transporting members of the Spanish Blue Di- vision through France to Spain. The Blue Division was recruited in Spain to fight on the side ori‘ Germany against the Russians on the Eastern front. The train was diverted toward Switzerland, with the dead and wounded still aboard. Japanese Charge that Failed of Japanese soldiers who tried 2 Banzai charge near the Maramas airstrip, Mindanao Island, Philippines, lie where they were cut down by machins gun and rifle fire of the 31st U. S. Infantry Divi- (AP Wirephoto from Army Signal Corps) ~ JAP BOMBS ARE FOUND ON BORNEO Fuses Will Be-Attached, then Hurled at Nip Forces on Isle BRUNEI BAY, Borneo, June 16.— The Japanese on Borneo are gom(., to be ducking their own bombs) soon. Flight Lt. Harry Belcher. Com- mander of the RAAF bomb disposal unit, reported the discovery of more than 4,000 enemy bombs during the | week in caves, tunnels and under i buildings on Labuan Island. They were without fuses, however, | land it was feared they were des- nned for the junk dump. Then the Australians found a large store of | fuses in a cave which was cleared| of Japanese yesterday and Belcher reported there were plenty to arm all the recovered bombs. The Labuan airfield, nearly a mile long, is rapidly nearing condition to accommodate combat planes. Small observation planes are already us- ing it. A new Japanese use of bombs waa encountered today on the perimeter | of the last remaining enemy pocket { " |TYPHOONTHREAT | FACING OUR MEN | OFF JAP COAST” WAS! HINGTON June 16.—With! !the final mop-up of enemy forces on Okmdvm in sight, American fol(es' rm that island in Japan's backyard | |now are facing another serious, but| Inatural threat, the annual typhoon ! | season. } Navy meteorological charts show- ‘m;z the path of typhoons in the area ileok like pictures of giant spiders with Okinawa as the body and the “ypoon paths as the legs. That factor undoubtedly weighed | heavily in planning the Okinawa action, since records show the per- ‘md from January to April as having |the area's lowest typhoon expect- |ancy. In May, typhoons begin to appear ‘In June, two major paths are fol- {lowed, one across the northern \Phxllppmes to the China coast and <tbe other therough the Okinawa ‘group into southern Japan. From /1901 to 1940 there was an average| jof one typhoon every June in that area, | Junly, August and early Septem- |ber, is the height of the typhoor |season in this area, averaging three to four per month. Then the China |Sea, the Okinawa group, the Japa- nese Sea and western Japan are pa :ucular!y dangerous areas. There- |after through December typhoons jare less frequent. By a freak of nature, the China flm(lvx.\ of the Big Power bloc hope ! to win out on this issue tonight. |this and the vote |that the amending conference | because the ropes were cut pre- on Labuan, about 1,000 yards wesl’:‘:‘afll n]cnr the Yangtze river is| of the airfield. The enemy suspended | * tgh‘;‘“y “’el‘l’ of typhoons, their| the bombs in trees with ropes and|Paths normally turning northward| as tanks rumbled past cut the ropes. | before reaching that coast. Obvious- The tactic was ineffective, however, |\Y» this tremendous natural force| imust be taken into consideration in {any plans for future operations in| that area. . ‘ Amelie Rives Passes Away CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Jum‘ 16.—Amelie Rives, author, who in| private life was Princess Tmub?t/- 1 koy, died here last night after a lon'> iliness. | Princess Troubetzkoy, who undm‘ ' her maiden name of Amelie Rives was widely known to readers of| romantic fiction in the nineties, died | around midnight in a nursing home | where she had been during the p'lst‘ |wmter and spring. maturely. The Japanese are strongly en-, trenched in concealed positions on a | swamp surrounded ridge and armed with many automatic weapons. They apparently chose the position care- fully as the best in the area for a| final stand. Snipers hiding . jn the' treetops | caused numerols muflfiq&. At one | spot the enemy .laft: one of the| swords so prized both by the Aussies | | and Americans as Souvenirs. Three Aussies found it and as they de- lightedly examined it, a Japanese ! sniper shot them all, Reconversion Bill Would Aid Industry WASHINGTON, June 16.—Plans were laid today to speed through | Congress a tax revision program designed to improve the cash posi- tion of business and industry by $5,000,000,000 during reconversion. Chairman Doughton (D.-N.C.) of | the Fouse Ways and Means Com- mittee, announced he will introduce the business-aid tax bill Monday. Rep. Knutson (R.-Minn.), Repub- lican leader of the tax-framing com- | mittee, predicted hearings can be completed and the bill passed by the House within a week or 10 days. The committee expects to open public hearings Tuesday. - e METSKER HERE Sylbert Metsker, of Petersburg, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. MIKOLAJCYK IS | OFF TO MOSCOW| LONDON, June 16. — Slanlshw{ Mikolajczyk, former Polish Premier ! flew to Moscow today to confer on reorganizing the Warsaw govern- ment while a second postwar dispute Britain was reported authoritatively to have rejected France's proposal for a Five-Power discussion of Mid- dle East problems. Both developments were prelim- inaries to the next Big Three con- ference, scheduled in Berlin some- time before July 26. DEFEAT SEEN FORCHARTER ~ REVISE VOTE Sovuet Re-opens Issue on | Assembly Debate of Any Aspect of Relations By John M. Hightower (Assaciated Press Diplomatic News Editor) SAN FRANCISCO, June 16— Small nation oppositin to a Big Five veto over future changes in a world security charter is cracking up and | It is one of three which confer- ence committees are struggling to wipe out this weekend, in line with a speed schedule which calls for President Truman to address a final session of the United Nations Con- ference next Saturday. The other two controversies are: 1-—Whether colonial powe ch as Britain and PFrance, should be directed to make reports on their | colonies to the proposed new league. Australia proposes that they should. The two big powers bbject. | 2—~Whether the projected general assembly of United Nations should be empowered to debate any aspect of international relations or only matters concerned with peace and | security. This is an old issue, pre- vicusly settled over Russian objec- tion in favor of the right to debate jany international affair. But Rus- sia has insisted that it be xeopened dcmanding the peace-and-security restietion. -~ Discussion of a Big Five veto over future amendments produced a long and sometimes sharp session of a conference committee last night. In its course, Senator Henri Rolin of Belgium said he probably would be accused of inconsistency, but it was the unanimous opinion of the Bel- gian delegation that the veto over| future amendments should be al- lowed. ! Earlier, the committee produced a temporary split in ranks of the big powers when France voted with the | small nations on two plans for auto- | matic revision of the charter. 1—Canada and Brazil jointly pro-| posed that between five and ten! years after the league is set up a meeting should be held to overhaul the charter, The Big Four opposed was 23 for, 17 against, 9 not voting and one ab- sent. A two-thirds vote was re- quired, so the proposal failed nar- rowly. 2—Sculth Africa then proposed:| be held any time within 10 years. This | also failed with 28 for and 17 against: | | France voted with the majority of small nations in both cases. Thereupon Hamilton Fish Arm- strong, representing the Unued, States, offered a compromise: If the | charter were not revised within ten | years, then at the end of that per- ord the general assembly should automatically consider holding one. Several delegates hailed this as a “Conciliatory” proposal. \ But finally, despite the applnuse- no action was taken on the Ameri- can compromise . Last night several members urged Lhat the whale question be reopened. This appeared possible today, with sentiment again swinging to the Soum African proposal 'BIG THREE MEET BEFORE JULY 26 LONDON, June 16.—Blackened Berlin will be the scene sometime | before July 26 of the next Big Three conference. This is made official by an an- nouncement from 10 Downing Street, official residence of Prime Minister Churchill. A spokesman said the date had not been fixed definitely, but the Prime Minister himself had said it wbuld be before July 26. 'BOB HOPE GOING OVERSEAS AGAIN HOLLYWOOD, June 16—Bob Hope plans to leave by plane today for New York where he will depart for a second European trip to enter- tain servicemen. Comedians Jerry Colonna, Jack Pepper and Roger Price and other entertainers will | Nazi radio as “Lord Haw Haw,’ FIRST SPAR SHINES ON ALASKA member of the first arriving group isaU.S. Coast Guard Dhoto. st BULLETINS | WASHINGTON_General of the‘ Army George C. Marshal, Fleet Ad- | miral Ernest J. King and. Cvem-ra A. A. Vandegrift, Marine Corps Commandant, told Congress today universal military training is the foundation of the nation’s future | security PORELAND, Ore.—Pacific Coast | ship repair yards, urgently in need of 30,000 more workers, will begin interregional recruiting at once, Fay W. Hunter, Regional War Manpow- er Director, announced today. WALLA WALLA — Nine airmen were killed yesterday in the crash of a B-24 Liberator near the Walla Walla Army air field. ¢ LONDON—William Joyce the re- negade Englishman who served the " was flown to London today from Brus- sels, Scotland Yard said Joyce was aken to Bow Street and charged, and will appear before the mag- istrates on Monday.” There was 1o amplification as to the nature of the charge. BRUSSELS—The Belgian Cabinet has resigned in anticipation of the return of King Leopold which is expected tomorraw. GUAM American troops on Okinawa have opened artillery fire on one of the three hills still in Jap hands. WASHINGTO! As the result of | Presidential seizure crders, the Of- fice of Defense Transportation took control of Chicago's trucking indus- try today while employees of the Scranton Transit Company ended a 27-day strike. The seizure order, is- sued in Washington yesterday, stem- med from a long-standing contro- versy over wages and hours. Mean- ‘while, striking bus drivers and mechanics in eight Southern States were ordered by the War Labor Board to return to their jobs by Monday. ————— O'KELLY CHOSEN | DUBLIN, June 16—The Irish Press, organ of the Eire government, said today that Sean T. O'Kelly had been elected President of Eire. The FORERUNNER OF OTHERS to follow down the same gangplank, the first of SPARs in Alaska smiles happy response to her welcome as she steps ashore at an unnamed port. She is Margaret E. Prior, pharmacist’s mate, of Los Angeles, Calif. She and her companions will relieve Coast Guardsmen for combat assignments. This (International Soundphoto) NAZI MINES WERE LAID DOWN, COAST Many Ports on Aflantic| Forced fo Close for Days af a Time WASHING’!ON June 16.—Mines planted by German submarines out- side principal east cost ports, took such a heavy toll in shipping in 1942 and 1943 the ports were forced to close for days at a time The Navy related yesterday that the ports, including New York's, had to be closed to ocean traffic while mines were cleared from harbor channels. Other ports similarly bottled up for brief periods included Norfolk and Newport News, Va. Baltimore, Md.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Charleston, 8. C., and Wilmington, Del. In addition, the Navy disclosed 10 enemy mines were swept from waters at the entrance to Canal in the vicinity of Colon, and t off Port Castries, Santa sh West Indies. NipsRefreat FromBurma CHUNGKING, June 16.—Chinese reperted fighting around four towns on the approaches to the Conton-| Hongkong area. China-based U. 8. Air Forces strafed enemy troop columns, knock- od cut 19 locomotives and 17 river boat Brmsh artillery and mortars help- ed speed the Nipponese retreat from Burma, THOUSANDS OF EIRE PRESIDENT AMERICANS ARE | JAP PRISONERS MANILA, June 16—Only 1447 ( [ the Panama | 85-year-old incumbent, Dr. Douglas men of more than 18,000 American | Hyde, declined to seek re-elction. | Army and Navy personnel captured |NVASION OF 'BORNEO IS INDICATED Fortress Truk in Carolines Bombarded by Navy, Carrier Units 'INCREASED ACTIVITY AROUND OKINAWA ISLE Mines laidWSuperfofls— Patrols Within 200 Miles of Japan By LEONARD MILLIMAN (Associated Press War Editor) Three widely separated Allied fleet movements were reported by Tokyo radio today, involving a threatened i third invasion of Borneo, the first | naval bombardment of the by-pass- ed Truk Island fortress, and “sud- denly increased” activity in Okinawa | waters. The three . unconfirmed actions | were about 2,500 miles apart at the | points af a triangle reaching up to | Japan’s home waters, deep into the | Dutch Indies and well out into the | Pacific. 3 More than 20 warships, including a carrier and three battleships, were |naid to be nearing Balikpapan, Bor- | neo’s major ofl refinery center. The i report coincided with an Allied an- inmmcemem that Australian. troops Ihad seized alb ‘inftial objectives of their second Borneo invasion, begun only last Sunday, with the capture |of their third airfield on Brunei Bay. A great inerease in American naval forces around Okinawa, Tokyo | satd, “may peint fo an enemy scheme to laun¢h fresh operations against the Japanese homeland.” | With less than 10,000 mostly sec- jond rate Japanese troops left on | Okinawa, the “final phase” of the ground campaign on this naval and air base island will be over in less’ Ithan a week, sald Lt. Gen. Simon | Bolivar Buckner, Jr., whose Tenth I Army troops narrowed the Nippon- ese hold to elght square miles. Naval bombardment of Truk, | Tokyo. said, was carrfed out yester- {day by two crulsers and four de- | stroyers in conjunction with a car- {rier attack which reached its third | successive day today. The Japanese offered no explanation for his at- tack, presumably by British forces, on the once mighty Nipponese base in the Caroline Islands. | | | | Tokyo also reported more than 25 Superforts made four mine-laying expeditions into Japanese waters {during the early morning hours. | These mines are taking an unknown toll of the Mikado's shipping in addition to the daily announced bags of air raiders. Today’s reports list- ed 14 coastal vessels and schooners sunk and six wrecked on the ways— | mostly in Shanghai waters. While hundreds of American war- ships, loaded cargo vessels and land- lng craft are pouring into Okinawa | waters, Tokyo said, U. S. Naval patrols have been extended to within 200 miles of Japan. . To meet this threat Japanese were reported converting their nearest island, Kyushu, “into one large fort- ress at amazing speed.” Naval guns strongly supported { three Yank divisions which have badly bent the enemy’s suicide line on Okinawa, Ninety-sixth Division infantrymén drove deeper into the northernfront behind tanks and flame-throwers and covered by their own guns mounted on Yaeju Hill, which the Yanks have renamed “The Big Ap- | ple” One force of the 96th as- saulted twin-peaked Yuza Hill from which the Japanese were directing a heavy fire into the flank of the First Marines at the west end of the line. 'Cholera Epidemic Grips Chungking: CHUNGKING, June 16—~chung-, king was gripped by a cholera epi-| demic today, and authorities were battling to combat its spread. Precise figures have not beenw available, but threé hospitals alone| received 200 cases during the pfls!] | accompany him. few days, it was learned. | by the Japanese on Bataan and Cor- regidor have been liberated, Gen. ! Douglas MacArthur’s headquarters disclosed today. Another 3,260 who made the “death march” or were captured on “The Rock,” have been officially reported dead. A large majority of the 13,- 1 000 unaccounted for are believed to !be held in prison camps in Japan, { China and Formosa. > LORA WITTEN HERE Lora Witten, of Seattle, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel, EARTH SHOCKS VANCOUVER, B. C.,, June 16.+ Vancouver, also Nanimo and the lower mainland of Vancouver Island, felt an earthquake shock late yes- terday. ‘The tremors rattled windows here and in the suburbs and knocked articles off shelves in stores and restaurants.