The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 19, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 9992 [ 4 o - WY JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1945 450 SUPERS DROP BOMBS New Industfiéi—Cenlers Are Seared for First Time- Planes Fly Low 21IST BOMBER COMMAND, GUAM, Wednesday, June 20.—Fly- ing their second fire raid mission against secondary Japanese indus- trial cities, about 450 Superforts struck Shizuoka and Toyohashi on Honshu Island and Fukuoka on Kyushu today. The B-29s dropped their incend- iary loads from low altitude in at- tacks starting about 3 a. m. It was the first fire attack for each of the three cities. Fukuoka, with a population of 328,000, has become increasingly im- portant industrially, with its concen- | tration of ordnance and aircraft fac- tories. It is the capital of north- western Kyushu's industrial and mine prefecture. Toyohashi- is situated 189 miles southwest of Tokyo and has major armament. and explosives factories as well as several military schools. It has a population of about 242,000. The three target cities of this morning’s raid brought to 13 the number of Japanese cities seared by B-29 fire raids. ———— BARTLETT BACK; HE'S SPEECHLESS WASHINGTON, June 19.—Alas- ka's Delegate to Congress is back from Europe, speechless. Delegate E. L. Bartlett went over | as a member of a committee to view | the battlefields. He returned Saturday but has been unable to resume his office | work because of a throat ailment| which has deprived him of his T hree Jap Yanks Find Second Huge Gold Cache Stolen Treasures of Ba- varia, Austria Found in Regenshurg PARIS, June 19.—American troops of- ghe 12th Corps have found securities, gold and jewelry valued at more than $5,000,000,000 hidden by the Germans at Regensburg, Communications Zone Headquarters announced today. Included in the capture in hidden vaults of the Regened Reichsbank was the national wealth of Bavaria and Austria. The cache was more valuable than that found April 7 in the Merken Salt Mine, which in- cluded 200 tons of gold. The treasure was in gold bullion, stolen jewelry and sesurities. Some was known to have been taken from victims of Nazi death camps. MEXICO ASKS CHARTER BAN FRANCO GOVT. General Assembly fo Hold Purse Strings for World Security League (Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) SAN FRANCISCO, June 19—Mex- ico came forward today with a pro- | posal that the Uni#ed Nations per- manently bar the Franco Govern- speech. -—.-— DAVID GARVIN HERE David Garvin, seven-year-old: grandson of Homer Garvin, Capicol: Theatre Manager, arrived in Ju-| neau from Seattle via Pan Ameri-| can last Sunday to join his sister Trene. three years old, and to spend the summer with his gra.ndparents.t The Washingion| Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) Lt. WASHINGTON—Only top insid- ers who watched the close-up of our diplomatic discussions with Russia realize how great was Harry Hopkins' achievements in Moscow. US-USSR relations were at a most serious impasse. Not only was American public opinion aroused gver the whole Polish ques- tion, but . Russian generals were pecoming ‘high-handed and almost ready to throw aside Allied co-! operation. This column carried a series of articles describing our relations with Russia at the time, emphasiz- ing the dangerous deadlock and at- tributing it partly to Red-baiting/ py anti-Russian diplomats, plus Churchill's policy of keeping the United States and the Soviet at; sword’s points, plus the State De-| partment’s old-fashiofied policy of note-writing instead of talking things out face-to-face. Writing notes was the worn-out method Joe Grew used when he got into hot water with Mexico and Nicaragua when he was Under Secretary of State in the Coolidge Administration. However, as with Mexico and Nicaragua, hurling written notes at Moscow only got stalin’s back up. STALIN WRITES TRUMAN For instance, here is one reply which Stalin threw back at Presi- dent Truman regarding Poland just a little over a month ago, at the — (Continued on Page Four) ment of Spain from membership in their world league. Luis Quintanilla, former Mexican Ambassador to Moscow, planned to put the proposition formally before a public session of one of the Uni- ted Nations conference commissions, which are driving toward comple- tion of a world charter this week. His proposal invited argument as'! to whether the conference should attempt to write any specific mem- tership limitations when it is assign- ing to a world assembly the task of admitting outside nations. Quintanilia said he would ask the commission to adopt a declaration stating that no government should be admitted which came to power with the aid of military forces of countries which have fought against the United Nations. End Still Set Saturday The final session of the confer- ence, with President Truman making the closing address, still is scheduled for next Saturday. But it also-is still uncertain whether that date can ke kapt, even with every effort of conference leaders. . Much depends on possible Russian acceptance of a compromise for lim- iting the field of subjects which the assembly may debate and on which it may make recommendations to member nations and . the security council which would be the peace- | enforcing agency. 5 Yesterday Gromyko indicated in a meeting of the Big Five ‘that it might be acceptable and leaders hoped for . final word today. - Un- less it is received, they saw little prospects for a Windup Saturday. Committees at Work Committées, however, were hard at (Continued on Page Two) STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 19. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8, American Can 97%, Anaconda 35%, Curtiss-Wright 6%, International Harvester 87':, Ken- necott 39'%, New York' Central 30, Northern Pacific 32%, U. S. Steel 69%. Sales today were 1,560,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials, 167.25; rails, 61.41; utilities, 32.50. Cities Fire EISENHOWER GIVEN MORE " WARAWARD 'Carries Second Oak Leaf Cluster Leaving Wash- i ington for New York WASHINGTON, June 19. — Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower moved on to- day to new fields of conquest after taking his Nation’s Capital by storm ' with a devastating grin. The White House and its presiding magistrate fell before the General: ingratiating personality in the last frontal assault upon a city whick yielded willingly to his presence. The. sun-tanned General from Kansas and the smiling President from Missouri indulged in an old- fashioned Mid-Western talkfest last night at a White House dinner cli- maxing Eisenhower Day in Wash- ington, Throughout the dinner, the Presi- .dent and the General kept up an animated conversation. Before going in for dinner, the President and the General moved about among the guests, autograph- ing for the G. I1.’s and making them- selves agreeable. After leaving the White House Eisenhower went back to this hotel to rest up for another,celebration “today in New York. . He carried with him a second Oak Leaf Cluster to add to his Dis- tinguished Service medal, an honol presented in the Rose Garden at the White House following a city-wide parade and a joint reception by the 1two Houses of Congress. Eisenhower left with Congress (what he said was the feeling of Yanks everywhere, that the peace “can and must be worked out” sc that their children need never face another war. GREETED IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, June 19.—General of {the Army Dwight D, Eisenhower, | flushed and breathless from the greatest welcome New York ever -had |accorded a returriing hero, told a vast crowd that overflowed City | Hall Park today: . . “If we are going to live the years of peace, we must be strong and we must be ready to cooperate in the spirit of true tolerance and forbear- (ance.” Police estimated that 2,000,000 persons were jammed intd the bunt- ing-draped park and surrounding streets. Four million others, by far | the largest crowd in the city's his- tory, were said officially to have cheered the General earlier on his tour of the city. Receiving a special city medal and accepting honorary eitizenship in /New York City, the tanned, balding Supreme Allied Commander told the throng before City Hall: “It isn’t enough that we devise every kind of international machin- ery to keep the peace. We must also be strong ourselves.” g Great cheers punctuated his talk after almost every sentence, espec- ially when he said grimly, “The Nazi has been placed where he won't harm-us for a little while.” A 17-gun salute boomed out at La Guardia Field after the Supreme Allied Commander's silver C-54 transport, bringing him from Wash- | ington, swooped out of the overcast sky and taxied to a stop. KING LEOPOLD IS NOT TO ABDICATE SALZBURG, Austria, June 19.— King Leopold ‘of Belgoum declared today that he had reassumed his full ccnstitutional prerogatives and there was no question of his abdication, despite the resignation of Premier Achille Van Acher’s government. The King's statement was issued through ‘an official spokesfian. Dispatehes from Brussels said strikes in protest against the King’s return to Belgium had spread to numerous coal mines in the Liege district. ———— The Germans wet the first to keep medical historles of persons transported by air. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS WATCHES BATTLE OF OKINAWA S PLANE SOARS OVER Real Bomb;denentofJap- g anese on Last Hangout on Isle Seen from Air By BONNIE WILEY (Associated Press War Editor) | ABOARD A TRANSPORT PLANE JVER OKINAWA, June 18.—(De- ayed)—From this big transport slane over Okinawa I watched the | wattle for this island as it reached' s fina] stages today after weeks f bitter fighting. lattending the San Francisco United | From this plane, it looked more ike a kids' game played with Wyi oldiers ana toy battleships. | Far below, a battleship’s guns 1 : | lashed, smoked and flashed again.'Goy Mon ©. Wallgren before go- |noise of the motor we heard a roar | On shore, an echoing spurt of mcke marked the shell hit. i “Keep watching,” yelled Rear \dm. H. A. Flannigan of Washing- on, D. C., a fellow passenger in the rlane. H From our vantage point, too far wove to hear the noise of battle ver the roar of the plane’s engines, 7@ had a panoramic view of “Knock- ut Corner,” the southern end of the sland into which the relentless myymay, is determined to make it a | —it was always G.'L wool shirt,| American troops have driven what s left of the Japanese Okinawa gar- ison. | Withcut the noise of battle, watch- | ng the guns flash and smoke rise] slowly into the air, I felf .though Was seeing & sfle’fif’ne\\?sree[ f A quick succession of selched from the ships’ guns sud- lenly, angry flames billowed yrcund of the battle area. Quickly, ‘he flames reached high into the sky. Then there were more fires, more lames and more smoke, until I ~ondered how a single Japanese culd live in that tight little area. Broken clouds, like marshmallows, TRUMAN IS BOUND WEST pia, Wash., Before Go- ing fo San Francisco WASHINGTON, June 19.—Presi- dent Truman left by plane at 8:20 a. | m. Eastern War Time, today for a West Coast visit he will climax by Nations Security Conference. The President planned an 11-hour non-stop flight to Olympia, Wash., where he will pay a “social visit” to ing to San Francisco to address the closing session of the Security Con- ference. The President was given a cheery ,sendoff by General Dwight W. Eisen- | shell fragment that killed him up | hower, America’s returned hero, whose plane rested just behind the President's special C-54 waiting to take the General to a big New York welcoming. So far as Olympia is concerned Mr. heliday. Governor Wallgren has spid he wants the President to do |Gjust as he pleaces.” SPECIAL MESSAGE Wi SHUNGTON, vune 19-—Presi- ! dent Truman, embarking on the f1ashes ¢;,.; of a long series of plane flights, | Buckner: “The only Japanese who today askea Congress to make the % o _ UP gpeaker of the House his successor | | rcm something hit in the middle 4, iing untoward should happen | dends in secrecy six, months later. | to him. As the House is now organized, this’would throw the succession to 3-year-old Sam Rayburn of Texas. Under present procedure, Mr. Tru- | man would be replaced in the White House by the Secretary of State, the ided IN AIRPLANE President Flying fo Olym-| BUCKNER DIED AS HE WISHED, KILLING JAPS Human Inferest Facts Giv- en Out by War Editor Who Was in Alaska By EUGENE BURNS (Associated Press War Editor) SAN FRANCISCO, June 19.— Count on it: Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr,, died as he would have wished it. Up front, with his men, “killing Japs.” “Killing Japs” was his particular passion. | He hated the enemy because he | loved America as a man does his| rod, gun and dog, and family. When I first met Buckner in the | Aleutians, before Attu, the Army driver had trouble locating his ad- vance headquarters. Finally in a cluster of Quonset huts, above the | of laughter. “There, that’s Buckner,” | said the private. The roar fit the size of his barrel | chest through which entered the 'front in Okinawa, Monday. He was | | stocky, of ruddy complexion topped | | with a striking shock of silver hair. | Wore G. I. Wool Shirt | | I never saw the man wear a blouse | | freezing or melting. i Among the first things Buckner | | did after Pearl Harbor was to secure ‘nn Japanese in Alaska, his com- | mand. An influential Alaskan wrote him for. permission to keep “my | trustéd Japanese servant.” Replied | can harm us are those we trust.” | That strict suppression paid divi- | | After Pearl Harbor the United | | States was committed to defeat Ger- | many first. Little material was’ | avail for the Pacific. With the little Lt. Gen, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., the successful defender of Alaska, was born near Munford- ville, Ky., July 18, 1886. Bearish, Buckner has been commandant of West Point, executive officer of the Army War College. Last war saw him command air training at Kelly Field; between wars he headed reeruiting in Colorade, taugh at West Point, commanded infantry, went to Alaska in 1940, a Brigadier Gen- eral. | Buckner could get, he built air bases | | —including two fighter fields west ' | of Dutch Harbor. He did it secretly | ;:mg over theh battle. Uz_ta meet .t now held by Edward R. Stet- ‘;h:\viug the meichandm cnnsizne&i | em came a heavy, spreading mass . gr should he be unable to|to a mythical “Blair Packing Co.” f smcke, curtaining the picture. Diving and flying through the :louds were American planes look- ng like tiny specks on a white ‘ablecloth. 1 watched three of these planes. First one, then another dived straight toward the ground, straigh- ened out and ducked back into the >louds. “You're seeing some real bom- —LConllnued on Page Th:ee)_ - OCCUPATION FORCES ARE DESIGNATED Eight Bame_Ha—rdened u.s. Divisions Will Move Info Germany PARIS, June 19. — Eight battle- hardened U. 8. divisions which fought the Germans in bitter cam- f refused a request by King Leopold to | paigns from North Africa to the heart of the Reich have been chosen for permanent duty in the American zone of occupied Germany. An_ official announcement dis- closes that among the outfits which will compose the army of occupa- tion are the 82nd airborne division, the First and Fourth armored di- visions, and the First, Third, Ninth, 29th and 36th infantry divisions. The 82nd, now in Neufchateau, France, has been assigned to duty in Berlin and will leave for the German capital within 36 hours, taking over the role originally in- tended for the Second armored di- vision, which is being deployed elsewhere. Army commanders could scarcely have picked units less likely to have kindly feelings toward the Ger- mans. While many of the veteran members of these outfits have enough points for early discharge from the service, the commands will remain virtually intact and there will'be a' goodly number in the ranks who have bitter memories of the campaigns behind. | complete his term. i In a special message to both | Houses of Congress sent shortly after he took off on a non-stop flight to Olympia, Wash., the Presi- dent said the question of succession | “is of great importance now becaus: | there will be no elected Vice-Presi | dent for almost four years.” —_— e oo | WASHINGTON — President Tru- man today directed the Secretary of War to seize and operate the plants ‘n! the Diamond Alkali Company at | Painesville, Ohio, where 2,000 work- | ers have been on strike since Friday. BULLET PARIS—Marcel Deat, Minister of Labor and Internal Solitarity under the Vichy Government, was con- demned to death today by a Court of Justice which tried him in ab- | | sentia. A former professor of phil- osophy, the 51-year-old Deat was | regarded as one of the most pro- | Nazi journalists and politicians in | France, | s | BRUSSELS—Premier Achille van Acker announced tonight he had | form a new government, and that | the King himself was now trying to do so, with a view to returning to his throne as soon as a cabinet was organized. WASHINGTON—Dispatches from the Pacific during the past 24 hours seem to give the impression that there may be a weakening in the will of Japanese troops to fight. WASHINGTON — Secretary For- restal was on Capitol Hill today to urge both Senate and House Naval Affairs Committees not to freeze the postwar Navy at any fixed size. GUAM—On Okinawa, American | troops under a new commander are | grimly pressing the fanatic Japs |back on the cliffs of the island’s southern shores. Major General Roy | Geiger is giving the enemy no time to reorganize his lines. VPASHINGTON--On the Senate floors & vote of 47 to 33 has given the President power to cut tariff rates by as much as fifty per cent. § | The secret kept. ‘ | Japs Surprised | | When the Japanese steamed into | | Alaskan waters with a sizeable car- | rier and troops transport force, | | June 3, 1942, to attack Dutch Har- | | bor, they themselves were attacked rom the rear by land-based fighter | | planes. Surprised, the enemy fled | | contenting himself wit hthe heel | |of the loaf, Attu and Kiska. | | Buckner was a soldier’s general. | After a particularly tough airplane | | flight, he arrived at Adak late one | evening. Rather than “to bother the mess personnel the Commander | General went to his bare Quonset |and asked me to share his supper, of a can of cold sardines, soda crack- ters and “Kentucky bourbon with puddle water.” The sardines were for Flight, his blue-ribbon springer spaniel. s | | Buckner knew his bible. He out- | quoted me, a Congregational preach- | er’s son, until T wired the Assoctated | Press for a bible with a concordance. - Releases of | Servicemen To Be Slow WASHINGTON, June 19. — The War Department told Congress to- day that many servicemen who rate discharge under the point system ' cannot be released hefore next' June. : | And, it advised the House Mili- tary Committee, it #as no intention | discharges, now 40: | The information was furnished! the committee by Maj. Gen.| Stephen G. Henry, Assistant Chief | of Staff. | Considering all factors,, such asl available replacements and n‘ans-i portation facilities, General Henry said, the program for rapid dis- charges is operating smoothly, with indications that 100,000 men will be separated from service this month.| ———— Tungsten puts a stiff backbonel in softer metals, is anti-acid, anc resists corrosion, When ten, Buckner stood beside his father at the Sound-Money Democrats’ Convention (1896), when Buckner, Sr, was nomin- ated for Vice-President. The conventicn acclaimed him “The Child of Democracy.” ks © . World War I left West Point without upperclassmen. Buck- ner inherited a senior’s job of disciplining cadets. He was so unyielding the cadets, to get even, arranged a wresting match with the Academy’s heavyweight champ. He won easily. of lowering the #ge for automatic Preparing Alaska was a heart- breaking fight against terrain, weather, the need for materials elsewhere. But when the Japa- . nese struck from air and sea, Buckner sent planes aloft from secrel bases. The enemy fled. —_ . BUCKNER KILLED AT FRONT BY JAP SHELL BATTLER BUCKNER 'COMMANDER ON OKINAWA WAR VICTIM flieutenanl General Buck- ner, Jr., Died at Point of Final Victory By Al Depking (Associated Press War Uorrespondent) U. 8. TENTH ARMY "HEAD- QUARTERS, Okinawa, June 19.—Lt Gen. Simon Bolivar . Buckner, Jr, who had predicted that “with any kind of luck” the fierce Okinawa campaign would end this week, was killed yesterday by a Japanese shell almost at the moment of final vie- tory by his Tenth Army. The stury, silver-haired Kentuck- ian, who at 58 had won a reputa- tion for aggressiveness and «discip- line, was the highest ranking Amer- can to die y enemy action in the Pacific war and was the 22nd gen- =ral officer killed or missing in ac- tion against Germany and Japan, Death At Front Death came at a forward observa- | fon post as Buckner watched the Marine Eighth Regimental combat team—newly arrived on Okinawa — plunge southward against the wreating Japanese in a climac issault on the southern tip of the island. ‘The first Japanese shell to strike that vicinity all day burst directly m g rock where he was seated. A large fragment of steel or coral piefced his chest at 1:18 p. m, ' Several more shells struck the .| position, so that Marine officers had to carry Buckner . behind a_cliff before first " wm plasina -ould be administered, At 1:25 p. | ., tén minutes after he was hit, Sen. Buckner died. Change of Command Command of the Tenth Army and of the ground forces in the Ryu devolved impysdigtely upon 8 Gen. Roy S. Geiger, Commander of the Marine Third Amphibious Corps, 1 part of the Tenth Army. Geiger ‘ecently was nominated for Lieuten- int General, . Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, over- all Commander of the operations, ormally announced Buckner’s death .oday and issued this message to :he forces under bis command: “Although we join in grieving over ‘be loss of your able and courage- our leader, Lt. Gen. Buckner, all of as in the Pacifio Ocean areas take pride in the day of victory on vhich he gallantly met a soldier’s eath. New Inspiration “By the achievements of the Tenth Army in the Okinawa campaign un- der his leadership, we will all gain aew inspiration to overcome any and Al obstacles standing between us and final victory over Japan.” Nimitz did not elaborate on his reference to “the -day of victory,” but Vice Adm, Harry Hill, in a mes- sage of condolence, also referred to Buckner's “untimely death in the ‘| hour of victory.” 3 Expressions of regret also were made by Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal and by Adm. Ernest King. Only the day . before Buckner's death, Adm. Nimitz stoutly had de- fended Buckner's Okinawa campaign 1gainst criticism by Newspaper Col- imnist David Lawrénce, Funeral Services Funeral services for the General were held at 9 a. m. today at a Seventh Infantry Division cemetery near Hagushi Beach. A bugle sound- ed taps as the simple wooden cof- in was lowered. into the grave, and mn honor guard fired a last salute. The Stars and stripes whipped in the weeze overhead alongside Buckner's ‘hree-star personal flag. Thus ended the career of the sec- >nd American Lieutenant General to sear the name of .Simon Bolivar Buckner. The first was his father, who wis ‘orced to surrender Fort Donelson ‘0 Gen. U. 8. Grant early in the Zivil War, but who was exchanged and rose to a Lisutenant Generalcy refore the war ended. Later he was governor of Kentueky, where Simon, 'r, was born near Munfordville, on July 18, 1886. West Point Graduate Young Buckner attended Virginia Military Institute and then the U. 8. Military Academy at West Point, vhere he was gratuated in 1908. He served two tours of duty in the Philippines, was an early student of aviation, and twice was an in- tructor at West: Point, where he AL M ST RA SR A S (Continued on Page Two)