The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 21, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e VOL. XLV., NO. 9994 ]UNEAU ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1945 CAMPAIGN ON OKI Jap Bases, ARMY, NAVY AIRCRAFT IN SWEEPS Strike Out FRaMs Over 1,500 Miles'from Hong Kong fo Nip Land GUAM, June 21.—Like the sweep of a giant’s arm, American Army and Navy planes lashed at Japan- ese bases and shipping for more than 1,500 miles from Hong Kong to Japan itself in operations re- ported today. A few sweeps were in strength, such as the 200-plane strike which destroyed the supply base of Kari on Formosa's south- west coast. Many were search and patrol actions — highly nonetheless, on a cumulative basis. From south to north, as pieced together by today’s communiques of Adm. Chester W. Nimitz in Guam and Gen. Douglas MacAr- thur in Manila, this was the pi ture: Hong Kong—Motor vehicles de- | stroyed and bases strafed. Canton—Waterfront raided. Formosa—200 tons of explosives dropped by more than 50 Liberators | of the Fifth Army Airforce on the north port eof- Keelung; 200 Light~ nings and Mustangs spilled 72 tons " (Continued on Page Five) The Washingion Merry - Go-Round' By DREW PEARSON Col.” Robert S. Alien’ now on active service with the Army.) Lt. WASHINGTON — President Tru- man got some unexpected but wel- come words from an old political enemy when GOP Congressman Everett Dirksen of Illinois dropped in to see him following Dirksen's recent inspection trip around the world. The big Ilinois Cungressman, himself a candidate for the Re- publican nomination, had received several thousand dollars of cam-| paign contributions from his home ! constituents which he proposed re-' turning te: them: posed that- he*use it ‘to study U. S. foreign relations abroad. Returning from. that’ tuip’ Dlrksen concluded that thé biggést problem we face is wiltning the peace after ! the war and hiring the right kind of diplomats (with enough pay) to, do it. Dropping in to see Presi-| dent Truman, Dirksen said: “You werp a wagon soldier in the | last war, . President. So was I. (Both | were -in horse-drawn field artillery.) We don't have much' conception of how modern warfare operates. But we do know some- fair | The Trick Worked effective, | But they pro-, s | : ‘ I Righard, Rigneys. eighteycar-cid. Philadelphia schoelboy, is rewarded with a handshake from Gen. Omar N. Bradley after he slips under the rcpe and ducks betwcen a pcliceman’s legs at Independence Hall daring weleome to 53 Eurepean war heroes. (AP Wirephoto) Twelve Poles Convicled - By Soviet Court; Prison Senlences Announced 30 000 JAPS saife | I N v A l l E Y The heaviest sentence—10 years— was imposed upon Maj. Gen. | Brenislaw Okulicki, Commander of | the Underground Home Army after H H | e ill-fates aw U] ing. Nips Being Herded North ™. . ouiee deputs . prime Toward Fierce Wait- Minister of the London Polish Gov- rnment-in-Exile and leader of the ing lgorofs MANILA, June 21.—A force of Polish Underground Movement, was | sentenced to eight years imprison- ment. possibly 30,000 Japanese was herded north up the Cagayan Valley today by onrushing columns of the 37th ,Ohio Infantry Division — toward FR A N ( o pu‘s 1 | i | MOSCOW, June 21.—Twelve of 16 | Poles accused of subversive a,cmmes‘ | behind Red Army lines were convict- | ed by a Soviet court early today and| given sentences of from four months | to ten years in prison. Three were/ acquitted and the trial of another | was postponed. L) thing of what our boys have gone't; the more than 400,000 enemy as Declares P;oj;ti Is A!;sd lutely Essential as Part of Postwar Plan OLYMPIA, Wash, June 21— President Truman came out flatly today in favor of postwar eomple- tion of a western connection ‘with the Alaska Highway which would | link the Pacific Northwest with the ‘Territory. He has talked with both Gov. Gruening of Alaska and Senator Magnuson (D.-Wash.), he told his press conference, and reached an; agreement with them on the project. | There is a 600-mile gap to be fin- ished, he said, and it is absolutely essential that it be considered as part of a postwar program in which | THE LIBRARY OF JUL 18 1945 COPY e oFY — i Canada and. British Columbia will | participate. to find a way to complete it in co- operation with Canada and British Cclumbia. It's a good project, he added, and he will support it. He said such a highway connec- tion would be of great benefit to the United States as a whole. Missouri, where he comes from. The President praised the work of the.San Francisco conference, | promised the meat situation would be straightened out and denied re- ports of contemplated removing In- | terior Secretary Harold L. Ickes. He also expressed gratification over the Senate’s approval of leg- islation extending the reciprocal trade agreement program with further tariff lowering authority. He announced that he would stop over in Portland, Ore., Monday, en- | route to San Francisco where he expects to arrive at 4 p. m. The President expressed con- fidence the Senate will take favor- | able action on the Bretton Woods agreements as well as the reciprocal trade legislation. The latter, he said, permitting direct quotation, “places the United States squarely behind the prineiples of international trade coopeartion.” AALASKA ROAD He said he would try | GIVEN BOOST ATOLYMPIA Placing Fr;jed Before President Truman Con- sidered Great Step WENACHEE, Wush., June 21.—In placing the Alaska Highway pro- ject before President Truman in SCOUTING He ¢ laughingly added that this included l MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —— | ABROUGHTTO hed By Yan anis 137 100t .llpmlflu: cargo submarine aboard an American LSD in San Franflscu was brought from the Philippines for repairs and display after being raised from the waters and abandcned by the flechlg \mpnnc:c (AP ercpho‘oj | i i i | . REPORTED BY TOKYO American Planes Range Over Island Sefcions Two Hours Today SAN FRANCISCO, June 21.— |} Tokyo radio ™ reported Southern's Japan was scouted for two hours today by 56 assorted American air- craft—Gruman fighters, Liberator hombers, naval patrol planes and a Superfortress—gathering data fm further bombing attacks. Report of the strange recunnon- ering expeditions over most of Kyu- shu Island and the southern tip of Honshu came at the end of a series ' of Tokyo broadcasts telling of Am- erican carrier strikes, invasion preparations, Superfort successes and Okinawa fighting. i These FCC-intercepted casts said: Wake Island was raided yester- day by 300 Allied carried planes. The United States already has started long and complicated prep- |arations to invade Japan. | B-20s Wednesday cut rail traffic; ¥ for many hours between two fire- bombed cities southwest of Tokyo. What is left of Japan’s garrison on ' Okinawa is ‘putting up a “hard fight.” Developments have convinced the Home Affairs Ministry it is a mis- take for Japan to have cities as Bond Becluty broad- | Al SELECTED as “Miss War Bond Spir= of Lingayen Gulf where it was sunk Charter for Peace in World Compleled at Meelmg of 50 Nafions By John M. Hightower (Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) SAN FRANCISCO, June 21.—A charter embracing the views of 50, United Nations was wrapped up to- day in a world document designed to maintain peace. President Truman, now taking a brief holiday in Washington State, will bring the United Nations con- erence to.a formal close with a sprech on international affairs on Tuesday afternoon. Until that time the delegates of the 50 nations represented here will ke busy with a variety of technical problems and speech-making ses- {sions. But the real work of the con- ference, which met April 25, is ac-' complished. It reached that stage last night. A | committee approved an Australian- i tions to discuss and make recom-| mendations on any question “within the scope of the Charter” wrmen | here. Thus ended a long struggle by smull nations to make the assembly | “town meeting of the world” po- lenufllly capable of exerting the pressure of public opinion on the Big Power-controlled Security Coun- cil, even though it could exercise no contrel over the council directly. Victor Andrade of Bolivia, chair- man of the committee on Assembly Powers, attributed leadership in this Russian compromise empowering the i proposed General Assembly of Na-' END k Planes BATILEOF OKINAWA WONNOW Official Cofiunique Is- sued Today by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz GUAM, June 21—End of the Okin- awa campaign was announced today by Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, 82 days after Tenth Army troops in- | vaded the island 325 miles south of Japan. Admiral Nimita’s special commun- ique announejng the successful com- pletion of the campaign in which more than 90,000 enemy troops were (killed or captured, came within an hour after Lt. Gen, Joseph W. Still- well was named to take over com- mand of the Tenth Army in future operations. The text of Nimitz's brief com- munique read: “After 82 days of fighting the battle of Okinawa has been won. Of- ganized resistance ceased June 21. Enemy garrisons in two small pock- ets are being mopped up.” The official end of fighting ful- filled the prediction of Lt. Gen. €imon - Bolivar Buckner, Jr., Tenth Army Commmder vho was kuuu while watching Marines -drive-to- nrmmn o&i of the island Moriday. Japanese fough tstubbornly to the last although they were running out of ammunition, food and water, They |employed machine guns, rifles and |mortars to the fullest while the Yanks relied on flame-throwing tanks, gemolltlnn charges and auto- matic weapons, o ' Last Friday, Buckner told Associ- 'ated Press Correspondent Al Dop- kins: ! “I can’t jsee this battle lasting more than week longer.” Buckner was killed at the front Menday, watching the start of this final, victorious assault. Eight hundred eighty-five Nippon- ese surrendered the first three days of this week—probably a Pacific War record—buc there was no weakening “(Continued on Pavs Five) STILWELL IS NAMED CHIEF ~ TENTH ARMY Veteran Japanese Fighter Transferred fo Pacific -Succeeds Buckner MANILA, June 21.—Gen. Joseph { through, and we’'ve’ got to make'ca;uames on Luzon. big as Tokyo and Osaka—and there between | it” by the United Seamen’s Service, struggle to Foreign Minister Herbert W. Stilwell, switched from his post’ V. Evatt of Australia. |as Chief of Army Ground forces to sure that these who have taken it on the chin have not done it in vain.” “You speak my language,” re- plied Truman, listening intently. “Why don't you get a $100,000,000; appropriation for the State De- partment,” Dirksen continued, “and build up a 'system of American diplomaey strong enough to repre- sent this country? -That'’s the first| step in winning the peace after the| war. We've got to hire good diplo-| mats and give them the means of support. “1 am for economy,” went on. “In fact, I have opposed a lot of spending on the part of the Roosevelt Administration. But I consider a strong State Depart- ment to be one of the best invest- ments this Nation can make.” President Truman replied that there was a great deal in what the Illinois Congressman said. Foreign | affairs, he continued, was one thing he was working on hardest; and he hinted, without exactly say- ing so, that he was giving State Department reorganization a lot of consideration. ‘CANOL PIPE LINE Oné ‘thing Senator Homer Fer- (Continued on Page Four) 1 Dirksen | ‘fierce Igorots bent on adding them up ARGU E“I 1 The Nipponese were failing back ron Aparri, a scant 100 miles ahead of 37th advance patrols, with no- }where to go once they reach that ! northernmost city on Luzon. ‘ On the west side of the Cagayan 'Rlvel which splits the valley, the Igorots and other Filipino guerrillas | | waited in long-prepared positions to frustrate any Nipponese attempt {to find refuge among the wild, |spiney ridges of the Cordillera | | Mountains. ABOUT SPAIN Declares Blackballed Na- tion Victim of “Defam- atory Campaigns’ On Borneo \ On Borneo, Australian forces have made a new landing, this time MADRID, June 21.—Gen Fran- ® {¢isco Franco depicts Spain as the at the northern head of Brunei|yiotim of “defamatory campaigns”, Bay to give them control of “the gq o nation to whm dictatorship is | shores bordering both entrances |yepugnant and as' éonu\try which into the bay,” headquarters an-|gesires “to foster the spirit of nounced today. {brotherly harmony among Spanish Headquarters reported another inspeaking nations.” the daily series of attacks by heavy Franco’s remarks, inclided in a {bompers on the oil center of Balik- |speech inaugurating last night a new :papan on Borneo's east coast, but gpanish radio propaganda program still said nothing concerning re- peamed to North and South America, peated enemy broadcasts that an came less than 24 hours after a Allied fleet is offshore, shelling and | United Nations cpnferencé commis- mine-sweeping. isicn acted to bar fi future mem- 7 et oz, < e bership in a W organization, MRS. MARTINELLE ARRIVES |governments set with Axis help. ‘But the Spanish “Jeader made no Mus, T. Martinelle, of Kodiak, has ‘memmn of thai degision, which ap- arrived in Juneau and is @ guest at parently had taken his government the Gastincau Hotel. by surprise. Olympia yesterday, &ov. Wallgren Gov. Gruening, and Senator Magnu- son were furthering the most vital single post-war project before the northwest at this time, Kirby Bill- ingsley, Alaska Highway Committee chairman, stated here. Gov. Gruenping informed Billings- ley by phone that he was “entirely in accord wigh Senator Magnuson’s ideas on this' Alaska rdad. We have worked together on this highway commission and must continue to press for a better connection."” Senator Magnuson said the next step will be to work out a formula with Canada, and sald they hoped to confer with officlals there soon. Support for the project will be sought at the Western States Con- ference in Portland Friday and at the Pacific Northwest Trade Asso- ciation meeting ‘in Spokane next Tuesday, Billingsley said. M SR A T HOLBROOK SOUTH Wellman Holbrook, former As- sistant Regional Forester fo Alaska, recently retired, was to fly south today due to the reported ill- ness of his mother, at Walla Walla ‘Washington. — S eee — CORNELIA HOWELL HERE Cornelia - Howell, of Yhkutat, a guest at the Baranof Hotel. ernment which would support Leo- should be more space Miss Rae Caldwell, 18, Long Island, houses. $1,200,000 in 7th War Loan Bonds. Most of them were bought by mer=~ el New Government For Belgium Is Still One Blg Issue ,BRUSSELS, June 21-—Paul Van: Zeeland, former Prime Minister and | a staunch Royalist, appeared today | WASHINGTON, Juie 21.—Dele- to be King Leopold’s most likely| . i.'poington of Hawall introduc- 2:‘:‘;::? aftempt fo form g new gov- led legislation today to increase the But with Literal, Socialist and, :.‘l‘:l';‘b‘:u:’;mfim’;r::l“ Fawpfow Communist parties still hostile to the Almka‘ monareh’s return, the’ immediate "y gor gne ill the Terrifories chance of success on Van Zeelands| ;14 e allowed 15 midshipmen and part asemed Hight, 12 cadets yearly. Negotiations to form a new ;:ov-‘numm‘r is five tivel, polds return have proceeded in &n|"'E il cion said he believed the atmosphere of secrecy. G o Territories are entitled to the in- !u’ease becauvse * ‘even the smallest MARINOVICH RETURNS ‘stabe in the union” has 15 Naval| Jobn A. Marinovich, former gnq 12 Army students naméd to the owner of the Gastineau Liquor| gcademies each year. Store, has returned. to Juneau from | - - = a two-month vacation in the States. | CAMPBELL HERE Clarence J. Campbell, of Seattle, ; He is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. H; a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. " 'MORE BENEFITS FOR TERRIOTRIES SOUGHT IN Blll‘ \r,l United Nations flags, has been ies of conferences among Stilwell, | | | | | | | | and four, respec- N. Y., heads a committee that sold | At present the I, The last commission session to go the Paeific, has been selected by over a chapter of the charter was Gen. Douglas MacArthur to com- called teday to receive the report of mand the U. 8. 10th Army now mop- Andrade’s committee. From the ping up on Okinawa, it was announ- stage of commission action the con- ced today. ference will move through plenary The veteran Japanese fighter's scssions in which the four com- transfer to the Pacific Ocean area missions will formally report various theatre and his appointment to the sections of the charter for approval. ccmmand vacated by the death in Secretary of State Stettinius an- action on Okinawa of Lt. Gen. 8i- hounced yesterday that the churter mon Bolivar Buckngy, Jr., was an- would be signed Monday. A spe- nounced from MacArthur's head- cial room, with a huge round table, quarters. Llue-covered against. a background The assignment oulmxnated o ser- | prepared for that ceremony. | MacArthur apd other field cpmman- | The President will arrive Monday ders in the Pacific area recently, and ‘m time for the signing and will it is assumed he will take over the \remain ‘through the closing session Tenth Army as soon as he can get jabout 24 houm later |there. “O(K ouoflTIONS It was Stilwell who fought the |Japanese when they invaded Burma, ,‘und with his, slim command was NEW YORK, June 2.. — Closing |chased out of the country. | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine, “I clalm we took a hell of a beat- | stock today is 8%, American Can 98, ing, he said as dpe came out of the | Anaconda 35%, CurtissWright |Burman wilds at the head of his | International Harvester 88';, Ken- forces, and he promptly set about necott 39%, New York Central 31%,' crganizing to fight back into the, | Northern Pacific 34', U. S. Steel country. 70':. Sales totaled 2, lOOO(l) shn'eexJ This he did with the ultimate re- | today. {sult that the road which bears his Dow, Jones averages today are|name was cut through northern Bur- |as follows: industrials, 168.14; rails, ma, re-establishing a ground supply 62.84; utilities, 33.02, route to China, i |