The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 22, 1945, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ' “ALL THE NEWS é LL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 9995 THE LIBRARY OF JUL 18 1945 [ o S——— aFy — JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1945 ESS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PR PRICE TEN CENTS JAP NAVAL ARSENAL BLASTED BY SUPERS ORLD PEACE PROPOSAL IS UP TO SENATE Ratifi(alien—fiay Not Be Made in Time for Tru- man to Report By John M. Hightower (Associated Press Diblomatic News Editor) SAN FRANCISCO, June 22.—The| United States Senate, with power cnough to promote or will a United Nations peace organization, will get| a full report on the San Francisco conference next week from two of its members. | American delegates express con-| | fidence thaf the Senate will ratify/ : the charter of the organization| which they, and representatives of | 49 other nations have produced here | in nine weeks of work. | But none would predict today that | it would be done immediately, in| time for President Truman to report it at the July Big Three meeting in Berlin. | In fact, it appeared certain the| Senate Committee hearings, a pre- liminary debate on ratification, | could not begin until the second week in July when detailed reports of conference debates will have be- come available. These and inter- pretive statements on various points 7(szti1me¢i on Page Fiht;eT The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON | 'Lt. Col. Robert S. Alien now on active service with the Army.) ‘WASHINGTON—Sometimes it i: from quirks of fate or personal jealousies that heroes are born. | Old Army friends of General|drive chairman, today pointed out Eisenhower couldn't help but re- member this as they gathered to| pay him tribute during his tri-| umphal ride down Pennsylvania Avenue. | For, if it had not been for a per-! Watch It 'MASS TRIAL Going Up' LOOMS, WAR (RI!iINAlS' EChief Prosecufor Robert tJackson Announces His i Views in London Juneau-Douglas Quota for| . "'E" Bonds $225,000- Drive Ends July 7 $225,000.00 | BULLETIN — LONDON, June 22. | —The chief prosecutor of war crim- |inals fcr the United States, Justice Rcbert Jackson, says the United | | States advocates one collective trial |cf German leaders guilty of war} | crimes. Jackson expressed the hope| that the trial would get under way| before the end of summer. | TO OPEN DISCUSSIONS London, June 22—The British For-| eign Office announced today that | the Big Four Powers would open dis- | cussions early next week on plans for the trial of Germany's arch war | criminals. | A responsible American source told !of a United States plan to prosecute | the major war criminals at a mass trial “before winter.” The British Foreign Office com-l | mentator said the purpose of the! i Four Power discussion would be that| of drafting a list of the major war | criminals, and settling questions in- | volving “the procedure of the court which is to try them.” The Americon source reported U. S. authorities were ready, if neces- sary, to go ahead along with the prosecution unless an agreement is reached soon among the Big Powers jon the method to be adopted. | But the United States possess a! | potent argument’ for -obtaining a quick agreement—it has the custody | of a agreat majority of the arch- criminals. H | The American plan for a mass trial, unprecedented in history,| would bring together as derendnntsl under a blanket conspiracy charge these accused of being responstble‘: | for starting World War II, includ- | ing Nazi Government leaders, top| Nazi military chiefs, German indus- | trialists and diplomats, 8S and Ges- | tapo leaders. Lesser Nazis would be! brought in as witnesses. i No place has been designated as| vet for the trial. | $129,174.50 | Only 15 days of the Seventh War | Loan are left to go and the Juneau- !Douglas area is $96,000 short of its |“E” Bond quota. A. B. Hayes, Gastineau Channel that sad fact, commenting: “What Juneau does will probably not greatly affect the outcome of the war, but it certainly will reflect on Juneau. “Many persons seem to be waiting ranything to eat and wear.” OPA IS STRIPPED OF AUTHORITY ON CONTROL OF FOOD House Adopts “Hoover Amendment” - Other Amendments Lost WASHINGTON, June 22.—The House igday adopted the so-called ‘Hoover Amendment” which would strip the Office of Price Adminis- tration of most of its food con- trols. OPA would retain control over food rationing but lose all other authority over that commodity. The vote, taken while the House considered a one-year extension of OPA, was 145 to 142 in favor of an amendment sponsored by Rep. Jen-| kins (R-Ohio) providing that con= trol over food production, distribu- tion and pricing to be transferred to| the Department of Agriculture. The House earlier defeated a Re- publican-sponsored effort to hold OPA’s new lease on life to six months instead of one year. Thel vote was 177 to 126. The vote for a full year's exten= sion came after Speaker Rayburn, (L-Texas) walked into the Houui well and appealed to the member~ ship not to destroy OPA. Such ac- tion, he said, would bring “inflation in which many people won't have Also voted down, 144 to 122, was an amendment by Rep. Crawford (R-Mich) intended to prohibit OPA from setting any ceiling price not allowing prewar profit levels for “representative producers” in all| areas of industry. ' The House likewise defeated, by jthe Air Forces, disclosed plans to| SUPPLY BILL OF WAR DEPT. Ihirty-eighl—gfilion Dollar| Fund Wanted fo De- vastate Japan WASHINGTON, June 22.—A $38,- 500,285,951 War Department supply bill went to the House floor today with on Army promise to speed vic- tory over Japan by “an overwhelm- ing application of force.” Its approval by the Appropriations | Committee accompanied pubflcutlon! of three weeks of testimony by high | Army officials who foresaw devas- tation for Japan more awful than| that which battered the Nazis to their knees. Testimony of Generals of the| Army George C. Marshall, chief of | Staff, and H. H. Arnold, head of | use 1,000 B-29s daily in the Pacific! war and to drop 2,700,000 tons of bombs in the Far East in the fiscal year starting July 1. That figure compares, Morshall said, with 1,555,- | 1S INHOUSE Wallgren Greefs Truman Arriving by plane from Washington, D. C., President Harry S. Truman is greeted by Governor Mcn C. Wallgren of Washington, left, as the President’s special transport landed at McChord Army Airfield near Olympia, Wash., after a nonstop flight of 12 hours, It was the first overland trip by plane in the United States by any President. Mr. Truman is scheduled to go to San Francisco, after a brief vacation as guest of Governor Wallgren, to address the closing session of the United Nations Conference on International Organization. (AP Wire- 000 tons rained upon Europe from 1942 to 1945. ! In contrast to previous war years, | the Generals left much of their| clcsed-door testimony in the printed | record. | —————— PATTON SAYS voice vote, an’ amendment by Rep, Folger (D-NC) proposing to prohibit profits for processors of farm pro- ducts, including livestock. —————— NO FOOD CZAR CONTEMPLATED BY PRESIDENT Existing Control Agencies fo Be Brought Info Bal- | {OPA ceilings that do_ not provide PREPARE FOR ANOTHER WAR Commander of Third Army| Talks Right Out Over Criticism | HAMILTON, Mass., June 22, — Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., nsserted | sonal row with General MacArthur |for prizes, rewards or auction sales, in the Philippines, Eisenhower etc, before buying. There will be no today that he thought it was, “stupid to run the risk of not being probably would be in a Jap prison| camp today instead of receiving the plaudits of millions. i ‘When MacArthur retired as Chief | of Staff and began the reorganiza- | tion of the new Philippine Army, he took with him to Manila one of the bright, up-and-coming men of the Army, Col. Dwight Eiscnhower.i But, after some time in the Philip-i | pines, things didn't go well, and MacArthur fired him. Eisenhower went back to the U.S.A. to climb to fame and the top command of the American Army. If he had remained with Mac-| (0 M M A N DS Arthur, he probably would now be with Gen. “Skinny” Wainwright| and the 16 other American generals | taken prisoner by the Japs. This incident is one reason why Eisenhower will not be sent to the Pacific theatre, despite the reports that he would be made top com- mander of both the Army and Navy there. GENERAL PEKSHiNG'S LUCK |0 Okinawa, Pacific Fleet Head-|irain passage may be rationed dur-| It was also a quirk of fate which made Gen. John J. Pershing Com-| mander of the A.E.F. in the last!Gen. Louis E. Woods has succeeded | portation, announces, war. When the United States en- tered the war, a resolution was in- troduced in Congress urging that Teddy Roosevelt lead an American Army to France immediately. Woodrow Wilson, embarrassed by the publicity given to the ex-Presi- dent, wanted to head the resolu- tion off. Francis E. Warren of Wyoming, ranking member of the Military Affairs Committee and the father- in-law of General Pershing. That afternoon, Wilson an- nounced that Pershing would com- mand: the A.E.F. and Senator Warren, a leading Republican, helped squelch the resolution favor- ing Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt, incidentaily, had earlier jumped Pershing, son-in-law of the powerful GOP leader, ‘from the rank of captain to brigadier general. At that time, Pershing had been in the Army 20 years, was 46 years old, and without T.R.'s kindly intervention, would have re- tired 1o higher than a major. .. NOTE-—Few . heroes amiving in blase Washington won as many ——— ——————e S ———————— T (Continued on Page Four) auction sale. “Our Servicemen do not wait for bonuses before they attack. If you have not been contacted, phone Room 316, Federal Building, for blanks or information. “Buy today—this sale closes night of July 6. CHANGES IN the ON OKINAWA GUAM, June 22—Maj. Gen. Le- roy P. Hunt has assumed command of the Second Marine Division, the Eighth Regiment of which played a part in smashing final resistance quarters announced teday. Headquarters also disclosed Maj. Maj. Gen. Francis P. Mulcahy as | Commanding General of Okinawa- | based Army Tactical Air Force and the Second Marine Aircraft Wing. Hunt, succeeding Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Watson, was formerly the division’s assistant commander. General Hunt has served ‘in So he called in Sen.|China, Nicaragua, Iceland, Panama; | \he demobilization of the older age| Haiti, Alaska and New Foundland. Lt. Gen. Roy 8. Geiger, who took over temporary command of the U. S. 10th Army ‘on Okinawa after Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., was killed last Monday, has been appointed- Commanding General of the Pacific Fleet Marine Force. Geiger will succeed Lt. Gen. Hol- land M. Smith, amphibious opera- tion veteran, who will head the | Marine Training and Replacemeni Program at San Diego, Calif. ——— CARO GOES SOUTH Lt. Warren M. Caro, Captain of the Port, Juneau, left here south- bound aboard the Princess Louise, enroute to Washington, D. . C, on official business of the U. S. Coast Guard. He will return in about a month. % [ ance Says Truman —————.— [ o, - ] L t I N S{ OLYMPIA, June 22.—President { Truman doesn’t contemplate the ap- pointment of a “Food Czar” in a jprogram looking to the early HOLLANDIA, New Guinea—Bad straightening out of meat and other weather blanketed New Guinea to-ifcod distribution, White House day and it appeared that an attempt | sources said today. to rescue three survivors of an Army| What he has in mind, these sour- plane crash from the hidden Vfl“eyécgs said, is a closer working rela- °f “Shangri-la” must wait until the | tionship between agencies supervis- weekend. 1mg the production, distribution and oy | pricing of food. GUAM - Conquering of Okinawa“ The program, to be put into effect 's the largest Japanese possession‘when Clinton P. Anderson becomes vet captured by the Yanks. It|Agriculture Secretary and War Food covers 485 square miles, plenty of | Administrator, will, the President room for staging areas, air bases, told his press conference yesterday, 300d naval anchorage. bring about*an improvement auto- | matically. He sald there would be a unity of control over prices and food, but did not go into details. ‘That does not mean, his staff said, that food control and pricing will be under one head, but that they will be F.. “ight into balance. | This clarification of the Presi-| dent’s attitude was given shortly be- | ing the summer, Col. J. Monroe fore Mr. Truman's departure on an | Johnson, Dirctor of Defense Trans- | automobile trip to Mount Rainier. | ‘Tomorrow the President will work on an accumulation of state papers while his host, Governor Wallgren,| goes home to Everett for the funer- al of Wallgren’s brother-in-law, Clarence Hickey, State Highway Director. Mr. Truman has planned nothing! definite for Sunday. CHUNGKING — Chinese troops are attacking the Japanese-held air- | field at Liuchow. WASHINGTON—Because of the| task of shipping troops and supplies across the nation for deployment to the Pacific battle fronts, civilian VANCOUVER, B. C—The tanker| Shellco sprung:a leak in the gale- swept Gulf of Georgia, was located and towed into Snug Cove on Bowen Island. Eight men were aboard. LONDON—A law providing for| —— classes of the Red Army in the field | was placed on the agenda of the | \ | Supreme Soviet of the U.:8.8. R.| U(KS DROP when it convened for its twelfth ses- | ! sion tonight, Tass News Agency re- | De DOWN AGAIN dorted in a Moscow broadcast. HAVANA, Cuba—Sugar rations in ‘he United States will continue at resent levels for at least another | sear, Earl Wilson, Director of the | (BY The Ausoclated Press) { Sommodity Credit Corporation's Continuing their alternate win- prepared for another war.” ! The Commander of the Thire Army, commenting on gn imaginary | letter from “one of the dead” in Stars and Stripes, U. S. Army news- | paper, which criticized him for tell- | ing children of a Sunday School| class that they would be the sol-| diers and nurses of the next war, declared : | “Having been through two world! wars and having experienced the anguish of commanding men who! were wounded or killed due to lack of training, I think that it is stupid| to run the risk of not being ade- quately prepared for another war, because you do not stop fires by abolishing the fire department. i ' WHAT CAUSED REMARK | PARIS, June 22.—The U. S. Army newspaper Stars and Stripes pub-. lished today an imaginary letter| from “one of the dead” who served under Gen. Patton’s command, tak- ing the General to task for telling children in a Sunday School class they would be the soldiers and nurses of the next war. The article, written by an Army captain who signed only the initials J.CB, begged Gen. Patton to “just sort of hold your tongue at least| until after that San Francisco Con- | ference.” | “Just stay a soldier,” the letter| said. “Leave the peace up to those who are working their hearts out (Patton, in his address to the| Sunday » School /chijdren _of the' Episcopal Chuich of our Saviour | in San Gabriel, Calif., June 10, Lold; them “you children here, whether you like it or not, are the soldiers| and nurses of the next war. There, | {will be war again, in my opinion, | because there have always been| such things.”) St b St & \banks; 7'¢ hours from Whitehorse to make it stick.” | photo) Secref Airline of U.S. FromSweden IsRevealed: Operated Under Nazi Noses SERVICE BETWEEN SEATTLE - JUNEAU BEING STEPPED UP Pan American fo Make 16 Round Trips Weekly to Care for Air Travel LONDON, June 22,~More than 3,000 important -~ passengers were flown out of neutral Sweden during| the last year of the European War by | the U. S. Army's “Secret Airline” which operated under the noses of | the Germans. i It was one of the strangest mili- tary operations of the war and the Germans employed every trick they! knew to stcp it, but without avail. Some secrets of this mysterious pseudo-civil ajrline, which now has| blessomed into a full-fledged mili- |tary line between Scotland and | Sweden, were revealed today by |Brig. Gen. Earl S. Hoag, Comman- |der of the European Division of from Alaska te the States, Pan the Air Transport Command, the Amerigan World Airways today|agency designated to handle the stepped up its flight schedule to 16 job. Most of the flying had been round trips weekly between Scattle scheduled purposely in bad weather, and Juneau—twice daily, with tWo! rne airmen, disgulsed as civilians, extra flights per week, J. V. ROSCO€, hag become so accustomed to being in charge of the Alaska Service, N shadowed by Gestapo agents in nounced. ! Stockholm that they didn't even One flight daily, plus the tWo ex-ipother Jocking their hotel rooms at tra sections per week, will continue right. They were followed every- beyond Juneau to Whitehorse and where, and their every move was Fairbarks. The Clippers will con- nopaq by Nazi agents. tinue to fly from Fairbanks to Nome | Among the passengers were hun- on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fii- greds of interned American airmen, days, and to McGrath and Bethel Norwegian soldiers, diplomats, in- on Sundays. Daily air connections terned Nationals and high officials to Anchorage may be made at of many governmenfs, including Juneau or Fairbanks. Norwegian, French, Dutch and Rus- “Over 2400 Clipper seats each gian. On one occasion the person- month will be made available to air nel of the Norweglan Government- tr velers between Seattle and Alas-jn.Exile was flown from London to ka as a result of the new schedule,” Sweden. Rescoe said. | Gen. Hoag disclosed that one of “The schedule changes are being the most daring operations was the made in order to permit the Com- evacuation of some 2,000 trained pany to meet the heavy traffic de- Norwegian soldiers across German- mand that exists between Juneau‘occ“pw Norway to Britain, just and Seattle. We wish to emphasize, prior to the invasion of France. however, that ample space aboard, The Germans learned of the plan all flights throughout the Territory|and started counter-measures. But will still be available, and we are they fafled to shoot down a single prepared to operate additional flights plane during the operation which ex- if the demand should increase.” |tended over n period of several The 16-round tfip schedule will weeks, bring Seattle 14 hours’ flying time! —— s s Is Raised from Nome; 10% hours from Fair-' { On Okinawa OKINAWA, June 22.--0ld Glory SEATTLE, June 22—In the an- ticipation of increased air travel and 6 hours from Juneau. Ribbon from Medal | Goes for War Bond PITTSBURGH, June 22, — Sgt.! |Charles E. (Commando) Kelly knows how to sell war bonds as 5 AIRCRAFT PLANTS HIT JAPAN RAID {Three Thousand Tons of Explosives Are Dropped -New Advance, Borneo By LEONARD MILLIMAN (Associated Press War Editor) Superforts ‘making their third 450-plane attack on Japan within five days spearheaded today's bad news for Tokyo. All of jt—from mass surrenders on fallen Okinawa to fresh invasions of Borneo's oil fields—was ‘disheartening to Em- peror Hirohito, ‘The Mikado may find some con- solation in knowing that 90,401 of his subjects, now dead, extracted a higher price in American lives for Okinawa then for any other Pacific island. 'U. 8. Tenth Army forces lost 6,990 killed and 29,508 wound- ed—exceeding Nipponese losses on any American-captured island out- side the Southwest Pacific. In Southwest Pacific In the Southwest. Pacific Aus- tralians landed unopposed between the rich but flaming Seria ’and Miri oil fields in a 50-mile leap- frogging down the west Borneo coast. ’ ‘ A brilliant coup by American-] Filipino guerrillas split 30,000 ponese in the Northern Philippine Cagayan Valley, and the harrfed enemy hurled two tankeled counterassaults against U, 8. in an_ sttempt, o, escape from the trap. Japs Withdrawing Jupanese forces in Asia speeded their withdrawals from East China port cities—a potential American invasion ares. Chinese began at- tacking the former U. S. air base at Liuchow in Southeast China, and Amerfean observers said fall of both the wrecked airdrome and the flaming ' cross-road city of Liuchow were imminent, B-29s packed 3,000 tons of ex- plosives in today's precision day- light strike at the Kure naval ar- senal and five aircraft factories. The Kure arsenal, covering 11,- 000,000 square feet and manufactur- ing naval equipment ranging from fuses up to 16-inch guns, was the largest remaining unwrecked in Japan. B-i previously knocked out Japan's two best, at Hiro and Osaka. Hit Aircraft Plants The strike at five important air- craft fac § continued the new Superfort tpetics of raiding mod- erate sized industrial cities. The plants were ‘situated in four towns in the Kobe-Nagoya area—Kam- amigahara, Akashi, Tamashima and Himefi. Known damage added nine more square miles to the devastated aren of Japan, making a total of 112 square miles of her industrial cities that have been knocked out. Pacific Fleet Headquarters point- ed out fighter planes and bombers from Okingwa, 325 miles south of Japan, will be able to support an invasion of either Japan or China. Surrender in Droves 3 Japanese remaining on the island were surrendering in droves in re- sponse to pleas from loudspeakers on American-Japanese interpola- tors; being eliminated by infantry- men and marines using flame- throwers and demolitions; blowing themselves up, or drowning them- selves in the surf, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz re- ported “numerous” drownings Thursday and 1,700 surrenders, bringing the campaign’s total of prisoners to 4,000—a record. All but 1,000 or 2,000 Japanese were reported withdrawn from Liu- chow and the key Southeast China city was said to be so closely in- vested that its fall was expected hourly. e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 22. — Closing (CCC) sugar sectfon, said today.|10ss tactics, the Seattle Rmm.-rs[ Wilson made the disclosure in a|moved a game closer to the Pa-| oress conference after a two weeks’| ficic Coast League leading Port- inspecjion of ckdfiuht-devasmwd land Beavers who saw their margin Cuban sugar cane fields. trimmed back to three and one- — e - ANCHORAGE MAYOR HERE for a second time in three contests o, by the Sacramento Solons. Mayor John E. Manders, of An- chorage, arrived in Juneau yester- day via Woodley Airways. were to change parks foday. ’wfll as pop the enemy on the g battlefield. y John | Green, Pacific Amerlcanl In an impromptu appeal for the Pisheries official from Seattle, is|purchase of war bonds here, he stopping over briefly in Juneau en- auctioned off the ribbon from his PAF OFFICIAL HERE was raised on Okinawa today in a ceremony touched off by the blast- ing of anti-aircraft shells and the quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today {s 8, American Can 98%, Anaconda 35%, Curtiss-Wright 6%, music of a Marine Band. Admiral Nimitz' communique an- Having completed their first split{looked in on operations of PAPicnmpaign. series of the season, PCL teamsjcanneries at Petersburg and Ex-| cursion Inlet. ‘at the base of the lofty flag pole ‘The ribbon went on 4 $1,500' weg erected by an all-night working /'bond bid. party. International Harvester 88'¢, Ken- necott 39%, New York Central 31, half games when they were blanked L¥qute to Bristol Bay for the open-'Congressional Medal of Honor, pre- nouncing the end of organized re-| Northern Pacific 33%, U. S. Steel ing of the red salmon season there.|sented to him by General Mark sistance and a similar one signed | 70%. While in Southeast Alaska, he has| Clark for heroism in-'the Ttalian by Gen. Roy S. Geiger were read | shares. Sales today were 1,850,000 Dow, Jones -averages today are as follows: Industrials, 167.90; rails, 62.36; utilities, 33.06.