The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 23, 1945, Page 1

BERIAL RECORD JUL 131945 [ T THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 9996 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e ————————— ———— FIGHTER PLAN WOUNDED JAPANESE BAYONETED Sick in HOSHinrB_IS Are Also Put to Death - Grue- some Discovery MANILA, June 23.—Bodies of 120 | Japanese soldiers, bayoneted or shot by their comrades as they lay | in bed, have been discovered in an | abandoned enemy field hospital on Northern Luzon, Gen. Douglas | MacArthur's Headquarters an- | nounced today. E Even before*® American troops | made the gruesome discovery in| an enemy hospitai at Bayombong, | north of Manila, evidence had been accumulated that the Japanese ordered the ruthless extermination | of their wounded. Elements of the 129th infantry | regiment under Col. John D. Fred- erick, Springfield, Tll, made the! latest discovery in two school buildings used as a Japanese field hospital. ! Some of the wounded Japanese! had been bayoneted on their wooden cots. The greater num- ber had bullets in their temples. The Japanese had withdrawn be- fore the hospital could be set| ablaze, permitting Army Signal | Corps photographers to make a| record of the appalling scene of | death. Headquarters also released ex-| tracts from Japanese documents and statements by prisoners cap-. tured by the Americans citing the | enemy’s attitude toward his own | sick and wounded, a spokesman adding: “This is the best evidence we can glean to prove that the| Japanese slaughter their wounded.” | One order by the commanding officer of the Japanese Second Armored Division’s Seventh tank| regiment head: “Concerning those wounded: Men | who are slightly wounded will par-! ticipate in this battle. When men wounded are not able to participate in battle, their unit leaders will see to it that they end their lives.” | Another field order of a general commanding the 58th independent mixed brigade read: ‘“You are hereby ordered to execute all sick and wounded soldiers when your company headquarters are about to be penetrated by the enemy.” e >—— | | The Washington Merry - Go- Round Ry DREW PEARSON | {Lt. Col.- Robert S. Allen noy on active | sesvice wWith e Army.) ‘WASHINGTON—Plenty, of pub-| licity was given the fact that the! Russians had barred the Allies from | entering the city of Vienna, but iti was kept very hush-hush when an Anglo-American-French mission fi- | nally did enter Vienna on June 3. | Under the Yalta Agregment, the‘ United States afid Britain were, supposed to send military missions | into Vienna, but during the height | of the Polish trouble, when US-/ USSR relations were sfrained, the! Russians’ had taken all the Vien-| nese airports and wouldn’t let us! land, v | Wh e Western Allies ‘finally | arrived in Vienna on June 8; things | didn't “go 'too ‘well. There” were | some unpleasant differences with | the , Soviet Commander as to| whethidr ; they could inspect ‘all the city. He contended that the Yalta | Agreement ; permitted ~ the - Western Allies access only to l}']e_city of Vienna, which includes one airport. The Western Allies, on the other | hand, contended that Yalta per-| mitted them access to “Vienna | grau” or greater Vienna, including the region around the city proper and all airports. In the end, the Russians yielded, permitting the Western Allies to inspect every;hing. The French- | British-American military found that the Russians were acting rea- sonably in Austria, and it has now been agreed that the Anglo-Ameri- can occupation will extend to the west bank of the Danube, while the Russian occupation will control the east bank. The Western Allies’ representa- tives left Vienna June 1l to report to SHAEF. It looks as if another hurdie in relations with Russia had been. ironed .out. A bad situation (Continued on Page Four) i FLAPJACKS ON OKINAW A_pfc. 0. D. Ludwick (left), Springfield, O., and Pfc. B. M. Schmitz, Chickasha, Okla., resourceful Marines, cook impromptu flapjacks on Okinawa. CHINESE ‘STABLE' MOVED BY PLANE NEW pOUSH o * REGIME T0 BESET UP National Government Agreement Reported - Reached, Moscow | (By The Associated Press) | The agreement of Polish factions {tc form a new Polish National Gov- jernment in Warsaw was hailed in ¢ | Mcscow today as having removed an { obstacle to complete harmony of the | Allies while a.British Foreign Office spckesman said the understanding | was “warmly welcomed” in London. The London Polish regime's days ias a Government recognized by | Britain and the United States ap- :p(‘ax?d to be numbered. i Prime Minister Churchill and the {late Prcsiient Roosevelt agreed at | Yalia thut their two countries would - | establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet-sponsored Provisional | Polish Government in Warsaw when | that -Government had been broaden- ‘ed into a national unity regime. NO TASK IS TOO TOUGH for the U. S. Army Air Transport Command. Here a Chinese soldier rides with a harnessed horse in its stall inside a U. S. Army transport plane en route from Burma to China. The Chinese troops accompanied their pack animals in the high and dangerous flight eover the “hump.” Army Signal Corps photo. (International Soundphoto) i Deepsea Fishing Off SEATTLE, June 23.—~Two million | dollars has been loaned to the Pa-! !that Britain and the United States }pmbubly would transfer relations to the new Warsaw regime within a " Developed; Loan Made J [ | agreement was the future of the well | trained army still under the com- knowledged that this was a major . problem. ©On one occasion he told ¥ i +event of the formation of a new vide for exvlaratory deep-sea fishing b 12 the coast of Alsls M Wflrl‘enlpomh government, Poles in Britain The Senator said an 8,800-ton ves- | | sel had been released’ by the Mari_‘naucnality W | | dt Bellingham, Wash., for the ex- ¢i8n Commissar Vyacheslay oo plorations. | Molotov, British Ambassador Sir headed by Nick Bez, was formed Archibald Clark Kerr and U. S. | recently for the express purpose of | Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, ]C o | settle the problem. Among the Poles which the agree- establish legally American rights to to invite t 5 ¢ 0 participate in the new (the, fishing grounds and make it oovernment were: Stanislaw Miko- Britain would accept the United |} chelf and prohibit fishing b; States plan to hold a collective| pirer nationalitiss, ® P¥|71-year-old former pedsant party M. |Robert Jackson, imatter of days. | Left unsettled by the Moscow TG W o | mand of ‘the London Polish Govern- BR'IISH MAY iment. Churchill himself "has ac- cific Explorations Company by the Defense Plants Corporation to px‘co-'lhe House. of Commons thaf, in the A((EPT MASS | e 3 might be gjven the choice of re- “Gv Magnuson annonced last mght.“ummg home or accepting British time Commission to the Federal| The agreement-was announced last Government and was being outfitted | M8ht In a statement by Soviet For- He said the company, | U. S. Proposal Regarding Ambassador W Avers e ot | exploring the fishing résources of [CCMPrising the commission authoriz- War Cl’lmlnals UflOf- | the continental shelf off the Alaskan €4 by the Big Three at Yalta to ficially Approved 137, . ; y pp He said the exploration also would | ment said the conferees had decided LONDON, June 23. — A réspon-| £ b, | possible for the President o extend sible British sources said today. that | sthres-mile ML .o lajezyk, former Premier of the Lon- the “three-mile limit” to the edge of | 3 Government; Wincenty Witos, trial of Germany’s arch war crim- inals and their terror-atrocity or- | tribunal. The attitude of France and Rus-; sia remained undetermined, but it was generally believed here that they too would agree to the plan outlined yesterday in a press con- ference by Supreme Court Justice chief United States prosecutor of war criminal cases. Britain’s 'endorsement, although still unofficial, appeared to con-; stitute @ reversal from her previous stand that punishment of the major war criminals should be carried out by executive decree| without formal trial. ol bt a High mmtury“ Thursday night indicated such ac- | ! ganizations be! The President in conversation: tion might be taken to protect the | son said. He said the ship now being pre- { pared would act as a cannery ship for trawlers which would deliver their catches to her in midocean. COMDR: MACKINNON HERE Comdr. Simpson J. MacKinnon, U. S. Navy, has arrived at his home here on a two-weeks' leave from his duties in the Aleutian| area. THOMPSON = ARRIVES B. F. Thompson, of Pelican City, has arrived in Juneau and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel, American fishing industry, Magnu- | leader, and Stanislaw Grabski, 74- year-old former President of the Polish National Council. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 23, — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 8, Anaconda 35%. | International Harvester 83%, Ken- necott 39%, New York Central 30, ! Northern Pacific 33%, U. S. Steel 170%. today. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials, 168.24; rails, 62.29; utilities, 33.08. —— . BURNS ‘HERE James A. Burns, of Anchorage, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. TTACK NEAR TOKYO [ | 10 SET PATH. OF TRI-MEET : 'iscussion on Ratifying o World Charter fo Be Tru- - man Talking Points By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER {Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) ISAN FRANCISCO, June 23. — lenate committee hearings on the United Nations Conference may y a large part in President Tru- an’s meeting with Premier Stalin d Prime Minister Churchill at rlin next month. The time-table of the hearings has now been laid down, although | it is subject to revision or even discard. Final decisions will be made after Senators Connally (D-Tex.) and Vandenberg (R-Mich.) return to Washington next week. They will report to the Senate on accom- plishments of the United Nations Conference in which they are par- ticipating as members of the | United States delegation. Ratification Predicted Connally predicts the Senate | eventually will ratify the charter| “with a comfortable edge” over the needed two-thirds vote—64 Sena-| tors out of 96 when all are pres- | ent and voting. That may not be | before September, allowing a monlh! {for debate. | | The expectation is that the hear- | | Ings _ will about mid-July, | {34 time to" haVe them opened by | i'Secretary of State Stettinius just| {before he leaves with Mr. Trumnn‘ | for Germany. That means the| hearings will be underway while! In Congres Road, Northfo Alaska ‘WASHINGTON, June 23. —P‘OHDW-‘ !ing up President Truman’s endorse- ment of an Alaskan Highway, two |bills authorizing its construction | | were introduced in the House yes-| terday. | At a news conference in Olympia, Wash., Thursday, Mr. Truman re-| |ferred to the highway proposal as an | “absolutely essential” postwar pro-| ject. | Delegate Bartlett of Alaska and, Rep. DeLacy (D-Wash.) in identi- cal bills asked Congress to make 1m-{ (mediate arrangements with Canada (for the project and to earmark $15,000,000 for construction. | The Congressmen declared in al |statement that the much-publicized Alcan Highway, built to service cer- tain airfields, “does not connect with | Two Bills Infroduced s for New the Continental road system at any point.” Utilizing present roads to greatest advantage, the Congress- men said, only 625 miles of new con- struction would be necessary. “The route,” they said, “is 1,000 miles closer to every city of the West than the Alcan route and miles closer to Chicago than any pos- sible extension of the present road.” The new road would be built through the Canadian province of British Columbia from Ft. James to Tagish, near Whitehorse, However, the Congressmen said, Canada, be- cause of its sparce population and its own postwar road problems, can- not bg expected to participate in the cost on an equal basis with the United States. FINANCING NEW ROAD COMES UP Truman Indicafes He Fav- ors Cost-sharing Program SEATTLE, June 23.—Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D.-Wash.) said in an interview with the Post-Intelligencer | C0IC Backing Proposal for New Highway All-Year Low Level Road‘ West of Cascades to Ala&:&ixm!ed PORTLAND, Ore., June 23,-—«An1 all-year low level highway west of the Cascade Mountains to Alaska |the Big Three are discussing post- |last night that Pgesident ‘Truman |Was supported today by California, war problems of Europe and the | had indicated a willingness for the | Oregon, and Washington commis- world. | President Truman had hoped at| one time he might arrive in Ber-| lin with Senate ratification of thci charter in his pocket. He was represented as considering that BSi effective reassurance to the other | big pgwers that this country was!' determined to retain its full role in world affairs. Effect on Big Three | Now the question is becoming one {of the effect of the hearings on the Big Three. Indications are |that some vociferous opposition to | ratification, at least unqualified | ratification, may develop early in| the hearings. Some officials say | they are uncertain whether this| |would promote or hamper the | TRUMAN SURE SENATE WILL PASS CHARTER \Upper House Strongly Be- | hind President's Peace Plan | OLYMPIA, Wash, June 23.— President Truman has authorita- tively reported today to have count- ed less than a dozen potential votes | against the Peace Organization | Charter he is expected to submit to the Senate July 2. Sources close to the Chief Ex- ecutive said he has talked person- ally with virtually every member of | the Senate and that he is optimistic | over prospects for overwhelming| ratification. He is even hopeful that ratifica- tion. far above the necessary two- thirds majority, can be accomplish- ed without undue delay. He would like to see it done before his forth- coming meeting with Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Churchill in mid-July. In his “Temporary White House” | year. United States to share in the costs of building a western highway link | to Alaska and propogsed that a com- mission meet to formulate a cost- | sharing program. Magnuson said the President, dis- | cussing the matter informally while vacaticning at nearby Olympia, had | suggested that a commission epre- | couver, B, C. | If the commission’s recornmenda- | tions were acceptable the President | said he would refer the matter to | Congress immediately, said Magnu- | son. The highway, 600 miles of new | construction connecting existing sys- | tems in Alnslu'x, Yukon Territory and British Columbia, would link the Pacific Northwest directly to | Alaska with a land route. Magnuson has estimated the prob- | able cost at $15,000,000, somewhat | higher than an estimate by British Columbia officials. The link would be a postwar projest. DEMOBILIZATION RED ARMY FORCES | sions on Interstate Cooperation. | Commissioners endorsed the proj- | ect after Donald MacDonald, former | Alaska Highway Commissioner, de- | clared the Alcan Highway has no commercial value and opens no resources. “The proposed route would cut 1,000 miles off the distance to Fait- ; senting the United States, the Dom- | banks from some points and would inion of Canada and Province of [be 335 miles shorter from Chicago | British Columbia meet soon at Van- |to Fairbanks,” MacDonald stated. He said President Truman supports the new highway. Kemper Freeman, Seattle, of the Northwest Trade Association, charg- ( ed that Japanese influence had blocked the opening of transporta- tion routes to both Alaska and Si- beria. He called transportation “the key that will open a tremendous | area jammed with resources of all types.” . ——————— BULLETINS LONDON—Prime Minister Chur- chill has congratulated President ‘Truman on the American victory on | Okinawa, terming the battle one of | the most intense and famous in mili- | tary history. BEING DISCUSSED, MOSCOW, June 23.—The 1,000/ | delegates to the 12th session of the Soviet were scheduled today to take | up discussion of a proposal to de-] mobilize the Red Army on a scale| running into millions of men in the 13 oldest age groups. { The proposal was annpunced at the opening session last night by Chief of Staff Alexei Antonov. It is almost certain to be accepted, and would mean complete demobilization in those groups by the end of the The ages in the 13 classes are not stipulated. Gen. Aptonoy advised in his ad- dress, however, that Russian mili- | tary forces should “remain on a level commensurate with our country‘s} greatness,” and added, “we cannot rest on our laurels.” — NEW YORK-—The British radio | (heard by C-B-8S) says the Indian | Congress Party leader, Pandit Neh- | ru, has expressed approval of the new British proposal for India, at 'after two days of hearings. least as a temporary measure. et here where he is enjoying a brief | vacation as the guest of Gov. Mon | GUAM-The Australians on Bor- neo have won control of a 4,000- foot airfield outside the town of | Miri. TOKYO—Advices received here is that a great Allied invasion fleet of | more than 50 large vessels and land- ing barges is approaching the Miri arca on Borneo. OLYMPIA — President Truman leaves here Monday for Portland, where he will make a brief auto tour of the city, then continue to San Francisco, PORTLAND—Returns from yes- terday’s special election still are be- ing counted. But results so far show that & building fund tax levy has been approved and the cigarette tax defeated. WASHINGTON—The Senate Ag- riculture Committee approved the nomination of John B. Hutson at Undersecretary of Agriculture today, ‘The approval was unanimous. is 336 Sales totalled 960,000 shares C. Wallgren, the President is re-| | borted to have gone over the list of Senators repeatedly. |~ Ktfection for him on the part of | Senators among whom he served be- {fore Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death |sent’ him to the White House is 'said to be a big factor in the ulti- mate decision. SAN FERANCISCO — President { WASHINGTON-The House has | Truman is scheduled to address the | voted to make the Secretary of Ag- | United Nations Conference Tuesday | riculture a virtual food czar. It voted | for 17 minutes beginning about 8 | tentatively to adopt an amendment p. m.,, Eastern War Time. | to the Price Control Extension Act _——e—eeo———— that would give'the Secretary final HANSMEIER HERE | authority over any government Mark Hansmeier, of Haines, is order affecting agricultural prod- a guest at the Hotel Juneau. ucts. WAYBEING PAVED FOR NEXT MOVE Thousand Plane Attacks fo | Be Made Before In- vasion Sarts By LEONARD MJLLIMAN (Associated Press War Editor) More than 100 American fighter planes from Okinawaand Iwo Jima streaked over Japan today following up a record series of Superfort raids which U. 8. commanders said will soon reach ,1,000-plane proportions to “pave the way for invasion.” | The fighters’ rockets, bombs and | machinegun bullets were a stinging answer to renewed. suicide air-at- tacks on Okinawa which sank two U. 8. ships and damaged three. Japanese radio commentators re- | ported Tokyo and southern Japan jare prepared to meet invading as- sault forces but cautioned that Am- erican forces were preparing to land on the China coast in conjunction with a sweeping counteroffensive on the mainland, which Chungking spokesmen said was in the making. The situation is so acute that one Tokyo commentator seid Emperor Hirohito may persenally assume rule of Japan. His cabinet took over dictatorial powers to rule by imper- ial decree today. The commentator said this was a step in the righ direction. Japs Bottled American troops and Japanese force troops with a surprise landing- Aparri, northernmost part of the Philippines where the Nipponese first landed in December, 1941. ‘The action trapped more than 20,000 Nipponese in a 65-mile stretch between Aparri and Tuguegaro, seize ed by guerrillas who have since been repulsing daily counterattacks. An- other group of Japanese is trapped between these guerrilas and the U. S. 37th Division to the south, which advanced five niles to San Juan, eliminating 28 camouflaged Nippon- ese tanks on the way, : U. S. Sixth- Army infantry an artillery units landed at Aparri Wednesday night, had the town under control by daylight and then fanned out eight miles to the south, Syrrender On Okinawa Tenth Army troops mopping up on Okinawa were buslest segregating prisoners who crawled out of caves and surrendered in bewildering numbers. Almost all were wounded but well-fed. Others were committing suicide. In one gorup 160 blew themselves up with grenades, But, three small pockets, with five machine guns among them, dontinued to fight to the death. At a formal flag raising' ceremony signalizing American conquest—the flag was red from the 96th Divhion Infantry 's cemetery—Ma- " (Continued on Page Two) CHANGES IN U.5.CANADA BOUNDARIES State Depfir;\em Starls Survey on Subject- Other Moves SPOKANE, June 23.—The Spokes- man-Review said yesterday that Sen. Warren O. Magnuson (D.- Wash.) had revealed that “negotia- ‘ions are proceeding between the United States and Canada that may result in revision of their commornt “oundaries.” In a dispatch from Seattle, the naper said the State Department “as started a survey of the entire houndary subject including possible changes, creation of custom-free “ighways, free ports, removal of ir- -itations caused by regulation of international traffic and many re- lated subjects. = “The matter was brought to the 1ttention of +President Truman this week by Magnuson and Gov. Gruen= ing of Alaska," the dispatch said. "