The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 27, 1945, Page 1

2 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 9999 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS -~ PRICE TEN CENTS REPORT YANK INVASION OF KUME ISLAND SHORTAGEOF SOME FOODS: 1S REPORTED Problem Hflany Large Cities WorryinngeaI Situaticn Is Bad (By Associated Press) Mounting snorrages of granulated sugar, canned margarine, lard and some fruits and vegetables are ating the food problem in cities of the United States. Coupled with this is a worsening | through Japan and the Kuriles and |returning to Anchorage by way of Buckner Wam;!fi To Fight Way Back fo Alaska ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 27.— The late Gen. Simon Bolivar Buck- ner, Jr., in one of his last letters before his death, said the Tenth Army men have earned a holiday which “I hope we can take togther in Tokyo.” “T would- enjoy fighting my way {the Aleutians,” he declared. The let- ter, written to friends here, was {dated June 16. ! His closing words were, “Here |comes an air raid, so my lights must go out.”. The General also told of having had “a good look at the ifront yesterday,” and predicted an |early end to the Okinawa campaign. STETTINIUS T0 REPRESENT US AT PEACE BAR {Successor fo Resigned State Secrefary fo Be Named Next Week By ERNEST B. VACCARO INDEPENDENCE, Mo., sune 27— President Truman announced to- day he had accepted the resigna- tion of Edward R. Stettinius, Jr, as Secretary of State, and was appointing him as American rep- | resentative on the Post-War Se- i AT rmont orneo| TAKEN FOR REALPPEACE i MELBOURNE-:. June 27.—Japanese attemptjng to kill General Sir | Thomas Blamey and his senior offi- Urgent Plea Made for Quick Approval by All 50 Nations Involved lcers on a Borneo beach Sunday night infiltrated to within 20 feet |of the tent in which the Australian By John M. Hightower | (Associated Press Diplomatic News Editor) | | Army Commancer-in-Chief was |cor:ferring with his Staff, the Army SAN FRANCISCO, June 27—A| mevement to win the quickest possi-| | reported. The Army believed it a planned ble ratification for the United Na-| tions charter grew among confer-| |attempt to kill Blamey rather than ence delegates today. It was spurred; |chance selection of a track so near his tent. Guards, surrounding the infiltrat- ing Japanese, waited until the en- emy began to move along the track, allowing them to come within a few | yards before opening fire with rifles. Two Japanese were killed and the 'Charter For New World Signed At Co nference Truman Declares Great Instrument for Peace, Security, Been Creafed AtUnited Nations Meel isand prepared. for New SAN FRANCISCO, June 27.—Pres-{,ion these words which you have ident Truman brought an historic| w itten. Upon our decisive action assemblage of 50 United Nations to|yests the hope of those who have a close yesterday with the declara;‘mlm‘ those now living, those yet tion that it had “created a greatiynnorn_the hope for a worid of free instrument for peace and security countries—with decent standards of and h“““"f progress in the world.” |)jying_which will work and cooper- hfugl_e';“’:en"'h:n“;"“:fh::‘;;‘s‘e'“53 it} ate in a friendly civilized commun- d ‘ {ity of nations. “ ... We shall betray all those| who have died in order that we| Strong Foundation meat situation. A monthly survey of independent grocers in 56 large cities found four out of 10 stores even without frankfurters andj e - MARRIED, PROXY Meat shortages were more wide-“ HOLLYWOOD, June 27.—A proxy spread among the different regions‘marriage was performed in Mexico during June than in preceding | yesterday for -film actress Merle months. There were scattered re- Oberon and film camerman Lucien ports of meat markets and restaur- | Keith Ballard while the two were ants closing and of increased cattle at work on a movie set here. and chick2n thefts. | Miss Oberon said her attorney And bakery products may become arranged for the proxy wedding in scarce. Philadelphia, for example,|Juarez because she and Ballard were reported hundreds of bakeries cur-|unable to leave their work at this tailing production because of sugar time. shortages. She obtained a divorce in Juarez Reflecting the acute meat situa-|June 4 from Alexander Korda, Brit- tion, Michican county and state|ish film producer, whom she had police reported increasing cattle and married June 3, 1939, in France. chicken thefts. At Houston, Texas, nearly 1,000 meat markets were closed yesterday for the second day of what the op- erators described as a protest against over-ceiling wholesale prices1 and tie-in sales. 1 'SCREEN PEOPLE ‘The ’Washington Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Col.” Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) HIGHWAY PETITION Lt WASHINGTON — Thronging the marble balls of Congress these days | lis one of the mo-t effective lobby- ling groups in Washington. Their |them mention the word. |goal is oil—but you wen't ever hear | | | e o | curity Council and Chairman of |Others fled. the United States delegation in its General Assembly. i The President would appoint a successor to Stet- tinius as state secretary next Mon- day or Tuesday, but laughed off attempts of reporters to make him | say it would be James F. Byrnes of South Carolina. | He said Stettinius had accepted the offer of the job as United i States representative in the Lea- gue of United Nations projected under the peace charter he steered | through to approval at San Fran- cisco. announced he (CHINA COAST SECURE, SAYS Highest Post The President said it is the mshw iest post in the gift of the Gov-| ernment, and he didn't see how | anyone could refuse it. In a lengthy prepared statement | read to a news conference in his| home town here, the President announced he was accepting the: resignation of Stettinius submitted | the day after former President Roosevelt’s death, but which he first to shatter refused at the time. Nipponese of Im- pending Invasion everybody is theorizing about it.” that time to carry out a vitallylmemamr said. important role as Chairman of the United States delegation at the United Nations Conference. | American forces might attempt JAPSPEAKER “Mililary Commentator Tells LONDON, June 27—A Japanese military commentator declared today in a Tokyo broadcast that “every- body in Japan is talking of invasion, “The American plans seems to be systematically all |Japanese industrial centers and large | plane last night to return directly to, The statement, in the form of |cities and then, having completely the Capital. a letter to Stettinius, asserted that |Paralyzed our industrial power, to to the Senate Thursday and Van- he had asked him to stay on at launch their final attack,’ the com-|denberg will speak on Friday. a on by President Trumans' urgent plea to make the new world peace plan “a living thing." making the fihal address of the 9- week conference yesterday, is en route to Washington, by way of his home at Independence, Missouri, to carry the Charter formally and per- sonally before the Senate next Mon- ay. “I am sure,” he told the delegates whehning sentiment of the people of my country and of their represen- tagives in the Senate is in favor o(kmmedbne ratification.” n associated Press poll which reached 26 of the delegations show- edi that 20 of the 26 expect their |nations to ratify the Charter this year. Drive to Ratify Befora the President's appear- ance two Americans of the Ameri- |can delegation will open the drive or quick ratification. Chairman |Connally (D-Texas) of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Vandenberg (R-Michigan) left by Connally will report The Chief Executive himself, after| of 50 nations here, “that the over-| might meet here in freedom and saf- jety to create it.” States, he promised that the Char- {ter of a new world organization dedi- cated to preservation of peace will be sent to the Senate “at once.” Likewise, he urged speedy ratifica- ‘tion by other nations. “I am sure,” Mr. Truman told statesmen of 50 nations gathered in (San Prancisco’s War Memorial opera |timent of the people of my country land of their representatives in the |Senate is in favor of immediate rati- | fication.” | Purpose of Charter | Throughout his address ran the \World League is only an instrument, | 'a machine that was built from uni-| versal desires that never again shall the world be engulfed in war. It isn’t perfect, Mr. Truman said, and there must be a will among nations (to use it well. But like the Ameri- can Constitution, the President as-, serted, it can be improved through' the years. “Upon all of us, in all our coun- |tries,” the President said, “is now 'laid the duty of transforming into | | Secretary of State Stettinius also, Speculating on the possibility tmt“lsn for Washington with top State! night. | !landing in China before attacking|Ahead of him is the task of leading' | Department officials last | Their aims are much more lofty | | —namely “quieting titles of States! lto lands beneath tidewaters and [nnvigable waters.” Expressed with PacificNorthwest Trade; Association Sends Re- | quest fo Truman | SPOKANE, Wash, June 27. —-l Members of the Pacific Northwest| Trade Association yesterday ndnpt-i ed a resolution urging construction | of a highway connecting Alaska“ with the Pacific Northwest. i The Association petitioned “the Honorable Harry S, Truman, Presi- dent of the United States, and the| Honorable William L. Mackenzle} King, Prime Minister of Canada,| to institute through their respective | State Departments negotiations for joint action to determine the most feasible and economic location for such a highway, the allocation of costs between the United States and the Dominion of Canada and| such other action as may be re-| quired to insure the commencement | of construction as soon as labor,! materials and equipment become available.” MESSAGE T0 POLES SENT FROM LONDON LONDON, June 27. — Poland’s| Government-in-Exile, claiming full support from Polish armed forces| in Western Allied territory, insist- ed today it would remain its coun- try’s lawful government “even when recognition will be withdrawn.” In 4 message addressed to.Poles throughout the world, the Gov- ernment said: “The future fate of the Poles will| not be alike everywhere. While most will suffer in Poland the cruel| realities of a police regime, others | will remain in the free world to be spokesmen of those v/ho’ must remain mute.” It described ‘the “national unity”| Government agreed on in Mo.s'cow as “a self-appointed political body composed of Communists and fof- eign agents” {of internal Democratic politics. lagreed that the, courts should de- less adornment, this means that beneath the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico are rich oil lands— some people think potentially the richest in the country. The oil companies want these submerged oil lands to be leased| by the States, not the Federal Gov- ernment. They know they can handle the State House boys much more easily than the Interior De- partment in Washington; so they now demand that Congress pass a law giving these tidewater lands to the States. The Attorneys General | of 46 States are backing them. Wrappped up in the whole thing is the future of one Cabinet officer, plus the prosperity of the Demo- cratic National Treasury, plus a lot ‘Two men have waged the tough- est fight to keep these oil iands in Federal hands—Attorney Gen- eral Biddle and Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Biddle has already lost 'his job. Now the boys are ganging up to throw out Ickes. TRUMAN DIDN'T HESITATE For some years, Biddle and Ickes had argued that the U. S. courts should decide this question. Sev- eral times they put it up to Roose- velt, but he postponed a decision. So, when Truman came in, Biddle put the matter up to him. Tru- man didn't hesitate, immediately cide who ‘owned these tidewater lands. Biddle warned that Tru- man’s friend Ed Pauley, Treasurer of the Democratic National Com- mittee, was in the middle of the| oil fight (Pauley is reported to get about $30,000 a month in royalties from submerged oil wells) but even s0, Truman told Biddle to go ahead and try the case. Now the politicians are sore as blazes. They claim Ickes and Biddle should not have put Truman on the spot. The. question should have been allowed to simmer on the back of the stove, they claim. ICKES’' DEATH BATTLE And while Biddle will be out of the Cabinet’ next Week, Ickes' is ity,” thé President wrote, a very grave responsibility.” added: “The San Francisco Conrerencei has now fulfilled its purpose. charter of a permanent United Na-i tions has been written. You have | every reason to be proud of yuur‘i part in this achievement from the| beginning.” | Not to Attend Meet | “It was He that he had “reluctantly agreed” not accompany the President to the “big three” meeting near Ber- take place next month.” said that Byrnes, former Senator, War Mobilizer and Supreme Court Justice, will attend the “big three” meeting as earlier announced. He laughed and replied: riving there at 2 p.m. war time) if the “sacred cow” stays in the air, using the humorous name for the big C-54, luxury plane in which he has toured the country during the past several days. — STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 21.—Closing| quotation. of Alaska Juneau mine: stock today is 8, American Can 98%, Anaconda 35%, Curtiss Wright 7, International Harvester 89%, Kennecott 39%, New York Central 31%, Northern Pacific 34%, U. S. Steel 71%. Sales today totalled 1,690,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 168.78, rails 62.87, utilities 33.43. — .o — PAA TRANSFER HERE Mrs. Hazel Surdey arrived yes- terday via Pan American from Seattle to succeed Miss Helen Mundheim in the Juneau Pan American district sales office. Miss Mundheim, is being transferred to the new Ketchikan sales. office ap- (Continued on Page Four) proximately July 1. The | Under questioning, the President | “Will Mr. Byrnes go ina personall capacity?” the President was,asked. | “Mr. Byrnes is going at my lnvn.ation,"! The President said he would fly| back to Washington Sunday, ar-| (Eastern | bodies of the Japanese Command- “You accepted - that responsibil-sme Japanese homeland, the broad-|the array of witnesses on world or-| icaster said the Japanese General ganization who will appear before {Staff “can assure the nation that|the Senate Foreign Relations Com-/! |Japanese forces are in complete con- | mittee. trol of the China coast.’ Permanent Headquarters | Stettinius left Leo Pasvolsky, an! "‘mslsunt and ranking American ex- pert on the United Nations organiza- | !uon, here to attend an organization| i | meeting of the United Nations pre-| WIll BE REopE"EDfxmrawry commission today. This commission, including representa- tives of all 50 nations, will have -its {"The Buffalo |Coal Company an- prepare for the creation of the !closed since June 1 when omcials‘)ccommend a site for permanent lof the concern held that ceiling|headquarters. | The announcement said the ceil- of the Charter by the American |ings had been revised. (Continued on Page Three) 2 Japahese Leaders OnOkinawa Commit Hono_rable Suicidg ‘By Al Dopking and Robert Geiger (AP War Correspondents) TENTH ARMY HEADQUART- ERS, OKINAWA, June 27—The entrance, which opened onto a nar- low ledge six feet wide und 20 feet long. ' Their stomachs had been slit crosswise and their heads virtually severed. Buried with Chow was a heavy comforter and white silk mattress cover. On it he had written his own epitaph: “Twenty-second day, Sixth month, 20th year of Show Era. I depart without ‘regret, fear, shame or obli- gation. Army Chief of Staff Cho! Isamu. Age of departure 51 years.” Chow’s epitaph indicated he and Ushijima fulfilled the Samurai code on June 22—four days after Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., com- manding the U. 8. 10th Army; was killed by an enemy artillery shell. Several days before, Ushijima had ing General on Okinawa and his Chief of Staff, who had slit their stomachs in hara kari ceremonies, have been found in shallow rock graves at the southeastern tip of the {American-won island. Col. Cecil W. Nist, of Salem, Ore., 24th Army Corps Staff officer, said the bodies, in full field uniforms with medals and insigna, have been identified positively as those of Lt | Gen. Misturu' Ushijima, Commander cf the 32nd Japanese Army, and Lt. Gen. Isamu Chow, his Chief of Staff. ‘The hari kari ceremony for Ushi- jima and Chow was held at the en- trance to a huge headquarters cave .on Hill 89 while 10th Army soldiers were in foxholes 100 yards away. The 1200-foot hill is between - Mabuni Town and the ocean. ‘The bodies were found at the base of a cliff 75 yards from’ the cave | honorable surrender. By the thous- ands, however, other Japanese offi~ cers and men have been giving up. (Continued on Page Five) VETO ON OPA'S FOODS PRICING 1S AGREED 10 Agriculture Secretary Is fo Have Over-All Control Over Farm Wares gressional conferees reached com- . i to Stettinius’ suggestion that helnounced it would reopen its mine,| United Nations organization and plete agreement today on price control legislation which passed the | House and Senate in widely dif- lin, which the President said “will| prices on coal were uneconomical.| Mr. Truman witnessed the signing ferent forms. 1_ The agreement included a com- | promise arrangement giving the | Secretary of Agriculture veto power over OPA food pricing. | The House had voted a plan to igive the Secretary over-all stab- |ilization controls over food and agricultural commodities. Senator Wagner (D-N.Y.), head {of the Senate conference group, Secretary of Agriculture, Anderson. trols for another year. —_—— — [German, Japane Property Seized Is turned to the owners. c’uamdian James E. Markham Th _|submitted the information to thej _Tho stary of the hara Karl 1| genate subcommittee studying Axis war potential. As Chief Executive of the United| house, “That the overwhelming sen-| {theme that the Chartet of the new, said the compromise in conference would prevent Economic Stabilizer William H. Dayis from approving any Office of Price Administration v,order relating to pricing of food products or farm commodities, in-, cluding wool and cotton, without prior written approval of the new, Clinton' It must. be { The legislation ektends price con- To Stay that Way WASHINGTON, June fl.—“ilh;wofld peace can accomplish its pur- | Government agencies have agreed'pose. that German and Japanese prop-| “And what a reasonable price that erty seized in this country at the 4s!” |outbreak of war never shall be re- “This new structure of peace i rising upon strong foundations." “Let us not fail to grasp this su- | preme chance to establish a world- !wide rule of reason—to create ar !enduring peace under the guidance (of God.” With this new Charter, Mr. Tru- man said, the world can start look- 'ing ahead to a time when all wor- |thy humans may live decently as free people. He emphasized, however, that for- ices of tyranny and reaction woulc attempt to split asunder the Unitec Nations. To divide and conquer, he |said, was and still is the aim of the Axis. But he predicted it would fali .in the future as in the past. Contidence Yustified Addressing conference delegates directly for,a moment, the President told them they had assembled at the Golden Gate nine weeks ago with the hlg\l hopes and confidence of peace- \loving people the world over. He 'added: “Their confidence in you has been Jjustified. {“Their hope for your success has been fulfilled. | “The Charter of the Unitec |Nations which you have just signec is a solid structure upon which we |can build a better world. History {will honor you for it. Between tht victory in Europe and the final vic- tery in Japan, in this most destruc- Itive of all wars, you have won a vic- \tory against war itself.” | Give and Take Policy | The Charter, Mr. Truman said was the result of a spirit of give- and-take, of tolerance of the views iand interests of others. It wa: | proof, he declared, that nations, like {men, can find common’ ground or | which to stand. | “If we had had this Charter & |few years ago—and above all, the The President’s letter disclosed| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 27.— regular headquarters in London, willl WASHINGTON, June 27.—Con-'will to use it—millions now deac would be alive,” the President asserted. “If we should falter in the future in our will to use it millions now living will surely die.” ! He spoke of the cooperation which had guided the Allies to victory dvel Germany, and remarked that out of the conflict had come powerful military nations fully trained “and equipped for war. But he had words of reassurance for lesser powers. For World Peace | The great nations, he said, have “no right to dominate the world.’ ‘Rather, he sald, it is their duty to assume responsibility for leadership toward a world of peace. “That is why,” Mr. Truman said, “We have here resolved that power and strength shall be used not tc 'wage war, bit to keep the world at peace, and free from the fear of war."” . recognized, he contin- ;ued, that no one nation, no group of 'nations, can or should expect any (special privilage which harms any |other nations. i Speed in Ratification l “If any nation would keep security for itself,” he said, “it must be ready Iund willing to share security for all. That is the price which each na- tion will have to pay for world peace. Unless we are all willing to pay that price, no organization for In calling on all member nations {for speed in ratification, Mr. Tru- The decision has beerf reached by man said: . the Alien Property Custodian, the, “There is a time for making plans rejected Buckner's appeal to accept State Department and the Treas- | —and there is a time for action. The time for action is now! Let us, therefore,; each In his own nation and according to his own way, seek —and make it a living thing.” | AMERICANS TAKE OVER MORE AREA Move on Japan - Yank Trap. Closes, Luzon po—— By LEONARD MILLIMAN (Associated Press War Editer) An American invasion of Kume sland on the flank of newly-ac- juired Okinawa was Treported by fokyo radio today as Japanese roops in the Northern Philippines ‘led to the mountains from the jaws of a rapidly closing Yank ‘rap. Fifty Superforts paced the air wvar with a pre-midnight strike at lapan's largest remaining oil re- ‘inery in the second B-29 attack n 14 hours. Smaller units of the Allled air arm listed 17 more small Nipponese ships sunk. Tokyo's unconfirmed invasion re- port said American amphibious inits stormed Kume beaches erday, 50 miles west of Okinaw: and were engaged in “heavy. fight- ing” by the defending u#:im! Jonquest of the lsland would ad wother ten square miles to » »ases in the Central Ryukyu chain %elng prepared for -eventusl in- asion ‘of S ¥ Between Kume and Okifmwa are he American-held: Kerama Islahds 7hich for days Tokyo has reported swarming with invasion forces. Mopping Up Okinawa U. 8. mm.Amy forces mop- sing up Okinawa ran Nipponese osses up to 111,351 as they round- «d up 802 more ers. Most oured in with surrender leaflets n their hands. Others, were m : '8 they waded through’ sl vaters. trying to join ambush’ ‘quads. . Japanese hurled new waves of uicide aircraft, including sluggish ‘loat planes, at Okinawa Monday. Chey lost 12 in the attempt end >aused no damage. Okinawa-based American Marine and Army fighter dlanes have accounted for 596 nemy aircraft since mid-April. iscort carrier planes in 82 days of »peration - which = surprised even heir commander, Rear Adm. Cal- /in Thorton Durgin, ,knocked out 79 others di g the campaign, lying 35,000 Bortles./ Sixty-three scort airmen were lost. Strike Near Nagoya P B-20s packed high explosives in ast night's at the Utsube ver oil ry, 18 miles south- west of'Nagoym. It was a quick ‘ollow-up to the 500-plane fighter- scorted strike ‘at ten, war plants. Tive raiders wef§ lost and 70, with ce coated made emergency andings on Jima. Tokyo slaimed 28 werg shot down and 66 lamaged. Fighter planes hflmmmm she rapidly moyjng A sweep of Cagayan Valley on Luzon Island in_the Northern' Philippines where nly 20 mi L tes the two jaws of the' Pilipino nut- :racker. , The 37th Division swept 14 miles northward through Tughe- jarao, as 1ith Airborne troops >ushed down from the north. Some ten thousand Jspanese fled to mountains on the eastern side of the valley while three U. S, di- visions. pushed through mountains on the west. X ’ Australians - overran the flaming Mhi ofl fields of Western Borneo while Tokyo continued to report mine sweeping and naval bombard- ment in the Ballkpapan area on the southeast. = Roosevelf 3 Shmp!o_wonhlo WASHINGTON, June 27. — A thm;t‘bmt stamp bearing the por- trait D, Roosevelt, first of four m-:.- memorial to the ‘late President, went on sale in Washington today. - The White House appears in the background on the purple, special- delivery-size stamp. One, two and immediate approval of this ommlflve—cem denominations will be is- sued later,