The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 28, 1945, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LXV., NO. 10,000 ALL THE TIME” THE LIBRARY OF JUL 18 1440 r/congy IR JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1945 MEMB ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FIVE SHIP JAPANESE CONVOY WIPED OUT 3,000TONS FIREBOMBS HIT CITIES, Between 450 and 5005 Supers Make Attack on 4 Japanese Centers BULLETIN — GUAM, Friday, June 29.—Between 450 and 500 American B-29s unloaded more than 3,000 tons of fire bombs on four Japanese cities — Sasebo, Moji, Nebeoka and Okayama—in a pre-dawn raid against the Nippon mainland today. | WASHINGTON, June 28.—A fleet of 450 or more Superfortresses wday attacked three important seaports on the Japanese home island of Kyushu and a manufacturing center on Honshu. The targets of the multiple strike | included the port cities of Sasebo, which previously had been hit, and Moji and Nobeoka, struck for thel first time. Okayama, site of an army tralnin" center and industrial center on| Honshu, likewise was attacked for the first time. The 20th .Air Force, announcing | the four-ply blow, said that further | details would be released when the B-29s return to their bases in the | Marianas. Sasebo, which has a population of \ about 206,000, is one of serving and | repairing all types of naval units. | The city has a harbor which can | a¢comodate an- entire -fleet-and- it | also has a naval arsenal, naval air- | craft factory and a naval aircraft assembly plant. ‘ The raids were the first incendiary | attacks on the four war industry centers, bringing to 18 the number of Japanese cities fire bombed in 29 strikes by B-20s of the msc: Bomber Command. —vo——— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, June 28. — Closing quotation of ,Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8%, American Can %, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss Wright % Xntematmnal Harvyester 86, Ken- necott 38%, New York Central 2974, Northern Pacific 32%, U. S. Steel 69s. Sales today shares. | totalled 2 ,940,000 | Dow, Jones averages today are| | President Truman lby a drastic departmental shakeup. |early next week. Capitol Hill is con- |vir:eed the choice will | chow’s southern 3,000TONS SHAKEUP IN |1 STATE DEPT. LOOKED FOR Thatls, If Pgsi«denl Names Byrnes as Successor fo Stettinius WASHINGTON, June 28.—If picks James F.| Byrnes.as his new Secretary of State the cabinet shift may be followed The President said in accepting the resignation yesterday of Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., as Secretary that he expects to announce a Successor be Byrnes, former Senator, Supreme Court Jus- | tice and War Mobilizer who quit the latter job shortly before President Roosevelt died. Stettinius, Mr. Truman said, will heag the American delegation to Lhe; iproposed new United Nation’s or-| ganization and serve as this coun-| try’s representative on the league:‘ | potent securlt) council. | | i CHINESE BATTLING FORWARD It Troops Supporied by Am-, erican Planes - Big | Sweeps Reported CHUNGKING, June 28—Chinese | troops battling their way into the! { western suburbs of the Kwangsi | | Province city of Liuchow have cap- | tured a railway station in the; southern part of the city, part of | 'an airfield has been wrested from the Japanese. These gains, offlc-; ially announced by the Chinese | High Command, follow word from | the front that another Chinese | column is moving toward a junc- tion with units fighting near Liu- | railway station. | JULY FOURTH WILL BE "BIGDAY" HERE | SAYS LEGIONNAIRE Juneau will hold its usual July 4th celebration next Wednesday under the auspices of the American Legion, starting the day with thc grand parade, with decorated floats, | color guard, children in costume, Legionnaires and service n all| taking part. A patriotic address by Mayor Parsons will 'be given at the ball park, at the termination of the parade. The children come in for their| share of the fun in the sports| carnival, in which prizes will be awarded the winners of the various races. A horseshoe pitching con- test at noon in the Evergreen Bowl while a softball game at the base- | activities. As a prelude to the.big day, dance will be held in the Elks' Hall Tuesday night, with B. W. Matheny's orchestra furnishing the music. Commander Les Sturm, American Legion, is being ably as- | sisted in preparations for the cels bration by Committee Chairman Claude Carnegie, Ralph Martin, | Leo Jewett, Frank Hungerford and | Joe Thlbcdeau BULLETINS WASHINGTON—Gen. Mark Clark has been named to command United States Occupation Forces in Aus- | tria. The appointment was an- | nounced today by Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. WASHINGTON — The Surplus Property Board reported today that property which cost the government | 547 670,000 was disposed of during May for $16,349,000. This brought !the 12-month total disposals to ' $196,513,000 for property originally | costing $357,063,000. NEW YORK—Two Pan American Airways Clippers and an American Export Airlines Flying Ace depart- ed for Europe today with a total of 93 passengers, marking the sixth anniversary of regular trans-Atlan- tic air travel. There were 22 pa: sengers on the inaugural flight on June 28, 1939. OLYMPIA—Washington State will al of the| 'RMIFY RATIFY BIG - CHARTERIS ~ PLEAMADE Connally Opens Campaign | in Senate-Speedy Ac- tion Is Requested ‘ WASHINGTON JunF 28. — Tom Connally told the Senate to- | day. “Now let us league our moral | and material might for peace.” | Thus the tall Texas Democrat, ‘Chmrman of the Foreign Relatiogs | will be another event of the dny | Committee and a delegate at the |san Francisco conference, opened | ball park will wind up the day's | the campaign for speedy ratification | of the United Nations Charter by a highly receptive Senate. “The World Charter for Peace is knocking at the doors of the Sen- ate,” he said, adding: “We shall not turn it away.” Admittedly worn by nearly nine weeks of day and night deliberations at the conference, the broad-shoul- dered Texan strapped on his legis- | lative spurs and called for speedy, favorable decision in his committee and the Senate itself. “Early ratification here will stim- ulatc and encourage ratification by other nations,” he declared. “The eyes of the entire world are centered on what we do here. “Foreign nations know that the United Nations Organization for Peace and Security will face failure | and futility unless the United States is a member. The fate of world {peace may depend upon our de- | cision.” | Connally seeriingly had no doubt what that decision would be. Before. he spoke, he estimated to reporters | |that no more than ten Senators | would oppose ratification. Bolswrlng his prediction was an Assoclated Press tabulation showing 54 mem- | bers who plan to vote for the char- ter barring unforeseen developments, | five more who say they probably will |and none who would go on record !\n outright oppsition. Describing the charter | monumental performance,’ 1y told his colleagues: “Mere documents and language and phrases cannot themselves pre- vent war and preserve peace. must rest upon the will and the | purposes and the desires of the peoples and nations of the world. “The basis thesis of the rule of \ as “a i “We | FLAGSHIP OF MITSCHER IS * Planes-Many Killed- Craft Survives BREMERTON, Wash, June 28— UNDER FIRE Afla(ked bfii_p Su icide% | JAPS BOASTING OF NEW WEAPON T0 BE USED, DEFENSE Declares “"Worldwide ! Amazement”” Will Result when Invasion Starts SAN FRANCISCO, June 28.—The | Japanese boasted today special sui- cide weapons were being prepared | | against invasion in a volume “al- | most equal” to the total number of leagued our armed might for war,”! Connal- | They | Japancse suicide planes scored two ! tanks and guns used in the Euro- divect hits on the carrier Bunker pean war and that they would cre- Hill off Okinawa, causing 656 casual- | | ate “worldwide amazement.” ties and damaging the craft exten-| The Domei Agency quoted one of sively, but the flagship of Vice Ad-its correspondents on his return miral Marc A. Mitscher ~urvl\edjhom “special attack” bases scat- four hours of flaming death and wm‘ tered throughout Japan. The cor- fight again, the Navy discloses. | respondent said “enormous” num- Despite the tragic losses of 373 bers of youths were being trained dead, 19 missing and 264 wounded, to man the weapons, in the tragic episode of May 11, the| “I even hope for an early land- Bunker Hill came in under her own ing of enemy forces on our main- power for repairs at the Puget Sound | Jand just to sense the thrill when Navy Yard. | we strike a deadly blow to the For three hours after the attack, enemy and in expectation of world- fire-fighters waged a nip and tuck wide amazement when our special tbattle on the flaming deck. ‘attnck weapons display full activ- Adm. Mitscher remained on the ity,” the correspondent said. craft until all danger was over and| The broadcast, heard by then transferred his flag to another pederal Communications Commis- carrier. He lost all of his clothing sjon, reported that “military ob- except what he wore. This Was| servers here are of the opinion the seccnd time he had been under|that Japan's special attack weap- fire and transferred his flag. {ons completed the experimental | stage in the Okinawa campaign.” | “Final, full-fledged results will Lbc obtained when United States folces attempt to carry out a land- ling on the Japanese mainland,” I | the correspondent added. ! Against that day of battle, an- ‘ other Japanese broadcast said that ‘n “Tokyo defense army” command | had been established, | It was the third command’to rbe set up this month and makes a !total of nine in the four main American Negro Troops nome iswnce. Make Landings-One | Pistol Shot Fired TRUMAN 0“ By ROBBIN COONS GUAM June 2. — American! Negro troops landed on six small |islands in the Northern Marianas (and brought them under American | domination with a single pistel | where ' crippled Superforts could in the fall and /@t the same time the | shot, Pacific Fleet Headquarters’ announced today. 2 It was purely a reconnoitering' SEATTLE, June 28. — President | operation to locate more areas IYUmam “hopes to come back here LUZON FIGHT BY YANKEES 1 Succesful Ca_m;aign in Ca- { gayan Valley Report- ed by MacArthur st By SPENCER DAVIS (Associated Press War Correspondent) MANILA, June 28.—American and Filipino forces have won the cam- paign for mountainous North Luzon, “one of the most savage and bitter- ly fought in American history,” to! ccmpletely liberate this biggest | island in the Philippines, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced to- day. His triumphant communique add- ed conquest of the 200-mile-long; Cagayan Valley in 28 days as the conclusive chapter of an operation which began January 9 at Lingayan | Gulf; swept down the 125 miles to| Manila in 28 days; freed that shell- shattered city only after three weeks, of battling in its rubbled stmu,; reclaimed hallowed Bataan Penin-| sula; and reopened Manila Bay by Paratroop amphibious invasion of Corregidor. A’ juncture Tuesday in the Caga- yan valley of the U. S. 37th Ohlo Infantry Division, which entered it| |May 31 from the south, and the 11th Airborne Division, which had para-| chuted into the north end near Aparri, wound up “The major phue‘ of the Northern Luzon campaign.” “No ‘Terrain has. ever presented | greater logistical difficulties and none has ever provided an adversary with more - naturally impregnable’ !strongholdl. MacArthur said. I “The losses inflicted on the enemy | {(n all North Luzon) were heavy— 113,593 dead, with the graves of| many other thousands located but ur:counted, and several thousand; | prisoners. Our losses were 3,793 |dead, 34 missing and 11,351 wounded, a total ‘of 15,178. Our troops com- priscd the First Corps and the Norr.h\ Luzon Guerrillas, all of the Sixth| Army, closely and most nlflclently‘ supported by the Far Eastern Air| iForce and the Seventh Fleet. “The entire island of Luzon, em-! bmclng 40,420 square miles . . . is i now liberated.” In effect, MacArthur wrote off the Philippine reinvasion, which be- 'gan last Octoker at Leyte. The only {other active sector is the southern island of Mindanao, |a former Central " Pacific JAP SHIP§ FINALLYWON SURPRISED ON ATTACK North Patif—it_iask Forces Make Good Strike on Okhofsk Sea By OLEN CLEMENTS (Associated Press War Correspondent) ADAK, Aleutians, June 26.—(De- layed)—A North Pacific task force virtually wiped out a five-ship Jap- anese convoy in the Sea of Okhotsk in the sub-Arctic dawn today. ‘The action, first reported in those waters, took place in clear weather a few miles southwest of Para- mushiro. Definitely sunk were a 2,000-ton freighter, a smaller cargo ship and a large seagoing tug.. Concentrated shellfire from crujsers and destroy- ers probably sank an additional small cargo ship. lnd damaged an- other. The Japaness Qh)u were sur- | prised by a fast task force under ' tactical command of ‘Rear Adm, John Brown, Jr., Washington, D. C., sub-~ mariner who = recently succeeded Rear Adm. John L. McCrea of ‘Washington, D. C, ¥ The attack was vicious.. The Jap- anese could offer only ineffective fire from small automatic weapons. The American lwu suffered no casualties or *‘Although 1t risked the fl aerial at- tack from Japanese ohnu M on at least m other ns, bombarding jushiro or suwa. 4 The Okhotsk engagement was the first surface 1of any magni- | tude in the North Pacific' since the Battle of the Komandorskles in March, 1943. Since the Jap-nm lost Attu and evacuated Kiska, they virtually have been Mvtn from th | North Pacific. However, they have been using | the Sea of Qkhotsk, which is pro- | tected on the east by the Kuriles and is bounded by the Japanese home islands, Soviet Kamchatka and Siberla, to supply Northern | American fighter-bombers are said | need 325,000 farm workers this year, to be supporting the drive, and the |it is officially announced. ifighting is described as heavy. | During ten days of battling outside| WASHINGTON — American com- unanimity of the five permanent ;g while limping back from raids members of the Security Council is|,,, Japan. Reconnoitering troops that as long as the great POWers|i.iy no holding force behind after remain united, they shall be able to, | discovering Japanese didn’t have a make a visit to Alaska,” Gov. Mon C. Wallgren said when he returned from a trip to S8an Francisco with| the President. | Kuriles garrisons, ALLIES READY T0 and today's| communique phrased operltionfl |there by the Eighth Army as a mop- up of a disorganized foe. Tke bulk of the estimated 20,000 as follows: industrials 166.30, rails 60.56, utilities 33.04. The Washingion | of Liuchow, the Japs have lost 1300 | troops. More than 800 of the enemy | are said to have been slain outside |a town (Likao) 17 miles from Liu- | chow. | Planes of the American 14th Air bat casualties for the entire war so far have reached a total of 1,030,679. | That represents an increase during | the past week of 7,226. Army losses | through June 21 add up to 908,025. Navy casualties total 122,654. | preserve the peace of the world,” Connally said. divided — if discord should arise— | they could not successfully preserve } international peace. “The veto is something which we | “If the great powers should be‘ garrison on any of the islands. The operation was carried out by and a naval force consisting of a' ‘d:struyel escort and two 153-foot LCI's (landing craft, infantry. two platoons of Negro infantrymen Mr. Truman was the Governor's ‘guest for neprly a week at the exe- | Japanesg which had been bottled up cutive mansion in Olympia. in Cagayan Valley fled the floor ‘Wallgren told a Post-Intelligencer east and west into a forested moun- | reporter the President sent his tain region where they are cut off (thanks to Washingtonians for a from supply sources but will be 1“splendid reception” and promised | difficult to liquidate. ' STRIKE JAPAN BI6 BLOW SAYS CHIANG yi CHUNGKING, June 28. — Gen- Force have swept along an 850-mile | |front from Northern Hunan Prov- Neither ships nor landing forces ya¢ “uif matters can be adjusted I MACATthur had announced earlier spent a single bullet. A guide fired wi) 'he out here in the fall and if this week a total Japanese casualty Merry - Go-Round SAN FRANCISCO—Suspension of ‘ of the Senate must examine and| eralissimo Chigng Kai-shek said to- By DREW PEARSON Lt. Col. ncben. S. ‘Allen now on active | service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—Few people no- ticed one little item tucked away in the Army appropriation bill, but| it gives significant insight into how| Wwar Department planners are thinking in terms of a next war. The item is $1,430,000 for horses. Not a single cavalry operation! has been used in the entire war.| On the contrary, the Russians and| British are now concentrating all their future war experimentation on rocket bombs which they think | eventually can reach the moon. Meanwhile, a German document has come to light whereby theln scientists and industralists are in- | structed to begin research for new’ war weapons. Yet U. S. Army chiefs are still spending money on horses and ask- ing for peacetime conscription of:| the type France had before she l'e]ll in 1940. In the new Army appropriation bill, the budget bureau scaled the Army’s horse allowance down to $1,240,000, which included, the cost of breeding plus the purchase of 3338 new riding horses. !lowever. the Army, maneuvering backstage, | got Congressman Case of Custer, S. D, a city which still lives on| the memory of that cavnlry-ndlng old Indian fighter, General Custer, to inserf an additional $190,000 in the bill. This would purchase about 1,000 new riding horses. In other words, it looks a if the Army W sliding right back to'its old peacetime ideas when it uud (Continued on Page Foury !ince to Peiping. Shipping and rail| ‘War Casualfies of A mittee headed by Rep. Traver (D- communications have been blasted and enemy airfields attacked. Canadians Listed OTTAWA, June 28. — Canada’s casualties in the war period up to May 31st were disclosed today. Canadian defense headquarters announces that Army Navy and| Air Force casualties up to May! 31st totaled 102,954. Of that num- | ber, 37,964 Canadians were Killed, and 2,866 are listed as missing. WFA Officials Are Charged with All Kinds of Things WASHINGTON, June 28—A House sub-committee asserts mismanage- ment in the War Food Administra- tion has resulted in food and money losses running into “many millions of doliars.’ It also accused some WFA officials of giving false information to Con- gress when it sought to check up ion the agency’s operations. In a report on a lengthy investiga- tion—much of it conducted under- cover—an appropriations sub-com- Ga.) accused WFA of wasteful ware- house practices, poor. bookkeeping and inadequate records, lax hiring methods and “inefficiensy and dere- futures trading on the Tokyo and. approach with great candor.” liction on the part of some officials,” Osaka stock markets due to the “current general situation” was an- nounced by the Japanese Security ! Exchange today in a Domei News Agency dispatch recorded by the | Federal - Communications Commis- | | sion., KANSAS CITY — President Tru- man will be awarded an Honorary Degree from the University of Kan- sas City tonight and a public re- ception will follow. PARIS—American troops in Ger- | many have captured the 19-year-old son of Fritz Kuhn, who was head of the German-American Bund. WASHINGTON—OPA announces there will be more meat next month, but still not enough to reduce ra- tioning. Canned fish and margarine are a little tighter. KANSAS CITY -~ President Tru- man will send the name of his nom- inee to succeed Edward R. Stettinius as Secretary of State to the Senate Monday. Stettinius resignation was effective yesterday and Joseph C. Grew will continue as Acting Secre- tary until a successor has been con- firmed by the Senate. NORWEGIANS T0 OBSERVE JULY 4 OSLO, June 28.—Norwegians will observe the Fourth of July as a holi- day in gratitude for the part which ‘the United States played in liberat- ing this eountry from the Germans, | American soldiers in Oslo are planning a parade, a baseball game and a dance by way of celebartion, Connally gave repeated assurance that the rights and sovereignty of | this nation will not be imperiled by | participation in the organization. Ryukyus Campaign Casualties Given GUAM, June 28. — The Ryukyus campaign, including capture Okinawa Island and several ciated strikes by the Navy’s fust carrier forges on the Japanese home- | land, cost the United States 46,319 casualties, of whom 11,897 were kill-| ed or missing. jonly one shot—a pistol cartridge ¢yo trip can be arranged I'm asking list for the Philippines of Rquenpirn| expended on a Japanese who re-' | fused to surrender. | The six new islands are Anata-| 1han, Sairgan, Alamagan, Aglhan, ‘As;unclon and Maug. Maug was | the only island which showed signs ,(.' ananen military occupnncy Assdtlaled PressIs o Ask for Rehearing in. Recent Decided Case' NEW YORK, June 28.—A petmun for rehearing of the Federal Gov-| Naval casualties of 4907 killed or |crument’s anti-trust case against the ! missing and 4,82¢ wounded—a total| sssociated Press will be filed with of 9,731—for the period March 18 (e Supreme Court, AP's Board of through June 20 were announced in | Djrectors announces. Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz’s| The petition will be filed on or communique today. Previously, he ,cfore September 1 in connection had reported Army and Ma:ine cas- |vwith the Supreme Court’s recent de- | ualties of 6,990 killed or missing and | cision affirming a lower court ver- 29,589 wounded in Okinawa ground action. Count Shot fo Death When Going fo Court ANNECY, France, June 28—Count | Maurice Russy de Sales, former death by three unidentified assail- ants yetesday as policemen were collaboration with the Germans. : e ALLEN ARRIVES at the Baranof Hotel, Lord Mayor of Thorens, was shot to| escorting him “to court for question- | ing prior to his trial on charges of | W. B. Allen, of Sitka, is a guest/ |diet. The decision held that AP | by-laws violated the Sherman Anti- lnm Act and should be amended to remove competitive effects upon| lyisnng members as a factor in consideration of new applications for membership. —_————,o——— B. BACOLOD DIES Basillio Bacolod died early this| morning at St. Ann’s Hospital at |the age of 52 years. A native of |the Philippine Islands, he was single at the time of his death. | The remains are at the Charles W. ‘Cnrter Mortuary. B | ROSAMOND WELLER HERE Rosamond Weller, of Fairbanks, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. ,you to accompany men to Alaska at that time. “The Président seemed to regret he had to leave this State of ours and he talked of the possibility of | returning in the fall to make a |trlp to Southeast Alaska with me,” Gov, Wallgren said. ‘The President’s principal mur- ests in making such a trip will be fisheries and “a further study of the Alaska Highway,” the Gover- nor said. The highway study will include further investigation of the pro- posed Northwest link in which the President showed much interest | when he ‘was here, Wallgren added. If such a trip is undertaken it undoubtedly would consist of a | boat trip from here to Alaska so | that stops could be made ‘in fish- eries interests, and it might in- clude the President's flying over the proposed route of ‘a hlghway, the Governor said. “Of coursp these are just tenta- tive plans,” Governor Wallgren emphasized. “There are many im- [portant things between now and | thert requiring the President's at- tention.” ————y—— Former Jap Envoy To Europe Killed SAN FRANC1SCO, June 28.—Dr Yoruzo Oda, Japan’s “Good Will” Envoy to Europe in'1938 who once was a Judge of the International Court of Arbitration at The Hague, was killed in a Superfortress raid on said today. day the Allfes are thetr linkup & tincluding more than 9,000 prisoners. 'WACS BARRACKS AT LADD FIELD BURNED FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 28— The recently completed Ladd Field | WACs barracks near here, reportedly !the most attractive women's Army establishment in the nation, is only a blackened shell after fire swept! the interior of the structure Tuesday afternoon. Flames mushroomed so, rapidly that several of the 150 girls were forced to jump from the second floor windows. Some personal iteths were saved but many WACs are today wearing lmen‘s stocks until an emergency shipment arrives. Oiarmn | PLENTY OF BEEF FOR MEAT RIGHT NOW IN OREGON PORTLAND, June 28.—Oregon| could easily provide plenty of meat ! for nearly empty market centers if it werent for government regula-| tions. So says Oregons' Agriculture Dir- ector, E, L. Peterson, who declares| that there are more beef cattle on| state farms and ranges than at any| time for 15 years. Peterson charges that ill-advised Tokyo May 25, Domei News Agency |regulations prevent beef, pork and and cut the | lamb from reaching consumers, forces ready ta deal Japan its final blow. ’ If the A land on the Japanese home and defeat the enemy there, the Chinese wik find it le. to deal with the Japanese on the Asiatic mainland, the Generallssimo asserted. He sald American-trained Chi- nese divisions hld reached the point enabling ‘them “to go into combat soon.” ' Chiang’s statements were made irt the first foreign press conference he Hhas granted lfih 1941, Chiang said he believed it mll require more than 18 months to collapse Japan completely and pre- dicted that the: would fall apart in the same manner as did Germany. He added, however, that if Chinese forces were utilized fully, Japan might be crushed within & year. Bruised Stomach, |Falling Panis as Result of Fight WITH THE U.. DIVISION NEAR DA AO, June |28.—After th little pitched battle wit! Green, of bruised hnt-ld.llnc b W An enemy hlv the left side of his chest at blouse pocket. It penetrated a 1t cut & Bible in two. It ‘armor plate on a second Bible. 1t his stomach as it | downward— of the Japanese hllhem