The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 29, 1945, Page 1

" THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE LIBRARY O/ DONGREST SERIAL RECORT JUL 18 195 [ Y | | -— VOL. LXV..NO 10,001 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1945 M[ MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _____PRICE TEN CENTS CENTS AMERICAN FLEET IN MACASSAR STRAITS Japs Told Yanks Planning FORCES ARE MASSED iN WIIANS Tokyo Radlo Makes An- nouncement-Ships Re- porfed Sent Down | SAN FRANCISCO, June 29— Radio Tokyo warned the Japanese home front today that the United States was massing ground xandi naval forces in the Aleutians for an | attack from the north, and dis- closed that speedy transfer of Nip ponese war industries to Manchuria was underway to escape further | destruction from the air. { Tokyo said American mountain- | trained fighters and paratroops were gathering in the Aleutians and the U. S. Ninth Fleet was on the prowl, awaiting a chance to strike the mainland of Japan. Removal or war maustries to thel Asiatic continent to escape Amer- | Army Post al Excursion Inletfo Be Dismantled by German Prisoners of War SEATTLE, June 29.—An $18,000,- 000 Army Port, secreted in an Alas- kan Fjord and used only a year, will be dismantled for salvage this sum- mer by 700 German prisoners of war, | | Col. Conrad P. Hardy, Seattle Dis- trict Army Engineer, announces. These will be the first prisoners sent outside continental United | Statcs, says Colonel Hardy. The Colonel said the project was authorized in July, 1942, by the Wes- | tern Defense Command to provide a trans-shipment point where barges' from the United States could trans- | fer military supplies to ocean-going vessels plying to Kodiak and Aleut- ian Island installations. The terminal was located in Excur- ion Inlet, off Icy Straits, midway between Juneau and Cape Spencer cn the Gulf of Alaska and about 950 | miles ncrth of Seattle. Construc- tion began August 3, 1942, and the plant was in use in November, 1943. The 630-acre facility was declared surplus to War Department needs' and assigned to the Pacific Divis- 1944. Eince that tlme ll. has been “guarded in a surplus status” by the Seattle Engineer district, the Colonel I said, adding that the Alaska Indian of the installation as scheel and medicel facilities. The prisoners of war were obtain- | ed for the work to save manpower in the Pacific Northwest, reported Col- | onel Hardy. An advance group of| 100 will reach Excursion Inlet eariy in July, followed later in the month | by the remainder, Le said. They are to saivage 12,000,000 board feet of lumber anud about $3,000,000 worth of other critical ma- terials, with the lumber to be ship- ped to “other Pacific ports.” The terminal was built to accommo- date nine ocean-going vessels, six barges, two ammunition ships and two tankers. Housing was provided for 260 officers and 4,400 enlisted men. The installations included an \ou and gas tank farm area with a | capacity of 3,400,000 gallons. At .the peak of construction a crew of 2,760 civilian workmen and 860/ jcan aerial blows was admittedly | ion cngmeex fcr disposal Octnber 26, Army men were employed. “more fundamental” than “the large scale dispersion of munitions industries in Japan.” And while thé invasion-anxious cabinet of Premier Buzuki held a seven-hour session to discuss “the; situation when the homeland may be converted -into. a. battlefield,” Tokyo added that American air at- tacks had interferred with com- munications with Manchurja, furth- er complicating the situation. Tokyo said the U. S. Aleytian force was being stationed on Agam_l Is- land, in the outer areas near Attu, while Adm. Frank Jack Fletcher's Ninth Fleet, a light unit of which recently attacked a Japanese con- voy in the Sea of Okhotsk, offered another menace from the horth. A broadcast beamed to occupied | Asia, recorded here and in Léndon, reported the deaths of four more Japanese admirals. Unconfirmed by any Allied source, Tokyo claimed Nipponese pilots had sunk a large cruiser of the Cleve- land class, three other cruisers and one destroyer off Balikpapan, southeastern Borneo. Other Japa- nese pilots, Tokyo claimed, sank an American submarine off the east coast of Japan Thursday. The Washingion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service,with the Army,) WASHINGTON — Now that all the hullabaloo over Poland has sub- sided, inside diplomatic' reports from Europe indicate that the Lub- lin-Warsaw Polish Government is not going to be such a Russian puppet government after all. Despite the fact that the Lublin- Warsaw Poles were called all sorts of pro-Red names by the London Poles, they are now getting just as independent and, to some extent, arrogant, as their London brothers. Or, as some neutral diplomats summarize it: “A ‘Pole will always be a Pole whether he’s in London or Lublin.” Illustrative of how the Poles are feeling their oats was a meeting which ‘took place at Moscow last week regarding the Polish row with Czechoslovakia. The meeting was attended by Russian Under Secre- tary for Foreign Affairs Vyshin- sky; alfoby.ex-Premier Mikolajezyk | of the.Boridon : Poles, plus Edward | Morowski of the Lublin-Warsaw Government. Morowski, though supposetly a Soviet puppet, started the fire- works by ranting against the Czechs. He said the Cgzechs had no right to Teschen, a_small coal- mining town ‘which always been Czech, but which the Poles snatched away from Czechoslovakia when she was powerless in Hitler's hands after Munich. Soviet Commissar, Vyshinsky em- phatically differeed with Morowski. He pointed out that the Poles have e R L (Continued on Page Four) Proposed Highway fo Alaska Upsefs Plans For Railread fo North VANDENBERG SPEAKS OUT FOR CHARTER Declares Document New Emancipation Proclam- ation for World By JACK BELL (Associated Press Correspondent) WASHINGTON, June 29.— Sen- ator Vandenberg (R-Mich.) told his collcagues today they must ac- | cept the United Nations Charter as a brave experiment or cheat the world of “its only collective chance” for peace. In a vigorous endorsement of the San Francisco Conference agree- ment for formation of an interna- tional organization, the Chairman | of the Republican Senatorial Con- ference called the pledges hewn out there “a new emancipation proclamation for the world.” Before the tall Michigan Senator took the floor, Senator Taft of Ohio, Chairman of the Republican | Steering Committee, said he and others are thinking of trying to write into the ratification resolu- tion limitations on the authority Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., will wield as American delegate on the pro- posed World Security Council. To Support Charter Speaking from a prepared manu- script, ‘Vandenberg said he would support the Charter “in the deep conviction that the alternative is physical and moral chaos in many weary places of the earth.” “I shall do it because there must be no"default in our oft-pledged purpose to outlaw aggression so far as lies within our human power,” he declared. “I shall do it because this plan, regardless of infirmities, holds great promise that the United Nations may collaborate for peace as effectively as they have made common cause for war.” Genius of Charter Vandenberg, who helped draft SEATTLE, June 29.—The Post-In- telligencer says President Truman’s favorable attitude toward construc- tion of a highway linking Alaska and the Pacific Nerthwest has up- | set plans of a “a large eastern syndi- | cate representing “refugee capital’” | to purchase the Pacific Great East- “ern Railway in British Columbia and extend it to Fairbanks, Alaska, and the Peace River block. | Tke railway, owned by British Columbia, runs from - Squamish, about 40 miles north of Vancouver, to Quensel, B. C., about 80 miles south of Prince George. Last night in Washington, D. C,, ‘the promocters were meeting and gravely weighing the possibility that the highway might attract enough tonnage to hurt seriously a railroad to Alaska,” the article says. “It is reliably reported that pro-. | moters can draw on from $150,000,000 | to $200,000,000. worth of refugee capi-! tal, and that they had prepared plans not only for the acquisition| and extension of the Pacific Great| Eastern but also for the develop-| ment of commercial enterprises in, Alaska and the Peace River country| which would insure traffic for the railroad,” it continued. The newspaper said it learned in al telephone call with one of the pro-, moters, “who asked that his name, not be disclosed,” that plans had progressed, before the President’s at- | titude was made known, to a point lv\'here the syndicate was preparing| {to lay the project before Premier John Hart of British Columbia. Promoters contacted ‘the U. 8.| Bureau of Roads, the article says,' and were told the highway “in all prebability would be located along the same route in which the rail- road was projected—the “B” or! Rocky Mountain Trench route.” A more westerly “A” route for the high- way also has been discussed. President Truman said, during a visit with Gov. Mon C. Wallgren, at |Olympia, Wash., he favored early construction of the highway with the United States sharing the cost. Sen. {Magnuson (D-Wash) has estimated the probable total outlay at $18,000,- 000. { STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, June 29. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 7%, Anaconda 34, Curtiss-Wright 6%, International | Service has occupiéd a small ,)omon‘ FIRES RAGE AT SASEBO AFTER GUAM, June 29.—Huge fires in Japan’s great shipbuilding center of Sasebo and three other industrial | cities today after nearly 500 Super- fortresses rained 3,000 tons of fire {bombs on the home islands. The unrelenting war ®&f annihila- tion from the skys caught the Japa- | \nese without a defense. Not a single | enemy fighter plane rose to meet the |intruders. The bombardiers singled out tar-! |gets which never before had fblt| {the full weight of the Superfortresses designed by the American Aerial| command to rob Japan of the power to resist. Returning pilots said large fires broke out in at least two of the cen- ters. They said their raid was| challenged only by anti-aircraft fire in the pre-dawn attacks on the prin- cipal island of Honshu, on which Tokyo is located, and on th2 south- ernmost island of Kyushu. One bomber of the fleet failed to return. raged’ | SECOND STRIKE MADE i GUAM, Saturday, June 30. — In the fouth American Superfortress| |attack mission of the week against | the Japanese homeland, 500 B-29s| struck the important Kudamatsu Refining Plant of the Nippon Oil Company on the southwestern Hon- shu coast shortly before midnight last night. ] The raid came while huge riresl still burned in Japan’s great ship- | building center of Sasebo and three | other industrial cities after nearly /500 Superforts rained 3,200 tons of | fire bombs on prime targets. The strike against the Kudumatsu “ plant was the second night demoli- tion raid on Japan’s vital oil in- | dustry this week. It brought the! week’s 21st Bomber Command’s sor- | ties over Japan to near the 1100 mark. The Nippon Oil Company’s plam, just southwest of the town of Kudu- matsu on the Inland Sea, once was the Nippon homeland’s fourth larg- est ofl refinery. It produced avia- ticn gasoline and oils. ‘The Friday’s attacks®on Sasebo‘ and other industrial centers caught the Japanese without a defense. | Not a single enemy fighter plzme rose to meet, the intruders. BALIKPAPAN 1S SHAKENBY ARASSAULT MANILA, June 28—Southeast Bor- | nec's big refinery center of Balik-| § ! papan and nearby airfields have been !shaken by the impact of more than‘ 2,300 tons of bombs in the past tvm weeks. Medium and low-level bombers of Gen. George C. Kenny’s Far East- ern Air Force have stepped up their |savage aerial assault with the help of Likerators of the Fifth Air l"'orce from the southwest Pacific. ‘They have concentrated on knock- ing out numerous gun positions which stud Tokong Hill, overlooking | the broad Balikpapap Bay, from! whence the Japanese once exported rich high-gravity oil from the oil fields of Sambodia and Louise. In the latest attacks, announced today, more than 150 Liberators, Mitchells and Lightnings dropped 286 tons of bombs Tuesday on Bal- ikpapan and the Manggar airdrome, 12 miles to the east. Air Mail Rae fo Russia Reduced WASHINGTOR, June 29.—The Post Office Department announces that the air mail postage rate from | Harvester 84, Kennecott 38%, New continental United States, including the Charter as an American dele- | York Central 29%, Northern Pacific|Alaska, to Russia has been reduced gate, said the pacific settlement of disputes, not force, is the real genius of the Charter. (Continued on Page Thiee) | were 2,020,000 shares. J 60.20; utilities, 32.72. 132%, U. S. Steel 68%. Sales todayfrom 70 to 30 cents a half ounce. The rate from the United States, Dow, Jones averages today are|Alaska, Puerto Rico and Virgin Is- as follows: Industrials, 164.57; rails, |lands to Cuba has been cut from 10 to 8 cents a half ounce, Truman Gels Ticker Tape Welcome in §. F. Micker tape showers down on Presi Francisco's financial district e¢n his arrival from Portland June (AP “’irenhoml lnl!rll Nations Cenference. San Franusco Greels Prendenl Attac 'l‘mmnn as he moves 25 ident Harry S | Thusands flank both sides of San Francisco’s Market btreet as the Presidential party drives up the thcroughfare shortly after President Truman arrived from Portland to attend the closing of the United Nations Conference. (AP Wnrepholo] JAP WAR PLANTS FOREED TO MOVE INTC MANCHURIA SAN FRANCISCO, June 20—A large-scale transfer of war indus- 2s from Japan to Manchuria be- cause of “the enemys air raids”— which already have desolated broad areas of Nippon's main cities, was znounced today by the Tokyo ra- dio. The broadeast, heard by the Fed- cral Communications Commission, | said that the transfer of war indus- tries to the Asiatic continent was even “more fundamental” than the “large-scale dispersion of munitions industries in Japan.” At the same time, the enemy ad- mitted that Americain aerial blows had interfered with “Japan's com- munications with Manchukio (Man-' churia), " saying that to cope with this rising menace “the most effi- ient employment of available bot- tems” was required. - -0“‘-—‘ 3 A church-owned forest of 175 acres in New England has netted 5 to attend the closing session of the Truman Lauds MacArthug | ed up with the shirts he was unable | around,” | alcng Mentgomery Street in San PHILIPPINES 10 BE VITAL INJAPANKO on Redeeming Pledge | to Loyal Filipinos KANSAS CITY, June 29.—Presi- dent Truman predicted today a powerful base being fashioned in the liberated Philippines will play a part “in the vital knockout blow against Japan.” In a message to Gen, Douglas MacArthur congratulating him upon the successful conclusion of the Luzon campaign, the President said: “With the complete defeat of the enemy on Luzon you have swept them from all the Philippines and redeemed the promises of the Am- erican people to the loyal Flllpmo s Secretary Charles G. Ross also announced that the President had signed an executive order form- | ally transferring the functions of the War Food Administration to Ag~ riculture Secretary Clinton P, And- ersen, in conformity with plans disclosed some weeks ago. Another flood of callers, including Eddie Jacobson with six white shirts, occupied most of President Tru- man’s early morning visit to his Federal Building offices today: Jacobson, former haberdashery store partner of the President, show- to supply when the President called at his store yésterday. “It took some maneuvering| Jacobson told reporters, | “and 1 got him some red hot bow | ties, too.” Awaiting a visit from rurmer Kansas Gov. Alf Landon later in the day, the President shook hands with scores of Missourians who call- ed at his offices, D WPB Alaska Branch | To Close Tomorrow SEATTLE, July 29.—The 13th Re-| gional War Production Board an- nounced today it is closing "_sf Alaska branch office June L { Themas Stines, Alaska Manager, will remain “on call’ until July 15, the report said ! The Alaska Territory will be cov=' lered often by representatives from. the Seattle office, said the announ- cement. It added that about one-| 'zd k From North U. S Warships Enfer Enemy Walers Again Fleet Nowi;tween Bor- neo, Celebes for First Time Since Jan. ‘42 By SPENCER DAVIS (Associated Press War Uorresponaent) MANILA, June 29.—An American fleet has returned to the Makassar. Straits east of Borneo for the first time since the forlorn days of Jan- uary, 1942, Gen, Douglas MacAr- thur discloses. = The invasion-con- scious Japanese reported a nnvql bombardment of the Borneo east coast had been in progress for ten days. A Dutch correspondent who flew over the port of Balikpapan, front- ing on the Straits, reported earlier this week seeing the warships in action, and the Japanese radio has claimed that Allied landing at- tempts there already hnve bten beaten off. Air Blows Struck MacArthur gave no.confirmad of any of these reports, but | communique on the Southwest Pa- cific today did report the destruc- tion of three Japanese tarpedo planes on Monday by American | surface ships in the Makassar Straits and told of contin !lied afr Wq WN { Indies, particularly at W-n. The ships involved undoubtediy. bé. long to the U. 8. Seventh Filéet, whichi put_ ashore the Australian Ninth Diviston. on British North Borneo and Labuan in the Brunei Bay area on June 10. Beaufort Taken The Australians Jast were report- ed to have taken Beaufort, In a 15-mile advance northeast up the Borneo coast along the narrow- gauge railway toward the Japanese base of Jesselton. (Also pushing southwest on the North Borneo coast, the Australians were reported by the Melbourns radio to have made a junction with troops who landed last week at the Miri oll field srea in an amphiblous jump. The Melbourns radio added that oil production had been resumed at Tarakan, an isle off the Bornéo east coast which the Australians invaded on May 1. In the Philippines, where Gen. MacArthur announced yesterday that the major phase of the Luzen liberation campaign was ended, the U. 8. Sixth Division made a 400- yard- gain in the Northern Luzon mountains toward the still stiffly- defended Japanese base of Kiangan. | Been Received From Japan WASHINGTON, June 29. — An- swering a statement by Senator Capehart (R-Ind.), Acting Secre- tary of State Joseph C. Grew sald today this country has received nio {Japanese peace offer, either through offfcial or unofficial channels. Capehart told a reporter last night he had been reliably inform- that Japanese peace offers “which would be acceptable to me | personally” have been made within |recent weeks. Capehart said he could not disclose the terms but added “if the Japanese promised to give up all territory they have | conquered, inejuding Manchuria, wouldn't thlt all ngh!.?" Ralionlng Used 1942 Cars fo Be Called Off WASHINGTON, June 29—Ration- 30./ing of 1942 used automobiles will be discontinued July 3. They have been |vationed since March 6, 1942. New 1943 cars remain under rationing. In announcing its action today, OPA sald. dealérs were experiencing |difficulty in trying to sell used 1942 models to ration-holders, because the church $4.45 per acre yearly for third of the WPB orders had been many of the cars have had more more than 100 years without becom-'discontinued, greately reducing the|mileage and harded useage unn ing: depleted. work load in the Alaska area. some of the earlier models.