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- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 5 v VOL. LXV., NO. 10,003 JUNEAU, ALASKA, M ONDAY, JULY 2, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FLOOD OF FIRE SENT DOWN ON JAP CITIES Japan e e e Federal Regulation Is Not Wanted by Stales, Keynofe, Govemors' Meei TRUMAN ASKS APPROVAL OF PEACEPACT Keynole, ot gt PEACETIME Ratification, Charfer | fefon, err | DRAFTBILL WASHINGTON, July 2—Prosi-| dent Truman formally presented to AUSSIES IN NEW ACTION By JACK BELL (Associated Press Correspondent) MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich., July 2—Sounding the keynote of the| 37th annual Governors' Conference, | Gov. Herbert B. Maw of Utah de- | clared today . that the American public does not want Federal reg- ulation of its life when peage comes vasion Successful-Mac- Arthur in Command By SPENER RAVIS (Associated Press War Correspondent) MANILA, July 2—Australian IN BORNEO; 'Third Phase of Triple In-| a grave, attentive United States| Senate today the United Nations| Charter of San Francisco and plead- ed for prompt ratifict lon. The President delivered the char- ter and in a brief, pointed speech | reminded the lawmakers that the whole world is watching for “our| action.” The President was accompanied on the short drive from the White House to the Capitol by fils secre- taries, War Mobilization Director | | Maw, Chairman of the Confer- ence, led off a half dozen speeches B — ‘which dwelt primarily with the as- ‘serted competency of the States to \cope with postwar reconversion and House Committee Expect- ed fo Report Legisla- tion by Thursday |5 Maw said State Governments WASHINGTON, July 2—A tenta-| were concerned “over the fact that | other problems—always with the | note that the Federal Government | should help but not direct this ac- |troops made a successful major land- ling at Balikpapan Sunday in the {third phase of a triple invasion of { Bornec. | Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who is in personal command, said this se- | cured domination of all Borneo, split |the East Indies and virtually com- pleted Allie tactical control of the entire Southwest Pacific. Japanese resistance was aggressive | tive report recommending pfompt Congressional approval of the “broad Fred M. Vinson and other govern- ment officials. Also with him was Stephen Early principle” of universal military training is in the hands of House | Postwar Military Committee mem- who served as a Presidential Secre- bers. | tary throughout the Roosevelt Ad—; Barring unexpected changes of ministration. | sentiment, the report, perhaps with Upon his arrival at the Captiol Mr. | minor revisions, will be approved Truman went directly to the Presi-|formally Thursday. Indications are dent's room to the side of the Sen—lthat net more than six of the 23 ate Chamber to await his formal members of the committee headed presentation to the Senate. He car- | by Representative Woodrum (D-Va) | ried the: United Nations Charter will dissent. B with him. The report, given to members over ' In a gray suit and blue bow tie,| the weekend and based on two weeks the smiling President then was es- of public committee hearing, de- corted into the packed chamber by | clares that “timely adoption” of the; the leaders of both major parties principle of peacetime military in the Senate, plus the two Senators | training for the nation’s youths “will who worked diligently at San Fran- ;provlde assurance to the United Na- cisco for enactment of the charter: | tions that this nation expects to re- Connally of Texas and Vandenberg tain the necessary military strength of Michigan. |to stand behind and make to work “The choice before the Senate is the idealism which has inspired the | now clear,” said the Chief Executive, Dumbarton Oaks and the World in his brief speech. Security conferences.” “The choice is not between this It emphasizes that no military ser-[ charter and something else. It is| vice should be required of yout between this charter and no charter put into training, except in a na- at all.” (ticnal emergency and upon express The Senate must ratify the United orders of Congress. Nations Charter for World Security —voo—— to assure this nation’s participa-| tion. | The President went to the Capitol less than 24 hours after his return | from San Francisco where he ad- WASHINGTON, July 2. The | Navy announced today a sinking of | dressed the closing session of the United Nations Conference which| a Japanese cruiser by a British sub- | | marine operating under American drafted the blueprint for a lasting | peace. “This charter points down the| only road to enduring peace,” the President said. “Thore i no other. | | The Washington € | Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARgoN Lt. Col. Robert §. Alien’now en active service with the Army.) | | | | { | | | | Let us not hesitate to join hands| with the peace-loving peoples of the | earth and start down that road—| with firm resolve that we can and will reach our goal.” control in the Southwest Pacific. | In addition, the communique said | U. S. submarines have reported the sinking of 10 enemy vessels in Far Eastern waters. { The 10 were listed as a converted | gunboat, a patrol escort vessel, four | medium merchant vessels, a large | tanker, two merchant vessels and a small tanker. TROOPS MOVING TOWARD BERLIN | | | WASHINGTON—Among the most | | important Nazi files in Europe to- day are those of I. G. Farbenin- dustrie, the giant German cartel} which produced synthetic gasoline, synthetic rubber, plus other secret war materials, and - which ‘copper- | ated with various American firms, such as Standard Oil of New Jer-| sey and the Aluminum Ct'vrporaflonf of America, before Pearl Harbor. These files my reveal secret Ger man paténts which would help| American industry; also reveal the | extent to which certain American firms collaborated; also prove the war guilt of German industrial leaders. Complete Decentralization of Germany Mapped by Allied Control PARIS, July 2—Plans looking to-| ward the complete decentralization | of Germany were mapped by the !.L‘ However, here is the inside story|s. group of the Allied Control Coun-| of what is happening to these files.|cil today as American Occupation| They were first stored by the U. troops trekked toward Berlin pre-| S. Army in a German warehouse liminary to the Big Three meeting in Frankfurt. Then the Army|there later this month. | needed space, and moved a large| Dispatches from Frankfurt said| group of displaced persons—Rus-|members of the U. S. Control Group | sians, Poles, French—into the ware- |were moving to Berlin with the house. The D. P’s immediately|American troops and within 10 daysl began tearing open the files to see would be in a position to place| if there was anything valuable in| their proposals before representa-| them. |tives of Russia, Britain and France. Then the U. S. Army needed; The American program for decen- even more space, and moved the | tralization of Germany, but pomi-‘ files outside behind the warehouse.|cally and economically—calls for| There they kicked around in the| breaking Germany down into a num- ! |to light as the tough infantry and !tank troopers of the veteran Aus= |tralian Seventh Divi: smashed peabwir: S ARG ol Wi au_‘ashore in the suburbs of the Far i i |East’s greatest oil center behind the thority exercised by it during the most intensive pre-invasion bom-~| b {bafdment_yet unleashed in this| & The Utah Governor said that the ipheater, Opposition increased as the tates had acceded to the will of | oustralians thrust steadily inland, the Federal 'Government, “but in By the middle of the afternoon so doing we have tasted the bitter|they had won the last ridge looking pill of autocratic government and gown on the ruins of the town and do not like it.” |refinery and its still-blazing oil In somewhat the same vein, Gov. storage tanks. They had taken an! Earl Warren of California said in elaborate series of tunnels and pill= a prepared address that full em-|boxes which the Japanese had de- ployment must be encouraged in|serted in the face of the furious every section of the country re- Naval and air onslaught. gardless of pre-war conceptions ox“ Toughest opposition was on this industrial centralization. ilast ridge, which Associated Press many Federal officials believe and are advocating that our National Government should extend into the 500 ———— MILES AT EQUATOR ) Rangoon Y4 3 Indian Ocean U. 8. in full ccntrol of another vit: Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin of | Correspondent James Hutcheson Connecticut said that it was "ab-jsnid was littered with dead Japan- | surd to believé” that the Natfon can|ese, many of whom obviously had| be riddled by industrial strifes, been killed by bombs and artillery' Jurisdictional disputes or attempts fire, although others were chopped by management to stifle unions/down by Australian machine gun- and at the same time have full|ners and tanks. employment.” | Although commanders had antici- The Governors will get a report' pated strong defense of this strong- tonight on the United Nations!ly-gunned enemy base, first losses Charter from Comdr. Harold E. were declared officially to have been Stassen, former Minnesota Chief |light. : Executive, who played an import-| This was due in part to the 3,500 ant part in drafting the documentton month-long pre-invasion bomb- at the San Francisco Conference. |ing by the U. S. 13th and Fifth A Stassen is expected to urge, as|Forces and to the shell and rocket did Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of Newi“’@ from the U. 8. Seventh Fleet York, speedy Senate ratification of With Dutch and Australian units the treaty without reservations or Supporting the landing. Their amendments. |weight of metal was described as Dewey told a news conference Peavier than the combined tonnage Sunday that he believed reserva-|fired in the Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, tions to the ratification resolution | such as are under consideration by | Luzon and Manila areas. The Japanese shore guns which Senator Taft (R-Ohio) and others|had escaped being knocked out in might delay American adoption of| Month-long arterial softening-up the charter. | observation fired back sporadically ~——o at some of the more than 300 in- Wedne;day |; :::;?;:;‘l]lé.ps, but their defense was Holiday; Stores ! premium and vacation provisions of | !wmch had been cleared of countless mines and buoyed by daring fleet their orders early tomorrow with the | 4o § e . molition swimmer: six stores as Wednesday is a holiday. days before D.dflys :::t ::ertz BOARD DIRECTIVS The landing ships swept directly ( !¥ | minesweepers who operated under o Japanese gunfire for 15 days before ‘The stores will be closed all day on | neck-deep in the surf, removing fix- July 4. ed obstacles, while planes guarded WASHINGTON, July 2.—The War Labor Board in an unprecedented up to the beaches through channels 2 4 | Housewives are warned to place the inyasion. American underwater S"RIKI"G RUBBER |them from Japanese gunfire. action today suspended the shift its April 3 directive order for 26,700 striking CIO Rubber Workers at Akron, O. The board, with labor board mem- bers dissenting, acted after Chair- man George W. Taylor had warnad | the strikers at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, that it would consider modification of its directive orders as a disciplinary move. Re- peated 'efforts by the board and by the international officers of the un- ion to got the striking members of Local“2 back on the job thus far | have proved fruitless. The strike began June 16. STRICTLY 61 BIGGS FIELD, El Paso, Texas. —| OPA SAVED WHEN PRESIDENT SIGNS LONGER LIFE BILL WASHINGTON, July 2.—President Truman’s signature to a bill drama- tically flown to him in Kansas City brought OPA safely through a fis- cal year-end crisis. ‘The measure extending price and stabilization controls one year was signed into law shortly before their Saturday midnight expiration. And Mr. Truman in a statement issued after his return to Washing- ton by plane yesterday reiterited that such controls will be meeded during reconversion to continue the fight against inflation. Sped to final House passage Sat- urday afternoon, the legislation was flown to Mr. Truman to eliminate any possible cloud over OPAs price and rationing powers. White House Private Secretary Charles G. Ross said the signing sook place shortly before the midnight deadline. e | R e g Okinawa Conquest Focuses Attention on Nagasak: P Shanghar . HONG KONG A MARIANAS HAINAN : NEARLY 600 SUPERS IN GREATRAID Record of 4,000 Tons ls Showered on Imporfant - Industqh_l_(enlers By Leif Erickson (Associated Press War Correspondent) GUAM, 1 LUZON MANILAY AMINDANAO . PHILIPPINES July 2.—~The greatest flood of fire ever unleashed in wa fare leaped through four of Japan's important industrial centers today, bursting fromy' a record 4,000 tons of incendiary bombs. Nearly 600 Superfortresses—a re- cord number over Japan at one time —showered down the fire bombs with “good to excellent results.” Most clearly vigible target was Pacific Ocean SAIPAN , GUAM & YAP £ il 2PALAY K CAROLINE 1S, Attenticn was focused on the Japanese homeland as the completion of the Okinawa campaign placed the other Pacific and Asiatic areas U. S. troops stepped u ) their offensive in northern Luzon, while Australian forces exp-nlled heldings in the Brurei Bay area of Borneo,” with British trocps pushing the Japs back in Burma and the Chinesc pounding enemy communication lines from Indo-China. (AP Wirephot AUSTRALIA al air and naval base within easy range of the Jap home islands. In 0 map) | | BYRNES IS CONFIRMED, SECY. STATE Senate Passes Quickly on Nomination Few Min- utes After Received i WASHINGTON, July 2. — James F. Byrnes was confirmed unani-, mously by the Senate today as Secretary of State, succeeding Ed- ward R. Stettinius, Jr. Action was taken in a matter of minutes after the nomination was received from the White House The Senate suspended its rules which required hearings on Cab-| inet nominations and a day lu)-; over before a vote can be taken on such an appointment. This was done as a tribute by both Demo-, crats and Republicans to the man who served with them for years, later was an Associate Justice cf the Supreme Court and more re- cently Director of War Mobiliza- tion. . v 1O INVESTIGATE COSTS IN NORTH | SOUTH HIGHWAYS WASHINGTON, July 2—The | House Rules Committee today ap- proved legislation to enable the Roads Committee to investigate ex-| penditures in connection with the Alaskan and Pan-American High- ways. The legislation still House action before the investiga- tion can be made. Chairman’ Robinson (D-Utah) of the Roads Committee told the rules group the committee desired check on expenditures in connec- tion with both' highways. He had been informed, he said, that a pre- liminary investigation by the Pub- lic Roads Bureau indicated “there has been a lot of money flagrantly wasted by the Army on the Pan- American road.” > WLB INVESTIGATOR IN Some Long-Missing Household Arfides May Soon Be Had NEW COMMAND, |.vsmoros. oo zome | sumers, however, must wait months —at least—before most of the long-! }mxssmg household appliances return ;plums harassed the enemy {airfields and supply bases. Ube, Japan's greatest magnestum- | producing center—vital to the air- craft industry. The entire water- front was aflame, crewmen said. Bombs were reported “well placed” | in industrial areas. Other aerial blows by smaller from Java to Japan's inland sea, sinking or damaging 26 ships and crippling The B-295 in their biggest at- tack of the war struck before dawn at these targets—all fire bombed for the first time: Kure—Greatest Naval base 'and shipyard on the inland sea; a city of 275,000, about 200 miles west of Osaka on the southern coast 'of Honshu. Shimonoseki—Vulnerable bottle- veck of rail transportation at: the -western eénrtance.to-the inland sed; the city of 196,000 served as the em- barkation point for troops and sup- plies moving to Korea and North China. Kumamoto—Transportation, com- mercial and military-training cen- ter; a city of 210,000, it was one of the most important industrially in western Kyushu. Ube—Major coal-producing center and top magnesium maker of the Empire; lies 25 mile seast of Shim- onoseki, near the southwestern tip of Honshu, Returning crewmen said that the cloud cover prevented full observa- tion of results at all targets except Ube, which was hit by the 313th Wing, based on Tinian. Pilots said ALEUTIAN SECTO +in quantity to stores. The War Production Board re- leased a “free” supply of metal for | civilian goods, the amount dependJ ing on what is left over from war, demands. It also began a gradual scrapping, over the next half-year,| of its priority system for all but mu-' nutions iiems. | Johnson who was reassigned after =~ Yet electric and gas refrigerators, 22 months in the Aleutians. | for instance, will not reach stores Brooks came here from the office Until September or October, and Lhen; of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where Probably as “demonstrator” models. he had served since last October. Similar guideposts for a dozzn" His home is 34 Alban St., Cazenovia, 'othor scarcs or unobtainable con-' N. Y. The new Commanding Gen- sumer items showed: eral said the Air Force would con- ashing machines, will reach the tinue to pound Japan's most iImpor- giores late in August, with a good ant Navy bese at Kataoka in the'gupply available by the end of 1946, ern Kuriles, and other enemy installRtiong T thataren. { Vacuum cleaners, a few now, with U. S. 11TH AIR FORCE HEAD- QUARTERS, Aleutians, July 2— Maj. Gen. John B. Brooks, former Commander of the Newfoundland Base Command, has assumed com- mand of the 1lth Alr Force. He succeeds Maj. Gen, Davenport | the whole Ube waterfront was ablaze | with the Superforts’ firebomb loads well-placed within industrial areas of the city. Dangerous Plof’ Against U. 5. Govl. Is Now Revealed WASHINGTO! July 2—~The House Committee on Un-Ameri . Activities has ordered an investiga- tion on what Acting Chairman Ran- kin (D-Miss) called a “dangercas plot” to overthrow the Government. Reports reaching the committee, P to WSS ea(is Innocent in Manslqllther Case N Imogene Stevens, 24, Texas- iborn wife of a U. 8. Army Para- troops Major, has pleaded innocent to a charge of marslaughter. Mrs. Ctevens was accused of shooting Albert Kovacs, 19, subma- mnv sailor, last Thursday night after neighbor, Charles Milton, executive of an aircraft parts company. - e——— | NEW YORK, July 2. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock is 7%, American Can 97%, | Anaconda 34'%, Curtiss Wright 7', | International Harvester 87, Kenne- |cott 382, New York Central 297, | Northern Pacific 32%, United States | Steel 69';. Sales were 1,380,000 shares. in Rankin said in a statement, are to ithe effect that headquarters of the |group involved are in Hollywood an adequate supply in October of 1946. S | stores |good production coming in the fall Tof 1946, | a good | Galvanized ware is reaching stores A now, and a good supply should be! WASHINGTON, July 2—The Sen- Electric irons, some now, \available in November-December, ate Foreign Relations Committee has Sewing machines to reach store: Calif, |in November and December, with | Celitammia; e upply in mid-1946. | ’s Alarm clocks, some now, adequate; | supply by end of 1945. | 1945, Qdecmed to open hearings on the Scissors and shears, reaching the United Nations Charter July 9. stores now, with a good supply an-|' The- first witness probably will requires | ordering him from the home of & ticipated in the last two months of be Eward R. Stettinius, Jr., Pres- | this year. ;idem Truman's choice for United Plated silverware is now on sale in States representative on the Security many stores, and by November-De- Council. The sessions will be pub- | cember, 1945, there should be enough | !¢ | 1ln supply all demands. | - eee e CASHEN GETS AWARD | | i | | Gerald E. Cashen, coxswain, | U.8.C. G., of Douglas, on duty with 'SUBMARME KE'E | the organization of the Captain BH_IEVED los'lio( the Port, has been awarded the Coast Guard Good Conduct Medal for completion of three years of | WASHINGTON, July 2.—Overdue ¢TVice With a high record of con- from patrol, the submarine U.8.8.|duct: —— lost with her/ STEWARTS RETURN D. E. Davis, investigator for the| Dow, Jones averages today are Kete is presumed wind and rain. ‘bcr of Finally someone high up in the| Army. realized the importance of | the I G. Farben files and moved | them back into the warehouse. Whether it is too late to make real (Continued on Page. Four) tent districts. | Forces electrician from Greensboro,| “We are certain that. Russii;'N. C, is leaving the Army and his| Britain and France feel a great'pup. deal of sympathy for the policy of| He decided not to take Static (the decentralization,” one member of the pup) along when he is discharged Mr. and Mrs. B. D. Stewart have returned to their home here from a two-months’ combined vacation and official business trip that took them to the East Coast and Wash- U. S. group of the Control Council |because Static habitually growls at vas quoted as saying. ‘all strange civilians, ington, D. C. Mr. Stewart is Ter- ritorial Commissioner of Mines “lander,” or military impo-|Cpl. Obadiah Curlee, 42, Army Air | War Labor Board, has returned from and official trip to the In- terior, banks, he conducted meetings with employers and employee groups re- garding wage stabilization proced- ures, During three weeks in Fair- | 'as follows: industrials 165.90, rails | 60.73, utilities 33 > DECHAMPLAIN ARRIVES | has arrived in Juneau and is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. J. W. DeChamplain, of Hoonah, | complement of from 80 to 85 men. TO KETCHIKAN | A Navy announcement said mei Regional Forester B. Frank |Kete, commissioned last July 31, Heinzleman flew south to Ketchi- |was under command of Lt. Comdr. kan over the weekend to confer |Edward Ackerman of Cincinnati. With Smaller War Plants Corpora- INext of kin of those aboard have tion officials who arrived yesterday been notified, the Navy said. in the Pirst City.