The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 3, 1945, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALI THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” - |l ! 8 Pe VOL. LXV.,NO. 10,004 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ———————————=u BOMBERS SMASH JAPAN'S OIL RESOURCES Aussies Make Advance In PART OF BIG BORNEO PORT IS CAPTURED Two Airfields Reported | Seized - Volcanoes of Fire Blaze in Sector By SPENCER DAVIS (Associated Press War Correspondent) MANILA, June 3.—Australian in- fantry, braving rivers of flaming oil and barrages from Japanese 5-inch (Continued on Page Five) - — The Washingion Merry - Go-Round By DREW PEARSON Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) Lt. Col WASHINGTON—Farm lobby chiefs, among the most powerful in Washfngton, were put in their place during a hot, behind-the-scenes fight inside the War Mobilization Advisory Board last week over the question of giving the Secretary of JAPS PUT TORCH T0 INVALIDS Set Fire to Hospital Filled with Slave Laborers in Borneo WITH ALLIED FORCES NEAR BALIKFAPAN, Borneo, July 3.— The burning alive of starving and sick Javanese slave laborers in a native hospital was charged against the Japanese rmy today by Netherlands officials. The Japanese, the officials said, set fire to the native hospital be- fore driving all able-bodied natives northward in the direction of the Samarinda oil fields. Several thou- sand natives, including Javanese and Borneo Dyaks, were believed to have been driven away by the Nipponese for slave labor purposes. Two men escaped from the burn- ing hospital where an uncounted number burned alive. Australian soldiers found the two huddled in at the Jamesburg, N. J., Reform- | foxholes as they reached the site along the road leading to the Sep- inggang airstrip. One had an old unattended leg infection from Agriculture super-power to regulate food prices. The War Mobilization Advisory Board. chairmaned by North Car- olina’s ex-Governor O. Max Gard- ner, is composed of farmer, busi- ness, labor, and public representa- tives. It has dahe an A-1 job. Usually Governor Gardner has re- conciled conflicting differences, and recently the Board passed a resolu- tion okaying the extension of OPA for another year with no crippling amendments. | But when the Board opened last week War Mobilizer | Vinson immediately challenged barren-beaned Ed O'Neal, head ()I; the Farm Bureau Federation, and Albert Goss, head of the National! Grange, for going counter to the! Board’s resolution and favoring the | { crippling OPA amendment b, which the Secretary of Agriculture A HT R could override OPA prices on food. | i Ed O'Neal murmured something | about not having favored such an| _ | amendment, but Judge Vinson im-Lcrack Plane W|" GO |nt° which bones protruded. He gasped out part-of the story then died. A | The Australians were told that { Japanese soldiers strode into ‘the flimsy wooden hospital where they kept slave laborers who were t00 weak to work but gave them no attenticn or medicine. The Jap- anese announced they intended to burn the hospital and that all those two managed to stagger outside as the torch was applied. B JAPS CLAIM NEW CRAFT session mediately challenged him. “Oh, yes, you did,” he shot back.| “You sent a telegram to the Hill (Capitol Hill) supporting that amendment.” | Action fo Bring Down | Enemy B-29s 2 \FOWLIE MAY BE | TRIED HERE ON BIGAMY CHARGE Pleads Guilt_ylo lllegally | Wearing Uniform - Re- | furnfoJuneau Expected NEW YORK, July 3.—Alexander S. Fowlie of New York City, accused | of wearing the uniform of a Brigad- {ier General illegally, pleaded guilty in Federal Court today but sen- tencing was suspended when Fed- eral authorities said they had a w rant for his removal to Juneau, Alaska, on a polygamy charge. The removal hearing was adjourn- ed until next Monday at 2 p. m. and Fowlie was held in $500 bail. U. S. Attorney Gerald Clark said Fowlie, 50, went to Alaska in May and married Mrs. Aquina M. Barn- hill on June 2, while still legally wed to the mother of his three children. Fowlie pleaded before Judge John P. Hartigan to the charge of wear- ing a uniform illegally. Fowlie was born in Jersey Cit where he was a city patrolman for some time. Later he was a guard atory. ———ao—— ALL - DAY MEET SET-FOR SWPC HERE THURSDAY Touring Group fo Arrive in | Juneau Tomorrow-at Wrangell Today | Four htgh-r;\l—(;g officials of | the Smaller War Plants Corpora- tion will hold open sessions here all day Thursday to listen to any | and all projects needing capital for furtherance, according to pres- ent plans revealed today by Robert A. Henning, Acting Secretary for the Alaska Development Board, with which the SWPC officials are cooperating. The four SWPC concluded hearings yesterday, were to hold a joint Wrangell-Petersburg session at Wrangell today, then come to Ju- neau tomorrow on their tour of the principal cities of the Territory. officials, who in Ketchikan SOLID VOTE IS FORECAST FOR CHARTER DRIVEFOR VOTES MADE. IN ENGLAND 'Hot Camp aan Between Senator Green PredictsUn ‘ Churchill, Attlee Nears animous Approval | | End-Election Thursday by U. S. Senate LONDON, July 3.—Prime Minister | By TOM REEDY | Churchili and former Deputy Prime | WASHINGTON, July 3.—Senator | Minister Clement Attlee—leaders of | Green (D-R.I1) said today there | Britain’s strongest political parties-— | is more than a faint hope in the il)x:xx-sl\alled their followers today (cr,‘mmds of some senators that the Charter will be |a 1 minute drive for the votes| United Nations Proposals at Confer- | that will decide Thursday’s national | ratified unanimously. | . Slottipn " Green 15 a member of the Foreien | €NCE @ Mackinac | After crossing swords in a sharp | Relations Committee which opens | | exchange of letters, Churchill, whe | hearings next Monday on the his- | heads the Conservative Party, and | tory-making pact to preserve peace., (Associated Press Correspondent) | Attlee, who leads the Laborites, He recalled to a reporter that he MACKINAW ISLAND, Mich, July | planned to mount speaking rostrums | Worked for the League of Nations 3 _The nation's governors heard | to keynote their parties’ semi-final 25 years ago, appearing at Senate proposals today that small business | round of oratory. ihvunnzs then as a private citizen. |pe given a head start in reconver- | "Both parties concentrated theif| “There is a different atmosphere |sion and farmers an even break with closing fire on London, where &|now because the people are for it,”|industry instead of Federal hand- fifth of Britain’s estimated 25-000.000\119 asserted. “Events have demon- |outs. votes are bunched, with Churchill| sirated that we can't live alone.” Gov. Lester C. Hunt of Wyoming speaking in massive WalthamstoW, An Associated Press poll already declared in an address prepared for Stadium and Attlee and other Labor|has shown more than the necessary |delivery at the second day’s sess Party leaders scheduling a series of ' two-thirds majority ready to vote Of the 37th conference of the states’ speeches elsewhere in the city. | for the Charter. No senator in-|chief executives that unless little Churchill brought one campaign. teyviewed has come out against it, |business gets the jump on large in- dustry in the changeover to peace- Aleufians, Kuri ASKS BREAK FOR SMALL BUSINESS INRECONVERSIO Nation's Governors Hear | | | By Jack Bell Face-Sea issue to an explosive head last night, with a letter demanding that Attlee explain to the nation just what con- | trols the Labor Party’s Executive Committee might~exercise over the government if the Laborites won Churchill pointed out that the Ex- ecutive Committee was not clected by the voters. | Attlee raplied that the Executive Cemmittee had no control over Labor members of Parliament and added: “I am sorry you are so dis- tressed, owing to your lack of ai quaintance with the ordinary pr cedure of democratic parties in gen- eral and the Labor Party in par- ticular.” Laborite Arthur Greenwood called Churchill’s campaign methods jof a dictator” and declared: | most disturbing feature of this cle tion is the emergence of the Fuehr principle which is foreign and ab- horrent to the British people.” While Churchill and Attlee held | the campaign spotlight, party lieu- tenants and press editorials kept hammering at the basic issue of the campaign—the free enterprise i slogan of the Conservative Party and Labor’s program for nationali- | zation of basic industries. - — | | Before a vote is taken, however, | * | these two should be enough to " tablish ‘(he thick, seven-point document ‘will be taken apart phrase by nlirage and its import fully de- rveloped in debate First witness before the Foreign Relations Committee will be Ed- ward R. Stettinius, Jr., former Sec- retary of State and President Tru- man’s choice to wrepresent the United States in the postwar se curity machinery. Stettinius and Dr. Leo Pasvolsky, State Department expert on the organization plan as it grew from Dumbarton Oaks to San Francisco, will be asked to spell out the full meaning of every factor in the Charter. Green said such testimony by a prima facie case” and ful pursuits its chances of survival “will be seriously threatened.” On the same program, Gov. his colleagues Federal measures to |aid the farmers had been’ “poor sedatives” that ought to give way to efforts to making food produc- Ition more efficient, increasing mar- | kets and perfecting distribution. The governors turned to domestic problems after hearing Commander |Harold E. Stassen, former Minne- |sota governor, call last night for a | recrientation of American foreign pelicy under which this country |would assume the role of mediator |between the clashing interests -of jother nations. i Discussing the future of aviation, | ~|Governor Dwight H. Green of Illin- ois today urged “full and cordial Chauncey Sparks of Alabama told | les Form Air Stepping Stones fo Japan, Analyst Dedares By KIRKE L. SIMPSON (Associated Press News Analyst) Pending the next major move in | the “on to Tokyo” campaign in the | north, Australian elements of Gen- |eral MacArthur's fast ~expanding ground forces have speared fal | down Makassar Strait to seize the main Borneo oil field at Balik- | papan. | In so doing the Australians have | not only split Japanese forces still | lurking in Dutch islands to the east {and south from comrades on Sum- | atra and the Malay Peninsula; but | insured recapture of Singapore and | Sumatra when Allied armies of the Southeast Asia Command are ready to strike. That may not come for months Both the process of British rede- ployment from Eurcpe and the weather probabilities suggest that | Right now, however, seasonal con- ditions warrant expectation of new action in the Kuriles. There has been no further word of American fleet penetrations of the Sea of Okhotsk, north of the Kurile chain; but from mid-summer on into aut- umn is the most favorable period for attempting seizure of island air and ground bases north of Japan. ‘That is what many military ob- servers. assume will come in due course to match the capture of pivotal Okinawa in the south, thus | ringing Japan's home islands at | close range for the most destructive tuerir«l bombardment any country has ever endured. In the current issue of the Field Artillery Journal, 1vn1un1 house organ of the gunners (of the American Army, Colonel | Conrad H. Lanza ndtes that while !the Central Kuriles are of “slight I military importance,” both ‘the | northern and southern end of the chain now contain enemy bases | “capable of being expanded.” | “The distances between the north-and-south Kuriies and the east-and-west Aleutian Islands are the group L?\en could hear “any|partrership” among federal, state almost ideal for spacing air bases— | opposition views, assuming there ang local governments in devolupmgls‘m to 700 miles,” Lanza added NEW COMMANDS, " PACIFIC SECTOR, |an adequate airport system. SINFENG IS CAPTURED BY “It seems to me,” reproved Eric SAN FRANCISCO, July 3.—The ' Accompanying them on their tour ~ ARE ANNOUNCED "'All can be made into sea bases.”| | While the east coast of the |Kuriles is generally greatly fog |bound in summer, that might prove | more of an aid than a hindrance to ;amphihiuus attacks which Lanza seems to think are probable. ing Heat OIL CENTER NEAR OSAKA IS SET AFIRE Fifty Precision B-29s Make Raid-Shipping Wrecked Over Wide Area BULLETIN — WASHINGTON, July 3.—A very large task force of B-29s smashed ‘anew at in- dustrial targets in the Japanese homelands in night raids, the 20th Air Force announced today. The raids took place July -3, U. S. time (July 4), Japanese time.) Details of the result were held up pending the return of the crews. ¢ The force of 500 or more Superfortresses based in the Marianas attacked urban indus- tries at Himeji on Honshu Island, Tokushima, Takamatsw and Kochi, all on Shikoku Island, By Leif Erickson (Assoclated Press War Correspondent) GUAM, July, 3,—Superfortresses struck at Japan's dwindling oil re- sources today for the Tird time n a week, blasting the Maruzen oil ‘efinery with such preciSion return- ‘'ng airmen sald “We don't have to 0 by iy 4 '*m 5 s B-295 hit Fifty the oil center 35 miles from Osaka efore dawn today in a quick follow- up of yesterday's record 600-plane ! *ire raid on four citles, while other Allied air forces wrecked shipping and military installations from Nip- pon to Malaya. Two B¥29s were lost ‘n yesterday’s 600 “plane raid, but all >ut two crew members were rescued. Black smoke rose 10,000 feet above the important Maruzen oil piant, ind could be seen for 30 miles in the night sky. Anti-pircraft fire was light and the few Jap interceptors that took to the air “just seemed to want to dlay”, said Cpl. W. H. Power of Carrollton, Va. “They just sat out f range and wiggled their wings ind flicked their lights.” “Our bombs looked like they went nto the target areas,” said Lt. Ches- ter C. Gibbons of Hayward, Calif., riding in the newly commissioned Superfort named “Fleet Admiral Nimitz.” “Somebody right behind us really hit pay dirt. 1 saw a double flash that lit up the sky for at least five seconds. You know, whoom!"” | is Ross Cunningham, Associate teners in occupied lands today that Editor of the Seattle Times. The crack new fighter planes soon Petit Jury Room on the fifth floor would go into action to “bring down'of the Federal Building has been com- HONOLULU, Juiy 3.—New mands under both Gen. Douglas“ s I |MacArthur and Adm. Chester W.| Johnston, President of the U. S.|Japanese radio promised its lis- Chamber of Commerce, coming to| Vinson’s support, “that if any group Twenty-first Bomber Command Headquarters announced, mean- vhile, that 117 square miles of CHINAFORCES TTMBERWOLF | represented on this Board agrees to a resolution adopted by’ the Board, it should not go out and of the people.” inform Congress to the contra The Nipponese acknowledged without coming back and telling us:scan‘u air opposition to destruction that it has changed its mind. That of Japan’s cities by American is the only fair way of doing | Superforts, but the. broadcast, re- things.” | corded by the Federal Communica- tions Commission, declared that an FARM BLOC DEFEATED infallible air force was being hoard- “We passed a resolution that the|ed for the “coming battle of the Economic Stabilization Act should | homeland.” be continued for one year without| It explained that American any crippling amendments,” re-|bombers were being permitted to minded Nathaniel Dyke, who rep-|carry on their massive raids while resents small business on the Board,|all effort was concentrated on “and then you turn around and building a great new force of urge Congress to pass a crippling planes. amendment.” “We didn’t propose a crippling| amendment,” reptied Albert Goss o!: Ernie pyle Given the Grange, who by this time was getting a little huffy. “We just Mer" Medal in Posthumous Award wanted to see that the OPA Act; WASHINGTON, July 3.—Award enemy B-29s before the very eyes was administered more efficiently.”| At ‘this, non-farmer members of the Board snorted, but kept their| f a posthumous Medal for Merit| “How would you like to have|” C business go overythe head of OPA |0 Ernie Pyle, war correspondent, and set its own prices? replied was announced by the Army, Navy, “Yes, how would you like the U.| It will be presented tomorrow &, Chamber of Commezge Yo be able| DiEht to. Mrs. "Pyle, who will- fly % Gueriide OPA when fi comes tp|Dere: from: Denver fgr tha cere- i sines ices?” asked Nat - g;:{xeng E:igeiolzlc;z“m you like Place after the National Press to have Phil Murray over there set| Club's preview of the film, Ernie tion Act?” | Palace Theatre here. | “That ended the “argument. Ex-| The Medal for Merit is an award cept that forthright Fred Vinson vsually given by the State Depart- fore Congress and finally succeeded | 5¢r¥ice: This medal - was . decldgd in eliminating the amendment|"Po" after the Army and Navy whereby the Secretary of Agricul- ]Iound regulations would not per- B o SR 1 N RO tempers. | Eric_Johnston. and State Department. Imony. The presentation will take wages, regardless of the Stabiliza- | Pyle’s “Story of G.I. Joe,” in the put the same general thought be- | ment for outstanding diplomatic mit any high award to be made by (Continued on Page Four) the armed forces to a civilian, designated for their open hearings | here. They will discuss “all projects and problems relating to processing or manufacturing enterprises, either prospective or established and seek- ing expansion.” The officials will be available to any Juneau or| | Douglas resident who has an idea that he thinks can be developed to the berefit of the community or | Territory. The session here is open at 9 o'clock Thursday morning and will continue as long as there are pro- posals to discuss—with time out while the touring officials attend the meeting of the Juneau Cham- ber of Commerce, at noon. The importance of the opportunity for | developing Alaska industries afford- ed by the visit of these high of- | ficials cannot be too greatly stress- ed, Mr. Henning emphasized. Their outlook with regard to Alaska can be greatly affected by the response with which they meet on their present trip. RS A e e 0 0+ v o v ® WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock This Morning In Juneau—Maximum, 51; minimum, 46; precipitation, .38 inch. At Airport—Maximum, 55; minimum, 46; precipitation, .23 inch. Forecast Partly cloudy with occas- ional light rain showers to- night. Partly cloudy with increasing temperature Wed- nesday. | Nimitz, on-to-Tokyo Army and Nav- i |al Chiefs, were announced today. iy | Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson, . SOlmERS |N |r. ommander of e v. 5. amy_ Imporfant Highway Center H lfcrces in the Pacific Ocean areas . . |under Nimitz, announced he_also Seized-Liucheng | has been made Commander of U. 8. . BER['N'Now\wrces in the Middle Pacific area| En(lf(led |under MacArthur. He reiains his| [title under Nimitz and also the com-| CHUNGKING, July 3—The Chi- BERLIN, July 3. — The veteran mand_ of the Hawa}lan Depm'trnem.;m,s,e High Command announced to- Second Armored (Hell on Wheels) He will report to either or both 0P| day that Chinese forces have cap- Division of the American Army de- commanders as the case may neces- ' tyred the important highway cen- ployed in the suburbs and the first sitate. | ter of Sinfeng in Kiangsi Province, American soldier entered the Rus-| MacArthur named Lt. Gen. Wil-|1g5 miles northeast of Canton and slan-held center of Berlin today A red-skinned hero of the U | Army jeeped down Unter Den Lin- den and women wept with joy at| the sight of the Americans. | Private First Class Harvey Nat- | chees of the Ute Indian Reserva- tion, who wears a Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster, was the first American soldier to enter the cen- | ter of the capital. — e,— — NEW YORK, July 3. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7%, American Can 97%, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss-Wright 7, International Harvester 87. Ken- necott 38%, New York Central 30, Northern Pacific 33, U. 8. Steel 69 Sales today totaled 860,000 shar Dow, Jones averages today | as follows: Industrials, 165.73; rails, | 60.06; utilities, 33.48. — .- S. B. TATOM HERE 8. B. Tatom, of Seattle, is a visitor in town, and is registered at the Baranof Hotel, |helm D. Steyer commander of the 3y south of the former U. S. 14th Western Pacific area. Richardson and Steyer will handle | Air Force base at Kangsien. | The announcement said the city, training and supply for the areas , jiny in the defenses guarding the .lat 4 a.m, |under MacArthur, | Nimitz announced these Comman- |ders of the Tenth Army and Ryu- |kyus Forces under Gen. Joseph w. |Stilwell: Rear Arm. C. H. Cobb, in command of Naval forces in the Ryukyus; Marine Maj. Gen. Louis E. Woods, commanding the tactical |air forcé; Maj. Gen. F. G. Wallace, in command of Okinawa Island; and Vice Adm. J. B. Oldendor{ in command of Third Fleet forces now in the Ryukyus. VOICE IN NIGHT TACOMA, Wash. — When John Wilke's mother-in-law heard some- one walking inside the Wilke house she called: “Who there?” “It's. me,” a voice replied. The mother-in-law went back to expected to come home late. But next morning John found stamps and $150 in cash, | Ja) | Japanese Hong Kong-Hankow cor-| cheering veterans of the Timberwolf | | ridor, had fallen after continuous | assaults from the south. At the same time the Chinese announced that their forces in Kwangsi Province to the west had entered encircled Liucheng, 11 miles | northwest of Liuchow, another for- {mer American air base site, Fight- ing was reported raging in the streets of Liucheng. The Chinese also said they had recaptured Shapoyu, six miles east | of Liucheng. | ~ HE'S OUT; BUT IN ALBUQUERQUE, N. M. — From The men have been kept alive by his City Hall office, Mayor Clyde DIVISIONIS - INNEWYORK NEW YORK, July 3.—Maj. Gen ‘Terry Alle, Commanding General of the 104th (Timberwolf) Division shouting above the blare of a wel- coming band, sald today, “The Tim- ber Wolves can lick the Hell out of anything that gets in their way.” Those were the first words the slim, wiry General uttered as he debarked from the transport Mon- | terey which brought him and 6,493 Division here for redeployment to | the Pacific. > Maroofied u.s. Soldiers Are 'Awaiting Rescue NARSARSSUAK, Greenland, July 3.—Eleven American soldiers are |awaiting rescue from a remote | weather and radio outpost. The | soldiers have been isofated since “lnst January when a slowslide bur- jed their supplies and powerhouse. supplies dropped by parachute. Ef- Japanese urban industrial area had Jeen laid waste by B-29 strikes, not counting yesterday’s record raid. Reconnaissance photographs of fire bomb strikes June 29 against Moji, Sasebo, Shimonoseki and No- heoka showed approximately two square miles burned out. 12 U. S. Soldiers Dead, Train Wreck; 23 Others Injured NANCY, France, July 3. — The bodies of 12 American soldiers kill- ed in a train wreck near here Sun- day night have been recovered, it was announced toda, Twenty- three injured Americans are in hos- pitals. The French Press Agency sald a U. S. military train carrying leave personnel smashed into a French freight train stopped on the tracks. BYRNES S SWORN IN | WASHINGTON, Juy 3.—James F. |Byrnes was sworn In as Seretary of | [Tingley heard someone ghout “throw | forts to rescue them by plane and|State today. it!” and spied a man stuffing | sleen, thinking the voice -was that clothes into a bag in an alley be-| of John’s sailor brother who was hind a hotel. Police, crediting the Mayor with a quick assist, checked the depart-| his car missing, also his 16 A gas ing lodger into new quarters the|of Anchorage, are guests at the|should Mr. Truman be unable to city fail. | by boat have been unsuccessful. - ANCHORAGE MEN H. E. Aldridge and L. P. Pogus, HERE Baranof Hotel. | President Truman and the highest cfficials of the Government looked jon as the oath was administered to the men who would succeed to the | Presidency, under present statutes, complete his term,