The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 5, 1945, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV.,NO. 10,005 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 800 AMERICAN PLANES SMASH AT JAPAN AUSSIES IN | ADVANCEIN BALIKPAPAN Strike Last Japanese Foot-| holds-0il Port Prac- | fically Controlled By RUSSELL BRINES ! BALIKPAPAN, Borneo, July 5v—= Australian infantrymen struck today at the footholds in | Balikpapan, Borneo’s major oil port, | which already for all practical pur- poses is in Allied hands. | (Radio Tokyo insisted lines were holding and that an Aus- tralian attack spearheaded by 50 tanks had been repulsed with heavy loss. It estimated Allied casualties at 1,100 since ths beachhead was made last Sunday—700 in the sea | and 400 ashore. Allied sources have | said easualties were nght.) American engineers with the*in- vasion celebrated Fourth of July sailing two of their LCMs into Bal- ikpapan Bay despite the fact it was not yet cleared of Japanese mines. | The landings of the LCMs al‘ Japanese - built pontoon wharves | marked the first entry of Allied shipping into the bay since the Nipponese took over in 1941. The bay itself was in strong con- trast with the wrecked and scarred | port city. Only a few sunken ships protrude above its calm waters. Artillery dueled, meanwhile, with strongly placed enemy guns: Across| the three-mile-wide Balikpapan Bay while engineers rushed reconstruc- tion of captured Sepinggang air strip | and a column smashed against strong opposition in a drive to envelope Manggar, last major enemy airfield in the invasion territory. 4 WRECKED AIRPLANES ARE FOUND last Japanese Japanese | VANCOUVER, B. C., July 5—(C.! P.—The Western Air Command announced yeserday the finding uf; four wrecked airplanes as search- ers were looking for another ma- chine missing since last week. One was an American fighter plane sighted across the border. The others were located on Van- couver Island and were said to] have been missing with some 30 Canadian and British airmen. | The Washington Merry - Go-Round | By DREW PEARSON | Col. Robert S. Allen now on active | service with the Army.) Lt. | locomotive engineer; | External Affairs Herbert E. Evatt, inel casualties up to July 1 were | "My Daddy’ S IN_ | "MyDaddy'saVeryBad Boy" BULLETINS (left) and her baby brother, Curtis dcesn’t come back for them. She the children’s keep but failed to g again. and cver :Again My Daddy sandy, 3 s, 1'2, wondering why their mother left suitcase of clothing and $30 for ive her name and never showed up Only clue little Sandy can give authorities is to remark over s a very bad boy.” Phlllppme Islands WonBack; Makes Proclamation JOHN CURTIN PASSES AWAY | Prime Minister of Australia Dies in Canberra After Long lliness CANBERRA, Australia, July 5.— Prime Minister John Curtin, 60, is heart ailment with lung compli- cations. His successor will likely be chosen next Thursday by the Parliament- | Minister Francis M. Forde; Treas- urer Joseph B. Chifley, a former or Minister of MacArthur MANILA, July 5.—All the Philip- pine Islands have been won back in “the greatest disaster ever sustained | by Japanese arms,” Gen. Douglas MacArthur proudly proclaimed {o- day and their 115,600 square miles are being transformed into bases “comparable to the British Islands” to spur the march on Tokyo. In 250 days of campaigning, 17| American divisions whipped 35 Japa- nese divisions in “one of the rare | instances when . . . a ground force superior in numbers was entirely destroyed by a numerically inferior opponent.” | Roughly 420,000 Japanese were slaughtered, including such hated | outfits as the 16th Imperial Division | dead after a long illness from a|which tortured American and Fili- | pino prisoners in the “death march” | after the 1942 fall of Bataan. | A spokesman estimated that pos- | }*lbl\' 30,000 Japanese survive in all | ary Labor Party from Deputy Prime | the archipelago, cut into groups and | driven into mountains where they | are reduced to guerrilla activity. American ground and air person- | The old hullabaloo of artillery| Australia’s .recent delegate to the!listed as 11,921 killed, 410 missing | shells not reaching the Western' Frent is now being settled once and | for all by the Mead Committee.| Careful Senator Kilgore of West| vVirginia interviewed high-ranking generals at the front who swore there was no shell shortage ...| General Somervell and Under Sec-, retary of War Patterson had, screamed that the home front had | fallen down. Even Jimmy Byrnes fell for this one . .. Though Tru-| man has brought a lot of Western- | ers into the Cabinet, actually v.hree New Yorkers remain. They are: Stimson (War), Forrestal (Navy),; Morgenthau (Treasury). The| fourth New Yorker, Miss Perkins stepped down . .. Here is the geo- graphical layout of the rest of the| Cabinet: Texas—(Clark, Attorney-, General); Illinois—(Ickes, Inter- jor); Towa—(Wallace, Commerce); New Mexico—(Anderson, Agricul- ture); Washington—(Schwellen- bach, Labor); South Carolina— (Byrnes, State); Missouri (Hanne- gan, Post Office) ... Then, of course, Harry Truman himself, also from Missouri. So it looks as if the West was pretty well repre- sented. Chalk up a belated victory to the/ little group of Senators who op- (Continued on Page Four) San Francisco Security Conference. | Pending the selection, Forde vull | continue as acting premier. He was appointed Army Minister, sec- ond in command of the Govern- | | ment, when the Curtin Govern- | ment took office in 1941. Before crowded public galleries, the Federal Parliament mourned Curtin’s death. Tribute poured in shortly after theé Premier died uf‘ coronary thrombosis. i e ‘Bartleft Proposes Limit on Fishing WASHINGTON, July 5—Delegate Bartlett of Alaska has introduced in | the Senate a bill to limit commer- cial salmon fishing in the Moser Bay and Olga Bay areas and the area be- tween Cape Karluk and Cape Uyak to persons who have lived within 75 miles of the area for five years, ex- cept that for the 1946 season resi- dence continuously since June 1 shall be considerzd sufficient. >-oe FAIRHURST IN TOWN H. G. Fairhurst, of Ketchikan, is a puest at the Baranof Hotel, and 42,569 wounded — a total oi 54,891. 6 Are Dead " InTornado | RISING CITY, Nebr., July 5—Six persons were killed and at least 12 itically injured by a tornado which ! svmpt a path five miles long and | wo miles wid> north and west of Rmn City last night. Three of the victims died in a Columbus, Nebr., hospital early to- — e — TRANSFERRED Four members of the U. S. Coast Guard enlisted personnel attached ! to the organization of the Captain of the Port here have departed on transfer to duty with the Thir- teenth Naval District at Seattle. Departed are: William .H. Den- | mark, fireman 1/c; Eager L. Hol- | loway, specialist (PS) 1/¢; Harry Bagnell, motor machinist's mate I2 c; and Arlyn G. Olson, fireman bre, day and three were killed outright. | ' s | WASHINGTON — Appropriations | totaling $548,204,450 for 10 home | front war agencies were eliminated | in the House today from the $752,- 1000,000 war agencies bill in a renewal [of the tight over FERC. WASHINGTON-—The House Post- war Military Policy Committee today endorsed the broad principle “of universal military training in peace- time,” | { | WASHINGTON—The Big Three meeting in the Berlin area will be held some time within the next three weeks, President Truman told his news conference today. He fe-| clined to be more specific. | WASHINGTON — The President ma@e it clear to his weekly news conference that he has in mind | keeping Harold L. Ickes as Interior Secretary for some months at least. | He said Ickes will be sent to London | soon to help renegotiate an Anglo- | American oil agreement. At the same ‘news conference, Mr. Truman an- ! nounced the appointment of Edward C. Moran, Jr., to be Assistant Secre- | tary of Labor and Jesse Donaldson 'to be First Assistant Postmaster General. LONDON — Th2 Japanese news service Domei, in a broadcast heard by BBC, announced that Vice Ad- miral Genzo Sato and Rear Admiral Tsutomu Watanabe have died in action. WASHINGTON—With the aim of | reducing stock market speculation, the Federal Reserve Board has rais- | ed the margin requirements from 50 to 75 per cent—the highest ever | Effective today, anyome buying stock exchange securities must put up 75 per cent of the price himseM | | —this is his “margin"—and can borrdw only 25 per cent from his/| banker or broker. Truman Announces Accept-| -eeplance-Successor o Announced Later — Presi- WASHINGTON, Ju | dent Truman today epted the' resignation of Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr ily 5. WASHINGTON—Two hz-uunanh’ of the Brazilian Air Force and five | | The President said he \\mll\l | sergeants were killed in a plane {_ - @ o S Y crash at Burgaw, N. C., Tuesday | lame Morgenthau's successor upon A el his return from the Big Three night, the Brazillan Embassy dis- |, coting near Berlin, which he said clime: | would take place in about three 3 ‘ 4 .| weeks. LOS ANGELES—Charlie Chaplit | Names which have figured in has been ordered to disclose the | pecylation over a new treasury | size of his fortune following an ac- | .hjef jnclude Director of War Mob- tion by Joan Berry, his former movic | jjization Fred Vinson: John Q | protege, she has received no aid|gnyger, the new Federal Loan Ad- from him and is without funds to ministrator; Senator George ,’;“”W” h";;“ ““"h““"fé“”h“:‘”“‘ (D.-Ga.), veteran Chairman of the nn, now 20 months old, which 2| gungte Finance Committee, and |_|ury decided the comedian was the Iather VANCOUVER, B. C.—Nine airmen | | were killed and six injured whrn - | two Liberator bombers collided at | Abbottsfojd Station during night flying operations, the Western Air |Command announces. All 15 were | members of the RAF training at the ! | Abbotsfojd Station 35 miles south- | east of here. | | | SAN FRANCISCO—A Tokyo radi | ~ HAVE 'IAI.K Published Report Is, How- < ever, Doubfed-Big 3 Meet at Potsdam LONDON, July 5. | Walter J. Cummings of the Chicago | Board, Chairman of the Contin- | ental-Illinois National Bank and T'rust Company. ibroadcast picked up here says 200 American bombers and fighters ‘from Okinawa today smashed at | Nagasaki and Omuta on Kyushu Isind while 100 fighter planes from | | Iwo Jima ripped into the airfields | at Tokyo. AKRON—Acting under executive order by President Truman, the Navy today seized five plants of the | Geodyear Tire and Rubber Company 1flt Akron, Ohio. The Navy tcok over | A publisned re- | the plants at 11:15 a. m. (Eastern DOrt said today that Prime Minister | War Time) and ordered 16,700 strik- | Churchill would meet Generalissimo ing United Rubber Workers back to Franco of Spain before the Big Three confersnce in Potsdam, but a Foreign Office commentator cast ioubt on the report. The best guess was that President Truman, Generalissimo Stalin and ,thelr Jjobs tomorrow. WASHINGTON The White ‘House announced today that news- | ! papermen will not be permitted to | cover actual sessions of the forth- Lommg Big Three conference in the Berlin area, but coverage of the conference will be by official com- | muniques which will be issued “as |may be decided on from time to| | time.” | a Berlin suburb, July 14 or 16. They will try to -liquidate outstanding European problems, The Prime Minister, tired from the election campaign, his wife and daughter are expected 'to take a heliday at the beautiful Chateau de Bordaberry on thz French Basque coast just outside Hendaye on the Spanish border before the Big Three meeting. Bordeaux reports said tele- | bhene and telegraph experts were onnecting the villa direct with London. WASHINGTON—An increase of | 6,258 casualties reported in the past | week raised the total for the armed | forces in World War II to 1,036,937 lodfly ‘The Navy listed 125,540 and the Army 911,397 on the basis of ;individual names reported to the War Department through June 29. NEW CAR R 1E R C OMMISSTON ED_sailors line the forward section of the flight deck i as the USS Lake Champlain, a new carrier. is commissioned at Norfolk Navy yard. \MORGENTHAU Two Committees RESIGNS AS| TREASURER | ferces in the new bombing of | | Churchill would confer at Potsdam, | : Wounded in Action i 0f House Coming Norlh in Summer GEN SPAATL - ASSIGNEDTO PACIFICWAR Bomber Chief Will Head| WASHINGTON, July 5—Two com~ | mittees of the Hpuse of Representa- mm will visit Alaska this summer: the Territories Committee and the lntPnu Sub-committee of the Ap- | propriations committee. ‘The latter group plans to leave 5.,0.\11.]9 July 15 and expects to study such subjects as fisherles, land, na-| tives, which are supervised by the lnl"nul Department. Jed Johnson (D-Okla) is| \Lhmlman of the subcommittee. He { has been appointed to be a member of the customs court but has not yet | resigned from Congress. Other mem- 5 bers are Reps. Michael J. Kirwan NerY (fea'ed Army | (D-Ohlo), W. F. Norrell (D-Aik), | John J. Rooney (D-NY), Robert F‘ Air Force WASHINGTON, July 5 carl A Spaatz, who directed thevall. strategic bombing that leveled Ger-| The Territorial Committee is plan- | many, today was given the same as- ning to leave Seattle about August signment in the Pacific. 1, and Chairman Hugh Peterson (D- Spaatz witl arrive at the War De- | Ga) sald he expected that at least partment for conferences on his new # dozen members would make the assignment perhaps this week. trip. He said he expects to go and| Under Secretary Robert P. Patter- “h'l Rep. J. W. Robinson (D-Utah) | n announced at a news confer- : 5 said he will go. Both are mem- DETS (Jones (R-Ohio), Ben F. Jensen, (R- ilowa), and Henry C. Dworshak (R- ~General | Idaho). Clerk is William A. Du- er the creation of the U. 8. Army of the House committee on | Alr Force in the Pacific with Gen.|'cads and highways, of which Rob- | Spaatz as the supervising general Inson is chairman. Rep. Homer D. Angell (R-Ore), ranking Republi- can member of the committee, also will be a member of the party. 1 Delegate Bartlett (D-Alaska) who | will accompany this group says special emphasis will be placed on eporting directly to General of the Army H. H, Arnold There will be two principal air Japan, ce will be under Lt. Tke 8th Air Fo! Gen. James Doolittle and the 20th will operate under Maj. Gen. Curtis Studics relating to proposed revisions | E. Lamay. of the Organic Act of Alaska. _This giant force was established, | S s said, “‘because of the | size and activity” Am M"‘S(HER ! ] i :l Lh( bupmlm'ufl attacks. - e JUSTICE ROBERTS * RESIGNS POSITION, SUPREME COURT Declares Jap Navy Ellmln- ated But Nips Are Not . MAKES ADDRESS | ~ ONSEATILE'S 4TH VVASH!N(:TON‘ July 5.—President Truman today announced the resig- { nation of Supreme Court Justice | Giving Up Fight SEATTLE, July 5.—Japan’s Navy is virtually eliminated as a fight-| ing unit and its Naval air power 'ls‘ now almost, non-existant,” Vice Ad--, miral Marc A. Mitscher said yes- terday, but he warned he would not count heavily upon their quitting. The leader of the famed Task Force 58, in speeches prepared for an Independence Day observance, said the Japanese “show no indi-} cation that they will give up, even| though they are being burned day after day by our heavy bombers and‘ by Navy Carrier Air Force X X X." | Thousands lined downtown «lree!.«s\ Owen H. Roberts The President told his news con- ference he has no successor in mind, Justice Roberts, who went on the Supreme Court in 1930, reached the retirement age of 70 last month. He gave that as his reason for resigning in the letter he wrote Mr. Truman Roberts conferred briefly with the President earlier in the day but de- clined at that time to tell reporters the purpose of his visit - Pic. Richard Walook | HEINTZLEMAN BACK as Admiral Mitscher led a parade in| j WASHINGTON — President Tru- — which 7,500 persons, chiefly mlmflry man has signed into law the legis-| Regional Foreseter B. Frank WASHINGTON, July 5.—The War personnel, took part. ' lation extending the reciprocal | Heintzleman returned here by plane Department today reported that Pfc Admiral Mitscher said he believed trade program for three years. This vesterday from Ketchikan, where Richard Walook, son of Murs. Lucy Japanese Kamikaze attacks are| is the act which gives Mr. Truman authority to cut tariffs in agree- | ments with other nations, Smaller War Plants ow visiting Alaska. he conferred with officials of the K. Walook, Wainwright, Alaska, had Corporauon,' been. wounded ‘born of desperation and a desire| to prolong the war in the hope we will wear out.” in action in the Pacific regions | |AIR RAIDS MADE OVER WIDE AREA Fires Are Sef by Supers in Four Mainland Nip Cities -Mustangs Join in By AL DOPKING (Associated Press Correspondent) GUAM, July 5. — Approximately 800 American planes sot off Fourth of July fires and explosions in Jap- an, capped by an hour-long radio challenge of fighters circling three ‘Tokyo airfields for the Japanese air force to come up for battle. The dare went unanswerad. Fires in four Japanese cities burn- ed so brightly they could be seen simultaneously by returning B-29 pilots. Two Japanese destroyers were hit, in the Yellow Sea. Six Tokyo air- fields were ripped . Everything from power houses to light houses was shot up. Photographic assessment was underway today to check the results of the greatest Independence Day celebration of the Pacific war. It started when a fleet of 500 Superfortresses fire-bombed four mainland cities, leaving them in flames set off by 3,000 tons of incendiaries. Before the day was over, Army, Navy and Marine fllers had given Nippon's dwindling Empire a' thor- ough going over with bombs and strafings. The B-29 attack was followed by a force of more than 150 Mustang tighters ‘of the . S, Séventh Army Air Force which went on an aerial rampage, flylng over hundreds of miles of Japan’s home soil looking for Japan’s air force and ground targets, The Mustangs, Iwo Jima head- quarters announced today, found more installations than enemy pilots. They destroyed eight planes on the ground, damaged 24 more, and then roamed at will, up six airfields, radio statiohs, freight cars, control towers, am- munition shzds. gas tanks and power plants, BRITAIN IS YOTING; IS .~ GREATDAY \Churchill, Me Leading Opponents-Question of Left or Right LONDON, July 5.—Britain is vot- \ing today to decide the bitterly de- bated issue of free enterprise versus Socialism in a general election watched by the world for an indica- tion of Europe's postwar political trend—Ileft or right. In the country’s stormiest cam- paign in decades the Conservative Party led by Prime Minister Chur- chill supported its traditional policy i of freedom of economic enterprisa. The Labor Party headed by Clem- lent Attlee demanded the national« ization of four basic industries with the announced aim of eventually es- tablishing a “Soclalistic” common- wealth of Great Britain. o Results will not be known until July 26 because the absentee soldier votz will remain to be counted, but both sides voiced the usual election eve confidence in the outcome. “We are going to win,” Churchill shouted at a rally last night. “I feel it in my bones.” Conservative news- papers speculated on a majority of | up to 100 seats for their party, which | had a 52-seat majority in the last | House of Commeons, elected 10 years ago. However, the Laborite Daily Her- ald said: “All indications are that today's poll will overwhelmingly confirm the swing to Labor, which months be- fore the campaign began, was free- {1y admitted in Tory (Conservative) cireles.” e — OLSON IN JUNEAU Sven Olson, of Taku Harbor, has arrived in Juneau and is a guest at' the Baranof Hotel.