The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 6, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 10,006 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS — NEW AIR FLEET MOVED T0 STRI BRITISH IN - HEAVY VOTE VESTERDAY Oufcome of Conservative- Socialist Struggle Hinges on-Ballots of Soldiers fl | | | LONDON, July 6.—The Conser- vative press maintained today that | vesterday’s general elections had | “almost certainly” resulted in a victory for Prime Minister Church- ill's Government but Labor Party organs held the Conservatives had| lost their absolute majorily in Pnr-‘ liament. Results will not be known until| July 26, after the absentee soldier| vote is counted. Observers agreed there was a near record turnout estimated at| almost 24,000,000 voters—80 percent | of the eligible electorate of 30,000,- 000—lured by good weather and a' hectic campaign battle betweer the | Conservative program of free en-| terprise and the Labor platform of | partial nationalization of industry.! The Daily Herald, Labor news-| paper, claimed “the least optimistic forecast” gave Labor 266 seats in| a U, S. Signal Corps photo. u.S. FLAG | | PRICE TEN CENTS E.G. ARNOLD IS SUCCESSOR T0 THORON AUSSIES IN NEW DRIVE HORON ONBORNEO | Ickes Announces Appoint-'Balikpapan“Ts Overrun- ment of Director of Ter- ¥ Plunge Made Toward ritories and Islands Fields of Samarinda WASHINGTON, July 6.— Secre=- By SPENCER DAVIS tary of the Interior Ickes an- (Assoclated Press War Correspondent) ounced today the appointment of MANILA, July 6.—Australian in- | Edwin G. Arnold, formerly of the vaders pushed across heavily mined | United Nations Relief and Rehab-| arcas today toward the last remain- | ilitation Administration, as Director |ing Japanese-held oil field in south- of the Division of Territories and|east Borneo, guided by the towering Isiand Possessions. |fires of Koealasambodja, a large re- Ickes announced also the ap-gfinfl y and pumping station put to i pointment of Jack B. Fahy, formerthe torcn by the retreating Japa- § | head of the Puerto Rico section of |Des® AUSTRIAN CHILDREN salute the Stars and Stripes on parade with the 44th | Possessions.” Infantry Division, U. S. Seventh Army, at Langenfeld, Austria. Note that the little girl at left is trying to get her boy companion to lift his | tion arm and salute the flag of liberation now flying over their town. This is | the relocation division of the War (International Soundphoto) the new House of Commons as against the 163 members it had in| the dissolved Parliament. It said “there were confident predictions/ that the Tory (Conservative) vote! was a minority of the total cast.’ | The Conservative Daily Express | said “most cautious” estimates gave a majority of 60 to 90 seats “for the government.” ! At ‘the time of dissolution the Conservative Party had 358 of the/ 615 seats in Commons, but with allied parties it had a working majority of nearly 200 seats. With 640 seats in the new Commons it will take 321 for a party or bloc to have a majority. Complicating factors included the; soldier vote, the population shifts! because of war work, and the 10-/ year lapse since the last elections, which meant that about one-third of the eligible electorate never had: voted before. | The shifting of population and the German air blitz played havoc with election records. It was esti- mated that thousands who tried to vote found themselves disqualified | because their names were lost from ! the polling registers. | Among those disenfranchised was' Churchill himself. He spent elec- | tion day instead touring his con-| WASHINGTON, July 6.—Ameri- stituency by car, shouting “have can armies fighting in Germany you all voted?” | with cannon were sometimes idle for {lack of ammunition but received |huge tonnages of air bombs they The washingion !muldn't use. U.S. ARMIES 60TBOMBS, NOT SHELLS | Jet PropulsEPlanes Also Delayed fo Forces Fighting Nazis 1 .Erganized Rackef’ on Medical Discharges for Soldiers Is Announced HEMPSTEAD, N. Y., July 6.—Ex- stence of a “complet, organized ket” whereby soldiers obtained ‘fraudulent medical discharges” and | transfers from “hot outfits” due for| combat duty was announced !oday;‘ by the First Air Force. Fee for discharges was “several thousand dollars,” and somewhat less for transfer to safe, secure branches of the Army, the Air Force Public Relations Office said in announcing results of an investi- gation begun last April into “irreg- ularities® at Mitchell Field here. The announcement did not give the number of men who had obtain- ed the fake discharges, but said most of them “were from units in jdistant parts of the United States and not connected with the First Air Force.” “Evidenct indicates,” the Air Force statement said, “that payments of money were made to certain un- scrupulous civilians in the metro- politan area. These civilians passed soldiers on War Investigation Committee also “to military members of the con-|President { the division, as assistant to Arnold.| 71Ce battle-hardened Seventh Aus- | Arnold replaces Benjamin W.|!Falian Infantry occupied the re- Thoron, who resigned cfleccive‘f"a“”“g S.panese-held port of Bal- | July 2. ikpapan yesterday, overran Manggar Ickes said: “In my estimation,!airfield in a five mile advance to the both Mr. Arnold and Mr. Fahy are | ROrtheast and plunged on toward the especially well equipped to carry (§1°at salt-marsh oil fields of the on the responsibility and duties of | Samarinda district. directing the activities of the Dj-| 12 Samarinda fields are approx- vislon of Territories and Island|'Mately 55 airmiles northeast of Bal- |ikpapan, now a giant junk pile of burned and blasted refinery equip- ment and oil pipes. Arnold, previous to his connec-! with UNRRA, was chief of {approxlmately halfway between Bal- ikpapan and Samarinda, is on the coast | Relocation Administration. Prior! |to that he was with the office of! %Inlcr—_American_ Affairs in Latin| "o 40 Tokyo said today that the | America and with the Department ayjes had poured ashore ils,oou men L e |by Wednesday. It claimed the Jap- Before entering Government ser-',n.co garrison had inflicted 2,000 | vice in 1937 he was a member of casualties up to Tuesday, but Allied | the faculty of Princeton University.| jources had reported casualties as { He is 40 and a native of Hartford, jjgn,) i Conn. St | Fahy replaces Mrs. Ruth Hamp- i ton, who resigned several months |ago as assistant to Thoron. HOPKINS IN .- — (EXILE POLISH GOVERNMENT IS Koealasambodja, on the pipe line| in joy'ivng (ape (od Holidgy | Sitting on a fence at her parents' home on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Beverly Hargreaves, recently wed to Jake Lindsay the 1§0th infantry- man to win the Cengressional Medal of Honor, is flanked by her husband (right) and his brother, James L Lindsay, 20, shipfitter 1st class, just back from Okinawa. (AP Wirephoto) !Hospilal flfip of ]épi Permitiedto Take Nips " From Island of Wake KE JAPAN \ 5TH FORCE 10 ATTACK NIPPONESE 'All-Out Effort fo Be Made to Get Surrender by Hammering BULLETIN — WASHINGTON, July 6.—Superfortresses renewed their attack on Japan’s indus- trial cities today, hitting five centers on the home island of Honshu with fire and explosive bombs, A very large task force, pos- sibly 400 or more B-29s took part in the five-way raid. The bomb- ers veached their targets at night. The five cities were Shimotsu, an oil refining center attacked by a medium force of B-29s four days ago; Kofu, a rail and war production center; Akashi, site of aircraft engine plants; Chiba, producer of machine tools and military equipment; and Shimizu, home of one of Japan's largest alumina plants and a deep water port, Kofu, with a population of 102,400, was the largest of the cities hit. | | | | i | | | | MANILA, July 6—U. 8. Fifth Air Force planes newly moved from the Philippines to. Okinawa are strik-- ing Japan, ¥ was disclosed today, | adding their welght* to the Army Superfortresses, -medium bombers, fighter-bombers -and Marine and Navy aircrath -alresdy: ‘e [ enemy home Isldfids. | As Gen. Douglas MacA#thur and | his air.chief, Gen. George €. Ken- ney, announved "this new ' power shift in the air war against the Japanese, dispatches from - Guam and Iwo Jima recorded a series -of | blows by ‘assorted Armiy, Navy and IN lfl"DATION BR"'- OFHU Ali | GUAM, July 6—The U. §. Navy | | ihu.s permitted a Japanese hospital Marine planes against the main fs- | ship to cvacuate 974 men from the land of Honshu and -Kyushu, -the | enemy garrison on Wake Isiand, on Ryukyus and vital rail transport -in Brifain Takes Steps Follow- ing Recognition of New Regime NEW JOB AS - ARBITRATOR ‘Former Presidential Ad- ' visor Accepts Import- ant Labor Posifion |xmen o matione: Unity in War- saw by the United States and Great NEW YORK, July 6.—Harry L. Britain. Hopkins, for 12 years a key Gov- What to do with the Exile Govern- ernment figure and Presidential ment’s army of 250,000 was about th adviser, today stepped into a new only remnant of the “Polish Prob- | diplomatic role—as impartial cRair- lem” left to plague the Allies. {man of the New York women's | coat-and-suit industry. nounced creation of an “interim His appointment to the post was treasury committee for Polish ques- announced by David Dubinsky. tions” to supervise the task of of the International liquidation. LONDON, July 6.—The British took steps today to liquidate the ma. chinery of the London Exile’ Poli government, following joint recogni- tion of the Polish Provisional Gov- | The British Foreign Office an-| |'which a*gallant Marine force held |out early in the war until overrun by superior Japanese landing forces, RAF llBERAToR Pacific Fleet Headquarters announ- | ced today. LONDON, July 6~—Sir William Adm. Chester W. Nimitz reported | Malkin, legal adviser to the Brit-|that 15 per cent of the Japanese lish Foreign office, is among 15 taken off the long isolated island passengers and crew aboard an were tubercular. Fourteen per cent RAF Liberator missing since Mon-| were wounded. The remainder were |day on a flight from Montreal to suffering from malnutrition. London, the Air Ministry announ-| The Pacific Fleet Admiral said ced today. | enemy medical officers estimated Three other members of the For-|that 15 per cent of those suffering 2ign Office staff were on the plane, from malnutrition would not survive which was returning personnel from the voyage to Japan. the San Francisco conference. | In one of the most dramatically SIGHT RUBBER RAFT humane incidents of the Pacific war, HALIFAX, N.S, July 6.—New- the U.S. S. Destroyer Murray inter- | foundland-based searchers hunting cepted, stopped and searched the |a RAF Liberator missing on a‘JBp‘dHESe hospital ship Takasago Ma- | flight from Montreal to London | ru about 300 miles north of Wake | have sighted a party of survivors Tuesday. Korea. ' Forty-eight Mustangs of the 35th Fighter Group hit six ‘places on Kyushu on Tyesday, within 35 | hours of arriving at their new Fifth Air Force bases on Okinawa. Kenny disclosed the strike with | this promise: | “This is just the start. We will continue to hammer Japan until | she accepts unconditional surren- der.” | | | REPORT SMriLING SAN FRANCISCO, July 6.—Tokyo radio belatedly added another war- ship shelling today to its uncon- firmed version of American surface 'attacks Monday and Tuesday dur- ing a deep penetration of the Sea of Okhotsk. | An enemy broadcast monitored said American delay in sending jet Piracy at Mitchell Field, who then propulsion planes to Europe very effected completion of the fraudulent |Ladies Garment Workers’ Union {who said Hopkins would assume Only such “essential” activities of [ on a rubber raft, Air Force offic-| the London Poles as educational and | ials announced today. ‘The Murray’s commander repon.edjby the Federal Communications |that a boarding party from his ship| Commission, Disclosing this today the Senate Merry - Go-Round' inearly allowed the Germans, already !rar ahead in their production, to re- |gain air supremacy over Europe. By DREW PEARSON Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) Lt. WASHINGTON — A significant, off-the-record meeting took place between Secretary of War Stimson, one-time Republican candidate for Governor of New York, and Demo- cratic Governor Herbert Lehman, iZD-pounders in 500 pound clusters and ancther of 260-pound fragmen- tation bombs. The report said air force officers in the field testified processing,” the Air-Force said. The “sunningly planned and op- erated conspiracy” arranged to avoid detection, the statement continued, | The unwanted air bombs, the by mixing the fraudulent discharges contracts, committee said, were one type of in with the constant flow of legiti-!jnqustrial mate ones obtained by wounded veterans flown here for processing and treatment. Mitchell Field, an aerial debarka- five times Governor of New York, now head of UNRRA. Lehman has been greatly troub- led about the danger of acute starvation in Europe next winter, and. fears the United States will get the blame. Actually, there is food in Europe; but it is unevenly distributed and difficult to trans-| port to cities. Meanwhile,"European railroads are overburdened. “the had no use for one (the form- ticn port, received 4,000 wounded a ler) and a very limited use for the month from Europe. other.” No names were made public by the “Witnesses in the United States First Air Force, which said its in- |contend that the theatre ordered vestigation still was not complete. i"hese quantities to be shipped, Court martial proceedings will be | whereas the unanimous testimony of held later, it said. officers in the theatre was that “So far,” the statement said, “there they did not desire these bombs and is no evidence to substantiate ru- the bombs in effect were forced mors of favoritism by those in upon them.” (command authority.” and the “com- |his new duties after a few weeks hospital services for Polish citizens rest. in England and care of refugees As impartial chairman, Hopkins abroad will continue to be financed will preside over labor-management by the British government, arbitrate disputes, settle Foreign Office said. problems and generally The London and Washington an- | promote harmony in the gigantic Douncements isolating the Exile re- 1 $500,000,000-a-year industry. gime, with which the United States Hopkins, a close personal friend @nd Great Britain had dealt {of the late President Roosevelt, re- | throughout the war, emphasized | signed his $15,000-a-year advisers’ that setting up of the expanded the! The plane carried Sir William'scarched the Takasago with the full | Malkin, legal adviser to the Brit-'cooperation of the Japanese com- | 1sh Foreign Office, and other mem- | Mmanding officer, who said his vessel | turning home from the San Fran- &i¢ the garrison’s sick and wound- cisco Conference. There were 15 d- i 3 | passengers on the plane( including The Nipponese officer said his ship three American: fliers. |would remain at Wake for a few s et [hours and then proceed to Japan. bers of the Forelgn Office staff re- %as on the way to Wake to evacu-| |ted the hospital ship to continue its| post to President Truman last ! Tuesday on grounds of ill health. Union offices reported his new salary would be “in the neighbor- hood” of $25,000 annually. | He will succeed former Mayor |James J. Walker as impartial chairman. The industry has 50.- Warsaw government was only a “step” in fulfilling the Yalta Big, Three agreements. ‘The American commander permit- Hitby Flames | | LONDON, July 6.—The repudi- ated London Polish Government called upon' the 250,000 men in its armed forces today to remain loyal 1000 employes, 1,300 employers and —&n action which apparently chal- claims 80 per cent of the national lenged the vending plans of the ;.Re(reafionm of Aleuts, The committee said an artillery plex pattern of manipulations” evi- coat and suit output. voyage. ‘The Murray intercepted the Taka- sago Maru again yesterday about 40 miles north of Wake, and again a boarding party searched the ship. They found it was carrying 974 military patients from Wake. Of these 490 were Navy personnel and 484 Army personnel. After this visit and search, the Murray's com- mander told the hospital ship to Ex-Governor, Lehman, therefore, went tp see Stimson to point out that_the V. S. Army had 800,000 trucks in Europe, and he wanted to borrow 50,000 of them for food dis- |ammunition shortage in 105 and 155- dently was handled by “persons in | millimeter calibers developed in Oc- ' lower levels.” tober, 1944, and never was over-' come, requiring the Seventh Army| to take some of the available sup-' | Big Three to give these men a| Several DW&"ingS Are |continue her voyage to Japan. choi between returning home or . maining sbroad. | Destroyed by Fire remaining abroad. | | WASHINGTON, July 6.—The Fish| Shorn of recognition by Britain| and.the ‘United ‘States, the exiled|, wilqlife Service said today that 2 Alaska Airlines tribution. plies from the TItalian front so it Simson listened briefly, but turn- | could land in southern France. ed the sybject to the political sit- STOCK QUOTATIONS uation in Europe. He seemed much more interested in whether Europe| could keep the peace, apparently/ forgetting that people with full| | | stomachs are more peaceful than| those half-starved. Lehman got no| definite answer, and still has been | unable to get an answer from Stim-{ son’s generals. They keep saying{ they need trucks for *“deployment.” BRASS HATS IN HOT WATER ‘The 'same subject, plus other im- NEW YORK, July 6. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7', American Can 95'2, Anaconda 34'%, Curtiss Wright 7, International Harvester 84, Kennecott 387, New York Central 287, Northern Pacific 31%, U. S. Steel 68%. Sales today were only, 960,000 shares. 1 Dow, Jones averages today are as portant matters, was debated in a (Continued on Page Four) follows: ' industrials 164.67, rails ! | 50.71, utilities 3317, | HALIBUT CATCH FOR TWO MONTHS SEATTLE, July 6.—American and Canadian halibut fleets landed 35,- 310,000 pounds of fish the first two months of the season, through June 30. The United States catch, the In- ternational Fisheries Commission reported today, totaled 23,594,000 pounds. 1In June, both fleets took 15,940,000 pounds of fish. —————— J. P. Welker, of Tacoma, has arrived in Juneau and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel, regime of Premier Tomafz Arcisze- TACOMA, Wash.—The Franklin WSki declared that it would hand Market, a grocery, was cleaning up °Ver its authority “soley” to a its tobacco stock for inventory and Government formed on free Polish for two hours offered each customer SOl {a carton of cigarettes. Only one customer took a carton —_—— e CAPi. MACKINNON LEAVES |tire last week destroyed the re- creational hall and some dwellings on tiny St. Paul's island, one of the | Pribilofs, in the Bering sea. Dam-/ estimated at between $30,000 ' Gef Authorizafion For Nf! Services ed the Service willl WASHINGTON, July 6—Two | The others took only a pack or two. “Guess the shock was too great,” a |clerk observed. | But the next day the store was beseiged by smokers. Rationing had | returned, however—only one pack to a customer. ———— e MITCHELL HERE | seek an appropriation to construct, Capt. Simpson MacKinnon, onnew buildings. It was expected, furlough here for several weeks,|however, that the island will have to left for his Aleutian headquarters|do without the buildings throughont vesterday aboard a Woodley Air-|next year, since all building mater- | ways plane. lials have to be imported. frie et | " Four hundred cases of , canned MASS. AT SHRINE milk were detroyed, leaving the Mass will be said at-the Shrine island with only one week's supply.| There are approximately 500 airlines were authorized today by the| Civil Aeronautics Board to provide additional passenger and air mail service in Alaska. With approval of President Tru- man the Board gave permission to Alaska airlines to carry mail be- tween Fairbanks and Anchorage. Woodley Airways was authorized to carry persons, property and maill Bill Mitchell, of Hoonah, has ar-|of St. Terese next Sunday morning rived in Juneau and is a guest at|at 10 o'clock, according to an an- the Gastineau Hotel, nouncement made today. Aleuts and some Fish and Wildlife between Anchorage and Kodiak by Service personnel on the island. ‘way of Homer. sald “three enemy | warships” shelled Kaihyo Island, south of Taraika Bay off the east- tern coast of Karafuto, Tuesday. (Karafuto is the Japanese-held half of an island—Russian-owned Sakhalin is the other half—just off ithe Asiatic mainland north of Japan.) = ‘Tokyo previously had reported that five warships shelled Shikuka in Taraika Bay on Tuesday. The earlier broadcast said a submarine |also shelled Shikuka Tuesday and | Kaihyo Island Monday. RESIGNATION OF ROBERTS IS SURPRISE Chief JustitT Stone May Also Quit Dissension Torn Court By PAUL M. YOST WASHINGTON, July 6—Owen J. Roberts’ s resignation from | the dissention-torn Supreme Court spurred speculation today that he may be followed soon by Chief Jus- tice Harlan 8. Stane, oldest man on lu;e tribunal, President Truman announced Rob- (Continued on Page Stz)