The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 12, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV.,NO. 10,011 CLOSERTIES T0 BE AIM OF TRUMAN President Fa?s Important Issues at Conference of Big Three WASHINGTO! July 12.-—Presi- dent Truman is expected 'to seek closer and more continuous diplo- matic ties with Britain and Russia when he meets Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin at Berlin. 3 The objective will be to assure day-to-day handling of current European political problems which grew out of the war and for which| quick solutions are considered vital to a workable peace. At the heart of whatever proposal Mr. Truman makes along this line— probably to create an international commission—is the need to promote Big Three cooperation at a time when some forces are working to weaken it. In some respects the stresses on this conference will be greater than those under which the late Presi- dent Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin worked at Teheran and at Yalta. The biggest difference, of course, is that the three Allies no longer are bound by the compelling need to defeat a common enemy. Trade Combination Charge of Govl. Is Upheld, Fed. Judge NEW YORK, July 12, — Federal | Judge Simon H. Rifkind has upheld ! government charges that E. I. du-| Pont de Nemours and Company,' Inc., National Lead Company and Titan Company, Inc., formed “a combination and conspiracy in re- | straint of trade.” i The anti-trust suit charging the firms with world monopoly and re- | straint of trade in the titanium industry. | Titarium suppies the most valu- able of all white pigments used in paint, rubber, glass and other prod- | ucts. The Titan Company is a| wholly-owned subsidiary of National Lead. i JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1945 BIG THREE CONFERENCE IS NEARING Sessions Wi]fi%egin Mon- day or Tuesday-Truman fo Land at Antwerp By ERNEST B. VACCARO ABOARD THE CRUISER AUG-| JSTA WITH PRESIDENT TRU- MAN, July 12.—The Big Three meet- ing of President Truman, Prime Min- ster Churchill and Premier Stalin will begin next Monday or Tuesday, it was learned today, amid indica- tions it would be a prolonged one. (At Antwerp, Belgium, it was an-| acunced Mr. Truman was due there | Sunday.) As this veteran warship edged closer to the British Isles and its ul- timate destination in North Europe, it ran into low-hamging clouds and A decades-old dream for Juneau is nearing realization with approval pending on an application now be- fore the U. S, Army Engineers for 1 marine ways and repair facilities to be established on Gastineau Channel by the Northern Commer- cial Company. ©Original plans for the’ establish- ment, which have been/ subject to icme recent modifications, as filed with the Area Engineer office here, disclose eventual installation of two marine railways and cradles, stor- {age yards for boats under repair, repair sheds, marine hardware store, machine shop and allother | necessary adjuncts to a complete boat repair facility. The project is to be located on lan extensive rock fill adjacent to Juneau Marine Ways Is On Application Before U. §. Army Engineers Office TERRITORIAL - PEOPLE NOT -_— | Ml 304 wiately 400,006 yards of rock. Rail- ways will extend westward mw!Barfle" Makes Explana- | for handling vessels up to 300 tons| fion Rela'lve o Unned by one of the railways, 150 tons by the other. As recently viewed, how= of the railways will be bullt im-| \yASHINGTON, July 12.—There is mediately, with a capacity for craft no intention to classify the people up to 100 feet the first considera- of Alaska, Hawali or Puerto Rico as The installation is anticipated to|Fiancisco charter, says Delegate cost in excess of $200,000. | Bartlett (D-Alaska). At present, only legal require- , Bartlett said in a statement print-| mencing work on the establishinent, [day that a newspaper article (NY| Final approval of the application is 11 had given the impression! expected before the end of mu]shat e United States would have! let contracts for the work as soom!conditions within its Territories. as final approval is obtained from| Fe said the article was brought to| Washington, D. C. The project is,the attention of Senator Vander-| deep water. Original plans provided ever, it is more-likely that only one | Nahonic_haner tien., dependent people under the San ments stand in the way of com-!8d in the Congressional Record to-| month and it is the intention to ! report to the United Nations on being cleared through the Seattle P¢'s (R-Mich) who “has unequiy-| |fleet of from 500 to 550 Superfort- MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 3,000 Tons of Explosive, Flame Bombs Are Hurled On Jap Cities Before p_gfl By Al Dopking r They showered incendiaries on the ' (Associated Press War Correspéndent) | oivios ~ and demolition bombs on ' GUAM, Friday, July 13—An air gawasaki, a petroleum center on a reclaimed island in Tokyo Bay. resses poured more ghan 3000 tons| o, the f5land are facilities of the| of flame and explosive bombs before | & udnw:n today on four Jap cities and‘:&z,po&lmé:;np?:;‘y'nszn;t‘:; vsnucn‘ an cil center spréad over 480 m“es}Pebmleum Compnnly and the Mitsui of the home islands of Honshu “nd‘stonge depot, i Shikcku. | » The glant afr raidets struck from: It Was the 49th incendiary mission Uwajima, on the west central const‘“ the Superfortresses and brought of Shikoku, to as fdr east as Utsun- |their total of Japanese cities hit to! omiya, a city of 80,000 lying 60 miles 3% f north of Tokyo on the north Tokyo| The Kawasaki petroleum center| plain, had been bombed April 16, but it Other cities bit along the way were | Was the first ratd for the other in- the munitions center of Ichinomiya,|dustrial centers. nine miles northwest of Nagoya on| The heavy blow was struck after, a main double track mail line be- |lighter bombers and fighters had tween Nagoya and Gifu, and Tsur- | carried the air war to the Japanese uga, which lles on the west central | homeland in quick succession to rart of the main Home island of |the big 1,000-carrier plane raid on | | 1 | [ [ | the north breakwater of the pre- {sent small boat harbor here. Buildings will be located on the scattered showers for the first time since leaving Newport News Satur- day merning. office of the U. S. Engineers in w_;ocfll!,\' rejected any interpretation cf Honshu. Tokyo airfields Tuesday. operation with the local Area of- th¢ l1anguage of the Charter which ——— fice | would classify the residents of the Remaining in the Admiral’s cabin, tha Precident went over with Secre- | tacy of State James F. Byrnes and| Flcet Admiral William D. Leahy, an agenda covering a world-wide range suggested for diseussion by the Uni- ted States, Britain .and Russia at the Fotsdam mesting opening next Monday or Tuesday. A roview of the suggested topics, including proposed territorial ad- stmeonts, feeding, occypation and ccores of others, was said to have onvinced the President\that his | first major power conference might | outiast those of Yalta, Teheran and Quebec. The.Yalta meecting took eight days. — e SHAEF WILL BE DISSOLVED PARIS, July 12.—Supreme Head- quékters Allied Expeditionary Force will be dissolved at 12:01 a. m. on July 14, it was announced today soon after Gen. Eisenhower returned to the continent which his combined ccmmand helped free. The American, British and French forces which served under the Su- preme Cocmmand will then revert to Territories as dependent peoples.” fill, which will require approxi- SENATOR SAYS ALASKA MUST HAVE FOODS | { WASHINGTON, July 12.—Alaska | must be supplied with eritical foods i from the Government stores to avoid |interference with the war effort, | Scnator - Mitchell (D-Wash) tends. The War Food Administration re-' {cently cancelled Alaska’s -allotment of butter, cheese and canned fish from the stores st aside for Govern- ment use. The original order, WFA informed Mitchell, was made because the war interferred with the normal | movement of foods to Alaska. Mitchell made public a letter to Agriculture Secretary Anderson pro- testing, th> cancellation: He said butter distributors have told him that, if the Territory must be sup- plizd from civilian stocks, they will be able to distripute only 25 per cant of the April totdl in Seattle and Tacoma. WFA estimated that the reduction in\ Washington civilian | | Rifkind did not specify what ac- naticnal controls. The SHAEF an- supplies would not he more than 10 tion should be taken to dissolve the |ncuncement of its imminent dissolu- per cent, perhaps only 2% per cent. “combination,” but said: “Plaintiff is entitled to a decree which will restore titanium to the system of free competition.” | ON SPECIAL DUTY | Chief Boatswain Elmer Rootvik,' USCGR, has arrived here from Ketchikan for a brief stay on spec- ial assignment. | The Washingion, Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen mow on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON — One of the; worst wastes of food in months oc- | curred recently in Norfolk, Va. It involved potatoes for Belgium. Several weeks ago the army promised three shiploads of pota- toes to Belgium, to replace pota- toes which our troops had used in that country. Spuds are precious in Beigium, so the Belgians wanted | them back. The War Food Admin- istration agreed to provide the po- tatoes, and the War Shipping Ad- ministration .was to provide the shipping. Everything was $.f. War Food, however, was unable to get a sufficient quantity of spuds only by accersing potatoes of goodI quality but of high moisture con- tent. These spoil more easily than! those with lower moisture. The! War Shipping Administration was' warned of this difficulty, and told that good refrigeration was essen-; tial. Liberty ships with modern re-: tion contained no details. i “Why should Washington—now mcre than ever \called on to main- tain war preduction—have its diet con-| | Alaskans, Hawaiians and Puerto Ricans are residents of the United | States in the same sense as are resi- ' |dents of the States, Bartlett declar- led. | The conduct of the affairs of the | Territories, he added, is an internal | H HOIE'- HAS {problem of the United States “and | 0t subjoet to any outside interven- Viciory Ship 'TakesBomber Crash af Sea PORTLAND, Ore., July 12, — A Victory ship which took a two- engined bomber crash at Ie Shima, then sailed away was being repair- ed today. It is the Brown Victory, Portland built, and it will soon return to sea, helping to mount the main at- tack against Japan. Four men died, 20 were hurt when the bomber, a two-engined Betty—harried by anti-aircraft and two Corsair fighters— swerved from its airfield target and hit a mast nearly amidships. Its two 500-pound bembs exploded, show- ering fragments and flame. | Survivors told about the attack ' Y et Property to Be Operated in Conjunction with Bar-, anof by Flefcher Nerctiations extending over sever- al weeks were concluded yesterday for the purchase of the Gastineau Hotel here by a group organized un- der the name of Gastineau Holding Company. Comprising the group are J. J. Meherin, Juneau; Al Shyman, Seattle; Jack Kristan and W. S. George of Juneau, The purchase for an undisclosed amount, includes the entire build- ing and site of the Gastineau Hotel, extending from Frankiin sireet to Gastineau avenue, and encompasses the interests of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Kendall, present operators, and th» Gastineau Hotel Corporation, whose principals are J. B. Warrack of Seattle and Wilbur Wester, of An- chorage. The transfer is to be made at 7 c’clock next Saturday morning. {came down in the water. Some were irescued by crash boats. Search was gan said a warrant charging kid-) plan, which will give employment to reduced?’ Mitchell demanded. ———————— S o \ D | helder, James Plecas. \ Mrs. Kendall this afternoon stated Paratroopers of Fort Benning, Gas| \yAsHINGTON, | July, 12—The, that her and her husband’s plans had its first tragedy today with|n,ov onnounced today George Ed- are indefinite at present, though three Paratroopers downed and seven | .. .q Hamilton, Craig, Alaska, Avia-|she dces not contemplate any change Mr. George today stated that the Gastineau Hotel will be managed jointly with the Baranof Hotel by ! Jack Fletcher. It will be maintain- jed on the same basis as at present | with no changes now contemplated ! The Gastineau Cafe, located with- in the hotel building, will continue ito be operated by the present leasc 3 PARATROOPERS| DROWN, SEVEN ARE MISSING IN PRACTICE CAMP GORDON JOHNSTON, P'La{ July 12.—Tropical-like Dog Island.; favorite testing ground for Army| ! missing in the Gulf of Mexico anerm‘m Ordanceman Third Class, hfldfof residence ‘ before the first of the a simulated combat jump. More than 1000 Paratroopers pre- viously had made the leap over the sandy five-mile-long Gulf island} four miles off Carrabelle, Fla. This is part of the preparatory training.! The troopers, students in advanced | specialist training, were part of a group of 116 who flew from Benning! |been wounded. His mothet is Mrs.|year. Mr. Kendall flew to Seattle |George Hamilton, Craig. \ lthis week for an undetermined per- | \ {iod in connection with several mat- iters. | i Fiffeen Million States for Kidnaper yesterday to jump. All of the men were ‘equipped with the quick re-; BUFFALO, N. Y, July 12—An i Dollar Postwar - ll-state h tinued to- . 282 Vo B o e g Bl B o o P g Plan for Pacific West” life belts. young woman: who, police said, Several missed the island and kidnaped the child nine days ago.. SAN FRANCISCO, July 12. — A Detective Chief Thomas V. Mee- ' $15000,000 postwar development underway for the seven still missing.' naping was issued last night fur‘ many more Pacific Narthwest work- 'n:’ arrest of Mrs. ’:;ryt T]fls:lor. ers and paper indusi ‘employees | about 24, a former resident of Ha- now on ‘mflitary leave, Was 'an- Nevada Governor Is Going fo Senale | gerstown, Md. ;nouneed yesterday by the Crown | Meegan quoted Mrs. Evada Wat- Zellerbach Cerporation, largest pap- son, 40, of Crystal Beach, Ont., as er producer on the West Coast. | saying Mrs. Taylor, a chance ac-1 The $40,000000 company has quaintance, took her son, Peter, to maintained five leading pulp and CARSON CITY, Nev.—July 12— & store to huy him a suit ‘and paper mills in the Northwest for Gov. E. P. Carville of Nevada, has didn’t bring him back. Mrs. Watson | decades. announced he is resigning July 31 to is stopping at a Buffalo hotel. accept appointment to the U. 8., A st s ROSSLAND, B. C. MEN HERE today. It came on May 28. The ship, chartered by Alaska Packers’ Association, was skippered by Capt. T. A. Johansen, San Francisco. She was on her first cruise after commissioning at Port- land. * Too Ma - ny Doc Io}s In Army, Navy Is | Claim; Probe On WASHINGION, July i2.—A Sen-| ate committee set out today to de-| termine whether the Army and Navy, have more doctors than they need. | The investigation was begun by al military sub-committee as a result| of complaints that many commun-' ities are drastically short of phy-: sicians. ! Chairmap Downey (D-Calif) said the committee would seek to deter- | miné ‘whether the Army ‘and Navy| could not make more efficient use! of medical personnel and release, zome physicians ‘for civilian service.! RED ARMY FLIERS ARE UNDERGOING COMBAT TRAINING MOSCOW, July 12.—A dispatch to the Soviet Army organ Red Star from “an airdrome in Germany” Batile fof Confrolof AirOver Japan Begun; To Desiroy Nippon Fleet JAPCONVOY | SCHEME IS BROKEN UP Blockadih’g_ll—.‘ §. Aircraft Disrupts Plan fo Get Troopfio_ Japan WASHINGTON, July 12.—<The battle for contrcl of the air over Japan itself now is underway, and the destruction of the Japanese air force as an effective weapon Is in sight. Bo says Undersecretary of the Navy Artemus L. Gates in his final report as Assistant Secretary for Alr, a post he surrendered last weeck to move un as Under Secretary. Reperting the “virtual elimination” of Japanese carrier-based air forces and the decimation of enemy Army and Navy air forces, Gates sald more than 17,000 Nipponese planes have | been destroyed since Pearl Harbor by Navy and Marine planes, against flcet combat losses of approximately 2,700, a combat ratio of better than six to one. S il ooty CHIFLEY IS - PREMIERIN GUAM, July 12—Jap attempts to run two tr laden convoys of soldiers frem Shanghai to bolster bemeland-defenses against an Amer- ican invasion wege apperently brok- en up by ‘blockading U. S. Naval aircraft, Rear Adm. John Dale Price reported today. One of the ships in the second ccnvoy looked like the former Ital- ian liner Contessa De Savola, 28,000 ten per-war luxury ship. | (Lloyd Shipping Reglster does not list a Contessh De Savolda. The Cemte Di S8avoia was reported under Canberra, Australia, Juiy 12.—A German control at Venice in No- former lccomotive engineer:and son vembei, 1943.) of a blacksmith became Prime Min- Price sald none ¢i the transports 18ter of Australia today when the was sunk in the. combincd attack Labor party chose Joseph Benedict by Fleet Air Wings One Mariners Chifley as its leader. and Privateats ahd strafing Thun- Chifley, who will be 60 in Sep- derbolt fighters, but non: of the tember, has been treasurer of the Lransports got across the Yellow Labor government and was the clos- Sca to Korea of through the Korean ¢St friend and confidante of the man Straits tc the Sed of Japan. ih succeeds—the late John Curtin, He wen a commanding lead in caucus balloting over Deputy Min- ter Fordé and Norman John Os- wald Makin, Minfster of Navy and Munitions. The Labor party chose Heavy anti-alrgrat: iire from Lhelppm, as Deputy leader. H» is a convoy prevented offsctive bombing|gincers Left Wing leader with con- attacks, but rockets from Thunder-|ciste plans for social reform. bolt fighters started fires lasting| “How far Left am 1" Chifley about 20 minutes on one ship. :drawled‘ “Well, opponents to the TR Right - call me Communist and on Y |the extreme Left they call me con- A ('i'||'.s o' | servativel - The truth lies somewhere v 3 |in betwe=n.” Communisis fo | .~ e Investigated STOCK QUOTATIONS Be o’ laa e | NEW YORK, July 12. - Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock joday is 7%, American Can 96, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss Wright 7', International Harvester 87%, Kennecatt 38'%, New York Central 29'4, Northern Pacific 33%, U. S. | Steel 71, Pound $4.03%. State Senator Jack B. Tenny, chairman of the California Legisla-| Salcs today were 970,000 shares. tive Committee on Un-Amterican ac-| DOW. Jones averages today are The convoys wet2 prasumauly driv- en into thé former German port o(; Tsingtao, churning yellow mud in. tke shallow water, LOS ANGELES, July 12.—A Cal- ifornia legislative committee will co- cperate with a House of Representa- tives committee in probing for evi- dence of communistic activity in Hollywood. frigeration units were to be pro- Senate as successor to the late Sen. | | GUNDERSON HERE | G. Gilbert and J. W. Powilson, of said today Red Army fliers were un- vided. Instead of Liberty ships, however, | Wwar Shipping sent three old Brit-| ish boats to Norfolk with complete-~ James C. Scrugham. Carvills, a Democrat, Governor since November, 1938. ‘Lt. Gov. Vail Pittman, brother of has been' Harry Gunderson, of Los Angeles, | Calif., is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel., Rossland, B. C., are guests at the tivities, announoed that records of 8 follows: industrials 16685, rails Baranof Hotel. - BOOTH ARRIVES dergoing combat training there un- der conditions approximating those Dis committze are being offered to of actual battle. jthe Congressional committee of Said to be part of a large scale Which Rep. Rankin (D-Miss) is act- 33.45. >o FE RETU! 60.80, utilitles WOL RNS | PRICE TEN CENTS e e DOUBLE ATTACKS PLANNED ON JAP TOKYOSAYS BE2 WAYS Homeland fo Be 'Invaded.:' Either Malay Penin- sula or Sumatra U. 5. FLEET 15 §TL UNDER RADIO SILENCE Mikado's Government Is Criticized as "lrre- - parablilggttlve" By Leonard Milliman (Associated Press War Editor) Imminent Allied invasions at the couthern end of the Japanese Em- pire were predicted today. in Nip- ponese news reports amid growing criticlsm of the Mikada's govern- ment. AN Tokyo sald two assaults are plan- ned to seize island alt bases to suj port largé scale invasion of Ja and either on the Malay Peni or Sumagra, ot WA The” enemy’s Domiel hews agenoy bommb~ Indieh said 210 British O.M_O!Aflfi ed Sabang Island, .in Ocean off the notthern tip of' tra,, 2 concen bass in the Paclfic. An_ American ‘landing 'close ‘to Japan to selzé more air bases to support the eventudl {nvasiof of the Homeland was fateéast by the. Tokyo newspaper Mainichi. Tues- day’s carrier raid on sothé 70 Tokyb alificlds was merely & forerunner of such a landing, Muinichi sald, and it predicted’ planes from Vice o . miral John B. McCain's task fore 38 would return to ¢nd again.” The flret has been under radio silence sincé Tuesday. Land-| » 1gaiers und bombers have filled n the gap. Altcraft from Okinaws flew through stormy weather terday ‘to further neutralize s air bases on Southern Japan's shu island, and Tokyo reported returned today but failed “to any mischief" Charge Desertion Japanese news rgports questioned whether the country was prepared to meet the inereasing American aerial raids and told of “deserters from ghe defense fromt” trying to “escape.to a safe place.”” The cabinet was gfll- icized as belng “irreparably d tive” and “wasting precious time in dle deliberations” while Japan “cenfronted by its most seriqus sis.” L2 Two troop convoys attempting. carry troops from Shanghai to the Homeland, possibfy to nuumfié-, Tokyo “again ¥ risons guarding thé invastion, ’ of Japan, were brcken up by American Naval air blockade. ' Japs Recapitive Tinpak On the th Chjna "coa ever," the ese High admitted Nipponeése trodpé captured Tinpak In ah apparent at- tempt to strengthen overland com- munications betweén Canton and Hainan Island. Tinpak is 4 bigh- way town on the ‘northéastern er of Luichow (Roihong) Peninsils 170 miles southeast of Canton. . Japenese counterattacks on the Indo-China order were caten back. North of the Chines> forces’ drove from the re- captured U. 8. Liuchow air bass to- ward Kweilln, 32 miles distant. and most important of the Jost Ameri- can air bases in South China. Japs Dig In i Isolated . Japanese in rainsweph South Burma were reported in near Nyaungkashe and to # cccupied the town which troops evacuated two days ago M the face of Nipponese attacks. '~ " Australians captured Sepinggang air field near Balikpapan. Dutch { 'fliers will use the airdrome, the third volumes of. infor-! Raymond L. Wolfe, Credit Agent captured in'the' 12-day-oid invasion nvestigators which ' for the Alaska Native Service has of southeast Borneo. Aussies n returned to his office here follow- a three-milc - wedge ‘into defense ing leave in the States. He visited !ines in one sector and broke up a In Nebraska. counter-attack in another. Halry Booth from Sheridan, Ore. is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. | - — |- SUND IN TOWN Lloyd Sund, of Excursion Inlet, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. e S ALICE BECK ARRIVES Red Army battle training program, ing chairman. the practice was descried by the “We. have great Correspondent, Maj. 8. Rybakov, as Mation from our i arousing great interest ameng many Dave shown widespread Marxism i [ o Soviet airmen and “bringing them the film colony,” declared Tenney in big benefits.” an interview. : jhu former home _tue late Senator Key Pittman, said ‘he would appoint Carville immed- lstely after assuming the Governor’s chair, Alice E. Beck, of Cincinnati, Scrugham died in San Diego Nayy'Ohio, has arrived in Juneau and is Hospital June 23, 2 guest at the Baranof Hotel. | | ly inadequate refrigeration units. i The spuds: were supposed iu. be loaded quickly and put under re-; trigeration-iat once, but.the:ship's| (Continued on Page Four) ehan 2 ahe pone