The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 14, 1945, Page 1

SHORES OF JAPAN BOMBED BY U.S. FLEET ‘NewAlaska Highwax_l__jiscussed at Conference Wheel Chair Honeymooners ] o s DOVER BANKS EARLY YCDAY, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV.,NO. 10,013 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1945 MEMBER.ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS . B.C.PREMIER MEETS WITH DELEGATION Says-EfiorI%?Road Musi; Be Coordinated Between | Unifed Stafes, Canada | VICTORIA, B. C, July 14.-—Ar action ‘on construction of a hizhway to Alaska through British Columbia will be done only on tha basis of a co-ordinated effort cn the part of Canada on the cne hand and the United Btates on the other, it was announ¢ed by Premier John Hart following a conference with a dele- gation reprosenting Gov. Mon C. Wallgren of Washington State. The Premier advised the delega- tion that construction of an Alaska Highway west of the Rockies was cne of the major items on his agenda to be taken up with the Fed-ral authorities when he goes to Ottawa later tfis month, Mr. Hart said he was “most anx- ious” to see the highway constructed but felt that there was such a mu- tual interest between the people of British Columbia and the North- | western United States that anything that was done should be carried out with the closest co-operation on both sides. Kirby Billingsley of Wenatchee, Wash., head of the American dele- | gation, officially advised = Premier Hart that ho had heard from Sen- ator Warrén G. Magnuson to the effect that {President Truman, upon Stayton, Ore., passed recently. at the age of 17 and ncither ever © arms to kiss the bride, his return from the European con- | Sfayton. ference, would get in touch with “Chin-up-Club.” Prime Minister Mackenzie King im- father. mediately to negotiate with him on construction; of th2 Alaska Highway through British Columbia on a mu- | tual basis. Mr. Hart said that the President’s | overtures to the Prime Minister in | this regard would “undoubtedly re- | ceive sympathetic consideration.” | assenqers The delegation, which waited upon the Premicr, besides Mr. Billings- ley, included: Kemper Freeman, Karl Larsen and Joseph Gluck, all of Seattle; Don- (Continued Page Five) { ——— - Through a shower of rice, in their wheelchairs, this bridul couple in They were both permanently injured Pan American elween Juneau and Keichikan; New Ruling A an walk again. They were marrictd bofcre-a crewd of townsfolk and the minister, who faces them in this picture, stood back while the bridegroom leaned across-both chair- The groom is Fred Camp, of Portland, Ore., and ‘the bridc is Bermice Nightingale, formerly City Treasurer of They mect at a party given by handicapped persons at a In the background is John Nightingale, the bride’s { SEATTLE, July 14, — The Civil Aercnautics Beard has rescinded its | exemption order allowing Pan Am- | The WashingioanP RELIEF i & | | erican Airways to carry local pas- sengors, mail and express between Merry-Go-Round VESSEL 1§ Responsibility Accepted by U. S.-Deep Regrels Expressed ed the White Héuse. Truman spent | —— it playing poker with old friends,| WASHINGTON, July 14—Ameor- all members of the “Harpy Club,"}ican officials fervently hoped today an+. organization of Independence | that Japan will permit additional businessmen, founded in 1925. The |relief shipments to Allied prisoners game was at the hoime of Louis L.inow that this country has accepted Compten, owner angd manager of ‘fu)l responsibility for sinking a an Independence bottling works. man, as the home-town boy| who made good, was given the hon- ledges that an American submar-) or bl dealing the . first hand. 1t! ine_had . sunk the ship, the Awa; was @ealer’s choice and he chose|Maru about midnight April 1 off seven-card stud. ‘ Formosa. The ship was torpedoed All players, nine of them, droppediin a fog with loss of more than out except the Presideht and John 1000 lives. ! Hutchinson, an Independence coal; “The United States government dealer Six cards were dealt. Hutch- | in ageepting the responsibility for inson had two Jacks showing and the sinking of the Awa Maru hopes | another: Jack down. ‘that the Japanese government will The. President, who had bluffed be willing to accept further ship- Hutchinson into two raises, had two, ments of relief supplies for distri- Queens showing and nathing down | bution to Allied nationals detained except a nine-spot and a seven-lby the Japanese,” the State De- spot | partment said. Came the last card. Hutchinson drew a trey, Truman a Queen.' three bottom on a return trip to Japan WASHINGTON — One complaint: President Truman constantly makes to old friends in the Senafe i “You don't know how lonely I am. But the Presidept was not lone-| ly on his last night in Independ- | ence, Mo. Tt was fone of his most| enjoyable evenings: since he enter-| The Awa Maru was sent to the That gave the President i Queens .to Hutchinson’s three| after delivering a cargo of food, Jacks, and he raked in the pot. |medicine and other supplies at It amounted to $1.65. | Hongkong, Singapore and other Note—Missouri friends are hop-: ports for use of Allied war prison- ing Truman will be just as good a|ers and civilians. poker player when he sits down| The United States had deposited with the best. of all diplomatic card | the supplies at Nakhodka, Rusgia, sharks—Joe Stalin. { under an arrangement for a Jap- LR anese ship to deliver them from ARMY DISCHARGE SNAFU . | there with an AmericAn guarantee When the War Department an-!of safe conduct, or pledge against (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Thiee) | Japanese relief ship. 1 The State Department acknow-| Supplies Delivered i Ketchikan and Juneau, Pan Amer- | ican officials said. | The Clippers will continue to link | Ketchikan and Jjuneau on through | flights between Alaska and Seattle | and passengers, mail and express | still may be carried betwzen Ket- | chikan and Juneau if they are des- | tined for a point beyond one of | these cities. | Thus Juneau passengers holding a | through ticket to Seattle via Ket- | chikan or Ketchikan - passengers holiding through tickets to a city | north of Juneau will be allowed Lo‘} stop over in either of the coastal cities without restriction. et ——— ] NO RELAXATIONS | DUCK, GEESE HUNT| Gabrielson Makes Stafe-| meni-Director Coming North with Party . | PORTLAND, Ore., July 14.—Hunt<| ing regulaticns for ducks and geesey will not be relaxed this year if} atés take the advice of 'the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Diractor Ira N. Gabrizlson says. Inereased hunting and fishing and | | depleted flocks make it impossible to | lease such laws, he said. Gabrielson | declared he would oppose any at-; Itempt to bring back live decoys or| | “baiting” duck ponds. i Since migratory waterfowl travel | interstate, states often adhere to the | his helmet, another smash a breast- [ 12commendations of the Fish and/ | Wildlife Service, a branch of the| 1Lkp_fl’lm('n'. of the Interior, in writ-| |ing laws. Gabrielson stopped here on his| way to Seattle, where he will meet | five congressmen to tour Fish and Iwildlife projects in Alaska. TRUMAN OFF | British Cruiser Escort Joins Antwerp Bound Presi- dential Convoy ABOARD CRUISER AUGUSTA WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN: July | 14.—Seven British men of war loom- fed up out cf the mist-shrouded | English Channel today to escort President Truman's cruiser-barne | party to Antwerp. From there the President will fly to Potsdam fot | his first “Big Three’ meeting with \ Prime Minister Churchill and Mar<. | shal Stalin. Mr. Truman was on the Augusta’s bridge when the rondezvous was joined with the British cruiser Birms ingham and six of His Majesty's destroyers. Hundreds of holiday-makers lined the high chalk cliffs of Dover to watch President Truman's convoy pass through the Channel. | Machfnémfis ~ Not Dependent on Big Chemical Trus! HOESCHT, Germany, July 14— {The Nazi war machine would have {collapsed without 1.'G. Farben In- |dustrie, the great German chemical | trust, in the opinion of Col. Edwin Pillsbury, who directed military scizura of 24 Farben plants in the U. S. zone cf occupation. Pillshurgh said investigation has 14 can ' rr |isclosed that the combine control- |led virtually add German Chemical preduction, suplied the Nazis with ! needed foreign exchange, engaged in industrial sabotage, checked on chemical preduetion in ceryv coun- try and hampered production out- side Germany. Dcpartmont of Justice and U. S. Greup control experts are delving into seven tons of records in an at- tempt to trace the trusts machina- tions and stockholders. ALASKAIS OVERTOP, ~'F' BONDS Tgeasury D;anment An- nounces Full Standing ~Montana Leads WASHINGTON, July 14. — The Treasury today gave the final stand- ings of the States in percentage of IN R[GUI_AIIONS | E-Bond sales as comparad with | { ulctas in the Seventh War Loan. | = " e A (g ? | Eighteen States failed to reach | W2# recalied to active U. 5. duty in their quotas, but the nation as a whole made 99.4 per cent of its $4,- 000,000,000 goal. Hawaii sold a larger percentage than any State, with 130.6 per cent lof its $23,500,000 quota. The Canal Zone, with a smaller quota of $2,- 1000,000, was even higher—160.7 per cent. Alaska’s percentage was 106.4 As already announced by Secre- tary Morgenthau, Montana led all States with 119.9 per cent of its $16,000,000 guota, and Towa's 119 pe: cent was second, Alabama’s 11889 | third, and Wyoming’s 118.85 fourth. ESCAPE SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — Marine Pfc. Ivor L. Clark, in the Okinawa campaign, had a Jap bullet pucture pocket pencil, and a third tear his dungaree jacket. The equipment he has at home as relics. He suffered a slight head wound ey . o oo FREDA JOHNSON HERE PFreda Johnson, of Skagway, a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. is LIBERATORS - | | | § LIBERATORS OF THE 13th ARMY AR CHENNAULT (IS LEAVING | CHINA NOW Spectacular American Air Commander fo Refire from U. S. Army By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH | (Associated Press War Correspondent) KUNMING, China, July 14.—Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault is leaving | China and retiring from the U. S.| Army. He made this announcement today, two days after the appoint- | ment of Lt. Gen. George E. Strate- | meyer as Commander of all U. S.| Air Forces in China. Chennault, who is 55, has been Commander of the U. 8. 14th Air Ferce and before that directed China’s “Flying Tigers” against the Japanese. Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wodemeyer, Commander of all U. S. Forces in | the Chinese theatre, unnouneced ac- | ceptance of Chennault’s "esignation. Chennault called in correspondents | to disclose his decision. He said he | would not continue as Commander of the 14th Air Force although S | Wedemeyer, in announcing Strate- | skllled legal experts, had uncovered meyer’s appcintment Thursday, had | said that Chennault would retain his command. | Chennault once before retired | | from the U. 8. Army, in 1936 bécause | |of disability. He came to China in 1937 and started working for the | Chiang Kal-shek government. He ! “The Japanese now are beaten in | the air in China,” Chennault said in | a statement. { Chennault, one of the most spec- | tacular American air commanders and former head of the famous ! 1 American volunteer group the | “Flying Tigers"—axpressed the hope | that he would return home as soon as the transition is made to Strate- | meyer’s new organization. - GUESS WHO! | DENVER--Lt. Pete H. Alexander, SUPPLIE SUGAR GOING LDS — BLAST BALIKPAPA i N OlL FiE FORCE iy high over Balikpapan, Borneo, as fliers watch their bombs set | fire to the vital Jap-held oil fields below. The huge storage tanks in the photoe burned fiercely. for §wo days following the 150-plane assault. Army Air Force photo, (International Soundphoto) High Explosives ‘W'hislfc"'vw Ashore from Muzzles of Naval Guns, Hit Kamaishi (Associated Press War N ‘ | HIGH Alls Correspondent) ? ABOARD BATTLESHIP SOUTH | DAKOTA IN SIGHT OF JAPAN, | July 14. — High explosives, bearing | made in America stamp, wnitied for two hours from flaming muzzles of big naval guns into the great Goering, Hess and Ribben- frop Included Among By JAMES LINDSLEY Japanese iron works at Kamaishi in northern Honshu today. It was my privilege to watch this bombardment of Japah for tne usu time in this war—a bombardment which caused sky-reaching explo- sions and started roaring fires which blanketed the area with smoke. Bigwigs Involved LONDON, July 14.—Final details | A battle squadron of three battle- ships, two heavy cruisers and num- of a master plan for an unpreced- | erous destroyers, was in plain sight nied collective trial of captured | of Japan for three hours before the Nazi bigkigs were being worked ouf | bcmbardment started and for some- in London, today by Supreme Court | time afterward. Justice Rcbert Jackson, chief Am- ¥or two hours the squadron swag- erioan War Crimes prosecutor, and gcred back and forth within rifle representatives of France, Great shct of Onshu, drawing only most Britain Russia. meager and apparently time oppesi- A respensible American sour tien, hundreds cf crack Army inv Tt was as if you strutted back and ors, including former G-men ferth on some enemy's front porch, peeped into his front door, messed un his parlor and asked him what k> proposed to do about it The Japanese chose to do very little about it. As this is written there js no report of damage to American yes- sels in this action, one of the most aid igat- and evidence which virtually assures the trial of such high Nazis 25 Herman Gdering, Rudolf Hess and Joachim von Ribbentrop by September. The investigators were credited with uncovering evidence which in- volves German -industrialists, diplo- mats. military and naval authorities spectacular of the Pacifjc War. and Nazi'Paity chiefs in a “factual . Kamaishi is 275 miles north of but almost fantastic” record of Nazi Tokyo. It hasa pre-war population preparation for war and world con- of about 42,000, but an influx of quest, this source said. workers to the steel mills is believed to have swelled it to nearly twice that. The Imperial Iron and Steel Works, prime target of the bom- barding warships, is one of the most important in the whole Japanese Empire. S OF R PAA WILL HAVE NEW OFFICIAL, T0DROP SOON WASHINGTON, July 14.—Civilian 26, of the U. S. Merchant Marine, was quietly drinking in a Denver | | bar when he saw a familiar-looking isupplies of sugar for the last three | woman sitting with an Army Cap-|menths of this year may drop 25 | per cent under the low allotment for He stared at her and she at him. th2 current July-September quar- | H2 walked over and introduced him- | ter. | self, saying he could swear he had! This prospect was disclosed by | met her before. | Focd officials today as reports came “That's very interesting,” she said. |to the Agriculture Department and “I'm Mrs. Dan Sharp, your sister, the Office of Price Administrati from Livingston, Mont. This is my |that retail stores In some pa husband; Captain Sharp.”, the country have run out of sugar They hadn't seen each other for and are unable to’ honor ration nine years. coupons. ALASKA SERVICE SEATTLE, July 14. — Lewis J. Lowell, active in construction work in Washington State and Alaska the last 22 years, has been nhamed Pub- lic Relations Man for th: Pan Am- erican World Airways' Alaska serv- ice, with headquarters here. He supervised building of 600 miles of the Alaska Highway in Yukon Ter- ritory and is'a Past Potentate’ of | Nile Temple of the Shrine here. STEELCITY IS ' SETABLATE, SHIP SHELLS | Thousand Carrier Planes Also Make Coordin- : afed Jfiacks By Lelf Erickson (Associated Press War Correspondent) GUAM, July 14~The U. 8. Third Mlect, bombarding Japan for the first time, set great fires rating throueh a steel city on narthetn | Honshu today as 1,000 of its cats rier planes blasted nearby targets of the northern home islands in ges: ordinated blows. | The guns of tne newest battle- ships, cruisers and ' destroyers wip- {ed out the Imperial Iron and Stesl Works rolling mill at ‘Kamafshi— » « {275 miles jnorth ' of T ahd i flerce fives'raged through adfacknt coke ovens. v 5 | 'Adm. Chester W. Nimita, #0- 'nouncjng in a special: communique |that the bombardment th ‘on for two hours, rted that |entire area .was cavered by dense smoke clouds 'that rase. thousands fet leet.l:’wq_‘fl:tolw.‘ ¢ Y ! The Third Flest poured. a'hurri- | cane of 5" te 16-ineh’shells ma the !city before ring. Vb { No 2 ! Tne farce, cofhi- manded by Kdm. J/ F. Sha- froth of Denver, apparenitly did not meet 2hy Japanese. opposition. ~ Tn his ‘report’ to. Admiral N© | Shafroth’ did not ‘mention tion by shore batteries or pianes. | His*-announcement that the shel- ling continuéd for two hours ihdi- 'cates, also, that the results were Icloscly observed by slow flying -ob- servation planes from crulsers and battleships, "N Close observation” would' -‘have been required for the Admiral to =~wort, withaut' qualification, that the Imperial Iron and Steel Works rolling mill was “demolished.” The latest 'communique was the fourth issued by ‘Admiral Nimitz today, a record number and said the fleet operated off Japan's shore from a distance of only 10° miles, Even as the guns roared, swarms of carrier planes that only five days before had raked Tokyo's air- fields, were raining ‘bombs, hulléts and rockets cn ' northern Honshu and the northermost island of Hok- kaido—the latter. never befdre | touched by American air power. | Thus did Adm. Willlam, K F, Hal- sey carry war relentlessly’ home to Japan defying what is left of the enciny fleet and seeking out the hoarded air force which Nippon is ving against.the day of invasion. American mgval power . was em- barked upon its next to the last Job of this war—using its guhs apa planes to strike at the core of Japs an'’s war. industry and paralyzing the eneémy’s air strength. § The final job will be to support i invasion, wherever it may comé. . Juneau was plunged into darkness for more than an hour last evening by grounding of power supply lines , outside the city. ‘The occurrence—which could have had disastrous consequences had an emergency arisen—was attributed by power officials to insulators having been shot off high power lines leading down Salmon Creek basin by unthinking persons. After approximately 30 minutes of darkness, a test of the system re- stored lights for a few minutes but the ground was still effective and brought about a re-newed period of lightlessnoss. Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com-~ pany maintenance crews were still laboring under pressure today to repair the system against further consequences of the criminally ir- responsible action of the “marks- men” who proved their skill on - insulators.