The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 17, 1945, Page 1

. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” = | VOL. LXV.,NO. 10,015 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1945 PRE-INVASION ATTACKS MADE ON JAPAN Truman, Stalin In Confere CHIEFS OF 2 NATIONS | HAVE TALK President, Premler with! Ranking Officials, To- gether in Pofsdam POTSDAM, July 17—Premier Stalin - conferred with President Truman at the Little White House today in company with their rank-| ing forcign affairs officials a few, heurs before the world-shaping Big Three conference was scheduled to start. The Generalissimo, attired as a marshal of the Soviet Union, was accompanied by Foreign Commissar Vvachleslav Molotov. They were sts at luncheon of the President anpd Secretary of State James F. Bvrnes The party talked for an hour. The atmosphere of secrecy sur- rounding the delayed start of the conferencc with Prime Minister Churckill was heightened during the murky, cloudy morning by three mysterious explosions in the Rus- sian zone of Berlin. The two Soviet leaders arrived | | | | | (Continued on Page Thiee) TheWashingion Merry - Go-Round | By DREW PEARSCN Col. Robort S. Alien nnw on uctive service with the Army.) Lt WASHINGTON — Senators prob- ing the question of the extent to which American business helped Hitler, have unearthed a very in- teresting document written by Dr.| H. F. Albert, Chairman of the Ford Auto Works in Germany be- fore the war, in which he urges upon the Nazi Government the im- portance of cooperation with Ameri- can business. BiG THREE CONFERENCE IS STARTED 1 Pacific War Reported High on List of Topics for Discussion By Daniel De Luce and Ernest B. Vaccaro (Associnted Press Correspondents) POTSDAM, July 17. — The Big Three conference opened this after- | 'noon with a minimum of formali- | ties amid indications that Presi- | dent Truman, Premier Stalin and Pacific war the list of topics. (The Moscow radio said man was to preside.) The conference is expected to lay the framework of the German peace treaty and to seek settle- ment of many world-wide ques- tions that hold the answer to the future peace of Europe. Mr. Truman's first objective as he began conversations with the leaders of Great Britain and Rus- sia was reported to be the early defeat of Japan. ST R high on Mr. Tru- |Poor Granddad Silently Walches Tof's Burial MEDIA, Pa., July 17—Jobn Duf- cy stcod alone, silent figure, and atched the tiny bedy of his 2'%- ! year-old granddaughter, Sandra Lee |McCann, as it was lowered into its |grave yesterday. Sandra’s father, Pvt. Lawrence McCann, was killed in Italy in Sep- tember, 1943, without having scen his daughter. Her mother, Mrs. Roberta Dufficy M(Cnm was in a hospital recover- ing frcm shock Her grandmother, Mrs. Anne Dufficy, was in prison, charged with ber murder. Chief of Detectives Fred Jack said PEACE-KEEPING { POLICE POWERS P 10 mumn‘ That Is Prediction of Sen- | alors on Proposed World Security WASHINGTON, July 17. — Two Republican Senators predicted today | that Congress will authorize the President to exercise peace-keeping pelice powers at his discretion. This would settle the controvorsy over authcrity to be granted the' | American representative on the pro- posed World Security Council of the | United Nations. Senators Vandenberg of Michigan and Millikin of Colorado said in sep- | Prime. Minister Churchill had the &rate interviews they believe the Foreign Relations Committee point- cd the way toward a solution of this issue in its formal report recom- ‘mendlng ratification of the United | Nations Charter. The committee report declared that any attempt to requir> advance Congressional approval in each in- stance before American troops could be used at the direction of the Coun- cil would “violate the spirit” of the charter. Such a proposal may be made by Senator Bushfield (R.-S. D. and othors - when subsequent cnabling legislation is considered SHORTAGE OF “SOME FOODS IS CERTAIN Secretary oTAgricuIIure Anderson Makes "Frank Report w. \SHINGTON July 17.—Positive steps are under way to increase food preduction but not much relief from This whole question of whether Mirs. Dufficy admitted she spanked g, 5005 can be expected before American business will continue to cooperate with Germany after this, war, as after the last, is sure to lurk in the background of Presx-‘ dent Truman’s Berlin talks. There is a definite school of thought in both Britain and the United States| which advises building up Germany again as a buffer against Russia. Unfortunately the presence of rep- resentatives of Standard Oil, the! Mellon interests, J. P. Morgan, flnd\ other powerful business corpora- tions now in American uniform in Germany does not allay these Rus-! sian suspicions. | Senator Kilgore of West Virginia| has been studying this whole prob-l lem anrd expects to make public| the Ford document soon. It was! written November 25, 1941—12 dnysi before Pearl Harbor—in the form| of a confidential memorandum by‘ Dr. Alkert, Chairman of the BonrdL of Ford-Werke A. G. in Cologne. | Originaily, Ford owned all of the| German plant, but in 1928 he per-i mitted the sale of 40 per cent of the child resoundingly July 9 to stop her “squealing and squirming”. Ascistant District Attorney William Toal said the child suffered severe bruises and welts as a result. ~ An {autopsy showed Sandra died of a broken neck and a cerebral hemorr- hage. ———— MONCAY IS TAKENOVER BY CHINESE Important Town Captured, Following Mutiny of Puppet Troops CHUNGKING, July 17.—Chinese its stock to German buyers, he re-!forces have occupied Moncay, in the taining 52 per cent. | nertheasternmost corner of French Just before Pearl Harbor, Dr. Al-|indo-China, the Chinese High Com- bert urged in his confidential| mand announced today. next year's production. season. Secretary of Agriculture Ander- son gave this picture in a “frank report” in which he also said his department will try to obtain better distribution of available supplies. He said the department will seek supplementary production and sup- plies in other parts of the world, es- pcctmlly South America. i In the fact of our great demands, “e can expect that for many months to come there will be difficult Short- (ages of important items of food,” ‘Anderson said. Meats, food fats and| | vegetable oils, sugar, condensed and |evaporated milk, and’ canned fruits id. 'FOUR U-BOATS | STILL MISSING LONDON, July 17.—Four German submarines on the Admiralty’s list of U-boats known to have been commissioned before V-E day still' are not definitely accounted for, |an Admiralty spokesman said to- |and vegetables will continue short, he | memorandum that this 52 per cent| Moncay is on the Chinese-Indo- American stock majority should not|Chinese border near the Gulf of be diminished but should be uscd]"lcnklng Coast, 135 miles northeast “to bring the remaining European|of Hanci, capital of Indochina, and, Ford companies under German in-|g0 miles soushwest of Yunging (Nan~. fluence " {ning) in China. He argued that if the Amerman! The High Command said that ownership was eliminated, the Ger- | | Chinese forces occupled the' town mans would lose “the tmmmmulmner a mutiny of puppet troops dir- of the newest American models asjectly across the border in the well as the insight into Amencun:Kuangtung province town of Tung. production.and sales methods. The| Hing on July 7. The puppet umts maintenance of this connection was|surrandered to Chinese .Nnnonal in the German interest,” Dr. Albert | |forces with all their arms, the an- urged. !nouncement said. | Meanwhile, some 500 miles to the HOW FORD HELPED NAZIS f\lolthr:st, Chinese vanguards have Dr. Albert told how tne Ford'infiltrated inte the outskirts of plant at Cologne had been turned ' Kweilin, former American air base more and more into a German/city 90 miles northeast of recently company, even though the majority recaptured Liuchow, the Chinese an- nounced. day. But he expressed belief they probably are at the bottom of the sea. ‘The submarine U-530, which sur-| ‘rendered to Argentine authorities ‘av Mar Del Plata recently was one of five known German submarines which were not surrendered but | cannot positively , be recorded as destroved, the spokesman said. He explained that records listed | them as “doubt.[ul sinkings.” ~ ST0CK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 17. — Closing dquotations of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7's, American Can 947, Anaconda 33, Curtiss-Wright 6%, International Harvester 84, Ken- ' necott 37%, New York Central 26';, | Northern Pacific 287, U. S. Steel of stock was still held in the Bk United States. In detailing the Cther troops pushing up the Hun- 67%, Pound $4.03%. benefits Ford had given to the| an-Kwansi railroad from Liu-/ Sales today totalled 1,560,000 |chow have advanced to within 40'% |shares. Nazis, he said: “In connecnon with this, - all| |miles of Kweilin, an airfield base (Continued on Page rour) 14th Afr Force. Dow, Jones averages, today are 5763; utilities, 32.68. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS nce Sea of Japan ; Matsue Taishas® 33 c .' Akashibeg JWAKAYAMA o) Kainan Pacific Ocean STRATEGIC JAP AREA_—Map shows the Japanese home island of Shikoku and parts of Kyushu and Honshu, located around the s tegic Inland Sea in the heart of the Nipponese empire, Cities of Kobe and Osaka, urle(l of U. S. air attacks. are at right, First American Troops Frem Europe Now in iTRMNING IN PEACE TIME - Padfic Fighling Lone T0 CONTINUE MANILA, July 17.—The first Am- camp 35 miles south of here. erican service troops shipped di- rectly into the Pacific war zone from Europe without a trip home arrived here today to a wet, sloshy welcome after a month’s journey from Ttaly. The 4,375 veterans of Africa, Sic- ily and Italy landed on a muddy Manila dock in the damp dawn. ‘Two bands played as the men mnved from LCMS to freight cars which carried them to their new AUSSIES § SMASH JAP RESISTANCE | that it could cnly be exhibited in IN BORNEO AREA | MANILA, July 17.—Strong com- <bat patrels smasher scattered Japa- nese resistance today as the Aus- traunn Seventh Division slogged \r.hrough coastal salt marshes toward |the Duteh East Boreno oil fields at' {Sambodja, northeast of fallen Bal- | ikpapan. The military prize lay five miles ahead of the main Aussie force, {Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s - com- munique said. Its output formerly ,moved through the marshland pipe- line to the now-ruined refinerics of Balikpapan. Other Dutch and Austrnhan units, advancing northward out of Ballk- papan, had gained more than six jmiles on the road to a second rich cil fields at Samarinda, 36 miles be- yond Sambodja by a more circuitous route. |PREMIER SOONG CHUNGKING, July 17.—Premier T. V. Soong returned today from | Moscow after a visit of more than two weeks in the Russian Capital, during which he conferred with Premier Stalin and other high Sov- iet officials. Soong was accompanied on his reairn to Chungking by Appollon Petrov, Soviet Ambassador to China. The Chinese Premier had been |nbfindnn€d last October by the U. S. las follows: Industrials, 162.43; rails,| in Moscow since June 30 and had had four meetings with Stalin. ! duplicating the monster ship. IS BACK IN CHINA: | Hotel, They came from nearly every WOTIdWIde Ban Ofl C()m' e e oty somstraction pulsory Military Service Not to Be Realized to bridge repair and ordnance. LONDON, July 17.— Responsible British quarters said today they saw little hope for immediate reali- zation of a worldwide ban on com- The first man ashore was pt.' Joe Archilla of New York City. He ended one of the swiftest boom- erang trips on Army records. He Jeft Newport News, Va., last April 5 for Italy, then turned around pulsory peacetime 'military service and headed for the F-cmc proposed in Washington by Rep. e — | Martin (R-Mags), House minority leader. “An admirable suggestion — one World's largesl Alrplane e e =2 ~ The Hercules, Gels Preview the British Government after the INast war,” said a Foreign Office commentator, but added: “It is unlikely that it will be ac- cepted ‘The Foreign Office spokesman sa'd one obstacle was that “so niany,, continental countries regard compulsory” milltary training as one of the normal duties of citizenship.” BULLETINS CULVER CITY, Calif,, July 17.— The world’s largest airplane—a fl ing boat—of such tremendous size sections, has had its first previcw and left the previwers astounded. | The huge plane is being built at the Howard Hughes plant here and has been named the Hercules. Here are some stafistics announced by the company. f — Cost: In excess of $20,000,000. . ASTORIA, Ore.—Fishermen were Weight: 425,000 poun | still waiting for the main tuna strike ‘Wingspread: 320 feet. today, as radio reports from sea Hull: 220 feet. long, 30 feet high, | indicated a few albacore now sight- 25 feet wide. . Engines: Eight in all, each of 3,- | 150 albacore over the weekend, and 000 hdrsepowar capacity. | several others hauled in 100 tuna. Gasoline capacity: 14,000. gallons. | The industry anticipates a million- Spohsor; U. S. Defense Plant Cor- [cue pack this season. |ed. One boat reported a catch of | ADM. NIMITZ JElI.S ABOUT 1NEW ATTA(KS Currenl Fleet Bombard- ment of Jap Homeland Is Just Starter By LEIF ERICKSON (Associated Press Correspondent) GUAM, July 17. — Current fleet bombardment of the Japanese homeland is the “preinvasion stage” of the war, Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz stated today while in Washingtort Vice Adm. Daniel Bar- bey warned bluntly that invasion of either Japan or China may not wait until the end of the -typhoon season. Nimitz, hroadcasting to the United States just 45 minutes after tlashing the announcement that the combined U. 8. and British Pacific fleets were making “the most powerful” carrier plane at- tacks of the war on the Tokyo area, said: “The 16-ihch guns of our battle- ships, opening fire on industrial targets on Honshu and Hokkaido, (Saturday and Sunday) also opened an era in which we dominate the Pacific approaches to Japan, and waen necessary the air above Japan “At this—the preinvasion stage— we rely upon two principal strate- #ies to further it: First, an ever- tightening blockade of Japan’s heme islands; second, destruction Ly ishelling and bombing -of every industry and resource which con- mbutes to Japan's ability to make war T Barbey, Commander of the Sceventh Amphibious Force which lupded Gen. Douglas MacArthur's treops on many Southwest Pacific islands and the Philippines, in an NBC radio interview, said weather is"an important invasion factor but ‘18 iwill take more than a big wind to ston us.” The typhoon sedson virtually ends in October, but rough weather mny be expected throughout the wmter in the Westem Pacific. YOUNG SEAMAN IS 1NAVM TASK.. HELD, DEATH CASE; | NUDEBODY I’OIIND MIAMI, Fla., July 17.—A lD-yeur- old man was held today in the death of Mrs. Ella Mae Eames, 42, wife of a former Army Chaplain, whose nude body was found in a blind alley. Lt. Comdr. Richard Griffin, com- manding officer of the youth, Wil- liam Wells' Parker, of Toledo, Ohio, quoted him as saying he hit the woeman with a beer bottle in his Motel room and dumped her body into the alley. In Boston, Owen W. Eames, 43, i former Springfield, Mass.,, pastor |and discharged Army chaplain, said |he and his wife had been estranged |for four years and he had seen her At Secret Meet’ COMBINED FLEETS IN ASSAULTS Amencan Briljsh Flaflop ; Forces Hammer Tokyo | and Other Areas 374 JAPANESE SHIPS SENT DOWN, 2 DAYS Airdromes, Military Insfal- lations Are Targets-: - Four Cmes Fired By HAMILTON W. FARON (Associated Press War Copresnondent) GUAM, July 17.—Améti planes destroyed or ‘damgged 374 Japanese vessels and ‘129 locomotives. in a fantastically successful two-day sweep over northern Japan last week end, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz ah- nounced «today as 1,500 U. 8 and British sea-borne slrmn raked the Tokyo area. Today's Tokyo raid wn the !lnt combined Amtflupn-kfltth r(- tion in the ,n-lnynlu Japan, and ‘the heaviest' luolnqu air attack ever made. ' . Havec on Sea, Land A y _Newly ‘announced havoe to Japa- Muroran and ‘Wamaishi jn Naval bombrirdments of ‘ttie homeland wm wma,nt Halsey's 'mm “ The. revised ‘tol! w J‘ last Satutday and Sunk—140 -hlu n fir;-d nine small warships. . ¢ Damaged—234 vessels, gnulhw', 000 tons and including’ ten“was Tokyo Hammered ' Returing to the attack wdly. same carriér alrmen combined i the first time with British flattop forces to hammer Tfltyo and . its - ; ‘ (Continued on_Page pe Si2). . . R i st B "FORCE HITS JAPAN HARD Craft Steam fo Within &. Miles of Tokyo foE" Bombardment ' =- By IIAHILTON FARON | (Associated Prass War Cofresponder GUAM, July 17.—A daring ican Naval task force steam within 80 miles of Tokyo m (Japan time) afid bombarded N trial targets -around Hif on thé poration. The Hercules, bezun in 1943, wlll] not be ready for flight. tests before next ‘January. . General Manager | nomination of Fred M. Vinson as/ WASHINGTON—The Senate Fi- nance ‘Committee has approved the Imhequenuy heels’of an eight hour rald by 1, “I'm terribly sorry she had to go planss from. American” and 'Bril his why,” he said. “What a terible carrier planes in the area of w way to go.” Japanesa ' capital. Charles W. Perelle. of. the Hughes | Treasury Secretary and J. W, Snid- plant, says'there are no. plans forAr, as War Mobilization Director. \The action was taken without the When the Hercules takes off it|formality of a henflng will be able to carry a 60-ton Lnnkl with full complement of armor and | men. wASHlNG'l‘ON—»A bill has been a mobile hospital, with 350 patients ' erans. The measure was submitted and stretchers, surgery facilities and | taday by Republican Representative plenty of doctors and nurses. And it Edlth Nourse Rogers of Massachu- He snld there were three children. Adm. Chester W. Nimitz nnnm.fq- Or, it can carry three light | introduced in Congress to llberallze; tanks and equipment. It can become compensation for war-injured vet-, could, engjnzers say, carry 750! soldiers equipped, The Hercules will have a .top speed, engineers say, of about 218 miles an hour and a cruising speed of about 157 miles par hour. | e ROGNE HERE | N. H. Rogne, of Hawk Inlet, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. — e - { SITKA MEN HERE | Fred Easley, E. 8. Carter, Fred McNutty and Argyll Dennard, of| Pitka, are guests at the Baranof setts. It would increase payments of . most classes of disability. The rate would be determined by the degree of disability. MADRID — Generalissimo Fran- | cisco Franco proclaimed tonight that Spain was entering a period of | preparation for a monarchy in which “the essentials of our movement are guaranteed.” ,oe ———— MR.. MRS. THOMPSON HERE | ced the bombardment while it was |still underway only a few hours at- 2 BARGES los' u:r he reported carrier planes'Hid out 374 Nipponese vesssls o" BER'"G SEA and 129 locomgtives In their - end sweep over Northern Japan.' NOME, Alasza, July 17—Frank The new battleship Iowa with her Williams of Seattle, owner and blazing 18-inch guns led that bom- szipper of the motor tug Meteor, bardment group in the closest ap- lost two barges enroute from Nome Proach of any U, 8. Naval task force to Unalakleet on Sunday during a hizh wind. A Weln Airlines plane was seorching Bering Sea hoping to di- rect rescue before the barges were wrecked on the beach. - e —— WED HERE MONDAY Jack W. Thompson and Alice Elaine Beck, both of Juneau, were wed her yesterday at a ceremony performed by Pastor E. E. Jensen, of the Seventh Day Adventist to the Japanese ¢apital. 4 A curtain of steel from the and supporting cruisers and dmroyo ers hammered at Hitachi's yjtal copper smelter and aircraft parts plants, previous target of Marianas« | based Superforts which sent nearly 1500 planes lashing at four other Nip- ponese cities today. It was the third naval bombard- ment of Japan's vulnerable coastal industries within four days. The Iowa presumably led the bombard- ment ships in close to shere for the Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Thomp-|Church. Witnesses to the "'""‘“‘\m;m attack agatnst the industrial son, of Cincinnati, 1the Baranof Hotel. are guests at|were Lorraine Provansha and Jack Provansha. (Continued on Pnge Thrm