The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 20, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV.,NO. 10,018 — JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — . JAPS GUARD SHORES AGAINST INVASION Policy of U.S. Emphatically Stated PRESIDENT AT FLAGRAISING MAKES TALK Declarefi—No_Territory Wanted, Only Peace, Prosperity for World By DANIEL DE LUCE (Associated Press Correspondent) i POTSDAM, July 20. — President Truman, speaking at a symbolic . flag-raising over conquered Berlin. said today the United States want- ed not one piece of territory, but “peace und prosperity for the world as a4 whole.” The speech had great signific- ance against its background of the Big Three conference, where the President is joining Britain and] Russia in helping to settle Euro- pean boundary and other problems. “We are raising this flag in the name of the people of the United States, who are looking forward to a better world, a peaceful world,| in which all the people will have an opportunity of enjoying peace| and opportunity,” Mr.;Truman said. | “Let’s not forget that we are fighting for peece and for the wel- fare of mankind,” Mr. Truman told | the troops lined up for the cere-| mony. “We are not fighting for| conquest. { “There is not one piece of ter-| ritory or one thing of a monetary ! nature that we want out of this| war. We want peace and prosper- | ity for the world as a whole.. We| want to see the time come when we can do the things in peace that | we have -heen able to do in war. Continued on Page S AP AR PRESIDENT PLAYS PIANO FOR GUESTS | AT DINNER PARTY i ! | POTSDAM, July 20.—President| Truman played Beethoven's Minuet in G on the piano at the joint re-| quest of Premier Stalin and Prime| Minister Churchill as a musical cli-| max to his state dinner last night. ‘ The Presidént sat down at the key-| board after an American sergeant,| Planist Eugeneé List, had scored one of the strangest- triumphs in musi- cal history in winning two toasts| from Stalin and a warm handshake from Churchill fo¥' his virtuosity. | List, known on the American con- cert stage, played a Tchaikovsky sel- ection, Chopin’s A Flat Polonaise| and three preludes by the Leningrad composer, Dmiti' Shostakovich. The Washingion Merry -Eq— Round | By DREW PEARSQN | Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with thg Army.) (Note: Drew Pearson today pre- sents another in his series on the problems facing President Truman ! at the Big Three conference.) y WASHINGTON-Despite Wendell| Willkie's book “One World,” there| have seldom 'been two worlds so diametrically opposite as those rep- resented by Stalin and Churchill. gs they sit at either side of Bresident Truman at Potsdam. Probably pot| since the Mohammedans, ‘Pished the Chrixtians across the Balkans| to the guites of Vienna haué t.wd-‘ great governing segments of the | warld been so_far apart. Nowhere is this better illustrated | than in the Balkans, a subject; high on the agenda of the Big, Three. A few weeks before the present: conference, Stalin sent telegrams, to both Truman and Churchill proposing that the Allies recognize the new Soviet-dominated govern- ments of Rumania, Bulgaria, Hun- gary and Finland, despite the fact that they were Hitler satellits which declared war on the U.S.A. and Britain, ., b B L B b AR (Continued on, Page Four).. Truman, Churchill at Potsdam CONGRESSIONAL Leaving the “Little White House” following an initial visit by Prime Minister Winsten Churchill to” President Harry S. Truman, the dis- tinguished diplomats arc, pictured. placed at the disposal of the v Every conceivable comfort was ng otatesmen and their military, naval and diplomatic retinues. (International Radiesoundphoto) Medfi-&)’f» HonorComes To Private First Class HIDING JAPS BEING KILLED ONOKINAWA Tokyo Radio Reports Jap Planes Make Raidon | U. S. Fleet OKINAWA, July 20.—An estimated 10,060 Japanese troops are hiding in northern Okinawa’s rugged moun- tains, the Army estimated today, a month after the island was captured. The Nippones¢ are being hunted down and killed at an average of 50 daily, it was announced at Head- quarters of Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge, Commander of the 24th Army Corps. The announcement followed by a few hours the first Japanese aerial attack on the island in nearly a |month. < Three enemy planes were downed by Marine night fighters. | Radio Tekyo claimed, without con- firmation, that Nipponese raiders Ycornered and attacked a group of enemy warships” in Okinawa waters Manuel Perez, Deceased By MANILA, July 20.—The name of Manuel Perez, a quiet little hutist from Chicago who took McKinley’s outer ' defenses apart and killed 75 Japanese doing it, was engraved today on the sercll of America’s valorous dead. Plc The Nation's highest award for courage, the Congressional Medal of Honor, was hestowed to him Army, at .a solemn gathering of Perez’ comrades of the 1ith Air- herne Division. A month after he wrecked 12 pillboxes at Fort McKinley a Jap- enese sniper felled him while he was covering the withdrawal of his patrol buddies. . His friend, Sgts’" Max Polick of Medina, N. Y, who fought with him told how their 511th Parachute Tnfantry Regiment was halted by the Japanese in dug-in .positions at Fort McKinley, part of Manila's defenses. While Perez’ comrades covered him with protective fire, the little patachutist' stood up with a hand- ful of grenades and ran for the line of thick-walled pillboxes. “He ran from ope to another, tossing grenades into ports and knocking cut guns. After he had dusted off the pillboxes, riflemen would ad- vance and mop up the positions. “Finally we were stopped by a . SUB-COMMITTEE IS DUE TONIGHT House Groh} Will Hear| from Juneau Residents at Meeting Tomorrow Follewing an informative public| secsion at Ketchikan Wednesday and briefer stops at Wrangell and Peters- | burg yesterday, the five Congress- | men composing the Interior Dapart-| | ment sub-committee of the House | Appropriations committee, now view- | |ing Alaska conditions at first hand, | | are due to arrive at Juneau this ev-| {'ening. i | They will spend all of tomorrow in this City, with another public| hearing scheduled to open Saturday | mcrning 2t 9:30 o'clock, in the City, Council Chamber at the City Hall.| The meeting is to last as long as there are persons wishing to be; heard by the Congressional commit- tee. The Juneau Chamber of Com-| | merce and other groups, as well as' individual residents, are expected to have programs to present. One grievance almost certain to b2 aired before the Congressional group is the issue regarding elimina- tion of extra-continental pay differ- entials for resident Alaskans hold-! ling graded positions in the Federal service, President Alva W. Black- erby of the local organization of the National Federation of Federal Em- ployees was today marshaling facts {to be laid before the committee re-| | { the projected executiye order wiping | oiit the gifferentlals. - It was Stated here today by Gov. Ernest Gruening, who was with the | Congressional group on its Ketchi- | kan, Wrangell and Petersburg visits, |that the quintet of legislators is primarily interested in hearing res- ident Alaskans on matters pertain- inging directly to appropriation re- iquhement.s of agencies of the De- partment of the Interior functioning in the Territory; though they have also expressed interest in the prob- {lems of Alaska as a whole and its i potentials for post-war development. Gov. Gruening arrived back in Juneau this morning for conferences | with United States Indian Affairs Commissionégr Willam Brophy and |High Commissioner of New Zea- land David Wilson. The Governor jarrived here by plane from Trac) | Arm where the Congressional party | was ‘today viewing some of South- | pesthumously by Gen. Walter Krue-, east’ Alaska’s spectacular tourist _at- | ger, Commander of the U. 8. Sixth | tractions from the Fish and Wild- life vessel Brant, on which the party has been traveling toward Juneau i from Seattle. Gov. Gruening remarked on the receptive attitude displayed by the Congressmen at the Ketchikan hear- iing; their appreciative acceptance of proposals for the benefit of the Terrjtory and their apparent realiza- ition that Federal expemditures on the Territory’s behalf have in the past fallen short: of what Alaskans feel they have a right to expect. | Among those appearing before the | lccmmm.ee at Ketchikan were: Jack Talbot, representing the Alaska De- | velopment Board; Wilfred Stump, on| tehalf of the Ketchikan Chamber of | Commerce; Lyle Anderson, former biologist in charge at the Flsher-! ies Experimental Laboratory at| Ketchikan, presenting fisheries prob- | lems, and A. H. Ziegler, President tion. Mr. Stump spoke strongly in favor‘ of statehood for Alaska. Mr. Zeigler; garding the discriminatory nature of | GERMAN POW IS FUGITIVE FROM EX. INLET CAMP Fleeing Nam; Sought in This Area-Public-Urged to Be on Watch Residents of this area were today asked to be cn lookout for a fugitive German prisoner of war, Arnold Blumenstein, 21, who escaped last evening from Excurcion Inlet, where several hundred captured German sol- diers are engaged in dismant- ling former Army installations. H. L. McConnell, c¢f the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation, reported the estape today, de- scribing the fugitive as 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighing 144 pounds, with blue-grey eyes, dark blond bair and fair cem- plexion. His escape was dis- covered at 8 o'clock last eve- ning. Mr. McConnell asked that anyone having information con- cerning this man immediately report to the nearest U. S. Mar- shal, or police depart b Radio information in, if necc sary, he said—the matter urgent. . — PAA Clippers fo Continue Flying On Piglflc Roufe ’ SEATTLE, July 20.—~Recommenda- tons by OCivil Aeronautics Board cxaminers that United Air Lines be authorized to fly tetween San Fran- cisco-and Los Angeles and Honolulu, will in no way affect Pan Ameri- can World Airways’' permanent cer- tificate to operate to Hawaii, other Pacific Tslands, and to the Orient, ~ L. . Reynolds, Pacific-Alaska Divis- jon Manager said today. “The projected route for United Air Lines, if approved by the Civil Aercnautics Board, would parallel a portion .of Pan American’s trans- Pacifiz routes, but would not take the place of these rouves pioneered by the Pan American Clippers over 10 years ago,” Mr. Reynolds said. Commercial service by Pan Ameri- can across the Pacific may be resum- ed by January 1, 1946, if not earlier, Mr. Reynolds said, and the Com- pany is prepared to extend its oper- ations down to Australasia and over its certified routes to the Far East as soon as circumstances permit. Mr. Reynolds hes arrived in Seattl? from: 8an Francisto, to participate in Pan American’s’ signing a loase for use of the Seattle Tacoma air- port. P Girl Kills Boy in Resisting Advances WINONA, Minn, July 20.—Six- teen-year-old 'Theresa Kouba was named today in a warrant charg- ing second degree murder in the knife slaying of Donald Cada, 15. The warrant, was issued by Mu- arraignment. Chief of Police A. J. Bingold said yesterday and sank a erdiser and a!&mng ‘of larger pillboxes, 15 feet reviewed the Territory’s tuberculosis the girl had confessed stabbing 5 high. Our men were being hit hylproblem before the sub-committee,' cada but ' maintained she had chamber are awaiting Saturday’s large transport. ————— i i CASUALTIES ARMY, NAVY WASHINGTON, July 20.—Army and Navy combat casualties report- ed since the war began now total| 1,053,101, | This figure, reported yesterday,| includes 244,810 killed; 639,048 taken prisoner. The aggregate was 3,997 more of the smallest weekly increases in many months. ! l§ { high explosive slugs from 20 mm. and other automatic weapons.” Undaunted, Perez ran ‘on to the larger pillboxes, tossed grenades into-a port, clambered .to the top cf a bunker and dropped phosphor- cus grenades down a vent. “A lot of white smoke poured out,” said Polick, “and then Perez turned around at us and grinned.” Three Japanese in a nearby pill- bex were shot by Perez when they ran around to the rear and he shot eight more attemping to flee. “Another Jap came crawling out of a tunnel and Perez spun as the | wounded; 47,734 missing and 121,509 Jap hurled his bayoneted rifle as 2 spear and blocked it with his cwn. Then he shot and bayoneted es than reported last week, but one the Jap and clubbed and bayoneted four others who charged him.” ‘That is the way the Medal of | ““Avmy ‘losses totaled 917442 and Henor camo to Manuel Peres, pri- Navy casualties, 135,659. vate first class, deceased, supported election of Alaska’s gov- |ernor and argued for a single school system for the Territory. He stated | that the dual system of Territorial |and Alaska Native Service schools should be abolished, with the Terri- {tory given direction of all educa- Ition, with Federal now being made for the Indian schepls being put at the disposition of the Territory. Considerable econ- omies could so be effected, he main- tained. The Congressmen viewed the Fish- eries Laboratory at Ketchikan un- der the guidance of National Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dr. Ira Gabrielson. They were served there with a unique and delicious lunch- eon consisting of more than twenty| ccean preducts, Gov. Gruening said. No public hearings were held af | Wrangell and Petersburg. The legis- (Continued on Page Three) wielded ‘the' commando-type knife in resisting his adyances. Sk TR NG 'STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Juiy 20 Bppropriations q,o4450n of Alaska Juneau mine have se stock today is 7%, American Can 95'%, Anaconda 33'%, Curtiss-Wright 6%, Intzrnational Harvester 32%, Kennecott 37%, New York Central 267%, Northern Pacific 29%, U. S. Steel 67%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 650,000 shares. Dcw, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 162.56; rails, 57.63; utilities, 32.92. - e JOHNSON FAMILY HERE Mr. and Mrs. Rayno Johnson and son..have arrived in Juneau from i The second cruiser. naftied for, Al Juneau, is pictured above ds she By Truman New Cruiser Juneau ‘Tekyo has.p ol & U\ "fifia&%fi 1S . o X Y laska's Capital City, the '\ufim-gen s dgwa the ways ot (he.Federal Shipbuilding. and 'Dry'; Dock Company, Kearny, N. J, on'Sunday _afternoon, July 15, Mrs, E, L. Ba christened the Juneau, The new relett, wife of the A a Delegale, fighting“ship is destl y 16t “action in the Pacific where her predecessor was sunk fh tHe battis.of Guadaleanal, November 12, 1942. Alifude of 44,940 Feet Reached by P-38 Lightning EURBANK, Calif,, July 20—A P-38 Lightning planz has soared to an unofficial American altitude record of 44,940 feet, Lockheed Atreraft Cer- | poration announced last night. ,The official American mark of 43,165 feet was established by a special Army plane in 1930, The world record 1s 56,046 feet, set in 1938 by a speclally-built Italian Capreni plane. | ———————— Congressmen 0ff Today On - World Jaunts WASHINGTQN, July, 20—It's be- ginning. to, look as though the ring- ing of - three - bells . in . Paris . early in+ September mighit produce a of the Territorial Board of Educa- nicipdl Judge E. D. Libera, before quorum:of the United,States House |whom ' the girl is scheduled for Of 'Representatives. Three bells on Capitol Hill is the signal for a House quorum call. More than 100 members of the beginning on an 11-weeks’ I to take off on jaunts that w. take many of them half-way around the worild, | Indications are that by the time | the House reconvenes on October t foot in Europe, England, or one or more Pacific islands. The excdus to foreign shores wa ccheduled to get under way today with departure by Army plune of a special 11-member House group | o 2 40-day “fact finding” mis- n to the British Isles, Europe, SAMBODJA " OIL FIELDS ARE SEIZED Ausiralian Troops Make Important Caplure— 1 Fires Raging | 'WANTLA, July 20. — Australian treops on Borneo thrust five miles 1o cveriun fhe rich’ Sambodja oll | ticlds and refinery without a fight. { They found only two Japarnese defending the great fleld, Gen. | ixcuulas MacArthur said foday. The | tield formerly produced 7,000,000 | barrels of reéady-to-use crude oil a | year, ‘ ‘The Sambodja fleld is one of the | thifee. major pools in eastern Bor- neq feeding the ruined:refinery dis- I trict around Balikpapin. The at- tacking ' Australian 7th « Division |feund great fires roaring through ithe fleld. > ¥ ,ee Desecrated Jap (emetery Being Reslorgd by Vels STOCKTON, Calif, July 19.— _ Closing & almost all of its members will| Twenty-eight Pacific war veterans at the Ccllege of the Pacific are voluntarily restoring a desecrated Japanese - cemetery near the. cam- pus, it is - disclosed. The burial ground was torn up by angered residents shortly. after the Pear] Harbor attack. The veterans, who were shovel- EASTCHINA NIPTROOPS PULLED OUT Jittery Japa;s"e Defend- ing Yellow Sea: Shores - Against Yank Landing By Leonard millliman (Associated Press War Editor) Invasion-jitiery Japanese com- !manders were reported today to ba ipulling thousandis of troops out of | Central China to guard the shoreés cf the Yellow Sea against a possible | American landing. . | + | The report from 4 Chinese Army spckesman coincided with a meeting of the Japanese cabinet to consider ‘Probloms of the Day.” ‘These lems ‘included the whereabouts of 1 rampaging U. S, Third' fleet, Aus- ‘trallan;capturé of - a fourth Borneb oil. fleld; record air assaults' oh Japan and the China coast, and gen- eral Chinbse galns in the south. | Jap Trocgs Shifted | . Maj, Gen. Kuo Chi Chih sald that in‘the last' manth 100,000 Nipporiese tioaps. have been shifted from’ cen- tral ' China’s - Hunan province b shntung! province to feet’ - can - amphibious transterred wmn"w«u orth ' Chiitl. 8 ) A Shantung, ;300 miles north . of Shanghat, is 4he third . area- . where e & Chinése reported today they. néw control £ miles.of the South 'Ching coast 125, miles southwest of ‘CAfi- ten. Tee area, ls- about 1,000 miles s.uthwest of Shantung province and €09 mil2s from the Phi ) Ah-nt:;f Some 3 e “The Japan W «d about 250 mites et m’u.i [ coast bejow Sh ‘now being | in feree by Okinawa-based . Amieri can bombers. Their withdrawal was in the general direction of Shantung. Shantung is'across the Yellow Sea frem Korea, and sMghtly more than 500 niiles west of Japan. It would offord cne of the most direct ' ap- preaches to thg Nipponese mairland areeniel in Manchurla, where major continental battles are expected fo be fought. y Generdl e Kup” said the “Lflhfi e Japanese combit troops in Ol i and Manchuria ate concentrated ; the North and at Central nerve cens ters where they will put up suicide, ttarids. i { . Jupanese Statement A Tckyo radio, commentator serted Adm. Willlam F. (Bulh) Hal- ey's ‘Allfed :Naval forces had been “ccrppletely frustvdted” in its et~ tempt, to size yp Japan's defense strength _and: may have withdrawn afisr a.ten day air gud naval bom- ardment. x silent followlng the bombardment - of the entrances to Tokyo Bay was reminiscent of the radio blackout oreceding 1abt Saturday’s shelling of - Kamaishl, , the. first Naval gun at- tack,on Japan. 23 More than 600 Superforts hit. fiv industHal targets on the homelam and scme 800 Ckindwa-based planes hit Nippon's largest & in Chisia, while gther far- plands ‘sank or damaged 23 Nipponese ships. Among them a 10,000 ton freighter, a rarity days. . % 2 Two B-29s falled today's attack. “Reno Divorce, Special” Lates! For Traveling RENO, Nev, July 20—A charter plane service from New York to Reno. known as the “Reno Divorce Special,”. will begin' operating Aug. 1 to ease travel hardships of this divorce capital's - wealthy eastern clientele. 5 A. R. Schindler, Secretary of the to return frt;m the Scandinavian countries and the ing dead Japanese into coral trench Nevada State Bar Association, an- Middle East. The ,among other things, to promote in- | ternational good-will, oo REV., MRS, JUSTICE HERE ing in holes dug in graves and restoring - smashed and uprooted headstones, A spckesman said they plan to group hopes, ¢raves a few months ago; are fill- nounced today that the price of ‘a one-way ticket will be $400 and for & roundtrip $750, with a six-month limit on tieket validity. (i N Ol The Rev. Lester Justice and Mrs. reseed the plots and care for the MARGARET MeDONNELL - HERE Kanakanak, and are guests at the Justice, of Yalima, are guests at €raveyard uyntil the Japanese’ re- Hotel Jimeau, K the Hotel Juneau. [ turn to.look after their own. Margaret McDonnell, of Seattle, is & guest at the Baranof Hotel.