The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 21, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASK “ALI, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE _— | VOL. XLV., NO. 10,019 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BOMBERS LASH SHA Truman Speeds Worka FASTTIMEIS “ppiguofy BEINGMADE | At counciL MEeT ATPOTSDAM 'Move fo Postpone Nego- hii tiations with Black & Official Stalement Says: Vealch Defeated Meet Going Ahead- Business Transatted By ERNEST B. VAC8ARO (Associated Press Corregpondept) POTSDAM, July 21.—The Ameri- ™ oo, iiman Harry Lea loosed a can delegation to the Big TROI€€ (. )50 that fell short of the mark. conference reported progress today |1y oouncilman shot his big bolt on dn & 15-word announgefient: !a move for reconsideration of the “The work of the conference is. ... i.xan at the July 6 session to going ahead and much serious b"s"‘ngcunw with the Kansas City en- ness has been done.” gincering firm of Black and Veatch There was no elaboration of th)s‘ror appraisal of utility properties statement to the press, but it came .0 amid reports that both President Aoy much thrashing of pros and Truman and Prime Minister Lea gained a second from Churchill were anxious to speed the mcilman Edward Nielsen. The deliberations. tion finally failed of passage with In the American compound, Tru- only Lea and Nielsen recorded on man conferred with Admiral Emory the affirmative side. E. Land, Chairman of the U. 8." cCcuncilman Lea contended that Maritime Commission here for dis- since the Alaska Light and Power cussions looking to the postwar Ccmpany and - the Juneau Water utilization of America’s big mer- Cumpany have both now expressed chant fleet. Lt. Gen. Lucius Clay, willinzness to sell to the City, the Gen. Eisenhower’s deputy in Ger- City's proper action is to sit back many, had dinner with the Presi- and see what price is placed upon dent. the several utility properties here by Tomorrow Mr. Truman presum- their present owners, before going ably will attend church services as to the expense of an appraisal. usual. _The American delegation Skagway, Bitka Ci planned services in its area, There Lea launched his attack by calling was a possibility the services would to the Council’s attention recent de- be conducted by Col. L. Curtis velopments at Skagway and Sitka, Tiernan, chief of chaplains of U. where appraisals of utility proper- S. forces in the European theatre, ties made by those eities - have an old friend with whom Mr. Tru- brought out higher valuations than man served in the 120th Field Ar- the asking prices of the owners. tilery in the last war, Col, Tier-'Light company owners at Skagway nan called on, the President last had asked $80,060 for their facilities night and they talked for several and at Sitka a price of $90,000 had hours. been offered by the power company Prime Minister Churchill took ;’;T]‘;Siofif‘f}rf"‘fifo&fldu;ssu‘l;leg u‘; time out frem the deliberations and s "cu\"ely te clt’ed 2iel dax{ @ reviewed in Berlin’s Tiergarten the foor. ' : g occupation force which fought gll ilar situation of the appraisal move the way from El Alemein. He said is pressed. the “desert rats’” march from » Africa through Germany had been' ThC move made by Councilman unsurpassed in the history of war. Lea was in line with reasoning ex- i y comparison with recent ses- |sions, last evening's City Council meeting recembled a pacifist gather- ing. As usual, what arrows were {ired at the dove of peace came during recurring disgussions of the public utility issue. sons, m FUGITIVENAZI " FROME.INLET ~ AGAINCAPTIVE \Escaped Prisoner of War Is Re-faken by Army Patrol Lasi Night Arnold Blumenstein, 21-year-old ! German prisoner of war who es- ) caped Thursday night from the Ex- cursion Inlet POW camp, was re- taken at 10 o'clock last night by | Army patrols at that base, it was | revealed here this morning in ad- | vices released by J. H. Williams, iAcung Special Agent for the Fed- | eral Bureau of Investigation in | Alaska. | The brief release disclosed no | details as to how the capture was made or regarding the condition of | the fugitive after his abrutly ended | adventure in that rugged Southeast | Alaskan wilderness area. Blumenstein is one of several hun- dred captive German soldiers re- cently moved into the isolated former | Army transport base at Excursion ! Inlet to dismantle installations therz. | The FBI yesterday issued appeals | to citizens of this area to be cn the watch for the fugitive, FBI agents are expected to go to Excursion Inlet this weekend to investigate and ireport on the escape attempt. BULLETINS WASHINGTON — The Senate resolution by which it will adjourn until October 8 after it has acted {upon the United Nations Charter. | | % | WASHINGTON — The Oftice of | Defense Transportation today ban- ned organized group rail travel, ef- fective immodiately. It also pro- | hibited the sale of railway tickets or space on trains to travel agencies. BREST—Gen. de Gaulle escaped linjury today when a platform from which he had spoken collapsed just | after he had departed. Several | Cabinet Ministers were spilled into | the street but suffered no injury. adopted today a House-approved pressed by W. S. Pullen, AEL. and President Truman is eager 10 Ie- p o manager, in one of several| letters from him outlining the light cempany’s position, which were read to the Council. Light Co. to Set Price Following the statement that the turn “to Washington soon, and - is’ believed seeking to keep: discussions down 'to ‘a’minimum, with a:view to quick 'decisions’ where there is| a possibilify of adjustment of dif-| BELGRADE—M. Sergeichic, head of the UNRRA mission in Yugo- slavia, asserted today that “thous- ands of 'Yugoslavs will die during their first winter of freedom” unless } LOWER HOUSE' HOLDS FINAL MEET TODM’% Senate Ren?aifls in Session for Ratification of Unit- [ ed Nations Charter i WASHINGTON, July 21.—With a lot of work behind it and some tough jobs ahead, the House cleared up legislative odds and ends today in a rush to start its longest vacation since 1938. 1 Tt the end of today's session, House members will begin an 11- weeks holiday that will last until October 8 unless an emergency arisés to recall them sooner. WY They will leave Capitol Hill to-the Senators, who won't call it quits utis til scmetime next month after ratis ficaticn of the United Nations Chars ter drafted at San Francisco. Then the Senate, too will fold up until October 8. 2 Besides appropriating some $60,~ 009,000,000 since it convened last January 3, the House with the Sen- at~, has enacted this legislaticn: Extended the draft Jaw for other year. Continued the lend-lcase prozram. Increased the National dzbt limit to $300,000,000,000. Extended the agrzements act. i " Approved legislation implementing the Bretton Woods mongtary agrecments. | Incrcascd the pay of Faderal em- ployees and postal workers. Contirfued the price control law. YANK SU an= reciprocal trade BS SENDDOWN MORE SHIPS WASHINGTON, July 21.—United States submarines have sunk 11 more enemy vessels, including four small gombat ships, in Par Eastern waters, the 'Navy announced today. The ¢ombatant *ships included two minesweepers and two patrol GHAI t Big Three Con Scores Injure Fluncs licking ewiftly aleng decks of the Great Lakes cruise shi passongers to leap «r slide ropes to safety, and destroyed-the 360-fgot vessel at a loading dock al Sarinia, Cnatario, July 17, At least 75 perss cxploded and spread quickly to the docks, razzing 1,000 feet' of sheds and consiming 12 loaded and 21 cmpty freight oars. Losses might be in ‘cxcess of $1,000,000: Near y Sarnta Gengral Hospital-was-filled to overflowing.. International ~—~ 2 ¥ N 43 Blasting Shanghai‘HiIs Very Rools wE b FIRES RAGE ajor Pointof Invasion d as Greaf Lakes Liner Burns |NIPPON HELD " UNDER RAID {Allied Forces Rule Skies from Solomans to Tokyo ~Attacks Start Fires By LEONARD MILLIMAN (Assoclated Pross War Editer) | Chinese troops lengthened their grasp on the east Ohina coast to- {day 400 miles south of Shanghsd, China's greatest 'port, whose déé i(enus were lashed for the second | successive day by hundreds of Am- erican war planes, duplicating dis- ! ruptive air strikes'at Japan. | Chungking feported “considerable | casualties” were inflicted in frontal | engagements with Japanese with- drawing southwurd 'from Amoy | ward Swatow. Other Chinese har- iried the flanks of the rumn%ul " T Nipponese. | | The Mikado's troops have tntly reopened an escape from Kwelllng, fofiier. base In Southeast . ' Chinese “claimed back counterattacks | Umans “clostig ‘in “an ¢ engagements, Weve' northwest - 25 miles west miles northeust of the fc air -base, % Jrx Other BatlidtHoRk were ~= Australiins consolidated their - Iy wen ttons In Sou“vast Bors neo's Sanibodja oll fields. claimed a “bloody battle” was fought bétween = Austrafians s Japanese corhered near Wewak . the New Guinea mop-up cam + 7" ey Hnrmmlnlt"torbed scores ‘of-dher 330 ons suffered injuries or ‘burs, " The fire started when a gasoling engine 0 r_panie follawed the explosion.and ihe Alateriugional Soundphoto) = | -~ SPANISH CABINE! SHAKE UP General_i;si‘lfio Franco Name Five Considered [ ‘ r | ippons’ i ' | from the Solumans to Tokye, sthuck with increasing - fury. a) vropagandists complained -the at- tacks were “so complicated that they cannot be ‘&nticipated” and conceded that they were having'a “surprisingly strong” psychological effect on the Japunese. More than 20 Likerator, Mitchell, and Invader bombers with fighter | escorts bombed and - strafed five air fields and the waterfront around By MORRIS J. HARRIS (Former chief off the Shanghai \bureau of the ociated Press who was repatriated in 1942 from a Japanese prhb)' camp there.) | Favoring Monarchy Shanghai in the heaviest series of ferences. The Washington {AEL. and P. Co. stockholders had |agreed to cell, Mr. Pullen stated that |a stockholders' meeting will be held |to set a price on the firm’s proper- |ties. First, however, he said, it will ibe necessary for the light company !to secure the services of an apprais- .lex in its own interest in order to Merry-Go-Roun By DREW PEARSON" | L. Gray, of Seattle, who appraised Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active | the light company here in 1938, will service with the Army.) ibe engaged to bring that valuation jup “to date, as soon as he is avail- WASHINGTON—It's being kept able, wrote Mr. Pullen. allocations are raised from “their present inadequate level.” escort vessels. Non-combatant’ craft claimed in 4 T Y/ 3 the latest toll included a large cargo SEATTLE — ’I;he Alaska salmon | transport, a medium transport, l:)fitndass z§ J:il]y c‘;p;:mlf:e 1-:;?]?;;three small’ merchant vessels, a h s small freighter, & i {division of ‘the Fiah. sud Widite | Sror) SFEBter EndiLECpedium Service reported today. ‘The pack 15" mne aunouncement raised to 1,174 ?51":;3 m:‘“‘;i i;"" ‘:_11 :;’St Vears|ine total Japanese vessels of al! unllmpbei & pariod. itypes which have fallen prey to | PARIS—Marshal Petain testi(ledii:‘::d oxs ":;’,:s ;'ufl!;mal::.l;‘e: mS 'i::f | at his trial today that he had PXerrei ¥ | Laval arrested December 13, 1940 m‘cluded 186" EmimanL. Kilne sunk i g ks and 1.030 non-combatant vessels very hush-hush, but something im-| In response to Mayor Parson’s re- portant is brewing behind the ;.ueq request for light company scenes regarding peace with Japan.' ..o.qc to be made available for Highest officials won't say & wordieyamination by City Utility En- about it, not even to some of their:gmee, Walter Stuart, as a prelim- Cabinet colleagues. |inary to the contemplated appraisal However, peace feelers Which for the City, Mr. Pullen expressed of- have come from the Japs havei jection to opening the company’s re- been much more than ffllefs—v‘de'icords at this time. He offered that spite’ Secretary %re:d s :;nl:h» cgne\me first step should be for the City of them '‘was debat ; the m-(to get the company’s price. bined Chiefs of Staff for more than} -+ Appraisal Goes Further a week.” It proposed that tgie Japs| Mayor Parsons was prompt in withdraw. from Korea and Man-ireplyipg to both. Council Lea and churfa ‘and &l ‘China if (1) ‘They Mr. Pullen’s suggestion that no mat- could keép' the Emperor; and:(2) |ter what is asked by the companies, they would not be invaded. |it will be mecessary for the City to 5 ihave its own appraisal in order to ml:/lneyan:;t:h:&ag;ehg,l:wpn";;dre;h:{te in a position to decide whether 3 th ke i . directige, oytlining the “‘.m‘mf.““m‘u:: hnaiy?;x’» :;::2, the g::;o: ?fh:ft: t]f'rms ’6T)h _Yoi?!;m :}’:mm?:pppraisal is not merely to determine Japs. is (a selling price. It goes much fur- highly guarded documents iD the|iper than that, he said. The overall (zo::;nmen:..igllflgr}:’;:{!y“u:‘é‘ t::Zwu:ndixion ;r the properties will be stal .on h 2! idetermined, neaded improvements Grew peace plan would permit therovealed, rate structures examined Japs to retain Emperor Hirohito. |and many other facts disclosed that | prevent Laval from using French| troops to seize African colonies which ‘had joined Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s Free French movoment. POTSDAM—The Big Three held their fifth meeting today, the Am- erican delegation announced, and| 1 | | “much serious business has been | don®.” % ! SEATTLE—The largest tuna fleet | in the history of the industry on the | North Pacific, 3,000 vessels, soon will | be operating full-scale off the Wash- | ington and Oregon coasts, the Fish | and Wildlife Service reported today. | Vanguards of th2 fleet already have | landed catches at Westport, Ho- quiam and Victoria, B. C. i | WASHINGTON—The motor mine | i sweeper HMS-84 has been lost in the Borneo area from enemy action, the Navy announced today. Casual- ties included ten enlisted men | wounded out of the vessel's normal | complement of 35 officers and men. It can also be stated that ther he City should know before it ven- sunk. ——————————— NAVYPLANS TO RELEASE 30 THOUSAND WASHINGTON, July 21.—About 30,000 older Navy officers ‘and en- listed men may be released by De- INOREGON, HIGH PITCH Wind Hurlsfiémes, Wide Front - 46,000 Acres Blackened One Area PORTLAND, Ore., July 21.— ¢ap- ricious winds which joined: widely scattered spot fires kept Oregon’s 70-square-mile forest fire still roar- ing at high pitch today. . Fire fighters checked the blaze on one sector and started to mop their brows, only to find Tlaming embers blown in another direction. The huge Wilson River blaze scurried acress 10,000 more acres in 48 hours to blacken more than 46,000 acres, To the north, the Salmonberry fire crackled in . half a dozen new sections under a heavy layer of smoke. Near . the. Tillamook-Washington 4 Countysdine; spat 'fives {fram hoth blazes threafened to:megt, and fire crews redoubled their efforts. For- cstry officials shook their heads at a weather bureau forecast of light showers today and said the fire might ‘be controlled if it rained | ' WASHINGTON, July 21.--General | MacArthur’s announcements .’ that iy Ao AT Jefl | American’ Alr For are beginning <) no_opposi “many - frrromeetty o nplepgpon R s ong. lizes” and bomb-cratered - runways g . behind as they flew back to Ok- veal that we are out to crackiaypocted shake-up of his cabinet fast iy | Japan’s ‘major imvasion point Of iyt appointing five ministers con- P ! East “Asla. ; 'tider5d Mcnarchist sympathizers, but Mustang ' fighters, . sweeping’ in ' Shanghai is the outstanding port replacing two major members of the from both Okinawa and Iwo Jima, | through which Tokyo has poured :cvernment whose relations with the delivered the strongest anpounced . l'its ‘wat ‘machine fnto China and Falanze were known to be at least blow | y“wn’w dgainst gom'a' adjacent areas, and the place where act fiizndly, main island of ‘Japan.” Eighty Mus- Japan’s outstanding - property in- I terests on continental Asia are lo- ernment. and 'fgotortes in. the Na: cated, Y Foreign Mibister Jose Felix Le+ area, and .wefe followed up later In striking at Shanghai, Ameri- Aucrice and Eduardo Aunos, MInister by 94 more from: Okinawa, . can bombers and fighfers/ are Ot Juslice, neither of whom liked or "Other Mustangs from OKkinawa (hreaten:ng the yery roots of W% lkod by the Falange, were re- had a field day tearing up rallway Japan's position in Asia, for Shang- P-8ecd. Falange Secretary-General yraffic. stalled by bloekaded - tun« hai, to both Chinese and foreign- JCS? Luls Arvese was displaced, nels at Kagoshima, major ln:la: ers who have lived -there, s the U/TCugh the elimination of his cabi- (rial city on southern Japan. ;.el.i position, Minister Without Port- eratorg and Thunderbolts made as- olio. o~ f 5 American onslaughts on the great Franco named Alberto Martin Ar- :z:l:n:‘mu:p:l::.mnu' Hm. China city, now long under Jap- tajo, Catholic law lcacer, Minister ) géther, Arerican wm‘a‘ anese military control, not only of Forcign Afiairs. bembardiers ‘Hccounted for 23 will blast 'Japan's war machine a8 e " 2 cricee plan 4 g‘;‘;f}‘;%“’“ In the' eyes of the .y mlangist than Arrese. Fer- TOkvo radio boasted that K: it nand:z Cussta is a Falangist-of an- Sht had béer translornicd into & This is an added weapon in the clent vintage. He was a mermber of fortress -ageinst :invasion . by “fis . Uhands of the Allles. azainst the the old Falange Espancla,’the ori- "natural geographic condition and v Its' importance is diffi- 8inal organization of the early days the almost superhuman efforts of “ull to exaggerate. ‘With the Jap-:°f the Republic, and represented the the soldiers” ' Defenders iagainst eness position in: Shanghai threat--118ht wing of the group. He is a Invasion, a Glovernment spokesmian ened, ‘the ‘common man of China £Ormer ambassadoer to Brazil and to said, will be ‘equipped with “pufe- All kinow first hand that the day Fascist Ttaly and served as special ly Japanese weapons invented by defeat for Japan Is near. His Fmb or to the Vatican at the our scientists that suit the Japanese By CHARLES S. FOLTZ (Associated Press War Correspondent) attacks reported today. They m heart of China. sarico remajns head of the gov- tangs from .I'/n'nlad’fl‘:’xrwx - - 4y is considerable difference of opin-tures into the public utility field. ion inside the Administration re-| Councilman Don Skuse supported garding the Grew memorandum,|the Mayor's position—at least where and some of his colleagues inside the Juneau Water Company apprais- the State Department, including'al was concerned—by declaring his Assistant Secretary Will Clayton feeling that the Council would be and Assistant SecretaTy 'Déah“‘dtrellct in its duty”. if it did not Acheson, are vigorously ppboscd.' ‘take steps to prepare the way for The whole ‘situation: is i’ a ‘state|the people ic vote next spring, at the (Continued on_Page Four) (Continued on Page Thiee) _ |er is to come up next week with WASHINGTON—The Senate vot- | ed overwhelmingly today for United States membership in the food and agricultural organization ofl the United Nations. Passage came on a voice vote. Ths action completed the American program of interna- tional cooperation except for the United Nations Charter, The chart- | approval assured, cember to permit the enlistment buckets. cased will to resist will further time of the consecration of Pope physique and nature.” and induction of younger men. 637 R 4 s | that day. Pius X11.7 e Disclosing this yesterday, the At every point in and near Franco said in ugspeech Tussday Navy said. it is considering a point l { ]' ( Shanghai thus far mentioned 44 ‘N Spain was entering & prepara- A h ( h‘h‘k o' formula for release of older per- arges una argo atiacked by American raiders are tery period for the return of a r‘ > ’ sonnel. If adopted the plan would| . located . campS . confaining - -Allled mr‘narehy.d T;m Hv; men nlx:‘esd ielease 11,600 commissioned and 'h S l d d civilis i 8 e are considered (o be monarchist & wl"“‘ warrant officers and 19,000 enlisted IS Jeason Lancedq .. i AL s sympathizers, although none has had rman " men by years's end. | — {he support of exiled Prince Don I’hl‘ M X S Juan or ¥ ‘monarchist 5 ’ VICTORIA, B. C, July 21— NAUGH]’Y Srmenr e aony y em Largest load of tuna to be brought ” " ¥ lady""'M'Restue |into any Pacific port this season i i o’ ”‘nd on vou[ He‘d LONDON, July 21. — The main SALT LAKE CITY . “Those arrived i Victoria when the Dora CHEYENNE, Wyo—Albert, in 18- HARRISSURG — A sign at an a5 of German srch-criminals of dumb women. drivers,” a pedestrian Bell II, 40-foot salmon-tuna traw- muttared a$ he leaped to the curb ler from Wancouver, skippered by, to escape an oncoming car. What L. Comeau, landed 5,000 pounds. he didn't know was that Mrs. Grace| She made her catch in 2% days’ Hyde, 30, had seen the car s rt| fishing (125 miles off Grays Har- a drived, bor, Wash, down the hill without jumped into the front seat and, Comeau said his fish averaged 18 Jl_;mmfl.« each. stopped it. war may be held in the Nazi shrine city of Nuremberg. Justice Robert H. Jackson, chief United States prosecutor, and rep- Lok ot o N § !resentatives of the British and DODSON HERE French Governments flew to Nur- James M. Dodson, of Fairbanks, emberg today to inspect a proposed is a guest at the Baranof Hotel, site, ) inch alligator, slipped out of bis bOX clgvator in a state office bullding in a Pullman car th? other night and reads “Ring Down if you want to elithered in, out and around lower go U The signal device got out _berths while eight trainmen coaxed. of whack recently Albert, who had been purchased in | Florida hy a train passenger, finally was captured and put in a large bucket of water, Allied air forces ‘ruling- the- skiés