The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 23, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “AbLL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 10.020 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT% BOLD THRUSI MADE BY PACIFIC FLEET Broa ULTIMATUM T0 JAPANESE, RUSS IHREM}- President Puts Pofsdam| Approval on Surrender ~Warning fo Nips BULLETIN—POTSDAM, July 23 —Sources close to President Tru- man said tenight he and Premier 8 had e tablished a most cor- | dia i p productive cf un- expected Russian coneessions. | r. Truman was said t> have wen important United States aims at the “Big Three” conference,, which held its seventh session | today. The President was described as in a happy frame of mind over concession: won to date, all of which he wants to disclese to Congress as soon as he returns to I 4 | | | PARAMUSHIRA BASE BOMBED WINGING DOWN from the Aleutians, U. S. Army bombers go to work in | the Kashiwabara army staging area on Paramushira Island in the north- ern Kuriles. Here a 2500-ton Jap cargo ship is burning in the bay while strafing goes on ashore. Air Force photo. 'MASS RAID IS MADE BY U.§ TROOPS Every Singlefiéuse in Am- erican Occupation Zone of Germany Searched By JAMES F. KING FRANKFURT ON T MAIN, | ™lv 23 —Half a million American troops arrested upwards of 80,000 persons and searched every single house in the American occupation | of Germany over the weekend, it was disclosed today. It was perhaps the greatest mass raid in history. ihe Americans were seeking weap- | cns, ammunition and loot. Many of ¢ these takon into custedy were mem- bers of the 8. S, hunted as war (Inzenmnmml .saundphota) | eximinals. i the United States. By Ernest B. Vaccaro (Associated Press Correspo: POTSDAM, July 23—A broadcast U. S. surrender ultimatum to Japan was viewed by many competent ob- ;| servers herc today as a thinly veiled warning to the enemy that| Soviet participation — at least to some extent—in the Pacific war is imminent, Mount Suribachi On Paramushiro Island Aflacked Japs(laim It was known ‘here that the . Saturday night short-wave broad- cast from Washington was uumw- ized by President Truman and cleared in Potsdam at the ll.(lc White House. Significance was at- tached to the warning to Japanese that they would not be able to Government Demands 3 New Check on Relations, | Result Potsdam Meet deal with the United States alone San Francisco, July 23.—The unless they surrendered promptly. President Truman’s position now Tckyo radio today aired a demand on lhn Japanese government for a was squarely before the Pacific enemy as the Big Three conference entered its second week. Victory over Japan is the President’s prime ob- jective in this conference. Japan has been told that she must suffer “frcsh, vigorous” diplomatic policy | with Soviet Russia, and commenting on the Big Three meeting in Ger- man id cminously: ¢ Japanese people . . . must be prepared even at this timz for the responsibility for any further hostilities when the time comes !the eventuality that the commun- |ique issued upon its conclusion will for post-war settlements. Meantime, as the President met iinclude provisions considerably un- favorable for Japan.” daily with Prime Minister Chur- chill and Premier Stalin, unofficial Th= broacast, by the Domei News ! Agency, quoted the newspaper Sang- {yo Keizai, regarded as the largest | commercial daily in Tokyo. Beamed Committee listening to tesumony‘?fif‘:i{‘;’d ‘(‘;’ éhcn}‘;":_’gei'l’"gm"f regarding Elliott Roosevelt now | “08 Cmi’) mi»sior: have counted up a total of AP- " Declaring the entire Japanese na- proximately $850,000 which he bor-{,; " “closely watching” develop- rowed over a period of about elght |\, o "oy the potsdam meeting, vears. Most of this he did not PaY| bomei quoted Keizai as urging th'\' back. | Foreign office to “check to a min- During one of these cl SE5- | imum Japan’s unfavorable position, rions, Congressmen thought they | while at the same time carrying out ran across the clue as to why 8 .~ ta fresh, vigerous policy, especially Jesse Jones was always so CORfi- iy yis (o Soviet Union.” dent he “would not: be fired by g In another English language over- Franklin Roosevelt. In his battle coqg gispateh, Domei quoted without with Henry Wallace over the Board .omment Soviet Generalissimo Jo- of Economic Warfare, and during seph ‘Stalin’s order of the day on the anti-Roosevelt operations of l.he Red Navy. nephew . in' Texas, Jesse al (Continued “on Paae Sl.r) The Washingio Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON — Gorigressmen who have sat in the closed-door sessions of the Ways and Means . seemed cock-sure that his W‘“‘C““staun had _declaved -the Russian future was absolutely safe. | people wanted a “more powerful and What the committee heard Was'mighty” navy, and that Russia plan- the testimony of Deputy Internalined to “create new fighting Revenue Commissioner Norman and new bases.” cann to the effect that Jesse Jones, — > wpparently had never collec!ed from Elliott Roosevelt for the\ $4,000 paid to settle the $200,000 SIO(K OUOTAIIONS loan from John Hartford, head of | the A and P chain stores. Canm NEW YORK, Jul) 23. —Closing testified that Internal Revenue | | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine agents who interviewed Jesse i stock today is . American Can Jones understood that Jesse 95%, Anaconda 327, Curtiss-Wright has paid the $4,000 out of his own: 6'2, International Harvester 821'. cket. Kennecott 37'«, New York Centrnl -pOAt t-his point in the testimom‘.‘?fs&. Northern Pacific 28'%, U. S. one member of the committee re- Steel 66%, Pound $4.03'%. marked: “Good for Elliott! That's| Sales today were 750,000 shares. the first time I ever heard of Jesse Dow, Jones averages today are tting trimmed.” | as follows: Industrials, 151.67; rails, e A | 56.99; utilities, 32.55. 8 CK | ————— SENZQT?:UEe D;:g‘,fi‘l:nf":,?r a} Tuberculosis was the leading A o {cause of death prior to World (Continued on Page Four) War I. The Domei dispatch noted that 7 cmu’ The 15,000,000 Germans in the s American zone were caught com- pletely by surprise and were bewild- | ered and scared, but offerzd not the | slightest opposition, | Brig. Gen. Edwin L. Sibert of | { Vineyard Haven, Mass., head of the ! G-2 Division of U. S. Forces in the ‘Lumpeun theatre, lifted CPnamsh\}L on the raid today. He said that al- though orders for th2 raid were issued three weeks ago, perfect se- ‘curn' was maintained and not word leaked out. a Earlier, Tokyo said submarines attacked by sub-chasers in “South Pacific.” The broad- cast -did not make clear whether the actions were the same. All of the broadcasts were re- cerded by the Federal Communica- tions Commission. FORMER WAC WON'T TALK; IS SLASHED MIAMI, Fla., July 23.—A report that two unidentified men slashed the wife of a chief petty officer when she refusted to give informafion ‘re- garding her husband’s navy duties, tcday was under investigation, Sev- enth Naval District authorities said. . Murs. Reba Jolly, 26, a former WAC, teld Pelice apt. E. W, Melchen the pair forced her at gun point to en- ter their car last Thursday after- noon. 1 Melchen quoted Mrs. Jolly as saying they drove to a remot sec- and quizzed her about when her husband, Francis Jolly, station- ed at the Miami Naval Air Station, was scheduled for transfer. When she refused to divulge any information regarding her husband’s | Navy duties, Mrs. Jolly told police, ¢ne cf the men slashed her face |with a razor, then, she said, they |forced her from the car and drove off. Police turned the case over to/ Navy authorities for investigation. VINSON BECOMES SECY. TREASURY WASHINGTON, July 23.—Fred V. | Vinsen, 55-year-old Kentuckian, be- came Sccretary of the Treasury to- day, taking the oath of office with thes best wishes of his predecessor, |Honry Morgenthau, Jr, | " only two Germans tried to escape PAN PRANCISGM Naly 8 T the se{ax'chA he said, and at least one ‘S(;v\-n ‘enemy warcraft of uniden- | o "o oe o daath, | tified category” attacked Mount| "o aiq o considerable number Suribachi on Paramushiro Island| o g;e ammunition-and loot such in the Kuriles Sunday (Japanese .. “amiican uniforms, K-rations | time), the Tckyo radio said today | g,qo)ine and vehicles were unco in a report unconfirmed by Ameri-| .4 byt that there was no sign of an pan military. o, |oxgamu,d German unde xmound The Kuriles lie northeast of the| B main Japanese Islands. On the same day, Tokyo said,! Japanese destroyers “attacked and | F REST EIRES repulsed” three submarines Lhntl appeared off Chichi Island in the| in group south of Tokyo two and a half hours before the islandiSTIll RAGI“G ! was shelled by American surface! § OREGON AREA the Thousands of Men Struggle to Control Flames Aid- ed by Slight Rain BULLETIN, PORTLAND, Ore, July 23—Despite rains and rising humidity, Oregon's forest fires i gained against armies of fighters during the night. The huge Tillamook blaze in northwestern Oregon roared through roaking rains to cover four more miles with spot fires that threatened to censolidate into the main conflagration.. The burn now covers approximately 140 square miles—nearfy 90,000 acres. More than' 2,000 fighters, including sol- diers, sailors and civilians, werc fighting it. PORTLAND, Ore, July 23—For- esters mapped new fire trails across paths of two Oregon fires today while almost 3,008 men struggled to control flames now quieted by one day of rain. Reports from stations in the 70- mile-square Wilson Rivér fire zone indicated crews had slashed an ex- tensive maze of lanes on the south and northwest edges still advancing into timber and menacing lumber towns. Smoke has cleared and scouts ldst night cruised the area for the first close inspection of many areas on the blazing perimeter where more than 1,588 soldiers and sailors worked with 500 loggers. “This fire is as tough as ever warned W. F. McCulloch, “and from’ now on it will be a race to extend trails before the weather takes the play from us again.” He said it would have to rain a full week without let-up before foresters could relax on the Wilson River fire and the Salmonberry River-Nehalem fire which he said are now considered one major zone — ‘The 14 cotton-growing states have 37 cotton-spinning mills, Pedestrians walk in lhe center of a street in Bcrlm, K i a lane clearcd through rubble, past the wrecked les and damaged buildings that resuited from the intensc Arm) s:gnal Lor‘ps) (AP Wirephoto frera U, S, aerial Big Three Agree On Regional Peace Meels On European Problem GRINDING CLEAN-UP ONLUZON U.S. Sixth Ilfir;'ry Division Drive Along Dead- lined Highway MANILA, July 23 American Sixth Infantry Division troops, driving eight miles along a high- way lined with enemy dead, have captured the Japanese mountain re- treat of Banaue in northern Luzon and are within two and one-half miles of a junction with Philip- pine Army forces pushing down from the northwest. When the two join, remnants on the island will divided into three segments. A headgquarters spokesman dis- closed these new gains in the grinding clean-up campaign as a communique announced that during the past week 3,629 Japanese dead Japanese be had been counted and 403 of the| raising | enemy had surrendered, their casualties for the entire Philippines to 432,764, including 11,171 captured. American casualties for the week ere 12 killed, two missing and 48 wounded. R German Surgeon s Senf fo Prison for Removing S Tatooes PARIS, July 23.—The News of Germany, published by the Infor- mation Contrel Division of U. S. Forczs in the European theatre, re- ported today from Linz that a Ger- man surgeon had been sentenced to two years impriscnment for remov- ing tatoced identification marks irem German S. S. (Elie Corps) men. 5.5. members all have tatoo marks urder the armpit showing their blood Ly| The surgeon, Dr. Alfred Waldman, was accused of removing the ‘marks to enable the Nazis to (escape detection. BY DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON, July 23 — The “Biz Three” have now made two impertant decisions regarding peace plans for Europe, according to un- red diplomatic dispatches (uhlvd to Washington. Instead of |one big over-all peace parley, they i propose dividing the Euroj peace problem into two part (1) A separate peace conference ‘for Italy; ! . (2) A separate peace conference |for the Balkans and the satellite states, Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugo- slavia, Hungary and Finland. After these two peace conferences are held, ‘the plan is to stage a third and final peace conference for the entire world. This, how=- ever, would not take plac® until after Japan has been defeated. The above decision has been ten- tatively agreed to, according to diplomatic cables; but all conver- sations. for the “Big Three” will be subject to review before the final communique is issued. It is understood that beth Presi- dent Truman and Marshal Stal'n found them s in « complete agreement regarding the import- ance of an early peac? confcrence to settle Indian problems, but that Churchill was not too enthusiastic. The Italian peace eonference will include the United States, Gu Britain, Russia, France, Greece, Yugoslavia and Albania. It is not entirely definite whether Ethiopia will also participate. Ethiopia, the first victim of aggression in the prelude to World War II, is still occupied by British troops. The idea of a second peace con- ference, pertaining to the Balkans i and other smaller European powers, results from a proposal made by Marshal Stalin last May when he sent identical telegrams to Chur- chill and Truman regarding the recognition of Bulgaria, Rumania and Finland. At that time, Truman suggested that the whole matter wait until the “Big Three” could discuss the matter, although he did not object to the immediate | recognition of Finland. Churchill | telegraphed Stalin that he also felt ithe entire question should wait until thé “Big Three” meeting. However, the problem of ironing out 2ll the details of permanent peace among these smaller coun- tries of Europe is so complicated that it cannot be worked out at Potsdam; so it seems wiser to refer the matter to an entirely separate peace conference, | 'This latter parley will probably (Conlinued on Paaef s " Zeusler, and greund bombardment of the ‘nipkismmvé " OPPOSES CHANGE IN WAGE STATUS Congressman Johnson | Wires Support of Alaska | Stand on Federal Pay Preservation of at least a por- tion of the huge Army installa- tions at Excursion Inlet for Alaska use has received the support of the Congressional Appropriations Sub- Committee now investigating In- erior Department activiiies in the Territery, The House Sub-Committee has wired Seerctary of War Henry L. imson to halt demolition of the administration buildings at Ex- cursisn Inlet until it has been de- termined whether they may be of roe to Alaska. Seven hundred and fifty German priscaers of war are now at the former Army transfer base, engaged in dismantling $18,000,000 worth of installations there. Chairman Jed Johnson (D-Okla.) the House Interior Department Appropriations Sub-Comunittee, has wired Alaska Dclegate E. L. Bart- lott, at Washington, D. C, that he suppcrts Bartlett's opposition to any change in the present system of paying wage differentials to died Federal employees in Al- of The Sub-Committec heard testi- mony Saturday, and in Ketchikan previously from spokesmen for Federal workers, who asserted the higher ccst of living in Alaska Justifies the differential now being AL‘oanm’d on Page Two) - IOFFICERS OF COAST GUARD, NOMINATED FOR HIGHER -RANK WASHINGTON, July 23-Presi- dent Truman today nominated the following Coast Guard officers for promotion: To be Rear Admirals: dore Gordon T. Finlay, Norfolk, Va.; Ccmmodore Earl G. Rose, Muncy, Pa.; Capt. Frederick A. Seattle, Wash.; and Capt. Joseph Greenspun, Long Beach, Calif.” Captains nominated to be Com- modores: Eugene A. Coffin, Manoa, P James A. Hirschfield, Betmesda, Md.; Norman H. Leslie, New Or leans; Milton R. Daniels, Belmen Mass, and Merlin O'Neill, Garri- son, Mr. Commo- d Hint Is Made On Soviet Move In Asia Scars of Bafile in Berlin (ONYOYOF FOUR SHIPS IS WRECKED Mouth of Tbflo's Outer Bay Entered for First Time During War By Murlin Speneer (Assaciatzd Press War Correspondent) GUAM, July 23 Athevica's nighty Pacific Fleet thrust 1oldly nside the mouth of Tokyo's outer | fay teday to wreck a four-ship onvoy, and Admiral Nimitz said arrier planes sweeping over the ame waters Wednesday blew the cop off one of Japan's last two icaworthy Dbattleships. In all, the arrier pllots sank or damaged 21 nemy® vessels. It was the fourteenth consecu- ive day the fleet prowled unop- | osed off Japan—14 historic days | n which the fleet and far-ranging land-based air power of Admiral | Nimitz and Gen. MacArthur had sunk or damaged 791 vessels and | small ¢raft and destroyed or dam- jaged 596 airplanes. | No Opposition | Significant of the total lack of | cpposition, the fleet today was op= | crating in at least two widely sep- irated units. While on | ventured farther into ‘m\y than ever before in this war, another light force of warships bombarded Chichi Jima 550 miles southeast, | Seventy-five to 100 Superforts added to the clouds of flying debris teday with a 450-ton demolition |strike on the Ube synthetic ofl re- tinery on southwestern Honshu. |Crewmen observed “excellent re- sults,” and all planes returned. Invasion Plans The enemy radio today placed the China coast high on America's invasion plans—while in Washing- ten, Maj. Gen. Allen Turnage, Di- rector of Marine Corps Personnel, | nckncwledged frankly that “the greatest of ‘ll amphibious opera- tions now are in the making.” Marines, he said, “are’ready to co ashore wherever and whenever strategy directs. , " The Domel broadeast said land<4 ings cn both China and Japan‘are being planned: “There are in- creasing indications that the enemy is rushing preparations for land- g operations on the China coast side by side with his recently tepped-up moves in the direction cf a direct invasion attack on the Japanese mainland.” In Manila, meve than 5,000 Am- crican troops frcm the German front disembarked yesterday, join- ing earlier arrivals to prepare for the Pacific's greatest D-Day. e DOOLITTLE TOSOONBE IN ACTION His Eighth Ir?ny Force fo Be Hitting Japan With- in Eight Days By Murlin Spencer (Associated Press War Correspondent) GUAM, July 23—Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, who led the first bombing rald on Tokyo, promised today that his Eighth Army Air Force would be attacking Japan within eight days. Newly arrived in the Pacific, Doolittle said his airmen who helped flatten Germany would be taking off from qkm;w« by August 1 in Superforts to join Marianas- based B-20's and other air forces in softening up Nippon. Asked if he expected to knock out the Japanese by bombing alone, Doclittle said “there always is the ossibility of Jgpan folding, ' ut we make no clnim:\lm we will (o s0.” (Continued on Page Thiee)