The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 24, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 10,021 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS &} 2000 PLANES HAMMER JAPAN WITHF BIG THREE T0 RECESS THURSDAY Conference Dela yed to Permit Churchill to Get Election Results POTEDAM, July 24—The Big Three has scheduled a recess of one day Thursday so that Prime Minis- ter Churchill may bz in London when the results of the British elec- tion are announced, and the leaders cf the new British government are expected here Friday, it was learn- ed authoritatively today. The British delegation emphasiz that Churchills’ trip to London did not mean the end of the Potsdam conference. Churchill, Foreign Secretary An- thony Eden and Clement P. Attlee, Labor party leader who has been sit- ting in on the conferences at Mr. Churchills’ invitation, arranged to leave Potsdam by plane late tomor- row after the ninth successive Big Three business session. President Truman and Premier Stalin will take Thursday off from the highest level deliberations while staffs of the three powers will do paper work. Sometime Friday the Big Three are scheduled to resume the meet- ing in a Hohenzollern palace here. It was reported that the Presi- dent was prepared to stay here three weeks longer if necessary to help settle momentous issues. Close associates said today the President was “entirely pleased” with progress made by the U. S. delega- tion at Potsdam, and it was report- ed that his ewn plainspoken and genial attitude had won the admira- tion and affection of Stalin. The Washington Merry - gg- Round By DREW PEARSON Lt. Col. Robert 8. Alien uow on active service with the Army.) WASHINGTON—It may take a long time to find out whether Hitler and his bride Eva Braun escaped to Patagonia. The country is a series of vast Nazi-owned ranches, where German is spoken almost exclusively and where Hitler could be hidden easily and success- fully for years. The ranches in this southern AUSSIE BRIDE AND 24 “POINTS” e o | & 3 THE “BRIDE SHIP’ brought Mrs. Paul Seymour and her twins, left to right, Sharron and Sylvia, five months old, from Australia to San Francisco, Cal. Mrs. Seymour, Australian wife of an American sol- dier, will make her home in this country as will 400 other foreign brides who also arrived aboard the “bride ship." (International) OLD TRAGEDY, STATE PRISON PRISON CAMP, OF MICHIGAN IS REVIVED "CUPID CLUB” Filipino Prisoners Die by Shocking Maladministra- Thousands at Hands tion, Corruption Re- of Own Officers vealed in Report By RUS L BRINES | LANSING, Mich,, Juy 24.—State’s MANILA, July 24.—The three-:Attorney General John R. Dzthmers year-cld tragedy of Camp O'Donnell i charged today that the state prison priscn was revived today in a new,’of southern Michigan at Jackson melanchely light. Maj. Gen. Bas-|was a “veritabls Cupid club for love- ilic J. Valdes, Chief of Staff of the|lorn inmates.” ppine Army, ordered an ate investigation of reports that part of Argentina cover thousands Pl of acres and have been under Nazi mcd management for generations. Be- Filipino prisoners of the Japa- cause of absolute German control, hoarded and profiteered at it would be impossible for gny non- |expense of their fellow captives. German to penetrate the area to Valdes told the Associated Pr make a thorough investigaticn as b2 belicved that no Americans were to Hitler's whereabouts. volved, either as victims or cul- Along the coast of Patagonia, Pits. many Germans own land which| A! the end cf the dolorous “March contains harbors deep enough for ¢f Death” across Bataan in 1942, a submarine landings. And if sub-|tctal of 52,000 Filipino prisoners were im- | marines could get to Argentine- Uruguayan waters from Germany, as they definitely did, there is no reason why they could not go a little farther south to Patagonia. Also there is no reason why Hitler touldn’'t’ have been on' one of them. Note—On December 15, 1943, this column reported that ‘“Hitler's gang has been working to build up a place of exile in Argentina in case of defeat. After the fall of Stalingrad and then Tunisia, they began to see defeat staring them in the face. That was their cue to move in on Argentina.” The same column also cited chapter and verse regarding German-trained of- ficials who ruled the new Argen- tine dictatorship. - At San Fran- cisco, Nelson Rockefeller . and Jimmy Dunn insisted that the U. S. A; recognize Argentina. Note 2~If it ever comes to identifying Hitler, Dr. Robert Kempner, former German police official now living in Lansdowne, Pa, has the answers. Kempner, (Continued on Page Four) ———.e KEATING ARRIVES J. G. Keating, of Seattle, arrived in Juneau yesterday via Pan Am- erican, and is a guest at the Bar- anof Hotel. MR., MR: e SALMON HERE Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Salmon, of Seattle, Hotel. {confined in O'Donnell and strictly separated from American prisoners,; Valdes said. When the imprisonment ended more than a year later, 34,000 Filip- inos had died of starvation and dis- | Reperis prompting the investiga- |tion asserted the mortality rate was accelerated because a small group of officers assértedly deprived the men of food and medicine. Valdes received a letter charging that staff officers hoarded , for |their own use foodstuffs supplied |by the Japanese and sent into the camp by civilians for the general welfare. | Valdes said he had ordered com- Imanders of all Philippine army |camps to obtain testimony from of! cers and men who survived impr /énment and now are serving in the Army. He said it was not known .{whether the principal offenders also| |survived. However, if the charges are prov- ‘ed, Valdes said, they would be suffi- | cient for immediate court martial of {all involved. | e ———— BEJCEK IN | TOWN Cyril Bejcek returned yesterday, via Pan American World Airways, from a trip outside and is a guest at the Hotel Juneau during hislgray suit, with a ‘white shirt and Bo: | President. | stay in town, before leaving for his home in Anchorage. | SEATTLE MEN ARRIVE Bert Conover and John Metzgar, Juneau. He charged further that a ring of “big-shot” convicts had wide |control inside the prison and that the instituticn was torn with dissen- sicn, maladministration and cor- | ruption. Dethmers made the charges in the first of four reports he said he would make this week on the results of an investigation of the prison, Dethmers said the evidence show- ed “the exXistence of a ring exercis- ing serious and improper control in the prison . .. " He asserted that members of the ring or inmates favored by members were able to secure favorable assign- ments and details cutside the prison walls. He charged that women were im- ported into the prison or into prison cfficials’ quarters for the “solace” of big-shot criminals. “Some inmates,” Dethmers sdid, “were permitted the solace of wives or sweethearts in screened hospital beds.” Hyde Park Memorial May Gef Unfinished 'Rooseveli Porirait NEW YORK, July 24—The por- trait of the late President Roose- velt for which he was sitting when he collapsed and died April 12, | was displayed to the public today at Gimbel Brothers, New York de-| : partment store. { The portrait’s background is un- | finished, but the face had been virtually completed. The President | was wearing his navy cape over & !dark red tie. | At unveiling ceremonies yester- | cay, the artist, Elizabeth Shouma- | toff, said Mrs. Roosevelt had asked| !for the painting, and that it might | are guests at the Baranof of Seatlle, are guests at the Hotel be presented to the Roosevelt Me- merial at Hyde Park. PAA PLANS BIG CHANGE FOR ALASKA Airways Officials Here Re- veal Plans for New Service v the end of this year or early spring Jun-auites should be | able to fly to Seattle in threc-and- a-half to four hours flying time at | a cost of about $50, according W L. C. Reynclds, manager of the Pas cificAlaska Division of Pan Amer- ican World Airways. PAA now has on orcer new 60- passenger Lockheed Constellations for the Alaska service, Roynolds said, and the firt should be on run around the end of the year. The | new ships will cruise at 300 miles } WARBIRDS COMING per hour and schedules wjll call for three round trips daily during the | summer, two daily during spring and‘ fall, and on2 round trip daily during | the winter months. 2 Under the mass transportation’ n, Reynolds stated, travel costs tween Juneau and Seattle and cther Alaskan points will be cut te about five cents per mile. Fares Cut The company this week reduced fares between here and Seattle by $10. | Speaking at a dinner for Juneau business men and city officials last evening, the Pan American executive said that his company anticipates a tetal of 34,000 afr pass:ngers a year between the States and Alaska in the post-war period. This compares with a total of 19,000 first class lares for all types of transportation be- fore the war, The world airways also has on order a number of Douglas Aircraft DC-7s for serving a route over Al- aska to Asia, Reynol aid. Thes® s would carry 103 passengers at d of 300 miles per hour at an ge cost of 3.66 cents per pas- senger mile. These ships would land at only Anchorage in Alaska on their way around the world and thers would be one round trip daily. Survey Trip nolds and other Pan American cfficials arc on a general survey trip of Alaska and are returning to Scattle today. Reynolds said that the primary need in Juneau is a suit- able airport terminal building and that scm2 arrangement should be made whereby over a period of%ime the operating airlines would pay fcr the cost of building. Others in the Pan American par- ty included William Van Dusen, public relations director cf Pan Am- erican World Airways, of New York Louis Dowell, public relations coun- selor for the Alaska Service of PAA, Seattle; Beaudetta McDonough, public relations representative “rom Seattle, and Sydney Smith,” Irafii Manager for the Alaska Service, Seattle. T STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 24. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 67, American Can 96, Anaconda 32%, Curtiss-Wright 6, International Harvester 82%, Ken- necott 36%, New York Central 26, Northern Pacific 28%, U. S. Steel Rey: 167, Pound $4.027. Sales today were 640,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 161.73; rails 56.95; utilities, 32.66. NORTHERN LIGHT CORPORATION IS CALLED, MEETING A special meeting of the corpora- tion of the Northern Light Presby- | terian Church will be held on Sun- | day morning, August 5, immediately following and in conjunction with |the 11 c'clock worship service, for the purpese of considering and act- ing on a request for a dzed for east ment o the City of Juneau, for a pertion of the church property to be used as a public sidewalk or public street. This meeting is called by th of Trustees, Ralph B. Martin, Every moamber of the congregation is requested to be present. AL O G e i MANN IN TOWN C. C. Mann, of Seattle, guest at the Gastineau Hotel » is a ed to transfer the government HOME While other planes ¥ 1 circle, ready to alight, an FGF Grumman Hellcat fighter comes in for a landing on an Essex class aircraft carricr. Wanis fo Know If Japan REYNAUDIS | PETAIN CASE Details Tol(m CondiIions: Just Before France | Was Collapsing By LOUIS NEVIN (Associated Press Correspondent) BULLETIN — PARIS, July 24— Former Premier I Reynaud ac- cused beth Marshal Petain and ing Leopold of Belgium of treach- ery today in surrendering to Ger- many and told the court trying the old secldier for his life that a French-British union is *“an ideal which scme day must be realized.” The first witness in the trial of the Chief of State of the Vichy regime id that (he reason the British attacked the French fleet in Nerth Africa in 1940 was that Prime Minister Churchill did not trust the word of Adm. Jean Dar- lan, Petain’s right hand man. Edouard Daladier, who was forezd frot office as Eremier just before Germany imvaded Norway and was ucceeded by Reynand, was the next witness. He said he was tes- tifying “sorrowfully, but without resentment.” He said he had no criticism of n between 1934 and 1939 be- cause “Petain during that period was held in the highest respect by bcth the Army and the nation.” Daladicr, hcwever, declared Pe- tain lowered the Army’s fund for manufacturing war materials by 20 per cent while Petain was a min- ister in 1934, “just when we should have been arm . PARIS, July 24--Fo: Paul Reynaud testified at cf Marshal Pztain today that union of France and Great Britain | WITNESS IN Has Sent Out Feelers 0 Peace; Ruinors Prevailing | with a m_lulcfl notes and staff is m film actress Alexis Smith. was “an ideal which some day must ___ be realized.” | The dapper little politician who said yesterday he despised the old Marghal, described the proposal of Prime Minister = Churchill when France was collapsing in 1240 for 2 unien, Petain; on trial fer his life accusations of intelligence with enemy and plotting against the se curity of France, strode into the Palace; of Justice courtrcom 20 min- utes late on this second day of the heering. He was clad in his Mar- chals’ uniform; his face was fresh and expressionless. on the Reynaud said that on the day his cabinet fell, June 16, 1940, he did “cease fire” order but against demands for an armistice. He repeated that he wish- to French Afiica and continue the war frem there and was opposed by Fetein and Gen. Maxime Weygand, ccmmander in chief of the reeling French forces, Reynaud said President Roosevelt sent Petain an “extremely strong” messag® warning the Marshal that he risked losing the friendship of the Unitcd States government and reopls because of the terms of the (Continued on Page Sir) American Experts Will Hep fo Fight (holgra VEpidemic CHUNGKING, July 24—A party of American experts, inclding Dr. James Watt of the U. 8. Public Service, i speeding here to help fight the cholers epidemic The epidemie thus far bas involv- 4 ahout 6,000 Chinese and 150 have dicd since early June. -o - CAROLE LANDIS INTENDS T0 WED FOR ATH ATTEMPT HOLLYWOOD, July 24-—Actress Carole Landi w. obtained ada divorcs from her third hus- d last Thursday, has announced that s will y Horace Schmid- {lapi, theatrical producer, in New York next month. WASHINGTON, July 24—Senator Wherry (R-Neb.) sought today to steer the Senate into a discussion of whether this country has re- ceived any genuine peace [eelers from Japan. Wherry told a reporter he plans to ask anew whether the State De- partment has received any offers and to call attention of his col- leagues to a compilation of pur- ported feelers he said has been made by “a high military source” and forwarded to President Tru- man at Potsdam. Wherry said he had been handed by this “high military source” a c.ommunication addressed “to Mr. Truman and carrying suggestions of possible peace terms. These in- clude 1etention of the Emperor and avoidance of military occupation of Japan proper. The State ‘Department has in- sisted it has received nothing in the way of a genuine peace offer from Japan. “We're talking of peace here in ccnnection with the United Na- tions Charter,” Wherry said. “I want to know why we can’t lay down some peace terms under Japan can surrender. I that if the President did at, we might get a surrender on terms that would end this REPLY AN FRANCISCO, July 24 Radio Tokyo's reply today to un- :(nditicnal surrender was that Ametica fears Russia may take first place among world powers in pust war period. Ihe broadeast (heard by the el Communications Commis- sion) was bai on the argument that the United States waging a political offensive to shorten the war to prevent any reduction in America’s national power. -e - Cigareffe Tobacco Will Be Plentiful VALDOSTA, Ga., July 24—You ncedn’t werry about any potential shortage of cigarette tobacco. Tie first faw million pounds— just a drop in tke bucket of an estimated 1,800,328,000 pound’crop went on sale today. That's no small amount of acco. True, last years crop was 50,213 pounds. But the 1944 crop was the largest on record. DECOYED CHANICSBURG, Pa. The weather was bad and Ens. Winslow W. Goedwin didn't have a lot of pas left. Spotting two planes in an cpen area, he set his Hellcat down cn what lcoked like an air field— « lady motorist fleeing up a e ramp. He landed between of warehouses where a Japanese Zero and another Hellcat waere on exhibition. INDUSTRIAL . CENTERS OF ~ NIPSRAIDED | Hiding Enemy Warships - Located, Strafed-Third Fleet Move_s Back | | By Murlin Spencer (Assoclated Preys War Correspondent) | GUAM, July 24—Two thousand | &merican warclanes, by Tokyo's | admission, frcm darriers and halt |a dozen land bases, hammered | Japan with concentrated fury to- day, pounding warships in the | great Ki Naval Base and blast- ing the pulsing industrial centers of Osaka and Nagoya with 4,000 | tons of explosives. The prowling U, 8. Third Fleet ! moved back to the shores of Japan in force, sending between 1,000 and 11,500 carrier planes racing over | Dure and inland citles of Honshu Island Attack Hidden Warships Associated Press war correspond- ents with the fleet reported pilots located hiding enemy warships and dove to the attack through intense anti-aircraft fire and the first ag- gressive fighter interception the enemy has mounted in two weeks of naval air and sea bombard- ments. Associated Press Correspondent James Lindsley reported at least one direct hit with a 1,000-pound bemb on a warship. Correspondent ‘Richard O'Malley told of two others. y Fhe greatest: foree of Superfort- resses ever to take the air roarcd up from their Marianas bases to attack Osaka and Nagoya. Head- quarters here sald there were more wuan 60U, Tokyo placed their num- bey above 70Q. Area Bombed Japanese broadcasts reported Mustang fighters, Liberator bomb- ers and cther light aircraft from iwo Jima and Okinawa hammered w.despread areas of southern Hon- shu in coordinated sorties. (Nor- mally around 300 of these land- bascd planes hit Japan daily.) Radio Tokyp admitted that “some 20007 American planes were on the locse over Honshu. It quoted a Kure Naval Station communique which confirmed that “vessels at anchor” as well as airfields were ‘he target, Heavl®:. Of Assaults The Dcmel Agency termed the 2,900-plane assault the “heaviest cver carried out on the homeland.” It claimed damage to ships was light but admitted that important establishments at Osaka were hit and fires started’ Lindsley's dispatch said that the enemy, apparently goaded into ac- tin by the Third Fleet's recent taunts, finally sent up planes to harass the attackers. Japs Make Passes Returning earrier pilots reported that 12 Japanese fighter planes wept out of the clouds and made usses at them. One U. S. Hellcat was lost in the swirling fight that followed. At least one Nipponese pilot was downed. The attack on Kure, where | carrier airmen left 14 major Japa- nese ships crippled March 19, was the third consecutive day of widely-separated fleet attacks. Paramushiro in" the Kuriles, north of Japan, was hit Sunday, vhile destroyers for the first time attacked erfemy shipping off the China coast south of Shanghai. - - Pilgrimage Wanled Cn Site of Notorious | (ontenlgal_lon Camp LONDON, July 24—Cardinal ven . Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich, has asked Gen. Eisenhower's per- mission to build a convent on the site of the notorious Dachau con- centration camp and “make Da- chau a place of pilgrimage for all - Europe.” This was disclosed today in a broadcast over the Dutch radio by the Rev. P. Van Gestel, Rector of the Jesuit College at Maastricht, | Holland, who was confined at Da- “chau, 3