The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 25, 1945, Page 1

THE DAI LY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” X MPIRE VOL. LXV., NO. 10,022 JULY 25, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY JAP HOME Ship Gun TRIAL OF PETAINIS DRAMATIC Sensational Testimony Is Presented at Trial of 0ld Marshal 4 S | By Louis Nevin (Associated Press Correspondent) PAR July 25—Former Presi- dent Albert Lebrun testified today that Mar-hal Petain threatened to resign from the Reynaud Govern- ment unless it asked an armistice from Germany and later the same day took a complete cabinet list from a pocket when asked to form a new administration. Before Lebrun teld of the dra- matic cabinet sessions of June 16, 1940, the court had echoed with mutterings and protests from inrors and spectators when Petain curtly refused to answer questions about telegrams congratulating the Ger- mans for repulsing the Canadians at Dicppe and asking Hitler’s per- mission to allow Vichy troops to fight alongside the Germans in the defense of France. PARIS, July 25 — Judge Paul Mongibeaux read into the treason trial of Marshal Petain today a telegram from the old soldier ask- ing Hitler's permission for the Vichy regime to conduct its own defense. Angry murmurs and protests arose from spectators and the 24 jurors when Petain stolidly re- fused to answer questions about | the telegram. The Marshal said on/ the opening day of the trial for his life that he would answer no| IN BRITAIN TOMORROW Resulis of MS Election, Churchill’s Fate, to Be Known Soon LONDON, July 25 Britain awaited today without visible sizns of excitement announcement of the results of the July 5 Parliamentar elections, which will determine Page Two) | — e - | The Washington, Merry - Go - Round By DREW PEARSON Col. Robert §. Allen now on ac service with the Army.) | ilurns will start tri | the nation’s | noon tomorrow (7 a. ern | War Time), and that the buik of | the votes will be tabulated within | the next five hours {is to remain at the head of the | Government upon whose shoulders {will fall the task of prosecuting ,,m{(hc war against Japan. It is expected that the first re- ng in from about Lt NOTE—Drew Pearson con- tinues his series of columns cn the problems President Truman faces at Potsdam. WASHINGTON—President Tru-| 4 otentially important factor in man has now made it clear at attempting to predict the outcome Potsdam that what the United) o (o jiheral party vote. States wants out of this war is N0| gnoyid the Conservatives and territory but “the peace and Pros-iyuporites win an almost equal perity of the world as & whole” |,umper of seats, the question of This means he may have to do| wpich group would be called upon some tough talking with his tWo|(, foryn the new government might colleagues to battle dowr the un-|gepend upon the direction in which fortunate tendency on the part of|ipe piperals swing. both Russia and Britain to domi-| putn conservatives. and Liberals nate certain parts of the world|paye toned down their pre-election that don't wants to be domi“atea"predic(ions of easy victory, and In other words, Truman will have| jhere js now a general belief the to re-define, if not wipe out|fing) results will show a swing to “Bpheres “0f infludce.” {the left—how much is a matter Last week this column described | ¢ speculation. the Russian sphere of influence in| (R AU SRS the Balkans and how a combina- | tion of Bulgar-Russian Comm\un-i ists had ridden roughshod over; middle-of-the-road political lead—: ers, even, restricting the move-| ments of American representatives, A President . Truman at that umei » wanted to pull American officifls‘ completely out of Rumania andl Bulgaria. But now, instead of x'e~‘ BEING KI ll E D treating, he is in & position where he must stand up and try to} rectify some of these injustices! face to face with Stalin. | cALcUTTA, July 25.—Allied Likewise with Churchill. Though {trccps have killed more than 2,000 the American people have not | Japanese in a three-day battle with heard as much about British in-|enemy forces seeking to escape from justices as they have Soviet opera- |2 trap in southern Burma and reach tions in Poland, Mr. Churchill's|the Sittang River, Southeast Asia record in Britain’s so-called spheres! Ccmmand Headquarters announced influence is not one to be proud | teday. b z: § P | ‘These casualties coupled with 252 i g | prisonets and an uncounted number Abyssinia, first victim of ag- PYISONErs and gress’ion in H:ls war, is stili oc-Killsd by artillery and by planes, cupied by British Ll'o!;])s. {have reduced by more than one- Greece, the Cradle of Democracy, b, o is now occupied by as ‘many | 5000 In the Pegu pocket British troops as by Germans one GREEN year ago. Foreign troops are foreign | Sy p P | Chester troops, and Greek reaction is thathaching'/m they didn't fight this war to be 4 iy (Comtinued on Page Four) HERE has arrived in Juneau and is registered at the Baranof Hotel. | whether Prime Minister Churchiil, 'half a Japanese force estimated at [ 4 Poun [SLES SHUDDER UNDER d bolzs}ai Inv & & asion STEEL 9 S€ES & ° Defen & In Paris if CHURCHILL GOES BACK 10 LONDON Prime Minister Flies Home for Election Results— Conference Lags POTSDAM, July 25 — A four- engined passenger plane cariying Prime Minister Churchill and his party took off for England from a strongly-guarded airport here this afterncon following another meei- ing of the “Big T!fu'ee," Churchill, Foreign Secretary An- thony Eden and Clement R. Attlee, Labor Party leader attending the conference as an observer, ar- ranged a recess 50 they could be in London when results of the British electicn July 5 are'’ announced Thursday. The mecting of the Prime Min- |ister, President Truman mier Stalin today was the ninth of the Potsdam series. Foreign | office representatives will carry on the conversations tomorrow. In the absence of Foreign Secre- tary Anthony Eden, who is return- ing to London with Churchill, Britain - will be represented by | Onder-Secretary Sir Alexander | Cadogan. He will meet with U. S. | Secretary ~of State James F. nes and Soviet Foreign Com- missar Vyacheslav Molotov. While it was not disclosed what "specinl plans Truman and Stalin !may have for Thursday, it was | said they would not discuss mat- ters on the conference agenda be- ,tween themselves until the top- ranking British delegates return. - ‘Navy Depariment . Announces Death - 0Of Pkig;(. Jones WASHINGTON, July 25.—The | Navy department today announced 10[ the Marine Corps Reserve, and ,son of Mrs. LaRee C. Arend, Fair- banks, Alaska. and Pre-, MAIL FOR PACIFIC FIGHTERS—A landing barge (leff) holds a mountain of mail bags which have just arrived at an advanced area in the Pacific aboard a troop transport which carried a total of 18,000 sacks of mail, enough to fill three holds. At right, Coast Guardsmen jam the deck of their transport in the Pacific area as mail from the folks back home is distributed. VOTECOUNT Army Cars Rounded Up Women in Them; joyridijg Ban I PARIS, July 25.—More than 300 | jeeps and United States Army Staff | cars have been impounded in a two- i-joyriding campaign staged and military police. At three Generals’ cars were | whistled over the curb to the cheers | of onlooking GIs and civilians. { The police, operating mostly on {the Champs Elysees, Place de la Concorde and Grand Boulevard, steppad all military cars centaining civilians—especially mademoiselles— cr Army WACs, nurses of Red Cross girls, A car driven by a Brigadier Gen- eral was stcppad on the Champs Elys ause he was accompanied ‘They left the car |and walked away. M. Ps. are working under orders that mademoiselies are not supposed to be riding around in army ca that th2 cnly “authorized women in such vehicles would be “Army nurses in ambulances going to cr frcm an accident, WACS on & milita of soldiers and WACs together on organized recre: tion.” a- ——.—— e HUNDREDS 0F CORPSES (L0G BERLIN'S SUBS Final Act of Nazi §S Lead- | ers s Revealed by ‘ German Divers BERLIN, July 25.—German divers have found hundreds of corpees still clogging a floeded three-mile s2cticn of ‘Berlin's subway in the beart of the city, and have refused to continue work there, officials dis- closed today. The stretch of subway, running undsr Unter Den Linden from An- halter, was being used as a hospital during the fighting for Berlin. Nazi |88 leaders arz reported to have |ficcded it when those in the tun: nel cignified a wish to surrender just befcre the city fell. - MR., MRS. COOK HERE Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cook, of Whitehorse, arrived in Juneau yes- terday via Pan American, and ave guests at the Baranof Hotel ————-——— ALTARAS HERE Dave 1. Altaras, representing the Green, of Kirkland,|the death of Pfc, Oris Clark Jones Tucco Products, Inc, arrived in Juneau yesterday via Pan Ameri- | WILL MEET TOMORROW A newly-organized Juneau Tax- | payers' Association will meet to- morrow cvening at 8 o'clock in the Coliseum Theatre to discuss the rceent - reassessment of Juneau {preporty and announcement of in- creased taxes. A representative of the associa- tion, Bill Hixson, said that all Juncau taxpayers are invited to attend the meeting, main purpose «of which will be to have a delega- @ tion -present at the City Council meeting Friday evening when the budget for the next year is de- ! termined. el t& | President Wants To 'Come fo Alaska, :He Tells Wallgren { OLYMPIA, Wash,, July 25—Fresi- ‘dent Truman has found time dur- ing his “Big Three” dickerings to write Governor Wallgren from Berlin. The Governor today said he has received a letter from the President again expregsing satisfaction with his recent: vacation trip fo this statel “LBR . L T e also mentioned hé wants to get together with me for a visit to Alaska later on if his time per- mits,” Wallgren said. ! TRUMAN I§ GOINGTO FRANKFURT Will Review-U. S. Troops Tomorrow, Then Fly Back fo Potsdam POTSDAM, July 25. — President Truman will fly to U. S. Army Headquarters at Frankfort tomorrow nd review American troops, taking dvantage of the off-day in the Big Three schedule, officials announced today. Gen, Eisenhower, Commander of United States forces in the Europ- can theatre, will meet the Presi- dent in Frankfurt, where they will inspect the 84th Infantry and Third Armored Divisions. The two will have luncheon tojcther. Mr. Truman will return to Pots- dam early Thursday evening for re- sumption of the Big Three confer- ence, interrupted by the departure or London of the highest British lcaders to await election returns. QueerThreat Received by Film Aciress HOLLYWOOD, July 25—Police are cceking the sender of a mysterious telegram addressed to film actress Loretta Young which read: “You have an option until 7 tonight.” The actress’ husband, Col. Thom- as H. A. Lewis, Commanding Officer of the Armed Forces Radio Service, tcld Detective E. M. Nelsen the tele- gram was received at their home :nd was sent from nearby Long | Peach. Miss Young is in a hospital where be pave birth to a son, Peter, last July 16. ————— | MRS. KIHLMAN HERE i Mrs. Kenneth Kihlman, the former Betty Mill, arrived today cn the Alentian from Seattle, where she has been with the ATS, and TAXPAYERS (Chiba Prefeciure May Be Site for Invasion By Allies, Japs Warn (By The Associated Press) The Tokyo radio today broad- sast a Dbmei dispatch saying the skies over Chiba Prefecture, about 20 miles from Tokyo, had been converted into a hurly - burly thoroughfare for Superforts, Lib- erators and Mustang fighters.” The broadcast, recorded by the ssociated Press, 8aid Japanese es were “fully aware” that the Chiba area might be the first site of an Allied invasion. “Of all HARDBLOWS ARE STRUCK ~ ON NIPPONS ]me important salients on the Ja|()1.1m~ielbnminlund{)” l:u‘ dis]zulc!;:waves of cafl'ief PlafleS ' said, Chiba “may be the scene of | . Keep Dropping Bombs the enemy's invasion debut.” | The Chiba Prefecture lies on Boso Peninsuia, on the east side of Tokyo Bay. | The broadeast, based oh a survey | made of the area by a correspond-| (ssociated Pracs War Correspondent) ent of the Tokyo newspaper Mai-| GUAM, Thursday, July 26—Am- nichi, added that “since the latter: erican Superforts struck thres part of June not a single day has Japancse oil refineries near Tokyo passed without the sound of an a¢ midnight last night within a few air alert in the Chiba Prefecture. | hours after Third Fleet carrier |planes and warships pounded By Al Dopking WOW! JusT SEE WHAT IS COMING Japan to Direct Balloons, with Suicide Pilots, foBombU.S. MOSCOW, July 25—The Japa- nese news agency Domei was quoted in Red Star today as saying that Japan soon would direct balloons piloted by cuicide fliers across the Pacific tv bomb the United States. ¥ Domei said these devices, flying at a height of more than 50,000 feet, yvould reach the United States in a" little more than 100 hours, Red Star reported. Red Star Writer M. Markoy quoted the Domei threat in a re- view of the Pacific war that gave Soviet readers the, best account they have read yet of the attack on Japan's industrial cities by American and British airmen. 'CONGRESSMEN T0 HEAR ANCHORAGE RESIDENTS TODAY Subcommittee Changes Travel Plans-Mt. Mc- Kinley Visit Friday Tre five Cong on making up e House Interior Department Ap- priaticns Sub-Committee, now ing Alaska, have altered their avel plans to the extent that they now may visit Mt. McKinley Na- tional Park on Friday, instead of stopping off there on their return trip from Fairbanks, it was disclos- €d here today. Alfred Kuehl, Landscape Archi- tect for the Natiomal Park Service of the Interior Department, was to fly from Juneau to Anchorage this afternoon, to conduct the Congress- ional group on its visit to Denali. Mr. Kuehl has been actively engag- ed upon post-war plans for develop- ment Of Alaska’s National Parks and Monuments during recent summers. The Sub-Committee was to hold a public hearing an Anchorage this morning. A visit to Matanuska Val- ley and the Agricultural Experiment Station there is also on its itiner- ary. MRS. JUDY MEYERS HERE ON BRIEF VISIT Mrs. Judy Me; mother of Miss Phyllis Irene Meyers, of the repor- torfal staff of the Empire, arrived cn the North Sea on a brief vacation trip from E€eattle, and just in time to help celebrate her daughter's virthday, which is today. Mrs. Mey- ers is staying with ber daughter at ,can, from Seattle, and is a guest 15 Vvisiting her parents, Mr. and the Hotel Juneau and will return |at the Baranof Hotel, | Mrs. Minard Mill. I south by Pan American clipper. WHEELS, IS - HALSEY (RY i | ‘Admiral Says Naval War-| | . | | fare Opening Plunge for Japan's Heart | At : WITH THIRD U. S. FLEET, OFF | JAPAN, July 25 — Adm. Halsey yearned today for a fleet with! wheels “so we could chase the Japs inland after we arive them from the coast.” Halsey's yearning was broadcast to the U. 8. from his Third Fleet flagship -only 100 miles off the Japanese coast, even as his carrier planes were smashing at cowering remnants of the Japanese fleet in| the inland sea. Proclaiming that naval warfare| had entered a new phnsef“the; opening of the final plunge into the heart of Japan,” the tough- talking admiral said: “The Allied team is working with speed and devastating precision and | f the Nips do not know they are doomed nation they're even i stupider than I think they are.” Halsey then described what had been done in the past 15 days: Heavy naval guns had wrought “unbelievable destruction” in the northern industrial areas. Lighter | units had smacked the mouth of Tokyo Bay and smashed shipping lanes and shot up coastal targets.! The combination of the B-29s,| the ground power of the Okinawa- based air forces and the unsmp-‘ pable pin-point . accuracy of the carrier planes are reducing thc‘ enemy's air potential to that of a painful nuisance,” he said | He warned that Japanese suicide| planes are still capable of doing damage, but that “this cannot and will not stop us.” “The Third Fleet’s job is to hit the empire hard and often. This fighting outfit is doing just that,” he asserted. ’ o > USO COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT MEETS THURSDAY Ti2 Committee of Management of | the USO will meet tomorrow night,! Thursday, at 8 o'clock in the USO headquarters. This meeting is set abead from the usual Friday night| sessicns, A full attendance o!‘ homeland. Between 75 and 100 B-29's hit the Mitsubishi, Hayama and Asai- shi refineries, all within a few hundred yards of each other, at Kawasaki on Tokyo Bay, about 10 miles from Tokyo City. It was th2 second Superfortress raid on Nip- pon in 36 hours, It was also the twelfth strike by the Twentieth Air Force’s B-29's against Japanese ofl installations. GUAM, July 25—The Japanese home islands shuddered under tons of steel today as the tefiacious Third_Flegt .yont- great. waves of carrier planes ‘boring in through following fog and the flaming guns of warships pounded coastal inva- sion defenses. Carrier planes smashed for the second consecutive day at smokiny remnants of Japan's dazed navy in the huge Kure Naval Base after heavily damaging seven warships yesterday. Adm. *Nimitz did not reveal the strength cf today's assault but it was presumed equal to yesterday's 1,200 plane strike. Airfields and other military in- stallations on the main home island of Honshu also were hit. Return- ing pilots reported destruction of Japanese planes on the ground. Associated Press Correspondent Richard O'Malley, aboard the carrier flagship, sald a thick blanket of fog closed in late in the day. Units Move Inshore Fifteen cruisers and destroyers moved boldly inshore early today - and shelled another Japanese fighting lair--the seaplane base and airfield at Kushimoto on the southwestern tip of Honshu. (Tokyo radio, heard in London, reported that. still other warships bombarded Kanagawa Prefecture on Honshu, just south of Tokyo Bay. Kanagawa is across the mouth of the Bay frem Cape Nojima, which was shelled by warships July 18.) Encmy Ships Smashed Planes and warships went into (Continued on Page Two) JUDGE WARNS SAILORFREED, SLAYING CASE MIAMI, Fla, July 25 —. Freed of manslaughter charges growing cut of the death of Mrs, Ella Mae Eames, 43, of Boston, Sailor Wil- liam W. Parker, 19, of Toledo, Ohto, returhed to his ship today. In acquitting the youthful sea- imomkbers js requested. | STOCK QUOTATIONS . g NEW YORK, July 25 — Closing| that the evidenceawas such that I quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine}cculd find you not guilty. % stock today is 6%, American Can| Young man, be -careful of your 97'%, Anaconda 33, Curtiss-Wright| drinking and your company.” 6%, International Harvester 82,! Parker, in a thin, boyish voice, Kennecott 37'%, New York Central| testified at his non-jury trial yes- 267%, Northern Pacific 29%, U. S.|terday that he hit the estranged Steel 68%;. Pound, $4.02. Iwife of a former New England Sales today were 620,000 shares. | minister with a beer bottle and Dow, Jones averages today are Qz: then dumped her nude body into follows: Induetrials, 163.34; rails,|a blind alley from a hotel fire 1 57.64; utilities, 32.81. | escape. | man for the killing of Mrs. Eames ! in his hotel room a week ago Sun- | day, Judge Ben C. Willard de-