The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 25, 1945, Page 2

PAGE TWO YOUNG tion of boys MEN'S WEAR! wonderful sclee- clothes . for man who has to pick SCHOOL” hocaus Sweaters of wool. p slip-ove 91 65 S!acks $3. 95 io ‘*L.-J Slack Suiis . all wool and selid color SIZES 6 to 22 $22.50 to $28.95 plaid coat pants. .M BEHRENKS), . & TRIAL OF { troops in our | it. Instead, he, Petain, ordered North Africa to resis allies.” PETAINIS ARD BLOWS DRAMATIC ARE STRUCK :Sensahonal Testimony Is ON NlPPONS Presented at Trial of 0Id Marshal Waves of Carrier Planes [ \ | | ALASKA COASTAL GRUMMAN READY FOR OPERATIONS Silnmonslahnglane Here After Final Fitting in Los Angeles re-worked ‘and re- days when she was patrol by the Force, Alaska twin-engine Amphi- Juneau this immediate ater routes Completely fitted from the flown on submarine Royal Canadian Air Coastal Airlines new Grumman “Gray Goose” bian landed back at ifternoon ready for ervice on ACA’s ov ut of Juneau Ticpped south three weeks ago by Sheldon Simmons, the ship was siven a therough going-over in the Pacific Airmotive shops les. A new engine was in- talled, giving the “Goose” two latest-type Pratt and Whitney SB3 “Wasps” of 450 horsepower The plane is capable of flying on either engine alone, entering a new factor of safety into seaplane op- ration in this area. The entire cabin has been sound- proofed, according to national air- lines standards—with spun glafls insulation and flame-proof leather nterior skin. New cushioned leather cats for seven passeng stalled in the cabin at Los eles. Individual seat lights, ash 's and toilet. facilities are pro- vided. Smoking can be enjoyed in flight with perfect safety, at such times as the pilot has turned off the “no smoking™ sign. The cabin is temperature controlled and air cenditioned All flying onditioned Angeles just inftruments were and calibrated at'Los before the ship was 'n its CAA certification for passenger carrying. Previous to the final touches, the was given the attention ACA here for four stripped down to completely rebuilt, Alaska Coastal’s colors. On the return flight north from Los Angeles, the ship covered the stretch from the California city Seattle in six and one-half After a three-day stop at Seattle, Pilot Simmons set her dewn at Bella Bella last evening, coming on to Juneau this forenoon. fer 190 miles an hour cruising speed enabled the ship to fly here om Ketchikan in one hour 27 minutes. Pilot Simmons flew the ship on wheels from airfields in the States, but she will be oper- ated from water in service here. Passengers arriving here today aboard the Grumman were: Mrs. Sheldon Simmons and their son, R. C. Cook, Nationail Lead Com- pany representative, from Seattle, and three aircraft mechanics who will be employed in the ACA shops here. The three mechanics are Harold E. Essy of Seattle, Dos F. Miller of Seattle, and Calvin R. Nyquist of Los Angeles. hop south for new Grumann of the months, being her skeleton, and decked in blue and yellow hours. —— at Los, each. | s were in- | An-| re- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA RUSSIA URGED TO ENTER WAR WASHINGTON, July 25—Senator Wiley (R-Wis.) urged today that Russia enter the war against Japan. . ‘It would be our dearest hope,” he said, “that Russia’s mere en- trance into the war would be suf-| ficient to make the the sponge, without a single addi-, tional Russian boy's or a single Aadditional Amf’nc'\n boy’s dying.” 1 2 | Gen. Pafch Says Allies Must Occupy Germany | For Nexf 20 Years| | SAN ANTONIO, Tex., July 25—Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch, whose Eeventh Army conquered southern; France, predicted the Allies will have to occupy Germany for 20 years. One cf the few high American officers to have served both in the | Pacific and Europe, Gen. Patch ar- rived here to take his new com- mand with the Fourth Army and! plan the training of thousands of his troops for the Pacific area. B CHINESE BREAK INTO YANGSOON | WAY T0 KWEILIN CHUNGKING, Juy 25.—Chinese trcops have broken through the south gate of the walled town of: Yangso, site of a former U. S. 14th I Air Force base 44 iiles south of Kweilin, the Chinese High Command announced today. The announcement said street fighting was in progress in Yangso, which is on a subsidiary highway bewteen Liuchow and Kweilin, The Chinese also reported they had driven another wedge into the Hunan-Kwangsi railroad to seal; mor2 effectively the enemy escape | route from Kwangsi to Hunan. L g T Mother Is Told of | Death of Son Which Occurred on Dec. 13 LOS ANGELES, July 25.—Capt. John Covert Ellis, former University of Nebraska football player who was credited with swimming from Bata- an to Corregidor towing a canoe- load of injured men, went to his death when a Japanese transport carrying 1,600 American prisoners was torpeoded off Luzon last De- cember 13. The War Department notified El- lis’ mother af lus death. GENERAL CRAIG | WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1945 U. 5. PILOT acaiNsT Japs| PAYS BACK ON GRUDGE Drops Bomb on Japanese T a1 Cruiser Responsible for Brothers's Death By RICHARD O'MALLEY 30ARD ADM. McCAIN'S FLAG- n —A grim-faced returning pilot rrier and climbed out, mak- cle with a thumb and fore- ad Eeen paid. The pilot was Lt. (jg) Donald R. Fox. Jr,, cf Seattle, Wash,, and he had just dropped his bomb on the Japanese heavy cruiser Tone, a ship agoinst which he had a long grudge. T Tone took part in the second battle of the Philippine Sea. It was there that Ens. Gordon Fox, his brether, died after being blasted frem the deck of a destroyer. I learned Gordon spent 50 hours in the water,” Donald said. “Then 1 went to sleep and never woke up. 1 zlways figured that if I ever got a chance at any Jap ship that fought in that battle I would try to pay a little. I did it teday pounder along the stack and saw two rockets hit. cday seemed to be lucky.” - LAST RITES ARE FOR 'DOLLY’ GRAY; RESPECTS AREPAID Beautiful floral offerings from the many friends of the late James Latimer (Dolly) Gray paid a glow- tribute to his memory today, when his body was laid in the EIk’s Plot at Cemetery. Funeral 2 o'clock rthern services were held this afternoon in Light Presbyterian triends of the deceased who went to pay their last respects. The the Rev. Willis R. Booth, H. L. Faulkner delivering the eulogy. Mrs. Lola Mae Alexander sang two. of his favorite songs, “Now the Day is Over,” and “Abide With Me.” The pallbearers were J. J. Stocker, H. R. Vander Leest, Fred Henning, John Newmarker, Roy Thomas and Minard Mill. Surviving are his widow, Emma Gray; a daughter, Iris, Corvallis, Oregon, and a James Latimer, Jr., of Seattle. SHIP STEWARD IS HELD FOR DUMPING Mrs. of OFF JAPAN, July 24~VDE-‘ i his plane toward the bow or‘ al that part of a debt | tto cooperate in the lodge project to Ilaid a 500- Everything I did’ to rest| Evergreen Juneau aboard the North Sea from | the | | i service was conducted by with | son, ' i i TOURIST CONSCIOUS SKAGWAY PLANNING DYEA TRAIL LODGE ckagway residents are :f-cumlng increasingly active on plans to en-| trench that Lynn Canal city as an attraction tc tourists, it is reported by A. E. Glover, Regional Engin-, eer for the U. S. Forest Servic Mr. Glover, together with For Service Landscape Architect Linn | Forrest and Admiralty Division Su- pervisor Jchn Brillhart has this week returned from a trip to Skag way to advise city officials there on post-war planning. Skagway’s mayor, C. A. Carroll, is even now heading a group of residents planning to establish a tourist lodge along the Dyea Trail, across the bay from Skagway. The lodge is to be accessible by good auto roads from Skagway. The Forest Service has been asked 1 the extent of cutting more trails, some of them horse trails, into the adjacent Tongass National FurcSL‘ area, Mr. Glover said. This summer, for the first nme since the U. S. Army occupied the area, the Forest Service plans main- tenance work on present forest trails around Skagway. e 3 AUTHORITIES IN BERLIN ARE IN AGREEMENT BERLIN, July 25.—The tap‘ American, Russian and British au- therities in Berlin announced today | that they had reached a larg> area of agreement on controlling the civilian population, establishing uni- +form pricing and rationing systems and heating the city next winter. The Allies agreed to issue orders | for harvesting all ripe crops in the Berlin area and to study the prob- lem of domestic heating next win- 'ter. PIo REA TGRS E HAZEL COY IN TOWN Hazel Coy and son arrived in Olympia, Washingten, and arc at ' guests at the Hotel Juneau. CRESTA BLANCA Lvrmen. €. n/ CRESTA Bl.iina WINES When you drink Cresta Blanca, you enjoy the benefits of a tradition dating back to 1771. In that year, Franciscan Fathers founded the Mission of San Gabriel Archangel, forerunner of America’s wine industry, Ask for Cresta Blanca by name. CRESTA BLANCA WINE COMPANY, INC. LOS ANGELES AND LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA For over fifty years, the finest of American wines. There Is No Substitute for Newspaper Advertlslng' I'churen, which was filled with [Jen/lpmmonfipmmtenflmmmenfipmrmenfiprmensipm ~ Rurividg Today . . .. CANNING APRICOTS This year more than any other year it is wise to put up as much food as possible . . . Keep Dropping Bombs Enemy Heet Is Hit (Continued (Continued /rom Page One SEATTLE, July 25 — Speclal WASHINGTON, July 25.—General| agent-in-Charge Lee V. Boardman Malin Craig, former Army Chief of gaiq today the FBI was holding al Cauliflower New Cabbage Celery Radishes Tomatoes Bunch Carrots 7= A %) Cucumbers Crooked Neck Squash Green Transparent Apples Gravenstein Apples Cantaloupes Honeydews Wax Onions Bananas Crab Apples Turnips Limes and Many Other Good Things fo Eat! Lettuce : Green Onions Green Peppers Plums Apricots Avocados Oranges Summer Squash Green Beans Fresh Peas Rutabagas Cherries Peaches I questions ! The telegram was f sponse to a juror's ¢ Former Premier Edouard Daladie: ! who had testified at “all the § traitors of France” flocked to Vichy after the armistice and that the j Petain regime destroved the re-|yyiee cryisers damaged. (British § public. Daladier had declared that| qppie; planes accounted for one France was not unarmed when the| o tne caryiers at a Shikoku port. [ tihne stuck in 1940 incomplete score also showed % Juror Questions Witness 64 enemy planes destroyed or dam- § 'The same juror asked Daladieriaged. These results, plus the ®awhether he knew of a telegram damage inflicted by British car- from Petain to Hitler congratulat- rier planes and land-based navy { ing the Germans on the bloody pombi (Franaad/iba i sh8 b repulse of the Canadians at| pumber of ships, and the Dieppe. number o destroyed or “On June z heavily aged by forces under { & new order w nd in the 15 ¥ Daladier told s inning July 10 aged soldier for 'Round-The-Clock Strike f the enemy plotting een the hours of yesterday's security of France ca ne attack and today's, “It consisted of night fighters slashed at the enemy public to make this the t ound-the- Daladier witness | clock carrier strike against Nippon. § and continuin hy t he!In broadcast from the scene, started yesterda Adm. Halsey termed it “a new Drams Stunt phase of naval warfare. . The The thy Daladier at one, final plunge into the heart "of point picked up and slam- | Japar med it to the his face ¢ flushed with was I } counting the the Ri est of Wdrials in which the Vichy regime army air v read in questioning jrom Page One) action again as tabuletion showed this toll of Japanese fighting ships collected yesterd Two battleships, two carriers and i940," we were told s being constitated,” the court trying the ¢ intelligence with a cha floor e B-29 1goya other Osi and N the war—and the on stor) blows of suces ' PHONE 704 dall, Juneau Deliveries—10 A. M. and .P. M. Douglas Delivery—10 A. M. Roat Orders Delivered Anytime! | eV yrmenfyomenfiyrsenfiyromenlymsrnlye = [ SKIPPERRUSTAD, "~ QNLASTDETAIL| 600D MEAT IN SEA FROM ALASKA, IN | SHIP A((IDENI Staff, died today at Walter Reed|transport chief steward accused of | |hospital. He was 69. dumping 3,000 pounds of usable’ ASTORIA, Ore., July 257Sklpl)er‘qg;? e s gy Ohlef Of| beef overboard at sea. Tem Rustad, who escaped with 37 1930, He h i ek The man had requisitioned a < + A 3 e had been ill for a year. four crewmen from a fishing boat After Craig retired in 1939 he| large quantity of boneless beef’ just before it sank, was unable returned to active i bermelnlong with other stores, in Alaska to explain why the new the outbreak of hostilities in the| . Feoruary, Boardman said. He vessel foundered. {present war to become President of | S0 itted having dumped the usable Coast Guard officials at Port the Secretary of War's personnel n:;a? n;)get rid. of pooter jcuts andl Adams, Ore, said a patrol boat hoard, beginning in September, 1941, HhiD joobier mept Rerey ! tescued the men yesterday after- | Subsequently, he reported at the noon about an hour and a ha]i end of the voyage here that the after Navy patrol planes spotted| meat had been consumed by the them in the water. The crew in- (loIHI“G DRIVE i passengers and crew, Boardman| cluded Rustad and George Pemle‘ said. He had been a seaman 16 Petersburg, Alaska. | INVESTIGAIION years and is a steward, cook and The boat, the Melody, was carry- | bartender by occupation. ing five tons of tuna. | IS "ow plA“NED R P ———ae—— 1 Fighfing Polish OI.D STUFF Io THEM PORTLAND, Me., July 25 — An Bfly, S’owawav, May TULSA, Okla—Ad wnqmrv into a situation involving Judgs William K. pgt‘{?i lg::mi large quantities of ,clothing gath- Remalfl in u- S- ceremony before the same| jered in an April war relief drive| WASHINGTON, July 25—A 12- couple three times today—but that 'and still stored in a Portland ware- year-old Polish lad who fought with is no record. \hnuse is planned by U. S. Repre-|American troops in Europe for Tre pair, Norma Wheaton and Sentative Hale, Republican, of fmonths and then came to the United | nes D. Diggs, have said “I do”; Maine. States as a stowaway may be per-| » each other (and a judge) 24 The garments, sorted and baled, lmmed to remain in this country. times. lay waiting transportation to n‘ A Justice Department spokesman Both are attorn and have been Shipping point in a condition re-}said the boy, Joseph Eugene Par- cting as stand-ins in proxy mar-|ported by the Congressman as emba, was being held as deportable viages between servicemen andi"dump and musty.” pending a check of his”story. He the brides who don't want to wait until) William P. Shapleigh, chairman |could be permitted to stay if it were tried unsuccessfully to pin the past two days were the hardest the boys come home. of the Greater Portland United |found he is homeless, the spokesman #blame for the French collapse on ever struck against Japan. Some| —————— Nations Clothing Collection Drive, ! explained. % him, Pormer Premiers Paul Rey- 2,000 planes all, participated. said yesterday that about 15 of the| Paremba came to America with #nand and Leon Blum, and Gen meanwhile r No G'vE All IAKE 42% tons gathered had been sent|Battery of the 36th Field Artillery & Maurice G more than 350 Far F By w:<- ‘Three men| Y T8l to a Pawtucket, R. I, mill | Second Infantry Division. Members | ; As Daladier spoke, he shook his A Force bombers and fighte: A b '|o (h}“"New Accounts"llor storage. of the unit said the boy had joined & fist. His voice frequently rose to a grounded four da by typhoons— ot <:\:\l\ 8t & losel bank ‘and toia Lt their outfit and had fought beside shout. Reynaud listened intently to slashed anew at 1ghai Sunday, |, (“N‘ thoy Aactant hioREs a: them in Eumpe for months ‘the man he »ded as Premier. or damagir 13 warships | account—then, changed _thelr| No.sl[[p TESI H e Daladier Dramatic eighters, blasting three big oo and made a sizeable uithe S'"ll looKING Daladier turned to the American; airfields, and destroying or dam- | g o'y oo IS BEI"G MADE £ invasion of French Africa and said: aging 45 enemy plar J. A, Lighle, Secretary of the Sea- { RATON, N. M.—Tommy Burch lost “If only Petain had given the > men's YM.CA. explained the inci- — his pet, a descented baby skunk. | $ signal for an uprising of France CAA MEN HERE dent to police: PASADENA, Calif, July 25—| A newspaper ad produced a phone $on the day of the Anglo-American Strandbe Viad M| Ho took the trio to the bank to, TWelve sleepy people are in their|call from a woman who said she had | #landings in North Africa! What a , H. L. Herl Scott Don-|jelp them open an account, at the, third day of a no-sleep test sched-|seen one of the striped animals in’ & Blorious page in the history of his Horning, S. H. Ken-|same time taking along $1,800 of his|uled to last nearly five days in all.|ber yard. Tommy agted on the clue, #long life he would have written. I J. C. Hooper and J. H. Tip-|own to deposit. When he turned| They are conscientious objectors, set out a bowl of milk in the wo-| , would have kneeled in front of pets, CAA men from Anchorage, ,cide for a moment, the three men| undergoing the experiment for an|man's yard and waited for develop-‘ him.” are guests at the Baranof Hotel. [tcld the teller they had changed armed forces’ study of the effect|ments. 3 Daladier pounded his chest and ——————— their minds, scooped up $1,000 of of fatigue on the human’system.| They came—in the form of a his voice rang through the crowded VAN ERMEN ARRIV Lighle's money from under the bank | The stay-awake grind began early {mama skunk and three of the baby zcourtroom as he added John H. Van Ermen, of Sitka, employee’s nose and walked out of| Monday morning and will end at!variety—but none was of the de- ¥ «1 waited for this and prayed for s a at the Baranof Hotel building, 10 p. m. Friday. 'cdorlzed variety. guest