The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 26, 1945, Page 1

| T M e e THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” IR D VOL. LXV., NO. 10,023 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1945 —— POTSDAM, July 26 "We do nol\intend that the Japanese shall be enslaved as a race or .—President Truman, destruction.” The Joint proclamation declared there w people and willbe siripped down fo her four main islands and "'suc country, but will be permitted fo refain non-armament induslries. CALL ON JAPA T0 SURRENDER President Chiang Kai-shek and refiring Prime Minister Churchil fonight called upon Japan fo surrender unconditionally, declarng: “The alternative is prompt and utfer ill be no deviation from the demand for unconditional surrender and ""we shall nof accept delay.” Japan will be divesied of the leaders who misled that h minor islands as we defermine,” if said. Japan, the leaders announced must restore ail obsiacles fo the revival of democratic fendencies in the destroyed as a nation,” the mdamalion said, ""but stern justice shall ke mel'ed‘ out fo war criminals.” The proclamation was drawn up by Truman and Churchill, who submitted fo Chiang. Truman's Secrefary, Charles Ross, said the warning would be broadcast fo the Japanese people in every way possible. Russia is nof a party fo the proclamation. Also it is the first intimation Chiang Kai-shek is attending the Potsdam conference. ! CHURCHILL'S GOVERNMENT IS DEFEATED Sky Fleet Of Supers Bomb Three Jap T FIRE BOMBS Lenient Attitude About ARE DROPPED This Business of Peace Reporfed Asked by Japan; TO REVIEW INHEAVY RAID Third Fleet Remains Men-. acingly Off Coast | Ready to Strike ; BULLETIN — GU A sky fleet of more perfortresses drepped morc than, 2,200 tons of fire bombs today on three industrial cities scattered over three home islands of Japan. Splitting into three task forces, the Superforts in the carly dark- ness roared in at medium alti- tude and showered their incendi- aries on these three targets: | Omuta, one of the empire’s most | important chemical centers on the scuthernmost Island of Kyushu. | Matsuyama, important port city on the western shores of the neighboring Island of Shikeku. i Tokuyama, another chemical center as well as refining city on the main home Island of Honshu.| | AIM FOR NEXT BLOW GUAM, July 28-—-The . 8. Third Fleet which smashed i r Lt , now in Potsdam to decide whether y;rpqrqments and carrler attacks 24 Japanese warships in the 17| days it has made the home waters of Nippon its own, moved menac- ingly off the Mikado's islands to- day, deploying for its next blows JAPAN MAKES PEACE OFFER VIA MOSCOW Magazine Says Manchuria to Go fo Russia as Non- Infervention Price | NEW YORK, July 26—The Maga- zine Newsweek says Marshal Stalin presented President Truman at Potsdam with a Japanese peace offer providing for American oc- cupation of Korea and Formosa, but not the home islands. | “It will be up to President Tru-' taunting man and to his closest advisers . the Japansse offer to Russia falls within the American interpretation of ‘unconditional surrender’,” the article said. | The Japanese offered to with- TRUMAN T0 FRANKFURT By James D. White (Associated Press Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO, July 26-Japan, backed against the ropes in a fight she started some time back, today spoke of quitting the war as a definite possibility. - § This is the central fact which POTSDAM, July 26.—President observers are able to pick out of Truman took -a brief holiday from the Tokyo radio's startling broad- the Big Three conference today 0:0 cast today urging the United States fly to Frankfurt and review Ameri- to take a more lenient attitude 1 troops there. - about this business of peace. , The President’s trip, cflming during The appeal was carefully hedged a ‘lu]! in the International Parley, about with qualifications which coincided with the disclosure that . 3 o he planned to make a nation-wide ht.ted & nea!ly into- Tokyo's TRGR) radio report to the American people propaganda line. Nevertheless, it when he returns to Washington at gave the impression that Japan ! g ‘ SonlA B definitely Intersatid tn; Lk ona oL seniorence. peace if only the unconditional sur- render formula could be softened. FRANKFURT ON THE MAIN, July 26.—President Truman, reviewing Japan 1% Rijped trcops in this area, told men of the The broadcast, heard by the gy rnfantry Division today that he Federal Communications Commis- hoped they would come home to a sicn, came on the heels of the ypniteq States that was “as you like mest disastrous two weeks the i ang want it to be.” empire has undergone. | R e TP R Mammoth Superfort raids, para-' lyzing ' land-based aerial strikes | from Okinawa, and the great fleet B U l l E T I N S‘ since July 10 have ripped - the; cmpire from stem to stern and| i further mangled the Japanese war| LONDON—Britain’s newly desiz- machine in China and elsewhere. |nated Prime Minister, Clement R.| So much so that earlier ‘,Dday‘muee‘ declared tonight that Brit- Disclosure Made Presidenlj to Make Nation-wide | Radio Report E at the enemy's stunned cities and draw from Manchuria in favor of Tokyo radio agreed with Admiral ain’s first task is to finish the war shattered ships. | Moscow as a price of Russian non- 'y o0 that American sea and air | With Japan. Attlee made this state- As Admiral Halsey pulled back intervention, the magazine saidy power indeed had opened the pre- | Mment toa tumultuous mass meating to sea, there was no indication that he intended to let up in his steady pounding of war plants, coastal defenses, Airfields and the rem-; nants of the Japanese fleet. | (Japan still was harassed con-| stantly., Five B-29's mined Osaka! Bay, off the southeastern coast of | (Continued on Page Two) WL AR The Washingion Merry - Go-Round. By DREW PEARSON Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) (Note — Drew Pearson today continues his series of columns on the problems facing Presi- dent Truman at Potsdam. Earlier columns described diffi- culties with both the Russians and British in their “spheres of influence.”) WASHINGTON—Before he left for Potsdam, President Truman ex- pressed concern to intimate ad- visers regarding heavy American losses on Okinawa and his desire to cut these losses by getting our Allies to share a greater burden in the war against Japan. | He made it clear that this would be one of his chief goals at the “Big Three” conference. Since ar- riving at Potsdam, reports indicate that Truman has followed this up by trying to bring Russia into the war and secure larger British par- ticipation against Japan. If he adding: | “Moreover, they offered to recog- nize the independence of Indo- China, Burma and the Philippinesf and to submit to American occu-| pation of Korea and even For- mosa on one condition—that the invasion phase of warfare against’©f the victorious Labor Party. (the Japanese homeland. SAN FRANCISCO — An uncon- said ’ firmed Japanese broadcast reported |today an American reconnaissance force landed on Puket Island, off Peace Feelers The Japanese peace feeler there really are no “problems™ be- tween a “liberal America” and| | main Japanese home islands should re-|Japan, and claimed that a “liberal | free of American invasion America has never given occasion and occupation.” |for Japanese militarists to rise, Newsweek, which did not give the but America now talks of uncon- source of its information, said also!ditional surrender.” that Widar Bagge, retiring Swedish | ne jmplication 15 that America Minister to Japan, transmitted t0 js pot now “liberal” and that the the United States early last May | yneonditional surrender formula is “Japanese request for clarifica- ,n outgrowth of the lack of what ® the west coast of the Malay Pen-/ iinsula yestorday but was driven | “back to the sea” by the Japan garrison. | WASHINGTUN — E. P. Carville, Democrat, until Tuesday Governor . of Nevada, was sworn in today as a | Senator from that State. He filled (Continued on Page Four) tion of the American ‘unconditional surrender’ formula.” | ' | EARTH TREMOR | | FELT IN SOUTH AUGUSTA, ‘' Ga.,, July 26.—An carth tremor was felt in this area at 6:30 a. m, today. The shock lasted only a few seconds and no property damage was reported. - e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 26 — Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine stock today is 6%, American Can 95%, Anaconda 32, Curtiss-Wright 6%, International Harvester 8214, Kennecott 36, New York Central 25%, Northern Pacific 27%, U. S. Steel 66'2. Pound, $4.03. Sales today were 1,440,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 160.91; rails, 55.71; utilities, 32.22. the vacancy left by the death of | Sen. James G. Scrugham, Demo- | crat. the Japanese consider liberality. Hara Retribution “In short, they (American om-; S cials) intend to mete out such a! DARMSTADT, Germany — Two hard retribution that the Japanese | German women and nine men went people are more determined than |on trial for their lives today on| ever to unite and resist as a united {charges of killing six defenscless mass of 100,000,000 souls and will jAmerican fliers last August 26 in| {so continue as long as American the village of Russelsheim, a few| minds remain dictatorial and op- |Miles north of Darmstadt. pressive,” declared the Japanese commentator. WASHINGTON—The nation’ ¢ 3 | casualties rose to 1,058,842 toda | “Should America show any sin- ;o eace of 5741 in the past week | cerity of putting into praotice What | sy figures included 920,220 killed, Ishe preaches, as for instance In|y,undeq and missing, an increase |the Atlantic Charter, excepting itS of 9775 over last week. The Navy i punitive clause, the Japanese Na- repgrted 138,622 casualties for an | tion, in fact the Japanese military, 'inerease of 2,963. would automatically, if not wn-; .5 lingly (several words missing) | CHICAGO—Work came to a halt' follow in the stopping of the con- today in production of Superfortress flict and then and then only Wm:englnes at the Dodge-Chicago plant sabers cease to rattle both in the of the Chrysler Corporation by a East and in the West,” he con- strike caused by an aceumulation of tinued. | grievances. i .- - 2 7 Private quail shoot‘ms'preserves.\ WASHINGTON—Stabilization Di- some ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 rector William Davis is studying acres, are maintained in some plan for relaxing wage contr . touthern states. provided prices are not boosted. 4 | |ufacturers of automobiles, RUSSIA MAKES REQUEST, BIG | SLICE, UNRRA * Asks for Seven Hundred?- Million Dollars of | Agency's Funds | WASHINGTON, July 26—Russia’s request for $700,000,000 worth of UNRRA aid met a mixed reception in Congress today. Simultanecusly, but without ref- erence to the Russian appeal, an! UNRRA official said the agency's funds are running low and that nations participating in its reliel and rehabilitation operations might be asked to increase their contri- butions. These now are fixed at one per cent of their national in- - come for one year. The Soviet Government's initial application for help ,was disclosed by “Roy F. Hendrickson, UNRRA Director, in response to a ne conference question yesterday. He said the request would be screened, as are those from other nations, to deteymine Russia’s ability to import goods and pay for them. | Members of the Senate Foreign ' } Relations Committee available to reporters declined to comment, but Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said: “I am very much afraid they won't get that much. I don't taink UNRRA is going to operate on such a large scale, | Senator Tunnell (D-Del) com-| mented: “Of course, UNRRA is an international organization and knows the situation better than we do. The Russians were a terrific help in the war and I hope they get their proportion. oL ST SRR PROGRESS IS MADE IN RECONVERSION | TOPRIVATE WORKS| | WASHINGTON, July 26.—Amer- !ican industry, taking advantage of a $16,300,000,000 cut in war contracts in the first half of the year, has made “excellent progress toward re- conversion.” So saying, WPB added in a statement that while recon- rsion cannot go faster than re- scurces are released from war pro- duction, some industries have made ‘cutstanding progress.” Mentioned particularly were man- electric .ppliances, domestic refrigerators laundry equipment, sewing mach- ines, vacuum cleaners, cooking and heating stoves, plumbing and heating equipment and office equipment and printing and publishing machinery. | Despite the good start toward re- conversion, WPB refused to predict when individual manufacturers will be back in civilian production or when their products will reach the market. - ‘The most recent compilation re- have occurred in the United States. in the past 27 years. Toll of Years Five yea ticn ¢f hi the jrunt Minister sruellin ars. age, on May 11, 1940, Winston Churehi inet for Britain, vigerous British l.ader a year bcfore he becam: Prim> d the still alert but less animated war chief after five He will new retive as Prime Minister follewing defeat — s ed forma- These two pictures show o his Conservialve Government in the British election. CHINESE CAPTURE - NAMYUNG | | {Site of Seventh Former New Adnulrir;istration; : IS (REAIED American Air Base Is Regained CHUNGKING, July 26 — The Chinese high command announced today that Chinese troops had cap- tured the city of Namyung, 155 miles northeast of Canton and site of the seventh former Arherican air base to be regained from the apanese in recent months. “The announcement said the Japa~ nese garrison was retreating west- ward toward Kukong, on the Canton-Hankow railway 15 miles nerth of Canton, Namyung was the point from which Wolfram, mined in the sur- rounding district, started on the first leg of its air journey to the United States. - e — | | OKINAWA -- Lieut. Gen. James Daolittle predicts that 5,000 planes o veals that nearly 4,000 tornadoes in one day will soon be attacking Japan transforming the coyntry into ta nation of nomads, charges 'CUPID CLUB’ | PRISON RULE IN SHAKE-UP Guards Against Upris- ing by 5000 Inmates JACKSON, Mich., July 26 — new administration assumed tem- porary control of the big State Pricon ,of Southern Michigan today less than two hours after seven top prison officials were suspended on of mg gamuling, immorality and domination by “big shot”ger nals within the walls. Steps were taken immediately to guard against the possibility of an uprising by some of the more than £,000 inmates. The shakeup was disclosed at Lansing by the Michi- gan Corrections Commission after a meeting lasting until -early this morning. Gargett Heyns, State Corrections Director, was named acting warden by the commission and moved in immediately with his staff, e re- placed the veteran Warden Harry H. Jackson. permi i i cepted the resignation of the 70- A largets LABOR PARTY IS VICTORIOUS IN ELECTION Leffists, Headed by Clem- ent R. Attlee, Wins by 2 fo 1 Vole Askuerated Press) 4 LONDON, July 26 — Winston Churchill resigned tonight as Prime Minister in the wake of a veting tabulation which showed the strongly Socialistic Labor Party had won a 2 to 1 landslide over Churchill’s Conservatives in the July 5 election, King Georve VI tonight commis- sicned Clement R. Attlee to form a new Labor Gevernment. The count showed the Laborites had won 381 seats in the 640-seat Mouse of Commons, to the Con- servatives’ 183, as the wartime leadcr presented his resignation at Puckingham Palace. King George VI immediately ac- | year-cld statesman. i | Churchill went to Buckingham [l‘alnce at 7 p. m. (2 p. m., Eastern | War Time), | Churchill gave his last V-sign as ! premier when he drove through the | palace gate, sitting alone in the' i back seat of his automobile. His | grave face was breken by a brief cmile for a little crowd which }gre( ted him as the sentrics saluted. ! Churchill had been Prime Min- |ister sinee May 10, 1940. ! Returns available at 6:30 p. m, POLITICAL SENSATION 'Results of Brifish Election Big Topic of Potsdam Delegates H By DANIEL DeLUCE (Associated Press Correspandent) POTSIDAM, July 2—News of the Eritish Labor party’s election triumph produced the political sen- sation of the year among delegations to the three great allied powers in Potsdam today. The defeat of Prime Minister Churchill’'s government apparently maiks the second break in the ori- ginal “Big Three" and leaves Pre- mier Stalin as the only member of that triumvirate, The first break was the death 'April 12 of President Roosevelt, wh place was filled by President Troman. Clement R. Attlee has been at- t-nding the Potsdam conference with Churchill, and thus is fully inform- ied cn the discussions.