The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 31, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRL “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 10,027 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — JAPAN BOMBARDED FOR SEVENTH TIME - v BIG 3 WILL MEET TODAY AFTER DELAY Stalin’s lliness Causes Two Day Respite-"Payoff” Stage Now Reached BULLETIN—POTSDAM, July 31.—Premier Marshal Stalin at- tended a three and a half hour Big Three conference today after a two-day absence caused by a slight head cold, it was an- nounced tonight. Stalin’s slight illness had pre- vented his conversations since Sunday with President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee. BULLETIN — NEW YORK, July 3L—Armed officers have taken up a guard over the broad- casting studio at Petsdam to prevent disclosure of the end of the Big Three conference, the American Broadcasting Com- pany reported today. 1Its correspondent, Donald Coe, said “indicative of the tightened censorship operations' was the presence in the Attic studio, used by all British and American kroadcasters, of an armed Army { officer directed to assure that broadcasters adhere to previous- ly censored scripts. It is said the conference might end Thursday. POTSDAM, July 31 — Premicr Stalin has been slightly indisposed for the past two days it was di tlosed today, but is expected to a tend ‘s meeting of the “Big Three” his afternoon. The disclosure apparently ex- Oregon Ravaged by Forest firg - i Fifteen hundred men were battling a 27,000-acre forest fire, the third disastreus fire to hit Oregon’s Tillamook County in 12 years. (AP Wirephoto) . |mated discussion, i | settled COUNCIL VOTES T0 COMPROMISE ON VALUATIONS (City Will Foot Billfor Com- | mittee fo Survey ' Grievances | Mayer Ernest Parsons this afternoon revealed that John Reck has agreed to serve as the | City Council's choice on the | three-man committee that is to assist taxpayers in presenting cvidence of assessment inequities | to the Board of Equalization. | It is expected that Mr. Reck and Taxpayers Association rep- resentative Walter Sharpe will reach agreement this evening on the third member of the com- mittee. | After nearly three hours of ani-! during which | nearly everyone spoke his piece, the | Ccmmittee representing the Juneau Taxpayers Association ~last night with the City Administra- | tion for a part of the loaf. The proposal finally agreed to by ! | the Committee, and approved by all! | five members of the Council present, sets forth that the Coumcl shall ap- not a member of this or the immed- iately preceeding Council, that the' Taxpayers Association shall name | | similar representative and that the two so named shall select a third isimllar person, the three to act as an | agency to make recommendations to |the Board of Equalization concern- Img propertics wherein it is claimed {that assessed valuations are not \rquul cr uniform or do not represent the actual values. The so-named Y- - e o { Brifain’s Laber Now in Power, Sirange U.S.S. PITTSBURGH’S BOW TORN OFF BY TYPHOON New Rackel Revé&ie& cemmittee of three is to have access | to necessary tax records and shall| [attach its recommendations to the| | assessment cards concerned, for the Mixture, Personalilies plained a two-day lapse in his| talks with President Truman and‘l Prime Minister Attlee. Stalin’s indisposition was believed nothing more than a slight cold, but the 66-year-old Premier's phy- By Arrest |The three agents will commence work on grievance on August 1 and |shall be paid by the City at the rate of $15 a day, each. The motion that carried was of 20-Year siclan took every precaution to safeguard his health and ordered him not to leave the house. His condition was reported im- proved today and it was stated specifically that a meeting of the “Big Three” was scheduled for the afternoon. The talks are understood to have reached a point where the heaviest work devolves upon the “Big Three” themselves. In other words, the talks are believed to have reached the “pay-off” stage, to use undiplomatic slang. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DRFW PEARSON Lt. Col. Robert 8. Allen uow on active service with the Army.) ALLIES ARE " DIVIDEDON Decided Views N\ { By John M. Hightower (Associated Press Correspondent) . JAP iSSUE Treatment of Emperor Hirohito Brings Ouf Two WASHINGTON—The ‘Wirst Lady | of the Land, like & lot of other people, is having servant troubles. | WASHINGTON, July 31.—Allied] Councils are divided sharply over Just at the moment, Harrison J.|the treatment to be accorded Emper- es. One letter concluded: “God Irving, 24-year-old Negro of 501|.. girohito of Japan. | bless yon people and —lovingly yours West Mill Ave, Independence, Mo, | pe difference of views, whichjalways. Bobbie Old Girl; It Paid, Too | | PORTLAND, Ore, July 31.—Slim, ;prclly Roce Marie Moore, 20, \vnu-i |ed in jail tcday for sentencing in ‘i(‘df‘rfll court after pleading guilty to Tn charge of defraudine porents of| ! Servicemen she claimed were the | father of a child she was bearing. The woman, wife of Army Sergeant Albert O. Moore, now in the Pacific, | was arrested in Dallas, Texas. She! | has no children. | Agents said she had befriended | Servicemen in night clubs and ser-| vice centers and after they went ir:vr-rsr:as she wrote their parents for | |money needed because she was to !bear their son’s child. Letters in the indictment were; !cent to families in Alvin, Ill, and Credo, W. Va. One was addressed to| |“Dear Mother and Dad: I suppose! 1it’s all right if I call you that ...” U. 8. District Attorney C. C. Don- augh said she obtained $225 from| {one family and signed various alias- | The principal bone of contention itee s0 named to survey assessments is threatening a walkout. Irving has served as caretaker of the Truman lawn for the past eight - years. But with the weather hot and the Trumans risen in the world, ‘'he has been thinking seri- ously of bolting the Summer White House ; staff because the ante is too low. , “I cut the lawn eight years ago when 1 was a boy High school,” confides Harrison ing. “And I got $4 for the job. That was big money then, °‘cause I lived with my folks. But I think I should get more money now and I'm gonna quit. “Besides,” he added as if he had| almost overlooked one grievance, “Mrs. Truman forgets to pay me.” Gardner Irving looked down at the lawn he had just finished cut- ting. He was in contemplative mood. “She wants me to dig dirt and weeds away from the sidewalk,” he continued, now more plaintive than contemplative. There’'s nobody gonna look after me after a car hits me, and besides I think the b i e A i i et O SRR (Continued on Page Four) — e, —— WELLLINGTONS HERE Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Wellington and daughters, Pat and Edith, have arrived from Anchorage, via Al- aska Airlines, and are guesis”at the Gastineau Hotel. spreads among groups within the She is b_eing held for examination United States government as well as by probation officers’ before being stood here to have been the busic‘} ————————— i |to Japan omitted all reference to ¢ | Hirohito or to the monarchy as an/ ayro u s As a result the way still is open| | | for the Japanese to try to save Lhcir“ | Emperor as the pinnacle of their a e y wo f ficials say they are hurting their| s chances by delaying inevitable cap-‘ (aI|! | A -check of officials here shows o the situation at the moment to be) | | 1. The British are reported follow-| Burbank, Calif., July 31.—Police ing the line that the Japanese Em-|throughout the state sere on the| the institution of menarchy in complished one of Southern Califor-| Japan—primarily as a means of pre- | nia’s largest payroll robberies in re- among other governments, is under- | sentenced. reason why the Potsdam ultimatum | institution. i government. However, American of-! Gunmen E | this: & i peror should be prcserved%crtainly:alen today for two gunmen who ac-| venting chaos and possibly eventual'cent years, when they received two dictatership in the | country. | The messengers, Victor Lohn, 26, | 2. At the other. extreme, the and Thurston Patterson, 45, told de- ‘reoples' Political Council of China tectives that their car was halted |has recommended to the Chinese|yesterday by two imen. Lohn and | government that Hirohito be brand- | Patterson said the men forced them |ed as a war criminal. | a middle of the road, “wait and see” |some nearby hills where they were | policy. The theory is that if the bcund and gagged. The gunmen Japanese people really want Hirohito then drove off with their car and they probably should have a chance | the bags of money. proposed by Councilman Don Skuse and was given a verbal OK by the Taxpayers Committee before being {put to a vote. Sharpe Named Following its passage, Walter Sharpe was named to act as repre- 'sentative of the Taxpayers Associa-| tion and Mayor Ernest Parsons was authorized to determine the selec-) {tion for the City Administration| !from a list of four names submit- ited by Councilmen: John Reck, J. J. Meherin, Nick Rocovich and Lockie MacKinnon. Allen Shat-| tuck’s name was also proposed by the Council, but was withdrawn at his request. between the taxpayers and the Council was whether any commit-| would be empowered to go over the entire tax roll to recommend equal- izing adjustments, or if it should only be authorized to handle assess- |ment grievances. On that point [the Council held to its position, lim- {iting. the authority of the comimit- tee of three to looking into com- plaints lodged with it. At one point, quantities of ofl spread on troubled waters by the Mayor prevented the representa- from stalking from last night's spec- ial Council meeting with their dan- der up. The critical point came upon the heels of the Council’s adopting, by a_five to nothing vote, a prior motion by Councilman Skusg to the effect that the original petition of the Taxpayers Association be re- jected. Councilman John Young was not present. Proposal Unlawful The Council based its action at that time on the contention that the original proposal would have set up a committee to equalize the assess- ment rolls whose decisions would be jbinding upon the Council—that such | action would be unlawful delegation of the Council’s authority. The Taxpayers representatives voiced that such was not at all the {for any such re-appraisal group. However, to the Mayor's suggestion |that the Taxpayers appoint their rolls, the Council having no part, | at gunpoint, to get in the ‘back of| committee Chairman Charles Nagh- | 3. The United States is following| their own car and then drove t0le) put up strong opposition. He ipointed out that the would not require Council authoriza- tion if that was all that was want- ed. The reason the Council had | to demcnstrate the fact. If it turns| The bank employees said they fin- |out they do not want him then he ally freed themselves and hitch- should not, in the American view, beimked to a telephone to notify the imposed upon them. police, been asked to name one member to the survey group was so that such a (Continued on Page Three) tives of the Taxpayers Association | intent of their petition, that an ad<| war-wrecked bank messengers of $111,300 in cash.!yisory capacity was all they asked own committee to go over the tax| ‘Taxpayers | | attention of the Equalization Board. - BULLETINS FORT LEWIS, Wash. — T/Sgt. Herbert A. Cooper of Juneau, Alaska, has arrived from overseas as a pa- tient at the Madigan Convalescent Hospital. He has been 38 months in Europe. After a convalescent fur- lough he will return to the hospital for reconditioning, HURON, S. D.—denator Harlar J. Bushfield suffered a cercbral hemorrhage on a train en route tc his home at Miller today, and doctor: hera described his condition as very critical. He is 63. A Republican he served two terms as Governor of South Dakota. WASHINGTON--A Special House Military Committee says there is # serious manpower shortage on the Paciffc Coast. It blames this or inadequate control of job-jumpers physically disqualified for military service. LONDON—It is understood that King George's opening speech tc Parliament tomerrow will give firs' priority to the Pacific war, the housing problem to be in second place. | i GUAM — Twelve Japancse cities were warned by the 20th Air Force they were marked for destruction by Superforts and the civilians told, by leaflets dropped, “to evacuate im- mediatély.” Six of the cities have already been blackened. WASHINGTON—AIl war effort is now -shifted to the Pacific and the War Department announces setting up of a combined Army and Public Relations Office in San Francisco to handle news of Army air, ground and service forces. DETROIT The United States Rubber Company today resumed production of B-29 tires under Army control, having taken over the plant late yesterday. i M PO W S L NEW YORK, July 31. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 98 Anaconda 327%, Curtiss-Wright 6%, International Harvester 82, Kenne- cott 37, New York Central 26%, Northern Pacific 27%, U. 8. Steel 68%, Pound $4.03%. Sales today totalled 870,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: Industrials, 162.88; rails, 57.12; utilities, 32.66. s . 7 , HER BOW RIPPED AWAY by a typhoon that struck a U. S. task force between Okinawa and the Philippines, | point one Juneau property OWwner,' the cruiser Pittsburgh is shown as she limped her way to Guam for repairs. Crew members survey the dam- age as the vessel heads for port. The 120-mile an hour wind that hit the fleet unit damaged more than 2] warships, the majority of which have since been repaired and returned to action against the Japs. Many were in the recent Tokyo assault. Official U. S. Navy Radioohoto. (International Soundphoto) LAVALONWAY OUT OF SPAIN TOSURRENDEK w.xsmlr:y(;::;«'. l.’]’:l:'w:l = Bm-:‘FOf(ed from Refuge, He| May Attempt Giving Up Party, ain’s Labor Party which swept | Churchill out of office is a strange | resembles the branch of the ‘Democratic Party more than any Secialist movement. ' It has its liberal and its conserva-| tive wings, has had no labor troubles similar to ours during the past decade. | mixture, liberal fo American Forces BULLETIN — FRANKFORT | ON THE MAIN, July 31.—Pierre Laval, expelled from Spain, flew to Linz, Austria and surrendered FLEET BACK INTOWATERS NEAR TOKYO Shimuzu Shelled as Planes Take Toll of 267 Ships and 430 Aircraft By Leonard Miiliman (Assoclated Press War Editor) American warships bombarded Japan for the seventh time today as Allied planes were credited with taking a three-day toll of 267 Nip- ponese ships and 430 aircraft. The great Allied fleet which has ' been preparing Japan for inva- sion for three weeks was apparently moving back into waters mear | Tokyo, lending weight to enemy ‘eports of intemsified preparations to meet assault waves on the shores of the homeland or’China, Latest bombardment—the . second in 24 hours—was cafried out this morning by destroyers operating boldly in Suruga Gulf, 80 miles southwest of Tokyo. They shelled Shimuzu, Nippon’s greatest alumi- num producing ecity, only 45 miles | northeast of Hamamatsu, target of 16-inch battleship guns ' 24 hours carlier. Five-Minute Bombardment Tokyo admitted one Shimuzu in- dustrial plant was squarely hit. The enemy radio said the bombardment lasted . only five minutes, during which 980 shells were poured into the city. The shelllng came on the heels of a 13-hour carrier plane raid over a 400«nile. ayc. of Japan's main: island, ‘reaching from Tokyo Bay to the Malzuru Naval Base on the west coast of the island. Sfkty vessels and 138 aircraft were destroyed or damaged and at least 60 airfields bomb-pocked. Simultaneous Strikes Simultanequs strikes by fighters and bombers from Okinawa and iwo Jima added 40 more ocean- % lConllnu}X on Page Two) new| today to United States Occupa- | tion Authorities who arranged to hand him cver to France at once, The swarthy former chief of the Vichy Government, who is charged with collaboration with the Germans, arrived with his wife in a Junkers 188 manned by two German pilots. The plane landed at Horsching Airport, Linz, were United States troops immediately took Laval into protective custody. French Army Headquarters were noti- fied, and Laval and his party left later in custody of U. 8. Clement Attlee, Brian's Srime Minister, is a poor man., He was little known among the ashionable people of England until | 1935 when his salary was raiscd to | 2,000 pounds a year, After | setting this pay boost, Mrs. Attlee! »as able to venture into society | or the first time, was able to start | Jlaying golf, hire enough help to| teep her home going. . . . Attlee ikes to putter in his garden, do, »dd jobs around the house, con-! stantly puffs a pipe, is a sharp| ontrast to fiery, charming Ramsey vViacDonald, England’s last Labor | >rime” Minister. . . . Attlee is | Hhe: M R Gen. John Copeland for the | (orthright leader, is considered . i sore. of “dfi’ bmferiial, piiddie-man;{ Feoneh Ocoupstibn Zone, will have all he can do to keep| eace within his own widely split arty. Attlee’s Rivals Attlee’s greatest rivals for power nside the party are paunchy, oviai Herbert Morrison and hard- MADRID, July 31.—The Spanish| covernment announced today that| |Picrre Laval was flying from Spain 1“in_the direction of the point of crigin” aboard the same plane that (he uced threz months ago to escape | \fromn Germany by way of Bolzano,| weaded, deep-voiced, t Ernest Ttaly i ?‘ 04 g gt Murru?on h’.“ :"‘s .“";:J": (Eemi-official reports in Paris said | eye when he was three days old,{yayq) was headed for Bavaria to *as had a “leftist” outlook ever g yender to American occupation since. Morrison has played | or0es ) runner-up to Attlee in many elec-| he former Vichy Chief of Gov-! Jdons, carries on constant br:hmd-‘r,”m..m" sought by France on a he-scenes warfare with Bevin. . . . charge of collaboration with the Ger- Bevin had the same war job which!mang was ordered by Spain to leave | Sidney Hillman took over in the the eountry. He originally planned OPM after Pearl Harbor- hanvllmx:m depart erday. Plane engine| labor relations. However, Bevin'trouble delayed his takeoff at Bar-| made 2 better go of it, fought celona. ¢ 1 rimly and suceessfully for better 1In his flight today, Laval was ac- rations for workers. . . .‘Morrison companied by his wife and two Ger- 15 a Cockney, has a spry sense of - (Continued on Page Two) aumor, likes to dance, is head.of -‘l he Labor Party in politically po-| A e 1 ent London. He is also a man of h L e e raauion. OYaSShoppers Are | nerusted Waterloo Bridge torn Go down because he found it unsvr»\'aken ’or bble viceabld) afterward had traffic roll- By Seagull; o ng more smoothly through the :enter of London. . . . Morrison is s 3 \ hard ruler, loves efficency, is' PIERRE, 8. D, July 31.—Thous- known as a practical reformer, a ands of seagulls have helped “put the | jrun” on the Pierre area's grass-| | hopper population in a throw-back to the storied assault by their an-| stors upon the locust infestation! of early-day Mormon fields in Utah. Residetns of farms covering a wide| sweep . around the capital - city brought word today of grasshopper- powerful party man. of Bevin Is Union Boss Ernie Bevin is a hard-headed union bos He hates dictator- ships but is a dictator in his own union, the giant Transport Workers. . Outside his union, however, Gen. Weygang Is Witness At Petain’s Trial Says He Assumed Full Re- sponsibility for French Armistice with Nazis By Louis Nevin (Associated Press Correspondent) BULLETIN—PARIS, July 31. Gen. Maxime Weygand declared today that Marshal Petain sent & sccret telegram to Adm. Jean Darlan “crdering the Admiral to cease operations against United States and British forces at the time of the janding in North Africa,” Petain’s attorneys announced they would ask for a postpone- ment of the trial if Pierre Laval was returned te France. Laval, who was chief of government in the Vichy regime, landed in Linz, Austria, today after being ousted from Spain, where he sought refuge when Germany collapsed. PARIS, July 31 — Gen. Maxime Weygand, commander of French Armies when the Germans broke through to Paris, assumed full re- sponsibility today for the French Armistice. He was the first defense witness at the trial 0f Marshal Petain, accused of intelligence with the enemy and plotting against the security of France. He limped into court, bowed low to Petain, and described himself as a “prisoner of val de grace.” “Coordinated resistance no longer was possible,” the mufti-clad Gen- eral said when he decided “to ask the government to demand an armistice.” “I considered it my duty as commander in chief to ask for an armistice. I took the decision my- Bevin's labor practices are more iike those of Sidney Hillman and Fhillip Murray. . . . He believes in |infested fields swept clean of the |insects by gulls which have milled (Continuea ;n 'f&,g 5iz) during the last several days. self and on purely military grounds. There was no question of collusion about in thousands over the region|With Marshal Petain.” (Continued on Page Two)