The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 4, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALI, THE NEWS —_— = ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 10,031 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED-PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS =>. " _/ 'PREPARING BASE FOR INVASION OF JAPA ip Seized With i Jap Cruiser B Jap Hospital Sh Navy Planes Fire Village on Hokkaide started by Navy carrier-based plafies burn over a wide area of the Japanese village of Nemura on', * Hokkaido afler the attack by Third Fleet fliers on July 15. (AP Wirephoto from U. 8. Navy)._ BUDGET FRACAS NEW ACTION ON | | MOPPING' UP OF JAP WAR MACHINE Brifsh fo Take | " DETOURS OTHER CITY _BUSINESS Liquor Dealers Petition for Later Closing Hours | Here Take North Finding budget “whys and where-: WASHINGTON, Aug. fors” plenty to occupy a full even-|British may take over mopping up] ing at last night's Council session, of the South Pacific, leaving Gen~' the City Fathers disposed of most eral MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz | extransous matters via the “commit- free to concentrate on Japan's tee” route. |homeland and immediate environs. The following communications ‘This was the considered evalua- were receiyed, read and tossed to!tion of the military talks British and | committees: | American Army and Navy leaders From operators of local bars and {have completed for destroying Nlp-! lquor ‘stores, & joint petition re- pon's war machine. | questing later closing hours in view! It was felt likely that Lord Louis| of relaxation of the war emergency Mountbatten, British Commander | and the return of tourists. The op-/in Southeast Asia, will be placed in| ake Over South Pacific - Americans | 4.—The| | | crators asked a3 o'clock a. m. closing’ hour for cocktail bars and retail li- quor stores on Sundays, 2 a. m. on' other days, through amendment of the liquor enforcement ordinance. Referred to the Police Committee. From Roald C. Copstead and Har- old Bates, a request for transfer of the retail liquor license held by Irv- ing’s Market to the new 20th Cen- tury Market to be opened by them in the same location. Referred to Police Committee. From John H. Clements, M. D, a request that a concrete sidewalk be irlstalled in front of his residence at 923 D Street, on the usual joint- expensé basis. Referred to Streets G ittee. i 4 r?:n Mrs. Bert Lybeck, a :pro- I'.that - the City purchase her usband’s tools, in use by the Streets Depattient . for eight years, for $100. ‘ Referred to the Properties Committee. § & Prom the Federal Works Agency, in reference to the Adyvance Plan- ning Program for post-war projects, stating that additional Congressipnal appropriation for the Program is an- | ticipated and that submission of plans now will assist in giving an overall picture of contemplated post- war public works construction. Re- tained by Mayor Ernest Parsons for further study and recommendation. The Council also listened to monthly progress reports submitted by the Police Department, the Ju- venile Department, the Streets and Sewers Department and Utilities En- gineer Walter Stuart. The last re- ported investigation of the properties of the two water companies, an in- spection of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company’s Annex Creek power plant and collection of statis- tical data on the water and light companies which he said will be of value to the’ engineering firm of Black ahd 'Veatch In making an ap- "7 \Continued on Paye Sever) charge of an area extending from the | Solomon Islands to just south of | the Philippines, leaving him respon- | LAVAL TRIES | SHIFT BLAME ONTOPETAIN France’s Survival Depend- ed on Collaboration with Enemy, Claim PARIS, Aug. 4—Pierre Laval, re- suming the story of the 1942 broadcast in which he expressed hope for a German victory, said today he had explained his reasons for the talk to Admiral William D. Leahy, then U. 8. Ambassador to Vichy. Laval did not relate the reaction of Leahy, now Chief of Staff to President Truman..In a letter read 'CONTRABAND ALSO IS FOUND 'ON VESSEL Craft Being Taken Info Al- lied Port for Further Investigation MANILA, Aug. 4 — A Japanese , hospital ship carrying cnmralu;nd arms and apparently fake patients | has been seized in the Banda Sea Inorth of Dutch-Portuguese Timor and is being brought into an Allied port today for investigation, Gen. MacArthur's Headquartersan- nounced. 3 A boarding party from the block- ading Allied Seventh Fleet found | | boxes marked ‘“medical supplies | MacArthur said. 3 | The accosted vessel was cleaply {marked with safe-conduct red { crosses on its sides and upright on | the superstructure. There were approximately 1,500 |men aboard listed as patients. When bandages were removed from | some of them no wounds, were found, the announcement said. | ‘The ship's” route was not dis- ! closed. Boarding of the vessel by the machine guns, 75 millimeter shells: and other ammunition packed . lasted by Nav'yrfrliiers af Kure . ‘Water from cxploding bomb geysers high beside a Jap cruiser of the Tone class as Navy carrier-based | * planes attack at Kure on Honshu party from the Allled Seventh i . Fleet was in strict, conformity with ' internatjonal; law. and the Geneva, Island July 24. At the right, blasts compleetly smother another Jap wirship. (AP Wirephoto from U. 8. Navy) Fake Patients BIG FORCE GETS READY 10 HIT NIPS | g S | Gen. MacArthur Adds An- other Air Fleet fo On- to-Tokyo Drive By Leonard Milliman (Assaciated Press War Edior) Gen. MacArthur, forming @ . | mighty invasion force for the final conquest of Japan” disclosed today he has added another air force to_ the powerfyl sky armada pounding " Japan so tharoughly that “not a single area of safety” remains in all the sacred lslands, The . on-to-Tokyo leader an- nounced he has taken over com- mand . of Okinawa and other Ryikyu Island bases, added them to the Philippines as “a great semi- circular base” for invasion.. . The Thirteenth “Jungle ~Alr foree” is being moved up from the Philippines - to * M:l '!ourm ot Okinawa-based alr . forces - mering the enemy homeland. Th Thirteenth is part of omm O. Kenney's Far Eastern Air F¥ de- tons tons | | i which so far this. year have stroyed or daniaged 2,846932° of enem;u shipping ;and 1376 ’;}blf’l (;r‘.libcraung Singapore andiparlier at the Petain trial, Leahy ; ;d nb‘:: f C ess applauded | expressed belief that the 89-year- embers of Congress applauded 8| 14 Marshal Petain “always had suggestion of Lt. Gen. Doolittle a'.[ | Okinawa that a single commandant |be named for the Pacific and sug- gested MacArthur for the role Getl. Eisenhower served in Europe. { 'SUPPORT GROWING FOR ALASKA ROAD LINK THROUGH B. C. SEATTLE, Aug. 4—Earliest con- struction of the Alaska Highway| {link through British Columbia is be- | ing urged by Gov. Mon C. Wall-| !gren’s advisory committee. Kirby Billingsley of Wenatchee, Chairman of the Commission’s Highway Committee, said the sup-!| port of Pacific Coast and Mountain | States organizations was being ask- ed. 1 He said Congressional parties| | stopping here enroute to Alaska had | expressed themselves as in favor of | the project. Rep. Delacy (D-Wash) is spon- |soring a bill asking $14,000,000 for |the project. The Canadian government pre- sumably will bear part of the ex- pense, Billingsley said, and the United States probably would have| to provide only about $5,000,000. ! DR iy RTY GIVEN BY SARAH LINEHAN Miss Sarah Linehan entertained a group of 25 of her young friends |at a party at Auk Bay Beach last night. Mr. and Mrs. Linehan were hosts of the evening. | | | | BEACH PA acted in the best interests —of France. Laval's mention of Leahy came after a defense attorney asked if the United States had made any moves to break diplomatic rela- tions with Vichy after the broad- cast by Laval bespeaking a Hitler victory. A juror remarked - that Laval should know that after his depar- ture yesterday Marshal Petain saitl that he insisted on the removal of “that phrase from the radio speech.” Petain told the court hg was amazed when he heard the speech delivered with the disputed passage. Laval testified yesterday - he broadcast the statement “I desire a German victory” only after Pe- tain made him change the wording from “I believe in a German vic- | tory.” Today, in response to the juror, Laval said: “I stand on what I said. The Marshal deleted the -word ‘believed’ but left the word ‘desire’ And he was not indignant at all.” Laval testified that long after he made the broadeast, Petain said in a speech that “from now on, Laval and I walk band in hand— all subjects of discussion between us have been solved.” Describing his work during' the occupation, Laval said the Ger- mans “asphyxiated” France by oc- cupying departments from which most of the important food sup- plies and industrial products nor- mally came. } “It would have been impossible <‘Guhventlons_ to, ascertain if im- proper use was being made of a | hospital ship. CHINESE " DRIVING OM JAPS 'Movement Is Launched fo . Block Withdrawal of Enemy fromKwangsi CHUNGKING, Aug. 4.—Chinese troops have launched a drive appar- ently aimed at cutting the Hunan- |Kwangsi railroad in Hunan province and blocking-the main avenue of the |Japanese withdrawal from Kwangsi | province, the High Command indi- cated today. The _Chinese, after recapturing the important Japanese stronghold of 8inning, a Hunan province strong- jhold- safeguarding the enemy’s western .flank, smashed ahead in the direction of the important rail town of Tungan in pursuit of the enemy. Tungan, in Hunan, is roughly midway between Kweilin and the Japanese bastion of Heng- yang, where the Hunan-Kwangsi railroad meets the Canton-Hankow line. | | | | | | | | Former Nazi Shrine City Chosen as Site, War Criminals Tria NUERNBERG, Germany, Aug. 4. | —The former German Palace of Jus | Shrine* City, has been chosen for | the trials of arch war criminals which will begin September 1, a spokesman for Robert H. Jackson, Chief U. 8. Counsel on the Allied War Crimes Commission, making | the announcement. — .- ANDERSON IN JUNEAU Bert L. Anderson, of Seattle, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. !1aboration,” Laval added. “We had to negotiate.” “We depended on the Germans for everything.” He said that in return for send- ing 150,000 French workers to Ger- many, an act for which French public opinion today holds Laval mainly responsible, he obtained the for France to survive without col- liberation of 50,000 prisoners. APPROVAL FROM - MEMBERSHIP IS OLENDY ANSWER nies Sitka Priest’s Con- frol of St. Nicholas Potsdam Profocol Was In Large Measure Plan Suggested by P_rgsidenl; "OUT" - AGAIN By Emest B. Vaccaro (Associated Press Correspondent) WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN ABOARD U. 8, 8. AUGUSTA, Aug. 4-President Truman's oft-expressed | view that a solution ean be found for every legitimate controversy emerged today as one of his major contributions to the Berlin Con-, ference. Presiding over the sessions with geniality and good humor, he early convinced the British and Russian leaders that no gyenue of com- romise should be abandoned. | MAYOR PUL \Parsons Loses Patience with Dilatory Tactics of Council Jerked again! That's the status of Juneau's City Budget for 1945-46, as of today. The budget was almost the en- tire order of business at last even- ing's first regular August. session of the Common Council. when some of the councilmen CITY BUDGET But— | | (Superfort) , Alr’ Fe to start operations - island this month. in addition to the Twentieth (Su. | controlied 1 news agency com- plained, “thére certainly is not & single area of safety throughout | Japan.” Tokyo reported a ~handful of B-29's and Navy‘bombers were over the Tokyo area today, hit yeater- day by Mustang fighters from Iwo Jima and Pleet Air Wing 18 from Okinawa. Between them ‘they wrecked 19 Japanese planes, 13 ves- sels ranging from a amall freighter- ; transport tq f! boats, 20 loco- motives, trainy ground insalla- tions. ‘Thirteen more enemy vessels were | knocked out by alr forces operating Denial that any right to control| "o provacol which emerged in of the St. Nicholas Church inine gmall bours of Thufsday was Juneau is vested in the plaintiff pocoq i large . measure upon pulled. out their sharpest pencils|in southern waters under MacAr- and started trimming a shaving thur, here ‘and clipping a corner there,| Japanese sulcide planes sank ome { tice at Nuernberg, one-time Nazi| was the basis on which the Rev. Fugene Olendy made answer in U. 8. District Court here yesterday to legal action seeking his ejection, brought in the name of the Most Reverend Theophilus, Bishop of San Prancisco and Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Greek Cath- olic Church of the United States of America. i | Overshadowing the squabble over the right to possession of the Ju-‘ neau church properties ‘is, how-| iever, the issue of Soviet domination | of churches of the Russian Ortho- |dox faith within North America.' The defendant looks to Moscow as |the ' source of ‘his authority. The| { : | platritiff speaks for autonomy of| o of Foreign Ministers of the clusion of the Board of Equaliza- | | the North American Church. | The underlying schism and the | fight for control by the opposing | factions was brought out by five ’exhiblts entered in evidence before |the court Friday afternoen. Called to the stand.as complain- ing witness by Attorney H. L. | Faulkner, John Zlobin, the Right Reverend Archimandrite of the |Russian Greek Catholic Church of |the United States of America in Alaska, Priest of St. ‘Michael’s | Cathedral, Sitka, testified that he [had been . appointed by Bishop | Theophilus as Administrator of all | church properties in Alaska. He |identified a letter he had written |from Sitka to the Rev. Olendy at Juneau. In part, the latter alleges: Permission Refused That as custodian “of the St., Nicholas Church properties here, the Rev. Zlobin refused the Rev. Olendy permission to conduct| church services in Juneau. As rea- sons for the refusal, the Rev. " (Continued on Page Three) agenda the Presidant brought with him in writing to the first meet- ing. Prepared in freqient consulta- tions with James F. Byrnes, Secre- tary of Stdte, the sproposals gave the three delegatipns a basis for starting immediate ‘consultations. Mayor Ernest Parsons decided that these summer nights aren't long cnough. Withdrawing his own proposed budget—the same as presented last week, with three suggested added items—the mayor tossesl the whole affair into the lap of the Council Finance Cemmittee, directing that group to bring in its own budget proposal for the next meeting. Result—another special council When the propesals were pre- sented, Churchill | added certain subjects orally, as did Generalis- simo Stalin. b the President’s” o agenda was referred immediately meeting is likely in the offing, as to the forelgn gecretaries, forming ! &n adopted budget is deemed neces- the basis for most of the future 58Ty before the council sits down discussion. |to the business of setting the tax |millage rate; which is supposed to The decisfon to establish a be done immediately following con- United States, Russia, Great Brit-| tion hearings set for next week. ain, China and PFrance was based !’ All Week To Whittle on the agenda, “You've had all week” to do your | whittling on this budget, the mayor Mr. Truman, did much to keep,(oiq his council; now “I don't care his conferees in good humor|ynat you do.” throughout the nine meetings. He — qy, mayor pulled that same old left Potsdam with the apparent;),qge; back into the open last good will of the Russlan and nighe with no changes from what British leadership. 3 | had been presented to the council| AL.“"" meeting, Attlee suggested , woek ago reserved for further a technical change in language In|coneideration. The mayor just one part of the protocol based on!aaded three susgestions: the American agenda. Stalin ap- 1--Inclusion of $600 for com- parently thought the American lan- pilatidn and revision of the city guage was clearer than the British. | o ainance. § Mr. Truman told Stalin the change| 5_gight hundred dollars as a was agreeable to him. | suggested addition for civic la- “If the President of the Unuualmmy Iodiianoe - coverage; States uufer»tands it, the Russmnsi 3—Employment of a can, too,” Stalin replied with a|acecsor at $3,600 a year grin. § . {to include the new duties of Sani- The closing session last ’Ihurs,duy!mry Inspector and Fire Marshal brought® a suggestion from Mr.| qhe mayor stated that although Truman that if there is another|ine revision job on the ordinance “Big Three” get-together, it bel pgs giready been contracted, he staged in Washington. thought that Henry Roden, who is “God willing,” Stalin smilingly| oo g h replied. full-time the job (Continued on Page Two) ' U. 8. ship and damaged another in lone of thelr now-rare counterat- | tacks at the growing Okinawa base 350 miles south’ of Japan. Within the next couple of weeks Gen. Spaatz, who retains command lof all Army Strategic Air Forces, {should announce that Gen. Doo- | little’s B-29's have joined the merial invasion of Japan, Presumsbly, part of their job will be to help Marianas -based - Superforts in blockading Nipponese harbors with parachute-sown mines and peddling propaganda. B-29's are delivering {the “Rakkasan Parachute News" to. | Japan and within, seven . weeks {plan about a weekly circulation of ffom 1,000,000 to. 8,000,000. | Leaflefs Dropped Telling Japs {To Surrender GUAM, Aug. 4~—Three million leaflets bearing the Three Power |demand for immediate surrender as lannounced at Potsdam have been | dropped on Japan by Superfortresses in a renewal of psychological war- fare, the 20th Alr Force announced today. { PN 2ol | KETCHIKAN WOMEN HERE | | Mrs. Margit Diety and Mrs. | Janette Edwards, of Ketchikan, are |guests at the Baranof Hotel. BUTTS HERE | 1 Lee Butts arrived in Juneau yes- terday via Alaska Coastal from Pelican, and is a guest at the Bar- anof Hotel.