The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 7, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 10,033 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = 'JAPS STUNNED BY EFFECT OF NEW BOMB ‘The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DRFW PEARSON Col. Robert 8. Allen now on active service with the Armiy.) Lt WASHINGTON—John L. Sulli- van has gone about his new job of being Assistant . Secretary for Naval Aviation in a refreshing manner. Even before he took the cath of office, he went out to Admiral McCain’s flagship during one of the biggest operations against Japan, cruising within 170 miles of the Jap coast. Part of the time, Sullivan held no official position (not yet having taken the oath), so lolled around on the carrier'’s deck in a khaki uniform with no insignia, getting acquainted with the men. He came back with a heartening conclusion. “The chief American weapon of this war,” he said, “is not any new invention, but the ingenuity and courage and especially the spirit of these kids. It's the most inspiring thing in the world, the way they operate—as inspiring as a religious service. They will be loaf- ing on deck as if they hadn't a care in the world. “Then, suddenly, the planes start coming in, and they are right on the job—just as efficient as clock- work. And if one group is having trouble with its plane, you'll see; another crowd rush over to help| them. There never was a greater job of teamwork, ingenuity and| especially spirit ever seen in this| country—and that's true of all the Navy.” Sullivan pointed out that of 399 officers aboard his carrier, only five were regular naval officers. . “That,” he added, “is a tribute ‘fo what youngsters can learn to do in an emergency.” +In addition to the training of ATOMIC BOMB STIRS MUCH DISCUSSION Comments—fieard from; Tokyo to Vatican City on Weapon EQUALIZERS ACCOMPLISH BUT LITTLE Only Two T;x;;yers Heard During Last Night's Session plAéhedDde g SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7 — The! In the first round of their battle | enemy does Japanese warned the homeland to- day to brace itself for new atomic bomb attacks as they probed the| ruins of Hiroshima to learn the bhavoc wrought by the first blow from the “diabolic weapon.” “Since it is presumed that the enemy planes will continue to use this new bomb,” the Osaka radio sald in a domestic broadcast, “the authorities will point out measures to cope with it immediately.” | Japanese accounts said ‘“several bombs” fell on the big military base Monday, coming from the bombays of only a few Superforts, and Osaka added: “Even if the raid with a small number of planes we must be care- ful not to look at the raids lightly." Another broadcast beamed to'the United States declared that the use | of the atomic bomb branded “the enemy for ages to come as a de- stroyer of justice and mankind.” VATICAN VATICAN CITY, Aug. 7 — The Vatican City newspaper O'Osser- vatore Romano, today called the new atomic bomb dropped on’ Japan “a catastrophic conclusion to the war's apocalyptic surper It comparéd the invention of the” COMMENT ! green officers and men, SUMMVANL, g 1omp with the, invention of emphastred: that every ship in Ad- fnifal McCain’s task force was al-| most new. “You look out over the orizon,” said -the Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy, “and as far as| the eye can see—ships, ships, and more ships, all their keels laid! since Pearl Harbor—another great tribute to American industry, labor and ingenuity. * % % MRS. TRUMAN SHADOWED When Mrs. Bess Truman and her daughter, Margaret, first arrived at | (Continued on Page Four) FISHTRAPS DISCUSSED INHEARING 0ld Battle Revived at Kel- chikan Before Con- gressmen KETCHIKAN, Aug. 7—The old cry to abelish fish traps arose yes- terday in a hearing of a .special Sub-Committee of the House o'tx Representatives Territories Com-| mittee, of which Rep. Angell (R-| Ore.), is chairman. Frank Peratrovich, Territorial Representative . and officer of the Alpska Native Brotherhood, * testi- | fied that “Secretary of Interior; Ickes' Indian reservations are not| the solution to the problems of ‘Alaska,” and ‘declared that aboli- tion of fish traps would be a better answer. He said that the older Indians favor reservations while the younger ones oppose-them, and as- serted -that four. weeks is not time enough, for Indians to earn their; entire year's income seining salmon. | W. C. Arnbl; Managing Director of the Alaska Salmon Industry, Inc., pointed out that the trap fight has gome to Congress each year for decades without being changed, and testified the fight is the result of competition between the types of gear and traps most effective. A warning lest the salmon indus- try “close its eyes and deplete Alaska’s resources” was voiced by Rep. Peterson of Georgia, Chair- man of the Territories Committee. Rep. Ggssett of Texas is return- ing to the States by plane, and others of the groups are expected a submarine by Leonardo Da Vinci,, the Sixteenth Century Italian artist and inventor. It expressed regret .that the bomb’s inventors did not, like Da Vinci, destroy their creation in the interest of humanity. | “Da Vinci wanted to defeat death by thought,” O'Osservatore said, “but the road of men who have not his Christian charity must de- feat death with death. This in- credible destructive instrument re- mains a temptation, if not for horrified contemporaries, then for posterity, to whom little is taught by history.” t (The Encyclopaedia Brittanica says that Leonardo “knew of a method of remaining a long time under water, but he refused to tell | of it because of the ‘evil nature of | SUGGESTION CHICAGO, Aug. 7—One atomic bomb dropped smack on Emperor Hirohito's Tokyo palace would do more, psychclogically, to end the; war than anything else, Dr. Alter | Dill Scott, President Emeritus of | Northwestern University, saild to- day. WALL STREET NEW YORK, Aug. 7 — After, appraising the atomic bomb attack | on Japan for almost 24 hours, Wall! Street decided today that the: amazing . new development might mean a quicker - than - expected | peace, and ensuing selling drnve“ down stock market prices 2 points and more. | Biggest retreats appeared in the heavy war-rated stocks like rafl, utilities, . steels, aircrafts and metals. EFFECT ON NEWS ! PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 7-Palmer Hoyt, Portland newspaper publisher and former domestic director of the Office of War Information, said in a speech today that development of the atomic bomb makes manda-| tory unhampered world-wide dis- semination of news. | “Talk of a Third World War now is’ equivalent to discussion of race! suleide,” Hoyt told a, luncheon club. “Certainly there can be but one more war, because mankind now ‘has control of a force sufficient either to establish a dictatorship over the world, or, failing that,| to destroy it. “When we entered yesterday into! the atomic age, it became vital' that the peoples of the earth be| given the immediate opportunity to understand each.other through the medium of the world-wide flow of free information. “There is-only one thing that can 'zossion, along with a transcript of a| 'ALASKA CONSTR. 'Ihirty-Unitmsing Proj- {pany, of Juneau, is now engaged | OPerate the power? of the century with the city tax| |rolls, Juneau'’s common councilmen ! —sitting as a Board of Equnhznuoni —encountered plenty of “equalizing | up” as well as “equalizing down” in prospect. ! Accomplishment at last evening's Board of Equalization session was| nearly nil, however, From all the, throng of prospective complainants overflowing the Council Chamber,| only two taxpayers were heard: Nick Rocovich and Mrs. Senna Pow-| ers. The handling of Mr. Rocovich’s, plaint apparently set the pattern by | . which the Administration intends to dispose of the dissatisfied. Auer“ speaking his piece before the Coun- cil, Mr. Rocovich was shunted into the “back room” to talk to Evalua-| tor Howard S. Henretta. J " The committee-of-three that the| e Council had, under pressure, “per 4 mitted” to the taxpayers, to perform in an advisory capacity only, submit- e ted its report and recommendations 8 at the opening of last evening’s & Aflame’ (upper phete) this big Jap after an attack by a U. S. Navy had recently left Tokyo Bay. conference the same committee had| held with Evaluator Henretta. The Board of Equaligation read—and ignored—the committee’s report. A piflar of smoke and flame (lower photo) marks the grave of the Jap in the Pacific. seaplance hurtles taward the water patrol bomber. The enemy craft Committeemen There | ——— 77 s - Member . of the committee were » allowed to sit in at the Board ses-, sion last evening. When sssessmmti o er( a entries which the committee had been called upon to investigate came up they were earmarked for further' investigation. i Walter Sharpe, Taxpayers’ mem- ber of the committee-of-three, was, somewhat scathing in his comments' on last night's hearing; “The Council did not equalize a| single piece of property, nor did it apply (construction) rates or depre- | clation rates to a single piece of. WASHINGTON,' Aug. 7.—Secre-| property. If taxpayers are not here tary of War Stimson has cold- to protest in person they apparently watered the idea that there may be are not going to receive any consid- commercial use of atomic energy eration.” Seemingly the Board is socn after this war because of dis-| not going to check. over Henretta’s coveries connected with the atomic work, but is putting all adjustments bomb. up to him, was the gist of Shape's, g, says bluntly: g i “It will be a matter of much fur- Apmrently nobi il she Comgl, thur research and development to .|design machines for the conversion of atomic energy into useful power. How long this will take no one can predict but it will certainly be a period of many years.” But—granted that eventually ato- | mic energy can be used for peaceful | purposes—vital questions affecting mankind’s future have to be answered. | Uranium is the ore essential to pro- duction of thie atomic bomb. | Before this war there was a lot of | experimenting with uranium. And there was a lot of speculating on the future of atomic energy. Some of it went like this: There'd be fo need any more for |coal or ofl as fuel if the atom’s en- ergy could be turned into commercial use. A small capsule of .uranium, |aspirin-size, subjected to atomic | disintegration gives off tremendous heat. The heat makes stcam. Steam drives engines. So, that a capsule would drive the | Queen. Mary on a round-trip Atlan- ernment workers. |tic crossing, would keep an automo- Epstein also reported a $551,000 bile or airplane running for da; project at Hoonah, Alaska, to re-|would heat a man's home for a year, place an Indian - village which |would kéep factory wheels spinning burned last year, was 60 per cent| But who'd control this power: A completed. The project, handled mg!ew private corporations or the gov- cooperation with the Indian Ser- ernment. In the hands of a few cor- vice, will furnish 80 family units. porations, such control could be a stranglehold on America. If the government, how would it With such in re-constructing the Goldstein | atomic power would thers be any Building here. It also holds the |need for water-power dams at all? contract on the FPHA project at President Truman seems aware Hoonah which was announced as that atomic energy may in time re- 60 per cent completed. place power dams, for he said: “The Rock filling on the Willoughby fact that we can release atomic en- Avenue tidelands site of the three. |C78Y ushers in a new era in man's building housing project, for which und_sr_sr.andmg of nature's forces the general construction contract | Atomic energy in the future may was today awarded, is being pushed i’supplemem, the power that now to completion by the Territorial comeu”lrcln coal, oil and ra]nmg‘ Construction Company. W Which brings up this question Theentire’yreiesh 4a’ b emwd;flow,cheup would the power be Discus By JAMES MARLOW (Continued on Page Three) WINS CONTRACT, LOCAL PROJECT ect Here Bid in at $157,500 SEATTLE, Aug. 7—Award of a $157,500 contract to the Alaska Construction Company to build a 30-unit housing project at Juneau, was announced today by Jesse Ep- stein, Regional Director of the Fed- eral Ptblic Housing Authority. Construction will ‘start August 20, with the project to house gov- The Alaska Construction Com-| 92 Atomic Energy Were save civilization and that is the under the emergency war housing | unhampered release of objective program, is scheduled for comple- to return after a hearing at Juneau Thursday. The Congressional party, Jeft Ketchikan for Wrangell a weekend of fishing trips. news—American style—among tha:uon before the end of 1945. The nations. It will no longer be pos- H. B. Foss Conmipany,. of Junean, after sible for part of the world to be |is the architectural firm incharge informed, part kept in ignorance.” of the project. Cheap enough to compete at all with commercial power plants? This too, remains to be seen. | President Truman seems to say (Continued on Page Thiree) sed Before War MAYOR PEDERSEN LAUDS HENRETTA KETCHIKAN WORK Mayor R. C. Pedersen, of Ketch- ikan, today gave moral support to Juneaw's City Administration in its insistence on manning the guns in the cause of Howard S. Henretta and his evaluating abilities. To an inquiry by Juneau’s Mayor Ernest Parsons as to how well Mr. Henretta's prior work in Ketchi- kan is liked there, Mayor Pedersen, in a letter read last night at Mayor parson’s request to the Board of Equalization, replied as follows: “Dear Mayor Parsons: | “In reply to your wire regarding appraisal of property in Ketchikan as made by Howard Henretta, will state that the program as a whole | Nations since 1930. “There are enor- | has proven very satisfactory. “It i5 only natural to assume that in a program as extensive as ours some errors of judgement and com- | putation would arise, but they were of a limited and minor nature; also, our situation has advanced to mel stage where we can safely pass| Jjudgement on it. “The condition of our defieit had reached the point where it was ab-| solutely imperative that we take in-| telligent but drastic steps toward putting the City's affairs in good cund financial shape, and the im- ance of this situation was brought foreibly to the attention of taxpayers. That factor may have had considerable influence in| the sueccess of our plan. “My personal opinion, which I feel you wish to obtain, is that Mr. Hen- retta’s services to the City have been very satisfactory, particularly in| view of the fact that too few people | wish to pay increased taxes, justi- fiable or otherwise. “I trust that this will prove a sat- isfactory answer for you and may add that at any time I can be of ser- vice to you kindly feel free to call on me. . .." B VACATIONING IN CALIFORNIA | Spain and Switzerland. fu, Mrs. Chester Zimmerman is on a vacation trip to Oakland, Calif., where she will visit her mother,| Mrs. PFreda Swanson and dther| members of her family, and plans to be away about six or seyen weeks. NEWBOMB MAY SPEED | SURRENDER British P_rgs Forecasts. Sending of Ultima- fum fo Japs LONDON, Aug. 7.—A new surrvn-i der ultimatum to Japan, backed by the threat of the atomic bomb, was| ferecast in the British press today| and the question was raised whether | the United States and Britain would | cee fit to share their secret with| other allied nations. A London commentator, making the first disclosure concerning the size of the new bomb, said last| night it is ten times smaller thnn‘ a blockbuster but many times as| powerful. British experts on military, scien-| tific and international affairs, busy| making calculation on the effects of | the awesome development, said the, bomb would influence all future in-| ternational relations and produced! the “alarming problem” of how to controel it. “How far it will be possible or wise to diffuse generally over the world the knowledge of how to make these bombs poses a vitally important problem,” said Prof, Gilbert Murray, joint President of the League of mous difficulties in keeping it a sec~ ret of one or two nations.” The Daily Mail, in a Washington dispatch, quoted ‘“reliable sources” as saying the allles would serve Japan with an ultimatum threat- ening to her intd ‘oblivion with thé new weapon unless she surren- dered unconditionally. The ult-| matum would carry a 48-hour time | limit, the Mail said. There was no immedate confir-! mation from official quarters. Britain’s first gasp of amazement at the power of the atomic bomb and the hopes it spurred for a quick| TOKYO MAY BE TARGET TAKEN NEXT Use of New Weapon Se- curely Tied Up by Big Three Powers By John M. Hightower WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—Tokyo or CENSORSHIP IS CLAMPED ON RESULTS Nipponese mof 318,000 May Be Completely Desfi_tlyed GUAM, Aug. 7-Iron censorship | was clamped on detalls of the atom lone of Japan’s other great war in- dustry cities is belleved here today | bombing of Hiroshima by the U. 8. Strategic Air Forces today, but end to the Japanese war sobered in- to an awed realization of its vast potentialities—in peace as well nsl in war. | “It might produce something that| will revolutionize all industrial life,”, said Sir John Anderson, who as Lord | President of the Council in Britain's| wartime Cabinet shared responsibil-| ity for the secret and costly research | which developed the destructive weapon. TRIAL OF PETAIN IN 14TH DAY Vichy MinE[ér Testifies Old Soldier, Pefain | Unfriendly PARIS, Aug. 7--Marcel Peyrou- | ton, former Vichy Minister and Governor of Algeria, today told the court trying Marshal Petain for his life that Britain maintained contact with the old soldier’s re- gime , throughout 1940 through He sald Petain and Laval were at loggerheads within six months| after the Vichy Government was set up and that Laval was arrested ' on the night of December 13, 1940, after Petain had consulted the Cabinet of which he was Interior Minister. ‘The trial, entering its fourteenth day, is expected to close by the| end of next week. STOCK qugmlbus NEW YORK, Aug. 7 Closing | quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine stock today is 6%, American Can 97, Anaconda 32, Curtiss-Wright International Harvester 82,/ Kennecott 36%, New York Central 24%, Northern Pacific 27%, U. S. Steel 66%, Pound $4.02%. Sales today totaled 980,000 shares. | Dow, Jones averages today are as| follows: Industrials, 161.55; rails, | 56.29; utilities, 32.11. e SULLIVAN IN TOWN Alfred Sullivan, of Skagway, Is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. | fore. | big enough to drop ;‘;’:!f :::':_u‘z’t‘m‘:h" Ust for atomic|y,m the stunned enemy came ad- 3y mission that the terrific new This 13 the view of officlals try- i weapon had done' great damage. e tel X | ports, however, it is bellev: in bringing this war to ax; :arly end | washington that the Japanese city, On}‘;(l;‘:]m::'?) :;lmh;mtl;:e : n::::l‘::e":luwmch had a pre-war population of publicly by President Truman nnd‘i}zfig' ':;gedb'o::;wy‘ ir Bok g ot er American and British omclals‘ A Japanese Imperial communique it is clear that old ideas of nation- | broadcast by Radio Tokyo hinted al defense and security—based even |, Nipponese' war ' lords weére 4 on weapons as modern as the rockets | scurrying about, trying to deter- 5/ ! —t | 7 e London-—are AU mine what hit the Hifoshima Afmy In its impact on peaceful P“"'!B“\nne meager |U.'S. disclogures suits, the newly harnessed energy| qiiq one bemb lild‘hlt with stch still is some years frfom practical use,' devastating force. that the city: was according to official reports, but it an impenotrable cléud of dust, the may revolutionize industry and trade; Japanese talked of new “bombs.” of the future. H Evidently with this in mind, oy % “":"’:’, ‘:;‘:m:"‘:h‘:" President Truman made clear in his| announcement. of the new homb yes- | :::;d !;::‘bcu'" only ong bomb terday that the development of, atomic power in this country is to} The Nippenese communique said be kept under tight government, con- | humber of B-20's made "h,’ at- trol. tack with “considerable” destrue- : Developments . tion. The admission was typieal of Because of its enormous poten- the Japanese habit of U tialities for bath war and peace, the Wating damage, because - use of atomic energy is a two-sided ‘Sources indichied stho. -great problem. . Here. are principal. points, Of GuSt thal rose Hiroshima of both sides as developed in offi- might h&ve contal vaporiged - clal statements and interpreted by bulldihgs. ok Y A those qualified to do so: Beveral hours before the enemy Effect on the war with Japan— | communique W issued, tho Osaka Dropping of the first atomic bomb ' radio had given some suggestion of on the Japanese army base at Hir-'the cxtent of the damage when it oshima Sunday night was mainly & made a matter-of-fact announce- warning to the enemy. Pending full ment that '“‘P‘"' trains in Hiro- reconnaissance reports, it is bellved ghima Prefecture had becn cah- here that the city, which had & pre- celed. I Af ot completely wiped out. |, The {mal Bosdquarters ota- The Japanese have no ndaq;mte munique was smpliticd later by & dcfense ageinst this weapon any- Domel News Agency dispatch guot- more than against regular aerial ing Tokyo *informed quarters” as bombardment. They can only sur- saying that the bomb was para- render or face destruction. ‘:::"?:m‘m exploded befors: reach- Few top officials here expect a grouad.. b surrender at once, and Mr. 'i”:umln The dispatch wafmed ;the Japh- himeolf said the United States is NESe Peoble that "its destructive “canndt be slight” It re- fully prepared to go ahead with the POWer peated the communique’s state- bombings. Morever, future attacks shortly Ment thab more than one may be intensified for Mr. Truman had been.used, declaring a ° disclosed that new and even more Dad been ot powerful atomic bombs are in the making. u.’ Marianag-| B-29's today kept up the continual pounding .of the Little Detail enemy empire with a noonday 125- The President and Secretary of Plane strike at the big Toyokawa War Stimson gave little detail of the Navel Arsenal, 37 miles southeast new weapon except that the size of 0f Nagoya Castle, the explosive 13 exceedingly small,| ~Their’ missiles were “high ex- Effects of atomic energy use in plosives,” the Twentleth Air Force pracetime— | said-presumably not’ atomic’ bombs. At the moment the use of this The Twentleth Air Force com- new weapon Is securely in the hands munique today also reported a of tre allies. Stimson said the War: broad sweep across the Tokyo area Department is certain the Japanese yesterday by 97 Iwo-based Mus- annot match it. But it is expected tangs which smashed at, nine that in future years cvery great in-| enemy airfields, rail yards, and dustrial nation will develop it. | shipping, and destroyed or dam- Military authorities already are aged 25 grounded afrcraft. talking of the possibility that the| More than 400 Far East Alr United States could be attacked by Force fighters and bombers con- atomic rockets launched either from| verted the Kyushu port of Taruni FEurope or Asia. Some expect to into a vast swirl of flame Sunday use this as a new and dramatic argu-| with a two-hour ‘hammering with ment, when Congress returns, for fire bombs, rockets and bullets, enactment of national service legis- Gen. MacArthur reported today. lation. Eyewitness reports of the histgric One of the most common com-|plow struck at Hiroshima by the ments heard in the capital after|gingle, small + atomic bomb were release of the news about the atomic| withheld, pending their release by bomb was that it greatly increases yne war ‘ashing. the responsibilities of govemments‘w: RIS to work together for world peace.| i SV (R Many persons said success of. me( itea Natons oreaization o>+ RECEPTION FOR- (CONGRESSIONAL PARTY TOMORROW Honoring the members of the Congressional party arriving. to- morrow afternoon, the Juneau | Chamber of Commerce will hold a' reception from 9 to 10 o'clock | tomorrow evening in the Gold [Room of the Baranof Hotel. All Chamber members are in- vited and urged to attend. ‘The Crosby Research Foundation, HAWES HERE Crosby said, has aided the govern-| H. A. Hawes' arrived in Juneau ment for-three years in carrying|yesterday oun an Alaska Airlines Afomic Bomb Is Powerful LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7—In one detonation test carried out in the California desert, an explosion of a pea-sized amount of the ex- plosive used in the new atomic bomb “created a hole in the desert in a large- sized house,” Larry Crosby, general mangger of Crosby Enterprises,| said today. jon research in developing the Plane from Anchorage, and is a emazing weapon. guest at the Baranof Hotel."