The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 10, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1945 PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS & NIPPONESE OFFER SURRENDER( munica L4 & ~ IF THEY CAN KEEP EMPEROR ? & < 4 BULLETIN-WASHINGTON-Japan has offered fo surrender subject fo refention of Emperor Hirohifo as sovereign power and the Unifed Stafes is in com- tion with ifs Allies on the surrender offer broadcast this morning by the Japanese radio. This statement was issued at 3:28 Eastern War Time by Press & & & Setrelary Charles G. Ross shortly after President Truman had conferred with his Cabinef for an hour: "'Our government, through regular diplomatic channels, is in communication with Great Britan, Soviet Russia and China regarding the Japanese surrender offer. That is all that can be said af this time.” His use of the term, "surrender offer,” gave the impression thal a formal proposal from the Japanese now has been officially received by this government. Asked if this was: irue, Ross said he had "o comment. " The london Foreign Office sald it would make an "imporfant statement” Iomgh! PRESIDENT (elebration N SPEECH By Soldiers INFEVERISH Fear Losing TO NATION OnOkinawa (ElEBRAIION Emp. Hirohito Warns Japs Their Ciies . Will Be Destroyed fo End War~ WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—Word {from Tokyo today that the Japanese . Emperor Hirohite , The Washmgmn Merry - Go - Round By DRFW PEARSON | Col. Robert S. Allen now on active service with the Army.) Lt WASHINGTON—Those who sat in on the drafting of JCS 1067, the blueprint for goveming Germany, say that it was one of the most carefully conceived plans ever pre- pared by government agencies. The Army, Navy, State Department, Treasury and Foreign Economic Administration all participated. Their aim was to draft a set of rules which would stamp out Nazism and make sure that never | again could Germany plunge the world into war. What now concerns some of these officials is that several cardinal points in the blueprint for Occupied Germany are being ig-| nored by military men. This may | or the be due to military expediency, to the soft-peace crowd in War Department, or to plaln ig-| norance of the rules. That is one reason why publication of the rules has been urged, so that every Amerimanr soldier in Germany shall kncw them. For instance, the order for Oc- cupied Germany specities that the foreign assets of German cartels shall be seized by the U. S. Army. But when Gen. Lucius Clay wired the War Department proposing the ‘(Continued on Page Four) YT 0 4 FAR EAST STOCKS BOOM IN LONDON | Seattle, LONDON, Alig. 10.—A rush to buy Far Eastern ‘Securitiss in the Lon- don stock market came with the news of Japan’s surrender offer today. U S. Vlew ' On Hirohito Is Given ! WASHINGTON, Aug. 10-The latest official pronouncement on this ccuntry'’s position with respect to Emperor Hirohito was made Dec. 12, 1944, when Joseph C. Grew, former Am- bassador to Tokyo, appeared before the Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee prior to his cenfirmaticn as Underseeretary of State. When Senator Guffey (D- Pa.) brought up the subject of the Japanese Emperor, Grew replied that no one could tell at that time whether, after the conquest of Japan, it would be wise to keep the Emperor on because there was no way of knowing what Japanese reac- tien to defeat would be. He emphasized the main job was to see that Nippen was rendered unable to make war again. et STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine stock today is 7, American Can 189, Anaconda 32%, Curtiss-Wright! 6%, International Harvester 84, 10—Closing want to surrender provided they can save their emperor follows fast cn a warning by President Truman to Nippon's people last night to quit | their their lives. The President promised an atomic bomb campaign to wipe out Japanese war industry, city by | city. Barring surrender, Japanese in- dustries are to be destroyed “to shorten the agony of war” and to save untold American lives, Mr. Tru- man said in a -broadcast report to, | the nation last night. That is the | determined pelicy of this govern- ment, he declared, even though | thousands of eremy civilians who jfail to heed the warning will be killed. = With this, Mr. Truman coupled sssurances to the American people that he realizes fully the terrible dangers the atomic weapon holds for the world future, that he is tak- | |ing steps to safeguard its use, and! | that the great objective of his ad- | ministration is that “there shall be; | nc next war.” { “It is an awful responsibility which has come to us,” he said. Mr. Truman gave no hint of any Tckyo peace moves. On the con- | trary he stressed that previous warn- {ings, at Berlinshave been scorned. Conference The chief executive described the | Berlin political decision he reached with Prime Minister Attlee and Generalissimo Stalin as measures to build a-secure foundation for peace 'Continued on Page .S;wéé) 'Juneau Takes | Jap Surrender News Calmly |accepting with relative calm dramatic news of Japan’s offer to !put a period to warfare in the Pac- ific. Bars were very busy-—some even |at 6 c’clock this morning requesting their doors. < p(rmlsslfln to open Kennecott 36%, New York Central 25%, Nortiern Pacific 274, U, 8. S.0r%s were open, byt not so busy. Steel 68%. i Wc(r:kcr.s for the Alfika go:;t;uic- on Company on e oldstein Sales today 1,690,000 pyjiging voted to take the day as a shares. 3 heliday in celebration, but most oth- Dow, Jones averages today are asc; woikers were sticking to their follows: Industrials, 165.14; rails, jops 56.24; utilities, 32.51. In general, Juneau's citizens were B 41 SO entlhusiastic over the news, but felt MR., MRS. RUNNELLS VISIT that celebrating should wait until the fighting is actually over. and Mrs. Ray Runnells, of Members of the visiting Congress- arrived yesterday on an cnal troupe were to vote this af- incoming Pan American Clipperternoon on continuation of their frcm Fairbanks and are guests atAlaska tour or return to,the Na-: the Gastineau Hotel, tional Capital. totaled Mr. doomed cities and flee for notably the ultimatum issued’ OKINAWA, Aug 10.—This AmEI‘- WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Barri- an-held island, only 325 miles Irom cades were thrown up around en- the Japanese homeland, kicked over | trances to the White House today the traces of war in a wild fireworks a sa feverish end-of-the-war atmes- celebration as first unofficial word ' phere gripped Washington. spread that the Japanese are ready to quit. Soldiers who only three nights ago shot flak airward against enemy | raiders, let loose their guns in cele- | bration. The island and naval an- chorage rocked with gunfire, cheers and the roar of rockets. sidewalk on the Pennsylvania Avenue side of the executive mansion and military police — eliminated from the scene months ago — returned to patrol duty there, Knots of people who began to R SR 1 i ___ gather in the area during the morn- lo:::i ‘?.;ru‘zlfa;f'::nx“"“d & PXO-{ing were kept to the far side of the avenue and Lafayette Park, direct- One outdoor movie, showing “Cap- |y across thé street from the White tain Eddie,” the story of the life House, | of Eddie Rickenbacker, had reached a sequence where ths hero, just back from the first World War, tells his bride he and some other fclm~ er soldiers are going fishing. that moment distant cries and cheers echoed above the soundtrack and the GIs, on edge since the first atomic bomb dropped and Russia entered the war, yelled for word. It came! | ~The operator announced: 1 “Japan has asked for terms of | surrender!” | The film was forgotten in the rearing celebration which followed. | Only today supply depots received | calls for gas masks as conjecture spread Japan might try a last des- perate ofiort to attat.k this island. STATEHOOD TO ALASKA SUPPORTED Dept. of Interior Officiall Endorses Advanced Status Governor of Aluh}.a Ernest Gruen- ing today made public a statement from the Department of the In- | terfor endorsing statehood for Al- | aska. The Governor stated that this | represented the official view of ti | Interior Department, headed | Setretary Harold L. Ickes. Because |of the Department’s jurisdiction ‘nver the affairs of the Territory, i the Governor said, he considered it a matter “of greatest importance.” | WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—A Japa-| Advancement of the Territory to nese surrender will find Congress| statehood, the statement said, would ready to put an immediate end to|link Alaska “more closely with the the draft. nation, Speed development of its | Congressional leaders dealing with | resources, diminish the evils of ! military police disclosed today that outpostism, encourage new settlers as soon as the current recess ends‘unfl greater capital investment, give they will begin a drive to halt Sel- the people of Alaska a voting voice' ective Service inductions. Barring | in congress and give them greater an earlier call, the law-makars are opportunity to help write their y DRAFTT0 END WITH SURRENDER | In most part, Juneau today :l;s due to return to Capitol Hill October own destiny.” €18, Alaska’s Delegate to Congress, E.' Meanwhile, Secretary of War Stim- | L. Bartlett, who has been devoting son reported that the War Depart- | consitlefable -of his efforts in the ment will re-survey its manpower national capital to the cause of needs in the light of the new atomic statehood, yesterday, in addressing Pacific war. | Pedestrians were barred from the bomb and Russia’s entry into the the Juneau Chamber of Commerce,' But Stimson empha- sized that the Army will not reduce its forces “by even one man” below the number it considers necessary to defeat Japan “with the least pos- sible loss of American lives. Present plans call for an army of of about 7,000,000 men next June 30. D e MR., MRS. HERROLD HERE Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Harrold, of Seattle, are guests at the Gastineau Hotel, having arrived yesterday on oh 8 Pan American Clipper rrom‘ took an outright stand for a clean- cut break to statehood now, for Alaska. The Committee on Territories of the national House of Representa- tives, at its hearing here yesterday heard the views of several of Al- This Would Be Ultimate’ Disaster They're Not Ready For (By Assoclated Press) To the leaders of Japan, the re- moval of the emperor apparently would be the yltimate disaster which they are not yet ready to accept, despite the hopelessness of the emperor’s situation. ‘The Domei broadcast, making re- | tention of the emperor’s sovereign rights a condition of otherwise total sunendel, emphasizes the unique ))osmnn Hirohito holds among (h(—‘ world’s rulers. | The Japanese call him the Tenno Son of Heaven—and the masses b@luvc him to be a living God. They say he is the 124th ruler of (a dynasty: “unbroken for ages | eternal” descended from the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, principal diety of their national faith, Shinto. The reigning emperor not only is the temporal head of the state but also the religious head of tho nation, the representative of all the Shinto deities, which include lns own ancestars. The great majority of the Japa- nese, indoctrinated in emperor worship by intensive propaganda, probably would bé unable to con- ceive of a world without the Tenno. The shock of his removal probably would come to the devout as a mcre staggering blow to the im- agination than the atomic bamb. Despite the worship accorded him, the emperor as an individual usually wields little actual power. Hirohito has been described as a more or less unwilling party to the megalomaniac schemes of the militarists who gained control of !the throne in the thirties and used its power to lead the Japanese| people to dhasl.ex 112 KILLED IN LOSS OF ESCORT SHIP BULLETIN — Washington, Aug. 10—The Destroyer Escort Underhill has been sunk in Philippine waters with the lcés of 112 officers and men, the Navy announced today. >, MRS. BEAR HERE aska’s most prominent residents on ! the question of statehood. > CORBIN IN TOWN Charles Corbin arrived yesterday | ! Mrs. Jack Bear, of Pelican, is |guest at the Gastineau Hotel, | 2 | ORI ARRI a W. J. Ori, of Seattle, has arrived an incoming Pan American Clipper Seattle, and is a guest at me in Juneau and is a uur-st at the from Fairbanks. Bar: anol Hotel. ‘Gastineau Hotel. WASHINGTON Japs Really ENEMY CONDITIONS OFFER. ~ ONRETENTION OF EMPEROR (By The Associated Press) The Japanese Domei Agency announced today that ! Japan was ready to accept the terms. of the Potsdam Dec- laration, calling for Tokyo's unconditional surrender, so long as Emperor Hirokito was permitted to' retain his iprerwutlveu. o b o This Domei broatlcast“Was recorded by the W Press from an English-language wirelcss transmission to ! the United States. The hroadeast came shortly after Dontei announced that Japan was protesting through diplomatic channels the United States’ use of atomic bombs, and coin- cided with new Tekyo reports of Russian advances in Man- churia, Korea and on Sakhalin Island. The Japanese wireless transmitter went off the air in ‘the middle of a sentence after transmitting 200. words of the announcement of the “desire” to bring nbout an end to hostilit I’CC monitors said the transmission ('I\ded “The Japanes: Government hopes sincerely that this... , Domei waited a moment, FCC monitors said, and then ~xu(l “stand by.” Domei said Japan was informing the Allics of her ae- ceptance through the Swiss and Swedish: (mvcrnmm”— neutral intermediaries. If the Domei report is borne out by officipl communica- tions to the United States and Allied Govérnments, it means that the third member of the Tokyo-Berlin-Reme Axis has surrendered three menths and one day sfter the eapitula- tien of Hitler's Germany. END OF LONG WAR It would mcan the end of hostilities that started Sept. 18, 1931, with- Japan's attack in Manchuria, which was sueceeded by the capture of much of China and culminated in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor Dee. 7, 1941. The main question pesed by the Domei declaration, was the condition with respect to the status of th¢ Empero:, The Potsdam Declaration was silent about him, giving no indication whethcr the Allies intended to allow him te continue in power. American leaflets addressed to Japan called upon the Japanese pecple to appeal to Hirohito fo end the war. For many months, the U. S. Office of War Information re. frained particularly from attacks upon leohlto in il( broadcasts to the Pacific. IFCC monitors said another Domei transmittier rc-portecl: “It is authoritatively learned thai the Japanese Gov- | ernment decided to accept the three-power proclamation of Potsdam of July 16 (sic) as described by the Soviet Union.” \ “Authoritatively learned Japanese Government decided | to accept three-power proclamation Poigdam of July 2%, later subscribed by Soviet Union.” The text of the transmission: 4 The Japanesc Government teday addressed the follow- ing communication to the Swiss and Swedish Governments, respectively, for transmission to the United States, Great Britain, China and the Soviet Union: “In obedience to the gracious command of His Majesty the Emperor, who, ever anxious to enhance the cause of world peace, desires earnestly to bring about an early ter- mination of hostilities with a view to saving mankind from the calamities to be impos:d upon them by further fl;fi L ow i pe g NP AR tinuation of the war, the Japanese Government asked sevei weeks ago the Soviet Government, with which neutral rela: tions then prevailed, to render good office in restoring peace visavis the enemy powers. JAP TERMS ARE GIVEN “Unfortunately, these efforts in the interest of peace having failcd, the Japanese Government in eonformity with the zugust wish of His Majesty to restore the general peace and desiring to put an end 1o the untold sufferings entailed by war as quukly as po:.sihlc, have decided upon the following : " (Continued on Pape Two)