The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 17, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TINE" S — VOL. LXV., NO. 10,042 o ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUS 17, T Lonany UF COMGRESS SEP 13 1945 PRICE TEN CENTS —_—— IAT -SOMEPARTS, MANCHURIA Russians Give Nipponese ' Until Monday to Lay "Aps ORDER Down Arms | - CHINAARMY LONDON, Aug, 17 Japanese | | troops on- some sectors of the | Manchurian front began surren- | dering today and the Red Army | took 20,000 prisoners, the Soviet | i | communique announced. 5 Following upon Marshal Alex-%claim chmese Sh" A"a( ander Vasilevsky's ultimatum yes- | serday to the Japanese to turn in | their arms by noon Monday, Soviet | spéarheads continue to drive deeply | into Manchuria from all sides, the communique reported. . Kailu, 170 miles northwest of | CHUNGKING, Aug. 17.—Chinese MUkden, industria) 'feart. of. the| V2T Sone commanders issued orders country, was captured by one ar- |to Japanese troop‘s in their é‘teah.lo' I8 farce. ‘Beveral. towns were‘d"y to cease military activities im- taken by other forces operating muhuu-l_y and await further instruc- down the Chinese Eastern Rullwuyl“u”"' toward Harbin, pushing in from | ‘the morth and east. Poli, 180 mil Nipponese Peaceful | Troops Domei in a Tckyo broadcast today ¢ . 3 n. uji Okamura, the east of Hm‘hm. was capuu-gd. ard » in chief of Japanese ex- \troops moving down the Sungari pegitionary forces in China, had River advanced 12 miles. {sent a note to Generalissimo Chiang Yesterday, the Russians charged ggjshek demanding that Chinese that the Japanese had launched foreeg “observe thoroughly the ces- widespread counter-offensives at gytion of hostilities immediately the same time they were asking| Qgamura d ed his forces “al- Soviet troops to cease hostilities.!yeady are in a state of cessation of The communique indicated, how- phestilities in struct observance of ever, that all these counter-attacks | the Imperial command.” said the were turned back decisively. | broadca recorded by the Associat- Make Appeal ... .. led Press, but “part of the Chung- (The Japanese Governmeht, In a king army still is continuing attacks broadcast recorded in the United cn the Japanese.” States by FCC, “urgently requssted"} - -> e - i Gen. MacArthur today to "take‘ proper steps to bring about lmmc-iEREE lABoR | | | troops were unable to cease hos- | MARKET IS gilitles because Russian troops “are | still positively carrying on the of- ! fetisive.” The message did not men- | B A(K AG AIN tion the Soviet charge that the diate cessation of the Soviet of- fensive.” I (The broadcast said Japanese | Japanese were continuing to fight.) | 4 Marshal Alexander M. Vassilev- | sky said in a broadcast order “as! soon as the Japanese troops hegin“WMc Here lISfS Five Spe(. surrendering their arms, Soviet | | troops will discontinue war opera-' iff sl i { ific Controls No Long radio reported, said also that the hting Japanese did not “mentio: | S il | The Juneau headquarters of Lh(" a word about capitulation” in thenww 3 8 ion in Alas fequest that the Russians halt| el Manpower Commission in Alas- fighting. ka tcday outlined specific controls * |over manpower that have been re- x d by the reconversion action of (Three hours after Vnssnlevsky'slmove g s message was radioed to the Japa-'me WMC in placing its activities on| nese, the Japanese Domei Agency.ln Dlrely;¥oiungiry basis. | 4 7’| Included in the wartime controls| SHSS disnaicl eqnued up Amerion that are no longer in force are the| by ! the FCC, said “bad fIying )5ying, the WMC office here said: | Seiher wm?h‘ mak?s flying by‘ 1. The necessity of obtaining! low-speed aircraft practically im-giaiements of availability before emg possible” prevented delivery of "‘e‘ployment may be solicited by work- written order. The broadcast, which {e;’o; pefore employment may be of- | was directed to !:he Allies Su-fereq by employers. | vpreme Commander” said the order; o priority referrals of workers to| would be delivered tomorrow be- yita) war projects instead of to less tween 10 a. m. and 2 p. m.) | essential jobs. The Soviet marshal, the Mos(‘uw; er in Effed To Send Planes JAPS QUIT, Reaction fo Japanese Surrender Statements Is Nof '(omplimenlary; - Sworn In As Jap Premier ,,,,,, | | Orders Army to Strictly Ob-| serve Order fo Lay Down Arms SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17—Edi- tors around the world studied Japa- nese surrender statements closely today and did not like what they found | Emperor Hirohito's rescript an-| nouncing capitulation was widely | g l criticized as distorted, defiant and! SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17.—Gen. full of double meanings. Prince Naruhiko Nigashikuni was Papers in Honolulu, where J:ll)n-ls“("‘" in as Japan's new premier nese bombs fell first Dec. 7, 1941, tcday and in his first ofticial act as were outspoken. | Premier-War Minister ordered the Honolulu Star Bulletin: — “The | 2rmy to “strictly observe” an imper- Japanese Government's ‘processm;;fiim rescript to lay d?wn their arms. of surrender before tfansmitting it, ~The decision ha$ been iaken to to the people is fully in keeping €€as2 fire and return to peace,” he with distorted practices in Japan declared : in the past | The new post-war cabinet, In “It is an immediate example Ur‘\vhh;h the Ru_yal Premier who may the dangers involved in our policy jDiMSell be tried as a war criminal of keeping the Emperor system in! Japan dangers to the United States, the Japanese people, and the world of the future. . . . We have shortened the war and saved thousands of lives, yet left a rotten' spot in the timbers. which hold the world together. J On the American mainland, the Christian Science Monitor com- mented: “Believing we have ob-'incuding three members of ousted tained ‘unconditional Swrrender’ we premier Kantaro Suzuki's last war shall only at our peril fail t0 note | cabinet — held its first meeting at the ways in which Japan has notNjgashikuni's residence immediately surrendered. It has not given up after the investiture ceremony. false pride. . | It is the first Japanes: cabinet apan has not surrendered self- ever headed by member of the righteous hypoci A |Royal family. “This (Japanese broadcasts) may' Domei emphasized that it also was be face-saving, but it is also arro-|the first time the emperor had sel- gant, impenitent lying. We should €cted a premior without consulting not let it trick us into hatred. But &dvisors to the throne, and that | we_should see that as a foundation ' ““all portfclics except War and Navy ior peace it is quicksand.” | “The Emperor of Japan and the warlords are giving this country the |GUiCckly went on the air with the Royal Nipponese run-around,” said ®Pncuncement that the first duties the Miami Herald. “Much more of Of the new cabinet would be the this playing for time and the Am- SI8ning of the surrender, or “the, erican people will know they have | P€ace terms” and “fulfillment of the been played for the biggest saps in|F° n declaration to be enforced.” history.” i session immediately after it was Sworn in The cabinet, scheduled to be the first ever to function ynder an alien cecupation force, includes Ministers of Munitions and of Greater East Asla both of whore functiol would be eliminated by official sur- render. Domei agency said the cabinet— a |hava been given to civilians.’ The Japanese Domei news agency > Senate Must Officially | End Conflict DEPAETMENT. |New Direclor of Territories' | and Island Possessions | | Takes Over Duties | WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—Edwin |G. Arnold took over yesterday as director of the Interior Department's . |division of Territoties and Island WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—The Jus-| Possessions. 3 tice Department says the war will| Arnold is just back from Europe officially end only when the peace Where he participated in opening treaties have been signed and rati-|@ meeting of the 44-nation council fied by the Senate. |of the United Nations Relief and Re- A spokesman said the Department habilitation Administration, of which | will not issue a blanket opinion de-|he was Far Eastern Division Chief ] | TAKESPOST Department of Justice Spokesman Gives Legal Opinion retained the war portfolio, went into & IN INTERIOR * The -W ;s‘};fi{gton' 3. Employment ceilings. Merry - Go- Round By DRFW PEARSON Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now on active | . service with the Arwy.) | WASHINGTON — Twenty-three | years ago, this writer, visiting in, Japan, got considerable first-hand information about the Emperor ffom a young Japanese Quaker, Reénzo Sawada, who had been picked to accompany Hirohito, then Crown Prince, on a trip to see the western world. | Why Sawada, educated in aj * Quaker school in Tokyo, was! chosen to accompany the young prince on this history-making trip, I '@ not know, except that the Imperial Council of Education wanted a commoner of Hirohito’s, age who spoke English and French to_travel with the future Emperor.! Never before had a ruler Japan left its shores. In the past scarcely was the Emperor even; seen by his subjects. Some idea of| his isolation can be gained from the fact that the word “Mika™, means “awful”; the word “do” means place”; and the hame I (Continued on Page Four) 4. The 48-hour week. 5. Restrictions on employers ad- vertising for workers. The removal of the above restruc- cials pointed out. COUNCIL MEETING fining the expiration date of all’war | statutes. “The phraseology of the laws pass- cd during the pre-war emergency duration plus six months, others un- til the cessation of hostilities and fense.” “For this reason it will be neces- | prior to his appointment to the Ter- ritorial post. He spent the morning in confer- ence with Jack B. Fahy, Assistant itions will result in restoration of a|and during the war differs” he ex- Director, familiarizing himself with ifree labor market, local WMC offi- plained. “Some were enacted for the the functiohs of the Division and the problems it faces in reconversion to | peacetime operation. |others for purposes of national de-| “HOW to unwind from the war- ‘Lime emergency measures, partieu- |larly in procurement of food for the TONIGHT EXPE(IED ‘;s:n‘y for the Department to look at|Territories, is one of our most im- Io BE BR'EF o“flme purpose of each law before giv- ™M A bid opening and liquor license“‘ transfer are main items of busl-‘ | jnes: on the agenda of the Juneau City Council session this evening at the City Hall—the second regular | August business meeting—scheduled to get under way at 8 o’clock. | No big matters of policy are expected to come before the coun- | cilmen as they clear their slates of | most pressing bits of business be- | fore resolvmg back into a Board | Japanese in the Bougainville sector | g, of Equalization. Only a very brief |up to a late hour Wednesday made | How fast we can revert to comme: council session is anticipated. - e MISS STUTTE ENDS VISIT Miss Phyllis Stutte, daughter of Walter J. Stutte, local building | Iconn-m:t.or, left yesterday’ by plane | surrender ‘ envoys to wade across |chance to study them. He was ap. enroute fo Portland, Ore., follow- { the bitterly-contested Mivo mveripointed to the position July 6, suc- ing an opinion on its expiration date.” JAPS ON NEW TEALAND STILL ARE FIGHTING WELLINGTON, N. Z, Aug. 17— uo move toward surrender, an of- ficial war correspondent with the Royal New Zealand Air Force re- ported. Leaflets instructing Japanese ediate problems,” Fahy said. | The Territories Division has as- | sumed responsibility for procurement |of certain essential items not avail- {able to the Territories through com- | mercial chdnnels. Tt buys food for | Puerto Richo and the Virgin Islands and to a lesser extent for Alaska. The Agriculture Department recently took over purchuse of meats for | Hawaii. | “We want to get out of the busi- }nns: ofgovernment procurement of | | food as soon as possible,” Fahy said, “but we cannot stop immediately. od continues to be a scarce item. | cial channels depends orf how quick- {ly the military services reduce their | purchases. Arnold declined comment on Ter- ritorial matters until he has a ing a month’s vacation spent lu'} waving a white flag have been ig- |ceeding Benjamin W. Thoron, re- Juneau with Mr. and Mrs. Stutte nored. i signed. ANKS TO LAND IN JAPAN 50 ON? obinson of I by air cvacuati MILITARY TRAINING IS URGED President Truman Will Recommend Peace- time Program WASHINGTON, Aug. 17-~Enact- ment of a pezcetime military train- ing program will be recommended esident Truman as soon as Con- s reconvenes on September 5 Truman also told his new y that: 2 draft will continue to take ace veterans in the (It's up to Con- en to end Selective Br 19 young men Lo re; occupation fores gress to decide wk Service, he said.) The Japanese, in his opinion, never will have a chance to obtain revenge for their defeat. 3. Proclaimed Sunday, August 19, a day of prayer thanking God for victory and asking support and guid- ance in peace. 4. Called the full cmployment bill “must legislation” now that mil lions soon will be jobless. 5. Announced he will call a co ference of capital and labor as scon as Congress reassemble 6. Said the War Labor Board wil continue as leng as it is needed 7. Disglosed that this Government is discussing with the British a Jew- ish national state in Palestine. 8. Expressed hope that Congres: will cooperate in developing atomi energy for peacetime 1 — .- STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 17 Closing quotation of Alaska-Janeau Mine stock today is 7, American Can 97, Anaconda 32, Curt Wright 5% International Harvester 85, Kenne cott 36, New York Central 23 Northern Pacific 24%, U Steel 67, Pound $4.02%. sales today were 1,210,000 Dow, Jones averages today are follows: Industrials, 164.40; ra 53.05; utilities, 33.34. PEACE COST 12 DEAD, 647 HURT, SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17—Sail- ors will be allowed to return today to this great Pacific Coast port staging avea, quiet for 24 houys after three nights of unbridled cele- brating. As order was resumed the city counted its toll at 12 dead, 647 injured and property damage in many thousands of dcllars, 1 hares illbrae, Cal, is welcomed by hic wife and little daughters Linda and Yoan cn his at Homilton Field near Sin Franci Russia Will Be Grea | Influence On Chinese 0. Juneau Visf'd?S. Y. Wong Comments on Cur- rent Events, By WILLIAM KING CLARK (Empire Staff Correspendent) Upon the policy adopted by the Soviet Union for As hangs much of the hope for China's unification. S. Y. Wong, Juneau visitor rep- resenting the. Yoreign Service of the Chinese National Government, on a study of the Pan American World Airways system, so voiced his personal opinion here today Certainly, all leaders of the Chi- nese people realize that China can- not now go through a civil war, he id, declaring his belief that the assembly of the Peoples’ Po- litical Council of the Chinese Na- tion, scheduled .for November 12, this year, avill be able to work out a solution of China internal diffi- culties. | Mr. Wong. during the war sta- tioned in Washington, D, C., with the China Purchasing Commission, dealing with Lend-Lease, is loeking forward to returning to his native land to take part in her rebuilding. “A " vast reconsiruction probiem,” that will require the umfied en- cigies of all the people now waits upon the time when the last of the Japanese will have been cleared |off the Asiatic mainland, he stated. Mr. Wong reflects his graduate tudies at Columbia University, |New York City, in his | American speech and w On Special Missior At present, he is in Aluska on a special mission for his government, o study the operation of ’thr PAA system. “Alaska is very similar to China,” he said, in relation to its !vast area almost totally without a network of roads and railways to connect its hinterland peoples with ithe centers of population. As in Alaska, China sees its best hopes for adequate communications and transportation through the air. His ;, country is lacking in time to build roads and ine equipment for rail- ways, he declaved. b3 stressed that he certainly hopes Lo see an air route soon con- X g Alaska with China, bring- |ing together the peoples of the two |lands and developing interchange tof trade ! Aviation Development Likely to be the most important wetor in development of aviation in China, is, he said, the China National Aviation Cerporation—a joint venture of Pan Anjerican [World Airways with Chinese pri- vate enterprise. As in the United | States, air progress in' China will | X l(,‘ullmued’ulz Page Two) Nigashikuni | Family WelcemeiWoufizfiwfl‘Hafiifim‘am JAPS TOLD - TOPREPARE FOR EVENT | Emissaries fo Leave Japan | for Manila on Saturday (By The Associated Press) The Japanese Domel Agency sald today that Allled occupation forces | would land “soon” in the homeland and that the people would be re- ! quired to “extend all accommoda- | tions.” | The broadcast, heard by the Fed- eral Communications Commission, "asserted, however, that the Allles would not land as “combat units” and therefore would “not directly commandeer our food supplies, liv- ing quarters and such peoples’ neccseities, or seize funds in the is needless to hold any mis- pivings on these points,” Domei added, 4 The dispatch gave no authority |for all this and indeed there have | been no official reports from Allied quarters on just what all occupa- [tion would entail. | Domel declared that the period between the conclusion of the ar- | mistice and the conclusion of the peace treaty “which will follow the | withdrawal of the occupation army” | would be at a time that would “call for the utmost trust and self- respect by the 'Japanese people.” “During this time” Domei con- | tinued, “the. sovereignty of Japan will be limited by the Headquarteis jof the Occupation Army, and only | by the peace treaty will the com- | plete restoration of the sovereignty of Japan be seen.” | This was the first time that the official agency had given the Japa- nese people some hint of the. hard days ahcad for mch; beaten home- land. DeGAULLE COMMUTES SENTENCE Marshal Petaianaved from Receives Answer Meanwhile, from Manila, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced that !the Japanese Government has no- tified him that its surrender emis- saries have been selected and will leave by plane for Manila tomor- Dea'h_Mus' Serve :m";im word came from the de- for I_"e feated enemy after two days of ! quibbling on the part of Tokyo and 'after Gen. MacArthur had curtly told Japan to comply with his PARIS, Aug. 17-C De Gaulle today commuted Marshal Petain's' © i A directives “without further delay.” th sentence to life rison- ! :::f.:”h gt - 9 e B | In a message dispatched earlier g 5 ¢ g to Japan the Allied Supreme Com- The action consisted of approving B a statement the court wrote into MAnder ':{ ’Jl;}ln umld IMm x:ip- its verdiot which expressed the DORese “the idiréctive ' trom thiy wish ' that ‘the execution not/ be -headauarters & ‘Clear haod ‘explels binried Tut and is to be complied with without A jury pf the 'High Opury of Turtber delay. The Japs wanted to know if the Justice condemned the 89-year-old emissary. would' be required to sigh head of the Vichy regime to death _ '~ i » for betraying the state to the ".‘“l“:!""‘ Dape a"“’ MacArthiy’ Ciermans during the occupation. b om “A-'kw snezltnve. Petain denied the charge but ks Sl Awny The Japanese Emperor also asked | that the Russians halt their Man- * ichurian offensive and that Allied made no plea for his life. - To opposE A"Y fore “refrain from approaching Japan proper temporarily” and wanted to know about additional Mov[ Io ABANDON instructions regarding the pre- ALASKA HIGHWAY EDMONTON, Alta., Aug. 17—Any move to abandon the Alaska High- way would meet strong opposition, according to J. W. Robinson of Utah, Chairman of the U. S. House of Representatives’ Road Com- mittee. “I have been over the highway. As far as I am concerned, and I believe that view is shared by other members of the party, I would strongly be opposed to any abandonment of the highway,” Robinson said Robinson said that in six months the highway would be turned over to Canada under agreement be- tween Canada and the U. S. Gov- ernment, and that he considered it necessary for Alberta and British Columbia now to build connecting Toads to the highway. “This should be done as speedily as possible and the roads should be as good as possible,” he added. -o ARNOLD IN JUNEAU C. Arnold, Manager Canned Salmon Industry, of the Ine,, ‘o guest at the Baranof Hetel liminary conference. v But a report from the Japanese | radio said Japanese planes had inflicted some damage in attacks on a dozen Allied transports yes- | terday because they approached \Conlinuea on Page ) 'PLUNGES TO HiS DEATH FROM 86TH FLOOR YESTERDAY | NEW YORK, Aug. 17—An un- identified man climbed over ‘the parapet on the eighty-sixth floor observatory of the 102-story Empire State Building and plunged to his death into Thirty-Third Street near Fifth Avenue, yesterday. Several thousand perscns, observ- ing the second day peace holiday, were in the vicinity when the man's bedy came hurtling down. A Cana- dian soldier, Pvt, Ernest Do Bas- sige, on furlpugh from Ottawa, shouted a warning to pedestrians, | who sought shelter. | Police said the leap of 1,000 feet fs was the longest on record in New ] York. .