The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 18, 1945, Page 1

b “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” . VOL. LXV., NO. 10,043 Iy AU, ALASKA, SATURDAY. AUGUST 18, 19 JAPENVOYS WILL LEAVE SUNDAY RSTROOPS (b - STILLFIGHTIN | “ways ror juneau NORIH (HINA!CounciI Wes fo Seek v To Solution fo Present l Surrender Party of Japa-| Deadlock 3 nese on Way for Ne- 7 g go"a“ons harpened its spurs last ovcninu‘ with the intent of spepding con- | LONDON, Aug. 18. Soviet armor- struction of the marind ways pro- ed columns closed in on tha key city | Posed for installation here by the | of Harbin today as Japanese forces | Northern | | Juneaws city | Commercial Company. in Manchuria continued to resist| Asked to explain to the City despite an ultimatum to surrender | Council his .m‘m-st to the War De- by noon Monday. | partment inst the NC Com- An indication that the Japane splication for the site ad- front might be cracking was seen Joit the Small Boat Harbor on | however, in Russian reports that 20,- | the north, J. V. Cole, pile driver | 000 of the snemy had laid down operator, replied that he has held | their arms. | that location for the past eight| 4 . The Russians drove a three-sided ycars. Mr. Cole expressed his wil-| assault on Harbin, central Manchur- | lingness to move fo any other, jan city of nearly a half nfllmonisl‘.ll:\bk- location that might be | population and seat of large war in- provided him for his equipment, | dustries. Enemy strong points were but said he declined to move with- melting away before the relentless out any provision for a new 5"""& armored assaults of the Red Army. to I e. So far, the NC Company | b !has been unable to dig him up one. | g NEGOTIATIONS {Se. now the city intends to take | SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18. — A s hand. t Soviet commission landed today at! Mr. Cole outlined negotiations he | Harbin, Manchtria, to pick up the has been conducting with Roy ! Japanese surrender party for thal Rutherford for a right of way | province, the Russian radio at Kha- | through the Juneau Lumber Mill's | baravsk reported in a broadcast re- log storage ground further up the | corded by the Federal Communica- Channel—negotiations which have | tions Commission. now come to a halt. Mayor Ernest The broadcast, directed to Gen. Parsons proposcd that he, City At- | Otozo Yamada, commander of the torney Howard D. Stabler and City | Japanese Kwangtung Army, said the Engineer J. L. McNamara com- Boviets reached Harbin at 7:30 p. prise a civic committee to call | m. (6:30 a. N Baster War ©) upon M. Rutherford “early next | and would fly the Japanese delega- week, to see if the deadlock now tion directly to Marshal Alexander helding up progress on the much- M. Vasilevsky. The Japanese sur- needed marine ways cannot be | render delegate was identified as a Lroken. | “Gen. Hata.” ! i i, | It was explained that -claims once held by the city to the site ! proposed for the ways have either | been relinquished or have expired. Right Of Way Needed Mr. Cole seeks a 60-foot-wide | right of way through the log stor- | STUDIED BY DEPT. | OF '"IERIOR MA |age ground, to give him access fori 'his equipment to waterfront lands # WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 — Jack inghore from where log booms are | B.. Fahy, Assistant Director of the frequently held by the lumber Interior Department’s Division of njjs, | Territories, will leave today or, wMayor Parsons stated the city's early next week for a month-long position: That the marine wa: visit to Hawali. ‘has been sought by Juneau for | ‘Fahy said in an interview that years; that it is perhaps the most- He will study all of the problems needed addition to Juneau's in-| faced by the territory in the tran-idustries; that the city is willingi sition from war to peace-time'to do all it can to see that Mr. | director of the division July 6. |and see construction of the ways | Mr. Cole, being unable to find | Merr 0 Ou iplaces for his driver outfit, imme- y-Go-R LA | e syl Hodad 25 05 . Now that the post-war thresh- tion to local public works planning. | ing city permission for application before Pearl Harbor kept telling the mouth of Gold Creek and the| everything would be all right. |now develop plans for all such away its colonies and its raw ma- quired civic facilities be made a economy. | Cole suffers no injustice, but that Fahy was appointed assistant it does not mean to stand idly by R | held up, now that the dream of | bt | years is so near to realization. | w ] | The ashlngion]merit in other proposed parking | diate prospects for the marine ways | (now seem to hang upon the out-| come of next week’s meeting with | «- By DRFW PEARSON the Juneau Lumber Mills owner. Lt. Col. Rohert & Allen now on active 3 'hold has been reached, the council | last night again turned its atten- | Sanders A. Wilson opened the dis- cussion, from the audience, by ask- to the War Department for a fill of that portion of tidelands between the State Department that the Boat Harbor. The consensus of Emperor didn't want war and that opinion was that the city should U. S. plans for governing Japan projects, to the end that provision to date chiefly call for taking for streets, sewers and other re- terials for making war. But what part of any such undertaking and' our State and War Department haphazard development avoided. | HAWAII WILL BE ‘WASHINGTON — Having made the decision to work with and through the Emperor in governing post-war Japan, our problem now i§ not to be fooled by him and the court “moderates” as was Ambas- sador Joe Grew, who up until just planners fail to realize is that Mayor To Form Program | many nations, such as Belgium,! The mayor proposed, and re-| Portugal, and Holland may have ceived council agreement, that he-} colonies abroad without being ag- fore the next regular meeting he | gressive, and that the wiping out should prepare an outline of all of Japanese belligerency is a far projects for which the city should deeper problem. It gets down to a begin to plan now. A letter from demccratic change In the whole|the Federal Works Agency statea outlook and philosophy of the, that the city's application for $7,000 Japanese people. advance planning funds for the It is doubtful if they can be Juneau Airport is now receiving persuaded to give up the idea mnn‘cnnsideratiun. The mayor pointed Japanese are born to rule the out that since the funds are avail- world until they also give up able, many more needed projects, Shintoism, the state religion which ' could now be put into the prepam-{ teaches just exactly that, and tory stage without cost, but with which revolves around the ‘person much benefit to the city. of the Emperor. City Engineer McNamara sug- Hirohito probably is, as Mr. Grew 'gested that a model. treatment of maintains, a moderate man, much Juneau’s tidelands area would be more moderate than the militarists attained by an extension of Harbor around him. However, Emperors Way north to connection with the come and go. _And it is the system Glacier Highway and‘soutn, m a (Continued on Page Four) | i (Continued on P&pe Eight) __ Sitka, are guests at the Baranof Hotel. | Damage Causéd fo Hiro A i A scattesed few buiddings re was concentrated within a circle the day after the attack. BUILDING BOOM SEEN . IN NATION Ten fo Fifiemlfillion New! Homes Predicted, Next Decade ‘ 18—Ameri- 15 millicn WASHINGTON, Aug. to cans will build 10 homes in the next decade. | gy standing in the heart of Hiro with a diameter of 19,600 feet. Lim ¢ This photemesaic wa iter the cxplosion of the firot atumie bombwsed in made by Army Air F re. Damage orce reconnaissance cameramen Superbombers JAP ENVOYS Excuses for Collide: Kill MAKETERMS DefeatTold rourfeen Men WEATHERFORD, Texas, Aug. 1 —Bodies of fourteen airmen were vered early today following ihe crash of two superbombers—a B-29 and a B-32—over this West |town. The crash occurred There were two injured and be dered survivors, a flight officer and a crewman cof the B-29 who id they didn’'t know what happened Suddenly they found themseives This was predicted today by the | nation's new coustruction boss, Hugh Potter. These were other the swing-over to pea moved ahead: high spots as me living 1—Food officials forecast more food of all kinds for civilians as' scheduled Army cut-bg go into| effect over the ne: months. Meat rationing may end next month. 2—The War Preduction Board freed tremendous gquantities of steel, copper and aluminum for! consumer good: 3—Plans for tax cuts took shape.| 4—Surplus property officials said hundreds of goyernment-owned war plants would be taken over by pri- vate industry during the next few months. 5-—-WPB Ch an J. A. Krug asked the nation’s salvage commit- tees to stay on the job: The need still is great for paper, tin and waste fats. { cans In predicting an unparalleled building boom, Construction Co- ordinator Potter said in an inter- view that all rictions on the industry will be removed by Christ- mas. - > | FLOE ARRIV | Hans Floe, Hawk Inlet, arrived yesterday on an Alaska Coastal Aiilines’ plane and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. - >-eo - | SITKA MEN HERE Frank T. and Jack Calvin, have arrived in town and | Waatherf inotification of next of kin. |U. 5. District Court |day. Mrs, Carlson was granted per- burled into the air, they said opencd their parachutes and float o safelty while blazing pa of the huge sk and [lares pluy tod carthward and lighted up the s for 30 miles. It was reported that the B-29 wa baced at Clovis, N. M. Nine bodies were recovered from the wreckage of the B-32, two miles northwest of Weatherford. Earlier others had been found in the 1 B-29, four miles west rd. No names were releas fivs breke > TO USE 45,000 NALZ! PRISONERS AS COAL MIRERS BRUSSELS, Aug. 18 — Premi Achiile Van' Acker said today an agreement had been reached with Allied authorities for the u. of 45,000 German prisoners as coal miners in Belzium and that 10,000 are already at wgik, D DIVORCED HE Upon defadit of defendart, Carol M. Carlsen was issued a decree of divorce from Harold V. Carlson in here y manent custody of the couple's of minor daughter, with the defendant Alaska Co to pay $42 monthly for support 2 long as he is in the armed forces of | * ed Burrell returned the T0 AUSSIES miling Ja})ua—r{ese Major Bears ‘White Flag S Through Lines BOURNE, Aug. 18.—~A smiling panese major led surrender en- oy f Emperor Hirohito's 17th Army through « tropical downpour today to meet three Austra 1 offi~ ce who had been wait three lays on the banks of tie Mivo River Bougainvill> island in the Splo- river un- private his The Japanes: cressed the fer a white flag carried by a ) bore a Nipponese flag cther hand. % in They werc led by Major Oist iluted and bowed to Maj Eurrell of the 29th Australian In- fantry Brigade. . -Australian. War Cerrespondent Neel Ottayay report- salut> er Otsu ac- Emperor hac Ihrough an interpr cwledged that itk n cefzated and said he had been by Lt. Gen. Kanda to récpive s for the surrender of the 1Tth »aness Arm Olsu smiled broadly when told to nter Major Burrall's jeep, was still emiling” when blindfolc d driven through groups of cheer- Aussies toward Division Head- quarters. It and >d the envoys would the river later, carrying do- tails of the surrender terms from n Australian corps commander, the Army Department announced .o NICK BEZ HERE Nick Bez d yesterday from odd and is a at the Baranof Hotel. - GOODMAN ARRIVES Thor 8. Goodman arrived on an al Airiines’ plane from Pelican City and is a guest at the Daranof Hotel. | i | | | ByP_r. Yagi SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18 dalistic sectionalism, na mindedne ' were the fatal monkey wr s in Japan's l\\.nr machine, Dr. Hideji Yagi, former president of the Japanese Board of Technology, was quoted in a Domei broadeast today, moni- tored by the FCC. He advocated “freedom of the press, speech and association as the bagis for natibnal reconstru tion,” the broad continued Domei, in its 1-language bre t /to - the erican zone, commented that Dr. I's beliefs, voiced in an interview in yester- da, Mainichi, were “an indica- tion of which way the wind is ticnal surrender, blowing in Japan's public opinion, following acceptance of uncondi- > > NORWAY MILITARY GOVERNMENT ENDS ON SEPTE MBER 1 LONDON, Aug. 18—Allied Mili- tary Government {n Norway will end Sept. 1, and. ¢jvil administra- tion in the country will revert to the Norwegian Government, the Luxembourg radio said today. - VISITS PARE Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Henderson and of Little Rock, Ark., are visiting here with Mrs. Henderson's Mr. and Mrs. Herman It is Mrs. Henderson’s first Juneau more than six baby parents, Porter trip years. to in - P NKER IN PORT The Tanker “Victor H. Kelly” arrived in port this morning from the south and is discharging cargo + &t the Union Oil docks, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S.PLANES STILL. SHOT Apparently Hirohito Order — | _ PRICE TEN CENTS =1 NOTE SENT ~ QUTLINING ATBY JAPS 1Ip PLAN To Fly Two Whife Trans- ports Marked with Green Crosses Flaunted by Nippon- ese Airmen Aug 18—For the - sive day, American B- By RUSSELL BRINES alrcraft, flying purely pholo- | (Asroeciated Press Corresopndent) afhic missicns cver Japan, wer> MANILA, Aug. 18.—Japan official- tacked teday with anti-aircraft ly informed Geroral MacArthur to- re und by Japanese fighter inter- night that surrepder emissaries ceptors. would leave Japan Sunday morning | The attacks followed by cnly a —_weather permitting—and a head- ! few hours Japan's officlal acceptance ausarters spokesman sald they would of Gencral MacArthur's instructions pe flown straight from Ie Island, off (to lly a peace envoy to Manila to- Okinawa, to Manila. morrow The official Japancse message said Several planes were reported hit the emissaries would arrive at Ie with flak and bullets and some crew about 1:30 p. m, Sunday (12:20 a. m,, members were injured Sunday, Fastern War Time) | The ne of action was 1escribed An Ameriean plane will pick up only outhern Japan the emissaries from two green cross- (Feurtzen Japanese Zeke fighters ed white Japanese transports at Te attacked the 325, killing one crew gnd is expected to reach Manila nt member and injuring two other, ra- 7 or § o'clogk that night (7 or 8 died NBC's Ro:ort Shaplen . from 5 m, Sunday, EWT). Ckinawa. He said twe enemy planes To Confer Monday were down, After a B-32, damaged, A spokesman said the Japanese acked other planes to take it slow t0 crodentials would be examined Sun- vrotect the cripple, a Japanes> pllot day night, but that the conference trcke into the conversation with ity MacArthur would not start toke it slow. T want to shoot i) Monday. i haplen added.) The flight to Manila will require i i i p 5% to 6 hours after whatever delay is involved in the Ie transfer and takeoff. i 5 E enrcute to Manila—was radioed at | 6:33 p. m. today, on the designated | frequency. i DEFE AT[D Tokyo said the envoys would de- We Must Face This Fac- part in two planes from Kisarazy airdrome, southeast of Tokyo, at 7 . Enemy Foreign ' Minister States a. m. (6 p. m. Saturday, Eastern War Time.) g § MacArthur had specified that one plane be used, and that it shopld depart from Sata Misaki on southern tip of Kyushu Island. The new Japanese message said the two planes-—-unarmed, twin en= gined, single winged land attack aircraft--would fly over Sata Misaki SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 18—The and gave a detailed schedule for the Japanese people, treated heretofore flight from that point to Te Shima. to a series of face-saving, evasive Tt said the planes would bear “mark- explanations of their surrender, were jngs designated by you” — gréen tcld flatly today by one of their top- crosses on a white background. light leaders they are a beaten . Secrecy on Plans people and must pay the price for Meantime, preparations continued an imperialistic dream bubble that ynder unusual seerecy for holding burst in the blast of atomjc bombs. the momentous preliminary peace Alter four days of shock-absorbing conference in this army city. Head- statements to the effect the Nippon- (Ccntinued on Page Eight) ese defeat but temporary,” and “we still think our way of thinking e is right,” hard headed Foreign Min- : ister Mamoru Sigemitsu, who held B l l E T I N S the same post in Kuniaki Koiso' war cabinet, put the Japanese poci- < ticn in pluin words. e “Unfortunately,” he bluntly told a LONDON-Delegates of the Third press conference reported by Lhe UNRRA Cgnference gave. the in- Japanete Domel news agency, “we ternational relief agency the right bave to face the fct that we have today, by a vote of 28 to 4, to 1 defeated. care for refugees whe refuse to “This fact should be admitted as return to their homeland. it is, and any over-optimistic’ view v should be avoided. Every Japanes: SAN FRANCISCO — The Army should repeatedly read, ang realize, will continue to send low-point men the terms of the Potsdam declara- who have served in Europe to the tion and carry them out courage- paeific to assist in the return of |ously.” high-score men from the Pacific Despite the flatness of the Forelgn pheatre, Army officials’ announced. Minister’s statement, Domel's broad- cast recorded by the Federal Com- wASHINGTON — Nine merchant munications Commission sought to s were sunk ‘“off the West soiten the harshness of reality and gouq» by enemy action during the stressed a statement by Shigemitsu war with Japan, the War ‘Shipping that Japan must win “the world's Administretion disclosed today. sympathy and understanding.” 2 Earlier, Domei indicated that Nip- pon’s invasion jitters were giving away to “occupation jitters,” in de- nying groundless” rumors that American troops and a “Chungking army” had landed on Honshu. Domei said an upnidentified Tokyo : ISCO. newspaper had reported rumors the SAN PRANGING EXRN Mn; Americans had landed at Shimoda [UaN8 Kuvid Abhaiwong of Thai- in the Izo Peninsula, southwest of 1and and l‘us Sakiast yeoteycny. sl ‘Tokyo and that a Chungking army Mitted resignations, the Tokyo radio had entered the city of Osaka. mparia. The newspaper urged the Japa- nese not to credit such “irresponsiple WASHINGTON — Secretary of rumors” but to “place absolut> State Byrnes tells Communist- confidence in the reports snnounced dominated Bulgarian Government by authoritative sources, the radio the United States does not regard and newspapers,” and said: it as adequately representative of “The landing of occupation armies all democratic elements in that on Japan's mainland will be done in country. an crderly fashion after the conclu- sicn of the truce agreement.” - e U. S. unemployment 5,624,000 between WASHINGTON - Amateur radlo operators have been warned nop to resurne operations until officially autherized by the Federdl Com- munications Commission. | CLEVELAND — Bob Feller, ace pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, increased is to be released soon from the 1919 and 1921. Navy, probably this weekend. ‘nimmfim the envoy (o Ie yesterday