The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 21, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA M| IRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” . VOL. LXV., NO. 10,045 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1945 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e ————— (CCUPATION OF JAPANTO START SUNDAY 4 Membersof 6 Doolittle QUISLING'S TREACHERY - SHOWN UP Premier for Germans in Norway on Trial CHUNGKING, Aug. 21—The office jof Strategic Services announced to- day that four members of General Doolittle’s first mission over Tokye . H were released from a prison camp at for His Life Peipine. BULLETIN—OSLO, Norway. The names will not be disclosed until relatives have been notified. Japanese propagandists, apparent- ly intending to intimidate American fliers, announced that some of the Doolittle fliers who had taken off from the carrier Hornet and bomb- led the homeland were put to death. Aug. 21.—Vidkun Quisling wiltea ~ pefore the anger of Presiding Judge Erik Solem today as the justice sharply demanded a “yes or no” answer to the question whether he had been asked by German Admiral Erich Raeder to “betray your country.” With a downward flicker of | the eyes, the pale Quisling blush- ed and finally whispered “No.” The Judge’s questioning came after a German document was read by the prosecution which said Quisling had met the Ger- | man Admiralty Staff in 1939 and 1 furnished information about the Norwegian coast before the 1940 invasion. CIVIL WAR " INDICATED IN CHINA Chiang Kai-;H;k Puts Issue Squarely Before Com- munist Chiefs By SPENCER MOOSA By NED NORDNESS (Associated Press Correspondent) OSLO, Norway, Aug. 21.—A Ger- man document read by the prosecu- ¥ ‘tlon today said that Vidkun Quisling met the German military staff in 1939 and furnished information about the Norwegian coast before the 1940 Nazi invasion. Quisling, who became “Premier” during the German occupation, is: on trial for his life, charged with military and civil treason, murder| on 16 counts, theft, réceiving stolen. property and attempting to’ bring Norway under a foreign power. i Prosecutor Annaeus Schodjt said| the once high ranking Nazi, Alfred| Rosenberg, had identified and term-| ed authentic all documents produced in the Quisling trial thus far, in-| cluding those of yesterday which the | State offered to support its accusa- (Associated Press Lorrespondent) tion that Quisling helped the Ger-| CHUNGKING, Aug. 21.—General- mans plan the invasion. iissimo Chiang Kai-shek put squarely Faced with the task of disapprov- up to Chinese Communist leaders to- ing the State’s charges of pre-invgs- day responsibility for settlement of jon treachery, Quisling rose in his Chma'_s pressing internal political own defense on this second day of problems without recourse to civil his trial for life. But he had strife. spoken only a few words when the (A wireless dispatch from Yenan, prosecutor cut in with the new docu- North China Communist capital, re- ment. corded by the FCC, said Chinese Information given the Germans, Communists had captured Yang- he atleged, was presented to Grand chung, on the Yangtze River 60 Adm. Erich Raeder, then Chief of miles east of Nanking, the former the German Navy; Field Marshal capital of the Chinese National gov-| Over Tokyo Are Alive. TERROR BAY Shortest War in History: | Between 2 Major Powers Has Apparenlll fiEnded THREE ARE FOUND DEAD, eneral 's Raiders “ — — | % BN | The four were released though| the efforts of a humanitarian team | Mys'e[y IS Repo"ed 1ha' which parachuted at Peiping, it was| 5 o announced. | Rivals Famous "Shoot- A radio message from the team re- e P |ceived in Chungking today said the Ing of Dan M(Grew men were now quartered in the| R Grand Hotel de Pekin and were re-| ponrag Alaska, Aug. 21-Bodies ceiving the best care possible. ~ lof My and Mrs. William E. Bau- t One is in such serious condition |y, 4ny their neighbor, John E. from Beri Beri that he is unable o) g jopor have been found in the travel by air, but he was reported, g, yn s capin on Terror Bay by receiving “supportive” medical care.| gy n con William E., Jr, in a The Japanese had charged the four| X % g men with murder. 1mvst.ery that rivals the hooting of Dan McGrew.” ‘i Deputy U. S. Marshal Paul| | Herring said the son, stopping by at his parents’ lonely cabin on a| fishing trip, found his 74-year-old father just inside the door and Mrs. | | Bauman, 50, and Strickler, 77, lying dead in a pool of blood in another jroom with a .30-30 carbine near them. | Pederal authorities from Anchor- |age left for Terror Bay, 50 miles from here, to investigate. | The son estimated the three had - T 5 ! been dead “only a short time.” ’ 21F1L3E:::adcat?:g‘i’:ln:‘:l§ | Baumdn and Strickler had been munique said tonight that 52,- 1cpemtimz a small gold mlnfi for 000 Japanese in Manchiria in- |SOme time and the latter is re- cluding two generals command- | Ported locally “to have had lots of ing the First and Third fronts of | money.” i the Kwantung armies were tak- | A daughter of the Bauman’s, | en prisoner yesterday. Mary Bauman, formerly of Cor- Five more towns on Shakhalip | dova, is now believed to be residing Island were taken during the | at 726 North Seventy-Fourth day. The communique listed | Street, Seattle. these as Itiga, Nayeshi, Usiyoro, It is also revealed that Strickler's Umari and Maoka, cabin was burned to the ground. | The totai bag of Japanese NIRRT i | OB ! prisoners appreached the 200,- | | 000 mark with today’s announce- | olDTIM ! ment. Soviet dispatches sald all | | Manchuria would be occupied | | pi ~ MINERIS . LONDON, Aug. 21—All organ- | | ized fighting in the Russian-Japa- | | | nese war, one of the shortest in | history between major powers, ap- peared to have ceased in Man-| | churia today and a proclamation marking the formal end of the struggle was expected soon from Generalissimo Stalin. The Russians announced last Salem Abra_IEm Becomes Exhausted on Nome Trail Near Panic asNyI&ts GoOnSale A small part of the crowd of women—numbering in the thousands — that lined up August 17 at a San Leandro, Calif., hesiery mill when the word was spread that 2,000 pairs of nylon stockings were on sale. Scene of the epochal event was the Willstrut Hes- No disorder was reported but Sales were to women cnly, three pairs to a customer. jery Mill on Feothill Boulevard, Price was $1.85 a pair for 51-gauge hose. fiepublican Buildup JAPS GET | STRAIGHT 1; Replaces Breakdown; It May Be Strategy DOPE NOW | Republieans relaxing their long-time ' Mlkado Sem Em‘is_ it | strategy of merely adverse GUSTAVUS BE By Jack Stinnett {cism of Democratic administrative sa”es 10 Mamla policies for a constructive 1cx1.~m-: Q | tive program all their own | (By ‘The, Atscelated Press) | The rccent activities of Republi- | can senators who are admittedly party leaders gives every indication | that they are. The Japanese were told today by two of their most powerful dailies, their future political activity must TRANSFERPT. dehBtor - AVEOIEE X5 Van(lm'umfl‘vv follow a path midway between past —_— n‘;"m ]v"u”__wming' gpfl,“_‘ Sen,| “Power politics” and contemptuous " e s 5 i *'wcurrying of favor” with the Allies. eI aft’s i f a post-| Juneau fo Be Served by Rebert A Tatvs outine of @ port| o, Tpopie “atso were told, for Shu"le SerVI(e Usmg | surprisingly liberal recommendation “‘“l f\"“_'_‘ l:;'.‘f' "’1;‘_ T"k“‘h (P“d for national housing; the teaming of SCht surrender emissaries to Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters in Ma- | Sens. Harold H. Burton and Joseph % ¥ } nila. The disclosure was made in jH. Ball with Democratic Sen. Carl FIRST MOVE FOR ALLIES IS REVEALED ' Airborne Forces Will Land First in Nip Empire at Atsugi | UNITS FROM WARSHIPS, TRANSPORTS T0 FOLLOW Triumphal Enfry Announc- ed in Communique-To Watch for Treachery MANILA, Aug. 21—Allied occupa~ tion of Japan will begin Sunday, the Japanese Government and Im- perial Headquarters said today in ! a joint communique which included | an appeal to the Japanese people | to “remain calm and continue their business as usual The communique, broadcast by the Japanese Domei News Agency? | amplified an earlier announcement by the Information Ministry that the first occupation troops would be airborne, landing at Atsugi Air- field, 20 miles southwest of Tokyo. The airborne landings will be followed Tuesday, Aug. 28, with “further landings from warships jand transports in the Yokosuka | area,” the ministry said. Yokosuka | is one of Japan’s great naval bases. | J e L Tt S { Te Prevent Outbreaks | Domel quoted the ministry as | saying that Japanese Army and | Navy forces would be “transferred immediately” from the landing |area to prevent any outbreaks. | Sufficient police will be stationed |in the occupation areas to “main- tain peace and order.” ! The Japanese announcements were the first disclosures of plans | for the ‘triumphal entry by Allied ‘ forces which will lead to the formal surrender to Gen. MacArthur as Supreme Allied Commander, MacArthur had announced only that the occupation would be car- night that Red Army troops had occupied Hsinking, Japanese puppet capital of Manchuria, without op-] position. | Earlier yesterday the Russians —SearchersFind NoTrace | Present Clippers Juneau is fated soon to sit with Ketchikan at the tag-end of a Hatch to sponsor legislation for a federal labor relations board are just a few but very important indications NOME, Alaska, Aug. 21 — Salem|gpuitle jump and watch the main|that the party leaders are no longer Abraham, 74, oldtime miner of the an imperial announcement of the ried ot by the end of the month. of Lt. Gen. Takashio Ka- Imperial Announcement party to Tokyo. The an-| Tckyo's disclosures followed an icements invariably are made imperfal “announcement that the | Mikado's surrender envoys had re- return wabe not Wilhelm Keitel; and Col. Gen. Gus-|ernment. The Communists said tav Jodl. {they were also engaged in bitter said Mukden, Manchuria’s old capi- Haycock district, has been missing tal, and Harbin, big industrial and gince August 16, when he left the Schodjt said Quisling was ac- companied to the conference by William Hagelin, Norwegian born businessman who later became Quisling’s Minister of Interior. Quisling was interrupted repeat- edly and subbornly by Presiding Judge Erik Solem and the prosecu- street fighting in Wuhu, 65 miles up communications center, had capitu- | Bear Creek camp with James Ithe Yangtze from Nanking, The lated. Y McDowell, also & miner, for Hay- | Communists declared they had cap-| Moscow's latest war bulletin in-|cock, 25 miles distant. Itured Choubsiang, on Hangchow|dicated that only a few areas After eight miles of rough trail, |Bay south of Shanghai, which was| Principally north of the Korean Abraham became exhausted and, |defended by Chinese puppet troops. | border and above the former Rus- after a brief rest, McDowell pled Chungking reported yesterday that!sian naval base of Port Arthur, with him to return. Abraham re- these puppet troops had gone over; Were yet to be occupied in Japan’s| fused, saying he would remain tor as he offered information about to Generalissimo Chiang’s side.) his military career. He was asked Reflecting concern over the situa- about his responsibility at the time|tion, already reported to have result- of the 1940 invasion as a former Ma- ed in a series of clashes between Jjor in the Royal Norwegian Army. :great stolen Manchurian empire uf_‘where he was for a longer rest. {573,103 square miles and more than, McDowell went on alone to send 139,000,000 people. A tractor for Abraham. i |a | MBSRRRA ot e Y { Unable to get a tractor, he waited Quisling said in a vexed voice: “Certainly I had certain obliga- tions, but I resigned as an officer in 1933 in protest against the de- fense policy - of the government. Neither in peace nor in war could I serve as an officer under such a defense policy.” He asserted that he always advo- cated strong military forces, but that | the kingdom never accepted this National government and Commun- "y | three days, then telephoned to st troops in North china, chiang| There Just Ain't [Nome for a plane. |dispatched an urgent message to The Wien Airlines dispatched |Communist leader, Gen. Mao Tze-| Any japanese tung at Yenan asking him to recon- sider his refusal to come to Chung-| "avy Exisfing 'king for conferences. ! | Pilot Frank Whaley on the search |for Abraham, but up to noon to- |day, no trace of the aged miner (had been found. Several tractors Chiang emphasized that “no re-‘ crudescence of civil war can be tol- erated.” “During eight years of war our fellow countrymen have gone GUAM, Aug. 21.—Read Adm. For- |rest C. Shermamy reporting today ion the Manila pre-occupation con- |ference with Japanese envoys said| |the Mikado’s emissaries had confirm- | !left Nome this afternoon, covering the regular trails in the hope of | finding the aged man alive, al- though it is thought that he has probably succumbed from exposure view. The Washingion Merry - Go-Round By DRFW PEARSON Lt. Col. Robert S. Allen now oy active service with the Army.) (ED. NOTE — While Drew ithrough untold sufferings,” he said.| “Now that they are liberated they:® Ishould be given consolidation and |!on8 known—that the Japanese Navy | | virtually has ceased to exist. d what the United States Navy had Py this time. - | line of Alaska air travel flit by. oing to Le satisfied with simply Publ Just how soon that situation will ;{,,a‘-fng dvan the a(lmun:»lmuirnfl The Tokyo newspaper Mulnichl?"_“med to Tokyo with explicit in- come about depends upon when the | playhouse, but intend to build one today carried on its front page | Structions of what the Japanese Lockheed Constellations that Pan of their own with which they can three pictures of the devastation must de to prepare for occupation. American World Airways plans to “point with pride” in the coming caused by the sccond atomic bomb The imperial announcement, which put into Alaska service will be elections of 1946 and '48. at Nagasaki, important southeast-|!S traditionally made public, was available. | Sen. Vandenberg has been one of ern Kyushu naval staging base,. the first word the Japanese people The disclosure as to PAA plans the party leaders in foreign policy Radio Tokyo reported one showed|had that their envoys had gone to to substitute Gustavus for the now for several years and has led it “the center of the once thriving|Manila at MacArthur's order. Juneau Airport as a main line consistently away from “isolation- city had been turned into a vast Japanese General Headquarters transfer point was made here yes- terday afternoon in testimony given by Jerry Roscoe, PAA's act- ing Manager for the Alaska sector. Mr. Roscoe was appearing as a witness at the public hearing on Pan America’s application to carry traffic between Juneau and Ket- chikan. It was later revealed by Mr. Ros; coe that one of the Douglas DC-3's, | now flying the main Alaska route,| will be stationed at the Juneau] terminal to provide shuttle service to Gustavus. Mr. Roscoe testified that the 60-' passenger Constellations would be unable to get into the Juneau Ain- port, that when they are in service | terminal facilities will be shifted to Gustavus and Pan American; will operate a shuttle plane service to carry passengers between Juneau and Gustavus. PAA plans for ‘serving Ketchikan include continued use of the An- nette Island airfield, with shuttle service by chartered boat to handle ism”. No one was particularly sur- prised when he vigorously defend- ed the San Francisco charter. Most of his party colleagues applauded both with hands and aiiirmative votes. | His letter to Secretary of State Byrnes® outlinging a seven-point proposal for governing the choi s of the American de gate to the United Nations organiza- ticn, and his suggestion that only the armed forces of the western kemisphere nations be allowed to police the western hemisphere, is a horse of another color. | Some administration spokesmen ! hastened to let it be known they weren't placing all their money on' the nosz of tha' Vandenberg horse by any means. However, a day earlier they could not do anything but string along when the Michigan senator proposed that Lahor Secretary Schwellenbach sporisor a labor-management-gov- ernment “Big 3" conference to iron cut the problems on the industrial devastation with nothing left ex-|adioed MacArthur that both white cept rubble as far as the eye could painted envoy planes had returned see.” to Tokyo, after being delayed by A second photograph depicted &I mishaps. the “tragic scene 10 miles away from the center of the atomic air Uncenditional Surrender The text of the credentials car- ried by Lt. Gen, Takashiro Kawabe, attack where farm houses are either crushed down or the roofs|head of the negotlators, was re- torn asunder. The third showed lédsed by MacArthur’s General “the’ ghastly scene” at Nagasaki Headquarters today. It ended any with a horse crushed beneath a|PeSSible speculation as to his au- wrecked building. | thority to bind the nation to his “Nagasaki s now a dead city, all | Promises. In effect it meant uncon- he | ditional surrender. areas being literally razed to ti 4 MacArthur's post-conference ground. Only a few buildings are' left standing conspicuously fromStatement yesterday made it plain the ashes” the photographer was| Uhat the negotiations developed no quoted as saying. concessions beyond the original one of preservation of the throne. Maninichi and the Nippon Times | Tokyo meanwhile professed tothe were the two newspapers which _ ocutlined for Japan its political | WOrld that she was extremely fear- course. ’ful of her military men—"without “Since our endeavors to build up Japan based on sheer might met with complete failure, we must henceforth tread the path of a . Of Surrender ern!infi;d 07; P;:be Two) Pearson is on a brief vacation, his column will be written by several distinguished guest col- umnists—today’s by Henry J. Kaiser, the famous West Coast industrialist and ship-builder.) nese now hold. Chiang said it appeared that Chu “is not fully acquainted with the procedure of Japanese surrender.” “It should be noted,” he declared By HENRY J. KAISER {by the Allied Supreme Command to SAN FRANCISCO—<For one who be carried out separately in the var- has, on occasion, been taken for ious theatres of war, including the a ride on Drew Pearson's Merry-|China theatre. Therefore we can-' not violate what he and the Allied forces have agreed upon.” - .- LETHA BURNS HERE Go-Round, it is difficult to refuse a free ride when it is offered. During the war, I have come to| know something of the Washington | that is covered in this column. What understanding of its prob- lems I have acquired stems from (Continued on Page Four) of Kelso, Wash, arrived from Anchorage yesterday and is a guest at the Gastineau "Hotel, Letha Burns, “that measures for accepting the | Japanese surrerider had been decided encouragement without delay.” 3 L At the same time Chiang declared! Toe Aduiivel, DeRil v Objel Of; he could not accede to the demands|St3ff and Admiral Nimitz' repre-| v | commander, for participation in the oy Japanese sunger Bfifimngemems.w,.!a\panese fleet, because there isp't| {Chiang previously had ordered Chu|?"Y: | | to take no independent action with ‘We have known for many months,f regard to disarming the Japanes&as a result of the destruction _o( the or taking over territory the Japa-"‘mp"?‘e” warshl_ps and shipping by the increased air attacks, that the| {have a strong army and a very con- | WASHINGTO_N Al rmi a5 : 14 | , Aug. 21.—Termin- !siderable air force,” he said. |ation of lend-lease operations was o |announced officially at the White | House today. | |NFlATIo" | Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said letters have gone out from the |ago George H. Duncan, pressroom ticipated in the program. imachinist for the Dallas Morning| The statement estimated uncom- | News, sold a wrench for $1.50 to a pleted contracts for non-mugtions 1young apprentice. Duncan’s initials and finished goods in this country were stamped on the wrench with a not yet transferred to lend-lease steel punch. !beneflciaries total about $2,000,000,-| A few days ago Duncan paid uiooo. Aother $1,000,000,000 to $1,500,- !sentative at Manila, implied there| Japanese Have been brought to de-| (OME Io END [Foreign Economic Administration to for a wrench in a second hand store.|000,000 is tied up in lend-lease stock pee Cen, Onn b Comminiinist ATIY| . n ke no board surrender of the | feat on the sea, although they still| | DALLAS, Tex.—Twenty-one years most of the governments that par- It was stamped with his initials, piles abroad, J trattle i and out between the M font hat susgestion gt cyaey OUOTATIONS island and Ketchikan. Whenever "SI b sl B sufficlent traffic volume is ob-| Sen: Talt has been one ol the — most persistent dissenters to Dl‘nm-; cratic administration policies for years, so much sc that his opponents acrcss the aisle have long tried to Ipass off his criticism at nothing I more than the outpourings of a cen- NEW YORK, Aug. 21 — Closing quotation of Alaskg-Juncnu Mine stock today is 67, American Can 94'%, Anaconda 31%, Curtiss-Wright 5%, International Harvester 84%, Kennecott 35%, New York Central tained, plane service between the| First City and Annette Island will| displace the boat service, Roscoe indicated. | Anchorage Only Alaska Stop Should Pan American World Air- |firmed and hide-bound conserva- o3. = nNorthern Pacific 24%, U. S. ways be successful in its nppflca-lu"e- | Steel 657, Pound $4.02%. . 1 tion to the CAB for certification | A Sales today were 1,160,000 shgres. across the North Pacific from| Then Sen. Tajt's sub-committee py o 50,00 averages today are as Seattle to the Orient, traffic on|on national housing made “-"_';‘1"’” follows: Industrials, 163.38; rails, the route will eventually be carried | 4nd recommendations for new hous- g9 15, yjyiies, 32,05 by Douglas DC-7's, which will make-‘mg legislation. Democratic senators pia P RUSHTON IN JUNEAU Dallas Rushton arrived yesterday |from Sitka and is a guest at the | Baranof Hotel, only one scheduled sfop in Alaska— | Wagner and Ellender rushed to the at Anchorage. Constellations wil[Senate hopper with thelr housing — e e R —_____ \bill the same day Taft made pub- (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Five) Will Be Signed WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.— Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is expected to sign the Japanese surrender terms in behalf of the | United States. | General Douglas MacArthur, Allied Commander-in-Chief, has announced that he will sign the surrender papers in behalf of the Big Four—the United States, !y China, Russia and Britain. It | was reported here today that Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser will | sign separately for Great Britain. ‘ Russia and‘ China have not | yet namid their representa- tives, |