The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 23, 1945, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT JUNEAU C. OF C. DISCUSSES PAA GUSTAVUS PLA k. B. Blatkkfiefilales Merits of Kansas City fo Local Group This noon's meeting of the Juneau |center and the heart of livestock, wheat, gasoline and oil export. Mr. | Black is worthy of his 25 year mem- | behship of Kansas City Chamber of | Commerce as was shown in the pre- !cise and proud manner in which he described this noteworthy city. Mrs. Marie Lander, Most Worthy Grand Matron of the General Grand Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, who is now visiting Juneau's Chapter, having visited Chapters as far north {as Point Barrow, brought greetings from the Chambers of Commerce of Orlando, Florida, of which she is a member, and of Tampa, Florida. Guests in addition to Mrs. Lander, Chamber of Commerce was featured Mr. Black and Mr. Roscoe, were by open discussion of the likely ef-,Mrs, Lynna M. Holland, Worthy fects upon Juneau of the contem- rom of Juneau Chapter, Order plated use by Pan American Air- of Eastern Star and Sted Green, ways of Gustavus, in place of Juneau | Territorial Department of Health; airport, as an operational base. J. V. Carter, underwriter for the Jerry Roscoe, Acting Alaska Sec- Federal Housing Administation, was tor Manager for PAA was present to, welcomed by Chamber of Commerce in member: a new member. explain his company’s position the matter. He stated his belief i that Juneau will benefit, rather than suffer, from the change to Jarger, faster Constellation aircraft that necessitates the use of Gustav- us. 'MORE FINE NEWS FROM NATION'S Mr. Roscoe summarized Ff'dcral“ controls over commercial aviation to| conclude that the high terrain sur- rounding the Juneau field will bar its CAPITAL FRONT BULLETINS LONDON—The government told Commons today it expected to re- lease more than 1,000,000 persons from the armed services by the end of the year and about 1,150,000 from war production within two months. NEW YORK — The New York Times in a Washington dispatch | said today that the United States,| Great Britain and Russia would undertake joint political action to halt an incipient civil war in China. {Also that the three great powers | plan joint occupation of Korea, SAN FRANCISCO—An extraordi- ary session of the Japanese Diet will be convened September 2 and 3 to “drive home to the nation” the “stark reality” of Japan's defeat and to clarify the circumstances leading to the end of the war, the Japanese { Domei News Agency said today. LONDON--The principal British | Laborite newspaper, the London | Daily Herald, says that it is definite {that Lord Halifax will return as British Ambassador to Washington. Lord Halifax is a Conservative, and there have been rumors'that he in- tended to resign his post. use by larger ships—until such time; WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 — In- as their maneuverability it slcppcd‘v.m-csunr,' news from the nation's capital, presaging restoration of “ up In answer to questions by Cur- tis Shattuck and Jack Fletcher, Mr. Roscoe said he did not look for ad- verse effect on Juneau stopovers by the change. Pan American does not intend to set up a hotel as Gustavus, though it may have to provide some overnight accommodations there, he normal, peace-time living condi. ditions, was released today. by Washington officials is the lift. portation. Housewives, especially, will hail the announcement that on Novem- s One of the most welcome moves ing of more controls from trans- SAN FRANCISCO — A Tokyo broadcast says that the Supreme | Commander of Japanese forces in |North China, General Shimomura | has been appointed Minister of War |in the Japanese Cabinet. He relieves }Promiar Prince Higashi-Kuni of the {post he was holding concurrently | with the Premiership. declared: Anyone planning to come ber 1, restrictions are coming off to Juneau will still come here, he deliveries. After that date, milk | concluded. companies, laundries, stores and| RANGOON—The commander of other concerns will be free to make as many deliveries as their facili- ties will permit. Another transportation order goes Pan American will charge no add- ed fare for the shuttle plane hop from Gustavus into Juneau—PAA’s certificate provides for service to the Japanese forces in Burma has| | confirmed the cease fire order in a (message to Allid commanders. The acknowledgment by Lieutenant Gen- Juneau not Gustavus—Gustavus will into effect sooner than the one eral Kimura was the first direct be merely an operational stop, not a covering deliveries. That is the one communication received by the Allies transfer point. | removing the ban on excursion from the Japanese command in Juneau'’s place in the Alaska trav- el picture may be affected, however, it was brought out, by certification of through Seattle to Anchorage ser- | vice by one carrier, now before the| CAB; or by establishment of a hotel trains. The railroads are going to be permitted to restore holiday | trains in time for the Labor Day | weekend. There is another cheering feature to the reconversion picture. That at Gustavus in connection with the jg the announcement that civilians development of Glacier Bay National wij pe able to buy household ap- Moument. 1In that case, airlines| pliances months sooner, in most may apply for certificates for a ser-| cages, than had been expected a vice point at Gustavus. | month ago. Increased Alaska travel, through‘ Here is a rough time-table for mass transportation facilities, should, the reappearance of appliances. Mr. Roscoe thinks, result in more geciric ranges by December, some Hople oming -t Junesy EVEn. washing machines by January, though the percentage drops. FOr| ooy’ fang by Christmas. Elec- that reason, he advised that Juneau | tric refrigerators. will be off ra- go ahead with plans for development 1iofilxxg By mld-bczober of the local airport. s A ‘The discussion, and meeting, broke | G : - up on a remark by Alaska’s Attorney Stm:et:méAN';r:;mn:ewp?csenm- ?';XT::;S::p\;‘uzéfiv:;s’éfi:&x:‘fied | tive of the Pacific Alaska Fisheries, Previous to the discussion was a|©f Bellingham, Wash, is a guest talk given by E. B. Black, head of | At the Baranof Hotel. the firm of Black and Veatch, here SRR 7 to conduct an appraisal of public| NO FIRE—JUST TOOTS utilities, who brought greetings from the Chamber of Commerce of | No fire was indicated by the Kansas City. unique series of blasts from the Kansas City, as pointed out by local fire signal horn this morning, Mr. Black, is the center of many|Juneau Fire Department officials industries and travel lines. It is, | explained. The horn toots were more or less, the center of air trans- | evoked accidentally during work on portation, second largest railroad the system Schilling Celery Salt Real celery flavor in a jiffy SAVOR SALT SEASONING O BUTTER | EGGS Grade AA Extra Large—Fresh 21bs.$1.09(2doz.§1.45 FRESH FRUITS and VEGETABLES LOTS OF GOLDEN RIPE Bananas TWO JUNEAU DELIVERIES 10:15 A. M. 2:15P. M. DOUGLAS DELIVERY 10 A. M. MINIMUM—$2.50 TEEELE SR RETE PRSI PRLTER AL B EEER S PR TR LRI P ST TR ST TP L DRI TT R R T T LEe § PHONE 10 Burma. SYDNEY, Australia—An Austral- { ian correspondent has disclosed that | ' Japanese commanders on Bougain- | ville Island have impudently re-| fused to surrender until the formal papers are signed at Tokyo. | MOSCOW-—The Presidium of the Soviet Ukraine has joined the long 'list of United Nations which al- ready have ratified the San Fran- cisco charter. Meanwhile, debate on the charter is continuing in the British House of Commons, with speedy ratification anticipated. { MADRID—The end of ths ¥ranco 'regime in Spain has been forecast by one of the Generalissimo’s own Cabinet members. Foreign Minister Alberto Martin Artajo has told Spanish newsmen that Franco's re- gime “will one day end in tradi- tional monarchy.” Artajo did not say how far off this day is, nor did he predict who would be king. OKINAWA — American officials have taken into consideration the possibility that Allied forces may encounter trouble when the occupa- tion of Japan begins on Sunday. As a result, it was announced that Ihunclreds of troop transport planes | will be fully alert as they near the ' surrendered empire. | LONDON—Britain’s new Labor government introduced legislation today seeking broad authority to re- tain for at least five years many of its wartime emergency controls, in- cluding the right to peg prices and regulate services and supplies. | SAIRO—Mahmud Issawy, convict- ed of slaying Premier Ahmed Pasha, died today after a two-week hunger strike. The 26-year-old Cairo lawyer was under sentence to be hanged. The Premier was shot to dedth as he left the Chamber of Deputies after announcing Egypt's declaration of war against the Axis last Feb- ruary. | WASHINGTON—Owen J. Roberts, | of Philadelphia, who recently retired | from the U. S. Supreme Court bench, has refused an important interna- | tional assignment, but President fTruman hopes he will reconsider.| The Chief Executive made this known today at a news conference. | WASHINGTON — The Navy dis- | closed today that two of its mod- jern 35000-ton battleships, the | Washington and the Indiana, col- lided February 1, 1944, as they were % withdrawing after a bombardment “iof Kwajalein in the Marshalls. | Military secrecy had cloaked the | accident until today. The Indiana - } suffered three dead and one injured. & | Casualties of the Washington were = three dead and three missing. | £| CHICAGO — The Reconstruction & Finance Corporation announced to- | day that between three million and five million dollars in new and used t!elecu-omcs and radio communica- . | tions equipment will be disposed of Cantaloupe, Honey Dew and Casaba Melons :|vy approximately 225 radio manu- Fa b L sk SR RSRES IR S ——w. | facturers throughout the nation. ;The equipment originally was pro- i | duced for the armed forces. | AL L . GULLS AT WORK | LEWELLEN, Neb.—Migratory gulls | | | are removing a grasshopper menace which threatens a large part of Gar- 'den county crops in the Nebraska panhandle, sley dam. Every morning they fly {up the Platte and attack the insects, ]m some cdses clearing entire fields within minutes, ~— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ~ |nr)w in the States and will not at- tend the session. A part of the business of the Board will be the examination of applicants. Mr. Vander Leest ex- pects to return to Juneau the first part of next week. 'PRINCESS LOUISE ' BRINGS CONGRESS PARTY TOMORROW The two members of the Com- mittee on Territories of the national House of Representatives yet re- |maining in Alaska will be nearing Ithe end of their Alaskan odyssey morning aboard the Princess Louise, southbound from Skagway. Still in the Congressional party, which last night was to have ar- highway from Fairbanks to the thead of the Inside Passage, are: ,Chairman Hugh Peterson, Mrs. Pet- lerson and family; Rep. Paul Cun- ningham; M. W. Goding, acting | when they dock in Juneau tomorrow | {rived at Haines, after travelling the, group will leave the Princess Louise bere, while the members of the Fed- eral party will continue south to the The Territorial members of the; Archie W. Shiels, president and general manager of Pacific American | Fisheries, said today that outside of | the company's Bristol Bay opera-| tions the pack is subnormal this, year and predicted that the total pack of Alaska will be less than 5,000,000 cases for the season. | Mr. and Mrs. Shiels, who have been in Alaska for the past month are leaving for the States tomorrow morning on the Princess Louise. Mr. Shiels said that in his opin- ion “we have developed a later sea- son iny Southeast Alaska and a good deal of consideration should be giv- en to later opening and later clos- ing of the season.” In Ketchikan Mr. Shiels will meet Stanley Tarrant, PAF's new operat- | ing manager for Alaska, who is alsa’ returning to the States. Mr. Tar- rant replaced E. E. Murray as oper- ating manager. He has been with PAF since 1929 except for two years in the armed forces. The company had seven operations in Alaska this year at the following places: Nushagak, Bill Williams, superin- tendent; Naknek, F. L. Daly, super- intendent; King Cove, L. V. Sten- vig, superintendent; Squaw Harbor, ‘W. M. Williams, superintendent; @Ali- tak, Tom Johnson, superintendent; Petersburg, George Ringstad, super- intendent, and Kasaan, J. A. Peters, WAR CASUALTIES ~ |LEND-LEASE OF JAPAN GIVEN .| OUT, BROADCAST (By The Associated Press) ! More than 10,000,000 persons, al sixth of the population of Japan's| home islands, were killed, wounded or made homeless “as a result of ‘ enemy air raids during the course of| LONDON, Aug. 23—The Times the war in Greater East Asia,” the -*"]‘:]d f&duly ‘: anp(f:i‘ttig:ult;h:xtntfi:; Tokyo radio said today in a broad-| i i cast recorded by th’; Assoclated readily the prospect of large scale Press. |borrowing abroad” to plug the gap ar available at Air Defense Head- -®P¢--c8° 4 quarters, said the two atom bo;nus‘,;::;”"‘:h‘;‘“ :fi:‘t:{t:';zli)lt;::mg sys- dropped on the homeland killed 4 : 2 go.ggg and_ injured 180,000. | “It was never contemplated that The total killed was set at 260,000, Lcnd-Lease and its counterpart, re- injured at 412,000; rendered home- Verse Lend-Lease, should continue in less, 9,200,000. ‘pgfi:‘zume.“ the editorial said, but The broadcast said 2,200,000 houses g were completely demolishgd or burn- | (“ge;:sag ';:S:{“ ;‘»::et '::rfi)“‘;: ed to the ground and 90,000 were © & partially dfifnaged_ considerations for all nations which These figures are still lncomplet,c‘hfl"e hitherto been its beneficiaries, and are likely to mount as further|and most of all for this country. investigation is made, the broadcast, Ihe end of Lend-Lease is a signal ,p;ar of ‘the Alaska Branch of the said. “Almost the entire Japanese [O7 the Allied nations to concert to-|pepritries Division of the Depart- mainland received heavy damage as ¢ther, In the spirit of mutual aid yyong of the Interior; Dr. Meredith the result of enemy air attacks.” :dvenn_vd by President Roosevelt in the Burrill, Director of the Board of iu.artlme a.greemenu, those condmom;‘Gmgrapmc Names; Governor of {for restoration of a balanced,! sjacks and Mrs. Ernest Gruening; pAf HEAD SAYS |smoothly working system Of WOrld georetary of Alaska Lew M. Williams trade and an expanding world econ-!, .4 Nayal Aide to the Governor, Lt. jemy ‘without which all nations, in- \wo.en M. caro. pA(K To BE lESS |cluding the United States, will face ¥ : inew and inescapable disaster.” THAN 5,000,000 v Al L) ’ { ' PHARMACY BOARD Fairbanks-bound to attend the annual meeting there of the Terri- torial Board of Pharmacy, H. H. Vander Leest, Juneau druggist, Pres- ident of the Board, was an outward passenger from Juneau by plane yes- terday. The Board meeting is to be held in Fairbanks this week. Other mem- bers are: Elwyn Swetmann, Sew- ard, Secretary; Edgar Anderson, of Ketchikan; Ralph Kitzmiller, Nome; F. M. Dunham, Fairbanks; Wilbur B. Walker, Fairbanks and Z. T. Loussac, Anchorage. Mr, Loussac is FIETETIIEEENES 11 TEENE records still to come in, combat : casualties in World War II an-"? nounced by the armed forces havc‘:-.' now reached 1,070,819. - The Army today reported its cas-r ualties, as received here through ¥ August 1 as 923481. The latest = PHONE Navy report of casualties is 147,338. | 1! 704 The aggregate represented an in- | & crease of 681 since last Ffiday's|H report. The Navy casualties actually | declined by 43 as a result of re- |l vision and shifts in the wounded, | missing and prisoner of war classi- : fications. Juneau Deliveries— 10 A. M. and 2 P. M. ALASKAN C PHONE 777 MO OO COORIES COOKIES FOR ALL OCCASIONS Jorgensen's Danish Cookies Douglas Delivery—10 A. M. O RA R ORR 90000004 States. | BIPIPIEEO S PG | STANDARD OIL MENIN JUNEAU W. V. Hanley, aviation expert of the Standard Ofl Company, of California, and Martin Jorgenson, representative of the same company, are in Juneau. Both arrived here yesterday via the Pan American World Airways and both will go to the interior. Hanley is registered at the Baranof and Jorgenson has joined his wife, who has been visiting here for sev- eral weeks at the home of her mother, Mrs. Anna Webster. ] sup(‘erlmendent. 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