The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 24, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE™ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 10,048 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, ‘,?41, 'ALLIES ARE TO EXTEND GRIP ON JAPAN RED FLAG IS | FLYING OVER ORIENT AREA Russia’s Two - week War‘ with Japan Lands Soviets | Near Nip Homeland MOSCOW, Aug. 24—The Red flag | is flying today over all pf Manchuria, €akhalin, part of Korea and two of the Kurile Islands, marking an end of Russia’s two-week war with Japan. , Premier Stalin formally proclaim-| ed complete victory over the Japa- nese last night. The Soviet capital | shook with a salute of 24 salvos of 324 guns. | Stalin’s order of the day, first since the start of the lightning con- flict on August 9, disclosed that| the two north Kurile Islands of, Shumisho and Paramushiro had been occupied by Russian troops and that the occupation of Manchuria was complete. The finish found the Russians holding the Japanese puppet emperor | of Manchuria, Henry Pu Yi, and Red Army forces standing across the narrow La Perouse Straits, 30 miles from Japan’s second largest home island of Hokkaido. | Many participating Russian units have been named after places where they fought, such as “Port Author- sky”, Mukdensky”, “Kurilsky” and “Harbinsky”. RebMEy Girl, Fire Is Set, Revenge LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24—Martin, R. Ryan, 23, who told police he set a $50,000 furniture warehouse blaze, because he had been rebuffed by a girl on a street car, yesterday was ordered held in $2,500 bail for pre- liminary hearing on arson charges. Detective W. M. Gidney quoted Ryan as saying he broke into the furniture warehouse to set the fire,! waited until smoke poured from the building, turned in an alarm, and then assisted fire fighters so suc- don to prepare for the birth of the| major aircraft cessfully that the owner of the building gave him a $50 reward. The Washin gton Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON Lt. Col. Robert S. Alien now on active service with the Ariy.) (ED. NOTE:—In Drew Pear- - son's absence, Herbert Brown- ell, Jr, Chairman of the Re- publican National Committee, writes a guest column on GOP plans for 1946). By HERBERT BROWNELL, JR. (Chairman Republican National Committee) WASHINGTON—The inside story from Republican leaders is that the Republican Party will win control of Congress in 1946. Put that down as one of this column’s “predictions of things to come.” Let's have a quick look at the national political scene as America goes forward to win the peace; and see why this prediction makes sense. Republican Governors now direct the governments of 23 States, con- taining 56 per cent of the total population of the United States. Those same states contribute 67 per cent of the internal revenue to support the Federal Government. In other words, those 23 states, where Republican governmeht en- cpurages the operation of the Am- erican system based upon indi- vidual opportunity, than two-thirds of the money necessary to keep the nation’s gov- ernment operating. After the 1936 election, there were 16 Republican U. S. Sen- ators; after 1940, there were 28. (Continued on Page Four) |of the Big Five powers provide more : 4 YANKS’ NATIVE AL former head hunters and violen picture on northern Luzon, whe & L4 upation For é LI1ES — Two Illongot warriors, t haters of the Japs, pose for their re they have proved invaluable in routing Jap stragglers from rough terrain, CHARTER IS APPROVED BY BRITISHNOW | First Plena;Session of WSL May Be Called in October LONDON, Aug 24 —Ratification today that the first plenary session \of the World Security League would be called by late October. Members of the executive commit- [tee of the United Nations Prepara- | tory Commission, now sitting in Lon- new organization, believe enough na- {tions will have approved the charter |by that time to permit the calling of the session. Britain last night became the last to ratify. | Neither in' the House of Commons nor in the House of Lords was it Inecessary to take a vote, despite “Iblunt statements in parliament that !the charter was not strong enough to maintain peace so long as the jatomic bomb remained ‘a British- American secret. There was a general feeling here Ithat virtually all the countries will have approved the 50-nation pact by late fall, now that the United next wave of ratification decision is expected from Latin America. been striving to set up committees within the next few days to deal with problems which must be settled before the first plenary session. The {executive committee is understood to |be operating on the assumption that |the new organization will come into |being in October. - Three Nafions o Help Feed Viennese VIENNA, Aug. 24. |sentatives of the ;Frun(e and Great Britain agreed to- day to aid Russia in feeding 1,500,000 Viennese. The agreement, reached at the first business meeting of Allied Oc- |cupation commanders of Austria, provides that the occupation forces contribute from Sept. 1 food supplies | proportional to the population of | their respective sectors. The ac- tion was taken as an interim mea- sure. Military repre- States, Britain, France, Soviet Rus-| sia and China have ratified. The| United States, | AVIATION ~ INDUSTRY ~ DROPSMEN ~ BRITISH | ing. ! i | The Ptime Minister disclosed that | | | | { | ARE HIT BIG SWAT Termination of Lend-Lease. Puts Nation in Se- rious Position LONDQN, Aug. 24—Prime Minister | Attlee told Commons today the sud- den end of lend-lease put Britain “in a very serious financial position” and former Prime Minister Church- in id he could not believe that “This was the last word of the United States Attlee said the British government had hoped that lend-lease would not have ended without prior consul- tation In response, Churchill, now lead- er of the opposition, declared he could not believe the United States ‘would proceed in such a rough and harsh manner as to hamper a faith- ful ally who held the fort while their own American armaments were prepared.” Attlee cautioned members of the House to exercise “utmost restraint” within and without the chamber in commenting on the situation, and Churchill agreed that a debate now might be detrimental to national in- terests. Churchill called Attlee’s statement “very grave and disquiet- Lord Hal the Un ax, British Ambassador to °d States during the war- time Coalition government, had been ' invited to return to Washington to negotiate the financial arrangement which will succeed lend-lease. Attlee said President Truman’s directice cancelled all outstanding lend-lease contracts and provided that stocks and deliveries procured |Glwing Reporf, HOWever, lunder i« must now he paid either Is Made on Future- Planes Envisioned I | { in cash or negotiated credit arrange- ments. “We had not anticipated that op- erations under the lend lease act would continue for any length of SEATTLE, Aug. 24—Employment time after the defeat of Japan,” he of the United Nations Charter by in the nation’s aviation industry, aid, “but we had hoped the sud- Great Britain raised the possibility once - topping 2,000,000 men and den cessation of this great mutual women, shortly will drop to 300,000, |effort wculd not have been effect- Chairman Hugh Mitchell (D-Wash.) |€d without consultation and prior of the Mead Senate Light Metals | discussions and Aviation Investigation Sub- committee announced here today. | Representatives of virtually every | company in the |nation forecast a glowing future, however, envisioning planes of | “unbelievable speed” through jet i propulsion and atomic energy de- ! vélopments. ‘ C. L. Egtvedt, head of the Boeing | Aircraft Company, summed it up: “Within the coming decade it is conceivable that atomic energy for {aircraft propulsion will be avail- | able. We can envision aircraft with {limitless range and speeds limited fonly to margins at which metal, excessive heat through friction, like | a meteor.” |ing statement to aviation leaders and his conferees, asserted: “The aircraft termination situa- The preparatory commission has|ijon, with its accompanying unem- ployment, presents America with a grave crisis involving the future national security. Employment in this industry, once over the 2,000,- 000 mark, will shortly go to 300,000. “It is the part of statesmanship to question whether such dastic reductions are in the national in- | terest, not only .from the view- point of unemployment but be- cause of future security.” The Douglas Company stated i that “the government’s insistence i(hu! we strictly adhere to military lgun was fired, and its refusal several months ago to permit even i partial utilization for peacetime reconversion of key employees working under draft deferments, (now forces the industry to dismiss thousands of workers who could have been usefully employed.” - - STEVENS IN TOWN Baranof, | projected through space, generates | Chairman’ Mitchell, in his open- | preduction schedules until the last| | | | | | | | | | | | Col. Gordon Reese, executive secre- >se AUSTRALIA TAKES RAP AT BRITISH SYDNEY, Aug. 24—Britain is denying Australia “a footing of equality” in peace discussions, Herbert V. Evatt, Minister of Ex- ternal Affairs, charged in a pre- pared statement today. “This will have to be arrested not only in the interests of Australia but of the British Commonwealth as a whole,” he declared. “There still is a deplorable tend- ency now that the fighting is over to relegate Australia to a subordi- nate status and either not consult it at all or to consult it in a perfunctory way and not on a foot- ing of equality,” he said. Church Official Is ""Burned Up” |And Speaks Ouf HOUSTON, Texas. Aug. 24—Lt tary for the Army and Navy com- mission of the Episcopal church, charged here that American church- es are occupied mainly with build- ing programs instead of rehabilita- tion programs for service men. “Where are. their rehabilitation programs for service men?” he asked in an interview. “I don’t hear of any.” The 53-year-old chaplain who serv- ed in the Hawaiian group in the George Stevens arrived yester- pacific has just concluded a trip to day from Anchorage via Woodley |a number of points in the United Airways and is stopping at the‘sta:es, What he saw and heard, he said, “Burned me up,” cées TOKYORADIO ISTOGIVEAID T0 NEWSMEN respondents During War Is fo Provide Service —— : MANILA, Aug. 24—The Japanese, ! whose Radio Tokyo consistently has | geooped war correspondents at the headquarters of American forces of the Pacific here, offered today to |extend the fullest possible facilities | to the Allied press upon its en- trance into Japan. AFPAC headquarters announced the Japanese Government had re- ported to Gen. MacArthur ‘the | Japanese Government is anxious to extend to members of the Allied press as much facilities as circum- |stances will permit. Please inform jus of the total number of them (American ss representatives) landing in Japan by Aug. 31 or in the immediate future as well as | their specific requirements, Thus develops one of the strangest situations of the dizzy finale of the war, in which corre- spondents of the American pr found the enemy's Tokyo radio always their most potent competi- tor in the reporting of major hap- | penings. The outlies of Gen. MacArthur's ' landing plans and dates of the be- ginning of the occupation for in- ance, were announced here only because the Tokyo radio had been broadeasting the plans for 48 hours | while American correspondents in Manila sat helpl ly, unable to bredk stories about which they all knew. Throughout the war the Japa- nese effort to create American confidence in the Tokyo radio was | apparent, probably with the ex- pectation of sliding in propaganda on the basis of the confidence. For that reason, and also in the hunt for additional infgrmation, Tokyo generally has been accurate in its accounts of the major land- ings and other war developments, and usually far ahead of the Allied correspondents, who were bound by censorship imposed, in most cases, to prevent' the enemy from ob-, taining complete details. Because of these conditions Tokyo has reached the full facilitie of the American press with its | news scoops. > — - BIG CATCHES OF SALMON TAKFN BY GILLNETTERS ASTORIA, Ore., Aug. 24" Gillnet- |ters are bringing in record loads of salmon to Astoria, forcing can- neries to work overtime.And profit- able catches are predicted for Columbia sports fishermen next | week, with salmon moving up the iver for the first time during the | season. The Union Fishermen's Co- operative says one boat has de- |livered 4,900 pounds in three trips.| The albacore tuna fleet is out again after three days in port be- cause of bad weather. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 24 — Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine {stock today is American Can {100%, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss- Wright 6, International Harvester 87, Kennecott 38'4, New York Cen- tral 25, Northern Pacific 26'%, U Steel 69, Pound $4.027%. Sales today totalled 1,320,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today are as "follows: Industrials, 169.89; rails, 54.61; utilities, 32.35. LSO ERE | eyt | Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Nelson, of Portland, Ore., arrived on a Wood- | ley Airways plane from Anchorage yesterday and are guests at the ! Baranof Hotel, J ‘Are To iai;dfil;n da y ¥ Railroad BEAUTY WINNER — Eleanor Cahill (above) of Coros | nado, Calif., won a $500 war bond and a modeling contract as vic- | tor in a nationwide “Miss Stardus{” beauty contest. Government Seizes SEP 191945 PRICE TEN CENTS —— -} 4 FIRM HOLD 10 BE PUT ~ ONNIPPONS "Terrilory from Tokyo fo | Kysugu to Be Taken Over ~Typhoon Hits Island BULLETIN — MANILA, Aug. General MacArthur an- aced today that an advanced American ¢ccupation party would land in Japan Sunday to preparc the way for the main forees which will arrive two days later. A headguarters spekesman de- clared that MacArthur, despite the typhocn which disrupted communications areund Tokyo Wednesday, would land on schedule next Tuesday. The fact that the first forces would reach Japan Sunday had i bien trumpeted by the Tokyo | vadio for days, but this was the tirst official confirmation, MANILA, Aug. 24-—Allied occupa~ {ticnal forces will expand their grip tcn Japan from Tokyo to Kyushu, scuthernmost home island, Sept. 1— | four days after General MacArthur's (scheduled landing neay the typhoon- !crippled capital—the Japanese gov- tumment and Imperial Headquarters L unnounced todag. | @ekyo nformed Gen. MacArthur's headquarters that a typhoon howled System fo tbrough the Kanto district early H Thursday morning and interfered ver I a ou with preparations for Allied land- ings there, There was no direct re- LUCKY SHIP OF U.S.ISHIT BY TORPEDO Sneak Aftack Blasts Gap- ing Hole in Pennsyl- vania, Navy States GUAM, Aug. 24—The luck of the U. 8. 8. Pennsylvania, which carried through a 20-yeas areer encompass- ing two world wars, ran out in the final hours of the t it conflict as a Japanese torpedo bomber pres ed heme a sneak attack, blasting a gaping hole in the ship's side and eaving 20 men killed or missing The Japancse plane swept in low, catching the 33,100-ton vessel, “luck- icst battle wagon of the fleet,” un- awares on the pight of August 12, while surrender negotiations already were under way, the Navy permitted to disclosed today. Fleet workships, which pulled alongside within 30 minutes after the the attack, worked so desperately and so successfully to save the ship that it will sail again with the fleet. R SUB BULLHEAD IS REPORTED MISSiNG WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 The Submarine Bullhead Is overdue from war patrol and présumed lost, the Navy announced today. Her crew comprised a complement of 90 officers and men. The 1,500-ton vegsel left Fre- mantle, Australia, on July 21 for a mission in the Java Sea. Efforts to reach her by radio ob Aug. 13 met with no sucee Her skipper was ILt. Comdr. Ed- ward R. Holt, Jr, whose wife lives at Laurens, S. C. announcement brin The Navy the total nmmber of American under- craft lost duiing - the war to 52. Forty-three of these were listed as overdue and pre- sumed lost. PAA plane yesterds quest for a postponement of Tues- day's major Tokyo landings, how- ever. Presumably the storm affect- ed principally the preparations for advance units Japan said would reach Atsugi Field Sunday. Two Landings foreces will reach Kyu- t. 1, to- mile Illinois Central railroad system W seized by the government today in the face of a strike threat and line officials reported normal opera- tions, Under order of President Truman, who said a stoppage in the railroad industries at this time was unthink- able, the Office of Defense Trans- portation assumed control at 12:01 mal surrender is signed aboard the a. m. Central War Time. battleship in Tokyo Bay. As soon as Mr. Truman's order £caborne forces will follow. !was made known, the Brotherhood n Sept, 2 the communique of Locomotive Firemen and Engine- s2id, “the main strength of the air- 1 postponed “indefinitely” its borne and surface units will land in strike growing out of a jurisdictional the vicinity of Takasu on the coast pute with the Brotherhood of W of Kanoya. ymotive Engineers. The strike “In order to avoid complications, artad at 12:01. our armed units will be withdrawn from the areas where the Allied Armies are to land.” There was no immediate Allied cenfirmation of the Kyushu landing date: Japan carlier had messaged direct- ly to General MacArthur a protest against sinking of four Japaneso i R YET REIGN' (vhips in Hokkaido waters Wednes- !day by a submarine which “presum- (HINA AREA‘ubly belongs to the Soviet Union.” The message said there were 553 casualties on one of the four ves- sels. Commuinst Leader Sends | Representative fo | Chungking CHUNGKING, Aug. 24-—Official Communists here said today that {Communist leader, Mao Tse-Tung | accepted Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's invitation to send a rep- resentative to Chungking to discuss peaceful settiement of China’s ternal political problems. [} These sources said Mao had named Gen. Chou En-lal as his representa- | CHICAGO, Aug. 24—The 6,605~ Airborne . shu's Kanoya airfield S: day’s Japanese-language commun- igus reported, one day after for- Loc was to have s “Mercy Ship” Granted Another message said a “Mercy Ship” whose voyage to Marcus Is- land General MacArthur had ap- proved would proceed unarmed there | Tuesday and return to Tokyo Satur- day of next week—one day after Japan’s formal surrender. The Japanese report of the ty- pheon said communications and transportation had been snarled in the Tokyo area. Charges Made ‘Theh typhoon report was one of a series of radiograms with which Tokyo bombarded MacArthur today. Ancther complained that Japanese tive. k were being shot, looted and raped ! “For the sake of unity,” Mao was “in certain localities” of Manchuria, quoted as saying, "I appoint Gen. inner Mongolia and North Korea and hou Enslai to go to Chungking. asked permission for Japanese sol- ase accept him as my delegate diers there to keep “their weapons | “until residents have been moved to P and discuss matiers with him.” The Communists had rejected a places of safety.” previous invitation from Chiang to The complaint did not identify the send representatives to Chungking nationality of those aecused of the to discuss their differences with the “outrages” but said “the situation is National government. certain to get out of control in the o BBl very near future.” AS RETURNS | Meanwhile, Tokyo radio beamed English language broacasts express- Miss Ruth Kunnas returned by ing apprehension over “the size of y from Seattle, the reparations” the Allies may de- after a month’s vacation spent mand. visiting relatives and friends in| ‘The broadcasts, for American. con- and about the Puget Sound city.'sumption, dwelt on' conduet This morning found her back at of Allied occupatidfy’ forces, saying, work with the Weather Bureau “we have a right to hope and to ex- office at the Airport, }pcct that we will not he outraged.” RUTH KU