The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 25, 1945, Page 1

. 0 . ;health and public assistance. The “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — VOL. LXV., NO. 10,049 PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1945 — FLIERS OVER TOKYOBACK 10 FREEDOM Three NoleE_Airmen Re- leased Flown to Chung- king—'Tisfippy Day By Spencer Moosa (Associated Press Correspondent) CHUNGKING, Aug. 25 — Three Haggard American airmen, interned since the raid on Japan led by Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle April 18, 1942, arrived from Peiping by plane | today. Almost their first words were said in thanksgiving for American food. The fliers were Lt. Chase J. Nielsen of Hyrum, Utah; Lt. Robert L. Hite of Earth, Tex.; and Sgt. Jacob D. DeShazer, formerly of| Madras, Ore. | “It's good to get some GI f(md‘ into your belly again, after that| VERSATILITY IS hollow feeling,” said Sgt De-! Shazer. | Lt. Nielsen said: “I feel I am a real American again.” The three were brought to Chungking by way of Sien, in| Shensi Province, after a para- chuted rescue team discovered thedi | = Cal., in an effort to prove that be in Japanese hands. | Fourth Flier Il A fourth flier found with them was left behind with the rescue team. He is Lt. George Barr, form- erly of Queens, N. Y., who was reported suffering from berri berri, a result of starvation, and not in a_ condition to be moved now. | SR IR For the three who stépped rrom‘ the C-47 transport “Lady Jean” e onora onto the runway at the Seven Dragons Airdrome outside Chung- king, it was the happiest day in more than three years. ( The Chinese capital, celebrating the fliers’ rescue, was ready to offer ! i her latest picture, “Tomorrow its best. ¥ 4 Taken Prisoners i DeShazer was the bombardier ! and Hife was co-pilot of the same }. plane. They had been together | since they bailed out into Free China territory and were taken ;. prisoners by Japanese troops who had disguised themselves as Chi- nese soldiers. Hite and DeShazer had attacked Nagoya. Nielsen, navigator in an- " (Continued on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go-Round By DRFW PEARSON Lt. Col. Rohert S Alien, now on ac service with the Army.) (ED. NOTE—Drew Pearson is on vacation. Ellis Arnall, fa- mous Governor of Georgia, who recently led the fight abolish- ing the poll tax, contributes today’s column as Pearson's guest writer.) By ELLIS ARNALL ' (Gevernor, State of Georgia) | ATLANTA, Ga.-The reconversion fgly. = period will place exceptional strains | e Gy upon state governments. It will TANNED — Blonde Myrna test the efficiency and foresight with which state agencies have pre- pared for peace. It will determine whether political decentralization, ‘which is almost as essential to do- Mestic security as economic de- | ——— centralization, is to be retained or TRUMAN SAYS The magnitude of the problem | facing the Federal Government will X be increased enormpusly unless state agencies are alert and effec- tive. In the next three or four years there will be the eventual test of whether “States Rights”| mean anything at all except a phrase to be tossed out by stump| speakers. Unless “States Rights” are coupled with the assumption | of responsibilities, they will be‘ about as useful as an arquebus in this day of atomic bombs. During the past four years. public services have been limited to mini- mum needs 'for education, public | Dell (above), movie starlet dis- covered by George White, was voted by her fellow players pos- sessor of the most evenly dis-. tributed coat of sun tan. . SEPTEMBER 3 By executive order, President Harry S. Truman has declared La- |bor Day, September 3, a national |legal hcliday and a non-work day. As a result of the order, govern- ment and war workers will enjoy a |three-day week end onc week hence physical plants of all units of gov-| ", ' "2 A e ernment highways, public buildings, ‘:u’*’x‘;’ (_’R‘IISLH‘;‘::;Z:_ Day off the job sanitary facilities, hospitals are in ™ i he | miron condition throughout ne: M arRs SoRABER HERE 3y to| Mr. and Mrs. Fred O. Stader, of Tha, wpmegnis. 8 Chaliendn Cordova, are guests at the Gas- | (Continued on Page Four) tineau Hotel, VERSATILE JOYCE MACKENZIE poses on a nautical set in Hollywood, sides her acting talent, she also ex- a hosen | cels in swimming and glamor The young screen player was ci from among 50 other cinematic neophytes for the part she will take Kiddies 6i'Amy Private Are OnAWi?ly Back fo Home NO WORK FOR JAPAN'S OCCUPATION POSTPONED 2 DAYS HE THOUSANDS OF NIPPONS ARE CAGED SPECIALTY Russian Troops Rounding Up Japs in Manchuria- Korean Aeras Taken LONDON, Aug. continued to round up surrendering and the Tokyo radio said fighting 'to an end in all sectors.” The Soviet communique last night said approximately 300,000 Japa- nese cners had been caged in the past six days and that “the re- ception of surrendering Japanese units and formations continues.” occupied Kanko, near the east coast, 17 m! southwsast of the Russian- occupied port of Seishin, and Heijo, communications center east of Dairen across the of Korea. Kisshu, 60 .miles south of Seishin and 20 miles inland from the coast. took the port of Honto on the west coast, 50 miles from the southern tip of the island pointing toward the northern Japanese home island of Hokkaide. 1STOICAL NAZIPOW AREHUNG Former \VN;IVf.-pack Su Crews Die on. Gallows for Murder of Fellow FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kas, Aug. 25—Stceical, and still allegiant to a Nazism they refused to believe was beaten, seven German prisoners of war—former members of wolf- pack submarine crews — died early Is Forever " (International) le Discharge; CAMP LEE, Virginia, Aug. 25— The three little daughters of a | Philadelphia private are headed back to civilian life after sampling {army routine here. | Their father, Pvt. Louis Price, brought them to camp with him { when he could fipd no place to leave them while his wife was | hospitalized. Army officers, WAC’s, and nurses saw to it that the three youngsters received a good impression of life | in the Army. i While arrangements were being' (made for their care in Philadelphia, the brown-eyed ‘three - year - old | twins, Diana and Shelia, and their | nine-year-old sister, Marian, were general court-martial found them | put up in the camp hospital, They | BUilty of the murder March 15, 1944, are now headed ‘back for Phila- ©f Werner Deschler, a fellow-pris- delphia by _automobile, proudly oner_ whom they had :}ccused of gi i wearing new sweaters and hair ing information of military value to !yibbons given them by the camp|he United States. commander’s wife and a group ur: W o T ‘“raitor slaying” of a fellow-pris- oner. < ‘The men were executed at the U. S. Disciplinary Barracks heri They went to their deaths one year and nine days after an Army | women volunteer workers. | The commander himself, Brig.| Gen. George Horkan, said good-by to them, and told them fe had! given them an ‘“honorable dis- | charge.” X - — | PLACES FOR SCOUTS T0 TAKE MAGAZINE { CHINA UNITS COLECTIONS GVEN | ¢ Doumen The Lion’s Club has pffered a $5 | prize to the troopr of Boy scous 10 Be Signed in Chiang’s or Cubs that brings in the most | . . New Capifal City | magazines each month. The maga- | zines are to be picked up every | other day by the Army, and will be| CHUNGKING, Aug. 25.—National taken to the American soldiers now | Government troops have crossed the | stationed at Excursion Inlet. | Yangtze River and entered Nanking, Troop 612 will take their maga-| where the formal surrender of Japa- zines to the Northern, Light Pres-|nese forces in China will be signed, | byterian Church basement; Troop the Chinese High Command an- 1613 will take theirs to the Lu- nounced. |theran Church Social room, and — Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s the Cubs will take theirs to the troops first secured the north bank Methodist Church basement. L of Pukow yesterday and then D |sent spearheads across to the wat- | erfront of Nanking, it is announced. | Chiang plans to reestablish his Heath | capital in that city, in coastal HERE | | ‘ ANCHORAGE M | Bob Brooks and Johnie from Anchorage are guests Baranof Hotel. ——,— ROSS ARRIVES Elmer E. Ross has arrived from | Anchoiage and is a guest at the | | Gastineau Hotel. ‘ | e i | ASPS HERE i | Mrs. Sam Asp and John Asp ar-} rived from Tenakee yesterday nnd! l !stream from Shanghai. It is 750 (miles east of Chungking, the war- time seat of the government. ———..— COY IN TOWN W. T. Coy has arrived on a Pan American plane from Seattle and is |a guest at the Baranof Hotel. UL L, KRENZKE IN JUNEAU | are registered at the Gastineau Gilbert Krenzke, of Anchorage, is lI{oLcl. a guest at the Hotel Juneau. -Soviet. troops| Japanese units in Manchuria today, 115 miles, Vidkun scuthwest of Kanko and 220 miles Other land forces occupied On Sakhalin island the Russians this morning on the gallows for the | DIRTY WORK OF QUISLING BROUGHT OUT |Proposed Removal of Nor- | wegian Military Offic- | {ers to Prison Camps QSLO, Aug. 25.—Maj. | |Hammersen testifie today that | Vidkun Quisling had requested Ger- | imah occupation authorities to re-| Fridtjof | there “has been brought ;wnvmny,muvv Norwegian military officers to | Nazi prison camps. | | Hammersen, aide to Gen. Nikolaus |vori Falkenhc Nazi commander in Norway, said Quisling wanted the | Noswegian officers out of the way | “bepausc they v impossible Lo ‘wofl( with ahd might make serious In Korea, Soviet airborne h'(mps‘diffl(‘ul(u'.\." | ! Twenty witnesses, most of them | !for the defense, will be heard today as the first weck of the trial of| Quisling for high treason | drew to a close. | | - "FALLPREY 0 SNIPERS Veferans Swindled in Farm: | ‘tand Market, Mined with Booby Traps | | KANSAS CITY, Aug. 25. The | farm land market, with prices boot- lea sky-high, is mined with booby traps for the returning war veteran, 1. W. Duggan, Governor of the Farm l(fl't‘dit Administration, commented Itoday as he ‘leafed through a file lof c in which soldiers and sailor: {had sunk their savings in “sucker investments.” Dozens of servicemen have al- ready fallen prey to snipers in the farm real estate game, Duggan re- vealed, adding that the records of h cases at the FCA office are growing ly. su Hal Halsey Has - His Saddle ~ OnFlagship ‘ ¥ i | Al Preparéd for Admiral to Ride White Horse | of Hirobito | WITH U. S. THIRD FLEET OFF |JAPAN, Aug. Admiral Halsey |had his silver-trimmed saddle | | brought aboard his flagship, the | battleship Missouri on whose decks | Japan will sign her surrender, as his Third Fleet lay ready today to | | carry- cut its part in the occupation | of the Yokosuka Naval Base next | week. ¢ The highly decorated saddle—a ‘glfi to the Admiral from business men after he expressed the hope of iriding Emperor Hirohito's white | horse through the Tokyo streets. brought aboard as a thousand hips and transports were com- | pleting mobilization for the occupa- tion of Japan. - - | SPECIAL FEATURE AT USO | A special feature at the Juneau | USO tomcirow night at 10 o'clock | will be the showing by A. B, Cain | of his collection of colored moving | pictures of Alaska scenes. A cordial | invitation is extended by Zack Gor- | at the Kiangsu Province, 185 miles up- ' don and the USO to the public to | Tumic avail themselves of this opportunity | to see these interesting pictures. | — e SHORT CIRCUIT FIRE | A short in a wire connection on a heating machine in th: newly |established liquor store, owned and | operated by G. G. Brown at 139 | Front and Franklin streets, caused a lot of disturbance, called out th Juneau Fire Department at 9:1: o'clock, but did no damage. J TAKES HAPPY BECAUSE SHE WON'T BE LONELY around the house !\eren!wr, ) Mrs. Millie Van Horn of New York City, with nurse Vgromca Saley | counts her triplets at the hospital before starting for home. | di helping, Papa Albert Van Horn, a chief petty officer in the tained in the Pacific by a jeb with qu[va([MEN Johnson Says Alaskans Spend Very Little in Taxes fo Improve Noith Wins Divorce . s ’ GLORIA BLONDELL, actres-.ister of Joan Blondell, is pictured ahove as she testified in her suit for di- vorce from Ensign Albert Broc- coli of the Navy, former assistant director in Hollywood. Gloria said that Broccoli was not considerate of her friends when they came to the house. tested decree., (/nternational), Cannibalism Was Practiced by Japs In prl Guinea BRISBANE, Aug, 2! Army ~~Two Ir the officers assert Jay on New Guinea practiced cannibal- ism. The officers, among troops res- cued from Wewak by the Australian Sixth Division, sald enemy soldier 19° of the 300 Indian Army soldiers held as prisoner there. Capt. Ru Pirzai, a physician, re- Jag would parted wnese doctor, Lieut, end an Indian out- om>thing, where- him side the « upon the Japanese would and immediately eat the flesh from his body. Nineteen mexy thus were consumed in four months.” - - HEATHER LANE LEAVES tainer at the for the past yester Heather Lane, Baranof Bubble Ro month, left via PAA plan iy to return to her home in Portland. PLETS HOME TO WAIT She won an uncon- LANDING DELAYED, TYPHOON Sudden Change Reported | in History Making Event in World Affairs By RUSSELL BRIN (Associuted Press correspondent) MANILA, Aug. 25.---Japan’s occu- pation and formal surrender have oeen postponed at le: | lyphoons, General nounced today. (An almost simultancous dispatch ! rom Okinawa, unconformed in Ma- nila, reported that first Allied air- sorne landings in the Tokyo area | have been rescheduled for Sunday oy the 317th Troop Carrier. The spateh sald the typhoon threat had pated. Whether MacArthur's Navy, is being de- stponement followed—and over- (International) | ruled--this rescheduling could not | immediately be determined.) | MacArthur's headquarters bis surrender time table: The surrender signing aboard the | Jattieship Missourl in Tokyo Bay, scheduled for August 31, will take | place Sept. 2, ‘Tne initial landing of American [ virboine troops, scheduled for to- | morrow, will take place Tuesday at Atsugi Airfield, 18 miles southwest of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. The laYge scale airorne landings l“ nderl personally by MacArthur, at » Atsugl and the Marine and Navi WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-—Alaska landings at Yokosuka naval base :l‘ eventually will demand Mp‘z:j shoul(;‘-mu.“ Bay, scheduled for Tuesday, have statehood but few residents of wii tage place next Ti A [tne mereitony. etpeor 1 Ao 0l b B ooy o v [duture, Representative JotMson (D= - oy jg hoped that by that time |Clkla) sald teday. | wind and seas will have abated to | “The ' Sourdoughs—th> old-time fan extent that will permit our for- residents of Alaska—are not in favor \ward movement,” said the Supreme | ef stateboed now or of spending Commander of the Allied powers. | Alaskan money for roads, hospitals The Tokyo area already had been or schools,” said the Chairman of hard hit by a typhoon Wednesday the Interior Appropriations Sub- night and MacArthur's statement | committes which recently returned said “a series of typhoons” are rag- | from an ix tion trip. |ing in the Western Pacific between “The 1 omers in g are Ckinawa and Japan, generally for statehood as soon as The dramatic postponement of his- possible,” he said. “Any of them fory-making events was decided up- will tell you that there will be sev- ¢n as the fitst movements already eral hundred thousand more people bad begun, in Alaska within the next few years.” The initial airborn2 landing forces While rich in minerals and other wcre making final preparations to resources, theé Territory pending depart from Okinawa. “very little” in taxes to improve the Seaborne forces already were at arca the Congressman told a report- sea er, Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, Fifth The Interior Department announ- Fieet commander, sald the landing ced recently that Secretary Ickes of seaborne forees will be hazard- had approved statehcod for Alaska ,ous, even though no Japanesz opposi- part of the Territorial Division’s tion is expected. B-29s have sown peliey. Ithe coastal waters thickly with One of the reasons the committee mincs, he said, adding, “I don't want visited Alaska, Johnson said, was to to bump intc any,of our own mines. determine whether it was a good Aside from the damage, it would place for veterans to settle. caus> reprecussions at home, in the “Some places, such the Matan- crroneous belief Japan was sabotag- veka Valley and the Homer area ing the landings. where the land is fertile and the “As as I can see, the Japa- climate is similar to that in some nese government is doing everything parts of mnorthern United States, pcssible to accede to MacArthur's would be suitable for a limited 5k amcunt of homesteading,” he com-| This morning a 16-man delegation mented, -~ {of Russians arrived to go to Tokye But the Territory geherally, except for the surrender signing. The fact for mining, fishing and trapping, they came to Manila instead of tak- deos not offer any great possibilities ing the shorter, direct route to Tckyo for the returning G. I. Joe.” icuggested they planned to confer iIn Johnsen's opinion, Alaska will with MacArthur, | be brought “{nm-h closer to L_he - >oe - it of touries becanse of warsme ALBRECHT, NORRIS Va und mocern aeneias - ON INVESTIGATION, 5f o EXCURSION INLET or. C. Earl Albrecht, Territorial |way and B! hat D i uperll a ’oppe [ Comm) oner of Health, and Dr. E. W. N S5, B h S. ] Atomic Bomb Makes .o, Diester, .5 Publie : Quick Home Landing [ited Excursion Inlet yesterday to in- vestigate the amount and character of the medical supplies and equip- —— ment located there. When the pres- CALDWELL, New Jersey, Aug ‘The War Department has proved the disclosure that the perfortresses . which dropped the Japs. gave 25 ene project of dismantling this ap-!Army installation is completed it may be possible to have the hospital |equipment and the remaining med- ieal supplies made available for use in the Territory. Dr, Albrecht expects to make a thorough investigation of this possibility. >ee - ALLU. 5. SUBS the first atomic bombs on Japan were able to land in a shorter than that needed by a fighter plane. This was made possible by new, rrv‘crsmlv propellers produced by the Curiiss-Wright Corporation. It was possible to reverse the angle of the propeller blades so that they space would act as an auxiliary braking A((ou""ED FOR system—an added safeguard for the crew carrying the dangerous| GUAM, Aug. 25.—Vice Adm, Char- | cargo. les A. Lockwood, Jr., commander of - > 1 BRYANTS IN TOWN the United States Pacific Fleet sub- marine force, announced today that lall United States submarines not pre- Mrs. Fred Bryant and Franette |viously reported lost or missing now Bryant, of Sitka, are guests at the |have been reported and are account- 3aranof Hotcl, ed for.