The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 27, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALI, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRI VOL. LXV., NO. 10,050 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — BIG FLEET DROPS ANCHOR NEAR TOKYO * ~ ON KURILES .over three more islands in the Ku- RED FLAGON | MOVE DOWN Three More Islands Taken | in Latest Strides of Russians LONDON, Aug. 27 — The Red| Flag of Soviet Russia waved today riles west of the Aleutians as Gen- | eralissimo Stalin’s forces speeded | their occupation of Japanese terri-| tory and the disarming of enemy troops. } The latest Russian strides were| announced in Moscow’s eighteenth | communique of the Pacific War, which also disclosed that Soviet| forces, expanding their hold on the; southern half of Sakhalin Island,| had occupied the port of Rutaka,‘ The bulletin disclosed that ap-| proximately 35,000 more Japanese| troops—including six generals—had been rounded up, bringing to 400,000 the total taken prisoner in the past eight days. The Kurile Islands occupied by Soviet forces were identified in| the war bulletin as Onnekotan,| Shashikotan and Matsuwa. The op- eration was carried out by air- borne troops of Gen. Maxim Pur-| kaev's Second Far Eastern Army in conjunction with Pacific Fleet landing parties. The Kurile Islands extend in a‘ northeasterly direction from Hok- kaido, northernmost of the main Japanese home islands, to the southern tip.of Russia’s Kamchatka | Penninsula.- At the nearest point, they are about 750 miles west of the American Aleutians. | Two of the Kurile chain—Para- | mushiro and adjacent Sh#inushu— ' were occupied by the Russians last| eli t;l;’afle Two) ; CALIFORNIA HAS QUAKE | SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27—An earthquake of fairly sharp inten-| sity was felt here at about 2:13 a.| m. today. No damage report was| immediately available but objects| were shaken from shelves. Dr. Perry Byerly, University ot‘ California seismologist, said the quake was “average” for those felt in the San Francisco Bay area. The Washingion Merry - Go-Round By DRFW PEARSON Lt. Col. Robert 8. Alieu now on active service with the Army.) (ED. NOTE—Drew Pearson is on vacation. Darryl F. Zanuck, famed head of 20th Century- Fox, contributes as guest writer today’s column on postwar Germany. By DARRYL F. ZANUCK (Producer. ow “Woodrow Wilson”) | HOLLYWOOD—To my mind, the most disturbing and sinister fact about Germany today is that it is‘ a nation without a conscience. | Not long ago, I visited Germany and other sections of Europe at the invitation' of the Psychological Warfare Section of the War De- partment. I went there as one of | a group of film executives. We were | sent to study at first hand what war, as it is fought today, does to men and women and nations physi- cally and spiritually. In the course of that tour, we talked to many people. Among} them were military leaders and diplomats, high-ranking representa- | tives of various goverriments, men | of religion and men of low estate, men and women who had lived through the terror, some scarred and some ennobled. But shocking as it may seem, we failed to find in Germany even one person with the slightest sense of shame of war guilt. They have no realization of the scope or enor- mity of their crime against man- | kind. They have no compunction. i o | : | i | southwest of Tokyo. N MANILA — mrs. Leltiehw. V:’er- ner of Corvallis, Ore., one of 15 Red Cross workers who set up m;blle canteens for the first GI's to reach Manila direct from “- Europe, passes a tray of doughnuts and punch, DOUCHNUTS | FoodDropped DIET TOBE To Prisoners CALLEDFOR By Bombers 2-DAY MEET CHINESE IN POISED FOR | CANTONALSO GREATDAY| IN NANKING Giant Tran;p?rls Parked | Two GreaI_Jg;;-held Met- for Largest of Mass ropolitan Centers Are Aerial Movements Now Taken Over OKINAWA, Aug. 27.—More than| CHUNGKING, Aug. 27—The two 350 giant transport planes are park- | great Japanese-held metropolitan ed on Okinawa's runways today as|centers of Nanking and Canton | the stage is being set for one of [were reported in Chinese hands the greatest mass aerial movements | today as Chinese Government and n history. | military officials prepared to com-| Early tomorrow, Okinawa time,|plete Japan's formal surrender in the first planeloads of technicians|China. | will roar off in the pre-dawn light| Meanwhile, the 159 Chinese of-| for Atsugi Airfield, some 23 miles | ficials who had been waiting here | They will be | for the liberation of Nanking to| the vanguard of an estimated half |start surrender proceedings were a million occupation troops who are | said to have left by plane for Nan- | expected to land in Japan during|king. Formal surrender ceremonies| the next six months. |are scheduled to take place in the | The advance detachment Will be | pre-war Chinese capital on Sept. 3.| faced with a multitude of tasks. Of- | Optimism ran high over 'H'k'.\])(‘(‘(hl ficlals said that some will check the | of an early settlement of differ- | three runways at Atsugi, While| ences between Chiang's Chungking others will set up an American com- | Government @nd the North China munication »ys(_um in Atsugi's con- | Communist regime Maj. Gen trol Low_m. Still others wlll_make;Pa“,“,k J. Hurley, U. S. Ambass reconnaissance patrols, to insure | q,. o China, left by plane today | that the Japs are adhering o SUr-| go. yenan, where he will accom- render terms and to select loc‘mons‘pany Communist Leader Mao T for command posts. e i 45 G R L | tung back to Chungking for con-| Draft Debate YAMAS’HITA Starts Again JOGIVEUP 350 PLANES Mighty B-2_95_ fafry (an- ned Goods in Drums fo Weihsien, China, 'Will Clarify fo Japanese Reasons for Capitula- tion fo Allies Truk, Other (By The Associated Press) | GUAM, Aug. 27—Mighty B-29's| ‘The destructiveness of America’s which had rained death on Japan' Nine B-29's carried oil drums told the Japanese cabinet and mem- filled with canned goods anchored bers of the House of Representatives to bomb racks by the same shackles' today, according to a Doemi news that were used in carrying bombs Aency dispatch. and the bomb sight played its usual. One purpose of the forthcoming, part on this mission of humanny,\cxtraordinary session of the Japa- As the planes took off for the|nese Imperial Diet, the Premier de-, mission, black letters three feet|clared at today's conference, is “to high on the under side of eflch;clarfly frankly” the reasons for capi- spelled out “P W Supplies.” As on tulation. bombing missions, the bombardier,| Japan’s radio brbapicasts today navigator and radar operator com- 'announced postponement of its ex-| bined their equipment and skxlls!traordtnury Diet session to coincide | to determine wind direction and With surrender delays, and reported velocity over the target. Accuracy @ continuing series of other home- | of the parachute drops was all- front and foreign office changes to| important, for prisoners cannot|adapt the nation to its new role—de- | venture beyond the confines oi‘fwt- ! their camps to search for parcels| The two-day extraordinary session | that miss. | will begin Sept. 4 instead of Sept. 2| |the Domei news agency said. Also |announced was abolition of Japan's | Greater East Asia Ministry—the war |time consolidator of Asiatic con- quest. The ministry will be incor- porated in the Foreign Ministry. I Islands Will Surrender Capitulation of Many By- passed Bastions Is Being Arranged | LONDON, Aug. 27 — The Tokyo |U. S. air forces from the China GUAM, Aug. 27—Negotiations are U. S. aior forces from the China underway for capitulation of half Theatre began landing in the a dozen by-passed Japanese island ' Shanghai sector this morning. The| fortresses, including Truk, once the landings were made peacefully after | most formidable of the enemy’s prearrangement with the Japanese, | Pacific bastions, the Navy an- the broadcast said. i nounced today. | % > Navy headquarters here reportedi that Japanese commanders have STO(K o_uoTA"o"s agreed to surrender their garri-| sons at Rota in the Marianas Is- ! & A lands; Jaluit, in the Marshalls;| NEW YORK, Aug 27 — Closing Yap, Truk and Palau in the Cam_‘quotauon of Alaska-Juneau Mine | stock today is 7, American Can lines, as soon as they receive in-/ structions from Tokyo. {100, Anaconda 33'%, Curtiss-Wright = RS T R 6%, International Harvester 89, | Kennecott 38'%, New York Central SHANGHAI LANDINGS UNDERWAY MRS. EDEN, DAUGHTER HERE 25c, Northern Pacific 267, U. s.! Steel 70%, pound $4.03. | Mrs. R. W. Eden and aaugmer: Sales today totaled 1,570,000 Gweneth, were incoming passengers shares. on the Starliner Juneau, from An-| Dow, Jones averages fody are as chorage. They are stopping at the | follows: Industrials, 171.96; rails, (Continued on Page Four) Gastineau, ;55.36; utilities, 63,78, 1 | erans. | Servite inductions. WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 — The |debate on the draft is in the news’ again as the House Military Com- | | mittee takes up the question of what should be done about the | | Selective Service Law. Representa- SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27—Lt. tives Paul Kilday of Texas and Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, con- Paul Shafter of Michigan, are ad- queror of Singapore, Malaya and vocating the immediate end of in.:Cun'egidur, has opened formal sur- | became winged angels of mercy atomic bomb, coupled With EmMPeror quetion for 18 and 19-year-olds. render negotiations with Gen. Itoday and dropped food to. Allied Hirohito's “love of the people” Was oners are for halting the draft MacArthurs forces on Northern prisoners of war at Weihsien, the real reason for Japan's SUITen-| .m;iately However a compromise Luzon, NBC Radio Correspondent China. der, Premier Prince Higashi-Kuni .00 age 1t would ban in- Merrill Mueller said in a broad- cast today. Holed up in the rugged Carabao Mountains of Luzon, the Japanese general has asked Maj. Gen. Wil- liam Gill of the American Thirty- | Second Division for instructions in surrendering his remaining Japa- nese . Philippine defense units, | Meuller said. In closing days of the Northern }Lumn mop-up, Yamashita had ibcen variously reported as: (1) | evacuated by air to Japan; (2) killed in action; and (3) continu- ing to command the scattercd rem- |nants of his once-powerful Philip- duction of fathers of any age and call for the release of any fighting man over 35 asking for his dis- charge. DRAFTING IS URGED BY TRUMAN -2 dent Truman urged Congress today | to permit the continued drafting of | A(I CASE FA(ES men from 18 to 256 years as “the} ] only safe and acceptable solution to | pERJURY (HARGE the problem of demobilizing vet- SEATTLE, Aug. 27 — Perjury charges have been .filed against Sarah Ruth McFadden Scott, 22- year-old former Boeing employee, i In letters to chairman ef the| Senate and House Military com- | mittees, the President said the world | situation now precludes stopping | “the in-flow’ of replacements into|who was a material witness in the | the armed forces.” Mr. Truman sug- | Mann Act trial against her hus- gested that inductions now should}band, Robert Scott, 38, card dealer | be for two years, unless sooner dis- in a club. | charged. _ United States District Judge He cautioned against premature}uoyd L. Black, sustaining a mo- attempts to declare the war emer- tion by Scott’s attorney, E. K gency at an end and asked legisla- | Marohn, dismissed the case against tion lifting the present Army vol- | scott for lack of evidence. T Pt 1 ottt Boieciing] p AT Sharyac WHI deags V€| porting .his wife from Seattle to | Anchorage before and after mar- Chairman May (D.-Ky.) of the .. i ria rposes sti- | House Military Committee csned; 8 for. e pun_)os.( P paaew For TRl heasia kb8 ban mmor_lzuuon. The perjury complaint 8 pe against Mrs. Scott was filed by row on the President’s proposals. | jony E. Belcher, Assistant United | . Ty St et | States Attorney. It charges Mrs. 15(:0“ stated under oath she never |had made statements to the Fed- |eral Bureau of Investigation that s W !Scott had transported her as he DECATUR, Il — Decatur police,|was charged when “she knew she who received nationwide attention|had made such statements.” this summer when they baxmedi 2 wearing of shorts by women, again | are having shorts troubles—in re-| Jim Nordale, son of Mrs. Kath- verse. erine Nordale, will enter St. Mar- | Lawrence Yonker told police hv;rm's School at Lacey, Wash,, as a discovered a man wearing women’s|scphomore in high school. He left shorts in the kitchen of his home.| on the steamer Aleutian. - OUT TO SCHOOL FILIPINO NURSES % _,\( ARRIVE IN U.S. FIRST CONTINGENT OF FILIPINO ARMY NURSES to be sent to the U. 8. for training as flight nurses, Suisun Army base, California. The stepped from an ATC plane, Chief Flight Surgeon for the Philippines Ar{ny. these Filipino women arrive at the Fairfield- smiling nurses are shown as they accompanied by Maj. Pelagio Potenciano, (International) "Flying Bulldozer” with Oihers of Aleutian Based Bombing Squadron, inSouth ; Tl ‘Bomb-a-Dear’ | LOVELY Dede Devaine (above) of St. Petersburg, Fla, hds been chosen by B-17 student-pilots at their Drew Field training base in Florida as their favorite “Bomb-a- Dear”. The attractive Latin Amer- ican coftume Bebe wears may have swayed the vote. (International) TERRIFIC TOLL TAKEN BY WAR, FRENCH NATION PARIS, Aug. 27—World War IT SHIPS MOVE TODAY INTO - SAGAMIBAY Dramatic Move Made Pre- paratory fo Final Sur- render Act MORE PHASES OF PROGRAM OUTLINED U. S. Army 24th Corps Will | Occupy Southern Half of Korea SURRENDER SCHEDULE Monday, August 27.—Third Fleet Spearhead anchers in Sagami Bay, 24 heurs ahead of Mac- | Arthur's schedule. Tuesday, August 28.—Advance fleet units ¢nter Tokyo Bay; preparatory Air Force lands at Atsugi Airficld. Thursday, August 30.—Ten thou- sand Marines and sailors begin occupaticn of Yokosuka Naval Base; MacArthur lands at Atsugi with first wave of air- borne cocupation troops. Saturday, September 1. — Lt Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger's Eighth Army scheduled to be- gin landings for occupation of Tokyo and Yokohama area. Sunday, September 2. — Formal surrender ceremonies aboard U. 8. 8. Missouri in Tokyo Bay. Monday, Septemher 3—Advance airborne party lands at Ka- meya’ preparatory to etcupa- ticn of Kyushu Island; by- passed island garrison, in- cluding Truk, scheduled to begin surrendering. MANILA, Aug. 27-The Battleship SEATTLE, Aug. 27.—Aleutian-bas- ed squadron VPB 131 has returned from Alaska after 10-months of pounding the Kuriles in rocket at- s, 13th Naval District Head- quarters announces. Li. Comdr. Rolland L. Hastreiter, Los Angeles, said three-fourth of he squadron’s officers and men had served together continuously for 30 months. They originally *were . at- tached to the Atlantic Fleet. Another officer famed in the ‘squu(lron is Lt. Donald R. Newby of Vallejo, Calif,, who became known |as the “Flying Bulldozer” when he | brought a piece of Japanese soil back to the Aleutians after a Kurile raid Newby said he was engaged in a low level strafing attack, but didn't realize he was low enough to scoop up a bit of the “sacred soil.” R - STETTINIUS T0 LONDON NEW YORK, Aug. 27—Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., former Secretary of State, is enroute to London aboard the Queen Mary to serve as Personal Representative of President Truman at an Interim Commission meeting of the United Nations organizations in London. > Noted Author Passes Away BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Aug. 27 | Missourf led powerful American and British ' Naval forces into Sagaml Bay below Tokyo today in a quiet biit dramatic move prepara- . tory to the final act of Japanese | surrender, scheduled to be signed laboard the Missouri at Tokyo Sunday (Japan Time). Manila Headquarters® of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Al- lied Cemmander for Japan, said it had not been informed officially of the fleet's entry. However, a | spokesman stated the fleet was | operating without reporting to Gen. | MacArthur on all detalls of the 'master plan already laid down for the occupation and formal surrender. | MacArthur’s headquarters dis- closed two more phases of that steadily-growing program: The U. S. Army Twenty-Fourth Corps, |under Maj Gen. John R. Hodge, ywill cccupy the southern half of | Korea, and the surrender of Hong Kong will be made to Rear Adm. (Continued on Page Eight) PALACEOF EMPEROR ~ INSIGHT Ihree-sior;— S_Irudure Is | Aftraction of Seamen Who Line Decks SAGAMI BAY, Aug. 27—A party of Japanese swimmers were sunn- The intruder escaped. A woman in| the same neighborhood reported that a man in shorts invaded her bedroom, but fled when sereamed, - eee - i MRS. IRION HERE Mrs, Clara Irion arrived yester- a guest at the Baranof Hotel, l she|day afternoon from Seattle and is chorage, is a guest at the Gas- and are r tineau cost France 4,897,000,000,000 francs Mifty-four-year-old Author Franz ing themselves on the beach of the ($97,940,000,000 at the official rate Werfel has died suddenly at his peaceful Sagami Bay today when of exc ge), or 45 per cent of home. Werfel wiote “The Song of ! mighty Third Fleet came to her national wealth, Minister of Bernadette.” He had been serlously anchor within easy eye-sight of the Justice Pierre Teitgen said today ill several times since coming to lowns of Katase and Chigasaki and The minister estimated that the California from Czechoslovakia in the emperor's palace at Ayama. war nad brought about the de- 1940. The novelist and play-wright — They swiftly disappeared. struction of 1,785,000 houses, 5,000 Was born in Prague and was an = The three-story yellow palace was bridges, about half of France's active anti-Nazi a major attraction to the seamen railway stations, 300,000 out of e v who lined the rails looking at the 500,000 of the countr railway MERRILL IN TOWN peaceful bay, striving to realice cars, and “almost a f Prance's C. E. Merrill, of is a that less than two miles away was trucks. guest at the Hotel Ju the enemy homeland. { i S oy ‘ > Some of the 1200 plane cover BAHLS IN JUN 7 MRE., MRS. ROBINSON HERE was continuously overhead. For the Laurence O. Bahls, of the CAA Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Robinson, of | most part they were over Onum communications division, In An- Saginaw Bay, arrived this weekend |locating prison camps where some »d at the Hotel|36,000 Allied citizens await thelr Juneau. liberation,