The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 5, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” = VOL. LXV., NO. 10,057 JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED =i ALEUTIAN FLEET TO TAKE OVER HONSHU First Troops Ma VET CAVALRY FLAGISRAISED ‘GIVEN ORDERS ON RETURNED FOR ACTION WAKE ISLAND Demobilized Yanks Home- Symbol of Marine Great- ward Bound-Jap Torfur- | ness Again in Posses- FORMER JUNEAU BOY IS KILLED - IN PLANE CRASH SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. 5—Sec- ond Lt. Ingram Wade Vernell, son of Logan W. Varnell, was killed in |a plane crash, 12 miles north of {San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 31, ac- cording to advices received here. Varnell was well known in Ju- neau. He was graduated from the Juneau High School, and during ers Are fo Face Trials sion of Americans WAKE, Sept. 5—The American sociated Press) By, Thip, Asmorhs lag was raised on Wake Island The First (Dismounted) Cavalry ! ivisi as assigned today to S ¢ ,2‘::3,0 "im: Tofyo gsm,,,my (Fri- | 1:50 o'clock yesterday afternoon. .da‘v night, U. S. Time), as Admiral The Japanese rear admiral who ;much of his time here was night | messenger for the Signal Corps, lU. 8. Army. He was well liked by troops landed at Singapore early| vmbol of Marine greatness — at his many school mates as well as today and began occupation of this| scores of Juneau residents with |whom he came in contact. rch TROOPS LAND EARLY TODAY i.laps Set Fir‘e"io 0il Tank * Nimitz' disclosed that ' bad commanded Wake since,it fell Rim headqubjiers e on Dec. 13, 194210 days less than a year after it fell—saluted the | Stars and Stripes. So did his Slafl‘ and 40 of his garrison troops, wWho came to attention as a Marine! bugler sounded “Colors.” They saluted as the flag was hoisted and | their eyes followed as it rose, inch by inch, up a flagstaff which had | been carried ashore from the Am- erican Destroyer Escort Levy. | Flag Again Flies | Brig. Gen. Lawson Sanderson,| Commander of the Fourth Marine | Aircraft Wing, and 75 officers and men from the U. S. Destroyer Es- the first demobilized Americans *y;om Japan already were homeward bound aboard some vessels of the * Third Fleet. | The First Cavalry and other Eighth Army forces have been in- structed to liberate all remaining prisoners of war throughout Japan and Formosa, and Lt. Gen. Robert % 1. Eichelberger, Eighth Army Com- mander, said that prisoners’ stories ‘ot Japanese brutality wod be given +.to Gen. MacArthur for court mar- ¥ tial action against the guilty. | MacArthur, Supreme Allied Com- NINE BASES, 2N ALASKA, FOR DEFENSE Navy Has "Recommenda- Farm-Prisoners Cheer Their Liberators | SINGAPORE, Sept. 5 — Indian one-time bastion of the British | Empire which was surrendered to | the Japanese Feb. 15, 1942. | The Second Battalion 4of the | Punjabi Regiment made the in- itial landing from light craft at the main wharf. The Japanese, in apparent viola- AT SINGAPORE to i | | | tion of the surrender terms, had set = ° Here's one of the first pictures from Japan on the wreckage and war torn buildings in Yokohama, giving fire to the oil tank farm at Port Dickson. Troops of the Fifth Indian Di- vision went ashore this morning from landing craft without opposi- tion and marched past tamed Japa- nese sentries and cheering Allied | prisoners of war still behind barbed wire. s Prisoners in a camp near the a general view of the devastated More Tales of Torfure of | - Yank Prisoners by Japs COURT BATILE | | OLENDY LOSES Tokyo Friday Eve Devastation in Yokchama FLETCHERTO 0CCUPY ISLE BASE FRIDAY North Paciflaval Force Moves Into Surrend- ered Section By Olen Clements (Assaciated ¥ress war Correspondent) ABOARD U. S. S. PANAMINT, Off Northern Japan. Sept. 5—Vice Admiral Frank J. Fletcher waited teday at the head of a large naval force to occupy northern Honshu. Japanese representatives of the Ominato Naval Base are to come aboard Friday to receive instruc- tions for turning over the base to the Americans. The Japanese emissaries will pro- vide Fletcher with data en mine- fields guarding the important base some 375 miles north of Tokyo. American minesweepers will clear Tsugaru Strait and Mutsu Bay be- fore the ships move in. After preliminaries of the occu- pation are worked out, the North Pacific force, amply covered by | carrier planes, will negotiate the Juneau Priest Is Enjoined e o s oy Sundas Nicholas Church . : r, expected to move his zzsd::flo;shegdquax-ters from | COrts, reverently watched the flag Yokghama to the U. jn raising after Read Admiral Shige- S. Embassy i g | Tokyo shortly after the entry of | matsu Sakaibara, the island com- the veteran cavalrymen who won gress-State Purposes mander, had signed the formal| s the rugged race into Manila last| surrender document aboard the| WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—The D8 February. | Levy. Navy is recommending to Congress Shouted: Gen. MacArthur issued a far- tion fo Submit fo Con- | quay pressed against the wire and roosted in the trees, cheering their liberators. An arriving Australian, recogniz- some of his countrymen,; “Hello, . you beauties,” e M . | ade Publicby Sec. Byrnes 5 | = b s -| | iimselt will ‘¢ome aboard Sunday | to receive final transfer instruc- | |tions from Fletcher. One of the first tasks of the WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 — Japa- ;otested treatment of 750 Amer- Inese troops captured an American jc,n prisoners crowded into a Japa- | flier forced to parachute into the pnese freighter which was torpedoes | Thus did Wake return to Am-|establishment and maintenance of reaching directive which drove home erican possession—1,362 days after|nine major Naval bases in the Pac- . to Japan the full impact of defeat. The directive demanded forthwith . all information—including coded— necessary for swiftly disarming r.!apan's war machine, and ordered the beaten nation to place vast fac- it fell, despite one of the war's most courageous fights waged by Marine Major (now Lt. Col.) James P. S. Devereaux, and 378 officers and men of his First Marine De- fense Battalion. Alive In Prison Camps + ilities at the beck and call of stead-| | Devereaux and some others of ily increasing occupation forces. | Homeward Bound ithe Wake Marines have been re- The Cruiser San Diego—lirst,jportcd alive in Japanese prison into Tokyo Bay—is already en- camps in China. route to the United States with | Sakaibara said Wake had cost 4 demobilized officers and men, ac-|the Japanese 3,000 lives — 1,000 companied by several other simi- killed in the Japanese invasion and » larly-loaded warships, Admiral by subsequent American air raids Nimitz' spokesman reported from and naval bombardment, and 2,000 ¢* Guam. The homeward parade will|of malnutrition and disease. gain momentum as rapidly as ships 1,200 Surrender become available, he said. Escort| He surrendered 1,200 troops. He carriers in particular will be used said all were suffering from mal- in this service. | nutrition, that their last supplies (Conttnued on Page Two) — e | i were only half a submarine cargo brought in months ago, and that all were so weak they could not terms specifically forbade sabotage. ific. Assistant Secretary M. Struve Hen- sel told a news conference today the |nine bases include only those “we |need for our own use and are limit- |ed to those we should intend to {maintain and are susceptible to de- |fense.” He named in this connection: 1. Kodiak in the Aleutians. | 2. Adak in the Aleutians. | 3. Hawalil. | Balboa, Canal Zore. i . Guam, Sapian and Tinian. Iwo Jima in the Bonins and Volcano group. | 7. Okinawa, in the Ryukyus. 8. Manus, in the Admiralties. | 9. The Philippines. STRANDED TRIO " SAFE AT HOME ¥ i e *The Washingion . , | AFTER 7 DAYS Merry -Eq- Round | By DRFW PEARSON Members of | WASHINGTON Congress returning to work today are simply swamped with GI mail. | It has been pouring in—particu-| i larly from returned veterans in the | U.S.A., who have been kept mark- | ing time, waiting for the brass /5 hats to let them go home. The storm of protest is terrific. So much sa that the 1946 Congres- sional elections, in fact the re- election of President Truman, may be won or lost in the next few weeks—all hinging on one thing:| “Was Governor Dewey right in his charge that the Democrats; wanted to keep men in the Army| and Navy after the war?” Politically, the problem is TNT. Meanwhile, many Congressmen have become convinced that Army| brass hats haven't been playing fair with them regarding dis-| charge figures. And junjor officers who do the statistical work Kkill tell | you privately that this is true.| Army chiefs have been giving| figures to Congress which are com- pletely off-base. For instance: Last June the Army told Congress that there were only| 160,000 men aged 38 and 39 in the| Army. This low figure was given| to quiet the Congressional demand | that men of this age be released. The Army claimed that Congress was being stampeded by a lobby of | only a small number of men. | But, in August, the Army turned round and announced that there were 300,000 men aged 38 and 39.| Congressmen point out that 160,000 doesn’t equal 300,000 in any arith- metic book. And the number ‘ (Continued on Page Four) They had only 17 days short ra-| tions left. Sakaibara, who came out to the American ship in a weather-bat- | tered small boat, greeted Sander- | son: “I regret that Japan had to sur- render, but I am glad it is to the Americans.” e NO MEETINGS FOR BROWNIES OR GIRL SCOUTS THIS WEEK There will be no meetings this week for Brownie and Girl Scout Troops, but all members of the var- ious troops are requested to watch for an announcement concerning the meeting places for their troops next week. Arrangements are now underway for meeting places for all the troops some of which will have new leaders for the coming year. Troops will be scheduled according to grades, and the meeting place assigned for each grade. - THIBODEAU GIRLS LEAVE Dorothy and Cecelia Thibodeau left on the Princess Louise for Vancouver, B. C., where they will spend a few days shopping before proceeding to Portland, where they will attend Marylhurst College. - e RETURNS Miss Mabel Monson, former grade school teacher, returned to Juneau on the Princess Louise from Hib- bing, Minn., where she hds spent the summer months visiting with her brother, | | Interior Plane Accident Is Cleared Up with Aid of Army Squadron FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 5.— | Pilot Bill English and his passengers, Swen Gustafson and Miss Adele | Johnson have arrived safely home after being stranded seven days from a forced landing 50 miles west of Circle. The plane was located at Preacher Creek by an Army search squadron Saturday. After the two men left to hike to | Miss Johnson at the plane and a Flight Surgeon and assistant para- chuted to aid getting her down stream two miles to a float plane. Meantime other planes were un- sucessful in locating the hikers who appeared at a Central roadhouse Tuesday. The party left Fairbanks on Aug- ust 25 for Circle Hot Springs but were caught in bad weather which two days. couple of sandwiches each which were made to last four days. _ STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 5 — Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine stock today is 7%, American Can 101%;, Anaconda 337, Curtiss- Wright 67%, International Harvester 90, Kennecott 38, New York Central 247, Northern Pacific 27%, U. 8. Steel 71%, Pound $4.02 %. Sales today totaled 980,000 shares. JDow, Jones averages today were as follows: Industrials, 174.24; rails, 54.90; utilities, 33.29. sea off New Guinea. Thep beat him with sticks vir-' tually all that day, throughout the night, and until three o'clock the next afternoon, Then, while the troops screamed wildly, a Japanese civilian named Girl Scout Troop ToBe Sponsored | and sunk off the Philippines on September 7, 1944. The prisoners and suffocated for nearly three weeks When the ship was tor- pedoed, they were machine-gunned by Japanese guards, acting on orders starved, thirsted Finding for the plaintiff, Judge George F. Alexander in U. 8. Dis- trict Court here yesterday upheld the independence of Moscow of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of North America. | Judge Alexander ruled that an “in- Steese Highway, food was dropped to | also grounded searchers all but for The trio is well but had only a | By Erfnrtglem Club The Emblem Club, meeting for | the first business session after sum- mer vacation, last evening planned to sponsor a Girl Scout Troop, and |also made plans for organizing a ! Drill Team. Any of the members interested in belonging to the Drill Team are re- | quested to contact the President, i Mrs. Florence Holmquist. No ap- pointments to the Girl Scout Coun- | et were made but will be announced later. R LT. DAN MAHONEY . LANDS HERE TODAY | FOR 30-DAY LEAVE First Lt. Daniel W. Mahoney, son |of U. 8. Marshal and Mrs. William | T. Mahoney, arrived in Juneau thif ! morning with his wife, aboard the | steamer Aleutian, to enjoy a 30-day | “recuperation leave” here. After two years in Europe, Lt. | Mahoney's unit was in England en- | route to the South Pacific when the Pacific War ended. He is now |under orders to report back to his organization in North Carolina, but 1does not expect his outfit will zo | overseas again. In fact. Lt honey, with 118 points, is looking | forward to discharge. | The Lieutenant, who was attach- ed to a medium bombardment group of the AAF as Purchasing and Con- tracting Officer, took part in the occupation of Germany. He also was in England, France, Belgium, the | Netherlands and Luxembourg. His |unit arrived, docked back at New York on August 24, and Lt. Ma- | honey flew directly to Seattle, where he rejoined his wife after two years | of separation. e DIVORCES ISSUED At yesterday afternoon District Court ssion here, decrees were granted by Judge George F. Alexan- ider to plaintiffs in four divorce ac- tions | Receiving decrees were: Elizabeth |Olson, of Sitka, from David A. Olson, Sitka; Rose Makinen, Hoonah, from John Makinen, Hoonah; Leo Tacal Navarro, Juneau, from Mary Lou Navarro, Juneau; Margaret Perrin, | Juneau, from Daniel Perrin, Juneau. Mrs. Olson was granted custody of her minor child and $30 monthly support payments. Mrs. Makinen was given custody of that couple’s three minor children, Ma- | Inouye hacked off the American’s head with six slashes of a sword. The State Department told about that incident and others like it today in a report it would not issue during the war for fear the Japa- nese would increase their butchery and shut off all shipment of relief supplies to Allied prisoners. Told To News men Secretary of State Byrnes ob- served with restraint at his news | conference yesterday that the re- | port was not a pretty story. | The guilty will be punished; war | erimes will be prosecuted in Japan | just as in Europe, Byrnes pledged.' The report told of 240 protests against mistreatment of prisoners sent to the Japanese Government |through Swiss intermediaries by | former Secretaries of State Hull and Stettinius; Undersecretary of State Acheson, and former Under- secretary Grew. An exampie: Brutal Massacre On May 19, Grew asked the Swiss Ito tell the Japanese Government |the United States was “profoundly | shocked” over “the brutal massacre on December 14, 1944, of 150 Am- | erican prisoners of war” in the Philippines. | The incident: Japanese guards forced the 150 Americans into | tunnels used as air raid shelters. ! | The guards then emptied buckets |of gasoline into the tunnel en- !trances and threw blazing torches |into the tunnels. Victims Screamed | Screaming victims who rushed | from the shelters were bayoneted or | machiné-gunned. The guards t | dynamite charges into the tunn |to take care of the Americans left | inside. About 40 got out and hurled them- a |'selves over a 50-foot cliff on to | beach. Shore sentries and landing | barge gunners shot some. The | Japanese captured others and buried | them alive, One they captured after he had tried to swim out to a. They prodded him with bayonets; poured | gasoline on both his feet and set fire to them. They mocked, derided and bayoneted him until he collapsed Then they poured gasoline over his | body and watched flames devour it | “Barbaric Behavior” “Such barbaric behavior on the part of the Japanes® armed forces is an offense to all civilized peo- |ple” Grew told Tckyo. In diplo- matic language, he demanded that the Japanese promise not to do it again. In a note dated March 10, Grew of a Lieutenant Hosimoto, as they | junction as prayed for” be issued to foundered about in the sea. |the Rev. John Zlobin, Russian > | Church priest at Sitka, who brought |suit in the name of The Most Rev- DAN leTE up |erend Theophilus, Bishop of San | Francisco, and Metropolitan of the ;(h\lr('h in North America, against FOR ViolA'"“G | F. Evgeni Olendy, “squatter priest” ;of the St. Nicholas Church in | Juneau. A strain the Rev. Olendy from occu- pation of any part of the property Dan White, Native fisherman con- . 5f ¢ne Church of St. Nichelas, Ju- victed of embezzlement at the spring |neau, and orders him to “forthwith term of court here, was called before Federal Judge George F. Alexander | again here yesterday. This time he | is charged with infraction of parole. White was sentenced to two years imprisonment on the embezzlement | charge, but the sentence was sus- | pended by Judge Alexander. One of | the provisions of White's probation was that he refrain from intoxicat- | ing lquors | Last week, White was =:vested for | being drunk by City Police hel’e.‘ and was turned over to Federal | authorities for hearing on re | tion of his probation. He is being held hore in the Federal Jail. The hearing yesterday was f'nnlix:\u'd‘ until September 24 , 1 - - | MRS. ENGSTROM R Mrs. E. E. Engstrom .and sons, ! Allen and Elton, returned on the Princess Louise from a two months’ vacation spent visiting friends in Seattle, MRS. ra- | ETURNS -eo HERMLE ARRIV] John Hermle and children, Jean and Jackie, have returned from a three months’ vacation with relatives and friends in Seattle and California. e e 00 0000 00 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU) Temperatures for 24-Hour Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock This Morning o o o In Juneau—Maximum, 56; maximum, 49. At Airport—Maximum, 58; minimum, 47. ° o FORECAST Cloudy. Occasional light rain tonight and Thursday. Not much change in tem- perature, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ] . . . ° . . . . o . . e ° . . . . . . » . . . remove therefrom, pending trial.” The Rev. Olendy was to have left Juneau today, aboard the steamer Aleutian, bound for Karluk, Kodiak Island, where he has been engaged to teach school this year by the Alaska Native Service. E - TOWNSEND CLUB HAS FIRST SESSIONS OF FALL-WINTER MEETS The Juneau Townsend Club enter- ed upon its fall and winter activities last night with a well attended meet- ing and a diversified program of entertainment in the CIO Hall. G: E. Almquist, President, presided, Mrs. Beatrice Rosness, Secretary, read two communications from National headquarters pf the organization, outlining plans and program for the pest war era, and stressing the nec- essity of united action by alt Town- send Clubs to achieve during the present lon of Congress enact- ment of appropriate legislation to provide for men and§women over the acceptable for employment in industry An interesting number was a pre- sentation of films, accompanied by explanatory comment by J. A. Ed- wards, showing polar bear hunting and other scenes in the area far north of the Arctic Circle Ed- wards also showed some of the choicest scenery of Southeast Alaska. Dancing to music furnished by E. M. McIntyre, violinist; Mrs. Carl C. Collen, pianist, and Mr. Collen, drummer, concluded the program The membership committee urged all Townsendites secure more members and the program commit- tee stated that entertainment would be provided at the weekly meetings to be held each Tuesday evening in the CIO Hall, to which a cordial in- vitation is extended all persons desiring to further the movement for | a pension for elderly citizens, age occupying forces will be the libera- tion of prisoners of war. Vice Admiral Fletcher's fleet has been formerly based in the Aleu- tian Islands. > DISCHARGES HINTED BY U. 5. ARMY WASHINGTON, Sept. 5 — The Army hinted broadly today that it expects to discharge within a year all enlisted men 34 and older as well as those who had 45 points up to May 12. It dropped the hint in an an- nouncement which said men in those categories no longer will be sent overseas, On Capitol Hill, meanwhile, the Hcuse Military Committee resumed its study of ways to step up at once enlistments in the Regular Army. The Army's announcement last night was issued, it said, because the occupation of Japan is going on as scheduled. Except for about 1,000 men, it added, there will be no more .overseas shipments for soldiers who; 1.—Have 45 points or more, based on the May 12 (original computa- tion.) Are 37 years old. 3.—Are 34, 35 or 36 and have a year of henorable service. It was estimated there are about 665,000 men in this country covered by those three points. B X g COURTS ARE TO OBSERVE FIVE DAY WEEK 100 U. S. District Court Judge George F. Alexander revealed here yestor- day that five-day week orders have hit the Federal Court system toa. There will be no more Saturday Court sessions, the regular motion day being changed from Saturdays to Mondays, the Judge declared. Judge Alexander also disclosed plans to leave late this week for Anchorage where he will attend a meeting of the four Alaska District Judges, expected to take about two weeks. Naturalization and a few pressing civil matters are on the Court calendar here for tomorrow, following which the Court will not convene here again until September 24, fcllowing the Judge's return,