The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 7, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA o “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” " VOL. LXV., NO. 10,059 JUNE AU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1 MACARTHUR WILL ENTER T 945 FED. TAXES, " Reductions as Planned Are. Announced by Sen- ator George | WASHINGTON,, Sept. 7. — A $5,000,000,000 cut in federal taxes ef- fective next January 1 was forecast today by Chairman George of the Senate Finance Committee. ‘The reductions would include: Corporations, $2,000,000,000. Individuals, $2,500,000,000 to $3- 000,000.000. Elimination of one or two excise taxes. | George, after studying President| Truman’s recommendation to Con- gress yesterday for “limited” tax| cuts in 1946, predicted that “a quick | tax reduction bill” would be passed| before Christmas. | e ! PEACH QUEEN — Georg Georgia Gibbs (above) as Three Airlines of U.s. Wilsoonfly Are Veterans B Over No. Atlantic WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—Three American Airlines probably will be able to begin commercial flights over | the North Atlantic in six to eight weeks. They have been assigned the - necessary four-engine planes from By JACK STINNETT military surpluses. WASHINGTON, Sept. 7—Bank- First operations, however, will be ing, government and reputable loan over only parts of the routes they ccmpany officials are waking up have been certified to fly. ‘The 'to the fact that the a “sleeper reason: Much remains to be done in the Serviceman’s Readjustment in obtaining landing and transit Act of 1945. rights in foreign countries. ! It's in those sections of the bill, The three airlines are Pan Ameri-|1ushed throu the House in clos- can Airways, American Export Air- ing ys before recess, which would lines and Transcontinental & West- |liberalize the loan provisions of the ern Air. G. I. Bill of Rights. ’ The new measure, it is believed, would leave the door wide open to |abuses which would take the veter FHA Underwriter an, the government and the tax- his Juneau payer for an expensive joy-ride. It was originally designed to cut red tape in the gevernment's 50 =« per cent ($2,000 maximum) guaran- tee of loans to veterans—an objec- tive which several groups, including The Washingion g v s ing i Merry - Go-Round is a worthy one. By DRFW PEARSON Found - e, MAKING SURVEY John Carter, for Alaska, has left survey trip to Anchorage and Fair- banks. ABA is back of-another bill with |the same objective, which has been | introduced, but not acted upon. VA !has taken no official stand, but is ! expected to when the present House WASHINGTON—It escaped the|bill reaches hearing before the Sen- attention of most newsmen, but ate Finance Committee early in Oc- President Truman was thrown off tober. balance during his press conference on Pearl Harbor. The “newsman” Specifically, the bill would permit who nudged him was Mae Craig, banks, building and loan associa- correspondent for various New tions, other established lending England papers and the only agencics and even individuals to grandmother who served overseas| make 50-per cent government guar- as a war correspondent. (anteed loans to veterans without Truman was trying to defend any federal check whatever on Cordell Hull for his part in the Whether the investment is a sound Pearl Harbor disaster when Mrs, |one. Craig piped up: | After listing established lending “Can you tell us, Mr. President, |agencies groups, the act adds “any have the two privates who actually |other lending institution or any per-' tipped off their commander to the approach of the Jap planes been rewarded?” r Truman graciously replied that| The act provides for loans to be they had. |madg for purchase, construction or Mrs. Craig was referring to the Tepair of homes, purchase or im- enlisted men who were Workmg‘pmwment of farms '.md‘ farm equip- at listening posts early Smlday[mem',‘)r purchase of improvement morning, Dec.,7, 1041, caught the|Of business property. sound of approaching Jap planes Th. “sieeper” lies in the fact that and notified the lieutenant in com-|the value of the property, the quali- mand, who' told: them they Werefjcations of the borrower, the sound- dreaming. ness of investment or expansion are Graciously, Truman told Mrs. | determined entirely “by the lender’s Craig that the two men had been appraisal.” Thus the veteran is laid rewarded, one having been made a|wide open to unscrupulous lende lieutenant, and the other a ser- who could lead him into unsound geant. | ventures, “Yes,” shot back Mrs. Craig, “and, Under the existing G. I. Bill of the lieutenant who told them to Rights, the Veterans Administration forget it is now a lieutenantitself is responsible for these ap- colonel.” | praisals. Truman mumbled something| In view of the fact that farm and under his breath to the "effect that real estate prices are sb high and he didn’t know that and turned to | that construction and repair mater- receive other questions. But White |ials and farm and business equip- House assistants said that this|ment have been virtually unobtain- reminder of brass hat faveritism!able, VA officials consider this a inside the Army nettled the Presi- | pretty healthy indication that vet- dent the rest of the morning. |erans intend to avail themselves of ® ® * |their loan privileges. BRASS HAT FUMBLING z Careful study of the entire Pearl| VA, of course, would like to be Harbor report is something Lhat‘relieved of the tremendous burden ought to be made by every citizen | and responsibility of appraising the interested in the protection of his|Properties, improvements and the country and the future emciency‘ve"’”""s themselves. Qualified and sponsible lending agencies would Le happier if they had more free- but it dcesn’t define what shall con- stitute “approval.” ison approved by the Administrator,” (Continued t‘m Page Fom;) On Trouble? Sleeper Is THUKOV IS HONORED BY ~ FOURALLIES | l | | Soviet Conqueror of Berlin’ Salutes as City Celebrates | Official V - J Day BERLIN, Sept. 7—Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, conqueror of Berlin, took the salute from troops of the four| Allies in the Tiergarten today in| celebration of “the victory over the black forces of aggression in the Far| East.” | Resplendid in blue uniform, with| three rows of decorations on his| tunic, Zhukov called for “organiza-| tion of a just, enduring and com- plete peace.” | Berlin’s official V-J Day parade! swirled past the scarred battleground in the center of the German capi- tal | The Russian Field was flanked by American. and French officers. Gen. George Patton, Jr., commander of the ia peach growers chose singer liss Georgia Peach of 1945.” anking Commander British as WALLA WALLA, Wash., Sept. 7 —Joe Bill, Alaska Eskimo convicted for the murder of five-year-old Irma Irene McGough of Seattle, April 12, calmly entered the scaf-; fold room at the State Peniten-| tiary -at 1:06 a. m. this morning and was hanged at 1:08. He was | pronounced dead at 1:25 a. m. | Third Army, represented the United States. | i - Ad jusiment Act CON PLANS TO MAKE ARSI 2T v Am TermiNus |dom in making the loans. A i | Many ofticials, however, are al- Ayiation Inferests Seekmg ready expressing doubt that blow- & ing the lid off loan restrictions 15 New Field of af Least tke way out. Those I have talked to in the VA, the treasury depart- 3.000 Acres ment, banking circles and on Capi- it tel Hill are 4 that loan bene- i T fits should be exténded:to veterans, | . CHICACO, Bept. 7-Chicago avia- bt without sny. nvitalm tp. ghe ton interssis, gratified that thel: unscrupulous and, Withsome’ pro-|City has been re ommended tection to the taxpayers, a fair share terminus of the proposed morthern of whom, after all, will be the vet- tians-Pacific air route, are pushing erans themselves and their families. local airport development and e pressing their claims in Washing- ton. i “Because of its geographical po- jAP TROOPS sition and its predominance as an inland center of population,” said i Leverett S. Lyon, Chief E | Officer of the Chicago Association | EAT FI.ESH of Commerce, “it is inevitable that b4 [ | Chicago will become a terminus and point of entry | }v\urld-wido airlines. | | “For more than a century Chi- | ;cago has been a railroad gateway i |city and recent developments indi- TETR cate that the coming air age will BRISBANE, Sept. T.—Japanese gee the city's position enhanced troops in New Guinea ate the flesh,' .ather than diminished as airways ‘li\e and brains of their India_n yme into their own ;pris ners, rescued Indian Army offi- “Already Chicago has been desig- |cers asserted today. Inated a terminus and point of | _The Indian officers, freed from .,p. o the North Atlantic routes Wewak and now at a Queensland g,no - with Boston and New York rest camp, include Capt. Ru Perazi, my, opening of lanes to the Pacific (Dr. Subadar Jurchuran Singh and ygipyest and the Orient will {Spmadr O“‘?" all captured by the bring travel from that sphere to Japanese at Singapore. : % her doors” | Of three hundred Indian prisoners w000 A patterson, President | taken to Wewak, New Guinea 3y Py | of United Airlines, told the com- istronghold of the Japanese, ony 50 . s _ 2 | Ulived, the" officers said, mittee all .mght airlines operating ‘ |out of Chicago had agreed on a plan calling for a port of at least! » 3,000 acres which will be able to !Rall—wa'ersupply;handle 250 planes an hour. The| i & | present airport, Patterson asserted, will be “completely " inadequate .in| ,Rou'e, p"n(e Rupe | the near future. ?.I. AI k R I | The Civil Aeronautics Authority 1 has informed the committee of 21| 0 Alaska, Kevea e | members headed by Merrill C. T Meigs, chairman of the Chicago WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—A new pero Commission, that it will need rail-water supply route to the North 5 survey of all present airport fa- Pacific was established by the Army cjlities before it -can endorse any jearly in the war to help defend yecommendations for a new field. | Alaska and the Aleutians. e - | The War Department disclosed to- day the route was keyed to the little | ishing port of Prince Rupert in ALASKA ESKIMO British Columbia, just 40 miles from |the southern tip of Alaska. 'S H ANGED FOR | | Men and material went by rail . ‘from the U. S. through Western |canada to Prince Rupert and then | by ship along the inland passageway 'to Skagway, Valdez, Seward, Anch- icrage and the Aleutians. | | From Seattle to Anchorage W a 1,500 mile voyage. It was 500 Imiles from Seattle to Prince Rupert. | By establishing a port at Prince Ru- | pert, the water distance to Anchor- age was cut py a third and ships | were able to haul much greater car- | goes. | At one time, 3500 soldiers and| “All I wish is that most of the civilians manned the port. (young men I am leaving behind | D | will benefit by my mistakes that| | The richest deposits of gold in I made all through my life and Colorado were first mountains about 100 miles from last statement. “I hope | Denver. that he forgives me.” to God * announcement " war, the sour married in Seattle in March, - ja;i; Surrender it cne the platoon men trek up and lay down th FANATICS kf he Japs were ¢ mpelled Lo ace RESENTED Emperor’s Personal , Guards Killed (Assoc TOKYO, Japanese 3y Russell Bri 1 Press € Sept respondent) Well-informed sources said today that fanatical young Japanese officers on Aug. 14 killed the commandinz general of Emperor Hirohito’s per- sonal guards division and by forg- ing his name, sent troops to sur- round the palace in a vain effort to prevent the impe: surrender from the al reaching people. The killing ttempt to climaxed a . fanta ep Japan geared es related. The fina to the battle over surrender, tween the Emperor and cer militarist elements, involved hot chase. after the vital radio record- ing containing the Emperor’s his- toric eapitulation rescript, they said. Numerous Kamikaze * (suicide) pilots dived to death in Tokyo Bay as the result of the surrender and some - threatened to kill Japan's surrender envoys to Manila—but there were further major d orders. to no -0 CANNED SALMON REACHES SEANTLE; ALSO CANNERYMEN SEATTLE, Sept., 7—Heavy ship- ments of canned salmon are ar- riving in Seattle from the Alaska | canperies. The Steamship Baranof, arriving in Seattle from South t Alaska, had 108,000 cases of salmon and 325 passengers, nearly all can- nery employees. The Columbia, due in Seattle tomorrow mornin the Alaska Peninsula and K has 40,000 of salmon 410 passenger Five or six more ships of t fleet operated by the Alaska Steam- ship Company are exptcted to bring Amon to Seattle. D from diak and ses he SON IS BORN TO CAPT. AND MRS. W. D. KNOX News of the birth of a son to Capt. and Mrs. Willilam D. Knox at San Mateo, Calif,, Sept. been received in Juneau. Capt. Knox, pioneer Pacific Al- aska Airways pilot, has been flying to Honolulu since his transfer the Pacific run for PAA over a year ago. Mrs. 5, has Knox, the former Tlenc Jones, has lived in Fairbanks and 35 Nome, and both she and her h out ‘Alaska. The Knoxes were 1944 ~ SURRENDER | Commanding General of . found in the especially this one,” he said in his' band have many friends through-| | GRATEFUL_Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of the Chinese generalissimo, shown in her Riv- erdale, N. Y., home as she thank- ed the American people for (heir aid to her country. BIG PLANE * (RASHES; 20 ARE KILLED FLORENCE, 8. C, Sept. 7 big Eastern Airlines transport plunged into a swamp near early today, killing all its pants—20 or more persons The passen: and bers of the Miami to air liner were burned yond recognition. Ace: as to the number of pe plane, but tern Afr Line: the here oceu- crey almost nts v m- York e the ce off gave number as The plane tore a 50-fe foot long path throug! before coming to a stop ing. 500 wamp burn- - - STUCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK quotation tock te wa Sept. 7T — Closing laska-Juneau Mine 6 American Can 104, Anuaconda 34, Curiiss-Wright 6 International Ke it 387%, New 25%, Northern Pacific Steel 72%, Pound $4.04 Sales today totale ha 5 Dow, Jones average: follows: Industrials, 16; utilities, 33.76 of d today wer a 176.61; rails - o v ZORIC KHERE Nick Zorick, of Ketchik i the Baranof Hc guest at V4 1’! Lanchur pt unconditicnal surrender, arms at the feet of the Soviet o meny aboard the U 1,300,000 | ¥ a . m 3 4 ? LY MEMEER ASSOCIATED PRESS 1D PRICE TEN CENTS =1 0 TODAY & ing down their arms in orderly file One by JAP ADMIRAL LAYS DEFEAT T0 AIRPOWER Bismarck Sea Greatest Blow - Pearl Harbor Sneak by 4 Carriers By Verne Haugland YOKOHAMA, Sept. 7 Japan used four aircraft carriers in her att on Pearl Harbor, one of her def ed admirals, Rear Adm. To- shitane Takata, said in a press con- ference tonight, Takata also di%(‘lu.\y(l that battle of the Bismarck Sea, M 2-6, 1943, was the gr b of the war to the Japanese and that the Okinawa spelled the certainty of loss of the war, Air power was the single major element bringing about defeat of Japan, Takata said emphatically -+ - Vice Admiral Mc(ain Dies the Navy campaign Nipponese in San Diego SAN DIEGO, Sept. 7—The fighting heart which slender, greying John Cain through the s strenuous flying course at years of age d to smashing victories over the ave out last night—of stion from. combat stout carried Sidney M- she ext duty A miral, r szid the Vice old commander Task Force usted from_three continuous raids, Japanese home- physician 61 year famous Carrier simply was menths cof almo largely against of e | land In that time, McCain’s planes knocked out 6,000 Nippon air- craft and 2,000,000 tons of shipping, including approximately 100 war- hips In under that time, McCaln was terrific strain from combat- ting repeated Kamikaze dttacks on his task made everal Aug. 15 truce, | McCain lived victory not much long cnly Wedne; nessed too, including one after foree hours the just ace He after Sept. 2 long enough mplished—but arrived home having wit- irrender cer 8. 8. Missouri to see the graduated from the 1906. Thirty o having type of wings at Naval erved on aln ship, he Pensacola and plun, rec d into "l air strategy - o Yokohama, th Japan’s six bi ion of mcre roomiest of has @ popula- than one million. Ad- | 38, HISTORIC - MARCHTO BE MADE General Will Lead Troops . Down Main Street of | Nip Capital City 'HONOR GUARD WILL | ACT AS BIG ESCORT | |American Embassy Pre- | pared for Headquarters ~Flag fo Be Unfurled Sept. 7—A three- | mile parade of American military might through the heart of Tokyo, | beginning within sight of the Em- | peror’s palace, will mark the trie umphal entry of Gen. MacArthur Saturday (Friday, U, 8. Date), it was ledrned today ! A Domei broadeast said he would arrive at 11 a. m. (10 p. n. today, EWT—2 p. m. PWT.) | The battle-equipped Seventh Eighth Régiments of the Cavalry Division will march through the bomb-shattered capital city of surrendered Japan the first such march of a conqueror there in Japan’s long history. An bonor gird from the Sev- enth Regiment the regiment which fought under Custer on the Little Bighcrn—will escort Mac- Arthur from - the 'Tokyo railroad station in the Marunetchi business quarter, east of the palace grounds, to the American Embassy. The embassy is approximately three miles southwest of the Marunouchl distriet, YOKOHAMA, Band To Play The white-legginged First Cav- alry Band will hlare martial music as the Supreme Commander of the Allicd Powers motors past downtown buildings to the embassy, there to raise the same American flag which tle over the White House in Washington, D. C, Dec. 7, 1941, the day that “will live in infamy.” The Seventh and Eighth Regi- ments will be fully armed, dressed in combat khakis and will wear steel helmets and field boots. They e from the Second Brigade, com- manded by Brig. Gen. Hugh Holf- man, San Antonio and El Paso, | Texas. * The Seventh Regiment, led by Lt. Col. William A. Adams, of El Paso, will open the occupation of Tekyo, scheduled at the outset to take in 40 of the city's more than 200 square miles. Leads 15,000 MacAithur is troops into Tokyo. With occupation forces already holding strategic points from the south tip of Kyushu to Tokyo, in central Honshu, negotiations were under way for the American Navy to take over a Japanese base on the extreme north tip of Honshu. Shortly after 9 a. m. today, Rear Admiral Kanome, chief of staff of the Ominato Naval Base, led a (Continued on Page Five) R e WAINWRIGHT 10 LEAD PARADE IN FRISCO SUNDAY Goes fo Washihglon Mon- day-To Reveal Brutal Treatment by Japs Troops leading 15,000 HONOLULU, Sept. 7—Whatever Gen. Wainwright has to say about his physical beatings by the Japa- nese will htye to be said officially the Department and the people back home, the hero of Corregidor said here. Wainwright is scheduled to lead a parade in £an Francisco Sunday and to arrive in Washington Mon- day His short-cropped hair, barely concealing scabs which might have | been caused by anything from mal- | nutriticn. to brutal treatment, seemed to bristle whenever the subject of Japanése handling of prisoners was brought up. to