The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 8, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EM_.PLER “ALL FTHE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 10,060 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SLPTLMB ‘R h ‘)-b I’RlCl TEN Cl-NTS FULLY ARMED AMERICANS OCCUPY TOKYO "CASEY' ROFF IS KILLED IN PLANE (RASH Juneau Pilot Victim of Ac- cident af Excursion Inlet late Yesterday Adrian “Casey” Roff, Juneau air pilot, met death late yesterday after- | noon in a crash at Excursion Inlet Roff was flying the Alaska Coastal < Airlines Fairchild 24 seaplane, with two passengers aboard. ‘The passengeis, boun Army men in charge of a payroll shipmen«,‘ were dazed and shaken, but exam- | inations to date have revealed no more than minor injuries. One of them, First Lt. Patrick Spradling, | was bruised about the head, observ- ers reported. The other passenger | was M/Sgt. Carl Bosler. They were taken to the Excursion Inlet base hospital. The two passengers made their way clear of the wreckage and clung | to the tail assembly of the plane, protruding above the surface, until | rescued by boat. Roff, apparently ' knocked unconscious, was found still in the plane when it was raised two hours later. His death was believed due to drowning, though no | medical report has yet been received 3 » here, 5 & e . Plunges Into Sea Persons witnessing the crash from | the shore were generally agreed that the plane had just taken off for Juneau from the glass-smooth wat- ers after a.long run and was in a tlirn at an altitude of about 100 feet when it plunged into the sea. Roff’s body was flown to Juneau last evening by ACA pilots Shell Simmons and Ray Renshaw, who went to the crash scene with a shop crew in the Grumman flying boat. Funeral services are to be held next Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, from the Chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. The Army payroll was recovered from the cabin when the wreckage was raised. The plane is reported ! a “total loss.”” The four-place sea- plane was purchased new by Alaska ; Coastal in 1940, at a cost of $9,000. Both pilot and plane were Iully | licensed and the ship had been re- cently overhauled. Accident Contripations Company officials today stated | that a combination of factor,s such | i | as “glassy water and poor visibility” contributed to the accident. Pas- not yet been ques- | sengers have tioned. The Civil Aeronautics Au- |braves into global conflict, remained | thority has been notified and will Lecl\mcally at war with the Axis| hold an inquiry to determine the cause of the crash . Roff Old Flier | Roff ha sbeen flymg since about | /Contmued on Page Eight) The Washington| Merry - Go- Round! By DRFW PEARSON (NOTE—Drew Pearson today awards the brass ring, good for one free ride on the Washing- ton Merry-Go-Round, to Secre- | tary of State James Byrnes.) WASHINGTON—No Secretary of State in years has inherited greater responsibilities than Jimmy Byrnes. | No man in history carries with him | as he goes to London or as he goes about his daily work greater| hopes of all mankind. Dimly at first, but definitely now that the horrors of the atomic bomb are known, the mothers and fathers who sent their sons tm war and the wives who suffered| at home and the men who fought the war realize what would happen if there should be another war. “t And their hopes and fears center| on the one man who must pilot| our foreign affairs through the tangled skein of mlsunderstundmg through \he international jeal- ousies, the rivalries, the cla.shing‘ interests and personalities—to the! difficult, elusive goal of permanent | peace. Few men in history also have a| more rounded background to pre- pare them for being Secretary of | State than Jimmy Byrnes. He has/ known what it was to battle things out in both Houses of Congress for # 26 long years. He has sat on the highest court of the country. He ‘(Continued on Page Four) | tentatively identified | erfortres | formal declaration of peace Oct. BULLETINS WASHINGTO The Coast Guard today reduced its point score requirements for the discharge of male personnel—from 49 to 43 for commissioned and warrant officers and from 44 to 40 for enlisted per- sonnel WASHINGTON—AIl wartime re- striction on the operation of ):l(‘hl\ and other pleasure craft on the West | "Coast have This was the Coast been lifted. announced today by Guard. WEDOWEE, Alabama — At least ten men are believed to be dead as the result of the crash of an Army bomber near the town of Wedowee in Alabama. The plane has been s a B-29 Sup- BUENOS AIRES—Another Lnun- Amnlmn nation has subscribed t¢ the United ions charter. The charter was ratified today by the cabinet of Argentina. LIVERPOOL, Encland — Al least two men were killed today in a fire that caused extensive damage to the former Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Russia was burning nine hours after the fire started, although firemen now have the blaz> under control. The ship was being refitted as a trans- port. NEW YORK — The 25th anni versary of the first cross-country air mail flight was marked today when a United Air Lines plane took off this morning from New York to San Francisco. The trip 25 years ago took almost 83 hours. The plane | which took off today to cross the country in slightly less than 20 hours. ATTLE — Seattle’s petition to intervene h the Civil Aeronautics Board in protest against the by- passing of the Pacific Northwest in airlines to Alaska and the Orient has | besn received by CAB officials in Washington, D. C., Christy Thomas, | | Executive Vice-President of the Se- attle Chamber of Commerce, says “Senator Magnuson has talked to L. Welch Yogue, CAB (Chairman and urged him to accept the peti- tion,” Thomas said he had l)L’(‘V\ advised. WASHINGTON Earl of The | Halifax, British Ambassador to the | United States, left by plane today | Washington to participate in talks for with American officials on the ces- sation of Lend-Leasz. PAWHUSKA, Okla. — The Osage Indians, who sent hundreds of | today pending Chief Fred Lookou! TOKYO—The Domei Agency said today that 126,000 persons were {killed at Hiroshima by the world's [ tion cost, he said, public subscription { first atomic bombing. This figure is more than twice as great as any | previously xepox ted by the Japanese. | is the City’s most pressing need. He WAblll\GTON—-The OPA today | | removed 4ll controls over how much library as a separate entitl. livestock may be slaughtered. The | ,agency also dropped. its “fair dls-’influCllPs | tribution plan,” which required !slnugh!erels to follow the same|Cther city operations. geographic distribution pattern in | making shipments that they used during the first quarter of 1944. Mail (Male) Trouble SALT LAKE CITY — wives and sweethearts stationed in Belgium: If the family mail box has had a “Mother Hubbard-like” look for lo, these many weeks, don't blame “him"—yet. Recently, Mrs. Robert H. Bulloch, of Salt Lake City, said her lieu- tenant-husband made the discovery | that his Belgian office boy had ne- | glected to mail the entire camp’s| mail Tor three months. - R - BURNSIDE ARRIVES of GI's|g F. William Burnside, Director of | Public Relations for Alaska Air-| lines, has arrived from Anchorage and is a guest at the Baranof | Hotel. MR., MRS. WALLIN HERE Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Wallin, of Fairbanks, are guests at the Gas-| tineau Hotel. - MRS. HODSON HERE Mrs. C. A. Hodson, of Elfin Cove, is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. The vessel still | is expected | 6. | Library, as proposed. (Note to| Opening Move OMINATO T9 BE OCCUPIED Made Toward New Library ON SUNDAY | 4 | Aleutian-Pacific Fleet Ar-| rives af Japanese Naval Base Today By OLEN Associated Press Correspondent ABOARD U. S. S. PANAMINT, | OMINATO ANCHORAGE, Japan, Sept. 8.—Warships of the U. 8. North Pacific Fleet from the Aleutians ar- rived at this Japanese Naval Sase in a driving rein and windstorm | this afternoon preparatory to ing over the shore (sbellxhn\u»l‘ {Memorial Proposal Gets Council Sanction to | Planning Extent The City Administration was al-| ready on the bandwagon when ser- vice club representatives appeared |before the City Council here last evening to present their case for a Memorial Library building. | | Alread, prepared and awaiting Council approval were applications to the Federal Works Agency for allotment of advance planning funds for a separate library building— |tomorrow. and a separate Fire Hall, too, for| The 60 ships of the force spent | good measur ! most of the day cautiously negotiat- The Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman, D8 the tricky Tsugaru Strait be- | Rotary President, spoke for active | tWeen Honshu and Hokkaido islands. | | concentration now. Reconnaissance boats filled with | on the Hbrary| —CrOE ators and was strongly seconded by Ro-|Marines began uum((m:i y touring | /al crews pre- | {tarian H. B. Foss. Architect Foss ‘D€ shoreline while naval estimated the cost of a separate Pared to immobilize all Japanese | library building at $58,000, including SPIPPIng y 3 | $10,000 to be paid for the proposed | JaPanese harbor pilots guided Vice lsite on Third street between the Af‘im Frank wak Fletcher rriers, Territorial Building and the Hotel | Cruisers, destroyers and other craft { iasn: through the strait into Mutsu Bay, Rev. Hillerman expressed the on which the base is located, 400 ecognized need for an adequate| Miles north of Tokyo memorial to Juneau's veterans of| Three floating mines were destroy- the Second World War and to those €d and a sharp lockout was kept for |who gave their lives for the ideals OUhers. [for which it was fought. One of _Japanesc |those ideals, the elimination of fu-|leaders of northern Honshu and ture wars, would, he said, be con-| Hokkaido have bsen directed to |tributed toward by a library to| come aboard this command ship to- | 4 morrow to acknowledge compliance with occupation terms. The terms, presented to Rear Adm Densuke Kanome, Ominato Base Chief of Staff, call for decommis- sicning of the bas» and other de- fenses, maintenance of warships and merchant vessels in port without (lunmuc and designation of ail war ! prisoners’ camps in the area. Fletcher's fleet made the oceu- pation move across the North Pa- cific from Ale ul n Island bases. Army, Navy and civil! | spread knowledge. | The Rotary President again point- {ed out the great benefit the @ity |can well hope to derive through a library building that will meet Car- | negie Foundation requirements. Licns Club Support Barney Anderson, President of thr |Lions Club, assured active a lnnr'v in the library campaign from! |his organization, as soon as suffi-| cient information is available on | which to base action. — - i Councilman Edward Nielsen alone' jof the Council posed objections to {tha library plan. With the City's | financial condition foremost in !mind he wanted to know if the con- ‘Stl‘\l('l‘un and maintenance of a' ‘srp'trmu building to house a library v | would not increase costs. However, |when the off-setting advantages were U. 5. FORCES | pilod up before him, Nielsen was Amphlblous Group Land- | first to submit the motion—which was carried—to file the planning | money application with the FWA. [ Advantages Mr. Foss led the way in pointing cut the advantages of a Memorial Though three separate buildings for a library, fire | department, and for other municipal functions will add to the construc- ing Accompllshed Pre- cautions Are Taken JINSEN, Kore: Sept. Ele- ments of Lt. Gen. Hodge 24th Army Corps pushed ashore on this Korean Yellow Sea port at 3 p. m today (2 a. m., Eastern War Time) in the first step in occupation of Japan’s vassal country. | Seventh Amphibious Group land- ing craft. put the spearhead forces ashore. The big convoy steamed | through the Yellow Sea from the A new library for the City was) blasted port of Naha, Okinawa. An ‘projected 15 years ago, Foss stressed.| escort carrier provided precaution- | | The time to strike for it is now while ary air cover for the transpor the issue is hot. If the present en-'dnsuoym escolls .md cruisers. thusiasm is allowed to wane, it may | be let slide for many years more. | Carnegie Foundation Offer wAINwRIGHT Mayor Ernest Parsons suggested as another factor that will aid in off-setting extra costs of separate | maintenance of a library, that the, | Carnegie Foundation had once offer-| |ed to pay the salary of a librarian = as well as furnishing books, if ade- quate library quarters were provided , AMILTON FIELR sQE Hept here. He thought that offer mlghl‘s -Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, hero jof Bataan and Corregidor, held for three years in captivity by the Japa- 'nese, is back home today. His plane swooped down on the field at 11:20 a. m. from ‘Honolulu. {well still hold good. | General Wainwright will cross the country and arrive in Washington some time Monday morning. He will report to War Secretary Stimson, call on President Truman, and then appear before both Houses of Con- gress to receive their acclaim. -+ will raise a large part of the library eost now—an adequate library now ,stated his belief that the people of Juneau will willingly support a He pointed out the many distracting surrounding a library {housad in the same structure with Following approval of the library planning application, Councilman |Harry Lea moved for submission also jof the Fire Hall Application. That lmction too carried. Then the Coun- cil decided to go the whole way, and |instructed that a third application ‘be prepared, for planning funds for |a City Hall, including a jail and police court facilities. The Fire| Hall would be built on the vacant lot adjoining the present City Hall| GREGORYS HERE on the west and the new City Hall| Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gregory and on the present municipal building son, Sydney, arrived yesterday from site. | Seattle via PAA and are registered | As a final note on advance plan- at the Gastineau (ning, Architect Foss replied to a| e question that the application already ARDETH ROGERS GILLIS HERE ‘made for airport planning funds is| Ardeth Rogers Gillis, of Hoonah, | now being processed by the FWA in| has arrived in town and is a gues!u Washington, D. C. Jat the Baranof. | Railroad Case | attention, o {the most outstanding man possible HISTORIC LIBERTY BELL RINGS OUT ONCE MORE MAYOR BERNARD SAMUEL of Philadelphia, Pa., taps the historic Liberty Bell, famous symbol of Amr- ican freedom, in Independence Hall, during solemn thanksgiving services after President Harry S. ! Truman's official announcement of the signing of the Allies' surrender terms by representatives of the | Japanese emperor. Watching the ceremony are, left to right, WAVE Martie Holway of Youngstown, 0.; WAC Mary Cekovich of Narwood, Mass.; SPAR Betty Rowe of Moultrie, Ga,, and Marine Sgt. Grace Stagerwold of Pittsburgh, Pa. (International) Truman Atfempling 400,000MAY To Draft Gov. Arnali, BE TOTAL OF Paiterson in New Jobs NALZIS TRIED B|g Shots W|II Probably Hang-Small Fry May | Be Given Labor WASHINGTON, Sept as 400,000 Nazis may be tried lnl" war crimes when the Allies deal justice to the arch-fiends and tor- rorists of World War IT, it w disclosed today. Guilty “big shots” probably wil| be hanged. The military regards shooting as “an honorable death.” | Small fry who got off with thelr skins may be given labor sen- tences, perhaps helping rebuild what they destroyed,in Russia and elsewhere, Hitler's terror | | | 1 1 | | [ By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 — Presi- dent Truman is attempting to draft Governor Elis Arnall of Georgia to become Solicitor General of the United States. He has also selected Under Secretary of War Patterson to fill the Owen D. Roberts va- cancy on the Supreme Court. Unless there is a last-minute hitch, Patterson’s name will go to the Senate almost immediately, to- gether with a list of other import- ant judicial appointments. Gov. Arnall's name probably will go to the Senate immediately due to the fact that he given the White House a as to whether he i the governorship of peeted on two grounds. One is tha he is a Fel Frankfurter man, having been recommended to Stim- sen as Under Secretary of War by Frankfurter. \ | = Other Support ‘ The second point is the fact t Patterson’s most ardent support National Association for the ment of Colored People, has been clamoring for his appointment. This is d to sit well with some 8-As many is the Advanc which weeks not ex Senators, Another heuded for of Alexander appointment possible trouble is that Holtzoff to be U. 8.' Judge in the Distriet of Columbia. Holtzoff is credited with being the author of the Supreme Court pack- plan ich created such a storm in the Senate and finally was defeated lawyer in the Justice Department, Holtzoff is re- ported to have sold Attorney Gen- eral Homer Cummings on the preme Court , who in turn it to Roosevelt without consult with the rest of the Cabinet Attorney General Biddle fender of civil liberties, with Holzoff over the latter's poli- cies against civil liberties and he wted to the background New Attorney General Tom Clark, however, has clevated Holzoff to an important job in his outer oOffice and now is promoting him to the U. 8. District Court to the place| which was (o have gone to Judge| Nathan Margold, recently defeated SIAMESE TWINS The Justice Depaitment’s plan Jew in Margc (ln proposed place any idea of racial discrimination. NIX, Ariz., Sept. 8.--The s¢ Miranda twins were in an incubator today and receiving oxy- gen a nding phy. at St |Monica’s Hospital attempted to ngthen their precarious hold on 11ife The hespital t nurse was at | who were born humble dwelling mother midwife .. 'E QUI (hmlu(n- H. Quigley, of Se a guest at the Baranof Hotel. R PETERSON IN JUNEAU I Walt C. Peterson, of Peters- burg, has arrived in Juneau and is uaicial not ) however, has not definite answer willing to leave Geo! organizations, the Gestapo and the SS (Elite Guard), will be charged collectively with war crimes. Conviction would mean ' antomatic punishment of any mem- ! ber of either outfit who couldn't prove he was forced in. The master trial at Nurenberg will be a mass trial of top culprits, like Reichsmarshal Hermann Goer- clashed jno 14 will begin in late October or ecarly November in the city which was for y the scene of the Nazi Party’s annual cong Twenty-four, including Goering, have been named defendants. Half a dozen more are likely be added. Amall's proferred appointment considered one of the most import- ant Truman has made, due to the fact that the Georgia Governor led the fight in the Chicago Con- vention last year for Henry Wal- lace and against Truman. Arnall not only campaigned through the South, but voted the Georeia Dele- gation solidly for Wallace and made one of the most ressive fights on the convention floor for Wallace. a Arnall's Showing However, Arnall's spectacular showing before the U. 8. Supreme Court in arguing the C i attracted Trur is anxious to to and he - to fill the important post of So- liciter General, whose job it plead all Justice Department before the Supreme Court. In winning bis railroad case fore the Supreme Court the Georgia Governor is to cases be- (Copyright, 915, by B -eo pionecred court to ans Rev mmett idant, McLoughlin, said a special tendir the baby girls, August 26 in a ac with their grand- a ted is Secre- to set without going up through the lower A K’ being made to permit the appoint- SEPIEMBER 30 ment of a new Secretary of War ciencies the Truman Cemmit They will do this by having Con- | found in the Under Secreiary of abolish what is known as stopping at the Baranof new law by getting the War Department Politics Truman's expected appointm of Under Secretary of War Patt son to the Supreme Court, Henry L. Stimson’s resignation a \ Sccretary of War will be accef \\'ASHIN()T()N, Sept. 8-~ Con- shortly and Truman does not want cressional leaders promised today | to promote Patterson to be the nation’s clocks back an | War's office. As a palliative to Pat- ght Saving . or War Time, - 00‘0 | terson, he will get a coveted place r which the glocks were moved EMMA NICOLET IN TOWN | {on the highest bench. d an hour in 1942. The idea| Emma Nicolet Port Heiden, ! Scme Senatorial was to provide more day time Alaska, is a guest at the Gastineau' recognize for the first time in h tory that a state can appear before the Supreme Court as a trial court ing to White House insiders tary of War, due to the ineffi- hour by Sept, 30, Patterson’s war work, Hotel. ition is to ex- oppe appointment {w | Embs utes }ing | estentatiously fon | skirts, MacARTHUR ~ INWRECKED NIP CAPITAL U. S. Flag Raised Over Em- bassy with Impres- sive Ceremonies NO PARADE OF POMP HELD BY CONQUERORS {Prayer Said, Praising Deeds of Fighters, Hopes for Peace Forever TOKYO, Sept. 8-—Cen. MacAr- thur, shunning all fanfare as a conqueror, entered Tokyo today with fully armed troops of the First Cavalry Division and officially gnalized the occupation of this wrecked city with a 10-minute flag raising ceremony The Supreme Cemmander of the Allied Powers was stern of visage and firm of voice at the U.. 8. sy grounds—within five min- ive of Emperor Hirohito's as he ordered: d alace- “Have our country’s flag un- furled and in Tokyo's sun let it wave in its full glory as a symbal of hepe for oppressed and as a harbinger of vietory for the right” The General and his men, cover- the last mile of the long hard road from Australin, came as the first foreign victors ever to enter his heart of surrendered Japan, In their hour of triumph, they were all busine There was no parade | The word had been out men would mareh from Building to the Embassy. Americans Mceve In ad, they moved in with their weapons-carriers of the flag--the from the Capitol in Washington Dec, 7, 1941, then in triumph over Rome and Berlin— 5 the first notice to many Tokyo residents that the Americans had come. Maj. G of pomp. that the the Diet Inst 50 un- trucks, that one jeeps the sight which flew and Willlam €. Chase’s proud Fir avalry Division had o huge sign ready, lettered “First Cavalry Division—First in Tokyo,” us they waited at Chofu, on um‘ outhwest outskirts. But they had to leave it hanging a tree at the roadside. en guidons were removed from armored vehicles in compliance MacArthur's direetion for a An attempt of a to fly the Lone E the with simple entrance, group of Texans Star St flag brought a sharp reprimand frem Gen. Chase. “Get that down-No flags,” said. ate hr Tanks Held Up Tanks had rolled up to the out- They halted there. Mac- Arthur chese not to bring them in unless needed, to «avoid further damaging Tokyo's streets. The raising of the flag over the embassy grounds—rather than cver a Japanese building uch as the Diet, in the gesture of an arrogant conqueror-—was impressive its simplicity. MacArthur's face, behind which he often hides his emotions, was of serious mien. MacArthur Arrives arrived shortly before the 11 ceremeny (10 p. m. Friday EWT), after motoring from Yoko- hama. His khaki-colored car with tive stars rolled up the short in- cline within the embassy compound threugh an honor guard of the Seventh Regiment, “First Cavalry Divisicn, with fixed bayonets. The guard extended from the cmbassy grounds for two blocks, At the end of the line, clusters of Japanese gathered in mild curio- He a. m Japs Merely Stare There had been little interest evidenced by the Japanese in the trcops’ arrival, not even among the groups of oftice workers in down- town Tokyo. They merely stared impassively at jeeps of reconnais- sance elements which had “GHQ” printed on their windshields. MacArthur entered the grounds | accompanied by Admiral Halsey, (Centinued on