The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 15, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 10,066 JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1945 MEME 3ER ASSC PRICE TEN CENTS ——— 'FOUR MORE BIG SHOT JAPS SURRENDER Y v > LR, BULLETINS MIAMI, Fla. — Lashing winds of | |a severe tropical hurricane swept | | southeast Florida today as the storm | | center, striking toward Key Largo, | began a slow northward turn which | | Many Arguments on Both 2o, e soy morver o e H tend hurricane warnings nortaward P DR o | e e e s | H H | At 3:30 p. m. advisory sent hurricane | Tampa and placed the rest of Flor- | Juneau’s City Councilmen met last | jda on the alert. evening to act on local liquor closing hours. They discussed much, listen- | 3 ed more — and decided not at all. | KANSAS CITY — President Tru- Action was put over to the next man told an informal news conrer-: regular meeting, next Friday evening, ence today that he had no m(orm‘n-‘ in the hope of having the full Coun- | tion on published reports that Major cil present to decide the issue. Coun- | Gen. Patrick J. Hurley wanted Lo; cilmen Harry Lea and John Young | resign as {\mbassaxdox' to China upon were absent last night. | his return to this country. As discussion developed, an even} bl split of the four Councilmen pres-| WASHINGTON—Roger Cramer’s ent became apparent, with R. H.|triple capped a three-run Detroit Williams and Stanley Grummett in | attack in the seventh in_mng this favor of “trying out” later clesing afternoon that gave the Tigers a T- hours — Edward Nielsen and Don |4 victory over Wask_lington‘s Sena- Skuse against any change now. | ters today in the first game of a Meeting Well Attended | series which may determine the Am- Both liquor operators and those | erican League championship. opposed to liquor liberalities wem1 - | out in fair force as last evenings| woxyo—Thirteen more American special Council session drew the| g one numbering about 175,000 largest audience since tax assess- ;.. i pe landed in Japan late ments were g hot focal tasue. |this month and in October. The poft)::esmenxftl‘-g: “;: a:s::::‘eo;“%}‘inrurmauon comes from General oppos rthur’s headquarters. liquor hours expressed in commun- PapArtnes q7 ications addressed to the Council. | Communications were read from:| pDETROIT—The CIO United Auto- The Women's Service Group; Don mobile Workers Union has announc- | C. Foster, General Superintendent, ed that it intends to ask its mem- Alaska Native Service; Juneau Min- | pership in 135 General Motors plants isterial Association and the Grand to take a strike vote. The vote Camp, Alaska Native Brothflhoold- | would affect 325,000 workers across The ANB letter pointed an analogy ' the nation. with the Sunday closed period en- forced on salmon fishing by the Fish | 3 and Wildlife Service; eclaring that| WASHINGTON — It has been| there should be an “escapement per- learned that General Douglas Ma‘c- | jod” too for bar habitues. | Arthur may be called on to testify “Drunkenest Town” |in the Congressional investigation Mrs. L. P. Dawes led off the re-|of Pearl Harbor. | marks from the floor, characterizing | o] | the liquor regulatory ordinance a| OKINAWA—A Japanese officer | “Banquo’s Ghost” which will not be and 27 men abandoned their last-l put down. Jack Fletcher, Baranof | ditch resistance when clippings from Hotel manager, challenged her state- | six American newspapers and maga- ment that Juneau is the “drunkesest : zines convinced them Japan was town in Alaska.” He declared there defeated . are two grounds for approaching the | WASHINGTON—Lt. Gen. J. an—‘ ton. Collins, combat leader in the| European and Pacific theatres, is| | the new Chief of Staff of the Army | Ground Forces. Collins succeeds The Washington|groms rores. couns auccees Merry ¥ Go _Round who has been assigned to the Pa- cific theatre. By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON — Live-wire Re- publican Senator Ralph Brewster of Maine recently telephoned hard- working Assistant Secretary of Labor Carl Moran, also from Maine, but a Democrat. “Portland is among the nine dis- tress cities of the country,” Sen- ator Brewster reminded Moran. “As you know, Portland shipyard work- ers have been dismissed from their jobs wholesale. Meanwhile, farmers in Aroostook County can't get any- one to bring in their potatoes. What (bo:uunuui T)rl;ufle Tllnz;i LONDON—A reliable report that the Soviet Union has made terri- torial demands in the Mediterranean area considerably beyond anything the United States and Britain had anticipated was interpreted in diplo- | | matic quarters here today as an| | indication of Russia’s determination | to become a Mediterranean power. BREMEN, Germany—The big har- | | bor of Bremen, Germany, has been | officially opened to Allied traffic for | the first time in six years. All Sup- | plies for the occupation forces i Germany will pass through either Bremen or Bremerhaven. can you do about it?” “What are they paying for farm labor in Aroostook County,” asked the Assistant Secretary of Labor; “still, four cents?” “No,” replied the Semator from Maine, “there’s a guaranteed wage of $12 a day.” Assistant Secretary Moran said he would do his best to switch some workers up to the potato farms. However, he might well have replied that the Labor Department was that in name only and that it actually had almost nothing to do with labor. For the fact is that, under Miss Perkins, the Labor Department was stripped of most of its labor duties. The War Labor Board is separate NEW YORK — The President of | the United States Steel Corpora- tion, Benjamin Fairless, criticizes the government for allowing wage increases only if they do not boost prices . Fairless declared that the steel industry could not meet CIO demands for a two-dollar-a-day wage increase without raising the price of steel. MANILA—Warned by U. S. In- terior Secretary Ickes that Amer- lican help may cease unless the | Philippines Government purges it- | self of Japanese collaborationists | | before its next election, the Philip-(‘ pine Congress halted all arrange- | i ments for the election. 22 KILLED IN CRASH OF PLANE Craft Downwi-nVFIames—Vic- tims Include Nine- teen Veterans KANSAS CITY, Sept. 15—Twenty two persons, including 19 veterans of European battlefronts, were killed early today as a C-47 Army transport plane crashed it flames 14 seconds after leaving Fairfax Airport. Only three of the personnel aboard the removed alive from the flaming wreckage and one of those, Sgt. Bernard C. Tucker, Etna, Calif., died at a Kansas City hospital. A survivor said all three members of the crew perished. The plane was bound from New- ark, N. J, to the west coast and had stopped to refuel. Wreckage of the huge transport was scattered over a wide area but most of the fuselage fell on tracks of the Burlington Railroad about five miles north of Kansas City’s business section 200,000 MEN OFF JOBS IN BIG CENTERS Labor Sfrif;_Focused on Detroit Area-Auto Making Stopped Labor disputes, showing a steady rise across the country since V-J plane were Day and the subsequent ending of | wartime’s no-strike pledge, today kept more than 200,000 workers off their jobs, a new high for the last several months. ‘The spotlight along the nation’s labor front, focussed to display the change-over from war to peace- time production, fell directly on the labor strife in Detroit’s heavy in- dustrial area. But it touched over a wide section of the east where| labor issues brought unrest to a varied line of businessand industry. In the Detroit area, some 75,000 workers were idle as a direct result of labor controversies. The Ford Motor Company laid off 50,000 automobile workers yesterday and all plants in the country stopped production of new autos, tractors, trucks and engines. Henry Ford, 2nd., exec. vice-presi- dent, attributed the lay-offs to “crippling and unauthorized strikes” against the company’s suppliers and to irresponsible labor groups.” A Ford Company statement said *‘We don’t know when we can reopen our plants.” Prior to the lay-offs, total Ford employment was 109,000. The remaining employees are em- ployed on maintenance or recon- version work. The Ford Company’s layoff came as the CIO-United Automobile Workers Union disclosed a post- war union program seeking 30 per cent wage increases throughout the industry with strikes as the weapon to get them. At the same time,! the international executive board of the UAW held a “trial” of of- 24 military | "Mrs. A ANCHORAGE | VIEW GIVEN BY ATWOOD Stand Difféfi f}om that of Juneau, Ketchikan, | Fairbanks | Anchorage, Alaska, said his ¢ “got more than we expected when SWIMMER_jo Ann Fogle of the Riviera club, Indianapoli: was an entry in the 100-mcier DR. JONES OPENS ENGAGEMENT OF . ONE WEEK HER | A world famous missionary, | evangelist and author will be here ! tomorrow and will be heard each | night at 8 o'clock in the Northern | Light Presbyterian Church, change | of address each night. | The missionary-evangelist is Dr. |E. Stanley Jones, D.D. and his | first appearance will be tomorrow {afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at a youth rally in the Memorial Presby- | terian Church. In the evening at 8 io‘c]ock, he will be at the Northern Light Presbyterian Church. The program next week follows: | Monday, 12 { p. m.—General [Northern Light | Church. | Tuesday, 12 noon—Rotary Club; {8 p. m. — General Mass Meeting, Northern Light Presbyterian | Church. | Wednesday, is as noon—Lions Club; Mass Meeting, Presbyterian 12 noon — Women’s | Club Luncheon; 8 p. m.—General |Mass Meeting, Northern Light | Presbyterian Church. | Thursday, 12 noon—Chamber of | commerce; 8 p. m.—General Mass | Meeting, Northern Light Presby- terian Church. Friday, 2 p. m.—Meeting of all the women of all the church or- ganizations, to be held in Trinity m.—General Mass Meeting, Nor- thern Light Presbyterian Church. Admission is free to all services Cathedral Episcopal Church; 8 p.| the Civil Aeronautics Board aminers recommended the (air) route to the Orient through Chi- ! cago, Edmonton and Anchorage.” | The Publisher of the Anchorage | Times, edited representative of 200 Alaska business men and the Alaska Development Board, yes- terday said his city was anxious to cling to the advantage obtained by the recommendation. His remarks to the Pacific Northwest Oriental Airline Com- mittee were opposed by the com- mittee attorney, Samuel J. Wet- trick, who said “Fairbanks, Juneau and Ketchikan don't agree with Mr. Atwood.” “These Alaska cities made it clear they realize their best interests are bound up with the best interests of Seattle and the Pacific North- west,” Wettrick said. Dave Beck, union leader and a committee member, distributed capics of an editoriel written by him' for the Washington Teamster and charging that powerful and wealthy banking and industrial in- terests in the east, middle west and ex- (___; merica”’ south “have invented a new theory to prevent the industrial growth of the Northwest.” “They propose that air and, later, land routes be developed as nearly as possible over the roof of the world to offset the geographic ad- vantages of the Northwest,” Beck wrote. “Finally, they want the govern- ment to subsidize such a route until it may pay a profit, some sweet day in the future. It is a fantastic scheme which the easterners have devised to block the development of the Northwest.” 22, Mrs. Peggy Payne, Hapeville, V and scepter affer winning the “M N. J. Three weeks revealed. Her husband is Statistics: Blonde; 5 feet 6'% DEFENDER OF WAKEISLAND HOMEBOUND OMINATO ANCHORAGE, Japan, Sept. 15. — Lt. Col. James P. S, Devereux, heroic defender of Wake Island, reached the escort carfier Hoggatt Bay here today—the first step of his dreamed-of return to America. He insisted Navy Comdr WOULD INTERVENE ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 15— The City of Anchorage has filed an application with the Civil Aero- nautics Board for the right to in- tervene in hearings on applications of Northwest Airlines and others seeking permission to operate over the North Pacific route to the Orient. The petition contended that “con- flicting private interests of various applicants may militate against the proper consideration of the eco- nomic needs and future weifare of the City of Anchorage and South- western Alaska. It asserted the city’s interv could more clearly define the is at stake. The city council said it decided he must report te Winfield Scott Cun- am, who was the senior officer on Wake, before he can discuss the battle which ended finally—in Japanese occupation of the in December, 1941, Cun: prisoned by the S hai, escaped, was recaptured, and now has been liberated by Amer- ntion sues ya., wear: conducted by Dr. Jones. A free-will | to seek permission to intervene in offering will be received for the|the Washington hearings next purpose of helping to defray the month after Pacific Northwest! expense of the meetings, however.| aviation interests pressed for Dr. Jones comes to Juneau under | North Pacific route via Seattle as sponsorship of the Juneau Minis-|cpposed to the inland route recom- erial Association in cooperation mended by CAB examiners, which i with the Federal Council of Church|would traverse Canada to Anchor- of America. The following persons age via Edmonton, Alta. are in charge of the program: - jdue v E ' Steamer Taku Crew | apt. stad. | s oupt Jonn Feeer| Quarters Improved; Webb. ! e guicr e | R asls PUPPET CHIEFS | o 0 000 . Willis R. Booth. Finance—Rev. Herbert Hillermar icans. SEVEN MEN GIVEN ' APPROVAL TO HIGH | RANKS ARMY,NAVY WASHINGTON, Sept Senate has passed and House legislation making perms the rank of the seven men who now hold commissions as five-star gen- erals and admirals, The bill affects Generals of Army George C. Marshall, Douglas MacArthu Dwight D. Eisenhow the s hiei royai robe and crown America” title at Palisades Park, 30 she was picked to represent Atlanta in the “Miss America” contest but was disqualified when her marriage was an honorably discharged Army 128 pounds. (AP Wirephoto) private. H.LICKES IS IN LONDON | LONDON, Sept. 15—Secretary of | the Interior Harold Ickes arrived | here today to renegotiate the | British-American oil treaty as of- ficial British circles expressed con- cern over Russia’s demand for a large share of Austrian oil. Ickes is expected to discuss the Austrian oil problem during his stay. > " WRANGELL GETS ADVANCES BYPW | WASHINGTON, 15—Ad- | vances made by the Federal Works | Agency yesterday for planning i public works included Alaska—Wrangell, sewers, $35,000 oroject, $2,000 advance; Wrangell, water supply dam, $84,000, $4,000 advance - 'COASTAL AIRLINES ON MORNING TRIPS Airlines had the g passengers yes- 3 uth M. Rose and Edwin Larson Incoming passengers from Hoonah J. Herbert, A. B, Hicks, George artin, Mrs. George Martin, W. Mit- we = _fight éet;soershig ) Is | Put On }Vip__i’résg, Radio JAPANPUT " IN PROPER PLACENOW | Told fo Quit Acting as Equal to Her Conquering Allied Nations TOKYO, Sept. 15—Gen. MacAr- thur's headquarters bluntly in- formed Japan today that she was 'not an equal of the Allies in any way and would have to quit acting' like one. While foyr more of Japan's | wanted big-shot militarists surren- dered to Japanese police, Col. Donald Hoover, head of censorship in MacArthur's counter-intelligence office, called in the heads of | Japan’s press and radio, told them that their distorted stories of the | occupation must cease forthwith and that Japan was “a defeated enemy which had not yet demon- strated the right to a place among civilized nations.” Hoover announced that the Domei agency, suspended yesterday because of distortions and bad faith, would be permitted to re- sume operations only on a limited domestic scale and under 100 per cent U. 8. censorship, but that Domei and any others who trans- gressed again would be closed. One-Time Terror Gives Up Meanwhile, Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, one-time terror of the Philippines, which he conquered /in 1942, and his successor, Lt. Gen. Shigenori Kuroda, drove to a sub- urban Japanese police station and surrendered (o await questioning by the Americans. | Homma glibly asserted that he | had not ordered the Bataan Death March apd that it wasn't so bad, anyhow, brushing off the proven horrors of that cruel herding of |captured Americans on Luzon. He nowledged, however, that as the ccmmander he was responsible for acts of his subordinates. Kuroda, evidently not trying to be humorous, remarked, “We lost the war—there must have been some mistake.” Kuroda said 10,000 American prisoners were held in the Philip- pines under his command (May, 1943—Sept. 1944) but he knew of no atrccities, Both High On “Wanted” List Both generals were high on Gen. MacArthur’s list of men wanted for questioning and possible trial as war criminals, Both speak English with pro- nounced British accents. They con- ! versed with each other quietly in Japanese most of the time, how- ever. They took keen interest in the bomb damage in the Tokyo and Yokohama industrial areas, which they said they had not seen before. Kuroda said it was “ter- rible.” He also was instantly in- terested in the first American jeep 'that he saw. Hcemma, in an interview, said that in the spring of 1942 the de- fense of Corregidor was so strong [that he had been about ready to cenclude that his assault was a failure, when he saw the dying American garrison run up the white flag. Homma insisted tnat he was sur- prised to find himself on Gen. MacArthur's “wanted” list. He also was surprised, he remarked, when he learned on Dec. 8, 1941, (Japa~- nese time) of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Now retired and wearing a baggy blue civilian suit, Homma asserted: “We have been beaten and I | | | s i i S 3 | ficers of Detroit Local, 174, which |for more than three weeks has want to be a good loser.” Another Surrender oF lellppINEs | Taku, little freighter operated by|and Henrv H. Arnold, and Fleet chell, John D. Abbott, Helen Wil- and independent, and, most import- d Com- Admirals William D. Leahy, Ernest liams and Paul Hickox. the Alaska Transportation a3 STOCK QUOTATIONS and of all, the U. S. Employment | Service is under the War Man- power Commission. Thus, Assistant Becretary of Labor Moran had to turn to an outside agency, the U. S. Employment Service, to try to get discharged shipyard workers to help harvest the Aroostook po- tato crop. This, in turn, has brought out another difficulty affecting not merely Maine but the entire nation. Most war workers, drawing $1 to $2 an hour plus overtime and (Continued on Pay: Four) NEW YORK, Sept. 15 — Closing | quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine | stock today was 6%, American Can 103!z, Anaconda 33%, Curtiss Wright 6%, International Harvester 89%, Kennecott 387, New York Central 25%, Northern Pacific 26%, U. S. Steel T1', Pound $4.02%. | Total sales today were 650,000 | | shares. Dow, Jones follows: Industrials, 56.02; utilities, 33.78, averages were as 175.65; rails,| carried on a strike at the Kelsey- Hayes Wheel Company. The 45,000 on strike caused a curtailment of production at the Ford Company last week and the layoff of 30,000 workers because of lack®of certain supplies. — .- MARINOVICH RETURNS John A. Marinovich, well known Alaskan, has retwrned to Juneau from Anchorage on an incoming Alaska Airlines plane and is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel, pany, will return to sea after two pI.A(ED I“ jAIl weeks’ idleness caused by ‘a dis-| ‘pute over crew quarters. Union YOKOHAMA, Sept. 15 Jose officials said crew space had been {P. Laurel, puppet president of the rearranged satisfactorily. Philippines under Japanese rule;| -e e - | | his son, Jose II, and Benigno S.| PARKER IN TOWN | Aquino, president of the puppet! H National Assembly, were jailed here| Bruce Parker, of Seattle, has :u-' today. rived in town and is a guest at the The three were seized at the Baranof Hotel. | | town of Para by an American party | % > under leadership of Lt. Col. Chap-| SWEENEY ARRIV man of Kansas City, Mo. P. J. Sweeney, of Spokane, Waslh, | They declined to talk, s @ guest at the Baranof Hotel. | J. King and Chester W. Nimitz, D New Classification In Ranks of Marines WASHINGTON . Se Mar officers and risted men who have 40 discharge points a enceforth exempt from oveseas assignment. The Marine Corps announces this line with its recent re tion of the discharge critical score from 83 to 70 points. ot. 15 today included the follow- John B. Moon, Al Du- A. Ste Riley, F D Irips ing to Sitka buck, Ernest Dabrymple, Lt weller and John To Tenakee: A michael and Wal To Ketchikan Burte Leonard Botelho, Mr. and Jack Jordan. D MRS. HARRIS HERE Mrs. John B. Harris, of Haines, |15 a guest at the Gastineau Hotel aul A. Gutz- , P. T. Car- >r Austin M. McDaniel, Smit Mrs, K Emmett Talbott and Col. Kingoro Hashimoto, the man generally blamed for ordering the bombing of the American Gunboat Panay in the Yangtze River In 1937, but wanted by MacArthur as a member of the Black Dragon terrorist society, surrendered to U. S. Eighth Army Headquarters, Japanese sources reported. At the some time, Yoshitaka Ueda, who is not on the wanted list, offered himself at Eighth | Army Headquarters. His connec- (Continued on Page Two)