The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 18, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALI, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” g 4 VOL. LXV., NO. 10,068 7y JL’\“ Ab ALASKA, TUESDA\ . SE PThMB[ R Ib I‘)-b N ME \l IR \SS()( ll\l I) PR]bS PRICE TEN CLNTb 'DEMANDS ARREST OF EMPEROR HIROHITO The 0ld Gang Meels Beyingion OCCUPATION | Miss Birmingham Pays Call STALIN ASKS TRIAL AS WAR OF JAPLAND PROCEEDING No Elaboration of Mac- Arthur’s Statement on Forces fo Remain TOKYO, Sept. 18—Gen. MacAr- thur's headquarters, newly estab- lished opposite the Imperial Palace, | reported today that Japan has been | permitted to maintain' a sharply restricted air transport service radi- ating from Tokyo, with no more than four planes in the air at a time and subject to cancellation whenever it ceases to further Al- lied interests. The occupation of this defeated country proceeded quietly, with no further elaboration of MacArthur’s | statement of yesterday that 200,000 | Regular Army troops would be suf- | ficient to rule Japan within six | months, following ‘“complete de- mobilization” of Pacific draftees. Previous lowest estimates for the occupation force had been 400,000. Occupation Policy . Dispatches from Washington de- scribed the State Department as “surprised” and ‘“concerned” at MacArthur’s 200,000 estimate, which drew favorable comment from the | members of Congress, 2y One Washingion ufficial said it was feared that MacArthur’s state- ment might spread the impression abroad that the United States was planning to withdraw “at an early date.” Leaving Japan largely in charge of her own affairs, 4 Frances Dorn, Miss Birmingham in the recent Miss America Pageant. a patient at Levandoski, lost both arms in visits T/5 Antheny Levandoski, Themas M. England General Hospital. Truman Names SIXBILLION - " DOLLAR LOAN ; Reaction of Congressional Leaders Is Reported | in Washington WASHINGTON, Sept. 18--Russia may have to make some trade con- cessions and open her financial books to get a loan from the United | States. That was the reaction of Con- gressional leaders here today to | reports Generalissimo Stalin had | told a group of legislators visiting | Moscow that: the Soviets want a | $6,000,000,000 loan. Stalin was said to have informed | a group of House members headed by Rep. Colmer (D-Miss.) that | Russia needs econcmic d store the damag of wa Senator Pepper (D-Fla.) apparently heard the same | story when he later talked with | the Premier alone. | There were some whistles in Con- gress at the amount involved And Chairman George (D-Ga.) of the Senate Finance Committee | said any loan of that amount would have to be preceded with guaran- tees that this country would get “real consideration in the economic field” so far as Russian trade goes. | “I think Congress is going to! move cautiously in this matter” George told a reporte Lieut. Col. Gregory (Pappy) Boyington, 32 ( Rabaul, New Britain, and taken prisoner Sheep fighter squadron photo). LORD HAW HAW IS AMERICAN, HIS g lie commanded the squadron. (AP Wire- ‘(RIMINAl IS 1 ALSO WANTED Senator Russell Infroduces ' Resolution Putting Congress on Spot | WA“HINCTON St‘pt 18 —Senator | Russell (D-Ga) introduced a reso- lution today which would put Con- ar on record as favoring trial of Japanese Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal. It would direct that steps toward that end be taken by the Command- er of the American forces and by | American representatives on any in- | ternational body dealing with Japan’s j:’nmrr r, Russell had demended the The Georgia Senator decried, in an | address prepared for Senate deliv- | ‘ry, which he described as a “soft | peace” developing for Japan. He said if present policies are contin- |ued, “we are headed for complete failure and another war” in the | Ortent. Ruscell was the first to bring be- fore the Senate complaints about the arrangements under which Japan ine Corps ace shot down over surrendered. sunded by members of his old Black | Several of his colleagues have | voiced similar dissatisfaction pri- | vately since the peace terms were | signed. Under those terms Hirohito re- | mains on his throne but takes orders ARMY ENGI“EER |from Gen. Douglas MacArthur. No promise was made that he would not BO““D HERE 0“ | be tried for war crimes. The Jupa- nese peoplg, gdecide what form nmfi' they w'a‘ia te There was no comment. here on the Washington 1eacuon or on ic | action in Germany. (AP W c[h'lol ‘ 1‘ : : r M Eove f might have to define the Americam ‘ en ur on o 4 4 \called for Hirohity's trial as & wir . o i ey ‘ o i - ¢ e < | eriminal said they had not changed 'y “ HIH e % 4 /. 2 | their minds. They added they had C;;'L‘mf::;m?olz’ensL Elliglgi:;lb:rr;l); ‘ HANNEGAN T R u B l E I H h B h W|”|am JOY(e WO" ' Tes Gen. Bru'on |S fO |nSped not renewed these demands publicly 2 2 . because of the delicacy of occupation e ighest Bench ity nLondon Caseon Propased Rivers and: | it R S e | v ' H |sell to delay his speech a week, end in @ year if it continues TA[KS OUT AB R R NK ' Treason Charges 0 : Harbors Projects | *7ne Georgian said that by treaiing smoothly. . z A | S'lmson ReSI ns Pa"erson BULLETIN — LONDON, Sept. - 3 Gt |the Emperor “with-great deference” Changking Re_po_rts Hnlatn-ms. | g | 18.—A British court today re- o ¥ | the Allies are failing to impress the Allough na ‘sncldengd Were re- Is A fed § duced the treason indictment i ; SEATTLE, Sept. 18—Brig. Gen.|japanese people with the fact that Qfia:’e in rT<:'ll(yu C(}?]huensiklrg t:llsll s ppom 2 e(re' against Brocklyn-born William 'y 4 >hilip G. Bruton, Pacific Dwis)on‘[hey have lost the war. s of the in entral | Joyce to a single count, that he (. | Army Engineer, enroute to Alaska| hig treatment, he added, is lay- :\lcws Agency charged la;it m‘ghdt} a2 | ary 0 War brezdeast German propaganda 5 to inspect projects under the War | jng ”s,e ':x:)undwork ;:,,.d",; rst,:l{- hat Japanese forces in China ha . . . as Lord Haw Haw for nine and . 3 . Department, announces an Army |lishment of a m; h C as L Y | yth that the Japa- violated surrender terms in a num- | DemOCfatl(Nahona‘[half- 0il Workers JOIfl Those in| wasHINGTON, Sept. :8—Presi-| a half months while holding a | | Engineers' program for $100,000,000 nese were not defeated. J > k : e oyt el | defeated. Japandse B " in postwar civil works for ash- | leaders already are trying to create ber of instances by destroying arms, | |dent Truman today nominated Sen-| British passport. ammunition, railroad equipment | man Te"s Wha' VO'- { AU'O Indusiry WhO Are ator Harold H. Burton (R-Ohio) to s Tucker, presiding in | HESNE ¢ ' |ington, Alaska, north Idaho and|the impression, he said, that “The and bridges. 2 the Supreme Court and raised Un-| Old Bailey, threw out two counts 2 g : western Montana | Emperor has done the Ames a great (“We should occupy the Jflpanese‘ ers Must Decide Makmg Demands | aerscerotary Robert . Patterson to| based upon the proses ; ; Authorized rivers and harbors | favor by Mopplnl the war.’ Islands for about 20 years,” asserted | | Secretary of the War Department. sertion that Joyce wa sa % # z improvements totalling $4,760,000; Gen. Wainwright, returned hero of| SpRINGFIELD, Mo, Sept. 18 — (By The Associated Press) | Patterson succeeds Henry L.| subject. The defense, which i authorized flood control pw]ulm Corregidor, in a radio interview in| pemocratic National Chairman % 3 | Stimson. | rested without calling Joyce to i 3 ot totalling $3,843,000; Foster Cretk‘ Washington, D. C. “And’ in those 20| Robert E. Hannegan declared in an| Fresh fuei was poured onto the, Burton, a member ol the Senate| the stand, held that he was a ? Columbia River power project, to| years we should deprive the Japa- | address last night that voters must ‘”“‘l’““ burning labor o today| War 1Ir.vestigating Cumimittee, of | citizen of the United States. B 5 cost at least $87,000,000, and studies e — nad % a e of postwar work stop-|which Truman formerly served as “I think that body must 5 [ ve: v § g s | choose between giving their sup-|°5 M€ Wave o y s hink that everybody musi y : t and investigations totalling $4,- | (Continued on Page Two) 7 ; 2 el SUD- | ages, already keeping idle some| chairman, is one of the President’s —agree that the evidence which ob ket e harasii 000,000 1 2y . . A dnale, |port to President Truman’s recon- gei'onn ‘workers spread ha o : b0 sy woman captured by the ' n survey costs alone on| CyNGKING--LL. Gen, Albert C. i 000 workers, spread to the oil|close friends. | has been brought by the defense 2 ts running into many mil- | wedemeyer, U, S. Commander in the version program and supporting b4 30 | : aps i c f industry. While Patterson’s appointment and | is really overwhelming,” Justice Japs in the Alcutians, tells of if authorized, are ready 1or|Gpina theatre, left Chungking thi kicked and stagged during | conuressional —action from the | moming ‘nccompanied byg me?nber: “reaction,” leading to depression. | = The washlngion 0 L 5 : As President Truman prepared to| the resignation of Stimson had been| Tucker said. “That i Telling aDemocratic WOMEN's | gyoy intg the turbulent labor strife | expected, the President had indicat-| with count three only effective.” | thrce years i a Nipponese | geattle dis v e Merr 1 Go _Round ;’fleetjl'lg hhm‘e l.lmt. \\'f* l'r'\"’_ l““ in the motor industry, the hardest |ed last week he would not be ready| , 3 ot priscn camp shortly after her ey Projects ‘:{ D:ls staff for a visit to the United Y onger obliged to coddle reluctant pit by tre work stoppages with some |today to fill the vacancy on the| 'LONDON, Sept. 18 - WHIWA| oy pairfield, Calift, by | The 12 authorized river and| ates. Republicans into going along with 0,000 jdle in the Detroit area alone, | | supreme Court created by the re- | Jovee, on trial for treason, will not | SW0E U8 LD L "t | parbor improvements for Alaskd | LONDON-—Pr By DRFW PEARSON gxzeuc.a, Hannegan Ismd -v.l\e dissention among the rest of the|tirement of Justice Owen J. Rob- | testity in his own (u"[uh.‘»(‘. his i ;i st 3 el s ! N!O —Prime Minister Attlee mocrats won the voters' endorse- .ountry’s labor front became more |€rts. | counsel said today, indicating br e Witk som apan. ol R S o | and Viceroy Lord Wavell will explain WASHINGTON — No one on ment in 1944 for a plan to € pronounced. | The President said he had receiv-| would depend upon documer arles Jones, was T S ’(Invx-‘lch:\mwl ldriz_(ll;E-:,‘:!.'cl‘t‘mnn‘vlews on the troublesome oo il I Wil Admity 164 opaniy, | AEice through the crlsls of War\ oo oll warkers latéfheis obe |80 tha TREISHA GRS 0f Assiacant Wt | evidence to prove he was an Am- | M0N0, Billn ‘oave shunel dtel <\ aaiel Siign fube Al but President Truman's own con- ax'ld peace, through the cfmmmm in East Chicago, Ind., and in the| Secretaries John €. McCloy and erican citizen when as “Lord Haw ml:a‘”w- .)u.m-uu .3155001)- g casts LoMorrow. N deitial memo: regarding tha. $35- problems of a post-war era. Detroit area yesterday and strikes Robert Lovett but that they were not | Haw” he broadcast over the Ger-. Wirephoto from ATC.) k““_j" H;"lb\‘r m_v'ukwm'm, L‘.O'w”_uc_ DUBLIN--J h_-_M o o a-week Kilgore Unemployment Bill| The Democratic leaer declared threatened all Gulf Oil and Texas accepted immediately. {man radio during the war . tion and basin dredging,|Irish t;‘r;or «;mn bclf:m':)cd. txe Sat cleverly used backstage to de- | that Truman. “has started on the 'Company refineries in Texas. Union| The President also announced the @) G fiacs, onatol CRe {$200000; Meyers Chuck Harbor, | Dean’sngrangz Eeers - Bbalde fulfillment of the third great pledge officials said some 30,000 workers in|Signing of legislation creating ajfense attorneys, announced in court Ma(AR"‘IUR HAS rock-mound breakwaler construc- | Eamonn de Valera, the Lord Mayor feat the measure. i rati rm” wi single = administrator he sur-|that he was not calling Joyce as a = The White House memo, sup-|in the Democratic platform” with six states had been alerted for a - a o Y wo tion, $25000; Petersburg basin | of Dublin and other natlonal figurgs e, RO B i e e £ 4 4 se “he can’t possibly sed to be secret, was read out|DliS “Program to maintain jobs for possible industry-wide strike to en- plus property board and the ap-| witness because ¥ | dredging, $85,000; P or o l‘:fixd by Chairman George of | American workers. |force union demands for reduction | PoIntment of W. Stuart Symington,| give you any evidence of when or ‘?.‘1::'l'”“l,].l”ms.‘:l,'”::l‘}.' i3 ::;}UAI&T{:;:(::": pricnle Georgia in the closed-door session| ‘“Meanwhile’ he said, “certain in work-week hours from 52 to 4p|chalrmari of the three-man group, where he was born.” asbors. 350000 - Sltks, SHarbor.| WASHINGTON — R s of the Senate Finance Committee, | individual members of the Republi- With no cut in pay. They were in |28 its administrator. Joyce, whose trial opened yester- REIUR“ Io u S e akwater, basin -m:l rn:m.)u] Dlrerllor J(xl\.xx w s»"ym:c::‘;:;rs;zx | Michi Y i g —— - iay, aded innocent to three z - « . i = Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illin | day, plea s 2 " OB iredging, $340,000; Sk Harbor | nounced the lifting of all restrictions This ended the battle. It gave an|Can party leadership were giving| . one of the most shocking demon-|cis, Ohio and Kentucky. B MADISON, Wis., Sept. 13—Gen and wharf with on construction of private homes aut to certain anti-administration | ‘N () FI ' -4 3 rations 1§ ¥ i 4 . AN . Sla roduced certified and ’ S strations of party-line voting in a! In Detroit, Cio United Automobile | 0"’3' S ag 0 e . produce 10 A Gsiae s A ey Sriswerid cure \kwater by local interests, $20,- |and other buildings effective Octo- Democrats (Radcliffe of Maryland, led i N hat Fia said wos Gerry of Rhode Island, Byrd of |time of war emergency that has Workers leaders proceeded with| eg IR0 goapiae 08 9 2 vent, reports regarding his return to | 000; Wrangell Harbor basin dredg- | ber 15. Virginia, Bailey of North Carolina,|ever gone. d:)wn in the annals of |their plans for strike vofes in Ford, | Fly on Shlps plying :‘7;1 “;\;n::f'“',),“l::}]_u”\l:‘:‘:::; H 5 4 the United States in a message re- | ing, $190,000: Wrangell Narrows and George). They used the Tru-|Our country. | General Motors and Chrysler Cor-| w('l)l'd):-d "munmi#u; L onio ceived by Governor Walter S. Good- | channel and basin dredging, $2,-| CHUNGKING—Central Govern- man name to defeat the bill which| The chairman asserted that ““the | poration plants in their fight to ob- | AI w ' ( I ? land today by stati .7 have 000, ment and Chinese Communists ne- he had placed at the top of his|old guard leadership already has lain @ 50 per cent wage increase. | Ollg €SI L0asl serscy. in 1892 ana 1e94. s Hias for fl&.“.fifii{f it e i Alaska, the Seattle Army En- | gotiators were reliably reported message to Congress. taken its stand against the 21-| There was a similar demand in ‘At least one and if ne States in the nzar future.” gineers have commenced reports today to be working with U. 8. Here is the inside story of what|point program that President Tru-:Chicago by the CIO United Farm| 105 ANGELES, Sept. 18 — The second American lawyer WHl| ™0 00000 hag written President |on Skagway Harbor and Neva and | Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley on happened. man has put forward to, meet and Equipment and Metal Workers Union | westrul-Larsen Company of Nor-|PMOVe 10 yeu that the moment 8% ymay asking that when Gen. Mac- | Olga Straits to determine what the draft of a basic agreement which Truman has followed the same |sclve the problems facing America as it served notice on four major|yway will be the first foreign flag oath in petition was sworn in ODEN 4y retumed to America he be | navigation improvements are ad- | May be acceptable to both sides. procedure as FDR in sending Sen- |here at home.” tractor companies employming 90 | steamship line to resume regular | COUrt by Michacl Joyce, he there- | oo mitted to visit Wiseonsin where | visable. In connection with a simi- R ate Majority Leader Barkley memos He added that the Repubucans‘ooo members. upon became, according to A t Her hus! killed by the Japs at Attu and Mrs. Jones taken prisoner. (AP | pre-war service between east coast g 4 a welcome would be preparad for|lar study at Sitka, the engineers d on bills which he considers vital|have made “endorsement in prin- > of South American ports and the :"[‘"lhllf“'{y:&e‘; 2:?:: ““""I’M‘ \“”“” U him. The President replied it was| will hold a public hearing in O A ' Ies, to his program. These memos are |ciple” of some proposals and then SIO(K ouoTA"o"S | Pacific Coast, General Steamship g % Stade sald. | agreeable to him but left the de- | tober to hear the .views of local Here ls Good supposed to be secret, for the in-|offered amendments “that would | Corp., agent announces. ade then produced what Nt cigion to Gen. MacArthur. Sitka interests formation of Barkley and a few|cancel out the principle they have| | A spokesman said the first vesse] |53i WaS doyee's birth regisiration e Survey Aloske Sy ik ‘other leaders. endorsed. NEW YORK, Sept. 18 — Closing lo eenter service, the M. §. Her. | PUDOTNg to show the defendant| wps SWENDSEN RETURNS ot S AR News for Yflu The Truman memo on the Kil- e T o ol S Juneau Niwe|anger, will start’ loading in the was born at 1377 Herkimer Steel. My, Willa Swendsen returned to taken in Aluska on the Army En- gore Bill was kept secret at first. SRR S Ana(‘r)‘nd\‘ A River Plata about Nov. 15, and will ’I:h Y"‘i-r Sl e Juneau Sunday on the North Sea | gineer post-war program are: An- During- one session of the Senate E i ‘(, Imemm}(flfl] .Harvest(‘r 96' carry Brazilian coffee. ; we wu::llm L(’l:.,u.n. lmr. ‘\‘”‘(‘“ after surgical treatment in Seattle. | chorage harbor, to determine extent Finance Committee, Senator George | | .o\ oo o0 yen e e e e e Ud not attempt o JuSUIY spe js now more chipper than ever, of possible navigation improve- had the memo in front of him and| m’;h- i S el Syt 26'_"““;\," (1 : -P;:‘m iy g | MRS. McKAY HERE “1“»‘_‘ of his activities in Germany. u.q will return to work Wednesday. | ments, including provision of N8 apparel will be double by Jan. admitted that he had it, but did e pEay tei ik s.eun.; is) e SLN.} Nm.P:::’x‘\d i ’ Mrs. Margaret D. McKay, of Se- (u‘lv ng the war, but uu\xl.(l ||). e IA."-. ;i harbor facilities and development of 1, and will surpass pre-war levels not read it aloud. R : ys, - : . B o ok aule, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel escape punishment under 600~ FROM ANCHORAGE hydro-electric power; Cook Inlet, to by next June, the United States * % % ome of Mr. and Mrs. E. O.! Total sales today were 1,160,000 6 year-old British treason law by ~Mr. and Mrs. John Hugh Wil-| g0 what navieation im- | Rubber Co. has announced. DEBATE GETS HOT Jacobson. Recently stationed nt‘slmrvs. PEARL SPRENGLE HERE attempting to show through docu- liams arrived on an incoming Al- x;xuv\‘lm-ms are pru'ufal' Kudn‘l; During the next closed-door ?ezvelr, .Oxc.,. h\e exp(-ct.s/ to n-lum; .Duw‘ .'I(‘.n(’s :x\'ex-cr;'ies mdrsu: ‘INL'N:; P rl K. Sprengle, of Haines, has ments and ouu:: witnesses that he aska Airlines' plane from Anch-| gamor to investigate 'mmm{m Frank Sampson, of Sausalito, o duty elsewhere, but has no defi- 'as follows: Industrials, 177.58; l;lllx‘lurnwd here and is a guest at the was a U. 8. citizen and owed no orage vesterday and are gucsts at Calif, is a guest at the Baranof uileglence to the British Crowx. the Baranof Hotel, (Continued on Page Two) Hotel, NEW YORK, Sept. 18—Produc- tion of lastex yarns for girdles, hosiery, swimsuits and other wear- B e O e (Continued on Page Four) o nite idea where he will be assigned., 56.64; utilities, 33.81. Hotel Juneau.