The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 24, 1945, Page 1

> v ' State swallowed his personal feel- | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL. THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV.,NO. 10,073 JUM AU ALAbKA MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, I‘)45 MEMBE! R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HIROHITO TO MAKE CALL ONMACARTHUR TrumanTakes TRUMAY SAYS‘(ONOUEROR ‘Over Afomic MacARTHUR CONQUERED STRIKE HITS LUMBERING, PACIFICN.W. Forty Percent of Camps, Sawmills, Plants Shut Down PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 24—An estimated 40 per cent of Northwest | lumbering camps, saw mills and| plints were shut down today as AFL workers launched a strike to| force negotiations of wage demands on an industry wide scale. [ Production at 348 logging camps, | sawmills and woodworking plants| was stilled, effective at 12:01 a. m.| todhy in Washington, Oregon, Idaho | and Montana. Pickets appeared this morning at some mills and woods operations, but Union officials expected no violence. Foremen and watchmen passed though lines unmolested. A possibility that the strike may spread to three other neighboring| lumber. producing states was hinted by Kenneth M. Davis, Secretary of | thé Northwest AFL Lumber and | Sawmill Workers Council. Davis de- | clined to name the states. | ‘The strike was called after con- ciliation efforts of the Labor Depart- , ment's special lumber commlsslom} brokz down over the industry wide | contract demands for a $1.10 hourly minimum wage. e e Hearings fo Begin uesday on §5-Cent nimum Wagetaw - WASHINGTON. Sept. 24 — The Senate -tomorrow will open hearings on the proposed 65-cent minimum wage law. This will be the signal for the start of a three-week parade of cabinet members and labor and management officials to speak their | pleces on the measure. If the bill wins approval, it would raise the present minimum wage by 25 cents an hour. It has been introduced by Sen- ator Claude Pepper of Florida and nine other Democrats. ., The Washington Merry -Go-Round By DRFW PEARSON (Note—Drew Pearson today awards the Brass Ring to his old friend, Henry L. Stimson, retiring Secretary of War.) WASHINGTON—Of all the mil- lions who contributed to the defeat of Japan, none perhaps is more entitled to credit than the vener- able statesman who Friday cele- brated his seventy-eighth birthday and his last week as Secretary of War. Perhaps even more than for his late chief, victory over Japan was a personal victory for Henry L. Stimson. He had begun fighting Japan as Becretary of State under Hoover, 14 ' years ago last week. And he néver stopped, not even when he was, out. of office—until now. “Eveén after he had stepped out of ‘the, State Department following Roosevelt’s inauguration in 1933, Stimson came down to see the new President of the United States about Japan. He and Roosevelt at that time did not particularly like each other. They had "been political enemies since 1910. That ‘was the year which swept young Roosevelt into the New York Senate and Mr. Stimson into defeat as candidate for Gov- ernor of New York. Stimson, older than Roosevelt both in age and in manner, re- garded him as on ostentatious young whippersnapper, didn't like the way he wore riding boots in the Albany Legislature, considered him a poor imitation of his cousin Teddy, whom Stimson warshipped. “Charming, but without stamina,” was the way Stimson described Roosevelt in those days. Nevertheless, the ex-Secretary of | e e (Continued on Page Four) DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIES FOR WEST IS PLOTTED America Rouie to Orient in Place of CAA Route Endorsed SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24 Moves to continue development of the west in the postwar years were | plotted here Saturday at an in-| terstate conference attended by representatives from California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Mon- tana, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and New Mexico Action will be aimed at the de- centralization of the nation’s in- dustry so that the west may share | | fully in postwar development. The group adopted a series of | resolutions, including endorsement | of a northern Pacific all American | air route to the Orient in place of | the CAA-endorsed route over Can- | ada which by-passes the North-| west. 3000 WOMEN LINED UP NAKED INPRISON CAMP Selected for Christmas Day Parade that Ended in Gas Chamber LUENEBERG, Germany, Sept. 24| —A Polish Jewess today told how 3,000 women at Oswiecim concen- tration camp were lined up naked | by the camp commandant and se- lected for a Christmas Day parade to the gas chamber. | Testifying at the trial of 45 Nazis charged with prison camp atrocities, Mrs. Sophia Litwinska, 28, of Lublin, said she lived| through the horrors of the lethal chamber because she was mys-! teriously pulled out at the last/ moment on Christmas, 1941. “Who was in charge of that| parade?” the prosecutor asked. “Commandant Hessler,” the wit-| ness shouted, pointing to one of | the defendants. “He is a murderer | responsible for the death of thous- ands.” While Hessler lowered his head, | the witness continued: “We were lined up, quite naked, while Hessler and two doctors made selections for the gas cham- ber. The victims were then loaded | into trucks and hauled to the crematorium where they werei dumped out like potatoes.” | The victims filed into the gas chamber, which looked like a shower room. “Inside the chamber people were shaking and striking each other. Then I noticed yellow fumes enter- ing the room. I had a violent coughing spell. My name was called. I raised my arm, for my voice would not answer. Then someone pulled me out of the chamber, I don't know who. Later, Hessler covered me in a blanket and took me on a motorcycle to the hos- pital.” “Were you given an explanation of why you were taken from the chamber?” the prosecutor asked. “I arrived in camp in a transport that had come from* a prison, which apparently made a- differ- ence. Also, I was the wife of a Polish army officer.” S P P S Couldn't Take Marriage So Takes His Life 'WALKOUTS SPREADING IN NATION Men ldle by Work Stop- pages, Layoffs Reach Mark of 325,000 (By The Associated Press) A general” strike, of New York Building Service Employees hamp- ered activities in more than 1500 Manhattan office buildings today as the total number of workers who were idle across the country by work stoppages and layoffs reached the 325,000 mark. Thousands of elevator operators, | augmented by more thousands of other maintenance workers, walked off their jobs in Manhattan’s sky- scrapers during the morning rush hours, leaving great threngs of of- fice workers stranded in building lobbies. Across the continent, some 60,000 lumber workers were on strike in the Pacifie Northwest ih a move to enforce demands for a minimum hour wage rate of $1.10, proxi- mately 348 mills and ggige tamps were involved in the sti The Western Cmmdu Oompany plant at East Alton,Ill.,/¥8s"shut down by a strike of 5,000 APL In-! ternational Association of Machin- |, | ists members in a dispute over sen- jority rights. In Detroit, Gov. Harry F. Kelly of Michigan ordered an investiga- | tion of the month-old strike at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Company, one | of the automobile center’s major dis- putes. Gov. Kelly said the strike Shown here dent Ted Law purchi Tokyo to a feur-mi Anchprage run with the CAB. It would carry bulkhead for in Law sald th powered by foi engines and ca Keep Our Gua | Jap Brutalifi BIGFIVECOUNCIL HITS SNAG ABOUT PEACE IN EUROPE Serious Difficulty Experi- enced, with Russia Making Demands LONDON, Sept. 24.—The Big Five Council of Foreign Ministers turned to discussion of Europe’s inland waterways and the immediate future of Austria today amid increasing indications that the group was meet- ;ing serious difficulty in reaching agreements under its present pro- cedure. Some observers already are pre- dicting that the council may be dis- solved and another means found to write Europe’s peace. This view was reflected in an edi- torial today in the Daily Mail, which said: “It has become clear that the first meeting of the Council of For- eign Ministers has not succeeded. . Before the delegates disperse e face saving formula will no | tivities.” The immediate issue threatening Big Five unity is a Soviet objection to France and China participating {in Hungarjan treaty discussions. | Russian complaints shelved the Hun- SEATTLE, Sept. 24—When a 62- | appearcd to be “a strike against me‘ganan talks—last peace terms on year-old prospective bridegroom failed to report for his wedding yesterday, police detectives said they investigated and found a note saying he had ‘“decided to end it all.” The man, Raymond Moore, was reported missing after he failed to appear for his marriage to Mrs. Ruby C. Rodda, 46. Detective Lts. James Fraser and | M. B. Lowery of the homicide de- tail said they found this note in Moore's apartment: “Dear Ruby: I| am sorry but I must go as I am| in poor health and I do not want| te live any longer.” | government” in view of the fact a| |the agenda—until the procedure is two preachers on a “disorderly con- | War Labor Board decision was in- volved. The Building Service Employees— affecting 1900 Manhattan buildings —objected to a War Labor Board | award, contending that under its terms workers in office buildings and lofts would undergo a reduction in pay. The WLB had granted a $2.50 weekly the hours of other such employees. ., —— OHMAN FAMILY HERE Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Ohman and children, of Colorado, are guests at the Hotel Juneau. raise to npartmem: house employees and had reduced ! ‘strmghtcned out. | Diplomatic sources said the Rus- |sians apparently feared the United | States and Britain might pull France |and China over to their side and drown the voice of Muscow e :sn-:wmn's TO wr:srw.um Capt. Tom Stewart, who has been on a brief home visit with his parents here, Mr. and Mrs. | B. D. Stewart, left on the Steamer | Alaska enroute to Seward, accom- “pnnled as far as Valdez by his { father, who is on a business trip in |connection with the Bureau of Mines, cutting down pa: of a cost of one rfaul per passenger mile. jdoubt be devised to cover their ac-| STRATOCRUISER CONSIDERED FOR ALASKA is the Bo»ing C-97. prototype of the Bocing Stratocruiser which Alaska Airlines Presi- says his company is contemplating sing for a Seattle to Anchorage run if Alaska Airlines’ application is approved by the CAB. This is the type cf plane which last week flew non-stop ago in record-breaking time Ted Law, President of Alaska Airlines, said today his company is considering purci ored Stratocruiser to asing a Boeing e on the Seartle- for which this company has filed This plane is the commercial version of the C- 97 100 passengers and has a movable creasing the freight if necessary and anger space. e plane would operate cn the basis It is Pratt and Whitney miles an hour. ur 3500. H. P. n cruise at rd” Warning Given by Gen. Wainwright; ies Emphasued SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. 24.—Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, emphasing | the development of new war weapons bad made every American city cul- crable to attack, called for the na- tion to “keep on guard” and never | again “be careless.” Addressing an estimated 12,000 persons assembled in Archbold Slnd- ium yesterday Wainwright declared “Only a few days ago our plan(‘< | flew without a stop from northern Japan to C_lncauo. These planes | came on a mission of peace but what | can be done in peace can likewise |be done in war.” Deseribing the “sheer brutality”| which the Japanese practiced on their war prisoners because of an “evil spirit” which moves them,! Wainwright said: “I pray God that Americans will uncerstand from what a fate they have been spared. I know you will |understand me when I say that we should stand guard over the Japa- nese until we are certzin that their evil thoughts have been blunted and isurely turned to a sincere desire for peace.” R N S Snake Rites Stopped When Two Preachers Placed Under Arrest CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Sept. 24.| —Police killed a four-foot rattle-| snake with a shotgun and arrested duct” charge to end a snake-handling exhibition by a religious Cult in a| suburban section, Police Chief Ho-| mer Edmonson announces. Edmonson said he ordered |rites stopped because “people’s lives were being endangered” by the handling of the rattler and “in the city limits of Chattanooga we must furnish protection.” The prgachers arrested are mem- bers of the Dolly Pond Church of God, where a few weeks ago burial services were held for Lewis Ford, 30-year-old lay preacher, who had died from a snake bite received at a l‘ 1eligious rite, the | i | | }Denles Any Heated Argu-‘ ments in Cabinet at | Recent Meeting ; | g | WASHINGTON, Sept. | ident Truman today assumed person: | al guardianship over this country’s | share in the atomic bomb secret. | | Congress eventually will have the | final say. | But until it does, Mr. Truman | | served notice that he—and he alone | —will make the final decision on| | what his administration’s policy is to | | be on the future use and develop- | | merit of atomic energy. ‘ | The Chief executive's pronounce- | ment was delivered to a handful of | reporters who accompanied him | hack to the White House last nighl from a weekend outing at Jefferson | | Islands, Md. | There had been published reports‘ that Secretary of Commerce Henry | |A. wallace had insisted at a cabi-| net meeting last Friday that Russia | | be given the secret of the bomb and | | ke made a party to development of atomic energy. These reports said | | the cabinet meeting was a spirited | | one. Immediately after his automobile |drove up to the White House, re- porters clustered around the Presi- dent, asking for clarification. Mr. Truman scoffed at the re-| | ports that Wallace had stirred up the | | cabinet. | Wallace, he said—and he empha- | sized his words—took no more active | a part in the discussion than any| | one else. The reports, he centinued, were not correct. Rl L e e 'BRINCE GEORGE | | - FIRE SWEPT AT KETCHIKAN DOCK | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 24— |In a spectacular fire which for a time threatened the entire watcr-’ front here last Saturday morning, | the Canadian Pacific Liner Prince George, quickly reduced to a flam- ting hulk by the spreading flames, | was taken in tow by the Coast| 24.—Pres-| | Guard, moved around Pennock ! |Island and beached at Gravina Island, where she was said to be a complete loss. The ship's 95 crew members, a | dozen round-trippers and dockside | witnesses said the fire broke out| | between No. 1 and No. 2 stacks| | and spread swiftly to engulf the| entire vessel. Kuigi Villanaua Bellman, + who was overcome by smoke, was re- moved to the Coast Guard Base rHu‘mm and because of lack of | ! acccmmodations, the Base also ex- | | tended hospitality to the crewmen | and passengers. The ship, 375 feet in length, | formerly operated between Seattle, | IVancuuv(--l and Prince Rupert. | | | ONE ‘VlAN MlbblN(x | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 24.— | Although the fire, which gutted and burned out her bottom, the steam- ship Prince George was extinguished | today, the steel plates were too hot | to permit a boarding party to search | for fireman Verdun McDaniel, miss- | ing since the vessel caught fire from | an undetermined cause Saturday. Meantime Coast Guardsmen, who | towed her to the Gravina Island “ships’ graveyard” alongside the four-master schooner Meteor’s re- | mains, guarded the wreck pending | the arrival of G. A. McMillan, Van- couver, B. C., Superintendent for | | the Canadian National Line. The | Coast Guard is caring for her crew, | which may be returned to Vancou- | | ver Thursday. -ee HAGEDORNS ARRIVE; TO VISIT CLITHEROS Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Hagedorn of | Yakima, Wash., arrived in Juneau | via Pan American World Airways, | |and were met by Mrs. Hagedorn's | brother, Russell Clithero, of Sitka. | Later, they flew to Sitka, where Mr. and Mrs. Hagedorn will visit | with the Clithero family. D Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wuorinen have | arrived from Gustavus where Mr. Wuorinen is employed with the | Douglas MacArthur Commander Is Head of Oc- cupation Forces in \ Japan, Korea WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 dent Truman has directed Gen not to let the| | Japanese question the scope of his| | authority as Supreme Commander. 1 The directive was sent MacArthur | September 6. It made public by the White House today shortly after Senator Wherrv (R.-Neb.) con- | tended that a “smear campaign” is| being waged against MacArthur | Presi- | with the aim of forcing his removal | as Supreme Allied Commander. The newly-released directive was described as intended to clarify Mac- | Arthur’s authority in his position us‘ head of occupation forces in Japan | and Korea. | Prepared by the departments of | State, War and Navy, the message, which had President Truman's ap- proval, made three points: 1. The authority of the Emperor and the Japanese government is sub- ordinate to MacArthur as Supreme Commander for the Allied powers— “Our relations with Japan do not rest on a contractual basis, but on | unconditional surrender. Since your authority is supreme you will not entertain any question on the part of the Japanese as to its scope.” 2. Control of Japan shall be ex- | ercised through the Japanese gov- ernment as long as the arrange- ments produces satisfactory results without prejudice to MacArthur's right to act dircetly and use force if necessary. 3. The Potsdam declaration re- | garding postwar treatment of Japan shall be given effect, not because of any contractual requirements, but becausé the declaration “forms a part of our policy stated in good faith with relation to Japan and with relation to peace and security in the Far East.” Wherry made his statement as he sought. with little visible support, to block Senate action on the nom- ination of Dean G. -Acheson as | Under Secretary of State. The Senate voted 66 to 12, against delaying action and then approved, with Wherry opposing. - - Wallace Has RosyOutlook For Fulure CHICAGO. Sept. 24.—Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace be- lieves the Federal budget can be | balanced and the “overall goal . of full employment, full productlon. and the maintenance of the free- | enterprise system” can be attained [ by 1950. Discussing “sixty million jobs” on the University of Chicago roundtable yesterday, Wallace asserted all busi- nesses set sales goals and he saw no reason why government should not do likewise, “I believe that by 1950 we can do ‘all this and yet balance the Federal budget,” he argued. “But we cannot do it if we have unemployment. . . “Our foreign trade must also be | expanded, and I believe that this is something which the Department of | Commerce especially can work on. Perhaps we can have as high as a seven billion dollar increase in trade | which may mean three or four mil- lion additional job opportunities.” Wallace asserted the Murray full | employment bill would put the na- | tion well toward achievement of those sixty million jobs and agross na- | tional production of $200,000,000,000. | >oe STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 24 — Closing price on Alaska-Juneau Mine stock today was 7, Anaconda 36%, Curtiss Wright 17, International Harvester 90, Kennecott 41%, New <York central 28%, Northern Pacific 29%, U. 8. Steel 74%. Pound, $4.02% Sales today totaled 890,000 shares. Dow, Jones averages today were | mograph as Bomb Secret I$ SUPREME1 MAY MEET PrecedentShatfering Evenf Reported Going to Take Place 'COMMANDER STRIKES OUT AT OLD CLIOUE 1Cra(ks Whlp on Japanese Government Appoint- ments-Vefo Made TOKYO, Sept. 24— Well-informed Japanese sources said today that | Emperor Hirohito has arranged to | pay a precedent-shattering call- on Gen. MacArthur at the latter’s residence, the American Embassy building. No date was specified. The decision on a meeting place ;ol conqueror and conquered was | reached, these sources told Asso- clated Press Correspondent Russell Brines, at a recent conference be- tween MacArthur and Admiral Fu- jita, Grand Chamberlin. Official confirmation was lacking, although a meeting of MacArthur and Hirohito long has been ex- pected. If the Emperor goes to MacArthur's residence at the em- bassy, it would be the first time in modern history that any Japanes: Emperor has gone to another ruler for an audience. . - The Allled High Command todlay blocked any atomic-bomb rese in Japan, directed ‘s bmmg Japanese econiomic life, including wages, prices and all traffic in currencies and negotiable assets, and moved toward free Japanese press. Jap Clique Knocked Out The new order directed the Im- perial Government to remove itself completely from direct or indirect control of newspapers and news agencies. Heretofore, the ruling Japanese clique has almost com- pletely controlled and directed news policies. Stripping the present Domei agency of its special privileges, the order paves the way for establish- ment of new and truly free com- peting agencies, Two other far-reaching directives aimed at 'freezing traffic in cur- rencies and other negotiable assets, to facilitate the task of ‘“finger- printing” Japan's assets at home and abroad. Prohibitions Prohibited are export or import of gold or silver coin; gold, silver, and platinum bullion or currency; and securities, checks, bank drafts, bills of exchange, powers of at- torney, proxies and any evidence of indebtedness or evidence of prop- erty ownership not specifically ex- empted. . One of the Empercr's closest advisers, meanwhile, disclosed that in his opinion Emperor Hirohito did receive President Roosevelt’s peace plea and a note from the U. 8. State Department regarding a peace memorandum on Nov. 26, 1941, but ignored both when War Lord Hideki Tojo and other ad- visers told him it was useless to resist the rising war tide in Japan. Abdication Reports Said False The close adviser, Marquis Koichi Kido, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, also told Assoclated Pnu 1Co-nllmua m»PAn;t flve) INLAND EMPIRE SHAKEN SUNDAY SPOKANE, Sept. 24 —A wice area of the Inland Empire was shaken early yesterday by earth tremors which Wm. St. Michael’s scholasti- cate said were recorded on its seis- “very pronounced.” A numter of Spokane residents said they were aroused at 3 a. m. by the shaking of windows and: the rattling of dishes. At Walla Walla two tremors were felt, one at 7:40 Saturday night, the other at 3 a. m. Sunday. Hamilton, Mont., reported brick, structures were shaken at 3:50 a. m. At Kalispell, the tremors, felt about 4 a. m., shook buildings and were CAA. They are guests at the Hotel as follows: Industrials, 179.51; rails,'accompanied by a low rumbling " Junes ' 58.35; utilities, 34.21. noisc LT !