The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 25, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” U, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, \()( I\I] I)I’RI'SS MI MBER A " PRICE TEN CENTS L b MORE CONTROLS CLAMPED ON JAPANESE BIGTHREE tosss v u s amy teciios comsie | HARDPEACE OILWALKOUT Pan American OrdersNew MacARTHUR MAY MEET FOR JAPAN TESTS LABOR Aircrat for Alaska Roufe ISSUES NEW AS SFAILS GETS OKEH DEPT. SET-UP DIRECTIVES Session of?)feign Min- Acheson MacArthur Con- Congress Shelves Action ;StatementfiéysOccupafion VOL. LXV.,NO. 10,074 1945 isters Ending with " troversy Ends - Nip- Problems Unsettled pons Must Pay Now By FLORA LEWIS WASHINGTON, S\-pl A hard (Associated Press Correspondent) peace for Japan had official, if LONDON, Sept. 25—DBelief that indirect, okays today from both the another meeting of President Tru- White House and the Senate. man, Premier Stalin and Prime The Senate's 69 to 1 approval Minister Attlee may be necessary vesterday of Dean G. Acheson as to iron out Europe’s major peace Undersecretary of State was inter- problems was voiced in some quar preted widely on Capitol Hill as a ters today as the Foreign Minister's | roundabout endorsement of the Council prepared to close its two tough-on-Japan policy Acheson has weeks’ session with the record of championed. important agreements precisely at Similarly, President Truman's 2ero. clarification of Gen. Dou s Mac- Some delegates still spoke hope- Arthur's authority was looked upon fully of a second session of the “Big as notice to the Japanese that they Five” Foreign Ministers in De- will have to obey American orders cember, but this could be arranged without question. only if the deputies were able to Acheson’s confirmation came yes- work out solutions to the many terday after a short-lived fight by problems tossed their way by the Senator Wherry of Nebraska, the Foreign Ministers. Republican whip. Wherry sought to There has been no formal men- sidetrack the assistant secretary's tion of another session of the on back to the Senate major powers’ leaders, but the Foreign Relations Committee. thought has been expressed by some delegates that top-level con- sideration might be needed to smooth the rocky path to European agreements. These sources felt it might be necessary to include Gen. de Gaulle in such a meeting. The French here have been reported resentful of what was termed an attempt by the Russians to exclude them from | 25. TPB MA-503 Brigadier General Harold N. Gilbert, U. S. A., ewly appointed Director of Military Personnel Procurement Service, U. s. Army, has the job of persuading thousands of young Americans to make the Army their career. Genenl Gilbert, who is 49 and from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, is in cherge of the Army :ecvmmem drive aimed ot giving this country vitally ry contended Acheson had rebuked MacArthur for estimating that he could get along with 200,000 troops to police Japan six months from now In the sometimes bitter debate that followed, however, the Ne- | braskan said his chief objection to Acheson that the latter seemed to be fostering a policy for a social und economic revolution in Japan. | | That, Wherry said, “may take hun- dreds of thousands of lives betore | it is put down.” Chairman Connally (D-Texas), WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 |of the Foreign Relations Commit- war took a big slice out country's mineral resources. Commercial supplies of some minerals are near the vanishing of Widow Raped, Beaten to Death in Her Home Sunday nghl ANCHORAG F A]A‘ Sept. 25. —Mrs. Alonzo A. Wells, 63, a ¢ pled widow formerly of Colorado Station, on the Alaska Railroad, was raped and beaten to death Sunday night in her home. The body was found by the Rev. D. W. Patterson when he called to get a byndle of laundry for her. Her husband died a year ago. A son of a former mar , W. E. Craig, An- chorage, sur o |8 | (\l: | | ((,un/mu(d on Page Tu,o) e The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON—If Congress is really interested in investigating military efficiency rather than in political recrimination, it will probe the disastrous Battle .of the Bulge as well as Pearl Harbor. Casualties at Pearl Harbor were only around 3,000. But casualties in the Battle of the Bulge totalled around 60,000. And just as Pearl Harbor set us back in the Pacific, | well, of Jamestown, Pa., and Robert so the Battle of the Bulge delayed | waters, of Johnstown, Pa., have ar- victory in Europe. Gen. Eisenhower |yived here after a successful hunt | had hoped to finish in Germany in|with a Diamond K outfit, the first | the winter, possibly by Christmas,|in the Cassiar since the war. i but disastrous, overwhelming losses| The party may go to Juneau,| during the first two weeks of the| weather permmm(, | Ardennes offensive helped drag mu - m;{o‘:varmany extra American lives ROBERI SOMMERS jR | IN CADET BATTALION 25, ncfood “Seseage into man food production. Between 1940 SPORTSMEN HAVE SUCCESSFUL HUNT CASSIAR DISTRICT| WRANGELL, Alaska, Sept. 25.— | Richard K. Mellon and wife, of| Pittsburgh, Pa., Dr. Robert Rock- TOKYO, Sept. ladies. Japan is worrying more about (food just now than about supplying silk hosiery- and lingerie. The Japanese Ministry of Agri- culture announced today plans for further conversion of mulberry — So sorry, | mneeded “guardians of victory,” Search fer New Mineral - Resources Urged; Some consideration of eertain problems— | r particularly the Balkan discussions. en. de Gaulle's objeot during Near Vanlshln p0"“ the past year has been to obtain | recognition of France as a major | power. The French were just be- ginning to overcome the sting of The | e, jumped into the debate with being kept out of the Potsdam| H 0 R R I B I.E thiS| {he assertion that he, for one is meeting when the Balkan trealy | “willing to go in there and teach | o |the Japanese that the will to war The French were expected to h'y 8| will not l\a\ “"Am dividends.” to force consideration of plans for | R I M E AT point, and careful conservation i ;S western Germany before the council must guide the future of many | adjourns today, but there. seems cthers, a report of the Interior little likelihood of success in that | Department asserted today. direction. AN(HORAGE “We have been depleting Hw | cream of our mineral resources at PE JNAL CLASHES a terrific rate, and discovery has LONDON, Sept. 25.—Bitter per- not kept the pace with production,” G[N FRAN(O sonal clashes were reported todav} the report said. | L] between British Foreign Secretary | “From now on our attention must | | Ernest Bevin and Russian Foreign be directed to the search for deep- Commissar V. W. Molotov as the seated C and to| DEMANDED' Big Five Council talked of boundar- | our low-grade resources. | ies, repatriation and food apparent- | The department estimated, for | ly without moving nearer to any instance, that there is less than a A major agreements. year's supply of mercury and two 1 H were unreceptive to American and It said commercial reserves i H even at the pre-war rate of use. imi 11 years, zinc 19, and copper 34. | i A On the other hand, the report| NEW YORK, Sept. 25 — Acting said, this country has enough bi- |Soviet Ambassador Nikolai V. No- tuminous coal and lignite to last |Vikov has called for the removal of | 4300 years at the pre-war rate.|Gen. Franco as head of the upplies of nitrogen, magnesium | Spanish Government and said he and salt will last indefinitely, it|should be tried-“as a war criminal” said. Novikov, charge d’affaires of the The department said that in the | Soviet Embassy in Washington and five years ended last Jan. 1, the|acting ambassador in the absence United States mined 469,235,000 |0f Andrei Gromyko, addressed 17,- long tons of domestic iron ore— 000 persons at a Madison Square | the greatest amount ever produced | Garden rally sponsored by the | by any nation in a similar period.|SPanish Republican Government in | Estimated commergial reserves of | Exile. iron ore have been depleted only| Prof. Harold J. Laski, chairman | 35 per cent in all, the report said.|of the British Labor Party's execu- = - tive committee, addressing the rally Iby radio from London, urged the So ' | democracies to withdraw their rec- SORRY’ I.AD'ES. ognition of the Franco regime and recognize ‘the Spanish Government 25\ in Exile, now functioning in Mexico. The Russian representative said| Franco, through actions against the Soviet Union, had “put himself | on the same level with Hitler and | Mussolini and, in the same measure as they, is subject to prosecution as a war criminal.” - > Huge Meleor Sweeps Over . E. Australia SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25.—A | huge meteor, which looked like a Minnesota, \nued 1225000 acres—of which 1.-|red star with a blue tail, swept across [150,000 has been or is being con-|southeastern Australia lighting up verted to food crops. the countryside as bright as daylight Nl U at 1:15 a. m. Monday, Melbourne ROCKWELL ARRIVES radio said in a broadcast recorded by NBC. another | HERE - st DR. were lost as fl result of the spurt given to German hopes is nnx, known. But what is known is that ;’l'a Cfa ;‘:l‘f;‘zlynl,giff:e;;r ‘x;“;‘:d“:r‘i“ FARIBAULT, Minn-Robert Som-|and 1945 nearly 800,000 acres of more artillery, more of almou‘m“’ Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. R._J.]mulberry land went into food pro- everything as a result of the heavv‘snmm"“ of Juneau, has been in-|duction, and plans announced today supply losses in the bulge. That 15 | ducted into the cadet battalion atcall for conversion of e reanon why scres s acres of Shattuck School, Faribault, an [350 000 acres. surplus supplies are scattered over { The mokosl began 1A | That doesn't leave much food (0” the country today. ;\em with a chapel se it ilkworms. In pre-war—and pre-| What never leaked ot ‘at thel the Rt. Rev. Benjamin T. Kemerer, nylon—days, Japan's mulberry trees time of the battle is that 20,000|SUffragan Bishop of U. S. Infantry troops were flow“\spokv straight from the United States| i H' into the bulge by the Air Trans-| MR, MRS. KI E:th\«) i’;rgmx;t: soh:;s:; t;::emio‘ Mr. and M|~. Leonard King, 0({ ficient shock troops were not avail- rFmrbnnks arrived yesterday from| Dr. R. H. Rockwell, of Jamesville,| Australian observers reported that Co:dgva and are guests at the Va, is a guest at the Baranof'the meteor made a thunderous roar Gastineau Hotel. ]Hu(tl. 'as it sailed by from north to south.’ (Continued on Page Four) | bor | June 30, 1946. 'FRITZ WIEDEMANN IS CAPTURED IN CHINA; fo Liberalize Unem- ployment. Benefits (By The Associated Press) V. 8. Conciliat Labor Management representatives ed in Chicago today to tackle one of the major disputes on the Na- tion strike scene—ths oil industry walkout Other prime developments includ- and ather- —Secretary Schwellenbach, de- claring “The time (for action) is short,” told the Chicago conferees their meeting cannot fail. -As the nationwide total of \l\ullv idle in strikes and shutdowns 000 the House Ways and ns Committee shelved all legis- lation proposing liberalization of un- employment benefits. 3—Chrysler Corporation and CIO United Automobile Workers repre- sentatives in Detroit opened the first formal negotiations of the Un-| jon’s demand for a 30 per cent wage increase in the automobile industry. The Chieago oil strike conference provided the first major test of the Truman Administration’s post-war wage policy under a reorganized La- Department and strengthened Cenciliation Service. More than 30,000 CIO oil and re- fipery workers are out in seven| States in demand for a 30 per cent | wage increase. In Washington, Means Commitiee put aside Pl”Sl-\ dent ‘Truman's request, for liberaliz- | ed unemployment benefits by 14| to 10 vote. “The strike feature was | the deciding factor,” in the rejec- | tion, Rep. Knutson, of Minnesota, | ranking Ways and Means Republi- | can, told repor lu STRENGTH OF ARMY REDUCED President Truman An- - nounces Cuf in Forces | Navy Men Captured asof June 30, 1946 On Kiska by Japs | Are Liberated WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—A cut of = 0,000 in previous estimates of the il L TSR k3] 280k e army next July 1 was| SEATTLE, Sept. 25--Mis. George disclosed today by President Tru.|CG8gnon says her brother and at man; least five others of the 10 y He asked Congress to cancel §28,-|Mmen captured by the Japanese on 692,772,000 in War Department ap- in June/¢1942, “have Leen propriations and said the reviseq lberated from prisons. figures contemplated reducing the| She yeceived the news in a lotic Army to a strength of 1950,000 by from her broc..r, Roiland L. Cof- June 30, 1946. The War Department field, 32, a veteran of 12 years had set its demobilizaticn goal at the Navy. trimming the army to 2,500,000 by Cofficld mentioned that time. th2 men were aboard a transy in A White House announcement said | Tokyo Bay tember 16 and she the recommendation cuts are due to | has learned from other sources, she a decrease in the strength of the|said, that three more of the ex- Army and to reductions in \upplxes prisoners were safe aboard a hoss and equipment as a result of Japan's | Pital ship. surrender. Coffield, who attended the Wesi- In addition to the President's pm-‘f‘l‘n Washington College of Educa- |posed cut, an additional $500,000,- | tion before joining the Navy, had 016 yhile {000 will be returned to the Treas- been on Kiska three months assieh- .o uinaiion experiments ury by the War Department from|ed to the radio station there wher Ailited funds available in special replac- the Japanese a He was 85- ing accounts. signed medical work while a pris- Tke cuts contemplate reducing the oner in various camps in norther Army to a strength of 1,950,000 by | Japan, he wrote, and was given be ter treatment than many prisons received crs hit the Ways and| b Tep picture is one of the new Lockheed Constellations ordered by Pan American Werld Airways, for use on the Seattle-Alaska service. First of the postwar, pressurized planes (o enter commercial service, the Censtellation’s top speed is more than 340 miles an hour. From 48 ngers can relax in its roomy cabin, (picture below). In size and top gross takeoff weight of 100,000 puunds, the Constellations can operate from any standard commercial airport. Pan American World Airways reveals an order for 23 of the four-engined pm s, to be used throughout its global network including the Alaska Delivery is scheduled between November and the first of the | MORE HORRORS OF NAZI PRISON CAMP DISCLOSED LUENBERG, Sept. for extremely painful in into their blood streams. hat five Of “ycin s Polish Jewess, ermerz, testifying against Cswiecim. n a low, old witness told of naked women be- ing hung up by the were | -+ Sewmg Machines Soon on Marke NEW YORK, Sept machines for consumer use ready for distribution in quantities by the end of November, Singer Sewing Machine Co,, - -ee Jackie Coogan Is Fined, Drunkenness LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25.—Jackie Coogan pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of being drunk in an autc- mobile and was fined $25. The for- mer child film star, now a 30-year- old Army Air Fotces officer due for discharge this week, was arrested saturday while asleep in his parked car. IS ENROUTE TO U. S. MANILA, Sept. .- .. (ARELESS GUESTS CITY radio wasn't burglats roused we Trvine. reported to police that Edward burglars also left her Anch- a deplorable condition only but tub, 25.—Fritz Wied- emann, Adolf Hitler's confidante, was captured in Tientsin, China, brought here and today was enroute to the United States, Army author- ities announced. They said jthe former German consul at San Francisco eventually would face trial in Germany as a war criminal. Authorities repbrted would be taken but the time of was not given, SALT portable reason Mrs. G She LAKE the the ire ot - - Scott Donaldsont and Griffin, CAA employees of orage, arrived yesterday from Gus tavus and are registered th Gastincau Hotel. ‘Wiedemann They to San Francisco, his arrival there 1 at ¢ left a ring in the 25—A witness | testified today that the Nazis pick-| ed hundreds of women as guinea pigs artificial in- on experiments at concen-| traticn camps and willed the weak by injecting gasoline and disinfectants ‘The new disclosure of horrors came Helena Ham- Josef Kramer and 44 other defendants ac- cused before a high British military court of mass murder at Belsen and | steady voice, the 25-year | legs and dangling | the artificial in- | con- | 24.—Sewing will be sizable announ- Stealing her only the bathroom in not placed a bottle of cologne bath- of Nippon Land May Be for Years TOKYO, Sept. Allind occupp- | tion of Japan may last for many | vears although with minimum forces participating—General Mac- Arthur announced through an of- cial spokesman said. | Ashe spoke, combat-clad veterans ‘ »f Palau were dashing ashore at Aomori, expanding the ground- | forees occupation to the northern- | most tip of Honshu. The statement was issued in de- | nial of a report September 21 by | Ted Dealey, President of the Dallas, | Tex., Morning News. Dealey had written that MaecArthur told him the occupation could end in six months “if we are not too ruthless and cruel.” | “What he (MacArthur) said,” to- day’s statement asserted, “was that | occupation forces, under favorable | conditions, could be reduced to minimum size in six months. “He has stated that the occup: tion itsell might last many years." Domei ‘Quits Stripped of special privileges by the Allied ecommand, Domei News Agéncy probably will quit, its Presi- lent Inosuke Furuno reported today. He said he had decided to recom- mend its dissolution to the next meeting of the board of directors. Noting that three major ‘T dailies were. considering forma of a new agency, he safd “it would be nnpomhle to make both ends meet” if Domei attempted to oper- ite in competition. Controls Clamped Armed with ‘a Presidential di- rective making it clear that he is the highest authority in Japan, Mac- | Arthur meanwhilé clamped other controls ever morg tightly on Japan’s political and economic life.- Latest decrees forbade making yarms, ammunition and aireraft; | promised priorities necessary for -l production of food, clothing and hou required careful reporting of virtually every large-scale financlal transaction; unshackled the Japa- nese press; and spurred democratic education, perer Still Dumd . Emperor Hirohito, who well-in- | tormed Japanese say soon will call upon MacArthur in person, mean- while offered no answers to ques- tions asking the extent of his prior knowledge of Pearl Harbor plans and his own specific role in the war’s beginning. Military ~authorities continued their roundup of suspected war criminals and reported today that | Nobuyuki Abe, Japanese ex-Gov- ernor General of Korea, has been permitted to remain under guard in | his Tokyo home due to illness. He will be removed to jail upon re- covery, officers said, to await ques- tioning or trial as one of the men jon MacArthur’s “wanted” list. Aomori Occupied Associated Press Correspondent | Duane Henncssy reported from | Aomori that the 81st Infantry Di- vision ‘'was the first to claim that | charred town. Green clad soldiers | with bayonets fixed, and backed by silently ready machine guns and mortars, splashed through the surf to the land. There wasn't any shooting. A | lone, grinning Japanese, middle- | aged and packing a raincoat under his arm, stood waiting. On his other arm was a band that said “intepreter.” He stared at the troops and the trcops stared at him as they jogged past. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW, YORK, Sept. 25 — Closing quotation of Alaska-Juneau Mine stock today was 7, American Can 106%, Anaconda 367, Curtiss- Wright 7, International Harvester 90, Kennecott 41%, New York Cen- tral 287, Northern Pacific 20%, U. S. Steel T4%. Total sales today were chares. . Dow, Jones averages today were jas follows: Industrials, 117.42; ralls, 9.10; utilities, 34.18. - CARPENTER HERE Chester C. Carpenter, of Way- land, Mich,, is a guest at the Gas- tineau Hotel. 1,018,000