The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 28, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 10,077 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1945 MEMB ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = ————— | ARRESTS ORDERED IN TORCH MASSACRE " RECORDS FALSIFIED BY JAPS ON DEATH, | DOOLITTLE RAIDERS Wooden Boxes Containing » (remated Bodies Found | Ficticious Names | | By RICHARD CUSHING | SHANGHAI, Sept. 28-—The con- niving Japanese military deliber- ately tried to cover up on the dis- position of the bodies of three Doo- | little fliers, executed by firing squad on trumped up charges Oct. * 15, 1942, The evidence, in American hands today, showed conclusively: Wooden boxes containing the remated bodies, were furned over Alaska Salmon Fishery Is to Be Safeguarded; Prodamation s Issuedi WASHINGTON, Sept. 28—Presi- dent Truman today took the first step toward tapping the rich oil nd mineral reserves which geolo- gists believe lie on the continental shelf beyond the three mile limit of U. S. coasts. He did this by proclaiming U. S jurisdiction over the natural min- eral resources on the shelf—roughly the submerged arca covered by no more than 600 feet of water. A White House statement, ac- cocmpanying the prroclamation said that technical improvements had now made possible exploration of the high seas contiguous to the United States coast. Until the present the only high seas fisheries in which the United States has participated in regulat- ing are those for whales, Pacific halibut and fur seals. “In areas where fisheries have been or hereafter shall be developed and maintained by nationals of the United States alone,” the White House said, “explicitly bounded zones will be set up in which the United States may regulate and control all fishing activities.” In areas where the nationals of secretively to a civilian mortuary. ' They should have been turned over |of oil deposits outside the three- to the International Red Cross. mile limit. & The falsified records listed the| At the same time, the President three as having “died on different|set forth a new policy for safe- dates—Sept. 2, Sept. 8 and Oct. guarding the valuable Alaska 2, 1942. All three were shot while salmon fishery. This provides for tied to crude crosses in a Chinese|Protection of fisheries on the high cemetery, Oct. 15, 1942. | seas contiguous to the United False names were given. States. The box of “H. E. Gande, age 23,”| Two companion orders in reality contained the ashes of Broclamations were issued. Second Lt. William Grover Farrow,| These provided for establishment, 23, of Darlington, S. C. under recommendation of the In- The box of “J. Smith, age 27, terior and State Departments, of was that of Second Lt. Dean Ed-|fishery conservation zones in areas yard Hallmark, Dallas Texas. 2 The box of “E. L. Brister, age 22,” was that of Sgt. Harold A. Spatz, .Lebo,, Kan. The boxes were terday. An official covered, established identities. A bespectacled Japanese military guard rounded out the grim pic ture by giving me an eye-witne acccund of the execution: Hallmark, Farrow and Spaiz were | compelled to kneel on mats before b shallow graves several feet apart. (ANNIBA[ISM lN | to the discovered yes- list, just re-| the correct Their hands were strapped to low white crosses. Two riflemen were delegated to each victim. Three judicial officers other countries may be involved,| the announcement continued, zones will be established by agreements | and joint regulations made ef- fective. This new policy, the White House asserted, will enable the United States “to protect effectively, for instance, its most valuable fishery,| that for the Alaska salmon.” “Uncentrolled fishery activities by naticnais of this and other coun- tries,” the statement said, “have constituted an ever-increasing men- ace to the salmon fishery Inland Transportation, Better Harbors Needed For Alaska Development SEATTLE, Sept. 28.—The develop- ment of Alaska hinges upon the im- rovement of inland transportation feeding through well developed har- bors, Brig. Gen. Philip G. Bruton said here last night. CIVIL LIBERTIES ARE SUSPENDEDIN | SOUTHERN NATION TROUBLES | | OF LABOR *t e USRS Is Claim Made | Over Two Million Away <Blil4l,ETINV—Bl.‘AEN()S ATRE from Work Due to Sept. 28.—The Truman admin- Sirikes, Shutdowns istration cfficially told the Ar- | gentine government today that e | the state of siege and other measures taken by this country’s military regime inevitably would have “a deplorable effect” on rublic cpinion in the United States. This view was expressed to Juan Cooke, Argentine Foreign Minister, by Jchn Moors Cabot, who as Charge d’Affairs heads the American Embassy since the departure of Ambassador Spru- ilie Braden. | | | | \ | the nation, today, with nearly 2-| 000,000 away from work for one| reagor or another. | Actual gtrikes and shutdowns kept 409,000 off the job and there| were 1,500,000 more affected in New | York directly or indirectly because of the elevator operators and buildings seivice employees strike | there. | - 1 Among latest developments were BUENOS AIRES, Scpt. 28—For- | these: eign Minister Juan Cooke said in a| A union spokesman estimated | midnight communique that the new- | 62,000 walked out in 284 textile ly-imposed state of siege in Argen- |printing and dyeing plants in nine tina in “no way effects the march |eastern states, despite a back-to-| toward constitutional normality | work order by their CIO union. The | which the government wants in the | workers demanded a 15 cents an shortest possible tims: hour wage increase. Cooke said that when the gov-| The general executive board of ernment lifted a wartime state of |the CIO United Retail, Wholesale siege on August 6 after three and|and Department Store Employees one-half years of martial rule it|of America authorized its Mont- “had no idea the ample liberties|gomery Ward and Company or- | provided by our laws would be util- | ganjzing committee to call a strike | ized for conspira : “if negotiations fail to terminate The state of siege was reimposed | iy an agreement.” | Wednesday after a revolt was re- The CIO United Packing House ported quelled at Cordoba. | workers Union said it would de- | Military police rounded up promi- | mang a general wage increase of | nent Argentir ppposed to the mili- | 25 eents an hour from the induery.‘ tary regime of President Edelmiro| yo. 1. Lewis, United Mine Farrell and Col. Juan Peron, Vice: | goggrs. chieftain, asked the bi- | President, have filled the Jails with |\ oinous coal management nego- | nationally known citizens. | tiators to meet him today on the | mine foremen’s dispute which has | made 36,000 idle in Pennsylvania | suspension of civil liberties for its| 2 i e -“ 14,000,000 citizens it was highly ¢ ‘ ( (In Montevideo, Uruguay, one au- | thoritative source said that as a Devereux (By The Associated Press) 18 Labor troubles multiplied across| . ho\ S Is Greeted l | | | 34 SUSPECTS GOING TO BE ROUNDED UP Those GuiltToi Fiendish Murder of Allied Pris- oners fo Be Seized CERTAIN FACTORIES RESUME OPERATIONS { Request for Tonnage De- nied - Shipping Avail- able for Homecoming and staff medical men looked on. A Japanese officer raised his B 1Co£lim:cd 5 onWPuqc i D s The Washington| Merry - @_ -Round | By DRFW PEARSON ; WSl | WASHINGTON about the Gen. MacArthur-Dean | Acheson row is that for several| weeks the War Department had Inside fact| been trying to get MacArthur to work out a reasonable program re- garding the number of troops he would require in Japan. | The original tabl¥s of organiza- tion called for 900,000 men for oc- | cupation work in the Pacific and| 500,000 men to occupy Germany,‘ These figures, however, were set | to cover all emergencies and at a‘ time when no orte knew what kind | of guerrilla warfare the American | Army might face inside Germany | and Japan. Since then it has become appar- | ent that no such large armies| *would be needed. Gen. Eisenhower has been extremely cooperative in answering War Department esti- mates regarding the troops he} would need, but Washington sent | all kinds of messages to MacAr- | thur as to the number of men he| weuld require without getting a| peep. He simply ignored War De- | partment inquiries. | Then suddenly, out of the clear _blue, came MacArthur’s statement | to the press, without consulting | anyone, that he would need 200,000 | men. Meanwhile, he had failed to} answer Washington queries not! only regarding the size of his army| but the length of ‘time he would| need an army. That was why Under Secretary | Acheson, on direct orders from the | White House, issued his statement | that it was not MacArthur’s job to | formulate policy. | (Note—What some Administra- tion advisers figure is that MacAr- | issue, almost certain to be one of! pEnypp gept. 28—An autumn | something.” thur wants to get pushed into a| position where he can resign, put| up the cry of persecuted manyr‘ General Bruton, Pacific Division Army Engineer stationed at San Francisco, has just completed a 4,700 mile inspection tour of eivil works proj and war construction in the CAMP RAMPANT German Do;Ior“Tesmies fo Unbelievable Horror at SS Trial id Alaska's “strategic value” was one of its chief assets. “From a military standpoint we must have | facilities in the north for Naval, Air By JAMES CHAMBERLA'N ond Land Forces to enable us to LUNENEBURG, Germany, Sept. 28 Maintain control of the North Pacific A thin, bespectacled German doc- and our West Coast.” tor testified before a British mili-| The general pointed to the vast tary court today that cannialism distances of the Territory and the was rampant in the men's compound inaccessibility of most areas as nec- of Belsen Concentration camp. essitating development of the inland. “I have seen bodies with the liv- | ‘Devcvlopment of mineral resources, ers removed for food,” Dr. Fritz Leo Which is possibly the main key to told the court. I have seen many Alaska’s future, demands improved bodies with the ears cut off, parts of inland transportation and harbor cheeks, shoulders, arms, back and facilities. The fishing industry, of even parts of sexual organs cut off Malor importance to both Alaska for food—either eaten raw or cook- and the States, means that improve- ed later.” |ment of small boat harbors s essen- Forty-five SS_defendants, their tal” eyes dropping to the floor, heard the The Seattle district, U. 8. Army doctor say the SS gave orders that engineers, has 12 harbor improve- any prisoner guilty of cannibalism ment projects in Alaska which have would be hanged or beaten to death, F¢en approved by Congress and will Lydia Sonszajin, a Polish Jewess Le ready for construction immediate- who was an inmate, says six Polish 1V upon application of funds for the girls once- plotted to blow up the $4,000,000 worth of developments. Oswiecim concentration camp's in- There are also three harbor improve- famous gas chamber, but four were Ment surveys in progress at Skag- found out and hanged. {way, Sitka and Neva and Olga S | Straits, and the Seattle Engineers u“wn AGE“DA /will soon commence surveys IS l- I N E D u | terest in local improvements. I find LONDON, Sept. 2 —garly estab-|there is eagerness among the people lishment of machinery for interna- 0f Alaska to have the National gov- tional regulation of armaments €rnment assist in planning the de- was given top priority today on velopment of their communities.” the tentative agenda for the United | B e Nations World Security League's | first general assembly in December. “ The organization’s executive com- | EASTERN SLOPE tween Geneva and San F‘rflncisco! 1] mittee appeared to be choosing be- as a permanent seat. | armaments | i |dova, Upper Kvichak River and Valdez Harbor. trict, who accompanied the General, The decision to give immediate consideration to < the s | the most provocative discussions | snow storm which sprang out of| before the crganization, was dis- canada and blew southeastward | closed when the executive comm""‘along the eastern slope of the Rocky | at| | Anchorage, Cook Inlet, Kodiak, Cor- | Col. C. P. Hardy of the Seattle dis- | J‘praised Alaskans “for their keen in- | doubtful whether Argentina would e be admitted to the forthcoming Rio REFORMING oF | | i CHINESE GOVT. de Janeiro conference on an cqual | footing with other American re-| | publics, and that the r(mrz-rt-nctz1 S | might be postponed.) LONDON, Sept. 28.—The Moscow - D Bombay Riot radio reported today that General- have been conferring at Chungking | M in an effort to settle China's in- | | ternal political difference, had reach- o aslng pyed an agreement to reform the na-| | | . | The broadcast said the agreement BOMBAY, Sept. 28.—Police opened provided for wider political repre~ fire today at two places in the nor- | sentation in the Central Govern- thern part of the city to dmperse‘monb and for the holding of general | Sporadic fighting between Hindus | for demobilization of Communist |and Moslems continued. Another larmed forces. |stabbing fatality brought the toll| The broadcast, which opened with |to at least 18 killed and 75 injured the flat statement that “unity in [ H H issimo Chiang Kai-shek and Com- I ua Io n s munist leader Mac Tse-tung, who i tional government. | crowds, as the riot situation took | elections at an erly date. a turn for the worse. ! The pact also was said to provide in the past two days. | China has been established,” credited f . the treaty which Soviet Russia re-! - ‘cently concluded with China, as iGee, Whil! Ipluying “an important part in nelp- g W ify th tion.” Whal a ing to unify e.ri'n (omeback LONDON, Sept. 28.—G Is let loose e pe howls of indignation today and told| KANSAS CITY, Sept. 28—Sgt. and | the U. S. Army nurse who moaned Mrs. Gene D. Birdwell are maklng" that American men were “unschool- | plans for their future together. | |ed in l'amour” that “fifty million| Sgt. Birdwell, who was reported | overseas lassies can’t be wrong™’ |dead by the War Department ten! The London Stars and Stripes, months before his wife married his | which published the nurse’s plaint uncle, Jack Marshall, is now sta- yesterday, said today it was being tioned in Manila. News of his lib- }inundalrd with a flood of protests eration from a Japanese prison came | from men of /all ranks who didn't twelve days after Mrs. Birdwell re- |like her warning that “the love mar- | married. | ket in the States will certainly not| Letters from the freed soldier say | | operate on the candy and commodity’thdb he has forgiven her for her| | basis. | marriage to Marshall and that he| One male responded to the taunt|wants to put everything behind them, | by writing: | according to Mrs. Birdwell. | “Up to now there have been very, “I know gverything's all right | few complaints. Most of the French |now,” Mrs. Birdwell said. “we'll | girls that my friends and I know put | go on where we left off and put ev- | us pretty much on par with French erything else behind us, just like' practitioners of the art—and that's Gene wants, ear'er now.” | It sure makes things > e - ¥ - FIRE NO. TWO GASBOAT FIRE CALL The Juneau Fire Department was and be free to run for President.) |tee forwarded “progress reports” of | pMountains, left up to two inches of | called out for the second time this | ; p ® % % | TRUMAN AND DEWEY Men around the White House have been almost: breaking their necks to make -the public feel the "“new President is politically non- partisan. But now and then Tru- (Continved on Page Four) its sub-tommittees’ work to mem- snow on the ground today. ber governments. Snow was general through Mon- Four main committees would be tana and Wyoming and northeastern established under the recommenda- Colorado today. tions: the political and security melted as it hit. But Casper, Wyo., committee, which would deal with!measured two inches and Douglas, regulation of armaments, the trus-'Lander and Rock Spring, Wyo, an teeship, administratice and legal inch. Cold rain mixed with the committees, SNOW, A back-firing carburetor aboard At many places it | | afternoon by burning clothing in an |the gas-troller 31B29, moored at upstairs closet at 121 Gold Street.| the Upper City Float, at 12:45 | The blaze was started by a child’s o'clock this afternoon resulted in entering the closet with an ignited 'a 1-7 call to the Juneau Volunteer candle. Piremen had the fire “all Fire Department. However, the fire out” within five minutes of the!threat had been controlled by the arrival of the fire truck, at 2:10/owner and neighboring boatmen | o'clock. Damage was confined to|when firemen arrived — without | clothing, 'more than superficial damage, The man who defended Wake Island until it was overrun by the Nipponese surrender at Wake recently, upon Devereux’s arrival at Wirephoto) Thunders Out, Test Trip WASHINGTON, Sept. 28-A giant G I Rl SlAYING* first regular world-girdling sched- was charged today with the murder yesterday in a roothous2 on his farm a British Columbia mental hospital barn on his farm cnly a few yards capture ended a night of terror for searched child lying in a poel of blood in the tried to get the gun from him but shots into her head. - >+ (anadia day strike against the government’s tee and J. O. Heroux, General Man- , B LS A breakout in Italy unless the Govern- as possible, the consultative assem- i Japs, Lieut. Col. James P. Devereux (right) gets a vigerous hand- shake from Marine Brig. Gen. L. H. M. Sanderosn, who accepted the Guam after liberation from a Jap pri Photo transmitted by radio from Guam to San Francisco v radiophoto. (AP " L] L] orld - Girdling Flight H i as Starfed; Giant y - | By PAUL MILLER FARMER HELD |c-54 thundered eastward over the ’}Atlmmc late today, opening the ule. It will carry to high adven- LANGLEY PRAIRIE, B. C., Sept. 28--A 53-year old Murrayville farmer of Doreen Rose Ryan, 10, whose body was found in a pool of blood He was Nobel Monahan, whom authorities said was di ged from three years ago. Monahan was found hiding in a from where the child was shot to death with a .22 calibre rifle. His 300 residents of this area who stay- ed close to their home while police The slain girl’s mother, Mrs. Thomas Ryan, said she found the rcothouse with the man standing over her with a rifle. 8he said she he threw her aglde and then, turn- ing on the dying chiid, fired two Police said there wWas no appar- ent motive for the slaying End 4-Day Strike MONTREAL, Seépt. 28.—Montreal retail butchers today ended a four- meat rationing program after a con- ference between the strike commit- ager of the Province of Quebec Food Distributors, Ine. LOOMING, ITALY ROME, Sept. 28.—Cwil war may ment of Premier Ferructlo Parri calls for a general election as soon bly was told last night by a Social- ist member from northern Italy. “The working masses know t Sandro Pertini declared in a fiery speech. The Communist and Socialist par- ties called in a jeint manifesto to- day for popular demonstrations throughout Italy Octeber 14 to de- mand early general elections and “to stimulate the government to face the winter economic erisis,” ture seven men and a woman who | will be guinea pigs as well as ob-| servers on the 23,147-mile flight. Taking off at 5 p. m, (EWT),| from Washington National Airport, | the 40-passenger Douglas Sky- ' m er of the U. 8. Army Ailr Transport Command heads first for Bermuda. | Then, after a one-hour stop, it wings on to Azores, to North Africa, to Egypt, to China and back home | again—in 151 hours—by way of the | Philippines, Honolulu and tiny Pacific isles made sacred by the: blood of American, fighting men. Planes of the A.T.C. have circled | the world many times. This sched- ule, “The Globeste: will be the first continuous “round-the-world" service. And more than the mere novelty of the effort is wrapped up in the inaugural journey. Throughout the flight, tests of | many kinds will be made among the AT.C. headquarters officers, | an AT.C. public relations officer,| a photographer and three reporters who, of the more than 20 aboard the “Globester™ at the start, will| be the only ones to go the entire route. All were given thorough physical cxaminations. They will undergo | further examinations upon their | return next Thursday, Oct. 4, at| midnight. Enroute they will ob-| serve—and be obsegved—for fatigue, airsickness, reaction to altitude. Out | of the s and observations may | come conclusions leading to more | passenger comfort and convenience | than will be enjoyed even on this| | TOKYO, Sept. 28—S8hipping wili | be available to send 1,490,000 Am- erican servicemep home from the Pacific within the next ssven months, « Allled headquarters saic it was informed by the War De- | partment today. Gen. MacArthur' also announced |an order for the seizure of 34 Japanese officers and men sus- pected of complieity in the fiendish | torch massacre of more than 100 | Allied prisoners of war at Palawan 11!\ the Philippines Dec. 11, 1844, Some 725,000 high-point Ameri- can servicemen already are eligible to return home in October, No- | vember, December and January, | filling shipping quotas for those months, head sald. Ship- ping will be available in February, March and April for 765,000 others | who by thas.time ape:éxpected to be | eligible. N TR . Palawan Massacre In the Palawan. massacre, the ' prisoners, many of them Americans, were driven by their captors into a large air raid shelter. Buckets of gasoline and lighted torches were hurled in after them. A few who | escaped the inferno were mowed down by machine-gun fire or hand grenades, or were brutally bayo- neted by the Nipponese. The Japanese ordered arrested range in rank from sergeant to Lt. Col. Oie Satoshi, -presumably ih command of the “murder detail.” Supreme Allled Headquarters to- | i 'day rejected Japan’s plea for 260,- 000 tons of her own shipping to return disarmed Japanese soldiers | from outside the Empire—assuring considerable delay in returning many thousands of the enemy vet- erans. Request Denled Japan’s Merchant Marine 15 in rickety shape at best, headquarters explained, and Gen, MacArthur decided that such a great tonnage could not be spared from more vital tasks connected with main- tenance of hgalth and minimum living standards of the civillan population. MacArthur earlier today forbade reopening of the Japanese Stort Exchange, but permitted reopeuing of factories to manufacture some goods in limited quantities. Labor Movement Socialistic Leaders of the workmen, mean- while, met to form a new Soclalis Party, and the reported reorganiza- tion of several war-defunct labor unions further marked acceleration of Japan's new liberal movement— which thus far has been markedly Socialistic. No group, thus far, champions a capitalistic de- mocracy. One MacArthur directive gave the imperial government permis- thoroughly plush journey. Six Ihou;afi Out | In Textile Industry NEW YORK, Sept. 28—Half al million garment workers may be| made idle as the result of the/ sion to produce textiles, certain metals, leather goods and trucks, and to process raw rubber under specific restrictions laid down by him previously. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 38 — Closing country’s newsst labor difficulty— quotation on Alaska-Juneau iMne the walkout of six thousand tcxlllciswck today was 6%, American Can printing and dyeing workers in|105%, Anaconda 3§%, International Paterson, N. J. They are members | Harvester 89%, Kennecott 42, New of a CIO union, and are said to be York Central 28%, Northern Pa- demanding a 15 per cent pay in-|cific 28%, United States Steel 75%, crease to make up for the loss| Pound $4.02%. caused by the reduction of their Total sales today were 1,330,000 work week from 60 to 40 hours. R DR. BLENDE RETURNS Dr. O. J. Blende, of Seattle, who, accompanied by his wife, made an extensive journey into Alaska sev-| eral months ago, has returned via PAA and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel, ; | shares. | Dow Jones averages today were as follows: Industrials, 180.11; rails, 58.98; utilities, 34.80. ST G (OFF ARRIVES John L. Hoff, of Seattle, has ar- rived here, via Pan American World Airways, and is & guest at the Gastineau Hotel,