The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 29, 1945, Page 1

(3 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 10,078 JUNEAU, _ALA_SKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER MACARTHU GLOBESTER IS MAKING FAST TIME “Round - he - World Fligh Schedule May Be Re- duced 15 Hours By PAUL MILLER ABOARD THE GLOBESTER, Sept. 29—The Globester may beat the 15-hour schedule set for its round-the-world flight it developed today. U. S. Army Air Transport Com- mand observers turned up this pos- sibility as the 40-passenger C-54 headed eastward over the Atlantic after a stop at Bermuda with Santa Maria, The Azores and Casablanca next on the 23,147-mile journey. It was pointed out that two and one half hours were picked up by flying from Washington to Ber- muda, eliminating a previously- scheduled New York City stop. The Globester swung away from Washington National Airport at 5 p. m., climbed slowly with its 2300 gallons of gasoline, despite its light passenger load, cleared the coast line and headed out over the Atlantic at 5:32 p. m., and then settled down to a 210-mile-an-hour speed through clear skies and over a tranquil sea. At 6 p. m,, Col. M. S. White, chief surgeon of the ATC, already was busy taking temperatures, checking pulses and blood pressure and set- ting up psychological tests in studies by which ATC hopes to find means of making for even greater passenger comfort and convenience in the future, 2 The regular weekly round-the- world flights of the ATC will start rach Friday and return to Wash- ington the following Thursday mid- night. & BRITISH COMPLAIN LONDON, Sept. 29.-~The News Agency Reuters said today the |Hurrah! We | Are Getting | Together s | -SEATTLE, Sept. 29—Earle Knight, known as Seattle-Tacoma “Air Ambassador” to Alaska, ireperted by radio-telephane that lall Alaska cities probably would‘ ! support the Puget Sound cities as| main air gateway to the Orient. | Howard G. Costigan, executive | retary of Gov. Mon C. Wal-| 1's advisory commission, said he | | obtained the report from -Knight from Anchorage. Knight has been jdined in An- chorage by J. B. Warrack, Seattle constructicn man, and the two will continue to Fairbanks today. - (CHARLES E. NAGHEL ' DIES SUDDENLY AT - HOME LAST NIGKT Wellknown Business Man, Former Govt. Official, Passes Away | Charles E. Naghel, prominent Juneau business man and a former | government official, was stricken | with a heart attack last evening, and passed away peacefully at the family home on Distin Avenue, while sitting in his favorite chair. He had put in a very busy day | moving from their home out Gla-| {cier Highway and the strain and excitement of the day may have, | hastened the end. | | Funeral services will be held, Monday afterncon at 2 o'clock| |from_the Chapel of the Charles| | W. Carter Mortuary. The Masonic | Ritual will be followed, with the | Rev. Willis R. Booth delivering the { eulogy. Interment will be in the | Masonic Plot, Evergreen Cemetery. | Ernest Ehlers will sing. | | The pallbearers will be Daniel | Ross, George Parks, H. L. F‘.)ulkn(‘l’,‘ [ m British|J. P. Williams, J. T. Petrich and | jonochon M. Wainwright, hero of A. E. Goetz. Honorary pallbearers U.S. OFFERS | COMPROMISE ON BALKANS Effort Is Made fo Break | Deadlock in Making Peace Policy By FLORA LEWIS LONDON, Sept. 20.—The United States was reliably reported today to have presented a compromise pro- posal in an effert to break the dead- lock of the Foreign Ministers Coun- cil over who should write the Balkan peace treaties. Members of several delegations said the Balkan policy decision would have to be made this weekend and expressed hope the decision would enable the deputies to get | started on drafting the actual peace | pacts. , Russia, citing the Potsdam de- cision that only signatories of the armistice with the defeated nation should participate in authorship of the peace treaty, has demanded the exclusion of France and China. | France, with British-American back- | ing, has insisted on taking part on the ground that the five ministers had agreed to full participation. Adjournment of the conference, | which yesterday completed its 26th session in 18 days, has been delayed | a week already because of the Balkan issue. e Wainwright ToCommand U. §. Section WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Gen Corregidor and Bataan, has been limiting of press coverage of the will be W. S. Pullen, W. B H“‘Selgammmlvd Chief of the Eastern De- “Globester’s” round-the-world flight to three American news “ran directly contrary to President Truman’s pledge of equal access to (Continued on Page Five) .- The Washingion Merry - Go- Round By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON — Representative Andrew J. May of Kentucky and quite a collection of other Con- gressmen have a new labor-saving device for answering soldiers’ mail. It’s fine for them, but not so good for 400 WAC's and for the G.I.'s who take the trouble to write their Congressmen. Here is the labor-saving device: Bushel baskets of soldiers’ mail are sent over to the War Department, where 400 WAC's, who thought they enlisted to help win the war, now have to help win Congressmen’s elections by answering soldiers’ mail. War Department brass hats are delighted with the arrangement. Not only do they make friends in Congress, but they get a chance to see who the trouble-makers are in each camp. All that a G.I. pours out to his Congressman about his superior officers is spelled out in black and white for War Depart- ment perusal and can be sent back to the superior officer. Maj. Gen. Edward F. Witsell, the Adjutant General, is taking great pains to do a good job for the| Congressmen. The 400 WAC's are working directly under him, and| two WAC's already are practicing his signature so that all letters can be signed by Gen. Witsell. The WAC's have been admon- ished to remember that: “You're getting votes for the Senators and Congressmen whose letters you're answering.” But this burns up many a WAC who has to write letters for Senators whom she op- poses, such as Senator Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi who has at- tacked the religion and race of some WAC's. One officer, Capt. David C. Bunn, admonished the girls: “Be careful ‘to be nice to Sen- ators and Congressmen, because (Continued on Page Four) {Jack Fargher, George Getchell, | agencies | Allen Shattuck, Charles Goldstein, ' gtate | Dr. J. O. Rude, Frank Boyle and | | Wallis George. Deceased is survived by his wife, Annetta Theresa, one son, Edward, of Valdez, two daughters, Mrs.| Grace Knudson of Juneau and Mrs. Gladys Moran, Boise, Idaho, and | one sister, Mrs. Grace Marshall of | san Francisco, Calif. | | On August 13, 1942, Naghel after | more than 32 years of public life | 'behind him, announced his retire- | ment from public service. At that | time, he was assistant Disbursing | Officer in charge of the Regional Disbursing Office for Alaska, under the Division of Disbursement, De-| { partment of the Treasury, Wash- | | ington, D. C. His retirement was on his own| option and he stated then he would | remain in Alaska. Naghel was born Feb. 15, 1880, in Roseville, Cali- | fornia. He first saw Alaska as a| | 20-year old youth serving in the | U. S. Marine Corps at Sitka. He | arrived there October 3, 1900, and knew that he liked the country. After five years of service he was| transferred to Mare Island, Calif.,| where he was discharged in July, 1905, and immediately returned to Alaska on the first.boat he could find that was on its way up here. He was married here soon after| his < arrival. His first civil service position was | with the U. S. Customs Service at Juneau and Skagway, which was followed by positions with the of- fice of the United States Surveyor General for Alaska, the Public Survey Officer for Alaska, and the U. S. Treasury Department State | Disbursing Officer for Alaska. | He also served as Supervisor of the Census in Alaska in 1929 and 1930. % Naghel also was a Spanish War veteran, having served with Com- pany A in the Eighth California | Volunteer Infantry, prior to his| service in the Marine Corps. | He was a member of the Elks,| Scottish Rite 32 degree Mason, and | Pioneers and during the past year was one 6f the capable and ener- getic members of the Committee of | Management at the USO. - 4 MRS. BUCKINGHAM HERE | | Mrs. Ruth Buckingham arrived | PAA plane and is a guest at the| Baranof Hotel, | time ago to solve China’s unification fense Command in the United | The War Department announced that Wainwright would assume his new duties upon completion of a rest. Wainwright, liberated from a Jap- | anese prison camp in Manchuria, re- i turned to the United States recently. | ————,——— TROUBLE IN CHINA CHUNGKING, Sept. 29.—Chinese | Communists and Chungking govern—f ment representatives = reportedly | have encountered difficulties in! working out some small details oi} a general agreement reached some problem peacefully. This was disclosed by Chungking scurces who said they knew of no basis for a Moscow radio broadcast heard in London yesterday that an agreement had been completed be- tween Generalissimo Chian Kai- shek and Communist leader Mad Tse-tung to form a central unified Chinese government. The Moscow broadcast said the negotiations had agreed to hold an early election throughout China. PRty i HINDU-MOSLEM CLASHES RESULT IN DEATH OF 28 BOMBAY, Sept. 20.—Peacemakers intensified their efforts today as the | death toll in the Hindu-Moslem | clashes rose to 28 and the number of injured to 112. As the situation worsened last| night, police fired on rioters in three crowded areas, and authorities clamped a 10 p. m. to 6 a. m. cur-| few on the five-mile-square trouble zone. By today the disorders apparent-| ly had tapered off to sporadic con- flicts. The Moslem-Hindu citizens concil- | ijation committee, representing Bom- bay’s three communities—Moslem, ing for Monday, hoping to find| means of restoring peace. |La Plata General MacArthur (left) and Japanese K MBER ASSOCIATED PRI MacARTH PRICE TEN CENTS — g R peror Hirohito (right) poss September 7, as they meet in a precedent-shattering occasion in the main living room of the American Embassy in Tokyo. (AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps Radicphote, frem Tokye) STUDENTS 10 STRIKE Against Present State of Siege Is Plan Sept. 29—Uni- Buenos Aires, BUENOS AIRE! versity students in Santa Fe Cordoba have announced a general student strike against the state of siege imposed by the Argentine military regime. (BBC in London quoted Monte- video radio as saying ‘“more than 3,000 persons were in jail” in Buenos Aires, and “at Villa De- Japanese fo Be ( ‘ General Demonstration BlOOD-SUPPERY - DECK SCENE OF - SAVAGE BATILE French Resisted by Anna- mites Aboard Pirate | Junkin Tonkin Gulf MANILA, Sept. 2.—Hand-to-hand Barred ~+ From Fishing in Walers Off Alaska; loni System TO RETIRE WASHINGTON, Sept. 20-—Japa- nese exploitation of fisheries in | Alaskan waters outside the three- mile iimit coptributed to the U. 8. Government’s decision to set aside conservation zones, it was indicated officially today. The action long has been advo- 'cated by a substantial section of the U. S. fishing industry. President Truman's proclamation makes it possible to establish fishery conservation zones in areas of the high seas contiguous to the United States In fisherie by United developed exclusively States citizens, the Voto, common criminals had to be battling aboard a Chinese pirate) United States Government, through removed to make room for poli- junk whose decks were slippery Wl(h‘(}()ukr('s.slulul legislation, will as- tical prisoners.” (At the ~World Trade Union Cengress in Paris the Governments of Argentina and Spain were roundly criticized, with speakers demanding that democratic na- tions break off diplomatic and trade relations with them. A for- i meral resolutjon addressed to the, United Nations was expected.) An estimated 300 University of students booed Argen- tina’s “strong man,” Vice President Juan Peron, yesterday when he visited the institution to swear in the federally-appointed governor. Police attempted to break up the demonstration with tear gas, as the undergraduates hung out placards reading “Traitors” and “Here Come the Shameless.” Meanwhile Interior Minister Hor- tensio Quijano said he had ordered the liberation of an additional number of detained persons. - NAVY PERSONNEL IN PHILIPPINES SOON MOVE OUT MANILA, Sept. 29.—Approximate- 1y 50 per cent of all Navy personnel in the Philippine Sea frontier will be sent home by January 1, Vice Admiral James L. Kauffman said today. He estimated between 50,000 and 60,000 officers and men will be mov- |ed out by that time. All but the most vital Navy bases in the Philippines will be rolled up as fast as possible, he said. The only delaying factor is shipping to carry the men. - e FULLER IN TOW J. Donald Fuller, of Seattle, ar- here yesterday from Seattle via | Hindu and Christian—called a meet- ! rived here yesterday by Pan Am- erican Clipper yesterday and is a guest at the Baranof Hotel of | blood, marked efforts meager French forces to control the Tonkin Gulf of Indo-China, a young Ameri can naval officer reported afte leading a rescue mission there. Annamites (natives), Chinese pir- ates, Chinese and French were strug- gling to control the uneasy Haiphong yet surrendered—Cmdr. Richard G. Colbert, Niagara Falls, N. Y, re- ported. He captained the U. S. des- troyer Meade, sent in a relief sweep along Tonkin Gulf coastal areas. Japanese reportedly were supply- ing arms to Annamites resisting re- establishment of French control, Col- bert said, but he saw no evidence of active Nipponese opposition. He said he was told that no Japanese have surrendered as yet in this whole area, and that the few French mili- tary and Naval personnel there were unable to control the situation. .- DRUNK AND DISORDERLY Eugene Dugaqua, Edwin Kasko and Walter J. Maki, all charged with being drunk and disorderly, have each been fined $25 in City Police Court. - e PIONEERS INITIATE At the meeting last night of Igloo No. 6, Pioneers of Alaska. the following were initiated: Edgar Garnick, . Art McKinnon, Walter McKinnon and Brig. C. O. Taylor > oo ARRESTED, ARRAIGNED Johnnie A. Jackson, Juneau, was arrested yesterday and arraigned before U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray. Bond was set at $250 and time for pleading was set over until Monday. Jackson is being held in the federal jail. He is charged with assault and battery in a complaint sworn to by for Russia has her own sources and | formed in England long before the | Jackson never has interfered with fishing) United States bought the Louisiana'arrived here and is o guest at the Frank Maierhofer, whom i alleged to have beatcn. area—in which no Japanese have; | sert sole jurisdiction and set regu- lations. For Treaties heries have been de- nationals in addi- tion to United States citizens, the | proclamation will be the basis for treaties between the United States and the other nation or nations in- velved to regulate fishing activities in the interest of preventing deple- :tinn of the rescurce. | The proclamation covers the | waters surrounding the territories jand island possessions as well as |continental United States. Senator Magnuson (D-Wash.) said the | President’s order will bar the Japa- inese from fishing in the Bering Sea | where before the war, they had de- {veloped an extensive take of glant crab, halibut and cod. ! Magnuson made the proposal last 1sm-mg to President Roosevelt but |though the proclamation was pre- ipmed, it never was signed. He and | Chairman Connally of the Foreign Relations Committee conferred with Where veloped by oth Secretaries Acheson and Ickes re- jcently on the matter. “It is the beginning of a policy which will extend the offshore limits of American fishing and will |afford adequate protection to our coastal fishing, It will keep the Japanese out of the halibut fishing ! grounds off Washington State and the tuna grounds along the entire coa It also will pyotect us against them in the Bristol Bay area of the Alaskan coast where we have a great potential source of salmon,” Magnuson said war Japanese fishing that before the the conti- ping into the Alaska waters cover of night. The order, he said, interfere with any other would not nation, Ameriean waters, ADM. HALSEY IS SEEKING Man Who Chased Japs Over, Off Pacific Wants to Relinquish Command PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 20—Adm William F. Halsey, who chased Japan’s navy all over—and off — the Pacific with a vigor and ten- acity that won him the nickname of “The Bull” has asked to be retired at 62, “I'm an old man, let the young fellows take over," the graying famed skipper of the Third Fleet announced yesterday. His words were strangely sub- dued in contrast with the whip- cracking way the outspoken ad- miral used to refer to his enemy as “those monkey men” and to voice his favorite motto: “Kill Japs—Sink Ships.” The decision of the rugged, weather-beaten admiral to bow out of one of the most dramatically enacted roles in Navy history be- ause of age served to recall a record which catches the breath. 500 STUDENTS START RACIAL STREET BRAWL NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—~Two out- breaks of street fighting between white and Negro students at two st Harlem high schools caused high police officials to schedule a special conference today to study the problem. About 500 pupils, some armed with knives, razor blades, rocks and bottles, brawled in the streets before and after school hours yesterday, police said A home-made pistol was among other crude weapons found after the fighting was quelled by 36 patrolmen. There were no injuries serious enough to require an ambulance call. Among possible causes for the row \police said, were a dispute over the |teacher had struck a white student. - Bay Company Hudson's was Territory. R HANDS JAPS TOUGH BLOW EMPEROR HIROHITO CALLS ON GENERAL NIPS TOLD (ENSORSHIP - MUST CEASE |Government Must Keep ' Hands Off Both Writ- ten, Spoken Word | TOKYO, Sept. 20. —~Gen. Douglas MacArthur. in his strongest divective to date, has ordered the Japanese s to kesp their hands off all and radio, ceasing all censor- ‘s‘hip. suppress or control—after the Home Ministry tried to ban Emperor Hirohito's interviews and stories and victures of the Hirohito visit to Mac- Arthur, The ministry had suppressed Tckyo and Osaka newspapers in an effort to keep the news from the Japanese people. Nippon's War Department mean- while reported to the Allied Com- mand that 1,833,634, or 81 per cent of all Japanese soldiers in the home- land on August 15, had been de- mobilized by September 24; and Al- lied Headquarters simultaneously approved dispatch of eight small Japanes: ships to bring 16,000 Nip- ponese soldiers home from Tsushima and Tki islands, between Kyushu and Korea, (Chungking reported that 34,000 Japanese troops in China's Hankow- Wuchang-Hangyang area have been demobilizod.) Starvation Danger Danger of actual starvation among Japanese this winter “is very real,” asserted Col. Raymond Kramer, head of MacArthur's economic and scientific section, Occupation forces will not attemptste s o the need- ed 4,500,000 tons of rlee “without consulting Washingfon,” he said. The Japanese Cabinet approved establishment of a council headed by Premier Prince Higashi-Kuni, to revise the system of electing the Japanese Parljgment. Nippon's government was told to make the most of its water trans- portation facilities by working non- combatant shipping resources around the clock scven days a week. The Allied Command also urged that the government order Japanese shin- yards to operate 24 hours a day to overcome l.h& shortage of shipping which has Been the foundation of many Japanese problems, ‘The Supreme Comma'lm has taken over the Tsukijl Memorial Hospital | for the use gf Eighth Army troops. Censorship Stoppeéd General MacArthur's order to the { Japanese government tp halt im- mediately all control of the “written or spoken word” put an end to the governments trend of years to police the very thought gof the Nipponese. He acted within a few hours after the Japanese Home Ministry had cenfiscated Topkyo and Osaka news- papers because they printed inter- views of American correspondents | with Emperor Hirohito and showed | photographs of the Mikado calling on MacArthur. In the strongest directive yet is- sued, the Supreme Allied Command severed Japanese control over not only the newspapers but the mails, telephones, telsgraph lines, cables and radios. As MacArthur took his strong ac- tion, 9,797 happy American troops left Yokohama aboard three trans- ports bound for San Francisco—the first large numbers of officers and | men to take the homeward trail. >-oe - Bing Crosby ~ Knocks Off | HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 29. — Bing | Crosby is going to knock off and | take it easy for the rest of the year, it says here. El Bingo says nothing doing on radio programs for the winter sea- | son. His plans, as he outlines them now: A week or two in a Santa Monica hospaial, starting next week, for treatment of an infection, then a long ' rest at his northern Nevada nch, with hunting and fishing the main items, < His wifa, the former tal shelf were accused of slip- score of a basketball game and a|Dixie Lee, and his sons, will remain under | dispute over a report that a Negro| here. ANGEL ARRIVES '] George Angel, of Skagway, has Gastineau Hotel.