The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 12, 1945, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD NOV 233 1945 [ T— wvone @I i * VOL. LXV., NO. 10,089 _ JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 132 MILE TYPHOON SMASHES OKINAWA MANCHURIA ;Aclivilies in Mineral ISINSTATE Exploration Profest | OFUPHEAVAL 7 tions as Result Russian- " REFUGE AS ARREST DEMANP}S MADE Political Unrest in Argen- tine Complicated-El- ecfion Dafe Set BUENOS AIRES, Oct. The Cabinet of Argentine Presi- dent Gen. Edelmiro Farrell re- signed today, under pressure of both military and civilian groups. Official announcement of the mass resignation came as some 120 Army and Navy officers met in the Officers’ Club, and a grow- ing crowd gathered in the streets outside. Vernengo Lime, new Naval Ministcr, announced that Peron had been arrested. PEIPING, 6 (Delayed) Manchuria, it is being cleared of its Japanese overlords by Rus- sian-Chinese occupation forces, is in a state of upheaval, travelers from there reported today. The description of the violent transition period as the puppet state of Manchukuo shed 15 years of Japanese domination was sup- plied by a group of 14, including A. Mons. Rennere, the French Consul-General at Mukden and his wife and daughter. | They said the group had been invited by Soviet officials to leave Mukden within 36 hours, because their passports lacked the neces- sary Soviet Japanese 12—~ of the Kwan- tung Army a now disarmed, with their guns and rifles taken over by the Chinese, but looting, shootings and rapes were common during the past month, despite ef- forts of the Russian commander of Mukden to maintain order, some of the still-jittery travelers asserted. Rennere was consul Mukden since 1941. . - D troops BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 12 Juan Peron, political strong ousted from Argentina’s ment this week, apparently fled to a refuge in the countryside toda in the face of d#fmands by a group of Army and Navy officers for his arrest. |, The regime of President Gen. Edelmiro Farrell set next April 7 = | as a presidential election date in F’om Ja“- Is Sho' a decrec issued shorly after the ] military group demanded Peron's — detention and resignations of MADISON, Fla., Oct. 12.—A young Farrel's entire cabinet. Negro under indictment for assault! The political unrest was compli- with intent to rape a five-year-old'cated by both military and civilian white girl, was taken from the coun- pressure on the government. ty jail either late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning and shot to death, Sheriff Lonnie Davis re- ported. Sh Jasse James Payne, was returned t0 and three evening papers yester- — Col man general at legro Taken papers, with the exception of La Nacion and La Prensa, refused to lgo to press today as a protest Govern- | | All Buencs Aires morning news- iff Davis said that the Negro, against the closing of one morning | May Cease; Made by Engle WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 he | House Appropriations Deficiency | Sub-committee has indicated to the | | Bureau of Mines that it should be | prepared to end its mineral ex- ploration activities, Rep. Engle (D-Calif.) has told the House. ‘1 He made his assertion in | speech protesting proposals to re- |cover for the Treasury funds al-| | ready appropriated to the bure: | for exploratory work. The Pr | dent several days ago recommended that about $400,000 of the find be recovered Much valuable exploratory now being conducted by burcau will be closed down decision is made, Engle id. Citing what he asserted been the great value of the mineral exploratory work carried on since| the outbreak of the war, Engle said that approximately 6,000 individual deposits of 82 types of minerals were examined and reported upon in 48 states and Alaska, with more than 100 deposits brought into production He added that mercury deposits were production in Al duction increased ir Arkansas; chromite deposits opened in California; coal production for the Army made pos: H Inew copper producers brought in {in Arizona and Vermont; flurospar in Utah and Iilinois, manganese in Nevada and Virginia; and mica in South Dakota and New Hampshire Engle said he believed the mines bureau could submit a “sensible peace program, for ca on the i GERMAN GENERAL CONVICTED, WAR | CRIME IN ITALY a work the if the has antimony and brought into time | worl | this week'’s JAPAN TAKES FIRST STEPS, OBEY ORDERS Tyrannical Constitution Is Abolished ot Give Jap- anese Freedom TOKYO, Oct 12 placed one of the ling ties of her tyrannical constitution within the Emperor’s circle of ad- visors as she took her first, fal- tering steps to carry out Gen. MacArthur's orders to afford 'her people the full breath of freedom. The government also sought to import rice to alleviate a food crisis made even more critical by typhoon which swept over central and southern Honshu. simultaneously, fresh d sures of American investigators made it clear that, however trying thg sit- uation under an occupation, it would have been worse had Japan continued the war. Dr. Scichi Saski, honorary pro- fessor of Kyoto Imperial Univer- sity and leading authority on Japan’s constitution, has been ap- vointed advisor to Marquis Koicho Japan today Kido, the highest ranking ('unsull»{ ant for the Mikado. -+ Spain fo Be Good; Promises MADRID, Oct. 12—Generalissimo Francisco Franco’s government, a move generally interpreted as a bid for support both at home and abroad, held out to the Spanish people today the promise of a re- storation of civil liberties and am- nesty for political prisoners. The promise, extended in an offi- authori- | in| the jail here from the State prison Tuesday for a gnment. He had pleaded innccent to the charges. His case had been scheduled for trial next Tuesday. Gov. Millard Caldwell at Talla- hassee, said he had received only a “sketchy report” on the affair but would start an immediate investiga- tion. FROM ELFIN COVE Arriving here from Elfin Cove yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hubbard and Walter Larson, who day, although the government an- nounced last night the ban against the four publications had been lifted. { - GOVERNOR CALLS - ONLEGIONNAIRES - FORVETERAN AID cial announcement which followed | | | | | | NAVY RELEASES INITIAL GROUP WITHIN ALASKA Five Discharged al New Kodiak Separation Point-Others Soon NAVAL OPERATION BASE, Ko- | diak, Alaska, Oct. 12.—Ceremony at- tended the release here yesterday of |the first group of Alaskans on duty within the Seventeenth Naval Dis- itrict to be discharged under the Navy's demobilization plan. | { | | | | COLUMBUS DAY; HE LIVES ON, IN NAME Kodiak Naval Headquarfers VETERANSOF For North Pacific; Wood Is = WORLD WAR Successor fo Jack Flefcher 11 MEETING | | | | | | | | KODIAK, Alaska, Oct. 12—With | the transfer of command of the | North Pacific Force and area from Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher to Rear Admiral Ralph Wood of | Seattle, the Commander of the| Seventeenth Naval District, Kodiak | | Naval Air Station today was head- quarters for Navy sphere of opera- First Annuial- Convention Gets Underway in Chi- (ago - Proposals CHICAGO, Oect. 12.—The Ameri- | can Veterans of World War II, com- | jtions in the entire North Pacific. |prised solely of men and women The transfer was made Wednes- Who served in the war just ended, .day, whereupon Admiral Fletcher— cpened its first annual convention |who arrived recently aboard the today. !U. s. 8. Panamint, accompanied Presiding over the meeting was, Iby Tfive destroyers—flew to An- National Commander Elmo Keel,| :clmragt' enroute to Washington, veteran of the China-Burma-India D. C. He will spend his leave in theatre and now a student at the his Maryland home. Fletcher's flag- Washington University in St. Louis. ship brought him back from Omi- Delegates frm 136 posts in 36 nato, Japan, via Adak, former states were expected to attend the headquarters in the Aleutians, |three-day meeting. Preceding the formal transter' Proposals slated to be introduced of commands, Admiral Fletcher—'include simplitication of the GI who formerly commanded the Bill of Rights to facilitate loans to Tells Alaska Deparfmen Convention, “We Have Our Job Still o Do” SEWARD, Alaska, Oct. 12 — In a pointed message addressed to his “Fellow Legionnaires,” read here Merry - Go-Round By DRFW PEARSON nual Convention of the American KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Navy in-, Legion, Department of Alaska, Gov. siders are hoping for a new deal Ernest Gruening expressed from regarding discharges, recognition of | Washington, D. C., his regret in reserves and other Navy injustices,lnot being able to attend the con- following the shake-up in the|vention and conveyed his wishes Navy's Bureau of Personnel and!for its greatest possible success. the impending exit of Navy Czar, The Governor termed the cur- Admiral Ernie King. In fact, somelrem convention “an unusually im- fresh air already has blown imo‘ portant one,” because “We all the Navy Department. stand in the shadow of great To get the full picture of what's!cvems; excepting the Civil War, happening, it's necessary to realize the greatest event in our history that for about five years the Sec- | since our country came into being.” retary of the Navy has chiefly| Special Responsibility been the performing puppet of Referring to the problems hard-boiled, high-handed Admiral|brought about by the sudden ar- Ernie King. The late Secretary of|rival of peace, Gov. Gruening con- the Navy Frank Knox was at|tinued: sword’s points with King most of| ‘In addressing you, my fellow the time. The admirals would meet Legionnaires, I cannot help but feel in formal session with him, show|that we of the Legion have a pe- him a few routine cables and. then | culiar and special responsibility. We are registered at the Gastineau Hotel. The -W;s’};ingion' Executed F—ifien United States Soldiers Caught, Commando Raid ROME, Oct. 12 Gen. Anton Dostler, first German general to be tried in Western Europe as a var criminal, was convicted by an American Military Tribunal today and sentenced to death for order- ing the summary execution of 15 U. S. soldiers captured behind the German lines in Italy. | The verdict was announced short- | ly after the five-man commission sitting in judgment on Dostler| . had taken the case under consid- | | eration yesterday. | | The conviction must be reviewed, by the Commander of Allied forces | in the Mediterranean theatre be- | fore death sentence can be carried | cut. | The American soldiers, with| whose death Dostler was charged, | died before a German firing squad | at La Spezia on March 26, 1944.) They had landed on the Italian! coast from rubber boats on a mis- sion to blow up a railway tunnel. Dostler's defense was based on the contention he had acted under a blanket order from, Adolf Hltlcr‘ to execute all Commandos and that he consulted with his superiors be- fore the execution was carried out.| | Army s Forgiven for | - Making Misiake But 24 Happy, However Capt. Raymond R. Lyons, USN, |commanding this Naval Operation | Base, the separation point for men |eligible for discharge in Alaska, shook hands as he presented Honor- |able Discharge Certificates and | congratulated each dischargee on the uccessful completion of his service a prolonged cabinet session last night, is expected to be implement- ed by publication of a formal de- crez in the near future. Specifically, the announcement said the government had decided to: (1) Restore the right of assembly and guarantee individual ]li‘)erues,"m the Navy. (2) Carry out all the provisions of The discharges had been some- tke 1945 Bill of Rights; (3) Cob-|ypay delayed, the Captain stated, gucL municipal elections during the because proper forms and discharge first two weeks of March, 1946;|p,0ns had been slow in arriving. (4) Extend amnesty to political pris- | pejeases hereafter will be swiftly cners convicted before the end of the ,nq1eq. people of Alaska can ex- civil war on April 1, 1939, and (5) | oot their men folks home as soon Grant a referendum, or plebescite, on important laws. The promise of a referendum was viewed as paving the way for an expression of public opinion on re- storation of the monarchy. U. 5. SOLDIERS ARE EVACUATED AT PALESTINE Americans on Leave fo Be Hustled Out of Ten- sion-swept Area TEL AVIV, Palestine, Oct. 12— The last remaining American sol- diers on leave in tension-swept Palestihe were expected today to be evacuated to Cairo by nightfall. A sudden order from U. S. head- quarters of the Middle East theatre placed Palestine out of bounds to United States personnel as of 3:30 p. m. yesterday. SEATTLE, Oct. 12—The AMY| ™y "yorden hotel here, an Am-| as they attain the necessary points. Capt. Lyons asked the dischargees {that they not forget entirely their |training and that they consider en- tering the Naval Reserve after they 'have resumed civilian careers, Those to go were: Jackson W. Martin, S 1-¢, Kodiak; Frank Paul | Bergdoll, CBM, Sitka; Harrold A. |Maxwell, BM 1-c¢, Kodiak; Dwer J. Bislinghoff, CBM, Kodiak and Allan S. Sinder, CPhoM, Kodiak. D 'EXPENSIVE FLIGH RECORDED BUT 2 LIVES ARE SAVED PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., Oct. 12 —What was possibly the most ex- pensive flight ever made in the history of aviation was made last Aug. 23 by a Prince Rupert-born pilot who to save the lives of himself and his co-pilot jettisoned the equivalent of $433,000,000 in | American money, strewing it across | Tibetian fastnesses in a flight be- tween India and China. The pilot was Capt. Cedric Mah adjourn. Later, King and his close asso- ciates would handle the really im- represent the survivors of the First | World War. But for the almost | vanished remnant of Civil War was forgiven today by 24 persons,| including seven mothers, for send-| ing them rushing to San Francisco erican Army leave center for three of the Chinese National Aviation years, was a scene of bustling ac- |Corporation and he “traded” the tivity. Soldiers and baggage were vast fortune for the lives of him- portant cables, which neither Knox ' veterans and a handful of Spanish nor Under Secretary James For-!War veterans, the Legion embodies restal knew existed. that group of Americans who have Admiral King pulled his own had experience in war and in the Annapolis classmates all around, problems of post-war and are by him. He formed the most powerful that experience qualified to speak, clique the Navy has ever seen, with to act and to lead. If in conse- in the mistaken belief their sons and husbands, returning prisoners of war, would arrive at, that port| fr?l":ets}:h(:g;;tbeople,werg waiting | hoon. Telephone calls were made at the pier here today for the ex-|in an effort to round up all Am-| pected arrival of the U. S. S. Gosper loaded on U. S. Army trucks for| movement to Lydda airport to self and his American-born co- pilot when ice froze one engine of catch transport planes this after-|their twin-engine transport, caus- dents in Japan, the Philippines and ing a dangerous loss of altitude. The paper money—five tons of |erican troops visiting Jerusalem!it — was jettisoned to give their 12:01 a. m. Oct. 27 (Tokyo Time),! SAN QUENTIN, Calif., Oct. 12.—A no one able to penetrate it, least of all the Secretary of the Navy. The older men of King's time at &quence we have any wisdom to im- part and counsel to give, the time | to give it is now.” with her large load of passengers. They were flown north late yes-| terday by the Army after it was| | | and Haifa. | craft sufficient buoyancy to stay The evacuation order came after aloft at a lower and warmer alti- a series of clashes between police tude where the stiffened engine Annapolis (he is 65) got the chief‘ Change GI Legislation plums, and the younger men bore| Restating his previously-expressed the brunt of the, fighting. Antago-|view that present G.I. legislation nism against King was especianyv"is inadequate to take care of the | (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Five)- discovered the ship was bound, not|and armed bands intent upon free- | for San Francisco, but for Seattle.[ing Jewish immigrants here after to.an airport at Kunming, China. Associated Press, the United Press For most of them it was their first|their illegal entry and the an-| plane flight and they enjoyed trip up the coast in the big C. | transport, “unfroze” enabling them to fly on ‘The money as in revalued Chi- the nouncement of a secret radio sta- nese dollars—$866,000,000 worth — five foreign correspondents each in the prison hospital _47|tion that an active Jewish resist- was being sent from the U. 8. Mint in Japan, three each in the Philip- drunk a cocktail, brewed out of ance movement had been formed. to Chungking, the Chinese capital. pines and one each in Korea. vefrrans; demobilization, veterans’ housing, ' peacetime consecription, | equal representation on the Veterans ments and exceptional service Admipkimmbion;, bonys,. lebor-nian, They included the Legion of Merit agement relations, hospitalization | to his successor, Admiral Wm)d;‘Hnd Sax pRavpRI0. - to Capt. J MacKinnon, Juneau, | and to Commodore Roberj E. mm-\S'I'RIKE M “ A(E | 4 BRITISH PORTS, HOMEWARD IRAVELT L OF SOLDIERS FROM rfi(;’:esrpol:)fial.o?\don ;‘i)es-a EUROPE IS HELD UP Fairbanks. | Up Is Threatened PARIS, Oct. 12—During the past 12—Troops were | LONDON, Oct. two weeks the homeward travel of grdered into the great, seven-mile 65000 American soldicrs from the Jong Liverpool docks today and European theatre has been post- pegan unloading 12,000 tons of poned, partly because of a slow-up urgently-required foodstuffs from of shipping from east coast United five freighters and nine coasters as States ports over which the War|the paralyzing dock strike raised Department has no control, thels mounting menace to delivery of OISE Section Army Headquaters'the nation’s meager rations. said today. The strike spread to Edinburgh, On one day recently, the sailing where 1,000 Scottish dockers quit of 19 Victory Ships from Marseille work in sympathy with the English was cancelled, headquarters fldd’:dv‘sll"k(g_ Other contributing factors in the | In London, Strike Leader Thomas postponements, it was said, were Powell warned that the huge port the fact that the number of would be tied up completely by Liberty Ships available has been Monday unless a settlement is below original estimates and that' reached over the weekend. the stormy season has begun in! Most major ports already were the North Atlantic. | throttled as stevedores ignored re- iz | turn to work pleas of union leaders, war (o"aspondenls despite government statement | s | In pa“"( Sedlons Are nels between union officials and| | dock owners. Civilians October 27 poison Cocktai TOKYO, Oft. 12—War correapun-:j Pafly in Prison | Causes 3 Deaths thirteenth Naval District with headquarters at Seattle—presented 12 awal for meritorious achieve- a that negotiations could be con- ducted only through regular chan- - Korea will revert to the civman{ status of foreign correspondents at| Allied headquarters announced to-|poison cocktail party claimed the day. |lives of three San Quentin convicts | Headquarters also established a and left.nine others “in various de- quota system which will allow the grees of danger,” Warden Clinton | Duffey announces. | Dufty said the survivors admitted they had! and the International News Service 4 poisonous duplicating machine fluid. 121 Sfiips of NavyDamaged Or Senf Down Eight Ihou;a;d Houses Flooded-Thousands Are Homeless (Associated Press Correspondent) Okinawa today was a shambles— reminiscent of its recent battle- ravaged condition following the 132-mile an hour typhoon that killed three American Navy per- sonnel, left 10 sailors missing and more than 100 Yank soldiers in- jured and sank, damaged or beached 127 Naval vessels. ‘The typhoon, which struck Oki- nawa Tuesday after having twisted 150 miles to the southwest for 24 hours, swept northward to kill at least 69 Japanese, flood 8,000 houses, wash away 81 bridges and leave many thousands homeless in central and southern Honshu. Food Rushed By Supers Fifty Superfortresses from the Marianas delivered 284 tons of food to the 150,000 troops on Okinawa today. Approximately twice that amount «awill be transported to them during the next three days by bombers from Guam. Next week deliveries will be made from Saipan. In addition to food, the troops need shelted facilities to replac2 tents, Quonset huts and other in- stallations that were demolished, or heavily damaged. . Hours Of Darkness Parked airplanes were rolled about by the typhoon, the island's food stocks were nearly all de- stroyed, and hospital patients had a nightmarish time throughout the hours of darkness. More than 1,000 acros of land washed out and many thousands flooded by heavy rains which ac- companied the typhoon, increasing the nation’s already critical food problem. Heavily damaged communications on both Okinawa and Honshu hampered attempts to get complete reports on casualties and damage. On Okinawa, damage was 50 great that the east coast was out of touch with the western side of the narrow, 10-mile-wide fisland. NATIONAL LABOR CONFERENCE SET FOR DEC. 310 6 Secrefary Schwellenbach Wants Labor Com- missioner There Secretary of Labor L. B. Schwel- lenbach has requested Governor of Alaska Ernest Gruening to appoint representatives to the Twelfth Na- tional Conference on Labor Legis- lation which will meet in Wash- ington Dec. 3 ,to 6. Secretary Schwellenbach said in a letter to Gov. Gruening that it would be preferable to appoint the Territorial Commissioner of Labor, who is Walter P. Sharpe, to at- tend the state labor commissioner conference, which will meet sep- arately Dec. 3 and 4 to consider common problems of administra- tion and Federal-State cooperation. State representatives of organ- ized labor, he pointed out, will join the commissioners of labor for general policy deliberations on Dec. 5 and 6, and the Secretary also requests participation by or- ganized labor in Alaska at the conference. >, — (rew;I Grounded Vessel Safe Ashore SAN PEDRO, Calif, Oct. 12— Forty-six crew members of the Can- adian freighter Westbank Park were brought safely to port here last night after their ship was ground- ed off Lower California. Elmer L. Higgs, steamship agent, said the freighter was grounded three or four days ago, but that he had no further information regard- ing it. ELLINGE NARRIVES Harry E. Ellingen, of Haines, is a gest at the Gastinea Hotel.