The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 16, 1945, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL 'l HE TIME” HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE THE LIBRARY O CONGRESS URMI. RECORD 231945 VOL. LXV., NO. 10,092 _JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUES DAY, OCTOBER 6, 945 MI MRI R ASSOCIATED PRESS DEMAND MASS SUICIDES OF SEEKHELP, GOLD MINE OPERATORS FourWesiengenators Will Ask Government fo Give Relief WASHINGTON, Oc 16—Four western Senators will seek govern- ment relief for gold mine operators whose properties were closed throughout most of the war as an emergency measure. They said today th y will intro- duce a bill to permit a mine operator to claim the cost of placing his mine in a wor condition and to recover main- tenance and other losses sustained during the inactive years. The four are Senators Murray (D-Mont.), ylor (D-Idaho), Mc- Farland (D-Ariz.) and Hayden, (D-Ariz). A4S IS Wue 100KS un, with WAC T/Sgt. Mary A. to Air Force WACS in Chungki There would be no payment for lost production under the measure. | Murray, stating the westerners’ » T : intentions, said the bill s “one Justrcturncd Bonie sSEur w Joxik) part of a renewed effort to secure legislation that will rehabilitate the gold mining industry, especially small operators who have been hard hit over the war yearrs.” Debt oratorium Other measures already pending in Congress would provide for debt moratoriums and rehabilitation and development loans for gold mine operators. Murray asserted in a statement that the famed order L-208 closing down the mines on Oct. 8, 1942, did not, according to those closest the - NEW CABINET 3 SENTENCED T0 oeari For wag |3 FORMING CRIMES, GERMANY [N ARGENTINE 'Lunlinued on Page Five) R WIESBADEN, Oct. 16 — Alfons " e " e sytom. AValos Disavows He ls "Strong Man"* Follow- and two of his assistants were sen- tenced to death by an American Military Tribunal last night for H (44 Panat’ e souiematie. miuraee of more| ~ ING " Revolution than 400 Russian and Polish in- e mates of the institution. BUENOS AIR: Oct. 16 — War Long prison terms were imposed Minister Gen. Eduardo Avalos made min- 1,630,000 , Jones averages today are as on three other men and one wo- leader of the Army movement PERENG ,m]n of strong man today, asserting tina’s government. ciated Press Avalos called the over- BY DEEW, PERSON President Gen. Edelmiro Farrell, believe that a columnist isn't mp_ilinued to be routed out of um'un.- tired crouching under the Presi-|ment still headed by a Means Committee, or climbing up Juan Alvare named interior patches. . Sometimes not even | ables.” Alvarez was said to have ly when the world looks so dreary.|to the mbmcl wacauucs says we'll need to mobilize an going to bring peace. In the|quotation of Al(lhk(\ Juneau mine ! ment by “felling ‘us’ about greaty & International Harvester 91, Ken- factories and cities and, of course, | Steel 80%, Pound $403%. 4,000,000? The answer is obvious, Tadustrials 10548° Tads, man who were tried jointly with| which overthrew the military rule the ('ondemned trio. |of Col. Juan Peron, disavowed the he merely was carryind out Army The waShlngiOIl;“”‘“s in the revision of Argen- MerrY Go Round‘ In an interview with the Asso- throw of Peron, vice president, war | minister and labor minister under WASHINGTON-Random thoughts | “revolution.” of a “Chronic Liar"—Some editors| Losers in the political upset con- posed to think, only report. But(ment posts as civi lead sometimes this . “calumnyist” (,ets,“'l*lzhed offers to enter dent’s desk, taking notes on v.hat‘PTESidL‘m- ‘The offers were he says to the House Ways and | by a civilian, General Prc State Department fire-escapes to ister by Farrell and gnon a free read Jimmy Byrnes' diplomatic dis-‘hflnd to form a ‘“cabinet of not- a “chronic liar” can avoid the| agreed to take the ministry only painful effort of thinking—especial- | if he could approve appointments . Gen. George Marshall has just | - contributed to that dreariness. Hel STO(K OUOIA‘I’IONS Army of 4,000,000 men, on the heels - ¢ 250 of a war which we thought was NEW YORK, Oct. 16. — Closing next breath? the General knocks stock today is American Can | the props from under his argu-|109%: , Anaconda 38%, Curtiss-Wright 100,000 pound rockets which can |necott 447, New York Central 28, be guided across the ocean to hit Northern Pacific 29%, United States men. What would those| Sales today totalled rockets do to a helpless mass of but it doesn’t make for a cheerful morning. 59.89; utilities, 33.34. L — DREARY OCTOBER PREP ARA"ON October can be about the most beautifu! month in the year. Ordi- | narily you get up bursting with the | ALBUQUERQUE, N. M—It was a joy of living. . But not this|farsighted burglar who raided Ar-| October. On top of Gen. Marshall’s | thur Esberg’s liquor store, and police doleful message, along come the|figure hell have a very merry atom bomb scientists with another | Christmas if they aren’t able to make cheerful warning. The atom bomb, "m arrest. Esberg reported 77 cases' they say, is sure to be discovered | of whiskey taken, including 50 cases| by other countries. Russia fre- ‘ul the better grades reserved for ,,,,, ide trade. He valued the (Continued on Pafle Four) oot at $3,000. CHIANG GREETS BROOKLYN WAC Generalissimo Chiang ns of Brooklyn, N. chemmeni Agendies in Alaska Fail, Coordinafion; Speuiu (ase Menfioned 'L, D. HENDERSON PASSES AWAY AT HOME IN CALIF. 'Was First Territorial Com- | missioner of Educa- tion in Alaska | Lester Dale Hencerson, 59, Alaska’s first Territorial Commissioner of | Education, passed away at Bur- lingame, Calif., over the week end, | |according to a brief radiogram re- | ceived Fere by Attorney H. L. Faulk- ner. | Mr. Henderson spent 15 years in | Alaska, between 1914 and 1929, dur- | ing which time he was Superinten- |dent of the Juneau Public Schools for two years, and Territorial Com- | missioner of Education for 12 years, from May, 1917, to June, 1929. Leav- ing here with his family, he made | his home in Burlingame, Calif., where he became superintendent of | Public Grade Schools, which posi- | {tion he held at the time of his| death. He had traveled extensively over and was well versed, ‘not only in educational matters, but in the history and resources of | Alaska, as is borne out in his bock, “Alaska,” published by the Empire | Printing Co.,, and revised and brought up to date several ed- itions. One of the ablest, as well as one of the most highly respected and test loved men who have taken part in the life of the Territory, Mr. Hen- derson was for many years an Elder in the Northern Light Presbyterian | Church in Juneau, a member of the Eiks Lodge No. 420, and belonged to Mt. Juncau Lodge No. 417, of the Masons, as well as the Scottish Rite o | | Masons. | WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Serlous. He was born in Lenox, Iowa, April | lack of co-ordination between gov-|13, 1886. Surviving are his wife, and vnm" nt egencies in dismantling & two daughters, one of whom is mar- rmer ('U"' hhmnlm; base at Ex- ried while the younger one is stlll ion In: has been in school in Burlingame. ‘vh. ged by a H'msc Appropriations Present Commissioner of Educa- sub-committee. tion James Ryan today gave his | “Surplus lumber and other mater- | cpinion, that he considers Lester jals from Excursion Inlet are being Henderson “the biggest man that shipped back to the United States ever heold this office. Even to this for sale as surplus property, while it day, many of the policies he set up | is needed for rebuilding the Indian'are just as good as then,” Dr. Ryan | village of Hoonah, 15 miles away.”| stated. | the committee said, in a report on | its trip to Al a last summer. | Hoonah was virtually wiped out AIR ROUTE | hek shakes hands |the Territory, ¥, at a tea given China. Madame Kai-shek has y in the United States. Ka in by fire on June 14, 1944. The village is being rebuilt by the | Federal Public Housing Authority at a cost of more than $650,000 for some B ATT[ E IS ! | | ] 80 small frame houses, “A price far | | in excess of the amount which should have been expended,” the report charged. “Inasmuch as no one contends that the morey to be expended on this village will be repaid in full or in substantial part, the Committee | _ is at a loss to know why this sur-| WASHINGTON, oct. 16.—Civic) | plus material is not being used,” the Aeronautics Board Examiners today | report declared. had formal briefs from five airlines Rep. Jed Johnson (D-Okla) is|Who are contending for permission chairman of me cummicm ‘to fly the projected Pacific air route D Ay to the Orient. ] Pennsylvania-Central Air Lines, | |Inc., in its brief, assailed Seattle’s| FIGHT'NG CORPS (lmms as the natural gateway to| [Alaska and the Orient, contending | that {he intervention of Seattle, Ta- | |coma and Washington in the case 15‘ “an effort to fasten upon air trans- pormtion the shackles which nec- cskflnly constrict water-borne sur- [face traffic.” Stating approval of many of the conclusions reached by C. A. B. ex- aminers, Northwest Air Lines said it | definitely wants to fly the mid-| | canada route, but also believes that| | Seattle should be an equal co-term-| lmal with Chicago or the Twin Cit-| ies. | TOKYO, Oct. i5—Domei agency says it learned from a survivor that 1,100 Japanese civilians, carry- ing bamboo spears and swords,| marched to their death against modern Soviet rquipmenl on Sag- | halien Island, Aug. The agency u‘gnmd Mrs. ‘Tome| ynited Air Lines, Inc., struck vig-| lGlLu()hl as saying the civilians; |orously at the Northwest Airline | killed were members of the “Na- pronosal to fly both routes, contend- tional Volunteer Fighting Corps,”!ing that Northwest would endeavor sent against the Russians from the to route Alaskan business generated | little town of Kami Shikuka on east of the Mississippi through the| Scuthern Saghalien. | Chicago gateway. s - - ["In asking for permission to fly| ; |direct from Seattle to Kodiak, th '(Iam“ SHeak |Woodley Airways, Inc, proposed | lover the Alaska mainland, but fol-| A“a‘k was only |low the great circle route to Adak| in the Aleutians. i 6 | examiners had recommended be au- TOKYO, Oct. 16—A Japanese inorjgeq to serve the Pacific North- vy Captain disclosed today that) yee appedlcd for an inside route. | |riers which struck the war-| breedmg blow at Pearl Harbor thought they, | wers on a training mission until the Capt. Mitsue Fuchida, “Supremel ROCKFORD, Illinois—Detectives Ccmmander” of the carriers’ flight Thomas Boustead and Harry Bu- | groups, said in an interview Lhat.‘shuw dashed posthaste out of head-| 7, 1941, strike, and that “I believe baby was floating in the Rock River. I am the enly one left” of the sneak| Returning, they disgustingly re- 'Axlmck group, “but there might be ported they had left it where it 'that Seattle-Orient services not pass Training Missio g I n Alaska Airlines, Ine, which the crews of six Japanese aircraft car- day before the assault. all six had been sunk since the Dec. quartars on the report that a dead ifr,m: others I've lost track of,” was, It was a dead cat, 000,000,000 (B) U. EXTRA RATION S—German coal miners at Walsum, in the Ruhr, of potatoes at the end of a day’s work. Heavy work entitles the miners to extra food. % WOMAN POW ER_Labor problems are so acute in Ber- i that women Iaborers are seen a gang of German women hauls a salvage cart through the strect. 'PLUNDERING IN CHINA BY JAPS NOW REVEALED ‘Worthless Currency Issued by Presses Backed by Nip Bayonets deluged China currency adding rinting presses Japanese bayonets with now-worthless up to about 54,- dollars in face wspaper Ashai ! value, the said tod The Tfigure was the first to be; published indicating the degree n!\ Tokyo 1 financial piundering of Japanese- Clitford McAvoy, l('r’,mla ive repre- occupied territories by Nipponese | Sentative of the CIO's United| RE(OGN'IE“EW militarists. It was disclosed by Electrical, - Radio and Machine the newspaper in its demands on | Workers. N AUSIR'AN GOVI the Imperial Government to curh! FPreviously, .Senator Taft (D-{ . inflation, Ohio) came out unexpectedly in . Notes totaling 4,000,000,000,000 | [BVOr Of the treasury's tax-cutting ;oNpON, Oct. 16 —Britain is pre- | (T) yuan were issued by the W‘”lmsfl]"" in place of those voted ,.req to recognize the Austrian Central’ Reseivé Bank of 'China, |0y /hel House, government of Dr. Karl Renner, of- | financial agency backed by the| The Treasury’wied tho excess (icis) quarters said todsy. Japanese militarists, the news- profits tax ended Jan, 1. The House | ppe disclosure came after an an- paper said, This sum, at the official rate of five yuan to one yen, equalled 800,000,000 (B) yet, or nearly 20 |times the war-time homeland note output of the Bank of Japan, which contributed much to infla- tion in Nippon. The current rate is 15 yen to one U. 8. dollar. The report was made in a story cutlining some of the financial problems facing the government. - FROM THE STATES Arriving in Juneau from the| states and registered at the Bar-| anof are: Mrs. LaVerne Park, Pt. Arthur, Texas; Robert M. Dennis,| C Monroe, Wash., and Hugh J. De-|Juneau. She is a guest at the Gas-/Juneau and are registered at the!held in September, 1941, 'laney, Mflwuukvn, Wis, I lower bracket, | also proposed repeal of the normal change line up for an extra ration CONDITIONS INRUSSIA 'NOTHAPPY' ‘! Fire for More Freedom for| | Americans in Soviet i Union Blazes Up ’ WASHINGTON, Oct. 16—New fuel l‘wns added today to the Congress-| |ional fire for more freedom in Rus- sia for Americans. It was heaped on by two House | Committees just back from abroad |and none too happy about what they | found. | Boiled down, the two groups urg-| ied that relations between the Soviet and the United States be put on more of a give-and-take basis, wnh nruhr~r country receiving more thnn {it gives the other. An uncfficial 1l1-member com- \m tee headed by Rep. Wickersham | (I5-Okla) urged that this country |demand that Americans traveling in Russia be given the same freedom .v movement that visiting Russians receive here. A two-member sub-committee ol ‘lhc House Foreign Affairs Commit- tee — Representatives Bolton (R- Okie) and Mundt (R-SD) — sug- |gested that the United States ac- cord Russians “as much as they ac- cord us and no more.” Th2 Wickersham group, which vis- | A ited 32 countries, stressed the neces- WASHINGTOHN, Opt."16 ¢ity of clearing the Russo-American | €10 denouniced the Housc-approved .o ¢ uguspicion” in diplomatic talks | tax-cutting bill today as a device gy . mMarchal - Zhukov makes his for providing “huge windfalls to propesad visit to this country. the richest corporations and weal- * mhora also should be more frank thiest individuals.” circussicns of trade policies between | It suggested to the Senate Pin- the United States and Great Brit- ‘ancc Committee a substitute pro- ain, the committee added in a report gram designed to benefit primarily 'to the House. ! | | in various parts of the city. Here TAX CUTTING BILLBRINGS TOUGH KNOCK The income tax payers, -+ | = s BRITAIN 15 T0 'and small busine: The prcgmm bill would reduce the tax now and pouncement from Washington that end it Jan. 11, 1947. The Treasury 'the United States was ready to ex- diplomatic representatives income tax on individuals. The with Austria House scaled it down instead in' .Formal recognition, it was pointed | such a wi that some Congress cyt n take place only through nmnplalnnd it mainly th aided those with big incomes. members Allied Control Commission in |Vienna. Since the Russians have McAvoy urged that discharged heen asking for recognition of veterans be forgiven income taxes Renner’s government, which was | up to $250 owed from 1941 to the formed while the Soviets alone were | time of discharge, and that re- cccupying Austria, the Allled move| funds up to $250 nc granted vet- now awaits French action, officials erans who paid their taxes during in Lundnn said. that period. | e e e —ee | I'ROM EXCURSION INLET MRS. APPLE ARRIVES | Three residents of Excursion In- gol Empire, however. WORKERS IN PARADEIN NIPCAPITAL Distribute Handbills Call- ing for War Lords fo Take Own Lives TOKYO, Oct. 16. — New Japan, poverty stricken and spiritually crushed, officially without vestige of an armed force for the first time in history and without standing among nations, began the long road back to acceptance in the socfety of the world today. ' Politicians and militarists whose lives had been dedicated to the growth of the stolen empire strug- gled to revise the constitution for a peaceful Japan in which the govern- ment would serve rather than dom- inate the people, and to out-do each other in cooperation with the con- quering occupation forces. More than 500 members of the new Nippon Working Masses Party, freed now from fear of the dread “thought police,” distributed hand- bills calling for the mass suicide of the former ruling eclasses of Japan, then jubilantly demonstrated before General MacArthur's headquartors. Want More Bread Their Japanese banners, as they paraded past tha Imperial Palace moat, dealt not with the problems They asked MacArthur to tell the government to give them more bread. Evidence of what Goneral Mac- Arthur had.in mind yesterday, when in his broadeast announcing com- pletion of Japanese demobiljzation he referred to the “humiliation and | finality of this surrender.” was de- veloped in stories of self-abasement of military men. American officers sorting details of the former Nip- ponese fighting machine have en- countered scores of such cases. Poor Equipment American artillery officers were shown an yndamaged coastal gun by a bowing ,Japanese officer. “This was one of our best weapons, but we never fired it,” he asserted. Other Amerigans viewed the world’s largest anti-aircraft gun and were told “We couldn't get the hang of the mass fire control principle.” A Japanese general displayed Jap- an’s newest and largest tank and admitted it never was used because the Japanese couldn't get the bugs out of it. Zeal for Confession American naval authorities found the same ®#eal for confession of in- eptitude when they took over two of the world's largest submarines—5,- 700-ton underseas monsters with 50,- 000-mile cruising range. “We. nover could sink anything with them,” explainod the Japanese officer in charge. As the Americans, who entered Japan with less than a division and disarmed a nation with 4,000,000 fighting men on the ground, con- tinusd to extend their occupation grasp, one of the world's great migrations was underway, almost unnoticed, as a million and a half Koreans in Japan sought to get back home. Living in stables, on open docks land even in unused sewer pipes, the Koreans waited transportation home on the boats which were bringing Japanese troops back from Korea. e Removal of Price Ceilings on Luxury Helps Uncle Sam WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 — First benefits from removal of price ceilings on luxury furs appeared to have accrued to Uncle Sam him- self. The Fish and Wildlife Service, reporting on the first sale of government -owned Alaska seal skins since ceilings were removed, announced that prices advanced more than 87 per cent above the last sale in April. The 23,408 sealskins and 316 fox skins taken from the Pribilof Is- lands brought the government $1,- 582,583. The sale, held in St. Louis, Oct. 8, attracted 155 buyers. Mrs. Marion Apple, a resident of let, Wes. S. McIntosh, Earl King, Cape Fanshaw, has arrived in and C.. F. Vail, have arrived in | Hotel Juneau, tineau Hotel, Prices were 39.7 per cent higher than in the last pre-war auction before price ceilings were applied.