The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 18, 1945, Page 1

THE LIBRARY Ok CONGRESS SERIAL RECORD NOV 231945 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXV., NO. 10,094 ER 18, 1945 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = ————— | HITLER’S PRINCIPAL KEYMEN INDICTED Char FABULOUS rged With Star & & ting World’s Greatest Sitka Wishes PERON GETS FORTUNES On Waterways NEW SURGE REVEALED To Be Voiced FOR POWER@ i_ Gold,l)iamms, Platinum|U. §. Engin;e?m Conduct Half Million Workers Discovered in Thermos Bottles in Tokyo TOKYO, Oct. 18—Fabulous for- tunes in gold and diamonds oc- cupied the attention today of Am- erican forces in Japan where thou- sands of Nipponese face a dire winter of hunger. More than $30,000,000 worth of dazzling diamonds—largely govern- ment owned and many obtained through deceit of the Japanese people — were discovered today in cheap, quart thermos bottles in a safety deposit box. While investigators uncovered the | bright find, millions of dollars worth of gold and silver bullion began moving in two and one-half ton U. S. Army trucks under armed escort , from the bomb- battered government mint to the Bank of Japan. Asks Fund Diversion Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian leader, urged Gen. Mac- Arthur to divert part of the more than_ $250,000,000 in government valuables already seized to import food. Kagawa said if part of the treasure could be used to pay for the importing of rice, salt, raw cotton and other scarce commodi- ties “I believe this would prove to be the greatest thing for the hap- piness of the Japanese people.” Letter To MacArthur | Addressing MacArthur through a | letter to the newspaper Mainichi, | Kagawa added: ! | “It goes without saying that the Japanese people will endeavor their best to faithfully carry out repara- tions but the suffering of war victims actually is greater than one | imagines."” The fortune in diamonds, totaling | 131,000 karats in weight, was found | in the Mitsui Trust Company | vaults, deposited in the name of a Japanese government import and export control agency. Many of the diamonds had been | contributed by civilians who were (Continued on Page Five) The W;;l;; il_g ton | Merry - Go- Round By DRFW PEARSON WASHINGTON — The backstage dispute raging over the future of the atomic bomb is one of the hottest and most important ever to hit Washington. Many of President Truman’s advisers are split over it, while “most of the scientists who worked on the bomb are boiling mad over the May-Johnson Bill which the Army is attempting to rush through Congress. ‘While they aren’t advertising the fact, neither Congressman May of Senator Ed Johnson d a chance to study | ¥ are sponsoring before g it. However, Maj , the Army of- i ' atomic bomb, bill be passed diately. Some hiflg he is afraid scieéntists say hardest man m when the initial stages of idea Lad not been for ! ber is the smallest output for many | Boundary Commission. iscis: » thy dete atioy pf. the late Presi dent Rouvsvdlt; Kcientists say thal | facilities and local plans for aiding Hearing on Improve- ments October 24 SEATTLE, Oct. 18.—The first of a series of public hearings in Alaska | [ tc obtain the views of local interests | on Federal improvements of navi- | gable waterways will be held at Sitka, October 24, Col. Conrad P. Hardy, Seattle District U. S. En- | gincer, said today. | Col. Hardy, who will preside over | the hearing, said that problems | concerning navigation at Sitka and | Olga and Neva straits, will be dis- cussed. “Leeal interes should their own plar and wishes navigation developments,” he said. | “We must have proof at the hear- |ing that new developments would benefit the general public as well as special interests. We are particularly interested in the amounts by which | freight rates may be decreased, the |delays in the movement of ships ;lhat may be eliminated, or the in- crease in waterborne traffic that may be expected on account of the ‘propcsed improvements and in- ‘formauon as to whether existing | terminal facilities should be ex- panded.” To determine .necessity and de- sirability of Federal improvements. the engineers have asked for various types of information dealing with the areas commercial resources, shipping traffic, present navigation present | for | | the government in bearing the cost of the projects. Congrt has authorized prelimin- ary surveys of navigation needs at both localities. Col. Hardy will fly to Sitka byl vay of Juneau on October 23. The hearing will be held in the USO Victory House at Sitka. PACIFIC COAST FISH INDUSTRY ABOUT NORMAL Puget Soun]i?almon Pack Largest Since 1917- Alaska Pack Down WASHINGTON, Oct. 18—Produc- tion of most varieties of canned fish on the Pacific coast this year is approximately equal to normal pre-war production, the office of ;Coordinawr of Fisheries reported today. The pack of salmon in Puget Sound is believed the largest since 1937 and the pack of tuna and Pacific Sardines probably will be the largest since the years immedi- ately preceding the war. Production of Alaska salmon and Pacific mackerel is less than last | vear. The pack of Pacific sardines was| 11,488,711 cases on Sept. 30, com- pared with 1335907 for the first| nine months last year. There were 2354590 cases of | | tuna packed by Sept. 1, 1945, com- | | pared with 1,955,690 cases during| the eorresponding period of 1944. The Alaska salmon pack totaled }4.300.583 cases, against 4,900,000 | cases last year. The Pacific mackerel pack o(‘ 67,468 cases by the first of Septem- | ears. The pack for the first eight | months of last year was 104,733; Strike, Stopping Ar- gentine Activities BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 18—Nation | wide strikes by 500,000 members of | the General Confederation of Workers, who supported Col. Juan Peron, former vice president, in a{ new surge to power, today brought | nearly to a stop Argentina’s indus- trial and commercial activity. At the same time, a high source said, the Argentine high seas fleet had moved out of its base at Puerto Belgrano, 500 miles south of Buenos Aires. Destination of the fleet was un-| known, but Adm. Hector Vernengo | Lima, a leader of the movement which ousted Peron on Oct; 9, was in turn thrown out of office yesterday in the political upheaval which saw Peron returned to a po- | sition of dominance. Demonstrate For Peron Peron himself, after forcing the formation of a cabinet of his friends, hailed the strike as cel brating “a day of glory for the worke Thousands of idle workers took to the streets in Bugnos Aire day and conducted demonst on Peron’s behalf. The railroad it sails under the Golden Gate Bri Admiral ¥ : circles close to the ve ship hove to and and high rankin, as it filed past. NO PLAN AT PRESENT FOR BIG 3 MEET ey is standing al swel. Af to- ations union said train | traffic was completely stopped | throughout the nation. Buenos Aires’ transportation facilities were | described as “completely paralyzed.” | Demonstrators last night at- tempted to storm the house of | Socialist Leader Alfredo Palacios, he reported. They were-turned back by his friends. A police blockade extended square blocks around the of the pro-democratic Critica. Alvarez Tossed Out mitted by Juan Alvarez as Attomnew Brifain Loa[he fo Drop Palestine Bars General, threw out Alvarez himself, two building newspaper reinstated several members of his| deposed cabinet, ousted Admiral Hector Vernengo Lima, a leader of the Oct. 9 movement against| WASHINGTON, Oct. 18- Presi- Peron, as navy minister, and before | dent Truman discl today he a vast crowd hailed Peron as “a|Wants Palestine opened to 100,000 man who knows how to win your additional Jews, but Britain is re- hearts.” {luctant to admit that many. Two persons died and six were| This was the top subject at the injured in a crowd which attacked | Chief Executive’s news conference | the offices of the newspaper|Vhich also delved into Emperor | Critica, Hirohito’s future in Japan, wages | outspoken critic of Peron ; 3 and Farrell, during the night. Some and prices ‘and proposed domestic | employees of the newspaper said cuxtrols i ARl energy. T ; bombs and machine-guns were used| A$ for Hirohito, the President) in the attack. | said it would be a good idea if the | AR S M | Japanese people were permitted to| g i decide his fate in a free election.| Approp"ahons 'o' He added, however, that he knew of no plan for such a vote. . Mr. Truman said he was very) Public Works Asked | nov:, over che ena of ‘the coul| strikes and expressed hope that Congress will soon approve legis By pres- I"lman tion establishing controls over atomic energy. He has recommended WASHINGTON, Oct. 18—Presi- | cfeation of a commission to handle dent Truman has asked Congress| the problem. 4 for appropriations totaling $221,- | The President disclosed he ex- 842,000 for the resumption of public | PeCts to make a statement on waze | works programs interrupted by the“"_‘d price pfllcy after conferring | oy | with the Cabinet tomorrow. I The recommendations included| I the foreign relations field, the $128475,000 for the Corps of En- |Fresident also said there is no plan gineers and $03,387,000 for the|DOW for another “Big Three" meet- Bureau of Reclamation. Earlier in | in€: although the United States is the week, he had requested $3,998,- | (.m'res}')(mdlng with other interested | 000 for the Civil Aeronautics Ad.|countries in an attempt to crack | ministration, $25,000,000° for the | the 5talex]mt(» that developed at the Public Roads Administration and | ondon Council of Foreign Ministcrs $1,641,000 for the International e | g | | STOCK QUOTATIONS Bt | REGISTERED FROM STATES | Pkt side « m her decks Governer Earl Warren o Navy and Army officials reviewed the Third Fleet "Sodak” in Gelden Gale U. 8. 8. South Daketa as crowds overhead. 15 Navy blimp te, the flag- California to ehe of HALSEY POSES AT PRESS MEET " IMPERIAL PALACE g Official Report Made by| A CHARACTERISTIC POSE of the famous fighting Admiral, William F. Halsey, Jr., taken at the initial press conference aboard his flagship, the U S. South Dakota, 100 miles off the Golden Gate, October 15, a few hours before he led I mighty Third Fleet into San Francisco AIR DEFENSES NOW HELPLESS IN ATOM WAR | AAF General Foretells Plane-Launched, Guid- ed Atomic Bombs | WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—Atomic| bombs turned into guided missiles, with wings and a television head,| can maks present anti-aircraft de-| fense utterly helpless, General H. H Arnold - said today. The commanding general of the Army Air Forces, told Senators at a science hearing that in any next use of the bomb it probably would be | launched by aircraft outside anti-| aircraft range. Previous witnesses have talked of | shooting down the carrier as a| means of defense. Arnold’s testi- mony seemed to cancel that S tor Magnuson (D-Wash.) | asked: “It there any defense against | tke atomic bomb as such?” | Arnold: “At the present stage of | development, the only defense is to| Chief of the High Command. stop it before it starts. It is possible | now to take the atom bomb and make it into a guided missile by| from an airplane. | “To launch it from more than 300 miles away (from the target) the |only way is by aircraft. It can be |changed into a guidad missile by putting wings and a television head on it “I don't think we have anything| nt to prevent such a guided | coming from out of range of | g | Arnold said his idea of defense| is to create a highly trained, mod- ernly equipped force that “will pre- vent war and maintain peace.” With such a force—a combina- tion of nations would be needed, he sald—“then you don't have to stop| it.” | Arnold said a highly-trained in-| telligence force would ke needed | alse, along with “the most power- ful striking force you can imagine.” He also called for retaining over- seas bases. 'WAS BURNED FROM SPARKS, NOT BOMBS Intelligence Officer After Inspection By DUANE HENNESSY (Asscciated Press Correspondent) TOKYO, Oct. 18~—Emperor Hh'o-; hito’s imperial palace, with the| exception of one wing containing kitchens and banquet halls, was burned to the ground during the war, Brig. Gen. Elliott R. Thorpe, Chief Counter Intelligence Officer | of the Allied Headquarters, said to- day. | But, Thorpe added, after a per-| sonal inspection, the palace was burned by sparks from other blaz- | |ing buildings in Tokyo and not | {from fire bombing by American | | Superfoytresses. | | The American officer said that Hirohito now is living in an area| which had been set aside as a me- | morial to his marriage. Thorpe made the inspection tour, the first military inspection of the| Japanese palace area in history,| after a Japanese request had been made for the retention of 4,000/ guards for the imperial household | in Tokyo and elsewhere in the country | - ‘Chh' (4 4 é No. 3 Nazi Nazi Labor acts. | The_bulk of (he indictment, is a ! recital o:,' fiotm‘clr o) The Nazis and their high com- !mand associates are blamed offi- cially fer the brutal slavghter of Commitied Histor Y’S Most Horrible Mass Crimes of Murder, Hate, Devastafi er, ndie, vevasiation ‘ By JOAN M. HIGHTOWER (Associated Press Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Oct. 1§ — The, | leaders and six Nazi ‘organization§ . [teday on charges of starting the v world’s greatest war and commit- ting history’s most horrible masg crimes of murder, torture, devastas BE TR I E D The leaders named are former key men in Adolf Hitler's govern- - |meat and tcp generals and ad- BERLIN, Oct. 18.—The 24 defen- mirals of the German High Com- "' mand. dictments handed up here today| are: | gigantic “plan or conspiracy,” Herman Wilhelm Goering, Reich- dating from 1921, to rule Germany marshal, No. 2 Nazi and Air Force| and conguer other lands they | wanted. Their strategy: Treachery Minister. | aggressive war. Rudolf Hess, | OUTRAGES RECOUNTED Robert Ley, Front The 25,000-word accusation was 10=‘d'€l'» i | drawn for presentation to the four- Wilhelm Keitel, Field Marshal and power War Crimes Court at Berlin, yfi,l.”m Jodl, Colonel-General and 1 sums up in cold legal form Allied CxJ‘lDf the detly Bl fury over Nawi outrages, and it . ar Doefmz. Grand Admiral ““d‘l’nrcu the men accused of re- Nt:;z;mndm-ln—(}hler of the German ' gpongibility to answer for their former Commander of the Navy. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen Und Halbach, industralist. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, former Economic Minister and about 10,000,000 helpless persons, Walter Funk, former Nazi Press C'Iians and grisoners of war. Chief and Reichsbank President, |~ MILLIONS SLAUGHTERED Franz von Papen, the “Grey Fox” About 4,000,000 were slain at Aus- of Nazi Diplomacy. chwitz Concentration Camp alone, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Chief of the the indictment says, and another Alfred Rosenberg, Chief Prophet Of 9,600,000 Jews who came under of the Nazi Philosophy. zi domination in and out of Hans Frank, Governor General in Germany, the document adserts, the Polish Occupation. 5,700,000 -disappeared, “most of Martine Bormann, Storm Troop them deliberately: put to death by Wilhelm Frick, Nazi “Prolcctor” And Nazis and their associates for Bohemia and Moravia. are accused also of: Fritz Sauckel, 8S and SA Genoval.! Torturing civilians to obtain in- ; Albert Speer, Nazi Munitions Min- formation, ister. | Putting civillans = under “pro- in the “most un- ® & p “ ar HERE THEY Allicd powers indicted 24 (h-rmali. tion and hate, dants named in the war crimes in- . Basically, they are accused of a Jeachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign'and terror first, finally a dcliberate, It is an unprecedented document. Eric Daider, Grand Admiral and Reichsbank President. Nazi Security police. 1,500,000 in notorious Maidanek. Chief, Hitler's Deputy. Nazi conspirators.” Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Gauleiter tective arrest for the Netherlands. healthy and inhumane conditions.” Hans Fritzsche, Propagandist. Of mass murders of defenseless Constantin von Neurath, “Protec- people by gassing and shooting, tor” for Bohemia and Moravia. Of incredibly cruel ‘“‘scientific” Baldur von Schirach, Hitler Youlth experiments on women, Chief. DRAW CHILDRENS' BLOOD Of drawing the blood of children, Of sheeting hestages, ill-treating and murdering war prisoners and of plundering or wiping out by whelesale destruction the cities and towns of lands they occupied. ‘“‘American prisoners, officers and men, were murdered in Normandy during the summer of 1944 and in the Avdennes ‘in December, 1944," the official document deciares. BASIS FOR TRIAL The indictment furnished the basis for projected trial of German Nazi and military leaders by the Anglo-American-French-Soviet mili- tary tribunal at Nuernberg, Ger- many. It was drawn up by prose- cutors cf four Allied nations, in- cluding Justice Robert H. Jackson for the United States. it was re- leased simultaneously in the Al- lied capitals and in Germany. The 24 men named as defendants were the highest in- Adolf Hitler's Nazi Government to be takea alive. Among them are Hermann - Goer- ing, Rudolph Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Robert Ley, all key Hitler officials. Generals Wilhelm | Keitel and Alfred Jodl; Admirals Karl Doenifz and Eric aRider; In- dustrialist. Gustav Krupp von Eohlen und Halbach; Financier Halmar Schacht. r 5 - o - INDICTMENT FORMALLY FILEDTODAY BERLIN, Oct. 18 A massive book - size indictment charging German war criminals collectively and individually with crimes against humanity was filed loday at the first public session of the International War Crimes Tribunal. The historic court session at which the 35,000-word document was formally handed up was held in the severe, high-ceilinged room of the Allied Control Authority building where some of the par- ticipants in the July, 1944, plot against Adolf Hitler were tried. Under an agreement by the four Allied powe! the text of the in- dictment was ambargoed for pub- lication until 3 p. m., EST. Tribunal Sits In the big, ornate chamber which formerly housed the Berlin Superior Court, history’s first international military tribunal set to work after | a brief opening ceremony conducted in four languages. s | Maj. Gen. I. T. Nikitchenko, W. R. Sisk and M Ellis, repre-| chief judge for the Soviet Union, sentatives of the Otis Elevator Co.,| presided. After swearing in mem.- are here from Seattle and are|perg of the tribunal, he announced registered at the Baranof | that the court was in session. Then @ o ¥ | the prosecutors presented the in- fwisied NEW YORK, Oct. 18. - Atomic scientists also relate this STEAMER MOVEMENTS g inside story of what happened im-| North Sea, from Seaftle, may|Mrs. Theo. Rubeuakar, Chicago,| Anaconda 39', Curtiss-Wright 8, In- | 1 mediately after the first atom bomb | arrive about 7 o'clock tomorrow Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. CO-"-;'.PX‘I\HUUHQY Harvester 92',, £-nne ‘A_dmnu.alr:n sistant Harold was dropped on Japan. They say |morning. v|Jr, Spokane, Wash.; Owen Mun-|cott 45, New York Central 29, Smith, U. S. Forest Service, has that Gen. Groves' biggest boner| Alaska from the west, southbound, | hall, Portland, Ore, and John O.|Northern Pacific 30%, United States | feturned from a three-weeks' tour | Steel 81%, Pound $4.03'% land classification duty along the Aimy Wwculd have ditched the|cases. Bay. project. J. J. CONNORS RENOMINATED SISK, ELLIS IN JUNEAU Visitors from the states registered | quotation of Alaska Juncau mine i .| Closing | |at the Baranof include: Mr. and|stock today is 8, American Can m.,u,;' FORESTER SMITH BACK was when he released a study of | due probably tomorrow afternoon | Martin, Seattle, Wash, atomic energy by Professor Henry D. Smythe of Princeton. After publication of this report, (Continued on Page Four) | or evening. i ———,————— HERE FROM PELICAN registered at the Gastineau Hotel. —— - — SKAGWAY VISITOR Louis Rapuzzi, Deputy U. S| Sales today were shares. at the Gastineau Hotel. 160.40; utilities, 35.72, . |on 1,670,000 | Behm Canal, ‘aboard the Rar | Six, Forester Smith was aided by | Dow, Jones averages today are s Forest Ranger Knox Ma L. O. Jacobsen, from Pelican, is| Marshal at Skagway, is registered | follows: Industrials, 186.76; rails,|joined him from the Ketchikan ! office of the Forest Service. rshall, who FROM SKAGWAY Sylvester J. Wiedel, from Skag-| has arrived in Juneau and is istered at the Gastineau Hotel Wotinmst 'WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.—James J. 24 Named In Indictment Connors of Juneau was nominated Nikitchenko rose, acknowledged PY President Truman today for an- ) 4 - Other term as collector of customs (Continued on Page Eight) at Juncau, Alatka.